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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1929
Page
3
K Evans of Houston associated with J. E. ratt company. He will oversee statistical and research functions for a state wide organization, enhancing local outreach and oversight duties.
Ered McConnell of Fort Worth is named division passenger agent for Texas Air Transport Inc with headquarters in San Antonio. The division covers Austin Corpus Christi Brownsville and San Antonio.
Rome July 12 The government called a day long meeting of citizens at 6740 p.m. to honor American transatlantic aviators Roger Q. Williams and Captain Lewis A. Xancey. The event marks Rome’s welcome for the two fliers who arrived from Orono, Maine via Santander Spain, after a brief stop. The Pathfinder, rebuilt at Littorio airfield, will be publicly shown and a tail spin may be attempted. Marquis te Pinedo may test the Pathfinders. Williams and Xancey offered.
A U S Public Health Service bulletin notes nine of ten Americans have had measles and about three fourths have had whooping cough. It says fatalities peak under one year, then decline for measles and mumps, with scarlet fever and diphtheria remaining notable risks.
The NC-4 fliers are said to get Italian decorations, likely Saints Lazarua and Maurice, upon a visit to King Victor Emmanuel next Monday. They met Premier Mussolini at Torlonia house after an intimate luncheon, accompanied by Lt. Dellinger, and kept the meeting secret until returning to their hotel. The exhausted pilots requested a neck race for fatigue and remained in flying gear during the trip.
New Orleans crews under U S marshal protection begin repairing street car tracks and clearing obstructions placed by strikers. Operations planned for tomorrow or Sunday with federal injunction shielding the move. City remained calm after rioting late last week.
Manila July 12 Emilio Aguinaldo, once an insurgent leader, cables President Hoover urging retention of Ben F. Wright as auditor. Wright offered to resign but would stay if Hoover desires. Aguinaldo asks stronger defined powers for the income auditor to fight graft.
Chicago July 12. Detec Daniel Allman of the Crossing stationry squad is charged with robbery after a saloonkeeper identified him as one of five men who held him up and took $50 from the cash register. Police informer Charles Fisher was arrested with the detective and identified by the victim. Fisher had in possession the police badge of Detective Joseph Hennensy, who was being sought today.
Galveston police and customs reports say Valenisana was jailed on charges tied to a large liquor seizure. Ten suspects linked to the haul were captured in Memphis and transported to face accusations after a cross country operation across the United States led by authorities.
Clyde Spracher air mail pilot was seriously hurt when his camall biplane fell from about ten feet at Meacham field. He remained unconscious today. attendants report no skull fracture. The incident occurred yesterday as patrols and local medical staff attended the injured flyer.
El Paso surveyed wreckage from a rare cloudburst that struck an exclusive residential district. Damage estimated at 2 million dollars as a wall of water swept streets, lifting boulders, washing away adobe homes, and snapping foundations. Trains delayed but service resumed.
A tornado hit WILL LAKE Crary and Antioch last night injuring eighteen people and damaging farms and buildings. A barn near Crary collapsed injuring John and Frant Vanderlyn and a hired hand George Jacobson broke his leg. Eight cars of a Great Northern work train were blown off rails injuring fifteen laborers. Trees and hail damaged crops around Devils Lake and Ardoch.
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