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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1939
Page
1
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia moved to settle a taxi strike by 11 000 drivers called by the Transport Workers Union. Police were on emergency duty as he arranged a mediation conference in his office and sought arbitration with the state labor mediation board.
L. P. Bishop, director, announced the San Antonio Health Department will complete a new report within 40 days. He said staff are working to provide a more comprehensive study than in recent years and expects lower disease statistics and death rates, noting benefits for the city.
Mrs Alma Albert secretary to Governor James V Allred will remain in her post after he becomes a South Texas federal district judge January 17 as announced by the governor.
Unseasonably warm across the Midwest and Northeast with 50 to 71 degrees, setting city records including Cincinnati’s 68 and Cleveland’s 55. Meanwhile upstate New York and the Pacific Northwest faced freezing rain and gale conditions. Balmy Missouri and Nebraska temps aided tennis and picnics while Pacific gales damaged structures from British Columbia to Oregon. a Salem cyclone lifted two cows into a mud wallow before dropping them unharmed.
In northern New York motorists faced ice covered streets as light snow turned to freezing rain. Fog and mist heightened dangers with one death reported. other areas from Texas to New Jersey recorded clouds, rain, or snow, with varying temperatures and forecasts for cooler air and winds.
The Alamo district of Texas State Teachers Association meeting in San Antonio approved a bill proposal for submission to the state legislature. About 50 educators from San Antonio and nearby counties attended the Tuesday night session at Milam cafeteria with JR. L. Williams presiding as district president and Lockhart schools superintendent.
Funeral services for Mrs Juliana Owens 64 of 538 Porter street San Antonio were held in Aransas Pass where she died Sunday visiting a daughter. Survivors include three daughters Mrs B C Klein Mrs Theo Holekemp of San Antonio and Mrs HA Blair of Aransas Pass two sons Harold Owens of San Antonio and AB Owens of Venice California.
A 40 member San Antonio volunteer committee led by Strauder Nelson began a drive to raise 25 000 dollars to repurchase the YMCA building after Pacific Mutual foreclosed last September. January 15 is the deadline. local financiers guarantee a 50 000 loan if 35 000 is raised. Hubert Green will present at the chamber luncheon with two radio talks set for Thursday. Henry Guerra and Sam Goldfarb will discuss the YMCA's plight on KTSA and KABC.
The Danish countess’s son, formerly central to a custody dispute, is visiting his father in SORITZ Switzerland. The nearly three year old traveled from England last Monday with two nurses, as Barbara Hulton departed for Paris with plans to proceed to Cairo.
In Chicago on January 4, Curt B Thueringer aged 40 died from automobile exhaust fumes in his garage. A note to a business associate cited that life had been too upsetting since his two daughters Marguerite and Betty Jane came to live with him and his second wife. Police noted the children had recently moved in with the family from a relative.
The Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of former Lieutenant Governor H. Durgensen for embezzlement. He was found guilty in Lincoln for stealing 549 dollars from Chester C. Kadell, a Potter Neb. agent, in a series of transactions and sentenced to two to five years in the state penitentiary.
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