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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1932
Page
3
Eastern Point Conn Sept 8 The resolution committee of the Democratic state convention adopted a platform plank calling for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and modification of the Volstead Act. The committee’s declaration of Prohibition renews the repeal stance and pending modification.
National Geographic sponsored Big Bend party returns to San Antonio after canyon exploration in floodwaters west of Del Rio. Joseph D. McGoldrick of Columbia University arrived with marooning tale. Claude Young remains blocked west of Del Rio awaiting trestle repair.
A Rio Grande flood photo shows the Hidalgo Reynosa bridge area with water spreading over approaches. The washout on the McAllem Hidalgo highway is visible and the approaches at both ends of the bridge appear washed away.
About 400 workers from railroad and highway departments repair flood damage in Del Rio Texas with 180 SP tracks crew and 100 to rebuild Central Power and Light plant. Bridges and river walls are reinforced while 150 more highway workers address Sonora Eagle Pass and San Antonio routes. Crossings hoped open in three to four days.
Pete Figueroa ang and Claude Benavides seek bond relief in a case tied to San Antonio businessman R. A. Gregory. Government lawyers requested more witnesses delaying the hearing. Authorities found a still with whiskey mash fermenters an electric whiskey ager truck and related items at a property linked to the Aguar business. A hearing is set for next Tuesday.
Syracuse dispatch reports James Stone chair of the federal farm board calling cooperative marketing the only permanent solution for farmers problems at the New York state fair dinner Stone urged New York farmers to back the co operative plan saying the attack on it had just begun.
The court of United States Commissioner Paul A. Lockhart rejected a youth’s bid to take all blame for liquor violations. Margarita Romero was also bound at US $1000 after authorities raided a location yielding beer whiskey and beer mash.
Chancellor C E Johnson of Texarkana urged Arkansas Democrats to back the party platform at the state convention. The keynote called for broad support of the national program including repeal of the eighteenth amendment and expansion of bank and peal of reform measures.
New Fort Sam Houston provost marshal Lieutenant Connolly visits Police Chief Owen Kilday at headquarters on Thursday. Dispatches from Colima Mexico report a strong earthquake shock felt there last night, with tremors recorded in neighboring areas.
Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon said Hoover’s chances for re election are as good now as two months before the 1928 election. He noted the president’s efforts to lift mood and unemployment are already taking effect as he returns from the United States.
World War I veteran Herman J. Helser of Kerrville claims tuberculosis and nervousness from service qualify him for 9142.50 in war risk insurance payments. He filed a federal district court suit Thursday seeking the full policy amount of 10000 from the government.
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt says the wounds from the Democratic national convention are healed and the party will present a united front in November. He expects New York City vote shifts to be offset by upstate gains for Roosevelt-Garner, aiming to replicate his 1934 governor victory margin.
Father Theodore Labaure of San Antonio was elected superior general of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate with broad support from delegates. Three residents of the mother house and 54 from abroad participated, with two assistants to be appointed on September 23.
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