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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1936
Page
2
Washington reports President Roosevelt endorses a permanent drought and land use program with a plan for all risk crop insurance and storage reserves. Secretary Wallace chairs a five member committee to design the insurance framework for major crops, starting with wheat cotton and corn.
Fraternal pledges by Hal Browne Jr and Ted Crowther with Miss Josephine Henry King mark a Monday social entry. A banquet on Rainbow Terrace at the St Anthony honors Most Rev Garriga with luncheon for Miss Margaret Ogden. The piece then details Miss Mol Nie Bond Hayes engagement to Lt. Cayre Odom of Langley Field, with extensive background on Hayes and family, plus coverage of recent weddings, guests and society events in San Antonio including visits by Mrs. Percy Ebvott and Mrs. Alice Baker Jones and UT Austin plans.
A social event hosted Friday evening at 218 Delaware Street featured Miss Maurine Cite as guest of honor. Mrs E J Kotula presided as host with Miss Margaret De Shong chairing and assistance from Mrs George Isbell and Miss Helen Bhartman Harailton. Speakers included Miss Vera Lynn and others. A surprise silver shower celebrated the upcoming marriage of Miss Maurine Cite to Dr Ronnie M Duvier with elaborate Italian lace table setting and pink rosettes.
General and Mrs Bolles plan to upend the winter in San Antonio while stationed at Fort Sam Houston. Their daughter Henrietta married Lieut James B Buck now at Fort McKinley. The Hil family recently returned from an East motor tour via Staunton and New York. Mrs Schaefer hosted a bridge and shower for Miss Bille Thitt.
San Angelo residents blame a group of over 20 Mexican School lads for causing floods by an alleged rainmaking ritual. The teacher Miss Rich investigated after a plan to lay sunlit lizards to bring rain led to downpours that damaged several homes. The boys reportedly regretted their actions saying they killed too many wards.
In San Francisco on September 21 a local obituary notes that Jack Bee Garland a 67 year old farmer newspaper man and social worker was actually a woman. Deputy Coroner Hess disclosed the true sex saying the retiree known as Ian aided the needy. The revelation identifies Elvira Virginia Magarieta as Garland’s real name and sister.
Washington report says Pan-American won permission to begin passenger flights between Oakland California and Manila Philippines via the Pacific route after an intensive inspection of operations. No definite start date was set, but first flight could come as early as next month.
Hundreds of prisoners jam Havana's city jail as police investigate a dynamite blast that wrecked the El Pais newspaper plant and a nearby church. Four killed and many injured. authorities suspect Spanish residents angered by war news. about 155 suspects questioned, with 74 to 100 others pending.
Salinas California September 21 a single picket stood in front of a barricaded lettuce packing shed as rumors said between 200 and 300 pickets might join the strike of lettuce workers. Guards restricted groups to two to prevent disorders after a person was hospitalized last week while both sides awaited Governor Merriam’s conference in Sacramento scheduled for tomorrow.
George W. Redeton, 94, a former Chicago bodyguard, is to be called for trial tomorrow in Dallas on a murder charge in the slaying of A. B. Farrow in a bar on August 4. The case centers on the bartender and bar patrons as key witnesses. The defendant faces a high-profile courtroom battle in the Dallas venue.
In custody, more than 20 individuals were declared members of the Spanish Socialist circle, an organization backing the Madrid government.
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