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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1936
Page
5
Fragmented OCR notes show Treasurer Charley Tork Ot of San Antonio planning a fourth term bid amid a state safety vault project. Mentions security vault under construction, 100 million in securities, burglar protection, and tax rate unchanged for the year with a July rate.
A chaotic tale of the coastlive laundry network and Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach facing tangled holding companies. Widows and workers lost savings after trusting the firms with investments. Mrs Simpson, a Tacoma widow, faced loss and sought redress from the licenses department. Affected investors received small or uncashed checks, provoking outrage over the investment scheme.
San Antonio beauty operators widen strike with picketing outside Don Nissen's Real y sat on and Frost beauty shop as union says 10 operators walked out at Nissen's. Management offered 32 percent on all work, strikers disagree. Pickets urged public support while commissions were cut at Prost shop, sparking wage concerns. State labor officials conferred with neither side reaching agreement.
Acting Governor Waller said he would hear the plea of Wire Stalcup's mother and wife for commutation of the death sentence tomorrow afternoon and would announce a decision shortly thereafter. He is to die Monday. From Fort Worth, Wood noted he had made some study of the case. The pardons board reported adversely on the plea.
New York May 1 Better weather aided retail trade advancing 8 to 32 per cent from a year ago in a Dun and Bradstreet survey. Wholesale markets showed the strongest gains as buyers rebuilt volume for the period, the report said. Actress Ann Borg of Boston, credited to appear in Paramount's Three Cheers for Love, has returned to her original name Anne Borg after a Hollywood renaming.
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