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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1930
Page
4
Southeast Texas Baptists national convention adjourned with a vote to meet in Port Arthur in 1981. In San Angelo an early morning fire damaged the Dorton Linge Lumber yard causing estimated losses around 35,000 dollars.
At Wolly's Tea Room in San Antonio a meeting of the Social Workers Association led to a plan to form a Council of Social Agencies. A committee was named to solidify a program and coordinate efforts. Attendees included E T Cornelius, W W Martley, Mrs JH Blannery, and Grace Channon.
Local column details a mix of farming shifts and ranch tales. Frank Barfield pivots from brush cattle to a citrus nursery venture after a 1920s slump. Luling Foundation's egg and goose stock profits spark talk of profitable farming, while stories of Candy Jones, Candy Jones sale, and outlaw horses like Hell-to-Set and Widow-Maker unfold alongside rodeo plans and names.
In Chicago the United States Circuit Court of Appeals held that possession of 11 five gallon stills seized by prohibition agents was not illegal if buyers did not intend unlawful use. Judge Alschuler, writing as district judge, ordered their return to owners finding no internal revenue statute prohibits sale or keeping of stills for sale.
Dr. Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School dean and Hoover commission member, told the State War Association convention in Pasadena that federal enforcement of prohibition and lumping of organized crime would push the U S government toward a federal bureaucracy unless law enforcement agencies increase cooperation.
Fairfield Sept. 14 UP nearly three million dollars are the amounts linked to 26 men indicted by the Jefferson county grand jury. The charges allege that the defendants imported feeder cattle from southwestern ranges and sold them to Iowa buyers and other buyers, with native cattle involved in the scheme.
Paris announces promotion of Dien tonne Coste to Captain Diendenne Coste and Maurice Bellonte to a new rank, following their celebrated trans Atlantic flight. Both now serve on the aviation reserve, with prior rankings dated from Tuesday.
In a remarkable escape from a penal colony, a group of convicts fled by boat and endured fourteen days at sea. They landed at the Bay of Erin after suffering severe hardships with little food or water aboard the open craft.
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