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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1932
Page
1
A breezy column by Arthur Briabane reflects on daily life and current events, styled in a King Features brief. The piece offers observations and light commentary on culture, media, and public figures of the moment.
In Chicago on May 2 heavy rain dampens straw hats while residents cope with a mixed mood. George Buckley of Wall Street notes bottom remains, John McKinnny discusses the vast Merchandise Mart built to supply wholesalers, and James Simpson films show Chicago efficiency abroad. Wrigley notes broad distribution strains, Dr. Yarros talks monogamy and happiness, and kidnappings reveal police cases. Managua reports Gales marines kill 17 Nicaraguan rebels as debates rise on foreign intervention. Prison burns at Stateville prompt warden remarks as Century of Progress looms and upcoming conventions promise hotel crowds and economic spin.
Washington May 27 The Senate debated a 1.75 percent sales tax amendment introduced by Senator Walsh aiming to replace excise rates with a general levy. Supporters claimed a majority. opponents doubted passage as Hoover urged quick action. The fur tax and check tax proposals also drew floor testing, with notes on exemptions and cuts. A separate case saw Alfonso Gonway acquitted of theft in Ninety-fourth district court.
MEXICO CITY May 27 The labor court needs Solomon. A chauffeur charged he was discharged without justification. Testimony showed the car owner, for economy, bought a small baby automobile after owning a large car. The chauffeur, over six feet tall, found little room in the smaller car. The court has taken the case under advisement.
Los Angeles dated report cites Capt. T. Kamiashi of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha liner Buenos Mary arriving at San Pedro. He claims 1000 Japanese will be sent to Sao Paulo for farming and that only Japanese may enter Brazil to stay, asserting 115,000 Japanese in Brazil.
Chicago reports a 26 year old Karl J. Strauss shot and killed by a plainclothes officer after a botched hold up. Strauss failed with two companions while the other bandits escaped. motive cited as taunting over money.
Akron commander Charles E Rosendahl said the royal dirigible Akron would begin its homeward trip from the Pacific coast around June 3 or 4. The Australian Darwin government meanwhile employed many men to mow and pull grass, paying five dollars a day, to curb rapid overgrowth.
Oregon bonus brigade veterans, marching toward Washington to seek cash settlements on adjusted service certificates, were moved by Indiana authorities from national guard trucks to a fleet of Ohio highway commission trucks. Cal E. W. Fuhr led 45 trucks to shuttle them toward Montgomery by noon and a night stop in Zanesville, while the group had earlier seized a Baltimore and Ohio freight train near St Louis, demanding a promised settlement.
The American Legion arrived to help about two dozen World War veterans stranded in Chicago on their march to Washington. The veterans had been ejected yesterday from Baltimore and Ohio freight cars after free transport from Utah. Ron Robinson, commander of the twin cities post, asked Governor Harry Leslie for permission to use state highway department trucks to move the group across Indiana to a point in the state. An answer was expected later today.
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, Washington police chief, was chosen secretary-treasurer of the bonus expeditionary forces. The former soldiers elected him at a Judiciary Square meeting to help manage the protest by bonus marchers heading to the capital. Glassford planned a meeting with assistants to address the thousands of veterans demanding immediate payment.
Beaver Pennsylvania May 27 In filcations are today tut a stand on prohibition will be molded for presentations to avas for national party conventions by the United Presby terian Church of the United States in its seventy fourth general assembly here Commissioners close to affairs af the getting intimated the matter would or dia cessed when the committee on reforms headed by Dr W P Mc Garey of Kansas City reports Monday
A Riverview Observatory report from Australia indicates a heavy earthquake shock at 2214 A. M. local time. The tremor was centered about 100 miles away, officials say probably in New Guinea, with the epicenter not definitively confirmed.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh indicated he will testify if Joan H. Curtis is indicted in the Lindbergh baby hoax case. Prosecutor Anthony Hauck will handle the prosecution, with efforts targeting Curtis and two intermediaries Rev. Dent Dobson-Peacock and Admiral Guy H. Burrage. Hunterdon County grand jury action and a Norfolk man alleged to obstruct justice are referenced.
In Los Angeles on May 27, Guy Edward Hudson, husband of Minnie Kennedy mother of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, was ordered to repay 168.14 to Miss Bordeaux who testified she loaned money in 1930 including 25 for a Gladstone bag later converted by Hudson. He did not appear and default led to Bordeaux winning the claim.
New York May 27 Stanley Hauser of Linden New Jersey prepared for a distance flight to an unannounced destination with Poland as a possible target. Weather delays had postponed the takeoff yesterday though the plane was in readiness.
Weather notes show party cloudy Friday night with possible light to moderate showers Saturday. Low Friday night near 68 degrees. Winds light to moderate from the east. Texas region mostly cloudy with showers in south portions Friday night and heavier in north and central parts. Coastal winds light to moderate. Western Texas cloudy Friday night and Saturday with likely showers.
Park Commissioner Walter R. Herrick testified before the Hofstadter committee that in fall 1926 he bought 300 shares of Interstate Trust stock, paid $39,000 sent from City Hall by Mayor James J Walker or his secretary, and delivered the stock to Stanton for the mayor. Walker denied owning Interstate stock and said he told friends to buy some but never bought himself. Herrick said the purchase was for the mayor, and that the mayor later said the stock was gone after a loan collateral.
In Morris and Muskogee Oklahoma on May 27 three unmasked robbers looted the First State Bank of Morris, abducted clerk Miss Claire Aggus, then fled in a touring car. J Z Thompson was wounded in a gunfight as officers pursued. the driver crashed and another robber took the wheel. The same bank had been robbed five months earlier and this was the twenty third Oklahoma bank robbery since January 1.
Paris May 27 President Albert Lebrun accompanied by detectives made his first courtesy call on American ambassador Walter Edge. Guarded by police amid Communist threats the visit lasted about ten minutes as surrounding sidewalks were cleared and additional security was on duty.
In Washington on May 27, Senator Reed a Republican from Pennsylvania blocked an attempt to secure an agreement to vote on farm relief legislation before adjournment. Senator Nye of North Dakota urged an agreement that the Senate would not adjourn until it had voted on the McNary omnibus relief bill and the Prazler refinancing measure.
OCR fragments describe a summer locate and transportation context with names like Gale and Rayton. The text mentions months, places, and several seemingly random terms, yielding a partial, garbled record without a clear single event or outcome.
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