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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1930
Page
6
City files amended answer in Seventy-third district election contest challenging bond vote legality. The 20 page filing adds 63 extensions and 13 paragraphs alleging illegal ballots and seeks to set aside votes opposing the bonds and count only legally cast ballots for each proposition. The contestants claim 728 legal alien ballots and 1028 persons voted.
The filing discusses alleged irregularities in the $4,975,000 bond election held March 7, including claims that minors, non property owners, residents outside the city, and those failing to transfer poll taxes voted. It notes 58 precincts with allegedly miscounted ballots and asserts the bonds would have failed or passed by different margins.
In Washington on June 17 the House committee investigating propaganda was advised that deporting Communists to Russia is impossible because the United States has not recognized the Soviet government. The report notes legal constraints and official nonrecognition shaping policy.
Buenos Aires reports failed search efforts for Henri Guillaumet the French air mail pilot who vanished last Friday while attempting to cross the Andes from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza.
Capt Lewis A Yoness, American aviator touring Spanish America, plans to leave for Santiago Chile after a fuel- short stop in Antofagasta. He completed the night there and prepared for the next leg of his voyage. A separate Chicago report notes a man leaped from a sixteenth floor, falling to his death, identified as J M Morgan of New York.
San Francisco reports gasoline prices rising to 14 cents a gallon for today amid major oil company actions. The Bay Area generally holds about 17 cents, with no new war outlet opened this Saturday according to regional reports.
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