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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1934
Page
6
Taxpayers grow restless as assessments surge, big coal firms favored, and mass protests culminate when county commissioners resist meetings. Bexar County seeks cost cuts via charter reform to fix waste and graft, with citizens demanding lower taxes and accountable government.
A city council debate highlights a proposal to tax municipally owned power plants the same as private ones. Proponents argue public ownership serves the people, while critics warn it mirrors private-school tax extortion. The piece frames public schools as propaganda tools for opposing rates and public ownership in power.
In Kashgar and surrounding areas in Sinklang Chinese Turkestan tensions rise as Tungan tribesmen kill Uigars and British diplomats amid rumors of a Moslem state under a prince from British India. Observers fear Japanese Russian interest and wider regional conflict, with London and Moscow seen as behind the plotting.
A fragmented diary style stroll through Manhattan social scenes and cultural figures. The narrator mingles with Howard Chandler Christy, Clara Miljone, and Evelyn Laye, visits Herschel Brickus, meets E Arnot Robinson, and attends Fannie Hurst’s, all while skimming Nijinsky’s life and noting Albert Jay Nock’s reputation. The piece catalogs figures from theater, journalism, and high society, with satirical asides on critics and media.
About 190 children will attend summer school per Dr. Jeremiah H Rhodes superintendent of schools in a report to the school board. The board supports continuing the summer session to make full use of an expensive school plant as part of the district program.
Senator Bone of Washington’s wartime audit attacks powerful lobbyists who profited from government contracts. He cites 1917 efforts with horses and gear, copper branding irons, and how mismanaged armament projects cost taxpayers millions, while insiders kept profits and workers bore the loss.
A garbled editorial fragment questions why America faces financial strain and war readiness as it cites inflated profits across coal meat packing and food industries. It warns of congressional pushback in March 1944, urges readers to study the issue, and critiques consumer costs, governance, and personal responsibility. Additionally, a note promotes Norge appliances and a brief literary column on honeymoon myths and fashion trends.
A relic-laden feature surveys Etosha Pan in southwest Africa, describing a vast ghostly cemetery of mammal skeletons under moonlight and the legendary curse of Tutankh. The piece links perilous travels, ivory-wealth wagon routes, and royal tomb legends to a haunting land where explorers and locals recount peril and superstition.
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