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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1936
Page
1
Henry Fonda heads a star studded director lineup for a desert project as Gary Cooper and Walter Huston loom in bigger plans. Hollywood gossip notes Grace Moore disputes with Disney over schedule while Ann Sothern and Roger Pryor wed at midnight in Chicago.
The Internal Revenue Service announced Texas income tax collections in the first three weeks of September rose about 27 percent from the same period last year. Commissioner Guy T. Helvering cited totals for the September period and regional district figures, noting national totals also show increases in the comparable weeks.
Labor department survey shows August payrolls at 1344 Texas firms dipped slightly from July but total wages rose. Building construction led with 72624 workers, about 0.1 percent higher, amid overall payrolls up by six tenths of 1 percent.
Registration at the University of Texas shows 7932 students enrolled yesterday, up 639 from the same day last year. The increase marks a new high for the term as Austin reports growing campus activity.
A stabbing victim was treated at Hobe Hospital on Saturday after being stabbed in the back near South Gents Risa Avenue. The incident reports indicate the injured person, identified as F Raméreg, 27, from 322 Worth Plozee shred, was transported to the facility for medical care. Further details on suspects or motives were not disclosed.
The Texas Spinach 1000 study notes Popeye and the spinach industry, with 125 bushels per acre yield, shipments to about 1 city in 30 states plus Canada, 6 percent to North Atlantic states, 1300 car lots to New York, and Canada totals 242. The report covers the 3235-36 season and cites annual support of around 60 to Texas growers since 1930.
The report describes a newsreel showing the siege of Alcazar in Toledo with government artillery and dynamite rout the rebels, plus veterans praying at Lourdes across the Pyrenees. Metrozone cameras capture the Atlantic hurricane offshore and footage from Norfolk Cape May Atlantic City and other resorts.
From Americas gracious love story Ramona the talking screen version stars Loretta Young and will be shown at the Majestic theater Saturday night at midnight in full color. The film is directed strongly with a praised musical score and a cast of capable actors led by Young in her first starring picture. Also includes a separate news item noting the death of Teodoro A. Dehesa, long time governor of Vera Cruz.
A feature on Bob Burns rising star status in Hollywood with new contracts at Paramount and syndicate plans. The piece discusses Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy tensions, Miss Lombard and Clark Gable speculation, and Burns and Allen shifting radio product endorsements. It notes Michael Curtiz directing Mountain Justice and Elizabeth Hearst guiding technical direction on a New York nightclub sequence.
Detectives Joe Jones and Tom Swift Silurdsy arrested four Mexicans in connection with the theft of a guitar from a car owned by P. Wf. Heckerl of the Casino club Thoraday. The stolen items included keys, panera and clothing belonging to Eelang Long of Hangar l. The arrests followed reports of sold items to an eelson keeper on Wess, Poplar Street.
A garbled Bexar Facts column names many figures with scattered roles and places, including Wain Me Up, Dr. Douglas, Harry A. Wass, Robert P. Uhr, Peter P. Hoe fgen, Eleanor Schilling, Mrs. Johr Roydge, Mirgil Irvin, George Geyer, R. H. Friedrich, Leo Nevelow, Horace N. Gibson, Gart R. Mceldowney, Joe Alston, George Wittung, Adolph Rummel, Dexter Fellows, Frank Hernandez, P. Spear Jr, and O. F. Spear. The piece reads like a frothy, error-filled roster of local names tied to varied professions and activities, without coherent narrative.
National figures detail cost of living rises and tax increases during the depression era. Reforms and federal taxes have eaten into income while consumer prices climb. The data cover seven years and note meat dairy and food price trends.
Officials of the Colorado river authority announced a Marshall Ford dam contract estimated at 10 million dollars would be opened on October 20 in Austin. The dam lies 23 miles above Austin as part of the Lower Colorado River project for irrigation and power. The top will form a highway.
Dallas report notes Governor Paul V. McNutt of Indiana and Mrs McNutt honored at the Texas Centennial exposition. Girls with dolls, circus performers, and a charity horse show featured the program while Gipsy Staith evangelist spoke as vesper services were conducted.
Governor AL M London tours Wisconsin and Milwaukee highlighting social security reforms as a major campaign issue. He pledges to amend the Social Security Act and endorse a policy guaranteeing a minimum income for every American over 65 to prevent want.
World debates French policy as Paris contemplates reducing gold content of the franc and establishing a stabilization fund. U S and Britain pledge collaboration after talks in Paris amid a widening financial crisis. Debtor payments may be postponed and aid provided to sub divisions and corporations to soften the impact.
Chaplain Charles W B HU will conduct the second in a series of services at St John’s Episcopal Church corner Haghberry and Burnet Streets at 11 am. The event is reported from New York where Edwin Markham, 51 a poet and father of The Man With the Hoe, recently suffered a stroke and is recovering in Staten Island.
Weather data and distant war dispatches mix in a fragmented page. Reports list wind speed humidity precipitation and moon phases alongside updates on Fascist government clashes, bombings near centers like Rock, Galveston, and Taos, and troop movements across La Mancha and Toledo with casualties and defensive positions cited.
Frank Huck Jr, youngest charter member of the McKinley Avenue Methodist church, will be installed as general superintendent of the church school Sunday. This marks 28 years of continuous membership and the growth from a tent to the current building finished in 1321. Army flight from March Field reports a Douglas observation plane delivery via Tucson El Paso and Langley Field to Milefield.
Sept 26 1936 report from QUISMONDO notes Spanish government troops entrenched behind breastworks and armoured cars repelling Fascist insurgents attempting to seize the highway to Madrid. Casualties and details remain sketchy as fighting continues along the line.
From Maqueda to the Madrid Toledo corridor fascist columns push toward Toledo and Talavera de la Reina as Republican defenses retreat. Insurgent commands led by General Franco coordinate with Gol Juan Vague at Caceres while air support and enemy counterattacks shape a decisive stage for the capital.
Edmund Goulding, a directing figure from Universal, advised aspiring extras to study newsreels and develop a natural acting style. He spoke while filming Irving Thalberg's "Maritime" which required more than 160 extras, urging actors to perform as if the camera sees them clearly and to engage the scene with authentic motion.
The two youths, Henry Blinkard, 19, of East Myrtle Street, and Dave Dickert, 17, at 698 Essex Street, were seriously injured Saturday morning when struck by a truck in the 300 block of South Presa Street. Blinkard was dragged about 20 feet and run over. Dickert suffered head injuries. The truck was driven by a woman.
Detectives J. Véouxnd and G. W. Roberta reported from headquarters Saturday they fired three shots at two prowlers near the Urbon Tire Company at 101 South Flores Street. Officers believed four prowlers fled. one bullet struck a suspect.
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