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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1932
Page
4
Ottawa July report notes the economic specter of Soviet Russia haunting Britain’s trade, signaling intensified Cold War trade tensions and possible impacts on markets and policy decisions. The incomplete dispatch references Ottawa and Britain in a broader Soviet economic pressure context.
Washington July 23 Prohibition shapes the coming presidential race as voters face stark choices over repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and modify the Volstead Act. Roosevelt-Garner anti prohibition and Hoover-Curtis dry tickets split the field, while Upshaw leads a third option for anti saloon league reform.
A survey of the wet and dry battle in the South and nation notes senators delaying votes on repeal of the Volstead act. Connecticut's Bingham pushes for immediate action, while Democrats label his moves as a personal issue in a high stakes election context. Prohibition looms over key states from New England to Ohio.
Three dominions Canada Australia and South Africa join to pressure Britain over Russia trade and seek preferential tariffs on dominion foodstuffs. Britain and dominions clash over policy while unofficial talks continue behind closed doors amid fears of reciprocal protections within the empire.
The first U eight Buddhist convention in America opened in San Francisco with 300 delegates at the Buddhist church. Kikuo Taira, president of the North American M. B. A., served as temporary chair and called the assembly to order. The event marks the Canada Hawaii America conference of the Young Buddhist Association.
Denver inmate George Martin, a local black man, remains jailed after being arrested for vagrancy and drunkenness. He says he has spent almost all of the past nine years in the county jail, with only a single week free.
Charles H. Emmons of Chipita Park near Colorado Springs nurtures a three-pound rainbow trout named Mike. The fish allows being picked up and caressed, as long as he remains submerged.
In New Orleans on July 23 an inmate at a local prison tried to kill himself while, in the same facility, four other inmates also attempted suicide by hanging. Authorities described the incidents as self-inflicted and unrelated actions within the same confinement setting.
Loganport firefighters responded to a small church fire when custodian John Taylor used a mop to clean the floor and unintentionally ignited it. Members of the Loganport fire department arrived promptly to extinguish the blaze with no serious damage reported.
Harvard University awarded the Doctor of Juridical Science degree for the first time to County State American Judge Fritz Porte of the Boston District Court. The ceremony occurred in Cambridge with Porte as the degree recipient.
Roy Robertson, crippled leader of the insurgent bonus army faction, heads to California after abandoning plans for a barnstorming tour to confront Congress. Deserters increase as veterans seek transport home. Waters faces ouster amid a leadership shakeup led by Scott B. McCafferty. Treasury notices order evacuation of federal property by next Monday or face prosecution.
Paris scientists report periodic shifts in continental distance observed by the International Time Service at the Paris Observatory. Ernest Esclangen notes the distance is slowly increasing, with past years showing alternating contraction and expansion between 1920 and 1930. Potential links to the solar cycle remain speculative.
Ella Fields, 40, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband on a lonely mountain road. Her alleged lover, W C Baird, pleaded guilty and received a similar life term in Jefferson County.
At Wellesley College during the year 3 of 918 graduates married one divorced and 34 announced engagements.
In BAYANAR Georgia on July 29 a candidate can qualify for the Democratic U S Senate nomination with a $250 entry fee while the lower house race requires $1000. The snippet notes lost-and-found advertising through KTSA and Cr 2400.
In Manchester a will of Mary A. Spaulding leaves her fortune to sister Dora with a proviso Dora must survive 30 days or the estate goes to charities. The testator died June 9 and the will specifies the shares and conditions for Peterborough relations.
In Morrietown Tennessee a fatal duel erupted after two fathers fought over a local girl. Mam Raines 40 was killed and John Santor was arrested. Police say the teens involved had quarrelled over the Senter girl and their guardians clashed with shotguns.
Fargo July 5 News reports that North Dakota Agricultural College plots yield three new berry varieties developed by Professor A F Yearger after 12 years of crossing the eastern North Dakota wild gooseberry with the Oregon Champion gooseberry. The horticulturalist notes the berries are lusciously named in early notes.
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