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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1925
Page
12
Inez Hardin, Miss Mississippi, praised as healthiest girl, urged to plan for thirty and beyond. American auto output and tire production cited. Stock market commentary warns against gambling. Johnny Dundee profiled. italics note on heritage. Weevil control via scent and synthetic olfactory bait discussed with scientific tone.
Cleveland Akron merchant Dan Thoun Burlder sent $35 000 to Pope Pius for a Rome antiquities museum. The bequest was cabled to Rome by Bishop Joseph Backremba of the Cleveland Catholic diocese.
In Dayton Ohio two Wilbur Wright field workers Leon Harness and Paul Long were killed when a plane struck the ground vehicle they rode on during a speed course. Pilot Lt E C Bkedale of McCook Field escaped unharmed along with an observer.
In Chicago outskirts last night the Baltimore and Ohio Washington Limited was cut in two by a Western Indiana suburban train. Four trainmen were injured slightly including two mail clerks a fireman and an engineer. A mail car plunged into a side track shack. three people were pinned but not hurt.
Five Bardsey Island inhabitants crossed the strait after a month cut off by gales. Veteran fisherman Pritchard, aged 84, known as the islanders' king, said food ran low during isolation but emergency stores prevented privation.
In Madison on January 7, F K Bernard, 20, Hibbing Minnesota, is dead after a gunman shot him and a romance language instructor Miss Laura B Palmer, 28, is badly wounded in the receiving room of Trench House, a boarding house serving University of Wisconsin women students.
Central headquarters buzzes as police and Fire Bureau prepare next moves under Commissioner Phil Wright. Tuesday night crime dipped with few petty thefts reported and two autos stolen from local addresses on West Travis and Guadalupe Streets.
Sam Antonia Independent School District held a treasury surplus of 398000 when the May salary schedule was adopted, testified Paul Scholz business agent in Bexar county civil court. Eileen Pike seeks 550 plus interest for back salary amid disputes over contract amounts and alleged arbitrary cuts.
Mrs Edna James Scott says she has not begun divorce actions while reports say her testimony in the Scott divorce aroused speculation in Washington society Judge Frank Scott adjourned the suit to March 10 amid wife and husband accusations Mrs Scott cites friendships in Washington and says she entertained there. Scott denies any attempt to ruin his career.
Turner E. Hubby, newly appointed state game, fish and oyster commissioner, will accept the post from Governor-elect Miriam A. Ferguson. He spoke at the Menger Hotel after meetings in Temple and Austin outlining a bill for restocking game, fish and oysters, with Medina Lake a top priority. He urged scientific surveys of the Texas coast to guide oyster bed placement and proposed propagation laws for game and stricter controls on outdated shipments. He said Texas should have quail statewide and plans to import quail from the northern Mexican border to restock the state.
Washington January 7 The House Jovers and Harbors Committee trimmed the rivers and harbors bill by 3.214 million dollars from 52 million, cut 7 million from the inter coastal canal proposal along the Gulf of Mexico, and reduced Los Angeles breakwater funding by 3.5 million from 10.2 million.
Dr. W C Gould of Bells Grayson county was shot and killed last night in the front yard of farmer Jim Scott who lives west of Bells Scott surrendered at the county jail in Sherman Both men had families and were prominent in the Bells section of the county.
Washington reports December postal receipts from 50 cities totalled 34 149 978 dollars, up 8.92 percent from December 1923. Wayion led in growth while Jacksonville Jersey City Salt Lake City Cincinnati Newark Grand Rapids Milwaukee and Chicago followed. Los Angeles joined the million dollar club for the first time.
Boston seismograph records a fifteen second tremor at 207 oclock this morning from the Harvard station. Officials say storm off shore hinder distance estimates but identify the tremor as traveling north across the eastern section of the seaboard and the Merrimack Valley region of New Hampshire.
San Francisco January 7 Plans for two additional air mail routes to work with the transcontinental service were announced by Colonel Tan Henderson second assistant postmaster general The new lines will branch from the current system with a San Francisco to Los Angeles terminus linked by a Salt Lake City cutoff and Seattle and possibly Elko Nevada will have direct service from Elko Nevada
Senate opens inquiry into foreign protests against increasing gun power on battleships. Resolution approved by Senate without debate after fast committee review. Senator Gerry of Rhode Island leads the inquiry as related to Coolidge era naval armament concerns.
A Lehigh Valley passenger train struck a wagon carrying three children to a parochial school in Blatchemm Pennsylvania. The dead are Roderick 10 John 12 and Mildred 8. Two boys 16 and 14 were seriously injured. The children were all offspring of Ludwig Belgrash.
Lieutenant Commander Paul Caseard and Lieutenant CG J. McGrady were seriously injured at the Hampton Roads naval base when their plane failed and crashed from about 50 feet. Both suffered broken legs and head and body bruises.
Willie Vaughn faces a jury verdict on a December attack in Madison Square Park. Defense centers on discrediting the state charge that Vaughn is the assailant as testimony unfolds in a tense trial.
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