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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Robert Swita of Hast Orange Wid are held in two prison cells facing two Trench Judges. They plead they were ensnared by a French police net casting doubt on their innocence. Their lawyer Moise outlined the defense at a late-night conference as French investigators gathered documents.
Secret service investigators say two distinct espionage plots trace to Finland and Germany as they pursue a commercially organized spy ring. Police note a Russian prisoner, Lidia Tchekaloff Stahl, called a super spy, linked to Marine Ministry translator Louis Martin, 43, who allegedly accessed French military secrets.
Houston dispatch reports Ray Foggess, gas station chain owner, accusing a price war among third grade gasoline dealers of triggering a dynamite explosion at his central plant. He says threats to life and property increased and a bombing subscription was being raised. Also London reports a Christmas appeal for 80,000 Jewish refugees from Germany.
Mallie Turley, 16, admitted attempted murder after authorities say her mother Dorothea Turley ordered the act via a Ouija board to free herself for marriage to a cowboy. Prosecutor seeks six years at a state industrial school. victim EB. Turley in San Diego Navy hospital.
Secretary Ickes reorganized the oil administration labor policy board citing inability of certain organized labor representatives to participate. The new board will have three impartial public representatives and the secretary, replacing the previous trio of representatives for employers labor and an impartial chairman.
A schedule of Christmas services led by Archbishop Arthur J. Drossaerts at the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio. Masses include a dawn celebration, English and Spanish greetings, papal blessing, and a statue blessing at 4 p.m. A midnight mass will be held at the cathedral and St Marys Church, with KABC radio broadcasting.
France submits its reply to Hitler for British approval as Paris plans to declare its policy on direct Berlin disarmament talks. The move follows pressure in the chamber for dropping direct discussions and seeks Finglish (English) support before parliament.
Washington December 22 government expands monetary program to lift prices opening federal mints for silver and keeping gold at 3408 an ounce while absorbing silver under a London agreement through 1937. Roosevelt order sets mint pricing and silver flow to the treasury alongside RFC funding and rising foreign purchases. Bond news reports Elsa Edcouch district voting 60,000 for a new school building in Hidalgo county.
Berlin December 22 1971 a Prussian ministerial decree limits Jewish representation on elementary school supervisory boards. Rabbis may not sit on boards in communities with fewer than 20 Jewish children under new rules. Ruld Jersey City December 22 1971 auction of Lever Exmteger collection of pictures books and sterling ware from a warehouse following Paris murder case in March 1992 brings 87000.
The annual Christmas party of John K Weber's Inn school will be held Friday night at 8 p.m. at 422 Perelda street. Graduates listed include Ernest A Baetz Paul Barbee John Bossi Jamee Boyet James Davis J Jerry Frank Joseph Friszell Lawrence Goforth David Hamlet Pete Tiharnm Roscoe Johnson Arthur Jones Frank Lieck Herman Little Albert McDavid Ferdinand Meyer Jesus Ocon Albert Pena Edgar Reagan J Hamilton Savage Jr L Louis Quintanilla Jr Velma Sharpe and John Tafolle. Banquet speakers include Judge Burnett, Judge Murray Jon K Weber George Huntress Jr N A Quintanilla and James Davis.
An expert asserts the Codex Bltatius a famed archaeological relic once sold to Britain by Russia for about half a million dollars was stolen from a Turkish monastery 80 years ago. The case involves Turkish authorities and a Russian culprit amid a long pursuit.
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