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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1929
Page
4
In Borger the U S court of inquiry questioned six men including three county officers one city officer and two ex city secretaries. Sheriff Joe Ovenbey was among the witnesses as Brig Gen Jacob Wolters outlined a slow, theory driven inquiry. One man in jail for eight days refused to talk and a carbon black plant employee was the subject of the silence.
In Chicago, 20 year old Viestnix asks a court to let him keep his wages. He says he earns 8 63 a week but parents take 5 dollars, leaving 6 for themselves for luxuries. He notes long lack of a new suit and being forced to go barefoot. He petitions the court to grant him sole control of his 85 dollars.
George J Absbier and Howard Royston, confessed members of the Lawyer bandit gang, were added as state witnesses against Ralph Fleagle, third gang member awaiting trial. Their testimony marks a split in the trio, prompting their attorney to withdraw and the court to appoint new counsel for their defense.
At a Soviet trade unions congress Clement Voron Miloff, war and air commissar, warned that Russia is surrounded by powerful class enemies ready to attack. He stated the Soviet Union faces ongoing war with capitalist rulers and emphasized the danger from external enemies amid the revolutionary council.
William Turhsr, head of the city weed gang, has been laid off for five weeks. Jacob Rubinia, park cams mestoner, announces Wednesday.
Major Clarence S. Young of Des Moines is named director of the government’s commercial aviation activities. He served 19 months overseas in World War I and was wounded by enemy fire during a flight over the Italian front. He succeeds William P. MacCracken Jr. as secretary of commerce for aeronautics.
On October 2 at seven, the Ice Hotel ballroom will host over 400 Houstonians for a dinner honoring Judd Mour-Viner Lewis, a poet and newspaper figure, arranged by the Knife and Fork Club to celebrate his accomplishments.
The Gold Coast district, scene of four dynamite blasts, was rocked again as hooligans attacked the apartment of stock broker MW McCarthy and his son Austin Five Yards McCarthy. Earlier, a bomb near the Lake Shore Athletic Club shattered a wall, alarming thousands of Chicago society.
San Antonio to install three hundred iron stop signs cast and painted at Alamo Tron works. Fire and Police Commissioner Phil Wright said signs will be produced at about 20 per day and installed as delivered.
Chicago Oct 2 Theological seminar lectures drew 100 new church history students as Dr Wilhelm Pauck attacked geocentric science and biblical anthropology undermining original sin. The professor’s bold critique sparked confusion and remains controversial among attendees.
Chief Deputy Sheriff A R Bakers brother, his political ties attacked, was shot at while driving near McAllen yesterday. A bullet shattered the windshield, striking him but leaving him alive. Investigators opened the case as the motive remains unclear.
Wellington news reports 1A H. Crouch, arrested in Wellington County on charges of fraudulently obtaining 150000 from a Temple Texas bank, is remanded until October 9. Bail set at 8000 pounds, about 30000 dollars. Crouch had been living in Helene with wife for 11 years.
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