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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
2
Corpus Christi March 30 Austin was chosen as the convention city for next year at the final session of the thirty-eighth annual district convention of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs.
Volunteer firemen fought a blaze of unknown origin in the Marlborough firehouse yesterday causing about 2000 damage before it was extinguished. The alarm came as residents were startled by the fire in the small hamlet's station.
Ethel Levey, San Francisco born musical comedy star and former wife of George M. Cohan, was granted a divorce from Clauds Grahame White on adultery grounds. The case cited a Palm Beach liaison in 1934. Levey, born 1881, rose from San Francisco chorus girl to Broadway performer before marrying Grahame White in 1916.
New York dispatch reports federal judge revoking Bail for Smat Xittle Johnny Torrio and four co defendants after a five hour jury panel. Torrio, the Scarface Capone associate, faces trial on a 56 000 income tax charge and must remain jailed during proceedings. Local items note city borrowing for payrolls and bids approved for property sales and infrastructure extensions.
A four month old white dog with a single brown spot near an eye was left at the Bexar County courthouse on Thursday amid license tag excitement. Miss Louise Rotheneme, a courthouse switchboard operator, is sheltering the pup until its owner is found.
President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated 4602 acres of land in Oaxaca from American Horace W. Corbin of Shelburne Vermont. Five hundred native agriculturists will receive portions of the expropriated areas, previously part of a $25,000-acre hacienda.
A joint conference at Nanking between Japanese sponsored regimes and the Nanking and Peiping governments approved a statement denouncing foreign help to Chiang Kai Shek. The text was not published. Chinese reports claimed 240 puppet officials had been killed and a Mancheng victory over cleanup forces near Wuning while Lingkuang capital’s occupation was denied.
In Tucson on March 30 Roland E. Stambaugh an automobile salesman charged mental cruelty seeking a divorce from Kathleen Stambaugh. He alleges she purchased a 1838 automobile from a rival dealer without counsel or consent, causing him mental illness and distress and ridicule by colleagues that impaired his ability to work.
Dover New Mexico story states Howland denies ever admitting saying Maude Thorne a Milton spinster. John Henry Howland, 25, was called before Superior Court Judge E J Gonnor to enter a murder plea. Howland's 15 year old cousin Aids Butler, arrested with him in Corpus Christi, Texas, became a juvenile ward in Rochester proceedings held privately.
Three American cardinals returned from Rome after participating in the election of Pope Pius X12. William Cardinal O'Donnell of Boston, 80, arrived aboard the Valcanta saying he never felt better. George Mundelein of Chicago and Rodrigue Villeneuve of Quebec were aboard the Normandie, docking later. War notes mention a Winnipeg item on mothers and smoking.
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