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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
2
Bombing range west of Kelly Field will host a salvo bombing drill beginning July 10 under First Lieutenant Odas Moon. Advanced Flying School bombardment students will drop about 700 bombs in unit formations, with total drops nearing 1000 as lease terms with Tangé are arranged.
BERULY July 8. Gook secretary of the British Miners' Federation is in Berlin hesitating with a representative of the Russian Miners' Union. He says miners will not be forced to accept longer hours and believes English transport workers will not permit coal shipments into England.
Partial OCR text describes a prisoner named Bethamen, a weaver, awakening in a cell and shouting inquiries about his situation. A guard or fellow prisoner told him to be quiet, followed by silence and Bethamen being found incapacitated or sedated. Details are unclear due to garbled reporting.
Charlie Chaplin signs to star with Raquel Meller in a Universal Service report for a Napoleon biopic. Chaplin to play Napoleon while Meller portrays Josephine. Production planned to start next January and last a year. Daily Express does not cite authority.
The Famous Players Lasky Corporation announced plans to erect a 32 million dollar movie theater in Portland to cover an entire block. The project was unveiled today in Portland, Oregon, with construction to begin soon.
A 25 cent cut per barrel applied to seven grades of Pennsylvania crude oil. Keister crude in National Transit lines, a Bradford district new grade, reduced 15 cents from 2.45 to 2.30 per barrel.
SANTIAGO July 8. An entire family is dead in Valparaiso after a landslide from the Arrayan mountain crushed their house. Perro Alvarez and his wife, mother-in-law, and four children perished in the collapse.
Rio de Janeiro reports a developing industrial crisis driven by deflationary policy and currency tightening. The Bank of Receive suspends payments and enters bankruptcy, assets exceeding four million dollars against similar liabilities, with a sugar overproduction crisis in Pernambuco cited as a contributing factor.
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