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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1926
Page
21
Arthur Brisbane notes a order for twenty five passenger airships at fifty thousand dollars each, British made for Japan with two engines and 1000 horsepower. It critiques oil trial talk, stocks, and a Wall Street mood while touching on Japan’s stance and airship feasibility.
Romance between a 20 year old Tineless and a 40 year old Ojibway Indian chief culminated in a marriage in Wilmington as Mrs. Mary Robbins wed Charles Williams a Carlisle Indian School graduate now serving in the Army Air Service.
In Washington lawmakers opened a battle over the enforcement regime of General Lincoly with wets attacking the $27,000,000 budget embedded in the treasury and postoffice supply bill. The session focused on fiscal and enforcement provisions amid debate on prohibition policy.
Dec 15 16 in Tavisville Kentucky as bishops and church leaders gather to review the missionary task and plans for a church missionary program involving Texas Southern Methodist readers and participants.
San Antonio independent school district lowers tax rate to 82.28 cents from 83.00 cents for 1926, due to bond retirement and cost savings. Savings from moving offices to an abandoned school, plus a planned $400,000 bond issue, enable the tax rate to drop without increasing taxes.
Meteorologist Jarboe predicts partly cloudy skies and rising temperatures in San Antonio and surrounding areas. Friday night will see lows near 49 to 50 degrees with a warming trend into Saturday as state weather clears after a week of rains.
New York December reports a double Vanderbilt engagement as Adele and Alice Hammond, granddaughters of Commodore Vanderbilt, prepare to wed John K Oliphant, a New York banker and war veteran, and George Arthur Victor Duckworth, a British banker whose father was a war major.
Twenty University of Pennsylvania students escaped uninjured when fire destroyed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house early today. Ropes made from bed clothing were used to retreat after their escape had been cut off by flames on the stairs.
Miss Louise Topete, an employee of the Mutual Deposit and Loan Association, is pictured atop a reproduction world bank that will be awarded to members who join the association's thrift campaign.
A San Antonio thrift campaign sponsored by Mutual Deposit and Loan Association begins Saturday at 108 Broadway. The drive offers a 50 cent cash incentive and a world bank bonus to every depositor who meets the conditions, with no services required.
A radio expert who waived extradition at Harrisburg agreed to accompany investigators but warned he might not be forced to travel fully back to Los Angeles for trial. He disputed the Los Angeles district attorney’s eagerness to prosecute and refused to answer questions about meeting Aimee McPherson or an alleged hotel stay with Mrs. McPherson.
C N Whitehead, president of the M KP railway, dies in St Louis. The obituary notes his last visit to San Antonio and his prominent role in railway management. Funeral arrangements are pending.
C N Whitehead 48, president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad, died in a St Louis hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown last October. A Princeton Wisconsin native, he rose from messenger boy to railroad president, succeeding Charles E Sehaff last May.
News of C X N Whitehead head of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad dying in St. Louis Thursday night shocks railroad officials and business men in San Antonio. He was regarded as a steadfast friend of San Antonio and had expressed belief that the city would grow into a great metropolis and that the M E and VT extension would help develop the territory. He visited San Antonio recently and surveyed the area.
Washington December 10 The earh room of the United States treasury handling about 1.25 million daily was called dangerously unsafe by a house committee. It recommended a 20000 appropriation for remodeling and cited antiquated equipment dating to the Grant era.
Testimony in a Far District court case centers on a cult led by Revealed Jesus where adherents inhaled a sweet smelling vapor to induce visions. Mrs. Slaughter seeks to reclaim a 1925 property deed amid allegations that the odor and meetings impaired participants, including her husband. An alienist witness may testify to Mrs. Slaughter's mental state when she signed the release.
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