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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1930
Page
16
Campaigns in the Texas governorship race intensify as 11 candidates race to finish strong before Saturdays election. Notables plan homecoming speeches from Fort Worth to Cisco and Mineral Wells while Sterling promotes the highway bond plan and other hopefuls headline events across Beeville Fiducia Coom Soakura Jettseille and Dallas.
Senate adjourned after a long session with cool weather and rising market activity. A boy overreacted to profanity and a girl claimed to be an Indian princess while posing as royalty. A parachute jumper hesitated, then was assisted by the pilot. A Riverside stopover preceded a longer journey for endurance flyers and hunter boys.
The Associated of Texas reports Temple figures across Texas during the state fair season. Mayfield plans a late night address. Miller speaks morning near Waco then in Sherman. Love speaks Temnyview at 2 30 pm and Fort Worth at 2 am. Ferguson campaigns for his wife in Grandbury and Coreicana. Sterling and Small tour Corpus Christi, Raymondville, Harlingen, Edinburg, and Houston amid highway bond debates.
The London Times reports ratification of a Landes naval treaty by the United States and allied governments. The agreement, signed and approved by Japanese observers, draws praise for stability and a reduced risk of wrecks or needless decrees amid shifting alliances.
In Rockford area Illinois countryside hunters with rifles pursued mad foxes on Mer Barley Hanna McCormick estate and other properties. Four foxes killed and found suffering with rabies as riflemen hunted west and south of Rockford.
In a Denver Heights park rally, factions of the Citizens League split into two groups, the Government ticket and the Progressives, with speakers including County District Attorney Tom Newton and candidates for several county and state offices. Metrics on alleged corruption were debated as tax and voting issues figure prominently in the race.
Dolores Del Rio, a film star, was named in a divorce answer alleging she influenced Taula C. Lessing to leave Gunther Th. Lessing, a noted attorney connected with the National Highways of Mexico. The case arises from a January divorce filing by Taula C. Lessing and a later suit for legal services by Miss Del Rio against Lessing.
In Washington on July 25 two presidents considered a possible exchange but could not finalize details. Chilean leader spoke by telephone with President Hoover about a potential swap though nothing decisive emerged.
Maj John Lauderdale of Brooklyn is identified as the oldest retired U S Army officer on record at 97 years 8 months 10 days. The announcement from Washington D C notes his long service and age as of July 23.
In Washington on July 29, health officers from Southern states met Surgeon General Cumming to press for federal assistance as pellagra cases rise in flood-devastated areas of the South. The conference aimed to outline relief steps and coordinate a federal response to the public health crisis.
Maj. Michael A. Kelly, wartime commander of the Third Battalion of the Que Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry, accidentally shot himself fatally while cleaning his service pistol earlier today in New York. He was 50. Kelly, known as Guerre, earned his nickname for recklessness under fire during the war and participated in Irish movements supporting Eamon de Valera.
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