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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1928
Page
1
A fragmented account recalls a financier who leapt from his private airplane after offering fifty million to a government and triggering a market plunge. Amid echoes of Napoleonic ambition, World War I wealth, and Wall Street speculation, it links a Belgian financier’s fall to global stock declines and a vanished fortune, with lingering questions about desire and loss.
A scrambled forecast notes a strong warm front moving across the region with a cold front from the south. Expect generally fair and warm conditions in the interior with a possible cut of cooler air, increasing cloudiness, and chances of light to moderate showers in western Texas tonight through Saturday.
A pencil letter signed Chicago Bunch threatens gambling house coverage suppression. Postmarked in San Antonio July 5, the note warns the San Antonio Light to stop publishing information on gambling establishments or face consequences. It claims affiliation with Chicago troublemakers and demands editors mind their own business.
Deputies with warrants moved to arrest all workers involved in the church construction project at dawn. The restraining order, issued days earlier by Judge Towne, was enforced as clergy and congregants faced penalties after violating the injunction. Reverend J Bark Anderson was fined 100 and jailed yesterday for noncompliance.
The Stroller details police attitudes toward prosecute gambling operations in downtown San Antonio. He visits gambling sites on East Market and North St. Marys streets, notes police inaction, and hints at unresolved murders and robberies while promising further installments.
In Dalbas Ohio a court scene erupts as Rev Norris and others clash with Judge Young over an injunction limiting tabernacle work. The judge fines a petitioner for contempt while Norris taunts that women workers should be jailed, pledging to back a purge and a next hearing.
Downtown establishments were bare as a bard’s cupboard of punch boards and slot machines Friday. Officers had previously rounded some machines from back rooms but none were found during renewed inquiries. No confiscations were disclosed by peace officers.
Hammond Ta crime report states Wall was sentenced to die by gallows for killing a man in the Time Creek neighborhood of Lunginahan. The defendant awaits potential pardon from Governor Long while an appeal to the Supreme Court for a new trial is expected.
Seventeen men detained near a May Avenue establishment face vagrancy charges after a police raid led by Detective Liggins and Caver amid Trill. Docket hearings were postponed to Friday of next week as prosecutors and defense attorneys confer on the case.
SACTAMENEO dispatch to the Bee from Waterville reports that C D Henry, aged 84, father of Mrs. Hoover, II Henry, and Mes. Slerkert Tronver, collapsed at 9 in a sanitarium, experiencing a heart attack two days ago. Henry is listed as 81 years old.
Three armed San Antonio detectives under Police Commissioner Phil Wright raided a domino parlor arresting 47 men. Seventy percent were booked as vagrants under a misdemeanor charge. Chief Green pledged to clean up the city as District Attorney Seeligson noted gambling with a bank is a felony.
Washington July 6 A second hundred thousand dollars on the property of H M Blackmer of Denver missing Teapot Damn Witness was ordered seized today by Justice Jennings Hailey in the District of Columbia Supreme Court because of Blackmer a failure to appear as a witness at the trial of Mary F Sinclair last April.
Miss Mabel Toll arrived from New York and declared she would fly back to Europe or America. She seeks to become the Tirsh woman to fly from America, following an earlier thwarted attempt by Miss Amelia Farhner.
Territory reports that 40 year old Tienry Conti, an assistant manager at Metropolitan Life Insurance in New Orleans, died by suicide from self inflicted gunshot wound. Police are investigating.
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