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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1939
Page
2
A cluttered montage of Broadway society notes, film industry buzz, and city health statistics is threaded with celebrity sightings and personal updates. Dr W A King reports San Antonio tuberculous and heart disease mortality, while talks and civic speeches echo through town.
Record shows hospital births at Robert B. Green in February marked by a surge in deliveries. Miss Mable Taylor notes estimates indicate daily births could reach higher figures with continued activity, as staff observe a busy period around the hospital.
Breckine Caldwell 46 author of Tobacco Road and former Margaret Bourke-White 31 planned a wedding trip by bus and plane from Reno to San Francisco but weather forced the plane to circle Reno. The Darien Cann playwright and the former Mrs Bourke-White wed yesterday in Silver City Nevada after a cab tour of the Reno countryside.
The government’s first wage hour prosecution ended with guilty pleas and fines totaling 4500. Crown Contract Stitching Inc of Lawrence Massachusetts and Nathan Brown treasurer and general manager admitted under federal indictments to failing to pay the 25 cent minimum and falsifying records. Drawnway fined 1000 and the corporation 500. Government contends the firm saved 400 to 1000 by evading the act. Defendants counsel said full restitution would be made to employees.
The regional page notes a string of cast and staff moves at Fort Sam Houston events including Frank Beckwith as contract dialogue director and the Merry-Go-Round of Murder. details on the Blue Willow reopening, Kit Kat Klub listings, and multiple local figures moving roles or returning from trips.
Maury Maverick outlines a fusion party platform urging economy, lower taxes, sanitary parks, and a stronger police force while pushing for a council-manager form of government. He calls for dismantling the existing political machine and adopting a new charter to empower a city manager and ensure responsible public administration.
Austin dispatch says T M Scott, superintendent of the deaf school, will retire at end of current term August 1. A spokesman announced the plan during the Legislature session as Rep Dewith Hale of Farmersville urged no further action on a resolution seeking Scott's dismissal.
In London on February 28 a banquet celebrated the crew of the drifter Hosanna winners of a trophy for the best single herring catchearly 283,000 figh. Representatives from the Penobscot Indians Maine were present as delegates from the Mathethouse.
Washington Feb 8 Benetoy Borah Republican Idaho ranking Minority member for the senate foreign relations committee told reporters that 4700 additional planes in the air corps expansion would be more than the army can use. He criticized administration for proposing a Pacific base and warned against overarming. The measure would provide 348 million for extra planes and rotation personnel to bolster maritime defenses and to familiarize manufacturers with equipment needs.
A 20-year-old Austin tax driver confessed to police that his robbery report was a hoax. After initial claims of kidnapping and forced driving, he later said he fabricated the tale to obtain money for an operation. He admitted to staging a pickup and a robbery on Hourtai Street and Broadway before reporting to police.
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