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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1928
Page
4
Mrs J W Goad of Nashville Tennessee recounts long battle with eczema on her hands beginning in her teens. After enduring itching swelling and sleepless nights she found relief using Culture Soap and Cuticura Ointment leading to healing.
Gene Walters of San Antonio wins a year long contract with Publix Theaters Corp after earning top honors in the Texas Theater San Antonio Tight Personality Girl contest. She will receive a free trip to New York for five weeks in Publix production, followed by a year at $125 weekly. Walters is the daughter of Mrs. Tu. Walters of 623 South St. Mary’s Street.
In Mamburg Germany on October 17 a court granted the crew of the American schoolship Albatross the right to auction the vessel. Proceeds will be used to satisfy the crew’s wage claims. Public notice in the United States will set the auction date. The Albatross arrived at Mamburg after an incident with the harbor master following officers and crew requests. The ship had sailed from Moston under the American Nautical School with U S pupils aboard.
Park Commissioner Jerob Rubiola will return from Dallas on Thursday after inspecting street equipment in use by the city’s cleaning department. The visit aims to review hail removal gear and street cleaning tools currently deployed in Dallas.
Four officers Col Robert McCleave Col Wait C Johnson Maj W H H Morris Jr and Maj J M Moore prepared crossword like problems to be solved by troops during next week's exercises an attack on San Antonio is planned.
Questions confront high officers who will participate in exercises to be held at San Antonio next week. Col Robert McCleave leads the planning with Col Wait C Johnson and Majors W H H Morris Jr and J M Moore assisting. The maneuvers simulate a blue force defending San Antonio against a red army advancing from the northwest, with no actual troops involved beyond mapping enemy positions and essential communications.
State Senator Thomas D. Lote of Dallas told a Sherman audience that voting for Governor Alfred E. Smith would be a crime and would spread the same kind of government to the nation as that of Tammany Hall in New York.
Former secretary of the navy Josephus Daniels urged Governor Alfred E. Smith's candidacy here last night. He derided Republican prosperity claims as a hoax, citing 3,000,000 idle men walking the streets amid what he called the highest protective tariff in history.
The pet contest and field day at Viona field Saturday sponsored by the city park department recreation division is expected to draw 2000 children. John Blancard, recreational director, says the program includes a doll parade shoe race freckles contest and a concert by a kids band. A free lunch will be served at noon.
Brussels reports the death of Donjawin Strong, governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, deeply mourned in Belgium on the occasion of the Belgian franc stabilization anniversary. Strong was a friend to Belgian officials and his passing is noted with public remembrances.
The national board of elections in Nicaragua ordered eighty additional voting precincts to be established across the country due to the upcoming November presidential election. This raises the total by about twenty five percent over the original count.
Six bandits in a limousine robbed a Radio Corporation of America truck driver, Louis Mejdulson, of about 80 000 dollars worth of radio equipment. They forced him to the curb, abducted him briefly, then released him. Police traced the getaway car to a stolen plate.
A claim for 20000 dollars alleges the Fort Worth police department contributed to the death of FE. HI. Buje by not aiding him promptly after injuries from a September 22 automobile crash. The filing was made with city council by relatives seeking damages.
Firemen could not water the blaze at Fratt Grocery ten miles north of Bon Antonia on the Austlh road due to lack of supply. The fire damaged the store of Walter Steinmetz Fratt with estimated losses around $1500 to $1600 and an undetermined origin.
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