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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1936
Page
6
New Jersey investigator Drew K Dutch arrived in Cristobal to pursue Dr John F Condon in the Lindbergh case. Condon and his daughter Mel Myra Hacker booked passage on the Santa Fe to New York amid secrecy, as Dutch planned a return trip after learning of Condon’s move.
Funeral services for Mrs. M. 41. Mooney 78 native of San Antonio and great aunt of former District Attorney Walter Tynan will be at 9 00 a m Thursday at 318 East Mulberry avenue and at St Marys Catholic burial at 10 a m Survivors include daughters Mrs Matthiesen Mrs Ingo Meinsebach Bastrop Mrs J W Pool Maria and Mrs Mattie M Murray San Antonio sister Mrs Mattie J G Dylan San Antonio and three grandchildren Pallbearers named Walter Lea G C Harold Tynan Leslie Garza BE Oliver Sarrats Je and Griffith Janes
Mayor K Quin asks Congress member Maury Mawrick to verify reports that San Antonio would receive about 6.64 million dollars from the PWA for a municipal gas and electric plant project. The city sought a 45 percent grant toward an estimated 11 million dollar plant. notification had not been received.
American Sugar Refining company reports 1925 net profit of 3,970,934 after preferred dividends equals 0.03 a share on common stock, down from 4,877,136 in 1984. Earl D. Bahsh, chairman, cites federal sugar quotas and control plan as domestic refining handicaps.
A burglar attempted to batter down a door at the Osklund Pharmacy on 833 North St Marys Street but the door withstood the blow. Police reported Wednesday that Wen nesday, KR. Myman of 420 Paschal Slveet reported the theft of a suitcase from a parked wallow.
A fragmented health ad warns against cutting corns or calluses to avoid infection. It promotes using Ice Mint from the druggist to relieve pain and remove corns safely, claiming quick relief and healthier skin after treatment.
Senator Clark Demerath of Missouri said he and about 20 others would filibuster the Copeland ship subsidy bill. He argued the measure lacks safeguards against government robbery while the Senate also debated a Treasury-Postal Office appropriation bill trimming 26.5 million for ocean mail contracts.
Bexar commissioners pledged to seek a remedy for an alleged unsanitary condition at 209 Stratford Court. County Sanitary Inspector Fritz Schilo and Commissioner Thomas Abbott asked the district attorney for jurisdiction guidance after hearing claims of an overflowing cesspool from a test home for mericular patients, with water reportedly draining into the street.
The fate of the $933 securities act was sent to the Supreme Court after James M. Beck denounced it as coercing Americans to waive constitutional rights. The court took the case under advisement then moved to the Guffey act aimed at regulating the soft coal industry through a limited NRA. Seven hours were allotted for the Guffey argument to be completed. Friday.
S. A. Picture Asked for Encyclopedia One or more pictures of San Antonio's historical and picturesque places will appear in special erection of the Encyclopedia Britannica to be Published soon in commemorating of Texas' 100 years of independence. Charles W. Ramesdell, professor of American history at the University of Texas, has been assigned to write an article, "One Hundred Years of Progress in Texas." COFFER DESTROYED, Brain's national coffee department announced 85,202,382 sacks of coffee had been destroyed up to December 9, 1935, in the country's five-year effort to reduce world supply and balance it against demand.
Sell items you no longer require for cash by placing light classified ads four or seven times. Dial F, 1331 for a wriver.
Arthur Bannister aged 19 found guilty by a jury of the doll baby murder in Dorchester N B He is the first of three defendants in the Lakes family killings at Pacific Junction The Crown contends the Bannisters had killed Philip Lake his common law wife and their infant son and sought the Lakes baby daughter through a staged baby doll deception
In Reading Pennsylvania a 15 year old junior high student Toontas Toontas pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter after a trial that halted mid session. His lawyers faced repeated objections while he sought to present claims of mistreatment by his slain father, a case tied to the February 1 incident. The boy's mother Mrs. Sarah Toontas testified through an interpreter as the last witness for the defense.
Two workers at the new San Antonio post office were hospitalized Wednesday for burns after a lantern fell into tar in the basement. Willie Craig, 32, of 220 North Alamin? street, and Gateson Nelson, 38, of 16156 Dawson street, were treated at Santa Rosa hospital as firemen contained the small fire.
President Roosevelt breaks precedent by dining with the “little cabinet” of under secretaries and assistant secretaries from executive departments. The annual banquet marks the first time a president attends such a gathering, underscoring a gesture toward closer administration-level engagement.
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