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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1939

Page

12

Simple Ringworm Sufferers

Relief for itching and burning with a cooling anti septic dressing that destroys organisms on contact. Use with Black and White Skin Soap for best results. Sold everywhere.

Vacancies at Depot Filled Amid Army Enlistments

Applicants aged 18 to 35 for original enlistments, unmarried, 5 feet 4 inches tall, weight at least 115 pounds, must be in good health and of good moral character. Normoyle Quartermaster depot seeking to fill vacancies in quartermaster organizations through Wednesday enlistments.

United States Army Normoyle Quartermaster Depot

Cochran Makes First Blind Landing by a Woman

Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to land a plane blind under instrument guidance. She completed the feat at Pittsburgh Municipal Airport after five and a half hours of instruction under close observation.

Jacqueline Cochran Pittsburgh Laurely Ra Municipal Jtwa

Air Expansion Plan Aims to Speed 2000 Plane Orders

Washington Aug 9 The Senate passed a bill to widen War Department powers to buy more than two thousand aircraft in peacetime and spread orders among large and small plants. The measure allows agency to place orders with the three lowest bidders, amid hopes the air force reaches 500 planes within two years despite delays.

Washington Congress Air Corps Senate Louisa Johnson War Department

Torture Case Triggers Chinese Questioning in Cleveland

Police questioned additional Chinese suspects in a torture linked murder probe. Detectives say two terrified Chinese, held for protection, reported two more slayings besides Wong Youn, a 50 year old whose battered body was found in Lake Erie. Authorities search for two of four men with “slacker” plans amid raids on a Chinatown building.

Cleveland Joseph Sweeney Wong Youn Lake Erie Chinatown

Boys Heroes of Fire Save Infant Before Death

MINEOLA Aug 3 Two little boys Jim Ingram 10 and Billy Jim Blankenship 12 rushed into a burning home and carried out 4 year old Mrs Helen Otterborough. They smothered flames from her hair and clothing with sand but she died a few hours later. Scouts praised the boys as modest heroes.

Mineola Jim Ingram Billy Jim Blankenship Hel Ue Otterborh Jetterbach Drea Jim Billy Boy Scouts United

Morgenthau III in Denmark City

Henry Morgenthau III United States secretary of the treasury was confined to bed in the Elsinore Summer hotel with a headache and stomach disorder. The illness forced him to postpone his study of Danish dairying and he planned to return to the United States on September 6.

Morgenthau III Denmark Copenhagen Henry Morgenthau Ir United States

Edsel Ford Hospitalized for Stomach Disorder in Detroit

Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co, was taken to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for treatment of a slight stomach disorder. Dr Roy D McChesney reported Ford would be discharged imminently after tests. The move was precautionary and Ford entered the hospital yesterday.

Edsel Ford Detroit Ford Motor Company Henry Ward Roy D. McChuve Ford Niehl

Pension plan rebuke from World War I veterans group

New York August reports the American Legion opposes general service pensions for World War I veterans. National commander Stephen F. Chadwick warns such demands would jeopardize disabled veterans and cites current federal and departmental funding levels as justification for restraint.

New York American Legion Stephen F. Chadwick The Legion the Times Chadwick Fox

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