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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1930
Page
4
Four well dressed men robbed the Belmont Hotel lobby guests, taking cash and jewelry estimated at 5000. They then hit Bolton Square and Alvid Perkins hotels, securing 40 from a night clerk and 25 from another. Police link the same attackers to a Sterling hotel robbery earlier.
In Sax, Texas, on a Wednesday in November, bids on 1,000,000 novada of short fall wool were rejected by the Wool Growers Central Storage company. Prices offered were not announced and March Brothers were denied bids on its accumulation of fur.
Dallas reports the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union in Texas to begin its forty fourth annual meeting in Amarillo Monday. Olivia Davia of Dallas, treasurer, announced the new program marking a return to traditional jubilee events and commemorations.
Chairman Woods of the President's appointment committee pressed long distance calls to 44 governors and four representatives to promote a clearing house for information on how unemployment and suffering are being fought in different localities and conditions in Washington.
Main Avenue High School student council selects two candidate names for the new Spanish Acres complex. Final choices come from four historic options Jefferson Lone Star Wilson Franklin and three proposed names by Adams and Adams El Conquistador Indian word for Texas La Sal.
Mrs Amelia Blank, recently elected president of the Association of Rebekah Assemblies of the World, was honored at a dinner at the Crockett hotel. Rebekah and Gold Lodge members from Texas attended. Mae Self of Whitesboro presided with staff including Mar Hatcher James and Berta Hubbard. A musical program featured Bliss Jorie Will and others.
New York sculptor George Grey Barnard fears labor loss as he faces eviction from his Hudson cliff studio known as God’s Thumb. The space on land donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to a city park will end his 18 year residence, making some masterpieces unfinished due to his age and time constraints.
Walhalla S C Nov 7 Twelve men were charged with murder conspiracy and assault in the lynching of Allen Green a 52 year old black man last spring. The jury acquitted ten, after two hours of deliberation, with seven others directed to acquittal on the same charges.
Vancouver report says hope faded for six missing airmen in northern British Columbia as crews search rugged terrain near Atlin and the Linth River. Officials say the search is hampered by stormy conditions and lack of concrete clues about the six crew members.
The Mexican Consulate honors Consul General Enrique Sartianes on his sixty first birthday. Santibanez serves as active key official and representative of the government at the San Antonio diplomatic post, congratulating the consul general on milestone years of service.
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