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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1938
Page
1
A distorted tale describes how administration figures like Harry Hopkins and Barkley face misinterpretations over political aims. The piece cites Wearin, Hopkins, and Leche, noting misread signals amid New Deal debates, Barkley amendments, and Louisiana politics affecting 1930s campaigns.
Memorial Day observances honored veterans with services under Harry ft camp No. 61 and the United Spanish War Veterans. A drill team, speakers including Col. HA. White and Mrs. J. B. Madigan, and a flag ceremony marked the day. Memorial markers were placed for Ambrose Thompson and Mrs. Bessie Leng, with other dedications to Sarah Fowler and James Kyle Wian. City and government offices closed. banks and mail services suspended.
A small tornado with heavy rain struck the extreme northeastern Oklahoma area with hail large as eggs. Hail and wind damaged homes in Carden Oklahoma and caused four feet of water in Carroll County courthouse basement. Five inches of rain drenched the region and rails were washed away in Missouri and North Arkansas. Damages in Arkansas and Oklahoma tallied in the thousands with fish hatchery losses and relocation of residents in Hockersville and Dassville.
Memorial Day observances united the country in reverence for fallen soldiers. President Roosevelt conducted a quiet Hyde Park day while Gettysburg honored the war dead with speeches by Senator Vandenberg and student ceremonies. Veterans and civilians joined services from Gettysburg to overseas sites amid a tense global mood.
In London Kentucky on May 17 the government began Week Three of a trial against 46 Harlan coastlans and 20 related corporations on anti trust conspiracy charges. Prosecutors planned to renew requests to admit National Labor Relations Board testimony as evidence despite defense objections about witness compulsion. Judge H Church Ford overruled last week a similar request, in line with the defense argument.
An old advertisement promotes Cystex as a kidney aid claiming to cleanse excess build up and restore youth. It touts a money back guarantee and asserts dramatic improvements in energy and health, urging readers to try the product with a stated price per dose.
New York May 30 reports say Walter F. Chrysler Sr a prominent automobile manufacturer was hospitalized Friday with a circulatory ailment and pneumonia but shows improvement. His physician Dr Arthur F Coase stated he is better and progressing as he remains in a sanitarium for treatment.
May 30 Gettysburg scene recalled as speakers urge defense of liberty against security tradeoffs. Arthur H. Vaoden of Michigan warns those who trade liberty for security lose both. Vandenburg says the nation faces another Gettysburg, this time civil, not military, as mourners pass the national Cemetery line once marked by Meade and Lee.
In Huntsville Texas prison officials denied reports of a second bomb after a device was found in a rubbish barrel near the main building’s mess hall. Police and guards swept the penitentiary seeking clues about the blast risk.
In South Chicago about twenty thousand steel workers gathered Sunday for a memorial service honoring ten workers killed last Memorial Day in clashes after police blocked a side march at Republic Steel in South Chicago. Principal speaker was Philips Murtey, chairman of the OT Os Steel Workers Organizing Committee.
Wilfred Chappin of Missoula Montana and Randa Arthur Williams of Leadville Colorado said they helped the Spanish Republican International Brigade to France and were lodged in Cork after landing on the liner President Harding. They will be returned to Le Havre on Wednesday and may appeal to the United States embassy in Paris. A second item notes broker Earold J. Welsh of New York believed drowned after a fall from a boat in Long Island Sound.
Mrs Battle B Lincoln of 10 274 Post avenue was found unconscious in her room and taken to Santa Rose hospital after being discovered by Mrs I Q Smith who also lives at the same address.
Two investigations began in New York to determine blame for the collision between the steamship Acacia and the excursion Wat Mandalay Saturday night. The Mandalay sank after a gaping hole appeared in its side, but 407 passengers and crew escaped aboard the Aridi a few minutes earlier.
Paris announced that France protested to the insurgent regime in Spain over an aerial bombardment of the border town of Cethere on May 26. Two Frenchmen were wounded, and several horses were destroyed.
The court resumed Monday with Herrera facing cross examination after Friday's session. San Antonio officials recounted confessions and rights warnings while witnesses described signing and translating the confession. Detectives testified Herrera spoke English and aided investigators, as the case against him moved toward closing statements.
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