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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1930
Page
7
California to see a total sun eclipse on Monday April 28 visible from northern and central regions. Scientists prepare to obtain a complete photographic record with vast eclipsed sky views. In San Francisco the eclipse will reach about 90 percent total.
New York reports Captain Fugebe Mueller spent most of his life at sea. His will declares his ashes to be placed aboard a diner and scattered to the winds in mid ocean per his final wishes.
London April 4 Universal Beerice reports Parliament considered an experiment to spray a mist of alcohol and oxygen in a committee room to keep members awake. Ten MPs consented to be locked in as Dr Forgan and Grover observed the effects, with the aim of installing permanent devices in the House of Commons to prevent slumber during business.
Police are seeking a thief who stole a car from the front of Mrs J KokernoSe real deuce at 129 East Kings Kidney and wrecked it at the intersection of Brooklyn and North St Marys streets. The driver abandoned the vehicle before authorities arrived.
Five latter day Vikings travel from Port Palos to Havana in a small B-ton craft with one sail. They began in June from Asia seeking funds for a monument to Roald Amuniaca, the host’s namesake.
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals dissolves a temporary restraining order blocking a $6,000,000 irrigation project in Maverick County. The case, brought by J. E. White against Maverick County Irrigation District, concerns condemnation of land for a canal. The district court granted an injunction but later dismissed on abatement, with the high court ruling the district court lacked jurisdiction and urging White to pursue relief in the county court or appeal directly. The action would affect about 50,000 acres of farm land waiting for water.
W G North 33 of 114 Exat Euclid avenue had his wife call police to arrest him as a vagrant. Officers took him to the station at Mrs North’s request. He stayed briefly. she paid the fine, and they left together.
At Echenectady on April 4 a demonstration showed a complete newspaper front page being transmitted across the continent by facsimile. The first page of the San Francisco Call Bulletin was reproduced full size in a radio lab three hours after departing 2500 miles away, using an automatic carbon recorder.
In Chicago on April 4 a blind girl named Truth Hammerquest was praised by Creng Var Gordon of the Chicago Civic Opera as a promising operatic talent after doctors advised vision restoration. The young singer faced a difficult path but underwent treatment to pursue her dream.
El Dorado Arkansas April 4 under control the remains of a 55000 barrel oil tank burned in the Magnolia tank farm. The blaze endangered a line of similar tanks causing damage estimated at 100000 dollars.
Mary Miles Minter, former star of silent films, disclosed she has shed 20 pounds in three months under a famous dietitian. She is not planning retirement from acting and said the weight loss was aimed at returning to normal figure standards.
In Washington on April 4 the income of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was estimated at 90,000 a year. Representative Ferman, Democrat of Texas, pressed an attack on Mellon over his opposition to paying veterans their soldier bonus claims in cash.
John Longden, an iron modeller, won first prize at the Social art exhibition for a plaster statue of a runner crafted in his back yard with a newspaper clipping as a model. Critics then say the work could pass as from a foreign artist. people seeking jobs can rely on the Employment Aid in Light.
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