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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1926
Page
10
A 1926 year end reflection urges readers to begin meaningful actions in the days before New Year. It contrasts youthful inaction with a call to think seriously and plan, noting the United States faces Nicaragua’s liberal government issue and urging restraint in southern interventions.
Repair of the St Louis amphibian on the Pan American flight continues in Tampico. A new inverted Liberty motor was shipped from San Antonio for installation and testing as pilots prepare for a Wednesday takeoff. Captain Ira C. Baker and Maj. Herbert A. Dargue are among observers awaiting events in Mexico.
The San Antonio Retail Merchants Association unveiled the largest telephone auto table in Texas. The turret system handles forty circuit calls simultaneously, with three turrets providing 120 call capacity. The expansion reflects rising San Antonio business and the association's effort to offer faster service, explained secretary Adolf Grasso.
One man was killed and fourteen injured when a compressed air tank exploded on a Paris subway train, causing the roof to collapse. The incident occurred December 28 in the city’s transit system.
Two bandits robbed a Commonwealth Bank branch in Detroit today, getting about $20,000 in the heist. Police pursued leads as the crime interrupted the bank’s business and drew local attention.
A chamber of commerce report estimates 85 000 convention delegates and about 40 000 tourists in spring 1927, with total visitors around 70 000 in the past year. Expected spending tops 3 million dollars in 1927, based on daily rates of 10 for three days per delegate and 6 for ninety days per tourist.
Joyce Hawley, famed as the "bathtub girl" in Earl Carroll's New York party, told her parents in Chicago that she did not sail for Europe yesterday and has no knowledge of a Miss Frances Frentrub of Pittsburgh, the alias alleged to have joined her on the ship. She has no immediate plans to leave Chicago.
In New York on December 23 Assistant U S Attorney Nat J Harben resigned from the prohibition enforcement staff saying the Dry Act is the most drastic law and cannot be enforced in any large city. He cited belief the act is impossible to enforce effectively.
President Coolidge says the United States is in fundamentally sound condition as the year ends. He refrains from discussing future plans while noting he is making twenty forecasts.
Brig. Gen. Clarence P. Townsley, U.S. Army retired and former superintendent of the U S Military Academy at West Point from 1912 to 1916, died in Washington on December 28.
Charles Costabile of Alamo Heights owes his life to AFL Rieden of West Houston Street who, during a duck hunt on Mitchell Lake, steadied Costabile after Rieden fell from the boat and was shot in the leg by his own shotgun. Rieden fought the icy water to reach the boat and summon aid as Costabile struggled to stay afloat.
In Knoxville Tennessee Mrs. John Johnson welcomed two stork arrivals this year. The first visit produced a boy and five girls. The second, yesterday evening, brought three boys weighing eight seven and six pounds. Mrs Johnson is mother to nine children. her husband runs an automobile dray in the city.
The forecast from J H Jarboe of the San Antonio weather bureau calls for a fair but colder spell Tuesday night into Wednesday with near freezing lows. Minimums may reach 32 degrees early Wednesday morning, with frost possible along the coast of East Texas and freezing temps inland except in the lower Rio Grande valley. Amarillo reports 22 degrees and El Paso 24 degrees.
John Farrera his wife son John Jr and daughter-in-law Catherine were injured early Tuesday when their car overturned on Castroville road near Our Lady of the Lake college. They were taken to Santa Rosa Infirmary with the elder Farrera undergoing X-rays to gauge injuries. The driver said a bump caused the skid into the ditch.
London report says King George and President Coolidge will inaugurate a trans Atlantic telephone service in January linking Buckingham Palace and the White House. The Daily Express notes the plan to enable direct parleys between the two capitals.
Emperor Hirohito held his first formal audience at TORIG receiving about 300 court and government officials to whom he delivered an imperial message.
Texas December report details a fight between Fort Worth city manager O. E. Carr and attorney Margis Simpson after Carr testified that Simpson tried to hire someone to kill Rev. Dr. J. Frank Norris. The incident occurred during deposition evidence for a $150,000 damage suit tied to Norris's murder case.
Fort Worth December 25 International News Service reports City Manager O H Carr gave testimony in the $130 000 damages suit filed against Rev J Frank Norris pastor of First Baptist church. Chipps Jr seeks damages alleging Norris billed J D Chipps St depriving the boy of his father support. The case continues. deposition taking resumed.
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