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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1924
Page
1
The nation endures a severe December blizzard with widespread disruption. Telegraph and telephone lines fail, Houston nearly isolated by sleet, and key routes in the San Antonio division hampered. Gas and water services falter, plumbers rush to repair burst pipes as rad makers and alcohol demand surge. crops face damage, prices rise, and farmers brace for a tough season ahead.
The Associated Press reports worsening winter conditions across the Far West and Rocky Mountain regions while the Midwest tightens and the East begins to feel the chill. Deadly cold persists with rising fatalities from freezing and heat exposure, as fire departments handle hundreds of calls and relief groups struggle to meet demand. Warm winds are forecast to reach the Pacific coast, easing sub zero conditions after a harsh spell.
Fort Worth duo W. d. Marsh and Miss Gladys Joakum Wright wrote Texas Our Texas with Marsh setting to music. The music committee recommends it as state anthem among 287 songs and will forward to the Legislature for a $1000 prize. authors would share if adopted. Governor Neff will delay releasing the lyrics until publication plans are set.
Reports from Montana to Texas detail eight deaths in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma and more than a dozen across Chicago and the Midwest. Fires and explosions waste homes while rail lines face delays and ice barriers. Texas Gulf Coast isolated as sleet and 28 degree frost hit Brownsville and nearby areas.
Weather predictions offer little relief from the cold wave. Memphis damage has been slight so far thanks to the absence of sleet and snow. Passenger trains from northern points run behind schedule, some arriving hours late as conditions cripple rail and wire communications across northern Mississippi and Arkansas with a 67 degree drop in Fayetteville arc temperature.
Forecasts from the Weather Bureau indicate mixed conditions with mostly fair skies but heavy cloudiness across the Washington area. Snow is probable in lower lake regions, rain along Florida, and a mix of rain and snow in the South Atlantic and east Gulf coasts as temperatures fall tonight. Freezing temps extend south to extreme Florida tonight and central Florida by Monday morning, with a broad freeze advisory in the Appalachians and eastern mountains. A moderate disturbance moves from Canadian provinces eastward, with recent precipitation across the Gulf states and east of the Mississippi.
McKenzie describes ten years of hounding by Levi Old amid Uvalde politics. He says Old warned others, taunted him with insults, and vowed to use his name in campaigns. McKenzie details confrontations, prior legal entanglements, and pressure to testify against others, including Sheriff Hammer Johnson, while denying involvement in whisky allegations.
Ford Motor Company announces investment certificates for employees paying at least 6 percent interest, delivering Christmas payments by January 1. The plan replaces cash bonuses, with certificates offering a guaranteed minimum return and a weekly gift timing. Checks start January 1.
The San Antonio Water Supply Company announces a Christmas cross word contest with first prize ten dollars and second prize five dollars. Correct solution and winners’ names will be printed next Saturday. The puzzle starts with clues about water and related terms, including wordplay on water usage and a metric measurement word for water quantity.
Wayne B Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League defended denatured industrial alcohol before the Senate committee studying the Gramston Dill separate enforcement bureau. He argued no law abiding American will be harmed and that denatured alcohol protects industry, while noting poisoning claims relate to illicit booze and not denatured product. He warned removal of denatured alcohol would boost bootleggers and require many officials and higher costs.
Three Navy men were involved in a Pensacola Bay crash. Gunners mate G. N. Warren was killed. M. Sebrasenberger and F. Jef. gunners mate were injured. Off icers conducting an investigation were unable to determine a probable cause. Families of the injured were notified by physicians.
Testimony from Selby family residents in Indiana describes parents Irank and Mary Selby as of unsound minds and sister Mabel as insane. Arguments to the will begin Monday, with a jury possible before Christmas. details recount a chaotic apartment scene involving McCoy, a knife, and a pistol as tensions escalated over the murder observation.
The Forbes Thompson veteran affairs conspiracy trial recess widened as the defense submitted four days of rebuttal testimony. Dr G B Tullidge testified that Mortimer revealed to the Tullidge family he spoke before the senate veterans bureau in 1923 to broaden Forbes destruction aims. Mrs Tullidge corroborated. Mortimer said he held bitter aims because Forbes refused hospital contracts to make him rich, and he threatened to bring Mrs Mortimer into the case. 100 men to be hired as Hilles Jones plant resumes work in Wilmington Delaware.
The Treasury Post Office reports 5214 mobiles valued at 3,226,229 seized in the last fiscal year. Boat launches 236 captured, valued at 279 dollars. Total property seized and destroyed under prohibition laws 3,079,929 with 7,745,902 seized but not destroyed. Proceeds from sale of seized property 37,071. expenses 12,823. Two agents killed, 68 arrested, 161 injuries. Tennessee leads in distillery seizures, Missouri leads in spirits seized, California first in wine, with detailed state tallies. PLECTRIFY MILLS. Manchester is electing the Stark mills to avoid class bias when river water is low.
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