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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
2
Tientsin reports say Opo robbed and little resistance as Shansi troops seize the city. Public buildings fly the Nationalist flag replacing the Republican standard while looting occurs in Shan areas. Northern soldiers and civilians flee as disorder grows. foreign area remains quiet.
Reserve officers of the Salt En gineers led by Col. W. B. Tuttle of San Antonio report at Fort McIntosh Laredo on July 5 for a fourteen day active duty period. Also mobilizing with San Antonio officers are Lieut. Col. A Walton Captains M McG Tied Fa S Bryant Vi R F Helland and KR 3 Keck First Growl W J Castle Tr and Second Lieutenants J W Berretta N B Gusset M E B Staley and Le Q Vorelsung.
Rome June 1. A sacred consistory with Pope Pius will review Archbishop Ruiz Flores’s page report on Mexico. Cardials and fifteen others will attend, with Vatican diplomats questioned. A resolution on the Mexican situation is expected, emphasizing religious liberty and conscience under the Calles government.
El Paso reports that Maj Rodolfo Fierro, famed Mexican arigot who recently sent a telegram from Tower California to Mexico City, will commence his long planned Mexico City Cuba flight next week according to advices in El Continental, the Spanish language newspaper.
The Pacific Flier Fund expands as Hearst papers raise support for American aviators Harry Lyon and James Warner, honored for the Oakland to Sydney flight. Governor Young of California welcomes subscriptions and Australia’s goodwill signals broad public backing for the fund.
The trans Pacific mono plane Southern Croes flew Sydney to Melbourne in six hours and landed at Essendon aerodrome. Sixty thousand spectators greeted the crew Cant Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Um, Navigator Hard Lyon, and Radio Operator Jamene Warner as they circled the city. The craft carried Captain Kinase ford-Smiths mother and Clm's wife amid the crowded landing field. The aircraft was escorted by nine planes.
Portage Wisconsin June 13 Miss Zona Gale author of Lulu Bet the 1920 Pulitzer price play and of many books and short stories was married yesterday to William Breese 63 Portage manufacturer The ceremony was performed at the bride's father's home witnessed only by immediate family Breese is a widower with a daughter Juliet from his late wife
The McCook region was struck by a tornado Monday night causing about one million dollars in property damage. At least 20 people were injured with eleven needing hospital care. Mrs Charley Vernon was listed in critical condition and her child was severely hurt.
The USC law professor Dean Tustin Miller tells a convention that American crime policy harms business, estimating losses of 310.9 billion dollars annually from wrongful punishment and escaped accountability, a point raised at the National Association of Creditors meeting in Seattle.
Dr W A R Godwin announced a Williamsburg restoration plan led by a Rockefeller trust with potential funding totaling millions to revive a pre revolutionary liberty shrine and honor the father of the republic through a sacred project.
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