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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1938
Page
6
Pope Pius XII, recovering from a heart ailment, attended spiritual services in his apartment chapel today before receiving 500 newly married couples in audience. Early reports indicate the Pontiff passed a comfortable night and is in improving condition.
Death today ends the career of Robert Mugene Lorton 24 associate publisher of the Tulsa World He was unconscious since a cerebral hemorrhage yesterday and died this morning at St Johns Hospital Tulsa Ohio narrative notes death in hospital care and status as associate publisher
German actress Leni Riefenstahl, visiting winter resorts, denounces anti Nazi league remarks as personal attacks though she is cited as a symbol. Elizabeth Anderson of the league says she holds no personal grudge, while noting the controversy over Riefenstahl’s stance and image in Hollywood. Meanwhile San Francisco reports on rural mail delivery routes with 2 percent of mail carried by horses and buckboards.
The article notes bankers contend illegible signatures are harder to forge, yet deciphering legible ones relies on memory and a mental image of the signature. It cites W H Lamkin of South Texas National Bank on signature variability, forgery risks, and modern handwriting decline due to typewriters and adding machines.
Reported evidence, presented by J. W. & Stanage, radio operators, connects Capt. Charles Kingsford-Smith to a crash on the island of Aye off the Burma coast during a London to Sydney flight two years earlier. Jack Hedden aided by searching the island, locating wreckage matching Smith’s aircraft.
PETOSKEY Mich Nov 30 Four children of Mr and Mrs Charles Shag perished in a fire that devastated their small home near Hertor Point last night. The blaze struck late and authorities were investigating the cause as grieving relatives gathered at the scene.
Calotahs are promoted as a saluable aid in treating colds. They claim to cleanse the intestinal tract of virulent mucus and toxins, aid kidney elimination, and expel cold poisons from the blood. The tablets act as purgatives and diuretics, priced cheaply for family use and trial packages.
Washington reports President Roosevelt defense program could include funding for new army air bases in New England Florida and Alaska as part of expanding the air corps. A War Department board has studied sites in New Hampshire and Florida while Alaska defense plans gain momentum amid calls to protect the Caribbean and Panama canal. Congressional voices signal defense will dominate upcoming session.
A chain of Ulster customs posts along the 120 mile border between Northern Ireland and the Republic was blown up today by land mines and horns. Hundreds of Irish Republicans were reported to have participated in the destruction, which occurred before dawn.
James Villanueva, 64, a longtime county tax assessor's office employee, remained critical Wednesday at Medical and Surgical hospital. He suffered a blunt blow on his head when he fell during a Sunday deer hunt near Titetha.
London Texas reports the Premier Granite Quarry Co of Liano Texas won the contract to build a monument for New London school disaster victims. Low bid $16 751. Names of the students and teachers who died will be etched on the memorial.
Walter Kallenbach, once trumpeter with Paul Whiteman's orchestra, became a sightless evangelist after a hunting accident years ago. He endured 26 operations, two years in hospital, and then earned philosophy and theology doctorates at the University of Virginia. He reads braille, memorizes the Bible, and pursues golf, bowling, and fishing with support from a caddy. He says blindness helped him find a path to preach and bring others to faith.
Austin Nov 39-? District Judge Ralph W Yarborough appointed Henry F P Burney Jr of San Antonio as receiver for L G Bertey Drug Stores Inc after a suit by Attorney General William McCraw. McCraw sought 3261 allegedly due the state by the defendant and others in charge.
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