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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1935
Page
13
Dawn Peloton and Annound Trucs will headline a program to entertain patients at the Bistion hospital Fort Sam Houston on Thursday night. Also appearing are Francis Shoks Evangeline Stotts Sarah Elizabeth Walker Danny Virginia and Marshall Truex.
In San Jose on May 14, the jury in the second wife murder case against David A Lamson remained deadlocked after two attempts to reach a verdict. Foreman Mary Richter reported a 9 to 3 vote as Judge Robert Syer urged continued deliberations. Lamson, 32, is accused of beating his wife Allene Thorpe Lamson to death at their Stanford campus home on May 30, 1933, with his defense arguing an accidental bathtub fall.
Laval and Stalin met in Moscow to discuss prospects for peace in Eastern Europe. Their talks lasted over two hours, with both leaders focused on shaping postwar diplomacy and security in the region.
Chicago drug magnate Charien R Walgreen says he has assembled a mass of evidence for a state senate committee investigating communist influences at the University of Chicago. He recently withdrew his niece Miss Lucille Norton from the university over alleged radical influences as the panel adjourned to Urbana for the Illinois governor’s visit.
At the University of Arkansas independent theater owners and Pi Phi sorority members protest Jean Harlow remarks and boycott her films. Sorority members say they raised funds to invite Harlow but were told she did not know anybody in Arkansas and did not want to meet anyone there. Theater managers mourn the attitude and forwarded the matter to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer district distributor.
SAND SPRINGS Okla May 14 Mrs Teeta Fisher 29 is in serious condition in a Tulsa hospital with gunshot wounds from a pistol bullet piercing her back and passing through her lung The Fisher home is one of several non union textile mill workers homes hit by gunfire in the last two days C P Fisher and his family are non union workers at Commander Textile Mill where United Textile Workers of America have been striking since April 4 Sheriff Garland Marrs said he had only a meager description of the shooter
May 14 reports from Rome indicate Italy may mobilize 950000 troops by Friday amid rising East African tensions. Mussolini vowed readiness while diplomacy sought peaceful settlement, with Britain and France pressing for conciliation and Turkey speculated as a potential ally for Addis Ababa.
Two white men entered the All-Texas Greyhound Racing association plant near Segaly and W. W. White roads about 1 45 a m Tuesday and robbed track employee Kennedy. They smothered him with pillows as they searched his quarters for the cash, then fled in a varnished coupe. Kennedy saw only a brief glimpse of the robbers before they escaped.
Violence flared as labor unrest spreads from the Pacific coast into Canada. About 24,500 to 31,099 workers walked out from Wanker mills and timber plants in Western Washington and Oregon. Late yesterday near Hillarb or oregon truckloads of logs and lumber were dumped amid the strike. In Vancouver the Waterfront Workers’ association backed a general strike vote amid a demonstration in support of striking reefer workers.
Read in a fragmentary ad style notice promising a free makeup in a consultation booth at a cosmetic shop on Street Floor. The wording suggests a promotional event aiming to attract customers with a complimentary service.
John Mitchell Davis a longtime resident of San Antonio and chief land man for the Saline Oland Gas company die d early Tuesday morning after a brief illness. Survived by his wife Mrs Snew McKenne Davis two daughters Mrs Maude Ellen Evans and Miss Lola Belle Davis one son John Jr. Davis his mother Mrs Rachel B Davis of Richmond Texas and three brothers Funeral services set for 10k am Wednesday at the residence 222 Park Lane Drive with Dr B B Milflmiling active pallbearers named Interment at Mission Bhavint park Lewis Kaylon Tuesday appointed to public library board replacing Miss Elizabeth Houston who resigned to travel.
A. Moursund, prominent San Antonio attorney, was struck by a car last Saturday and returned to travel Tuesday. He sustained abrasions and minor head bruises after stepping from a barber shop on Main Avenue near Dewey Place, yet prepared for a business trip to the Rio Grande valleys.
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