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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1930
Page
2
Police hold a suspect in the Travelara hotel holdup after three victims could not identify him. The man admitted staying in a room Wednesday night and fled with 1600. hotel staff Dorbate Geile and bellmen Olie ferson viewed the suspect but did not ID him.
In San Antonio, Mayor C M Chambers and the four current city commissioners announce plans to seek re-election in spring 1931. At a Woodrow Wilson school event in Los Angeles Heights, the mayor rejects bond-issue attacks, urging continued growth and stating the city will fund improvements through prudent finance. Commissioner Paul Meffier emphasizes paving selective streets to reflect development.
Citizens weigh a bond issue in Beverly Hills with claims it funds local improvements and adds six cents to the tax rate. The speaker emphasizes voter control, lists projected costs, and asserts the mayor and commissioners will implement the will of residents despite criticism.
A large gathering at Higbland Park on Hammond Avenue and Gevers Street heard about a $34,970,000 bond issue slated for May 7. Speakers accused the city machine and officials of corruption while urging defeat and questioning labor and tax promises tied to chamber endorsements. The event touched on elections, county actions, and library funding amid heated discussion and protests.
President Hoover aims to send the three power naval treaty to the Senate for ratification promptly upon receipt, hoping for action before summer adjournment. If not, submission may be delayed to December, with hearings sought by Senator Hale to allow public board input on its impact on the American navy. The plan faces criticism over limits on US capital ships and parity with Britain in gun cruisers by 1935.
George Rabinovitz of Drexel Avenue and Weldon Katz of Highland Boulevard, Brackenridge high school students, pose with the trophy they won in the beginners Latin division at the Eagle Pass district contest.
A medical attendant at Robert H. Green Memorial Hospital investigated Friday into the death of Emil Feille twenty at 735 Rule Street who died almost immediately after being attended to at the institution.
The association will direct delegates at the Texas division convention during the regular meeting at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Army Room at Gunter. President Dasten Hale will preside.
New York April 14 The vote for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment shows over 41 percent of 8 175 072 ballots returned from 48 states in the fifth week of Literary Digest polls on prohibition. Breakdown: 17,081 for enforcement, 1,303 for modification, 16 for repeal. Kansas remains the driest state with 56 percent support for enforcement and 15 percent for repeal. West South Central states show similar patterns.
Arthur Seeligson was elected trustee for the bankrupt Wimer Richardson company at a meeting of unsecured creditors held Friday morning in the Federal District Court. H. M. Aubray set Seeligson's bond. Officials and employees of the company may be questioned by Judge Aubray in his office at the Alabama National Bank building near Thursday.
Three patients were treated for tetanus exposure at Robert H. Grero hospital on Friday morning. Onofre Baucher of 208 Ruiz Street received tetanus treatment after stepping on a nail. Arowlfe Ramor of 2001 El Paso Street sustained a hand injury from a spike. Vere Ramirez of 230 Blanco Road was treated following a needle puncture in her right hand.
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