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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1929
Page
1
The piece argues for Christian charity and personal inventory as the year ends, noting happy children and poverty elsewhere. It forecasts President Hoover’s poverty end vision and cites King George’s radio address shaping British policy. It ends with Wall Street returning home and a continuation note.
Fragmentary OCR note describes persistent winds from the west and a warming trend through Wednesday night and Thursday. Mentions locations or names unclear but indicates a coastal area with incoming cooler air. Details are garbled and not fully reconstruable from the text.
Washington DC December 2 troops guarded the fire gutted and water soaked executive offices building adjoining the White House after a spectacular blaze. President Hoover's office bore the brunt while public documents dating back five administrations were destroyed. Firemen fought the flames for hours as the White House remained unscathed and Christmas plans continued.
Universal Service reports F Scott Mee Bride, superintendent of the Amis Saloon League, praising prohibition. He lists benefits such as new homes, increases in life insurance and savings, and overall plenty. He says prohibition is the greatest boon Christmas gift to the United States.
Thomas Hill, a Thompson Aerial pilot from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was seriously injured when his mail plane crashed near Michigan City during a snowstorm. Flare signals lit the area as searchers located the wreck. Hill was moved by furm ine sled and ambulance to hospital with head injuries but no skull fracture. He was en route from Chicago to Kalamazoo with seven mail packs aboard.
Communists were deported today by the Mexican government and loaded aboard a steamer bound for Cuba. They protested expulsion as police moved in to place them aboard. The group included a Russian, three Rumanians, one Dane, three and five Mexicans.
In a dispatch from Juneau, Acting Governor Carl Lomen appeals to assist in locating missing aviator pilots Cars on Kidson and Fazh Borland last seen in Siberia since November. The search involves Interior Department coordination and ships aiding the effort.
In Nogales Arizona a man detained on suspicion of rum running was later identified by Sheriff H J Patterson as a possible fugitive gangster tied to Chicago. The suspect, held near the Mexican border, resembled the wanted killer Pred Burke and faced confirmation from Chicago authorities. Burke is alleged to have involvement in the Saint Valentine massacre and various murders in Detroit and St Joseph Michigan.
UBICGAGO December 25 1414 Chicago police awaited full identification of a man arrested near Nogales Arizona by Sheriff H J Patterson. The suspect claiming the name S G Barton denied being Fred Burke and authorities sought Arizona confirmation while Chicago detectives awaited word from Nogales.
Christmas day in San Antonio shows bright sun and mild temperatures with a high near 60 and a low around 39. Yesterday and today mirror last year’s fair conditions as the day warms into the afternoon. The forecast calls for continued sunny weather into Wednesday night and Thursday.
Photo shows first group of men freed on Christmas Eve by Chief Owen J. Kilday in Santa Claus gesture. It marks a rare mass release of petty offenders, mainly for vagrancy and train riding, a longtime annual custom renewed this year with many departed inmates.
Police probed a Tuesday night series of attacks that left six residents hospitalized in San Antonio. Victims include N. Wouson at the Rosier hotel and Doc Wilson at 315 Main Avenue, both injured on the Prudential hotel corridor. Detective Al Tight found Wilson at the hotel in a bloodied, dazed state. A separate assault injured Mr and Mrs Coy Nogalitos Street as they returned from a Christmas party, attacked by four men who waited at their home.
A former Waco woman, 20, estranged from her husband, gave birth to a girl on hotel stairs with her sister and an elder sister nearby. They sought shelter after wandering streets, then moved to a hospital where the mother, listed as dying, was reported as improving.
John Sule discovered a silver nugget half the size of a pen in a turkey's craw while preparing the meal in Tlaho on December 25. His employer said the find will not improve his drafting advertising job until he investigates mining possibilities of the turkey and surrounding grazing ground.
Canyon Texas December news notes the Legion Auxiliary of Canyon receives a national citation for maintaining membership above the quota. ELOG and Mra. J. M. Daugherty are named officers. Prion is noted as president.
In New York on December 25 a police officer jumped into the East River to rescue a man who fell from a pier near Jefferson Street. Peter Fennehini clung to a pile for 43 minutes until backup arrived. Patrolmen Evheard Reilley and Robert Krizek entered the water, tied ropes, and pulled all four to safety. The rescuer and the man were hospitalized in serious condition. the others treated for submersion and exposure.
A fire started in an undetermined source in the Pittsburg Ware Glass company warehouse on South Alamo Street. Firemen, summoned by a passing motorist, extinguished the blaze with only minor damage reported.
San Antonio celebrated a Christmas of charity with the poor aided by gifts from dozens of groups. Orphanages received visits and treats as Santa distributed toys and candy, while Salvation Army and Christmas Cheer efforts supplied food and clothing. Turkey dinners and holiday events continued through Christmas week, with thousands touched by the season.
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