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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1930
Page
9
Reports from travelers returning to Poland say peasants in several provinces rise in armed uprisings while city factory workers strike. The peasant discontent stems from collectivization plans, and food shortages worsen the unrest amid a disrupted agricultural sector.
Pursued from the international boundary southward Rudescindo Escamilla of Monterrey and a companion were captured by customs officers while trying to move Mexican gold to the United States. Thirty five thousand pesos in gold were hidden between car seats and cushions. Escamilla and the woman were jailed in Nuevo Laredo charged with smuggling Mexican gold out of the country. He confessed to bringing the gold to the American side to exchange for American gold.
In Whittinghame Scotland on March 21 the Earl of Daltour was returned from Dunbar with an oak coffin for burial beside his mother and brother. Valet James Colton, who served him for 25 years, guided the service as villagers stood with bared heads. The service will continue with traditional Scottish rites and family funeral arrangements.
Reports from Bucharest indicate Romanian Jewish quarters plan a naming tribute to Lord Balfour who died this week in England. Jewish families expect boys born next week to be named Baltove and girls Balfourin, part of a week of mourning proclaimed by Jewish leaders.
Professor Philipp Seiberth of the University of Texas Germanic languages will conclude the series Mastelpieces of World's Literature with an 8:15 pm lecture on Goethe's Faust in the Main Avenue High School auditorium. Seiberth has spent six years on the Texas faculty after serving as an instructor at Washington University in St Louis and studying Italian and German literature in Germany in 1923.
Philip T. Bilder, a DeWitt County pioneer born in Rome Georgia, died Wednesday in Austin. Funeral services held Friday in Cheapside Gonzales with Rev J W Carroll officiating. He came to San Antonio in 1842 and fought in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. Survived by three sons, two daughters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Army orders list officers being promoted reassigned or to retire with names and postings. Includes William P Moffet William Covington Winfield Scott Gordon De Ta and others moving to Forts Langley Field Benning Sill Hawaii and more with promotions to captain and first lieutenant at various posts and assignments nationwide.
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