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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1929
Page
11
In Washington DC aviators praised a new robot pilot that keeps a plane on its course without pilot input. It uses vertical and horizontal gyroscopes, auto electrical contacts, and wind driven power to return to level flight after disturbances. The unit is compact, weighs about fifty pounds, and powers from a wind generator.
A reader laments city welcome misfires for a newcomer with a Texas plumbing license, notes licensing hurdles, and jokes about political humor. Another letter critiques steel industry trusts and federal efficiency claims, referencing steel rails prices and stock distributions, ending with a call for clarity in policy. DAN F.RMITE. 1010 West Magnole.
A San Antonio taxpayer argues for Garrett Field site as the preferred location for a new high school. The author notes Garrett Field, owned by the school board, would cut costs vs buying new grounds and fits a central residential district near Brackenridge High School. The proposed building should accommodate only the current student body, with future schools planned later.
A reader lauds the Hildebrand site described in Spanish Actes in the VYyruni column. The text notes the Buoyant ground view over Beavon Hill and Laurel Heights,Mont e Vista and beyond from upper windows. The writer calls the site most desirable, accessible via Fredericktburg road and cross streets, surpassing Spanish Acres in suitability.
In Havre France the bodies of 64 American Polar Bear division heroes from Archangel 1918 are placed in a temporary vault awaiting shipment to New York aboard an American ship. Part of the Thirty ninth infantry known as Detroit's Own, they were last of Americans to be exhumed for burial in the United States. They arrived yesterday aboard a Soviet freighter after a two week voyage from Terngrad.
New Zealand's minister of defense said conscientious objectors to military service would be assigned to services with the Salvation Army. He noted provision for offering an alternate form of service through the Salvation Army for those objectors.
Chinese authorities report the arrest of 73 Soviet citizens in northern Manchuria on charges of Communist plotting. The region, including Harbin, remains under martial law as authorities tighten the crackdown.
Bishop Francis C. Kelles of Oklahoma presented the regular yearly report to the pope. The pope was pleased, granting the Apostolic blessing to all members of Bishop Kelles diocese.
Ambassadors Dawes and allied officials consider festive events to sustain morale as famine and shortages press army units. The schedule shows multiple banquets in the coming weeks intended to bolster officers and keep troops supplied and supported.
Reports from Berlin claiming the Rhineland evacuation was suspended by order of War Minister Andre Maginot were officially denied. Officials said troop movements may appear as changes but orders have only shifted to meet service needs without altering the evacuation plan.
A tri motor air liner crashed on a wooded hillside near Calemhasl England killing six aboard. The German aircraft traveling from London to Amsterdam on the Lufthansa London Berlin air line is suspected to be involved. Investigators have not yet announced the crash results.
Washington Nov 7 The postoffice department announced an increase of 185,850 dollars or 4.2 percent in poster receipts at 50 industrial cities for October compared with 1935. Total receipts for October were 3,583, told receipts and city-by-city gains show Albany 8.96 percent, Birmingham 5.00, Shreveport 1.2, Jackson 12.8, and other cities posting gains.
In Jerusalem two Arabs were sentenced to death and two others fined 1250 each for murder connected with the killing of Rabbi Kestel and the attempted murder of his wife during the Semitic Moshva rioting in Herban.
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