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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1948
Page
62
An old time ad touts Dr Caldwell's Senna Laxative as a gentle remedy for constipation and stomach upset. It claims quick relief, pleasant taste, and carminative action, appealing to adults and children, with pricing hints for coins and wines.
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce urges aid to Mexico to prevent dollar shortages similar to Britain's. Elmer Dittmar says officials from both nations must cooperate as Monterrey industrialists plan to visit April 8 1941. A San Antonio delegation will visit Mexico in late spring and a Trade Week with Mexican merchants is set for August 8. Thomas F. Conroy chairs the effort to attract Mexican patrons and Gordon Dunlap will start weekly newsletters to 25 Mexican contacts.
FASSPORTS Lee Ramsey criticized Americans who complain of passport requirements at the Rio Grande. He urged travelers to fill necessary papers before departure, noting American airlines moved 150 passengers in that time. Frank Hall seeks municipal auditorium basement for a Mexico products display next fall. Miguel Calderon, Mexican Consul General, said a new department studies bartering goods between nations in lieu of money.
An American source said four U S Marines captured by Chinese Communists on Christmas Day are alive and being held inland from Tsingtao. A Chinese soldier reported seeing the Marines in an unnamed town about a week ago.
Truckers from San Antonio across interstate routes to Florida, California, Colorado, and New Mexico wear caps with a badge reading San Antonio Texas and a truck design, as shown by Severiano Ramirez at Washington Square. The badge is seen as a pleasing alternative to a plain cap.
A black horse valued at 250 dollars, owned by Mrs. Harold G. Ferguson of 1714 N Hackberry, was reported stolen Saturday. The animal had been pastured on a Terrell Wells lot.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Porter Loting chapel for Mrs. Mary Emma Marcie Villareal of 1038 West King's Highway. A San Antonio resident for 38 years, she formerly lived in Indianola. Survived by daughter Olivia Bonner of San Antonio. Interment at Sunset Memorial Park.
Billy Burke Edwards, 24, a former GI from Indianapolis, cleared of murder of his infant daughter, boarded a ship for home from Southampton England. He was accompanied by his English wife and young son Billy Jr, and by the Indianapolis attorney who defended him in court. Edwards refused to speak to reporters.
Balboa February 28. The deaths of Capt. Jacob Sierer 31 and his wife Gladys 39 at the Sievers quarters on Howard air force base are listed as murder and death by own action. The pair were found with the husband shot in the head and the wife two bullets in the stomach. A son Byron 16 stays with a chaplain awaiting word. Funeral arrangements pending. Father C. B. Sierer, 318 Cottonwood San Antonio, identified the officer. Sierer had been stationed there about a year and joined his wife last September.
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