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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1932
Page
2
Short classified item invites readers to advertise missing rovers and stray pets in Light Classified Ads under Miscellaneous. Mentions fundraising over ATSA and a Cr. 2400 call for contact, with notes on real values in new and used furniture offered daily in the same column.
A San Antonio compromise ends long bond fights. The $1,000,000 funding bond issue was validated by a Seventy third district court decree and the $4,975,000 1930 annexation bond issue was validated by a final Austin court judgment. Judge Quin led city negotiators while Guy McParland spoke for the Citizens League. Remaining issues hinge on an appeal to the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals.
Funeral services for Lieut Mach Travis Jr and Private Dale Burch of the Twenty second Observation squadron were held Tuesday afternoon with Chaplain C Harkey officiating. They were killed when their aircraft struck high tension wires and crashed near Boerne. Six Air Corps Reserve officers who were Travis’s class mates at Kelly Field acted as pallbearers. Another classmate, Lieut Howard C Stelling, will accompany the body to Birmingham. The Twenty second squadron furnished an escort for Private Burch and Private B R Williams will accompany the body to Danville Illinois.
A hundred pound bomb exploded after release over Fort Stotsenburg near Manila, killing Gyling Lieutenant Frewell A. Sanborn as his plane burst into flames. Two pursuit planes nearby were uninjured. Sanborn was alone in his aircraft as it plunged to the ground before witnesses.
The draft report shows widespread support in Minnesota across contests with multiple parties achieving nominations. Party lines appear mixed with nine notable dates or events shaping the political landscape while the overall outcome remains unclear. This reflects a broad voter preference across Democratic Republican and Progressive factions in the state.
Myrtle Jean St Pierre, a 30 year old nurse, seeks 200000 from David Hutton for alleged breach of promise. She testifies about flirtation at a dinner party and later visits to her bungalow. Hutton, a choir singer, dismisses the claims as bunk and says he is worried for his wife recovering in a sanitarium.
Washington police chief Pelham D. Glassford and Walter W. Waters discussed evacuating the bulk of war veterans from the capital while paying bonus certificates. Waters favored keeping a nucleus in Washington if Congress votes a bonus. Glassford estimated the remaining group would be small. Veterans pressed on with recruitment, sending four officers to Jacksonville, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Border patrolmen and Texas Rangers killed Gregorio Ortega 26 after he and 12 companions crossed the Rio Grande near San Elizaro in a gun battle. Ortega, wanted for multiple murders including a Border Patrolman and a night watchman, was slain instantly while his companions fled. Officers escaped unharmed. seven old bullet wounds found on Ortega.
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