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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1936
Page
14
Arthur Brisbane notes James A. Farley sails to England for a holiday, declaring the nation will have a sound foundation. He discusses wartime budgets, Erasmus and Luther, and recent editor deaths. Mary Pickford plans marriage to Hardy Rogers as autos and trailers reshape American industry.
The weather report notes intermittent showers beginning at noon with 0.9 inch of rain by early afternoon. Forecaster J. F. Jarboe predicts lingering showers into Tuesday night with a return to near normal by Wednesday. Temperatures expected in the sixties with light southeasterly winds and a high near 70.
Paul Kardow, pitcher for the New Orleans Hawks, and his wife Antonia lay near death after an auto train crash six miles east of the city on the Se gin highways. The car burst into flames but neither was burned. Kardow sustained a skull fracture and cuts. Mrs Kardow had a possible skull fracture and both arms broken.
The body of Jully Gloria Hood aged four was found in a wheat field three miles south of Newton, ten days after she wandered from home. She wore blue striped coveralls and a blue sweater, with scratches on arms, legs, and face from thorns and sticks. Police believe she and a companion walked all night until she collapsed.
President Roosevelt spoke of a possible self registration system for tenant farmers as part of a study by a special committee under the National Resources Committee. He argued such a plan would be simpler and cheaper than door to door surveys, noting rising tenant numbers since 1880 linked to soil depletion and lower living standards. The panel aims to develop a land tenure framework to boost security and opportunity for tenants, consulting leaders in state and national affairs including Senator Bankhead and Rep. James.
In Terrell Hills a gardener with partial deafness faced a police end after a mistaken break in at 767 Burr Road. Special Officer J B Enrite reported the man, hands raised, explaining he only sought a telephone call. Mrs Thornton Davis detained him at her residence until Emile conveyed him home.
G. G. Brock Jr., an employee at a Gulf Service Station on South Presa Street, reported a hold up by four masked bandits early Tuesday. He was opening the station at about 6:30 p.m. when one man grabbed his wallet and fled with $11. Brock declared he felt a touch at his back before turning to face the unmasked assailants.
Jacksonville reports the British steamer Shear Spear, en route to Hamilton Bermuda, signalled engine trouble east of Cane Hatters. Coast Guard says the freighter might carry a few passengers and requests nearby vessels to stand by.
X read: Government forces claim halted Fascist advance into University City during a ferocious clash in Madrid. Artillery, air strikes, and tanks pound the capital as insurgents push across the Manzanares toward the center, with heavy casualties and near-total war conditions reported.
More than 20 000 textile workers in the Carolinas received wage boosts as four Carolina mill chains and related units announced raises totaling about 1 000 000 dollars per year. Cone Mills Greensboro and the Ervin Mill also increased pay, with details varying by plant. The Marshall Field and company chain granted a broad raise to 7000 workers across 14 mills including units in Virginia and North Carolina. Hamp ton group Pacific Mills Columbia and other firms planned raises around November 23.
Four people were injured in a blaze at the Alpert fatth dairy farm near Beres Mill. George Faley, the employer, was struck on the head by falling timber while rushing into the barn to save belongings. John Smith, 83, suffered facial and hand burns. Mrs Smith sustained cuts and bruises. a man identified as Reid was also injured.
Gonzales Nov. 13 County Attorney Denver Perkins afters pleaded investigation into the death of an unnamed white man on the Southern Pacific tracks near Waelder early today. Officials pursue theory the man may have been murdered and placed on the tracks. Little blood found at the first impact point, Perkins said, and this was considered unusual.
The Light home economics department releases a 16 page tabloid holiday menu with festive recipes for appetizers cakes candies desserts meats and poultry preserves and gift ideas. Free copies available with regular edition or by contacting the department. distributed during Thanksgiving season in San Antonio and Southwest Texas.
District attorney investigator Clyde Plummer probes if Reid Russell was killed over romance. Russell was found dead Sept 25 in the garden of Morris’s Manhattan Beach home with a pistol in his hand. Plummer questioned Russell’s mother and expects a lifelong friend from San Bernardino to testify about his past romances.
Weather forecast notes cloudy skies with probable rain and a rise in temperatures. Tuesday may reach around 8 degrees, with Wednesday highest near 66 degrees. Light to gentle east winds, mostly cloudy east and south portions Tuesday night into Wednesday. West Texas area partly cloudy and warmer Tuesday night into Wednesday, with generally fair conditions Wednesday.
Mrs Will Wright 28 of 518 South Mary's Street is questioned after police found her 10 month old daughter Joyce dead from exposure on the front porch. She says a man named Windsor Clayton forced her to leave the baby out and to sleep elsewhere, with the infant repeatedly placed on the porch as cries continued. Clayton is jailed awaiting trial on an indictment for theft from the person and expressed desire to attend the child's funeral.
Huntsville reports two trusty convicts escaped from the Retrieve farm at Snipe Breroria today. The escape involved prisoners W, PF, Gnodiog and Paul Aron, with details conflicting in the article. Police and guards began searches to recapture the escapees and secure the facility.
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