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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1932
Page
5
Indian political leaders who met Mahatma Gandhi in Poona today expressed hope the hunger strike begun yesterday would end soon. They discussed the communal electorate issue provoking the protest. Gandhi insisted that a separate electorate would entrench the caste system and rejected the compromise.
Wednesday evening social at Randophela quarters honoring Miss Imogene Bhasnan and Lieut Millard Young. Open house at 113 Artillery Fort Sam Houston. Thursday luncheon at East Elamere Avenue for Miss Tanase Shannon and guests. Friday tea at 306 Hermosa Drive hosted by Miss Martha Wiseman and Miss Ameis Wright.
A long, fragmentary list of social events includes Mr. and Mrs. Seeligson's kin touring the Southwest and Yellowstone, Mrs. Frank Norwood hosting a bridge club with Miss Sue Cunningham as guest of honor, and multiple dinners and parties at various homes. The record mentions Dartmouth and New England travels, motor tours to New York and Salt Lake City, plus upcoming entertainments at Randolph field and the Argyle hotel.
Governor C K Allen prepared to grant a pardon to Jules Nahoum who was convicted in New Orleans two years ago of embezzling $60 000 from West Coast Trading Co of Cajeme Sonora Mexico. The pardon follows a clemency recommendation by the state pardon board and ends Nahoum's long fight against a 6 to 10 year sentence. Nahoum has persistently claimed innocence.
Philadelphia September 21. Walter H Bennett of New York secretary of the National Association of Insurance Agents warned that government agencies are encroaching on the insurance business. He addressed the association's annual convention and attacked a wholesale insurance idea that eliminates agent commissions.
Tommy Beott a 21 year old boxing favorite of East Texas and employee of Globe Pipeline seven miles east of Gladewater was near death at a hospital after a mysterious gas fire at a company well early this morning Investigators believe the gas ignition may have spread over nearby lowlands but are uncertain how it started
Dr. Andrew Jackson Houston 72, last surviving son of Gen. Sam Houston, lay near death at Joseph's infirmary after abdominal surgery. The Catholic sacrament had been given as physicians expressed no hope for recovery following the operation two weeks earlier.
Berlin September 21 The possibility of a clash between the federal government and the Prussian diet faded as the National Socialists in the diet withdrew support from a Communist demand to abolish the Prussian dictatorship. The demand was embedded in a bill passed last month with the aid of the Nazis. Boston Gets Meeting Indianapolis September 21 The supreme council of Stottinhribe selected Boston for its meeting in September 1933.
An advertisement-style fragment promotes a whitening cream claiming to improve skin texture and conceal pores. It touts a “lovely white” appearance and markets a product named Xadinola Bleaching Cream with promise of dramatic results and debt-related incentives.
Fragmented ad style prose touts a tonic named 5.5.8 with claims of improving red blood cells, energy, and strength. It asserts superiority over rivals, warns against unsafe remedies, and urges readers to seek the product in drugstores.
Oklahoma City on September 21 1907 a planned habeas corpus motion to free two oilfield workers failed after clashes with national guardsmen. Attorneys said a federal injunction suit may follow while Maj. Barrett ordered the pair held incommunicado for 10 days or until summary court. The riot charge stemmed from disturbances within a 100 foot zone near Wilcox Oil and Gas Company property as guardsmen blocked wells halted by a shutdown. Governor Murray criticized the court order as a sham and proration attorneys consider vacating a $5000 supersedeas bond to keep Wilcox wells closed. The piece ends noting used car ads in the same issue.
Indianapolis, Sept. The attorney general Jasmen M. Ogden ruled that Indiana’s state tax rate cannot exceed 15 cents, paving the way for a general sales tax at the next legislative session beginning in January. Philip Powershir, member of the state tax board, made the statement.
Mrs. Mattie Lee Hodges a 15 year old girl from Uvalde was severely injured Tuesday night when she fell from a moving automobile on Donaldson avenue. She was taken to Robert B Green hospital for probable skull fracture. A door opened as the driver was going and she fell out.
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