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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1932
Page
3
A reader notes an ad offering a short and long wave radio to vary melodies while listening to police broadcasts. The piece recalls a police radio miscue when a sergeant ordered a patrol car to check in, prompting frustration as the car failed to respond within ten minutes.
A humorous column recalls a World War II truck Fulton bought for his Southton farm in Texas. He finds the same vehicle he drove in France fourteen years earlier, now with a new body but a resilient engine. Also recounted is a theater incident where a sneezing audience member triggers a startled chain reaction.
The piece notes Harry Hertzberg of the Circus Fans Association plotting a fall convention, rumors of Al Fred Corona and Lillian Lietzer’s widower marrying in San Antonio during the Big Show, and town talk about tax and theater figures amid a lively, rumor-filled scene.
In Louisville Kentucky on September 1 publican conventions gathered to name delegates to the state convention near Wednesday. Congressman America H Thatcher of Kentucky was expected to nominate Barnet Arey Winker as delegates and to instruct support for senatorial nominees.
Officials in 254 counties prepare official returns for the Texas Democratic convention as Ferguson and Sterling press delegates to attend. Unofficial counts favored Ferguson by about 3000 votes, while Sterling claimed a majority of legal votes. Legislature advances tax relief and road debt bills in special session.
Montagu Norman head of the Bank of England sailed home from the United States after a secret convaliance as "Professor Skinner" and refused to discuss his mission with reporters. He arrived with his wife from Bar Harbor Maine and was recognized by his beard. Norman reportedly carried a six point program including cancellation of 11 billion dollars in war debts and a return to the gold standard. Diplomatic talks with the United States are to resume on his return to London.
World War I veterans from Texas and Oklahoma, who took part in the Meuse Argonne offensive between October 10 and November 11, 1918, gathered in Galveston today for a reunion of the Ninety-first division.
A sequence of sun phase photos shows progression from a sun untouched by the moon in the upper left to partial stages and finally full totality in the lower right, illustrating the eclipse’s progression.
New York reports a $353,857 suit filed against Robert Jackgan of Concord North. he says the action is an attempt to embarrass him in his role as secretary of the Democratic national committee and head of its spokes bureau. The Accumulative Royalties Corporation accuses him of fraudulent withholding funds while he was president and treasurer in 1928.
Treasury receipts for September 1 were 6,943,736.20 dollars with expenditures at 10,522,673.87 dollars and a balance of 334,552,310.01 dollars. Customs duties for the first day of September were 3,21,583.87 dollars.
Chicago reports Gardner Cowles Jr a Des Moines publisher and director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp arrives in Washington noting business has bottomed out and is improving he forecasts a moderate advance this fall and hopes the pace continues Money to Loan advert follows.
R H Thompson of the San Antonio Public Service depot on Jones Avenue was robbed early Saturday by two armed men. While climbing a pole to fix a knocked out street light, he was threatened at gunpoint and forced to surrender an eight diamond Masonic ring before the pair fled in a car.
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt will deliver his first New England campaign speech in Bridgeport at a dinner honoring National Committeeman Archibald McNeil. Amplified voice expected to reach thousands at Pleasure Beach. crowd around 2000 guests.
Washington Labor Day week end finds federal officials largely away Hoover rests at Rapidan camp in Virginia. Postmaster Brown stays. Doak to Syracuse. Wilbur back tomorrow. Curtis visiting daughter near Providence. Stimson at Huntington. Mitchell vacationing. Mills at Saratoga. Chapin in Maine. Adams in Cambridge. Hurley at Leesburg. Hyde speaking in Shenandoah Iowa.
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