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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1948
Page
6
A promotional blurb touts Blondie Maggie and Jiggs Little Ideine Flash Gordon the Lone Ranger and other comic stars in Park The Comic Weekly a large color magazine with Sunday light content.
Amsterdam crowds estimated in the millions gathered to honor Queen Wilhelmina on her sixty eighth birthday as she abdicates soon in favor of Princess Juliana. A mass choir of 16 000 adults and 3000 children performed specially composed songs before the royal palace in a moving official farewell.
In Los Angeles on August 31 a weary jury enters a sixth day of deliberation in the treason case against Tormoya Kawakite. Foreman William Andrews says a verdict seems unlikely and accuses a witness of impeding justice as the case moves toward closure.
A water pump was reported stolen from a back porch while the resident sought an installer. The incident was filed with the sheriff's office by FP. A. Newman, Twitte 3, Box 202A, on Tuesday.
City veterinarian Dr. A E Wharton warned residents about rabid dogs and the signs of rabies. He noted normal dispositions can turn vicious days before symptoms appear and urged caution around animals that seem missing or unusual. He debunked heat or garbage as causes and cited years with zero or many rabid dogs as context.
Volunteer emeridiners are needed at UNL to participate in programs for patients in armed forces hospitals here. The Mort Cross report on Tuesday noted recreation directors at military hospitals have difficulty filing entertainment and recreation programs since the war's end. They stressed these activities remain vital to veterans as they were during wartime.
In Tuscaloosa on August 21 a 19 year old high school student Thurston Townsend nearly electrocuted when his model airplane tethered to a 44 000 volt steel cable struck a power line. The shock hurled him four feet into the air blistered his feet burned his hand and scorched his lower lip as the cable coiled and set the grass on fire.
Avansville August 31 400 workers entered the strikebound plant amid jeers from pickets. By nearby lines 340 heavily armed Tanana slate tranpers stood by with state troopers and National Guard units alerted. Plant officials said more workers would report and the plant normally employs about 1600 on road and construction machinery work.
AUSTLY Aug 1 Secretary of State Paul H Brown sets Sept 17 as the deadline to certify candidates names for the Nov 2 general election. He cites conflicting statutes and says there is substantial compliance with core election law requirements amid Democratic convention debates over Truman or Thurmond.
Mrs Bariine Bauerlein 26 mother of four was under polio treatment at Robert B Green hospital Tuesday. Her condition was not serious the hospital reported. She was the first city county polio victim at the hospital in 10 days and the sixth county case of the year.
Tucker corporation, builder of an unmarketed new type auto, was named defendant in a federal court suit seeking salary, commission, and bonus. Plaintiff Clift Knoble, 55, a former director of advertising for Tucker and former Chrysler advertising chief, filed the action.
Police records show James W. Cude and his wife Diane aged 18 held in Cheyenne county jail as suspects in the burglaries of 10 churches from San Antonio to Cheyenne. Cude identified as the armed bandit who also broke into a Cheyenne dairy store on Aug. 20. San Antonio records list juvenile delinquency charges in 1913 and multiple arrests across several states through the 1940s and 1950s.
A group of Gypsies said they paid $300 to two attorneys to obtain permission for a fortune telling booth in the WW block of S Alamost but were blocked by Commissioner Raymond Sout and Police Chief Fret Palmer. They said they would rejoin a large camp 30 miles south of the city.
A theft on a siding at 1 Military drive and Broadway reported to the sheriff involves 120 sacks of cement taken from a freight car. Schribner Lumber Co. alerted authorities on Tuesday to the loss.
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