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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1928
Page
6
H B Ochs, president of the San Antonis Child Protective and Human society, will speak at the Junction of the Salesmarchile club at the Plaza hotel at 12:15 p.m. Thursday. The notice appears in a local advertisement detailing an upcoming spiritual lecture on child welfare.
Wichita awaits Governor Smith as a Carrie Nation Memorial fountain is prepared at Union Station. The pro prohibitionist crusader is honored for her 25 year fight against liquor with a carved hatchet image near the water feature, marking the arrest here decades ago.
F B Reiplinger of 123 West Mulheres Avenue was injured when his car overturned on the Castroville coach near Trondo. He said the vehicle left the road to avoid plunging into a creek without a bridge and struck a warning sign.
The Texas council of safety reports 210 injuries and 16 deaths for the week of September 8 to 15. Automobiles caused 17 of the fatalities and 11 of the injuries.
In Kerrville the death of three year old Betty Jane O'Dell is linked to an allegedly unloaded rifle that fired while she was being chased by her brother Gabe, age one. The bullet pierced her body and she died in a local hospital.
Enrollment at Brackenridge and Benckenridge senior schools totals 550, surpassing the 476 limit set by the War Department. Maj. Adams issues edict halting new applications for membership this year while Major Adams petitions the Eighth Corps Area to approve excess enrollment. Uniforms distribution by Sgt Snyder occurs at Brackenridge and Benckenridge as classes continue.
A Moody aide reported by a policeman that J. B. R. Iv of Kaneas District killed theater man Joseph Wilton. Silver faces the electric chair as part of a broader case including a later robbery, with Gov Don Moody’s representative seeking clemency.
Special Deputy reports arrest of two Negroes on the St Hedwig road for stealing twenty bushels of corn from Mrs Vouk Track area. They confessed guilt to Chief Deputy Alfonso Newton who led officers to the corn and recovered the goods.
Fire destroyed a Dallas home as residents awakened by screams rescued Myrtle Efenslee 55 and her niece Mable Terry 18 from the burning house. Neighbors entered in night clothes to pull them to safety.
A Stearman mail plane, the first of two ships to join the Texas Air Transport fleet, is being obtained from Wichita for the Larédo route. Pilot L. S. Andrewa will fly it from Wichita to Fort Worth. Night flying aids include emergency fields with bunker lights between Fort Worth and Dallas as the airway improves under the Commerce Department.
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