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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1931
Page
4
Fort Worth on March 17 honors organizers of a fraternal event for giving women prominence. Speaker REBEKAH BA. provides remarks acknowledging their role and the significance of women in leadership circles.
Colonel H R Clagett commander of Arnoke Field returns cross country from California with a new training plane, Shoug Inien, Santa Monies, delivering a ture- Way craft. Amelia Genk of San Antorée national president of the Independent Order of Ga Bellows addressed delegates at the thirty-seventh annual Rebekah assembly in Tess.
San Diego authorities joined Portland and other cities in a massive manhunt for Coral Eccentrics linked to the disappearance of Virginia Brooks, a 10.5 year old girl. The case bureau based in Los Angeles and San Diego organized scientific cl lems and clues while Wallin, a Tecate suspect, faced questioning as investigators examine a hat and other evidence. The girl’s dismembered remains were later found near Camp Kearny, wrapped in a burlap sack.
Yoakum growers report transplanting tomato plants from cold frames into fields after a frost hit. About 80 percent of tonistoes are in the fields. Officials and local growers note the freeze caused significant damage to buds and early growth.
Fragmented OCR text lists weather details for Abilene with temperatures and cloudy conditions. Mentions a Tuesday schedule and times, including a 9 45 entry. Also references a public sale and local notices in terse, unclear form.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for John Hei of Hallettsville aged 76, conducted by Rev. G. T. Gibbons of the Methodist church. Burial followed in City Cemetery. He is survived by daughter Ira and son Will Clark of Hallettsville. The notice notes moderate prices for services and includes garbled remarks from the ad copy.
A San Antonio exhibit features Captain Dave Jonathan Barnett of the Pacific Whaling Company lecturing on whale catching. The 3 ton youngster and finback specimen travel from California coast, with tickets offered for school groups and scouts to view at 4:30 p.m. Thursday and again in the evening.
Nearly four inches of rain in Kleberg County on Sunday boosts forage for stock and feed crops though about ten percent of cotton acreage may need replants due to flood. State Highway 16 closure from 14 to 17 miles north disrupted traffic. Marooned travelers include 65 men returning from the U S LC Royal conference in Kingsville.
Defendants wearing individual earphones listen intently as the Moscow trial proceeds. They face charges of attempting to overthrow the Soviet regime and restore captured power, with moderation ongoing in the courtroom.
March 17. Chicago reports Carlen Caughey, seven, facing critical condition as pneumonia and heart strain threaten recovery. After weeks on a respirator in the hospital, he was removed from support but worsened, prompting cautious hopes for improvement amid fragile health.
MIHRION Texas March 17. sut rilow school under the supervision of the Mission publicWhatever agatem will close March 20. The school has met on Tuesdays and Fridays evenings and has covered major phases of the dairy industry. Instruction is largely supplied by the state department of agriculture and the federal department of agriculture. The school was closed upon a decision of cooperative marketing by N. F. Donelson, who expected to present a plan from the federal farm boards.
A local notice lists candidates for the Yoakmu board election with names including Texan Mann and others. The event is set for April 4 at a school dining hall, with positions at stake and terms to be announced.
Promotion of Mijora Sanford W. French Albert P. Cinek and Henry Co Michie Matien Corps to lieutenant colonel has been announced by the war department. Colonel Frenchie heads the medical erection of the corps area depot at Fort Sam Houston and oversees fever and asthma clinic work at Station Wesgritnl. Colonel Clark serves as chief surgeon at Elghil Corns area headquarters and is a former Army War College graduate with forty years in the general staff. Michie is assigned to Station depot in disease work and came to San Antonio from Wartington.
Parks are planned in and near Yoakum Texas with Browning Park completed in front of the city hall. The city engineering department notes work on park sites at the junction of West Gonzales Street and Highway No 72. Additional landscaping will occur where Shiner and Flanville highways converge, with other nearby tracts to be planted.
Teran March 17 part time school for farm boys out of school began this week with D B Moore superintendent and A D Varnell teacher of vocational agriculture in charge. Courses include agriculture English bookkeeping and arithmetic for seven weeks.
New York authorities press a murder case where District Attorney McHaughtin announced Teddy Spanish alias Geores Lunernsts as a principal suspect. He stated the informant would become a major witness.
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