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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1938
Page
2
Portwood reports a state teachers association drafted a bill to raise standards for Texas teachers. It would require three years of college training by 1941 and a college degree by 1942 for state certification, with smaller schools needing an exam or two years of college unless the bill passes.
The Tax Commissioner Thea M. Plumber announced the employment of Mrs. Mary Belle Mayer as a stenographer secretary on Tuesday. Mayer, formerly an employee in the district attorney office, replaces Barry Baberkorn who served as secretary under former Tax Commissioner Frank Bushi.
Mrs. Eduardo Almanza a 35 year old resident of 24428 Matamoras street was arraigned before U S Commissioner Paul A Lockhart on a whisky sale charge lacking internal revenue stamps She and her husband were jailed on bonds of 300 dollars and 500 dollars respectively Albert C Auge arraigned December 22 for purchasing two gallons of unstamped liquor from Almanza All suspects confined in Bexar County jail pending further proceedings
Phil Plant, once a Broadway playboy heir to a $25,000,000 fortune, plans a quiet African honeymoon with his bride of a week, Marjorie King. They will rough it in a trailer with electric refrigeration as they hunt leopards on the veldt for a stylish safari.
Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital to perform a major operation on 93 year old Indian scout and Fort Sam Houston veteran known as Arizona Bill. Found ill at Salvation Army home on East Commerce Street, he resisted attendants to take his diary scrapbook and gold watch, placing them under his pillow.
Dr Katharine Blodgett announced a transparent thin film that makes glass invisible by removing reflections and passing more than 99 percent of light. The discovery, from General Electric labs, uses Langmuir layers dipped onto glass, potentially aiding optics and eye wear though not yet ready for commercial use.
Philadelphia coroner ordered exhumation of a man who died last spring to probe possible insurance fraud linked to a murder ring. Two women and two men are jailed for poisoning four others to claim policies, with police noting possible connections to deaths in New York and New Jersey and total fraud across insurers.
The Soviet press reports engineers endorsing experimental production of a low cost car. They envision a four cylinder light vehicle for about 600 dollars, with high fuel efficiency, aiming to outprice current models like the M-1 which costs 1900 dollars.
Junior and senior high school cafeteria managers will discuss plans for the rest of the 1938 39 term at a Thursday meeting announced by Mrs E D Moffett cafeteria division director.Elementary cafeteria managers will also meet Friday to plan their program and survey the first four months of the term Tests of canned goods to guide purchases will be conducted by Mrs B H O Coley purchasing agent and herself Wednesday according to Mrs Moffett.
Hollywood dispatch reports Errol Flynn, British subject and actor, is barred from operating his 60 foot Sirocco in U S waters. The yacht, 31 gross tons, exceeds legal limits for non American citizens. Flynn plans to seek citizenship while awaiting possible federal action for violation. He bought the vessel for 35090 dollars in Boston last March and has tied it up since learning of the rule.
Roy Jones, 43, an insurance salesman, was shot and killed while waiting at a traffic light. Masaitis, 39, an acquaintance, is held on murder charges after allegedly firing a rifle from another car as lights changed. Masaitis, previously employed by Jones’s insurer, has a wife and three children. Police say Jones was attentive to his wife. the defendant claimed a mistaken belief.
Mr and Mrs Cliff Warner sight live fish lying by a sunlit railing on a bridge near MIAME Florida Oct. They wondered how the fish arrived and tossed them back overboard. Fishermen nearby pursued another nibble as the incident unfolded.
Fred Walter, new chief deputy, announced the tax department began re arranging offices on Tuesday as 1937 38 files were moved to record rooms. An information desk will be placed at the front and visitors must be accompanied by a deputy to scan records.
Thousands suffer nighttime trips and backache from kidney and bladder issues. The ad promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Capsules to cleanse poisons and excess uric acid, claim quick relief, and urge readers to buy from Haarlem in Welland, with a 35 cent price and gold medal branding.
Helen Hayes dramatic actress and Dr Gustave Eckstein author will be awarded honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Hamilton College next month. W H Cowler president will confer at a midwinter convocation where Eckstein, Cincinnati University assistant professor, will speak.
San Antonio’s outstanding bonded indebtedness stood at 14,591,000 as of November 30, City Auditor Walter Tatsch announced Tuesday. He said the figure will be cut by 480,000 on January 1, and that improvement district bonds on the same date were 185,000.
William Hearst associate publisher Lerner Macfadden escaped unscathed when his five passenger plane nosed over during landing at Barnes airport in Westfield Massachusetts. He had flown from New York to visit his son in law and daughter at Holyoke. His son in law, Roland Herbert, witnessed the crash.
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