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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1928
Page
7
San Antonio police failed to trace a car that carried a girl screaming through the northern city for over an hour. Residents heard cries near Fredericksburg Road and Woodlawn Avenue, with reports of a girl being abducted and then returned by two men. Motorcycle officers patrolled streets as investigators chased the elusive lead.
An advertisement promotes Calotabs as the natural system purifier for lasting health. It urges a thorough cleansing with a course taken once or twice weekly, claiming vitality improvements and health rewards, and notes a family package available for 33 cents at drug stores.
Newsreel photo shows French sailors bearing the casket with the heart of Admiral de Grasse from the Chateau de Villey to a Paris church. De Grasse aided American naval forces in the Revolutionary War arriving alongside Lafayette.
A large blue and gold air plane arrived at Roosevelt Field bound for Rome. The crew includes Capt. Caesar Sabelii of Italy, Capt. Peter Bonelli of Lloyd Salanado line, and Lt. Roger Williams. They depart from Hadleyswireport after assembly at the Staten Island Bellanca plant, aiming to recover the missing Bertand party.
A list of fourteen San Antonio graduates from Texas A and M in June includes H. E. Horton, L. B. Hobbs, R. P. Ingram Jr., D. Mackenson, H. A. Russell, F. E. Hallum, W. J. Horn, E. B. Pianta, C. R. Bergstrom Jr., D. Burka, W. A. Howerton, C. McFarland, F. Grote, and O. I. Hegemann.
Construction has started on a new one story high school on the western edge of South San Antonio. The building will include an auditorium, classroom rows to serve the community for five years, and a branch library.
A massive posse from Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma trailed four gunmen who killed the First National Bank president and cashier, kidnapped a teller, and took $20,000 in money and securities on horses, planes, motor vehicles and in automobiles. Dr. William Wineiger’s disappearance linked to a tractor accident adds to the tense chase as authorities fear the kidnapped teller E. A. Kessinger may be hidden along the flight path.
Three youths robbed a Mission ice station on East Dewey Street Thursday night after entering with pistols. Attendant H. Miller reported fifty pounds of cash stolen from the register before the robbers escaped. Julius Derby, Monterey businessman, was seen passing through San Antonio in a Missouri Pacific business car returning from St. Louis.
May 23 Chicago A parole from Joliet penitentiary for Tuck Durand foster son of Lake Forest millionaires Mr and Mrs Beok Durand was to be approved by the state board. Hinton G Clabaugh chairman presides. Durand was sentenced November 17 1925 to three to twenty years for stealing pearls from Miss Hester White daughter of F Edson White president of Arroour and company.
Calexico, May 25. Emilio Care ranza, Mexican aviator, departed San Diego yesterday for a nonstop flight to Mexico City crossing portions of the southern republic. The last report placed his replica of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis over the border city at 4 49 this afternoon.
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