Council Blames Judges for Crime Crisis
Washington, Aug. 25. The national council of ’76 reports crime costs the nation 13 billion annually. It cites 12,000 murdered, 3,000 kidnapped, 100,009 assaulted, and vast burglaries each year, plus over 100 million in losses from fires. Cal. James A. Moss leads the effort to warn voters and remove corrupt officials. The council argues judges and lawyers enable crime, urging public action to curb the menace.
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Extradition Effort Resumes to Seize Samuel Insull in Greece
Washington officials report renewed U S. push to extradite Samuel Insull, former Chicago utilities magnate, from Greece with the State Department and American legation in Athens cooperating closely. A Justice Department representative arrived as Chicago prosecutors quietly build new evidence after a Greek judge previously refused to allow return.
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Roosevelt signs rayon mills code for hours and wages
President Roosevelt today signed the working code for the rayon weavers, setting hours and wages in line with the cotton textile agreement. A 19 year old girl's tragic life story is teased in The American Weekly as “Three husbands in three years and all in their graves,” to be featured with next Sunday’s San Antonio Light.
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Death Chair Reunites Father And Son After 21 Years
In Milledgeville Georgia a condemned man Andrew McCullough in the death cell of the state prison farm is to be executed for murder. His son Roy McCullough visiting before the chair said Yes papa and expressed emotion as they reunite briefly before the death chamber door closes.
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Upside Down Flier Plans New Attempt
Lieutenant Tito Falconi of the royal Taian flying corps airman left Los Angeles for St Louis en route to Chicago to reclaim the inverted flight record he recently lost to Milo Burcham of Long Beach. Falconi expects the flight to take about four hours, granting margin to regain the title.
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Chicago
Milo Burcham
Long Beach
Prisoners to be moved to Trex Marias island prison
One hundred forty inmates, about half convicted of murder, were taken by special train to Trex Marias prison island on Mexico’s west coast. Three women accompanied the group, and the government reserved one island for female prisoners.
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School Phone Bill Slash Near $2000 Annual Savings
The San Antonio school system will save about $2000 per year on its telephone bill after eight new contracts with Southwestern Bell. R. S. Meneree, board president, announced the plan which routes 30 of 60 schools through a switchboard at the board headquarters while the others keep direct lines. The change should be completed by September, and last year’s $6862 bill was abated.
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Weather summary and flying outlook across Texas and adjacent cities
Weather data show 24 hour precipitation totals to 7 a.m. Friday, with monthly and yearly accumulations, plus flying weather notes from San Antonio to several destinations. Forecasts cover San Antonio to Dallas, Brownsville, New Orleans, El Paso, and other cities with conditions from partly cloudy to showers, and elevations for safe flying. City by city readings include highs and lows across Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago, Los Angeles, and more, noting clear or cloudy skies and variable winds.
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Re opening of bank hinted by president
Claude V. Birkhead, president, hinted plans for reopening the Commercial National Bank on unrestricted basis next week if approved by the comptroller of the currency. The bank has been closed four weeks amid a federal case involving former president Z D Bonner over stolen government bonds. Ernest A. Bates, federal conservator, said he would forward plans to Washington and take no other part in reopening.
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Dress Makers and Workers Seek to Trow Out Trouble
Washington August w. Dress manufacturers and employees held recess conferences in the Rates room to agree on differentials and child labor regulations. A hearing on the dressmaking code paused with Deputy Administrator Earl Dean Howard presiding. The Dressmaking Union opposed a 16 year minimum age while Justice Hochman for the National Ladies Garment Workers Union urged 18.
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Roosevelt Policy Lauded by Former Nicaragua Envoy
Dr. Pedro Jose Zepeda of Nicaragua praised President Roosevelt's neighborliness policy toward Latin America to Arthur Biss Lane the American minister to Nicaragua. Zepeda former Nicaraguan minister to Mexico, now practicing medicine, visited the embassy and said Lane is sympathetic to Latin American interests.
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Roosevelt
Latin America
Pedro Jose Zepeda
Nicaragua
Arthur Biss Lane
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Lanne
Five Killed When Train Strikes Car at Brooms Landing
Five persons from Columbia were killed and another seriously injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad Inspection train collided with their automobile near Brooms Landing along the Susquehanna River, a mile south of Columbia. The victims included Mrs. Harrint Gilbert, her 9 month old son John Jr, Helen Willett 21, Mary Green Pall 18 and an unidentified man.
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Rail Officials Visit San Antonio in Periodic Tour
J. Conley traveling passenger agent of the New York Central and A D Ball traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific were in San Antonio Thursday on a periodic visit to review operations and passenger services.
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