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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1932
Page
3
Tokyo reports show 58 dead and up to 250 missing after a massive typhoon hit central Japan. Destruction spans Taido, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Fukushima, and Ibaraki prefectures. Two freighters Genchu Maru and Unkal Maru foundered with dozens of sailors lost or rescued.
Ten million gallons of bonded California wine will be abandoned to slake the nation’s thirst if prohibition ends. An equal amount is in the making, with varieties including champagne, port, sherry, claret, sauternes, Moselle, Burgundy and more. The vintages are aged and ready for release, raising expectations of a revival of traditional wine types in the post prohibition era.
Home Office report records 43 seriously injured and 62 missing from the storm not counting ship losses at sea. Newanaper notes 40 fishing boats with crews overboard and 250 men unreturned to port after the typhoon. SHANGHAI reports gale force winds as the disaster crosses from Japan to China.
Hollywood star Richard Arlen said his wife Jobyna Ralston, once Harold Lloyd’s leading lady, plans to stay at Palm Springs for months while their home near Hollywood awaits the stork. The busy bird is expected to visit soon, marking a family milestone in early November.
Philadelphia observers reported a weak Leonid meteor display with only about forty meteors seen from midnight to 8 am as clouds rolled in. In Cambridge, Harvard astronomers logged a record count of about one meteor per second early but note conditions worsened toward dawn due to haze.
Buffalo interests including chamber of commerce urged Senate panel to reject the St Lawrence waterway treaty. They argued Great Lakes facilities already handle the grain trade and the proposed outlet to the sea would not save transport costs, making the project expensive with doubtful value.
The Alabama Supreme Court acting under U S Supreme Court authority remands for retrial the seven Negroes sentenced to death for the Scottsboro attack on two white girls. It reverses the circuit court judgment and orders further proceedings in Jackson County.
Abilene Texas November 18 delegates and officers of Baptist groups declared firm support for national prohibition laws. Pastors and laymen at the Baptist general convention and auxiliary unions signed petitions opposing any alteration of the Eighteenth Amendment or state enforcement acts.
Strong Japanese reinforcements moved toward northwest Manchuria as unofficial reports said Japan would threaten to crush insurgent General Su Ping Wen unless he frees 245 Japanese hostages at Monchatt on the Soviet border.
The Texas association of Dyers and Cleaners re elected TM-ville Blater of Dallas as president and K Ber tuccl of Dallas as secretary treasurer at the annual convention in Waco. Read Berry of Fort Worth was named vice president and C V Millican of Houston sergeant at arms. Execut ive board members include W H Munro Beaumont A Thrasher Mount Pleasant L B Keller Waco and Kelly Smith Austin. Dulles was set as the 1933 convention city with speakers Pat Peyson Beaumont Billy Burke San Antonio Hugo Ewan Dallas J B Hooka Waco.
Hunger in Vienna forces hundreds of young Austrians to endure cold in front of Rossauer Barracks. The St Germain treaty allows annual vacancies, but recruits must sign for 12 years of continuous service.
Unemployed World War I veterans gather to convert Humble Oil refinery buildings and 100 box cars into a self supporting camp for their families. R R Rogers leads efforts to create a dining room kitchen trades shop and emergency hospital with 26 acres irrigated garden and artesian well. The camp on Frio City road near Kelly field plans to house 186 residents including 71 children and a 15 days old infant.
President Gerardo Machado tours the hurricane zone in CAMAGUEY Cuba returning from Santa Cruz del Sur and heading to Nuevitag on the northern coast. Between trains he visited hospitals where 1000 or more injured from Santa Cruz and other areas are recovering.
The First Baptist Church will screen Life of Christ and the Passion Play at 7:45 p.m. Sunday. A musical score accompanies the film, which covers events from the nativity to the ascension and draws on the Freiburg and Oberammergau plays. Laurence A. Lambert, a noted speaker and baritone soloist, will attend in person.
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