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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1925
Page
5
Dallas police pursued a suspect theory after Mabel Berry reported an assault with discolored skin and hair as disguise. Hundreds offered aid and authorities questioned dozens of men of color while the force worked long hours and used private cars to aid the investigation.
Olympia Macri a 19 year old singer stands trial charged with murder in Rome following the shooting of John Begano. Her attorney says the girl's own testimony will prove her innocence and secure freedom for herself and her baby, as the trial resumes with jurors and witnesses including her father expected.
News reports from Nogales Cananea and Magdalena in Sonora describe clashes during municipal elections last Sunday. A mob attacked polls near the international boundary, killing sixteen in Cananea and multiple deaths elsewhere, totaling thirty two, as officials received word.
The Indian government announced arrangements to assist Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt on their Central Asia expedition. The party will reach Bombay around May 8 from Marseilles, travel via the Leb Pass to the Pamirs, and after Kashgar in Eastern Turkestan will operate under Chinese jurisdiction.
About thirty Grand avenue residents held an indignation meeting to protest the Texas Transportation Company line transfer by Southern Pacific. They oppose replacing electric engines with steam on the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway route from Alamo Industries to Austin street. A petition was delivered two weeks earlier to the city council with no action. The protesters demand SP be denied operation or pledge to continue electric locomotives.
Dallas and Southwestern Traction Company asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to extend its line ten miles from Dallas to Irving. The firm planned to raise about $1.475 million by selling securities to finance the extension, arguing traffic needs and rapid population and industrial growth in the area justify the project.
Paris authorities searched sixteen houses linked to Communist organizations and recovered literature and member lists. Daggers and revolvers were also seized as police said no material connected to last Thursday’s clash between Communists and young patriots, which left three dead and 43 wounded, was found.
The Mamie Higgsins pilot boat, famed as the watch dog of Galveston harbor for 45 years, burned today in Galveston Bay. Crew escaped in a small boat.
An aspurgated issue of the Harvard Lampoon was barred from the mails and the Harvard Advocate copies detained by Cambridge postal authorities awaiting Washington decision on a picture titled Platonic Love in the burlesque issue. The edition also includes a nude figure and a censored flag design, with Manet reproductions available at the Fogg Art Museum and Harvard Cooperative Society.
Bankers from Wichita Falls and surrounding counties plan to ask county commissioners to buy poison for farmers to combat grasshoppers. About thirty bankers from Texas and Oklahoma met here to discuss the menace. They note rains washed many hoppers away but millions remain and expect warm weather will hatch new hordes.
After years of agitation and four months of work the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce secured funds to build a concrete free bridge across the Red River at Burkburnett. Plans are ready and construction is expected to begin by July 1.
An old advertisement promises Blue Star Remedy as a guaranteed cure for Wezema Wezema Ringwormt cracked hands and other skin diseases. It claims deep skin penetration and immediate relief without staining, by Sommers Wagner’s drug stores.
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