Funeral directors urge city county ambulance morgue plan
Seven San Antonio funeral directors urged a city county operated ambulance and morgue as the only solution to ambulance regulation. In a letter to John Cape, they condemned current practices of distributing emergency calls among undertakers and urged immediate medical aid via assigned physicians and governors on ambulances. Copies were sent to Mayor Maverick and County Judge Anderson.
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Zinik-Kearts Funéral Horse
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Suspect Sought After Sawmill Settlement Fire
Carthage January 12 county officers sought a Black man accused of binding his estranged wife to a chair spraying kerosene on her and setting fire to her last night in a nearby sawmill settlement. The victim was reported near death.
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Velasco Ibarra Leads Postvote Quito Uprising
In Ecuador, former president Velasco Ibarra and Maj Refzel Astudjilo led an insurrection in Guayaquil after elections. The revolt, involving about 200 civilians, was quickly crushed by the army. Velasco Ibarra and associates were arrested as Carlés Arroyo Del Rio was announced winner.
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Marin Velasco Ibarra
Velasco Ibarra
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Refzel Astudjilo
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Duryea boy testifies at state supreme court
Chester B Duryea six year old patricide told the State Supreme Court doctors at Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane encouraged him to shoot himself He protested but his protests went unheeded and an assistant superintendent introduced him as Here’s another general Major General God Duryea who killed his father Brig Gen Hiram Duryea a starch magnate and Civil War hero in 1914 seeks to be declared sane though freedom might mean trial for the slaying
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Canada to Float War Bond Issue
Canada plans a $200,009,000 war bond issue to finance a $1,000,000 daily hostilities bill for the first year. Bonds will be offered to Canadian investors on a voluntary basis, dated February 1 1948, maturing December 4, with five callable sections from February 1 1948, offered at par and tax free like World War I issues.
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Canada
J .L. Ralston
War 25 Years Ago Today January 12 1915
Bombs dropped by allied aviators set fire to a German petroleum supply base near Antwerp. Severe fighting rages at Laon France over a key railroad hub. Austrians claim the battleship Courbet torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the Adriatic.
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Hearing on TAA tax redemption fee dispute
Pat O Shaughnessy acting as executor for J R Lambert sought a mandamus to force the county tax office to accept 6.07 as delinquent tax payment on one of two estate parcels, arguing both parcels belong to one estate and only one redemption fee is due. He tendered 36.07 but the deputy tax collector demanded another 1 redemption, with Kaine Jr and Dittmark for O Shaughnessy and Ridgeway for the tax official. Testimony from George Drake and H H Connor preceded a ruling likely Monday.
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J. R. Lambert
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John Dittmark
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Tayloe
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H. H. Connor
City weighs curb oil wash curb risk and law
Street officials urge city attorney to check for an ordinance on oily washwater damaging pavement and fouling streets. Council discusses adding rules covering car washing in alleys and trash sweeping while approving routine December and January payroll and material expenditures.
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Paul Steffler
Steffler
Pollce
Louis Lipscomb
Floyt McGown
Maury Maverick
NLRB Evidence Debate Sizzles in House Hearing
A woman attorney for the National Labor Relations Board defended broad evidence gathering in labor disputes while a House committee member pressed for equal rules for employers and unions. The exchange touched on post trial testimony, petition offers, and potential dangerous precedents, with references to the Sorg Paper case and Hillet Mill decision.
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National Labor Relations Board
Margaret McDutt
House
NLRB
Halleck
R-Ind
Sorg Paper Company
Middletown
Ohio
Philip G. Philips
Sorg
Fermer
War Roundup Shows Axis and Allied Skirmishes Gaining Pace
German fliers roared over Britain's east coast while British observers tracked Nazi reconnaissance sorties over western and northwestern Germany. Both sides claimed raids and losses as a major global war update notes British patrol boats and a merchant ship sunk, with Finns and Danes aiding in northern defense and Japan’s Abe signaling resignation as another cabinet shift looms.
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Texas to enforce seven day oil production in February
Austin plans to ignore the marginal well law pending AG Mann ruling, with the Texas railroad commission ready to issue a seven day producing week for Texas oil fields by February 1. Jerry Sadler said a new proration formula for East Texas would be submitted at the statewide hearing, and that current practice could cut Texas oil by about 32 million barrels.
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INS
Gerald Mann
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas
Jerry Sadler
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Mann
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Bueau of Mines
Wesleyan College Girls Open Third Term Verdict
Macon Ga January 12 Wesleyan college girls reached a verdict on the third term talk: no third term for FDR but name Mrs PDR as his successor.
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