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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1933
Page
2
The article outlines a Roosevelt administration plan to reopen progressive banks starting Monday with federal reserve currency. Treasury and Federal Reserve officials work to ensure public confidence as licensed state banks prepare to resume operations.
Treasury Secretary Woodin outlines a phased reopening of banks through Federal reserve banks. Licenses will be issued to member banks in 12 federal reserve cities starting Monday with openings for other banks on Wednesday, subject to unrestricted business and legal deposit contracts.
Union employees at Hollywood Tint studios oppose a proposed pay cut of 25 to 30 percent for eight weeks starting last Monday. Technical workers and craftsmen may walk out, threatening studio operations as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences convenes a special committee with wartime arbitration powers.
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In San Marcos on March 11 the Start Bank and Trust Company and The First National Bank allowed limited withdrawals. The Start Bank and Trust limited withdrawals to 5 percent with a maximum of $10 per day per depositor. The First National Bank allowed withdrawals in emergencies. The State Bank barred opening new accounts for First National customers who did not hold an account with the state institution on March 1.
Dorothy Statler, heiress to a hotel fortune, is shown working as a head waitress in the Mayflower Hotel dining room. The Bryn Mawr alumna, educated in Paris and Vienna, seeks practical hotel training beyond theory, planning to shift to the housekeeping department after four months.
MIAMI Fla March 11 Focner Mazar dames J Walter indicated today by filing appearance that he will fight the divorce suit brought by his wife Janet A Walker. Appearance filed by Cohen, Mia attorney, attached to a cablegram purporting to de from Walker to Cohen read You are authorized to make me appear and be heard at the hearing.
An elderly Civil War veteran in Monrovia, Philip Campbell, 30, alleges he is the youngest from the Colored Wood era. The article notes his claim amid unclear fragments about garbed pictures and references to a palais and Valley of plains.
New York reporting on a District Attorney promising a drive to end petting at polling parties. The article outlines aggressive measures and names officials and locations amid a tense political scene with potential legal action and enforcement plans.
A Bourbon County resident, Marti Tih, aged 22, died at the city hospital after a lengthy illness that followed a prior accident. Funeral arrangements are pending as authorities note the deceased’s ties to regional communities and past family associations.
A whirl of cash and payroll checks swept San Antonio as banks reopened after a lull. Tell ers cashed payrolls and deposits surged while professionals and workers queued, pockets bulging with greenbacks as a weekend economy perk revived city commerce.
In San Francisco on March 11 a dramatic sea incident ends with an eight-foot tiger shark hauled aboard the trawler Maria B. Dellume reports the shark fought the crew for two hours as Captain Wilean Waller fired 20 shots. The shark tore the net and the sardines escaped. the net valued at $2500. A five-room home at 183 West French Place is available for rent in a classified ad.
Washington March 1 A strenuous protest from William Green chief of the American Federation of Labor against the Roosevelt economy program sought to block government wage cuts up to 15 percent. Green argued such reductions would shrink buying power and worsen unemployment, while Tammany Hall backed the president.
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