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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1929
Page
12
Paris reports a court decision granting a divorce to Henri Dubois from Plovence Barbour Dubois. The action, filed February 25, cites desertion as the grounds. The case appears in the French court records with dated entries in March concerning the divorce.
Mexico City dispatch reports a Cristero clash in Colula where rebels seized a church tower. Federals, sheltered by the tower, allegedly caused sneezing with peppers to disable guns, while a cavalry counterattack shifted the fight and potentially saved captured troops.
An old fashioned patent medicine ad touts Monne’s Emerald Oil for bunion pain and corns. It promises quick relief through topical application, with claims of inflammation and soreness reduction in minutes and nightly treatment for corns. Distributed by Sommers Wagners and other drug stores with a money back guarantee.
A prisoner died in a jail fire at Ketchikan Alaska on March 28. The incident occurred inside the city jail and is reported by A George Alexander brother of C J Alexander of Statile, general superintendent of Alaska Pacific Salmon corporation.
Lieutenant Joby T. Gregg, 29, Fort Clark officer, died after an automobile collision at Eighth and North Alawa streets. His skull fractured, he was taken to hospital where he died after transfer to the station hospital. Police records show a prior fatal auto crash within a year at Lighth and North Alamo streets. Army officials held the body pending word from Mrs Lera Gregg, the mother, who lives at Fort Clark.
Chicago March 25. Patrolman Morris Marcusson described the seven year itch as a man who scratches before a self inflicted wound. He shot himself in a drug store phone booth as officers scratched to remove the itch. The warm booth and heavy underwear seemingly led to the rambling incident and the gunfire. The hospital surgeon probed the wound in Marcusson's thigh after the shooting.
By Universal service. Balboa Canal Zone. Moreh J. Thomas Tellin, son of CheaAla Lanin seminor, was taken from his ship Ancon at Cristobal today. Thad rushed to the hospital in Colon in a serious condition. Heflin was traveling with the congressional party inspecting the Canal.
A Reuters report from London states Li Chai Sum, governor of Canton, was executed at 11 a.m. despite assurances from President Chiang Kai-shek and top government members. Earlier reports of his execution were denied in Nanking. Li was arrested March 18 after arriving in Nanking for the Kuomintang congress.
Children at the Roberts revival on South Presa and Schley will receive an Easter egg next Saturday afternoon. The revival, led by Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Roberts, has run nine weeks with about 4000 conversions reported.
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