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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1924
Page
12
Arthur Brisbane comments on labor and capital in the Muscle Shoals controversy and Samuel Gompers the labor movement. He warns President Coolidge against private control of public resources and discusses gold-from-atom schemes and scientific limits.
The Texas marketing bulletin reports a record mid month volume from the Rio Grande Valley with 128 cars of mixed fruits and vegetables moving within the state in six days, up from 81 last year. Spinach and beets and carrots show notable gains while statewide and national distribution broadens for beans peas tomatoes and other vegetables.
Judge Morris A. Soper of Baltimore sustained the demurrer in a tax case, ruling the indictment that published five tax payments did not name a law violated. He held Congress intended to abandon the public concern over exact tax amounts.
The Huasteca Petroleum Company’s local manager handed a $5,000,000 check to Financial Secretary Pani, raising total advance against oil export duties to $6,000,000. President Calles ordered arrears in April salaries to be met, with legal interest paid to buyers of arrears claims.
Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of President Coolidge, will not break his annual Christmas tree tradition in Plymouth Vermont. He indicated today he will attend the district school event on Christmas Eve where the enrollment this year is 13.
Austin city election to amend the charter to establish a commission manager form of government was upheld in district court after a contest by two citizens alleging discrepancies in vote tabulation.
Paris reports that Flora Gamilla Placey Lynch of Atlanta was granted a divorce from Stephen Anatew Lynch in a French court. The decree cites separations and fault grounds following their marriage in Asheville.
Andre Osceola Archer district clerk plans a special theater party at the Majestic Theater for a blind city resident who presents the Daily Light offer and receives two free tickets for Wednesday night. The Rotary Club introduced the idea after inviting Archer to a dress rehearsal of the act Midnight, an extra vaudeville attraction, to gauge blind audience reaction.
Station No. 2 crews repair broken toys including cars wagons trains dolls and tricycles for a Christmas charity. Chief Sarran says repainting returns toys to near new condition as a Santa Claus load of gifts will be delivered to needy city children on Christmas morning.
A Danville jury acquitted Mrs. Anna Ettring after a ten minute deliberation in the murder case tied to selling liquor to Barry Neville Gatlin who died in an auto accident June 14. The verdict marks the first such case in the region. Dr Seymour Young dies in Salt Lake City in December.
In Washington on March 16 Senator Ashurst urged immediate Senate action on President Coolidge's veto of the postal salaries bill. The vote to advance the motion was 51 to 30 with 14 Republicans for and 3 Democrats against. The tense session featured roll calls and ongoing questions on debate limits and timing of a veto related vote.
San Antonio enjoys a final respite of springlike weather as a northern cold snap pushes south. The cold front threatens North and West Texas with temperatures possibly near zero, while East Texas braces for severe winter conditions through the week.
The Rocky Mountain region endured varied and severe weather with temperatures swinging from 50 degrees above to 27 below. Helena reported 28 below at 6 o clock as Montana clung to extreme cold and Casper and Wyoming saw subzero readings amid cloud cover.
Three monkeys escaped from a grand laboratory near Long Beach California over the weekend. Police, fire crews, and utility workers hunted the trio. One ape bit a woman, heightening neighborhood nervousness. Two were captured after entering a bathroom and colliding with high voltage wiring.
In Nashville on December 16 a 15 year old Black youth identified as Samuel Smith allegedly struck grocer Ike Icastwood two miles from the city. He was restrained by white men at a hospital and then fatally shot by a mob near the worker’s home, local reports say.
Charles A Boynton of Waco was nominated by President Coolidge to be a federal judge for the western district of Texas. Joseph E McIntosh of Illinois deputy comptroller of the currency was nominated to be comptroller succeeding Henry M Dawes who recently resigned.
A grand larceny indictment against Douglas Barnes a New York coal exporter charging him with defrauding Comp toir de Bras of France was dismissed today Barnes had been tried on another charge from the same transaction two years ago but the jury disagreed
Fourteen year old Dudley Van Ostrand发现 a burglar in his grandfather George W Dudley’s Millbury Savings Bank president home. He calmly fetched a .22 caliber rifle and drove the thief from the house last night. Silverware worth several thousand dollars was recovered.
In Brownsville Texas on Dec 16 Robertson of the pumping plant at McAllen was called from his home Sunday and shot seven times through the body. He died instantly. Soon after the shooting T seven bartliff a McAllen business man surrendered to officers.
Veniremen were interrogated to disqualify Klan members as jurors for the Fred McKenzie trial in Ninety fourth District Court Uvalde with Judge W W McCrory presiding. Six jurors named Sam Riele Ray W Archer Henry Ey Bessler J F Devee Amos G Lineker Emil Liebenber. additional talesmen expected.
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