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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1933
Page
18
Dallas July review of the eleventh district Federal Reserve notes higher prices for cotton wheat corn oats wood mohair and other goods boosting business conditions. Building permits rose 62 percent from May and 59 percent year over year. wholesale distribution surged while retail sales lagged.
The report that a person seeking Charles F. Urschel's release left Oklahoma City and may contact the kidnapers surfaced. Livestock and farm commodity prices rose with cotton exports for June at 4 584 bales, the largest June volume since 1938, driven by higher takings in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, France and Japan.
A Texas higher court decision ruled against the state in a 1,000,001 dollar vacancy suit over 525 acres along the Canadian river in Hutchinson county. The Court of Civil Appeals found no vacancy, reversing the lower court which had ordered oil production funds to the state. The case involved multiple oil companies and the state school fund.
The cornerstone of the first United States narcotic farm was laid in Lexington Kentucky with Surgeon General Cummins and Gov Ruby Laffoon present. The 1054 acre facility cost about 4 25 million dollars and will rehabilitate addicts through medical care training and farming. A similar farm will be built near Fort Worth Texas and funds were requested from the Public Works Administration.
In EWNIS Texas on July 28 J Chappell 69 a retired Dallas railroad man was hired and four other motorists were injured when their car overturned a mile and a half north of Garrett on Highway 18 as they traveled from Dallas to Houston The death occurred at a local hospital where he had been brought for treatment The injured include Mrs J J Chappell described as serious and her relatives Mrs J C Henson Mrs Clarence Chappell and Clarence Chappell Jr all of Dallas.
Charles W. Moss counsel for Thelbert Brady and J Wyatt announced the duo would not pursue extradition to a higher court. The men, charged with a Black Rock Arkansas bank robbery, allege innocence supported by a letter from five escaped convicts who confessed. They claim they were in Oklahoma on June 16, the robbery date.
Eight year old Ernesto Espinizn of 909 North San Saba atrees was run over and seriously injured by a truck on Washington square Saturday morning. The driver backed the vehicle while the boy stood behind it. his skull and jaw were fractured. Raymond Torres and T. W. Dard, both listed as hurt in two other separate accidents, were taken to Robert B. Groen hospital.
Local theft reports include a shellac covered twin watermelon used for advertising and seized by police, plus E M Zerr on Medina Street reporting pecans worth 80 dollars and Mrs G H Frey on Ashby Place reporting 30 dollars. Sparse notices urge checking Light Classified Miscellaneous for merchandise ads.
B W Jamison new regional administrator reports about 300 South Texas homeowners applied Saturday for Federal Home Owners Loan Corp loans. Over 210 more inquired by mail or at the Frost National Bank building office. Applicants may apply anytime though actual loan issuance may take a week or more.
Governors from nearly a dozen states tour the harbor to view the navy and attend events in their honor while Secretary of War Dern inspects Fort MacArthur and makes a quick trip to San Diego to survey army fortifications.
A Bastrop meeting discussed establishing a state park in the pine hills east of town. The state park board agreed to create a forestry camp for park construction and to acquire between 1200 and 2000 acres for the site.
Congressman Richard Kleberg, a Nueces County farmer who plowed up part of his cotton crop, will arrive in Corpus Christi by airplane from Washington at 1 40 p m Sunday. A celebration will be staged on arrival with San Antonio chamber officials Tipton and Mally likely to attend.
Washington July 29 The Interior Secretary Ickes announced the administration will issue a nationwide standard to measure the cost of producing electric power. Public works funds of 3.3 billion will back hydro projects including Grand Coulee and Butler Canyon dams to foster government owned power and sale to Wyoming Nebraska and other states amid a showdown with the so called power trust.
Baltimore July 28 announcement that over a thousand clerical workers long kept on park time since February 1 will resume full time duties at the Baltimore and Ohio railroad offices on Tuesday.
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