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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1932
Page
5
A Chicago firm announced it will hire 640 workers, bringing total employment to 2831. Ben M. Sampton, VP and GM, stated the move was to support operations amid evolving need. The company emphasized continued stability and growth.
In Newark New Jersey on October 4 former Senator James A Reed of Missouri called the Anti-Baloon league a racket and said it commercializes a movement once moral He urged voters to expunge prohibition and attacked the Republican platform for endorsing it He criticized the dry wet plank as a bid to cajole drys and fool wets Consumer ads note exceptional used and new furniture in Light Classified Miscellaneous.
In Henryetta Oklahoma a barber named H. Wall won a watermelon seed counting contest by one seed. He estimated about two thousand seeds in a watermelon. the actual count was twelve hundred. A second contestant had twelve hundred seeds as well, but the final tally favored Wall by a single seed.
Police reported multiple burglary attempts and stolen items across several addresses. Mary Frances Holliday, Ruby Warren, and Florence Galligan stopped prowlers at their homes. Items stolen include clothing from a car, music sheets, and a watch. A second boy was arrested for a Sallings store break in and Navarro club burglary.
MONTPELIER Oct 4 Senator Daniel O Hastings of Delaware at the Republican state convention declares Governor Franklin D Roosevelt's plea for liberalism is a plea for the radical vote. He argues liberalism means embracing all new government schemes favored by various groups.
Two burglars abducted a night watchman and another man in Trenton early today. They failed to crack safes at Dyer and Connelly Drug Store and Route and Southerland Grocery. On the highway east of town they released the captives after securing a hammer and chisel.
LITTLEFIELD Texas Mr and Mrs W H Danunie of California faced an examining trial today on a charge of kidnapping their daughter Mattie Ann Cox nine from school here yesterday Mrs Dann ing was divorced some time ago from Richard Cox city employee here She denied giving custody of the child to Cox
National Guard troops patrolled Canton Ohio streets today after Robert Pollitt, 22 year union leader and employee at Pschirrer and Clearview mines, was seriously wounded in the mining center. Police and officials tightened security following the attack.
Mrs Willan Borah wife of the United States senator continued to show improvement today in a plant hospital where she had been treated for parrot fever. In Washington signs reading walk on the grass appeared on the campus of Washington and Jefferson College after earlier notices kept people off the lawn. Dr Ralph Hutcheson president said the campus belongs to the students and questioned why they should not walk on it himself.
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