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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1941
Page
10
Washington officials disclosed that about 110000 WPA workers quit monthly while 1090000 people remain on the spring waiting list. WPA funding for the current year was cut and defense priorities threaten another 1009000 workers. Most voluntary exits go to defense jobs or training, or to nondefense work vacated by others joining defense industries.
San Antonio readers are urged to use Light Want Ads for cash sales claiming thousands profit. The ad highlights financing options and a 20 payment plan, urging readers to call 123b or visit Broadway or Fitch Street to place Want Ads.
San Quentin, Calif. Aug 35. A radio headset in every cell is Warden Clinton Duffy's latest reform to engage convicts with life outside. Four thousand inmates heard news, comedies, and music for four hours nightly, funded by the prisoners library fund. A master set serves all headsets from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a 15 minute morning news. The warden even hosts a ten minute weekly show from his home.
Kansas City press magnate and oilman James Marion West, prominent publisher of the Dallas Journal and Austin Tribune, died of a heart attack at Menorah hospital. He was 74. Survivors include his widow, a daughter, five grandchildren, and two Houston sons Wesley M West and J Marion West, with arrangements pending return of the body to Houston. West built a vast oil and land portfolio, including a 30,000 acre sale to Humble Oil for $8.6 million in cash, and was once appointed by Gov. W Lee O Daniel as highway chairman though not confirmed. He was born in Waynesboro Mississippi in 1871 and moved to Texas as a child. He later acquired the Dallas Journal in 1995 and bought the Austin Tribune. His family traveled to Houston aboard a plane with relatives.
Brutus a male lion at the Bronx Zoo marooned a CBS radio announcer and staff member for 23 minutes. The lion perched atop a plywood hut on Lion Island during a broadcast before relenting and returning to his cage.
PORYO August 25 The National City Bank of New York announced it will close its Kobe and Yokohama branches at the end of September due to freezing orders dampening business. The Osaka branch has already been shut, leaving only one remaining office in Japan.
Elwood Indiana gears up to open a new aerial bomb factory at the army shell loading plant, with production slated to begin this week. An armored assembly line, over a mile long, will produce bombs two months ahead of schedule after July 12 initiation of artillery shell production.
United States ambassador William Leahy returned to his desk in Vichy after a weeklong motor trip to Switzerland for a rest. The visit followed his posting to observe developments in unoccupied France during wartime.
A new magnesium extraction method, claimed by Carlo Adamo of Milan, promises ore purification without electrical power use. The process uses hydrofluoric acid to form magnesium sulfides, then yields pure metal by evaporation and condensation, with repeated acid cycle.
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