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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
9
Los Angeles police report Pru Sokal an alleged J. W. W. confessed to complicity in a plot to dynamite the residence of Governor William Stephens in Sacramento Reveals weeks of big semi annual clear the week of Dawg sale announcements expected this period
President Wilson appeals to Americans to buy only essential goods and to pledge thrift by June 28, stressing that the war requires coordinated sacrifice from all 100 million people. He urges investment in Liberty bonds and war savings stamps to shift purchasing power to the government and boost production.
Government war expenses including loans to allies are expected to exceed 1.5 billion dollars this month, setting a new high record for any belligerent nation. Estimates project total outlay between July 1 and December 1 will reach the billion to 1.5 billion range and beyond.
May 29 proceedings list numerous applications granted and denied, motions for rehearing submitted or overruled, and records withdrawn across counties including Presidio, Bell, Harris, Grayson, Hidalgo, Comanche, Bexar, Brazos, and others, with named parties and railroad, police and city cases.
Notice lists changes of precinct voting sites in San Antonio Texas for a special election. Precinct 36 moves from Vogel's Store to Fannin School No 12 on W3 Houston Street. Precinct 59 changes from Starkes ace to A J Reuss Place 9386 Commerce Street. City Clerk Fred Fr. directs the updates.
Grace Lusk, found guilty of second degree murder in the 1917 shooting of Mary Newman Roberts, faces 14 to 25 years. She awoke ranting for her former lover Dr. David Roberts as guards removed potential means of self harm. Eighty minutes after verdict, she attacked the elderly prosecutor, instantly shocking spectators who watched the courtroom scene unfold.
A baby mountain sheep born to a couple who donated it to the San Antonio zoo died after falling from a cliff Tuesday afternoon. Park workers told Commissioner Lambert the animal followed its mother toward water when it slipped and was injured fatally.
Tokyo interview with Baron Shimpei Goto, Japanese foreign minister, discusses Japan's stance toward the Allies, alleged pro German sentiment, and potential Siberian intervention. Goto says no formal proposal from Allies for intervention, Japan seeks only to aid the allied cause and maintains anti German stance since Germany is an enemy. He notes Britain helps mediate closer Anglo Japanese ties and doubts war duration but favors Allied victory.
The plan calls for a mobile labor corps recruited by the Federal Employment Service to harvest western wheat. The workers will start in Oklahoma for winter wheat, move through Kansas, then North Dakota spring wheat, cross into Canada, and return to aid fall corn. A.L. Harriman, former head of the farm service division, now district employment director, oversees recruiting and direction.
A memorial observance hosted by the Southern Folks Federation invites Grand Army of the Republic Confederate and Spanish American War veterans and daughters to Hot Wells Park Thursday at 7 pm. Civilians from Southern states are welcome to join in the celebration endorsed by Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen.
At the Texas Equal Suffrage Association in Austin the morning session closed finished business and adjourned for memorial services. Delegates gave three minute talks on the year's achievements and war work led by Mary Gearing, with papers on thrift and the Red Cross. other speakers highlighted child welfare, patriotic leagues, and war activities. In federal court two men claiming to be Russians were dismissed from draft, while a car mix up left an unclaimed vehicle still held. Next week features begin White and ance and White Sales.
A comfortable office building at Camp Travis erected by Masonic bodies of San Antonio was dedicated Wednesday afternoon. Judge W. Fry delivered the principal address. Rev S L M bachelor led the invocation and Stard Field artillery Band provided music with a song by Mrs Lowe. The building is dedicated to work among sons of Masons at the camp and others in war service.
I D Wise of Waco was taken to Robert B Green Memorial Hospital at 9 45 pm after stepping on a banana peel and falling on the sidewalk at Houston Street and Alamo Plaza. Wise was not seriously injured.
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