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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1948
Page
3
Austin plans reveal a $2,000,000, 14 story medical rental building to be financed mainly with local capital. George W. Samlin, a local real estate man, announced the project as the costliest non governmental building in Austin in two decades and slated completion within about a third funded locally.
Dr. Eugene B. Hawk of Southern Methodist University declares no black students are enrolled at SMU. He notes separate afternoon classes for black students in the school of religion and confirms there are no black students in the school of engineering. Kelsey reported eight black students in religion and one in engineering at Morehouse College. He spoke at an interracial conference in Austin.
In Wichita Falls five escaped monkeys roamed the business district for four days forcing crowds to watch as would be catchers climbed trees. Meyer Raben, auto business partner who kept them in a cage outside, posted a ten dollar reward per monkey. The animals, first captured in Africa two years ago, escaped Friday and dodged capture while entertaining a crowd of hundreds over the weekend.
An Oshkosh industrialist, William Campbell, a MacArthur delegate candidate, sent a cable to General MacArthur asking him not to quit. MacArthur replied that the general has a broad vocabulary but never heard of the word quit in his messages. Wisconsin primary delegates split between Stassen and MacArthur, with Dewey winning none.
Funeral arrangements are completed for George W. Cottingham editor of the Houston Chronicle who died suddenly in New York. His body arrives in Houston at 2 p.m. tomorrow accompanied by his widow and daughter Mary Lee and his brother Charles Cottingham of New York. Rosary and services will be held at the Houston funeral home and St. Anne's Catholic church with Serra club Holy Name union and parish members participating. Funeral services set for Friday morning at 9 a.m. at the funeral home and 9:30 a.m. at St. Anne's.
Head coach Dudley announced the addition of Merlyn Condit of Charleston former Carnegie Tech football star to the Mountaineer grid coaching staff Condit comes to West Virginia University from Charleston in a move dated April 40 per a light want ad notice referencing Dial F-1231.
SAN FRANCISCO April 13 UP The power brownouts ended for northern California and Nevada as heavy snow and rainfall washed them away. Reno's famed Biggest Little City in the World sign reappeared. Reno businessmen complained the brownouts hurt business. Gambling houses used lanterns and diesel engines for light. California's emergency power director Robert P. O'Brien yesterday modified the mandatory 20 percent cut in electric consumption ordered March 16.
In Terre Haute Indiana a writ of habeas corpus seeks Pelley Dudley Pelley liberty from Indianapolis prison. The fully detailed sedition trial contest is cited as the basis for the second bid to win release, with the district court file current.
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