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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1933
Page
3
Bolivian spokesman dampened Pan American conference optimism by saying Bolivia has not promised to submit the entire Chaco region to world court arbitration. The armistice in the Chaco Boreal calmed nothing, as artillery and machine-gun fire faded only briefly along a 200 mile front in the jungle.
Malariologist Dr. P. Coogis reports red bugs eat mosquitoes. Under a microscope Quitoes were found covered with red bugs and crab-like crabs clinging to the malaria carrier. Also notes a Christmas truce of at least 11 days amid peace negotiations in South America with Bolivia, Paraguay, and the League of Nations involved. Four Bolivian forts Munoz Borotesa Chanar Corrales reportedly captured by Paraguayan forces on the eve of a Christmas armistice.
A police riot squad dispersed a mob of about 100 men and women marching toward the German consulate building in Boston shouting Down with Hitler. The incident reflects tensions tied to wartime sentiment and foreign policy.
River Road School will stage an Italian Yuletide inspired program centered on the ceppo log crafted by pupils from two to sixth grade under Eugene Anderson. Music features Bernhard Kalthoff and Mrs J H Calvert, with dances by Inez Sawyers and Wayne Etheridge, at 825 East Magnolia Avenue Thursday from 2 to 3 p m.
Havana reports a master popular demonstration announced for tomorrow in front of the U S embassy to protest the Platt amendment. The government will run special trains to bring demonstrators from the interior as Jefferson Caffery arrives as Roosevelt’s representative.
Lieut. Joseph Bulger of the United States Army was reported safe after a risky parachute jump during a Panama interior flight. The Boston native reached Albrook Field and later traveled to Paloma after his landing in a treetop.
The Mexican chamber of deputies approved a sweeping reform to Article 27 of the constitution. Landowners whose properties may be expropriated by the government will not be able to appeal to courts and can only seek federal payment. The president becomes the supreme arbiter of agrarian matters, deciding on expropriations under the reform. Also reported Bullitt to leave Moscow with his daughter Anne, planning Christmas in Paris before sailing to New York December 28.
Washington reports the government maintained a price of 34.06 per ounce for newly mined domestic gold after a White House conference with Acting Secretary Morgenthau, Cornell's George Warren, and Earle Saille. Sterling opened at 5.14 12 and the London pound stood around 532.59. In St Louis county, bandits robbed the Creve Coeur Farmers bank of about 4000 in cash.
Joni Casey, graduate of the National University of Ireland and associate of the Royal College of Science, will discuss Communication Aids to Aviation at the 7 30 p m session of the San Antonio section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Casey arrived in the United States in 1926 and is a transmission engineer for Southwestern Bell Telephone in St Louis. The meeting will be at the Public Service Company plant on Jones Avenue.
Reports say rebel Sino forces massed near the Cheklang border close to National government troops as fighting possibly erupts. In Austin, Texas, the highway department allocates about 300000 for flood county road improvements.
London reports a Dalai Lama poisoning rumor after a Bengal telegraph note claimed he would not die of natural causes. No confirmation or grounds for removal exist, and Shasta sources offer little new information. The Dalai Lama Ngawang Lopsang Thusten Gyalsho, age 60, died Sunday, with Lhasa announcing the death. He led Tibetan Buddhism as a supreme religious ruler regarded as Buddha's reincarnation in Buddhist Asia.
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