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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1935
Page
1
Captain Clifford M. Olivetti, judge advocate of the Second division, has received orders transferring him from Fort Bam Houston to the Panama Canal Zone for service. He will sail from New York for duty there.
Maj Hervey E Banna and First Lieut David J Small, San Antonio Quartermaster Testive officers, have been ordered to active duty at the Normoyle quartermaster depot for MM days, effective May 1.
Salvador Cardenas. 1613 West Laurel Street, reported two armed men robbed him Tuesday night at Ruiz and Navidad streets. They took a $16.60 pay envelope belonging to a friend, but left $2 of Cardenas’s own money in another pocket.
Charles F A Hummel aged eighty died Tuesday in a local hospital after a 40 year career in city service and later gun and ammunition business with his father. Surviving are his son F G Hummel and four grandchildren. Funeral set for 4 p m Wednesday at 1 King William Street with Rev Sam Capers officiating. Interment at Alamo Masonic Cemetery. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named.
Testimony neared completion in a mall fraud case against Frank F. Parish Samuel J Maddin and others charged with an alleged 35 million dollar bubble in the Missouri Kansas Piping Co. An informal conference with Judge John P Barnes led to testimony ending today and the jury to hear the case tomorrow.
Former NRA administrator Hugh L. Johnson faced microphone bans as he spoke to the United Business Men's Association in Philadelphia. Johnson called the NRA a scared rat and urged a path between radicals and reactionaries to lift the mood, with a Kentucky speech planned for May 1.
Captain A F Dershimer, San Antonio quartermaster, has spent about 7 million on army construction in two years. His office in an old barracks at Fort Sam Houston oversees modern quarters at Fort Sam Houston Randolph Field and Duncan Field shops. He bids on a 2 million hospital at Park and Hawaii, with Army PWA allotments, potentially adding 26 million more in two years.
A 19 officer and crew detachment from German cruiser Karlsruhe visited San Antonio and Houston on its goodwill world cruise. Led by Lieutenant H W Grosse and E G Bachmann, the group included warrant and petty officers, cadets, and seamen. They wreath lay at the Alante, toured Randolph Field, and attended a Mexican luncheon before a Houston return. Commander Gunther Lutyens and Lieutenant Commander Alfred Schemmel accompanied the visit.
Chicago May 1 Detectives failing to locate husband prompts Mrs Isabel Hough ex stage name Isabel Baring to seek chain letters to find missing songwriter Will Hough Extradition proceedings begun to return Hough from Carmel California to face charge of abandoning wife and baby Wife says detectives finally learned where husband was living
A San Antonio protest against granting a new electric power franchise was filed by the San Antonio Building Trades Council. Fred Fishback argued competition would lower rates briefly but raise them after one firm eliminates the other. Acting Mayor Steffler scheduled a utility rate conference at Mayor Quin's residence, with a decision possible on the Angler Sleeting franchise request. Meanwhile the city delayed replies to rate demands as Mayor Quin and his wife attended a relative’s Dallas funeral.
National Youth week features pupils visiting city and county offices as well as courts. Mayor Dudley Gowland and officials like Tax Commissioner Robert Cerbin join student activities with sheriff and county judge roles while students serve as secretaries to school board members.
MEMPHIS Tenn May 1 Police said oil magnate Berry V Stoll of Louisville was to pay 600 for disclosure of Thomas H Robinson’s location. A man jailed here was named as the conspirator in a note to W C Gans held in custody. Detectives described the case as an extortion plot involving Stoll’s wife’s alleged kidnapper Ara ot Ragin.
Denver report: 15 year old Marshall, a blind-born but sight-restored Baker Junior High student, shot herself last night after being reprimanded by her father for staying out late. Coroner George Bostwick cited the death. The girl was described as brilliant by teachers.
A hungry burglar raided Mrs. J. Wild's ice box at 205 Lavaca Street, depleting stock before morning. authorities investigated the break in as a food theft. Four people were killed in a munitions factory explosion in Bourges, France, earlier today.
Mexico City May 1 Amelia Earhart announced she will likely depart tomorrow for New York via the Pan American route. A three quarter mile runway was deemed hazardous at high altitude, soldiers built a three inch runway extension while Earhart praised the field. The voyage would start toward Tampa then Gulf crossing toward New Orleans before a direct line to New York.
A robot piloted aircraft completed 80 percent of the flight from Los Angeles to New York, landing at Floyd Bennett Field after 14 hours 34 minutes 16 seconds. Co piloting by D W Tomlinson and navigator Harald Shead, with 250 spectators cheering, the flight averaged over 2218 mph despite weather detours and a dust storm between Burango and Pueblo.
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