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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1927
Page
3
Rotary Club sets up a Christmas tree in Cedar branches forming a standard design before the municipal auditorium. Children attend the event as a choir performs the program arranged by the club. Holmgreen oversees construction of the display with Chintziss program on December 25.
Fragmentary report describes Mrs Lilliendahl preparing for a state prison sentence at Trenton. It notes a Christmas party planned with her ten year old son Alfred at the jail before transfer to state prison and mentions the sentencing for manslaughter amid a reported plea of fate.
GhEAT and others urge allowing the Community Chest to use donor contributions for immediate emergency needs and social agencies through Christmas. A committee of agency presidents met to dissolve the movement after past campaigns failed to raise sufficient funds. Morris Stern said refunds were nearly impossible and urged donors to let pledges stand.
Prohibition agents led by Capt. Charles Stevens raided a Yale Avenue residence in San Antonio and seized contraband liquors valued at over $6000. One man was arrested as 90 occupants were seized in the late Monday raid, with bottles labeled as Canadian Club and American Bourbon.
Police Captain J A Mogna and Detective W H Shion watched a West Travis Street residence after threats by an angry wife to shoot the place if she found her husband there. The man was away, and officers suspected she moved on. Earlier she reportedly discharged a pistol at the same location, and the couple’s dispute drew police attention.
Six new directors for the coming year will be elected by the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meeting Friday night at the St. Anthony hotel. Nominees include W. C. Auch, Mae Bell, Ernest L. Brown Jr, D. W. G. T. Waster, Arthur Pfeil, J. C. Tr, L. M. Trainer, Herbert Magee, Frank Sean, Chacha Feise, Jesse Jones, Res Vress and Hammond. A group from the Junior and Professional Woman's Club, under Miss Edna Waters, will cast ballots.
Guests at the Cooper-Carlton hotel in the South Shore district fled as a bomb exploded on the first floor aimed at a store room near the lobby. Police traced initial opposition from residents of the fashionable district to an upscale business encroachment, seeking the bombers' identity.
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