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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1933
Page
22
Reports from Port of Spain and Southern Trinidad detail a severe hurricane that killed eleven people and damaged villages, banana and coral plantations, and gutfields. Affected areas include Erin with 300 homes lost. communications to the southeast were severed, complicating loss estimates.
Stockholm’s polesmen now may wear sabres as side arms. Previously swords were allowed only as regulation equipment during late afternoon and night hours.
A string of obituary notices lists Johnie George Zimmerle and Emma Valera Elam with survivors including parents siblings and a grandmother. Richard B. Kavanaugh a veteran with listed survivors. Carlos Bec Edwards and Hubert Clyde Burks with spouses children and in-laws. Lizzie Carswell Annie Lewis and others with funeral details, dates, churches and burial locations across Texas communities. Services and interments are scheduled at Mount Olive Lutheran, San Jose Burial Park, and local cemeteries with clergy names and addresses noted.
Old fashioned dance Friday night at 8 30 in Willett's Orew Adm Zoe Adv Dance Bab might Brain hall with Edwin Geri and his College Ramblers 12 piece orchestra at Milam Building email Onseres directing admission 2 cents with old time dance Turner hall fat white Artz Orchestra and Pete Brewer's Band at Macdona ball Eli Filustig and Areade Beinat listed for events and dates
In Vienna on July 1, amidst rising anti-Semitism in political groups following the Hitler pattern, the Jewish People's party has been formed with placards urging Jews to take action for themselves and to help themselves.
In Sydney police suspect the elusive bell from the German cruiser Emden is headed for Germany. The rare artifact, reportedly first stolen last summer, was later found buried in a hill and is now thought to be en route to its home country.
In Denver on July 1 postal chief J. H. Skidmore praised local clerks for flawless service. He cited Donovan A. Poster of Michigan as an example of high accuracy while noting 24 Denver clerks achieved top ratings in the past 13 months.
Mayor C. K. Quin says tax reductions hinge on collecting current city and school taxes. City operating costs have dropped from 3,287,700 in 1931 to 1,606,400, with plans to shave another 200,000 from maintenance. Installment payments offered with a 5 percent penalty avoided if paid by July 8. Over 80 percent of maintenance funds recirculate through salaries to teachers and staff. 40 percent of operating budget goes to fire and police, 21 percent to garbage and street work, 20 percent to construction, 15 percent to administration, 4 percent to attorneys and tax office. The city expects to project next year’s tax relief by July 8.
New York June 30 In a Broadway setting once crowded by fans for Valentino, Fatty Arbuckle lay in state. Floral tokens marked the bier as a line of mourners filed by the coffin. Tomorrow at 1 p.m. Elks will conduct services and the body will be cremated at Fresh Pond Cemetery. Arbuckle had died yesterday of a heart attack and had expressed happiness about a hoped for comeback, with eight film contracts confirmed by his manager. His widow Addie McPhail is expected to accompany the body to the cemetery.
Treasury receipts for June 26 totaled 80 646 136.30 dollars while expenditures reached 118 607 928.92 dollars leaving a balance of 899 332 3017. System duties for 28 days of June amounted to 20 491 234.44 dollars.
JOPLIN MO June 30 Homer Weese about 45 former weekly newspaper publisher was shot to death by federal officers as he emerged from a house they suspected of housing whiskey and illicit liquor. Weese body taken to Neosho and coroner inquest planned. Harold Lane said officers shouted we're federal officers and that shot from Weese pistol ended the exchange.
In Billings Montana on July William Dickenson, 17, rushed to a local doctor claiming he swallowed 66 cents during a hold up by two suspicious men. He said he inserted the money into his mouth and swallowed it when struck, and Dr W R Morrison removed a brass pool hall chip from his stomach.
A unit of 85 Chinese officers and soldiers passed Genoa on a route home after being cut off by Japanese advances. They traveled through Siberia and Europe, choosing escape over capture, and have now boarded a Chinese ship in Genoa to join remaining forces.
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