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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1930
Page
8
Maj. Harry S. Adams announced new rules at San Antonio webrolt saying graduates of four high schools cannot enroll in RCT and a student with three years of high school will not be permitted to become an officer or noncommissioned officer. The changes take effect at the start of the new school year in September.
A four year old girl, daughter of Mrs KR Greve of Denver Street Tule, benefits from California Fig Syrup. The ad touts the product as a pure vegetable laxative that cleanses the system of biliousness and constipation, improves appetite, and promotes bright mood. It claims gentle yet thorough action and novelty for fevers, breath, and tongue coating.
E. B. McCormick an engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone demonstrates the dial telephone to Senior Captain J. Frank Brown of the police department. The scene highlights the new system to be installed in San Antonio and the collaboration between the company and city authorities.
District Judge Joseph Jones granted a permanent injunction against the Del Rio Independent School District restraining the board from enlarging the Mexican school for Mexican pupils. Mexican parents filed an opposition petition asking to stop the addition and from levying taxes to retire bonds tied to that building program.
Dispatches from Washington indicate Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico, will be appointed senator replacement for David Baird Jr. of Camden, with Gor srner Larson of New Jersey backing the immediate move. Delegation members in Solon’s Homeward found the news of interest.
The Tex Life Insurance Underwriters sales congress met at the Gonter hotel and will adjourn at 4 30 to attend the Battle of Flowers parade. Dr Philip Cone Fletcher opened with prayer. Roger Hull and A A Hutson chaired and spoke. A Clive and Stanley G Dickson gave addresses. Harry St John will toast at the Menger hotel banquet. Yeuh Lee of Oklahoma will discuss The Pot of Gold.
Filla Watts a Brackenridge high school student and editor of The Times has earned high praise from Miss Ollie Stratton English head. George Lyle Booth editor of the Poetry Journal Chicago commended Watt for Things I Need month declared noting her work shows considerable genius among hundreds of poems read for the new journal.
SACOGDOCHES Tex April 25 Seven prisoners in Nacogdoches county jail serving penitentiary terms from two to 25 years slipped away after informing officials they had business to look after Will Tindall awaiting a 25 year term was the first to return arriving early today
Tulsa April 25 Charley Peterson Chicago city treasurer assured listeners at a chamber of commerce banquet that Chicago did not spend 20 million dollars on liquor last year. He rejected a popular report claiming the city was broke or wicked.
Members of the Texas Philatelic Association gathered at the Menger Hotel for a Friday session led by local chapter president Major A J Hoag. A prize-collection contest for youths under 18 was decided amid elaborate displays by Albert Steves Jr Edward Hue singer and Fred Green. Public viewing begins 7 30 Friday evening with an auction and exchange of mishops at 2 30 Saturday and a Saturday morning business meeting at 9 30.
News dispatch reports about 2000 farmers forced into Communist ranks killed in battles with government troops near Shiste in the northeast Hupch province. The report mentions the mass casualties and suggests a harsh crackdown on conscripted farmers.
In New York on April 25 the proposed five day work week for printers, demanded by the Typographical Union, was vetoed by the American Newspaper Publishers Association during a convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
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