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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1916
Page
7
At Houston and St. Marys streets two minutes after receiving cigars from a soldier, Policeman F C Schofenberg was struck on the chin and knocked against an electric light post. Joe Moraske was fined $10 for assault. he claimed he did not remember striking the officer.
City officials weigh impact of delaying payments to unsecured depositors of West Texas Bank & Trust. Disqualification of Judge Tayloe delays injunction ruling as the guaranty fund faces about 860000 in undisputed claims and potential interest accruements totaling 51600 per year if payments halt.
Dr James B Bullitt field secretary of the Navy League of the United States will speak at a public luncheon Saturday at the St Anthony hotel on preparedness. An effort will be made to form an active branch of the league in San Antonio.
Commissioner of Banking John S. Patterson said Friday in Austin he is ready to begin payments once the injunction is dismissed, hoping to save his face and proceed with settlement.
Forty currency speculators in Mexico City have been arrested and will serve terms in the penitentiary for circulating reports meant to push people to sell currency below its real value. Governor Augustin Castro reports reorganization of public service in Oaxaca state and complete dominance by Quarranza authorities.
Two Cinco de Mayo observances open Friday in San Antonio, one at San Pedro park and another at West Houston and Laredo streets. The events by Sociedad Ignacio Zaragoza and an independent group include speeches, songs, fireworks, dancing, and parades continuing through Sunday night.
Charles M. Dickson of San Antonio signing as attorney for the policy-holders protective agency protests to the state fire insurance commission against any rate increase in Texas until the fire insurance policy forms are revised by the commission.
Harry L. Miller, long active with Fiesta San Jacinto, is favored to become president of the Fiesta Association after Atlee B. Ayres declines a fifth term. A dinner for Fiesta directors at the Gunter Hotel Friday precedes a December election and a favorable financial report for last week’s Fiesta.
Washington May 5 Voluntary recruitment fell far short of Hay bill targets for 24009 troops in three weeks with only 11849 applicants and 2879 acceptances leaving a projected year to meet the goal. Army officers argue for compulsory service while President Wilson and former Sec. Garrison clash over the approach.
The president suppresses calls for universal service and officials suggest it may take up to a year to recruit 24,000 men, with War Department officials not entirely optimistic about the outcome.
May 5. Mrs. John Houser of Stratford Texas telegraphed El Paso seeking the body of P. H. Holly, an American who guided U S troops chasing Villistas and was killed on his Mexican ranch. Holly’s body had already been buried in Mexico.
Brief cables report a British naval victory on Lake Tanganyika as the New York Sun highlights Tanganyika as the world’s longest freshwater lake. Tanganyika’s discovery by Burton and Speke in 1858 is noted, with natives once navigating it in large tree-trunk dugouts.
The text details Tanganyika's dimensions with a lake breadth of thirty to forty five miles and depths reaching 350 fathoms. It notes the Good News steamboat of 1884, the lake’s elevation about 2600 feet, and calls Lake Superior the largest fresh water body. It mentions British and German naval vessels transported in sections to Tanganyika.
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