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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
5
Official canvass details San Antonio totals and candidate tallies by district and office. Names such as Morris, Meador, and Gates appear among precinct results for Attorney General, Comptroller, Governor, and key state posts with multiple precinct tallies and party committee figures.
Bank clearings and postal receipts for July rose from 1939 levels, according to T C Leighton secretary of the San Antonio Clearing House association. Clearings were 71 075 723 up from 67 826 945 a gain of 3 748 775. Postal receipts were 124 034 up 13 462. July receipts gained nearly 2900 over June.
Aug 1 report from New Orleans notes 175 workers at Laughlin Steel Corp walked off in protest after the company refused to recognize the local union as a bargaining agent. The piece links the labor dispute to backstage life and an entertainment feature involving It girl dancers and stars Mauren Olara Louis Hayward and Lacie Ball, as RKO Radio coverage frames the unrest around the plant.
Reverend Dowling opens summer school of Catholic Action at Our Lady of the Lake college urging systematic relaxation and play to combat war jitters. Speakers emphasize Americanism, non spendthrift recreation, and the value of discussion clubs in youth education amid Roosevelt's religious spread. A note on a new romantic team in radio drama follows.
Tokyo Aug 1. The preover Prince Fumi mario Kotoye announced a plan for a new Japanese state based on totalitarian rule at home and an independent foreign policy aimed at expanding domination southward over French Indo China and the Dutch East Indies. The government outlined a centralized state to create a new order for Greater East Asia with Japan and continental satellites under a shared currency system. The statement removed any move toward the Rome Berlin axis, but called for a large rearmament program and a non-involvement stance in the European war for now. Prime Minister Matsuoka explained the term Greater East Asia includes south seas and aims at self sufficiency through mobilization and a planned economy to strengthen national defense.
Lois Marie Homesley, 11, living back of town on Blatico road, was badly hurt when her leg was caught in a hay mower. She underwent operation at Robert B. Green hospital to save foot and ankle after the incident on Thursday. Her father M. H. Homesley drove her to the hospital.
Dr George Rich joined the city health department as veterinarian earning 150 dollars a month. Acting director Dr Harohi Wood says the department now has two doctors on staff as one recently quit.
In Mississippi the Lovers Lane slaying of Irene Perry, a New Bedford mother of 12, remains baffling as a questioned millhand is released and authorities admit a plank wall limits progress. The body was found under brush near a pine, with bindings and a soaped cord around her neck. The case prompts renewed probes into the June disappearance. The victim planned to get ice cream for her son Donaté before vanishing.
A sign once marked Gen Robert E Lee as having lived at a Roosevelt area corner on South St Marys. A plaque by the Dedavale chapter Texas Historical and Land marks notes the claim between a hot water heater and a stepladder. The building was remodeled for the Roosevelt bay and the plaque was moved indoors.
Second victim in two days, Manuel De Leon, 22, of 1919 South Ibolo Street, treated at Robert B Green Hospital for back injuries after a scaffold gave way on a federal project at Guadalupe and Colorado. F J Lothringer, 24, of 103 Villaret Boulevard, previously injured Tuesday, remains in serious condition with a broken back and head injury at Medical and Surgical hospital.
A district attorney move led to the dismissal of a joint indictment charging J. P. Bantwright and Rex White in a burglary case. Both men are in federal prison after convictions for a Sommersdung Store burglary on Fredericksburg road. The dropped indictment alleged a residence burglary on January 33 at 220 Argo Avenue.
A demonstration on Thursday ended with a blast that burned Detective HG Wolf. He suffered severe injuries and was taken to Robert B. Green Hospital for treatment after the incident at the exhibition.
S. A. Music Co. won third place in the piano advertisement division of the fourth annual newspaper advertising and window display contest held in Chicago. San Antonio Music Company took first prize, report says.
A young child from Fullerton, age 1, swallowed kerosene and was rushed to Robert B. Green Hospital. Report states the infant is improving Thursday morning after initially being deemed hopeless on arrival Wednesday.
City recreation department schedules Blayfestial for Friday at San Pedro Playhouse with two programs at 2 30 and 8 30 p m A French horn quartet from the Junior Civic orchestra will provide music and a long list of local youths from Lindbergh Palm Heights Lockwort Weedlawn Denver Heights Highland Park and Mark Twain playgrounds participate Judges include Mrs Sidney Herkowitz Albert Lacoste and Mrs Norbert Bowers
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