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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1927
Page
1
A jumble of 1929 aviation hopes and volcanic tremors. Arthur Brisbane notes political and scientific figures like Levine and Chamberlin, plans for a round trip trans Atlantic flight, and Fokker aircraft baptisms. General Patrick comments on safer travel as Luft Hansa expands, while chain stores report high sales.
Continued report notes temperatures and weather conditions for Bon Antoni and vernity regions. Tonight and Sunday forecast partly cloudy with possible thunderstorms along the coast. Light to moderate variable winds, with highs on the coast and inland areas showing modest shifts.
City officials and Public Service Company clash over a four cent trolley fare increase, with City Attorney Joe Ryan studying possibilities of an injunction. Negotiations broke off, plans stir for city to open a rival bus system, and discussions resume over natural gas rates as officials push to halt the increase.
San Francisco July 9 John Drew 57 not all American actor died there after hospital confinement since May due to arthritis and rheumatic fever. He arrived in May to perform in Trelawney of the Wells but ill health forced cancellation and hospital care. Relapses followed and on June 9 doctors declared his condition grave. His nephew John Barrymore and daughter Mrs Louise Deverents rushed to his bedside. Drew remained cheerful amid suffering despite dwindling strength. The company of fifteen had opened its tour from New York January 31 led by veterans such as Thomas Whiffen Effie Shanon John H. Kelleré and Lawrence D'Orsag.
John Orew answered his curtain call as death rain touched the deen of American siege in San Francisco Saturday. The fragment notes a dramatic regional disturbance with unclear details and a single named city. It preserves era tone while avoiding graphic wording.
A man claiming to be an editor admits staying in Latedo for months and confessed to involvement in editor Melett's killing. Police arrested him Friday night after he attempted to sell liquor smuggled from Mexico. Detectives held him for further investigation.
In Marshall Texas on July 1 a Beckville truck driver, 22-year-old Beauchamp, was killed when steering gear failed and the truck plunged over a 20 foot embankment near Watson after the driver reportedly lost control following a mechanical failure.
An orderly on Northwest Side reports a San Antonio man, driven by superstition, struck his girlfriend with a pistol after she sat up with a corpse. He feared a death watch would enchant her, and the assault followed her refusal to desert him. The case emphasizes folklore beliefs influencing a violent act.
Mrs. Catherine Fatt aged 36 and her six children aged from 1 to 15 were burned to death when a fire followed an explosion that wrecked their farmhouse at Beaville fifteen miles north of Reading. Police blamed a tilt.
Canton on July 8 reports a rising anti Japanese boycott amid protests against lending to Japanese forces in Shantung radical actions and a shipping strike. Japanese goods entering Canton are being welded and deposited in relic stations, stirring grave unrest and anxiety.
The report states Thomas Tames, 24, and Mrs Love Thomas, 21, were injured when their vehicle overturned late Friday in Himna Vista and Tenctr. They survived the crash with minor injuries and were treated at a local hospital.
In Besar county jail Wink UY Ssiquio Serhin was named the second man to die in the string of attacks and holdups that terrorized the city between April 20 and May 7. Clemente Rodríguez pleaded guilty to an assault on a companion of M. Shaw at 109 Bernard Terrace and was sentenced to death after an eighteen minute jury deliberation on Friday night. The trial of Finrique Hendozy, the last suspected attacker, is set for Monday in Thirty-seventh district court. prosecutors anticipate a tough defense as authorities seek the same fate for him.
Seven persons are dead and four dozen injured after a large fire at the Royal Alexandra apartment hotel in Vancouver British Columbia yesterday. Three additional occupants are reported missing as investigators work to determine the cause and extent of the blaze.
Fort Worth July 8 funeral services held Friday for Frances Bosker who was shot to death by her sweetheart, Robert Bond, who then fatally shot himself. Ratneday details not clear from the fragment, but the tragedy centers on Bosker and Bond and the suspected motive.
G W Davis a grocer at 341 Porter Street battled a young Mexican thief who tried to steal two boxes of bread and a case of milk from his sedan Saturday morning. Davis was severely beaten but halted the car by wrecking it before police, aided by Detectives Fill Career and Doe Rukuke, could finish the investigation.
Commander Dongil B. MacMillan sails from Battle Barber Labrador on a one hundred mile voyage for the team’s Arctic exploration. The departure occurs in the early morning with plans to reach northern shores and conduct watercraft experiments.
Visitors at Fort Sara Houston CM T.C. observe daily camp records as companies are graded on appearance conduct and cleanliness. A Canopus banner honors the top company each afternoon, with wooden clocks marking percentages set by the camp inspector. Intense rivalry drives medals and honors among units.
Houston jury convicts Arthur Atkiny of murder in the death of his wife Radic. He is sentenced to 99 years in the state penitentiary after the trial held February.
Morris Strauss an employee of a supply house, was decoyed from his home late Friday night by ten masked men in a car on the Cleburne road. He was driven about 12 miles, hooded, and whipped with a rope on the back until flesh was nearly raw before being left on the road. Mrs. Strauss reported the incident and a vigorous search for the attackers is under way.
A garbled notice from New York records slight changes to the Lindberg family name by adding an H as they register in Gredea. The unreadable OCR text shows multiple misspellings and incomplete phrases but indicates a legal or clerical name adjustment.
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