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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1925
Page
5
A vast crowd packed the Radio Dealers Show in the Old Scottish Wire hall drawing over 5000 attendees. Firemen stood at stairways to curb entrance as downstairs displays drew about 37 visitors. upstairs the dance floor filled despite limited speaker volume.
The Bon five piece dance orchestra, featuring Benita Alvarez, David Garciz, Frank Jernandez, Tony Hernandez, and Pete Avelar, is selected to perform at the Radio Exposition’s Wednesday night dance from the Palace Theater stage.
The program runs 8:36 to 9:30 pm with Irenic 2 Alice Blue Gown Castle of Dreams among pieces. Performers include Edna Park Jack Edwards George Mc Manus Rita Knight Myra Murray Octavia Powell Edouard DOisy Jack Doty. Accompanists Mrs Nellie Jarvis and Majestic orchestra pianist. Palace Majestic Plaza theaters feature further numbers and a Bobbed Haired Girl dialogue skit.
Jack Best, a Black man from San Jose, was struck by a car on Pleasanton road around 9 30 p m Wednesday while attempting to pull a wagon from a ditch. He lay unconscious with a probable skull fracture and was rushed to Robert T D Green Memorial hospital by bystanders William Banks G W Pearce and D B Sparks of Lockhart. Steve notified police, with the sheriffs department leading the investigation.
Patrolman Addicks, on his beat before daylight, frightened away two thieves as they attempted to jimmy the door of the R. B. Newcomb Shoe Shop at 500 Nuaryarro Street. The door vibrated. he forced it open and found nothing had been taken.
Jim Lubbock was fined $10 and costs by Justice of the Peace Bend on a malicious mischief charge growing from the killing of a bulldog owned by C. Cunningham. Cunningham testified Lubbock shot the dog after it trotted along a riverbank. Lubbock said the dog was killed after his baby was bitten by a rabid dog. Lubbock is under indictment in the Ninety-fourth District Court for murder of J. Culpepper of Harlandale.
Dr Sun Yat Sen leader of Southern China government spent a comfortable night after cancer operation. He was not in pain this morning. Temperature normal, pulse 103, physicians said his condition was satisfactory.
City detectives Robinson and Higgins combed San Antonio's business section in the early hours, tracing a dressed man who sold a valuable gold fountain pen and pencil for one dollar to J C Bicks of the Prudential hotel. The man claimed the dollar was to buy food, prompting Hicks to alert police as he suspected the man was disposing of stolen goods. Restaurants downtown and in the West End were searched before the effort ended.
Alma Rubens, the film actress, obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman in Superior Court. The pair, once connected in Greenwich Connecticut, had filed for separation amid a controversial spat over a 392.
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