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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1929
Page
10
President Emilio Portes Gil announces an anti drinking campaign without prohibition. The plan urges education on water and milk use, restricts new vice centers, adds weekly lectures in public schools, and promotes sports to divert minds from alcohol. He links alcohol to tyranny and social ills.
In Austin on April 17 the court affirmed numerous cases and remanded several for reconsideration while dismissing motions. in London the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the king, is noted as a union bricklayer who joined the International Bricklayers' Union and laid the Y.M.C.A. cornerstone in St. Thomas, Ontario, on May 6, 1924.
At Orly France on April 17 aviators Jean Assolant and Rene Lefevre left the airdrome in a Bernard plane bound for Southampton to load aboard the Leviathan and sail to New York. They plan a non stop New York to Moscow flight in June.
Police silenced the orchestra and arrested eight waiters on sanitary and liquor charges at Tex Guinan's new night club to enforce an 8 am curfew. The club claimed status as part of the Hotel Harding. Detectives found a bottle of liquor, charging two waiters with illegal possession. Miss Guinan was absent.
Santa Monica police weigh two diverging statements by film actress Mary Duncan about how she sustained cuts and bruises and was hospitalized. She first claimed a stranger, about 50, gave her a lift in a broken car, then said she fell from the vehicle after fainting from paint odor. No identification of the chauffeur or helpers was provided.
Memphis Tennessee April 17 John L Robinson president of John L Robinson and Company cotton deal ends with prison sentence.
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