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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1927
Page
13
Arthur Brisbane and others debate Herbert Hoover in a four page column about eligibility for the presidency. They note Hoover’s long travels and work abroad, arguing citizenship and fourteen-year U S residency are the key tests and praising his global projects and war relief efforts.
The city braces for a strong cold wave as a winter front sweeps into San Antonio. A forecast from the weather bureau predicts a low around 48 degrees by Saturday morning, with temperatures continuing to fall through the day and into the night.
San Antonio and vicinity: Tonight cloudy and colder with a low near 18. Saturday mostly cloudy and cold with below freezing temperatures. North winds, fresh to strong at times. East Texas: rain in the east portion, colder conditions moving in, highs around 40s, north portion freezing to the coast by Saturday night. West Texas: partly cloudy, cold evenings, temperatures around 12 to 20 in the north, 14 to 20 in the south, wind northerly.
Lindbergh nears Central America odc journey naming a long airway to San Salvador. Belize and Guatemala greet the aviator with public tributes as his Spirit of St Louis flight continues toward Panama and beyond. Evangeline Lindbergh returns from Mexico City to St. Louis, setting a brisk pace en route to Detroit for the next leg of the journey.
A white man about 30, killed or stunned, with two forehead wounds possibly from a .22 rifle, was found dead in San Pedro Creek near Ralph Street Fortear theme shortly before noon. Two youths, Jose Santox and Pedro Loscans, discovered the body about 42 feet from shore while fishing.
George Remus once dubbed King of Bootleggers was ordered committed to the state hospital for the criminal insane a week after a jury found him not guilty by insanity in the murder of his wife. Judge William A. Lueberg of Hamilton County probate court called him a psychopath and dangerous to be at large, despite three alienists' advisory opinions.
Henry Lee Taylor commander of the 5S A post of the American Legion presents a check to State Commander W D Hood for new memberships. The post now claims to be the largest Legion post in the country.
Land options on the Segein road in San Antonio were obtained for a new air corps training school. B J Aligeli from the military affairs committee coordinated the arrangements for the chamber of commerce. Maj Gen James Beechot will review once back in Washington, as city engineers resume surveying next week.
San Antonio Legion Post No 4 pledges to lift the statewide American Legion member roll to 40000 as Commander Walton Bool accepts a 412h donated check from Weary Lee PayTor. The drive hopes to add about 500 members from the San Antonio district, with 400 new members targeted in the near term.
Los Angeles December 30. Attorney Jerome K. Walsh of Kansas City will defend William Edward Hickman the confessed kidnapper and slayer of Marian Parker. Police today shifted to a theory of an accomplice, seeking a second person in the crime amid confessions by Hickman and a possible link to Welby Dunk. Investigators probe cooperation between Hickman and Dunk in a series of holdups, one ending in a pharmacist’s death. Page 6.
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