LULAC Maps 41 Program for Wider Civic Involvement
Rudy Pena new council president of San Antonio LULAC outlines a 1947 plan balancing civic health and political activity. He emphasizes nonpartisanship with a focus on education, voter participation, and safeguarding Latin American lives and interests while opposing school segregation and discriminatory tendencies.
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San Antonio Lulac Council
Rudy A Pena
Pena
Mexican Chamber of Commerce
TELLS
Hie
Escape Fails Negro Dies in Electric Chair
Cleve Covington, a 195 pound inmate, attempted to break from the death house but failed when an inner door yielded and the outer steel door blocked escape. He surrendered, walked to the chair smiling, and died as current was applied after being convicted of beating Watt Martin of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Columbia
S. C
Cleve Covington
Covington
Watt Martin
Winston-Salem, N. C
Brazil General Ends Visit to U S
Gen Salvador Cesar Obino chief of staff of Brazil’s armed forces wrapped up a U S tour after visiting Gen Jonathan Wainwright at Fourth Army HQ two weeks earlier. He traveled from March Field California to Randolph Field and plans to fly to Miami to board a commercial flight for Brazil.
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Salvador Cesar Obino
Gun Victim Improves After New Year Shooting
Olga Rocco, 28, wounded by a young woman who mistook a camouflaged X ray camera for a picture device, showed improvement at Roosevelt hospital as her amputated leg wounds heal. The shooter, Pearl Lusk, 18, is held on $10,000 bail as a material witness.
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New York
Olga Rocco
Roosevelt Hospital
Pearl Lusk
Wardens Seek funds for all purpose building in Bexar county
A bulletin to air raid wardens requests approval to spend 14000 for a permanent all purpose building at 205 West French Place to benefit veterans in Bexar county. The American Legion of Bexar county trustees will accept the funds and maintain the building by a board of trustees. The warden board vote must be in by January 8 with a signed form.
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Bemp
Air Raid Warden Service
Bexar County
Air Raid Warden Board of Control
West French Place
Legion
A. L. Becker
Col
W. B. Tuttle
Claude Birkhead
Rober
Lee Bobbitt
Andrew Dilworth
Walter Co. Wolff
Herman G. Nami
James Crenshaw
Henry Hein
Thomas S. Garrett
Harry L. Roper
Harry Miller
Jack White
Sam Knight
William Turner
Air Raid Warden Board of ‘Control
W. B. Halbig
Louis R. Rodripues
Nelson Greeman
Walter C. Wolff
Snipper Victimized Again on Washington Trolley Platform
In Washington on January 3 a snipper attacked Bernice Dyer, 17, a St Patrick’s Academy junior, who lost a lock of brunette hair after a stranger bowed and apologized for bumping her on a trolley platform. Bernice’s mother Margaret Dyer confirmed the incident.
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Bernice Dyer
St.Patrick’s Academy
Margaret Dyer
Bernice
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