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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1930
Page
8
President Hoover arrived in Washington at 9 30 a m after a foray into party politics. He sought to reassure the nation that depressions would not lower the American standard of living and addressed about 7000 bankers of the American Banking Association.
President Hoover addressed bankers at a Cleveland convention urging liberal credit and sustained effort to raise living standards. He argued against lowering American standards, praising invention and resilience as essential to prosperity, while a sizeable Communist demonstration gathered outside and he received guarded security.
In Cleveland on October 3 authorities dispersed an impromptu parade of Communists and unemployed near the Public Hall where President Hoover attended the American Bankers Association convention. Mounted officers used a smoke screen and charged the crowd, driving marchers into doorways and alleys. Several people were injured, a detective and a reporter assaulted, windows shattered, and four persons arrested for investigation. Communist orator Tom Achanon urged a protest at the public hall.
An afternoon program lists events at 1 30 p m including foal races for youths aged 10 to 16 and a three legged race for boys. The entry times and further details are not provided in the fragment.
New Braunfels Texas students at Graunfeld High School recently elected officers for the coming year across the Senior Sophomore and Freshman classes. The slate includes presidents, vice presidents, secretaries and treasurers with sergeants-at-arms named for each class.
American War Mothers plan a meeting this Saturday at 23W Pine in the Gunter hotel. President Mrs Lizabeth Clark reports a large attendance expected. The session will be in room 348 with Mrs Clark presiding.
Jimmie Furlong, secretary of the highway department of the chamber of commerce, was treated after a dog attack near his home. Gature Stele, 13, of North Alaro, was the second child victim of the morning. Call, Crovkett 2400.
One dead and another critically injured after a Thursday collision at Crack enridge avenue and Ninth street. Private Charles Frankie of the Ninth Infantry Band died at Fort Sam Houston hospital from head injuries. Mrs Huby Nelson and Private Ernest Nelson, both in the other car, suffered serious injuries but were alive. Charles Reynolds and his infant daughter were uninjured. Mercant Ivan Gurdon of Battery F escaped injury.
Paris report states Peruvian scholar Luis assigns Columbus as Catalonian rather than Genoese. He cites French national library archives showing kinship to Casanova Coullon, who served King Louis and was born in France but of Catalonian origin.
Deputies Joe Dorringues and Frank Giraud hunted a wounded prowler for five hours near the Cupples area after he bolted on arrival. They saw the man run when commanded to halt, fought, and after being struck he disappeared into the brush, with search continuing late Friday as officers believed he hid nearby.
Authorities released Henry Siwinski, 22, a suspect in the slaying of 17 year old Alice Waltman in South Bend Indiana. Waltman was found murdered with her throat slashed in her home while three other children slept in the room on the morning of September 14. The suspect had been arrested in Chicago the night before the release.
Forty army pages, beating 50 officers and men from Brooks field, San Antonio, spent several hours here on their way to Dallas where they will upend the night. The end were making their graduation fig.
About 200 insurance men gathered in Abilene Texas for the annual convention and one day sessions of the Texan Life Underwriters Association. Yaex A. Weems of Dallas was elected president with A Hulson of Austin as vice president and Daril O. Johnson of San Antonio as secretary. Syren was named secretary.
The Montcalm, a naval vessel, battled heavy seas about 500 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina. Radio reports indicated the ship was holding headway in patches, with the distress status updating as communications were received from the naval office today.
The ad promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the standard remedy for excess stomach acid and related discomforts. It claims a single tasteless spoonful in water neutralizes many times its volume and emphasizes choosing genuine Phillips liquid, available in 25c and 50c bottles at drug stores.
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