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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 09, 1940

Page

5

Rain and mud hinder UGA training in rainswept forests

Torrential rains flood highways and wash away bridges as Texas and Oklahoma guards face isolation. The War Department plans to deploy nearly 50 000 guards and regulars with 20 000 more arriving next week for war exercises. Troops endure little hot food as tarpaulins fail and field kitchens flood, hampering movement and training across muddy terrain.

Beauregard National Texas Oklahoma Pitkin Gravens War Department

Guardsmen's Pay To Go On In Athol Massachusetts

A town defense committee led by Dr Samuel T Glaser raises funds to cover the pay gap for National Guardsmen called to duty. Athol with about 10000 residents has many employers already pledging to cover the difference for their workers, but funds will also help guardsmen employed elsewhere.

Athol Mass Samuel T. Glaser Joseph H. Flrnnwood Glaser

Infantile Plague Outbreak Feared in Ohio Valley

Health officials in West Virginia and neighboring states warn of a possible major outbreak of infantile paralysis in the Ohio valley. More than 40 cases were reported in two weeks, with Huntington listing 26 cases and a danger zone spanning six adjacent counties.

Huntington W. Va Ohio Valley A. M. Price Charleston State Health Department Division of Preventable West Virginia Ohio Kentucky

Boy Freed From Jail Hangs Self in Florida

OCALA, Fla August 1 A mother who went to city hall to fetch her 13 year old son released on bicycle theft charges found his lifeless body hanging from a belt tied to a cell window. J F Williams said the youth Carl Holmes had asked the janitor to bring him funny papers to read shortly before Meeman Kenneth Alveraz and the mother discovered the body. He could not account for the boy’s exception.

Ocala Fla City Fall J. F. Williams Carl Holmes Po- Meeman Kenneth Alverez

Cardenas Names Oil Industry Head in Mexico

President Cardenas appointed Manuel Sanchez Cuen former assistant secretary to the economy department as distribution manager for the Mexican petroleum industry. He succeeds Jesus Silva Herzog whose resignation was accepted, with Cuen to assume duties as the oil agencies are merged per the official gazette law.

Mexico City Cardenas Manuel Sanchez Cuen Jesus Silva Herzog Coen

Negro Admits Attige Charge In Grandview Attack

Fort Worth August 9 A negro youth in custody here admitted maltreating and attacking a pregnant Grandview Texas woman. He arrived from Cleburne amid rising tensions. The woman wife of a local businessman remains in critical condition with a broken ice pick embedded in her chest. Authorities plan to file charges in Cleburne as the case moves.

Fort Worth Grandview Texas Tarrant County Cleburne State Reform School

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