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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1928
Page
1
Fragmented report describes European and British tensions with mergers in wireless and rail sectors, labor wage cuts, famine in Württemberg and Mesopotamia, and political unrest in Britain, India, and the Middle East. It notes rail strikes, union actions, and radical activity in Wall Street as well as religious tensions between Muslims and Hindus amid broader instability.
Rev William H Joyner of Beacon Hill Baptist Church will deliver a sermon titled Modern Dangers in the Soul on Sunday night addressing gambling as a cure. He has been invited to lead a revival in China Town beginning July 20.
Hlabonne July 7 report details a man who fell from a two story apartment building and died after injuries. The incident involved several neighbors and residents including Grear-oli con of Mrs G and Vi Noherta of Cleburne. Authorities classify the event as a fatal accident tied to the fall and resulting impalement on a picket fence after the fall last night.
A crime investigator nicknamed Stroller testified as a key witness in a San Antonio robbery case involving Charles Bellinger. The defendant Tulile faced charges of robbing Bellinger by threats and attempting to publish injurious material. Bellinger described a tense exchange at his East Commerce Street office. The judge ruled evidence sufficient to bind Tuttle for the October grand jury.
The San Antonio Light clarifies that a man calling himself Henry Samuel Tuttle has no connection with the newspaper. The paper says it has not used or sought information from him and that it conducted its own investigation into rambling and vice conditions without outsider help.
Five bir gebonets were scheduled to start off Ambrose channel today for a race to Santander Spain as part of the Spanish Cup event in New York.
Thirteen pilots raced planes at Winburn Field as rain drizzled. Robert Canwell in a Lockheed duoplane led the field with 8 04.5 mph timing, followed by David Levy in a Sharman biplane. Dozens of pilots, including Stinson and Haldenman, finished amid shifting showers and crowd interest in the San Antonio event.
Washington reports outline a Republican campaign plan with no New York City eastern headquarters. Senator George W. Moses of New Hampshire was selected to lead campaign organization, with former Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work as temporary national committee chairman. Top figures from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland attended the conference amid talk of a coordinated national strategy.
Pedra Ramos, 18, of 137 Vastores street, was shot in the head by an 11-year-old youth Saturday night in front of his home. He died at Stohert TB hospital shortly after arrival. Detectives Miller and Willis investigate. relatives of the suspect say he had left the house with a gun after a quarrel five weeks earlier.
The San Angelo Young People’s Band, bajo the direction of seventeen-year conductor Harvey H. Grief, will perform two sacred concerts in San Antonio. The first at Alamo Methodist Church on Alamo and Wickes streets at 9:30 p.m. on July 14, followed by a Salvation Army ball at 3rd Avenue at 8 p.m. on the same day.
Santiago dispatch says the Chilean transport S Angamos sank off the fading coast with 231 persons aboard. Early reports indicated some survivors while the fate of many remained unknown.
Jack Pickford film actor and Mary Pickford’s brother was reported seriously ill at Coast Hospital Los Angeles with a heart ailment on July 2. Dr Karl Lewis said he is not critical now but will require a stay in hospital for an extended period.
The Stroller writer reveals a series of gambling fronts in downtown San Antonio known as Black and Tan resorts where men and women mingle. He details locations on North St. Mary's and Market Street where crap games and card games operated under police scrutiny, noting several establishments already visited and the pattern of house-banked games.
A narrator follows locals across the 500 block of East Commerce street asking directions. He passes a Brownskin cafe at 611 East Commerce, enters a kitchen, and is pointed toward a back door leading to the former Bellinger theater accessed via a former fire escape.
A crowd gathers around a gambling venue where a partition hides a ticket booth and clerks operate adding machines. About fifteen Black patrons and five white men mingle as slot machines line the wall and winnings draw cheers while losses elicit sympathy.
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