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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1929
Page
2
Reported searchers in the Apostle Islands area fail to find any trace of the Canadian vessel A.B. Commes or its raft of pulp after a storm on Lake Superior last week. Local crews continue to scour the area.
The Conopug club will be entertained with a travelogue Friday when it meets at the Vinza hotel. Members who have traveled abroad will present sketches of their trips.
Universal Berzive reports a survey by the American Legion finds about 15000 mentally ill veterans eligible for government hospital care lack room in existing facilities. The estimate, dated September 12 in San Francisco, emphasizes the need for more government hospitals.
San Antonio fruit and vegetable dealers protest a tariff rise on Mexican tomatoes. Local broker R E B Willson says December to April yields are short in Texas and Florida fruit is too poor for safe shipment. Weslaco station chief W N Friend notes winters in the lower Rio Grande valley limit growing. A petition with wholesale signatures circulates locally.
In Teno on September 12 an 18 year old informer testified he bought and drank liquor with six men at an inn to obtain evidence. Federal Judge Harry B. Anderson denounced the proceeding as a disgrace, questioning the use of boys to entrap drinkers in an alley. He presided over Harry Langley and Elmer Hobb who are charged with selling liquor.
Jerusalem Sept 12 British forces pulled out from Palestine arenas as calm returns and risks of Arab Jewish clashes ease. Mobile patrols will cover areas where detachments left. Authorities say remaining troops are enough to meet any future need. Bedouin invasion danger considered past.
John H Cudahy heir to the Cudahy packing fortune dies of myocardial infarction at age an unknown at Deight Alabama after being taken from Andrew Mickelson’s boarding house to Keeley Cure patients. Two men stayed with him until his death. Burial permit issued.
Boerne schools report record enrollment with 250 students in grammar grades and 110 in high school on opening day. Faculty includes Superintendent C C Roedes, F F Dietzel, Misa L A Hite, Miss Ethel Langen sdorff in history, Flora Mueller principal grammar, Mrs. Gneida Truett mathematics, Norma Kessler reading. New high school under construction to be ready around December 1.
Lindberghs travel to the summer home of Ambassador Lwicht W. Morrow in North Haven Maine. The father, Col emal Lindbergh, followed by Mrs Karlene Lindbergh, arrives after a flight in a sport plane rumored to be linked to the family’s plans or fame.
United States Senator Arnellie Shipstead of Minnesota, recovering from illness since February, returned to Minneapolis after spending the summer at a northern Minnesota resort. The classed item notes eight advertising writers awaiting calls at Crockett 2400 for The Light newspaper.
More than half of San Antonio elementary pupils are of Mexican extraction, Marshall Johnston reports. Mexican attendance declines through junior to senior levels as students seek work after elementary school. In a concentrated Mexican quarter, Laredo Street shows extreme local enrollment with 196 elementary pupils on a single block.
Topeka dispatch reports eight year old James Wright was fatally wounded by a rifle bullet while boating at a home back yard. Coroner Dr. A L Clark said it could have been a cartridge discharge or an accidental rifle discharge by a companion.
A large Hungarian crowd awaiting the first talking motion picture was disappointed when authorities seized the American apparatus in one of Budapest's leading theaters. The dispute centers on Siemens Halske alleging patent infringement by Western Electric of the United States which supplied the device.
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