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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1933
Page
14
A fragmentary reminiscence traces Ates, a boy with a severe stutter, growing up in a small town. He later became a local figure in show business, joining orchestras and performing at the Orpheum and Edison shows while recalling early memories in Maliesburg and nearby towns.
Ates Lravals LUXtully navigated vaudeville as Ales and Darling for a decade before moving to West Coast film work. He rose to stardom after a director praised his performance in a talkie and earned long studio contracts. His lasting goal is helping stutterers, using a method of singing and structured word drills to foster speech. He lives with his blonde wife Dorothy and their entourage, including a famed manager and a prominent entourage member.
A woman repulsed a would be bandit who entered an office at 422 Math Avenue demanding the safe. Police report say the attacker had a weapon and fled after the confrontation. No injuries are noted and investigators continue to review the incident.
Miss Jucille Sharp of Austin is junior and member of Pi Beta Phi and Pan-Hellenic Society. Miss Mary Bowles of Houston is sophomore and member of Kappa Alpha Thea sorority.
A W Piersag of Houston was elected president of the Texas Retail Grocers Association on the convention’s final day at the Gunther hotel Houston chosen as 1934 convention city P M Brinker of Dallas named first vice president T H Cohen of Fort Worth second vice president and L Hall of San Antonio third Pierson urged Texas made products and a resolution urged Governor Ferguson to probe relief work amid alleged waste and mismanagement during the convention week retiring president WoH Miller started Tuesday session. several hundred attendees present.
A San Antonio delegation will attend the Texas Association of Pure Insurance Agents annual meeting in Corpus Christi on May 25 and 28. Representing San Antonio are Karl Ramedell president P F Ludalph secretary Lyte W Gosling director W L Stiles C D Law le G F Detar Newsom Wodack pan AC McDavid FC Git finger Arthur G Rando F M Coleman Raymond Maus state fire insurance commissioner J S Chiles North Mililenn Arde McCashion and others.
The College Club will stage a comedy titled Duley featuring Mary Elizabeth Bloomberg, Claudia Worth, Leora Schelper, and Leona Paer among cast from San Antonio Corpus Christi and other cities. The event begins at 6 pm with Marie Clowe in a leading role and several local actors participating.
Heights junior class presents a play directed by Adel Byler titled Shy. The production features Jack Lucas and Moechle Quinian in the principal roles. The show runs Wednesday at the Alamo theater with the junior class staging.
H A Kuykendall, agent for the National Gas Register company, says a major 16 hour phone campaign will begin Wednesday to boost domestic sales under L B Thompson. The plan targets 95 sales agents across the United States and Canada in a single, unprecedented effort. Thompson will participate in talks as Kuykendall coordinates the campaign, described as the greatest telephones sales promotion yet.
Grace Lutherans will hold a Thursday evening service at 8 p.m with Dr. Pavl Bein preaching and the junior choir singing. An earlier local theft report notes a burglary at a grocery, with loss of pies cakes and cigarettes observed by Mrs. Martinez. Radio Patrolmen Portis and Cannon escaped injury after a collision involving Buck Whitten, who was later charged.
First Lieut Charley Toward of Matchfield California received the Mackay trophy for the most meritorious flight in 1982 as representative of the Seventh Bombardment agedrin unit participating in the Navajo relief flight in January of last year. Fourteen corps officers and one medical corps officer took part in the mission to aid stormbound Navajo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona. Lieutenant Howard's "flying bread five" flew about 11 000 miles over five days and covered 20 000 square miles delivering aid and food. Eight planes including six bombers carried a total of 25 enlisted men in addition to the officers. pilots named include First Lieut Ralph A Spavely Second Lieut John Mills Lewis Parker Ronald Lyon Emery S Wetzel Branley K Robinson Charles W Haas Tyann D Farman Harold W Rowman Joseph A Miller George A Suilzet Harold F Blackburn and Frank Wittenberg. Americen total thefts reported. Tires valued at 76 were stolen from a filling station at el Haat Cameron Street early Wednesday. Q. Wuhm, operator, reported to police.
