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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1925
Page
1
A Melbourne reader reports on European turmoil including Bulgaria’s roundups and Bolshevik accusations, noting U.S. reluctance to join European conflicts. The piece mentions King Features chief Koenigsbeg showing Coolidge on screen and a crossfire of war anxieties alongside a brutal Portuguese Arab execution in France.
The Battle of Flowers parade winds through the city streets with floats from schools, military and civic groups amid patriotic displays. Governor Miriam A Ferguson leads in a decorated car with Fiesta de San Jacinto Association leaders and family aboard as the procession continues.
Prohibition agents based in San Antonio seized a large distillery in Texas during a county raid. The operation recovered 5800 gallons of mash and three stills in what authorities call the most complete distillery capture in state history.
President Coolidge plans a weekend Potomac cruise aboard the Mayflower with Mrs Coolidge and aims for a summer visit to his boyhood home in Plymouth New England. A White House summer site may be established at Seagram. In Dickinson a large moonshine operation was seized with 5900 gallons of mash and 58001 gallons of mash noted. one man charged with liquor possession and equipment for liquor manufacture. Monster Raul agents say the Dickinson distillery is the district’s most complete operation captured in Division 25.
Judge W W McCrory of Ninety District Court ordered destruction of fourteen slot machines seized by district attorney, constables and city police in raids on local gambling houses. Destruction cannot occur until 15 days after the order. owners may sue. Authorities acted after reports of school children losing luncheon money to gambling.
Commissioner Steffler unveils economy program to end use of 18 city trucks for gravel on June 1. Fifteen city garage employees will be dismissed as cheaper external hauling contracts pay 85 cents per cubic yard instead of 1.15. About 7000 yards move monthly, saving over $200 monthly plus driver and mechanic salaries. Trucks over one ton ditched. 1.5 ton and smaller kept for emergencies. Street department to overhaul May plus inventory before June 1 restart.
Sam Cohen was found guilty by a U S district court jury of embezzling and concealing government property. He was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for the alleged offense in December 1978 while employed as an army goods dealer in San Antonio.
A fire at 314 Aransas Avenue broke out in a rear closet harming bedding. Mrs. C. P. Opperman awoke to smoke and warned others, likely saving the home. Damage is about 350 dollars. occupant name not learned.
Mrs. Veresa Aguirre, 63, woke to thwart a break in at her home on Dwyer Avenue. She chased two Mexican youths five blocks, commandeered a milk truck with Patrolman Calderon joining, and identified the pair at Monterey and San Saba streets. they surrendered.
Governor Ferguson and Jim Tyranson, joined by Dugene D. Smith and wife, cut short a San Antonio visit and returned to Austin on Saturday. Dorrace Ferguson and Mr. and Mrs. George S. Nalle remained in San Antonio as guests of Louis Bayton, with tentative plans to attend the water carnival Saturday night.
Several mandamus suits instead of one general suit will be filed in the Texas Supreme Court to test the State Board of Education action repudiating textbook contracts valued at 1,500,000.
Report says a new oil gusher near Grozny could yield over a hundred tons of oil per day, per dispatch from Moscow dated April 254.
Federal agents arrested three men and seized jewelry valued at 10000 and costly silks as they loaded goods onto a Mexico bound train in San Antonio. A local wholesale jeweler is detained for questioning. The leader confessed plans to smuggle goods from northern cities to Mexico and bring back vanilla extract. Detectives connect the case to ongoing border schemes and search the suspects’ Lakeview Avenue home for a shipping room.
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