National Pictures chief and writer director, Binney, brings a production crew back from Eagle Pass to San Antonio. The team filmed a twelve part series Across the Ala Grande with Harold Mangum and scene shots in West Texas. Cast includes Hal Byrnes Melba Harper Alexander Rosas Lupe Beltran Gene Meadows and Jack Hoey among others.
Fourteen wolves and two bobcats were captured in Bexar County in April. HR Larson of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Texas Wildlife agencies announced the figures, noting statewide totals of 54 bobcats 988 coyotes 3 mountain lions and wolves. An unoccupied gas station near Frat eight miles east of Austin was destroyed by fire early Wednesday and responders obtained a name for the owner.
A cast of 14 children will stage William Shakespeare's Catherine and Petruchio at the Woman's Club Auditorium located at 70 Sin Begre Avenue. The performance is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday by the Bilge's Schonl of Dramatics.
In Bexar county 240 men will be recruited and sent to Camp Bullis for Civilian Conservation Corps work. Sixty more will join as incampment headquarters staff, with assignments to East Texas New Mexico and Arizona camps. Training and medical staff additions accompany the drill, as ambulances cars and trucks prepare for distribution among eighth and ninth corps work groups.
Reader reports alleging bus drivers at a local transit firm stole money from passengers during the first week of service. Names cited include Therivick J. W. Pholns M. E. Young Doc Williams and B. A. Cross. Victims claim $3 to $4 fares were skimmed.
Houston officer Ho W. Payne reports four large blue Buick cars stolen in Houston recently, possibly connected to a bank robbery at the First Nathona Bank of Gan Marcos. Estimated take about $7000. A stolen car valued at $1245 and license number noted.
Awards from the Graves Hand Writing Institute in Austin were presented to ten students at San Antonio Technical and Vocational School. Recipients include Tina certificates Tina Frye Helen Keller Dorothy Lamm Eva Mae Pallard Edward Reyes Hele Mayen. Pin recipients Trinidad Mer enfie Marmela Faguiade ya Goren Virginia yobilln.
A patrolman was struck seven times by young hustlers at 309 Laurh Batt Marcos street near Hay market place early Wednesday. Witnesses said the trouble began when he asked them to move as boxes were obstructing traffic. Li and I, two tucksters, were held for investigation, police said.
Emma Frees of Palo Alto Road was bitten on the left hand by a rattlesnake while reaching under a home for fruit jars Wednesday morning. She was rushed in serious condition to Trader DB, Greets hospital as her daughter Gayle and another relative tried to roll the snake away.
Clyde Uepal, 30, held in city jail after a ranger deal in the slaying of J. Gray brother of City Detective Jobin Gray near Freer Texas on May 13. Gray beaten to death with an ax. De Spain to be turned over to Duval county authorities. Search ongoing for a second man.
A May 14 report from New York discusses Dinegias and Testor with a budget plan. It notes Congress adopted a scheme to raise funds and mentions various nations and military actions amid a general wartime backdrop.
A joint San Antonio commission and traders association launch a drive to boost tax payments, especially school taxes, to ease the school system’s finances. Attorney Lamet Seeligson says funds will be sought through radio talks and luncheons as state apportionment likely drops from $16 to about $10 per capita. The rate’s decline is blamed on exemptions and unreconciled tax measures. The board plans to issue scrip in place of cash for June payrolls to cover deficits as May payroll is paid in cash.
A group of 30 pupils from San Antonio public schools, supervised by Mrs. Marjorie Mureng and Mrs. Littu Griesenbach, heads to Chicago for a world sale event and Minneapolis for a junior conference. They are joined by violin teachers Mrs. Florence Wheat and Miss Ro Hoge, with James Graver Morris and G. O. Ball among chaperones.
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