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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1940
Page
9
Red Chitton pens a quirky meme about retired prize fighters amid a chaotic scene as Dallas markets stir with a Time beer. A vague narrator voice recounts minor city chatter from a singer’s fate to Lucky phrases and a waiter’s fish tale, with managers and visitors named in a brief cold day vignette.
A one day Texas Society of Professional Engineers convention opens at 1:00 p m Saturday with about 200 members touring San Antonio sites including Bracken Madge Park Alamo Stadium Olmon Dam Fort Sam Houston and Kelly Field News notes from John Ty Jane Duncanfield Meyers report a business session and banquet at Plaza Hotel with Sidney J Brooks as keynote on professional ethics Leo Brewer as toastmaster Walter Seahole of Austin leads the society president duties
The piece describes travelers using makeshift methods to cope with fuel shortages such as rubbing potatoes on windshields and stacking candles for visibility. It notes five and ten stores selling window scrapers and blades, roadside ads in sidewalks, and a Brownsville orchard beware sign. Local merchants advertise unusual items while street signs invite criticism and entry.
Catholic Women find Peace will be the topic of a talk by the Rev. Gerald J. Schnepps serfology professor at St. Mary's University for the Catholic Women's Association. Members meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the organization's building 39 North Alamo Street.
Ed Tyrell, a San Antonio Secret Service agent, appeared before the Austin Exchange club to discuss Counterfeiting and Forgery. He announced he will deliver the same address on January 25 before the Kerrville Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Ernest Fevile, 50, of 711 Buen Vista Street, charged in federal court with taking cash and stamps from a letter. Appeared before U.S. Commissioner Paul A. Torkhert. Bond set at $1500. Arrest by postal inspectors.
The fragmentary column mocks naval appropriations and a Shakespearean actor’s pay amid wartime chatter. It references a tense rehearsal period, a wavering press, and speculative conflict signals with oblique, garbled phrasing.
A hospital bed was entered as an exhibit in a $40,000 damage suit filed by Bate J. Edwards. The plaintiff, admitted September 15, 1938, alleges injury from a fall when getting out of bed the next day at a hospital in Thirty-seventh District Court on Saturday.
A burglar entered Edgewood Town Tavern at 507 South Presa and stole seven dozen pies. The victim, Marlon Jackson of 18 Hedges Street, alleged the bed’s wheels caused a fall while she tried to respond to a buzzer. The case, filed November 21, 1939, involves multiple items seized and is being prosecuted by Laura Edwards Brunian.
Work on Alamo Stadium in the San Antonio public school system progresses on schedule with a quoted budget of 475000 dollars. The athletic amphitheater site at WHA and Jo is under construction as planners expect completion by fall.
Concrete work nears completion with funds in place, aiming for a 1940s fall football start. Progress visible from East Hildebrand avenue just north of the stadium grounds. Landscaping has begun and seeding of the playing field is to start in a few days.
Two committees were formed at a joint Texas hotel groups meeting at the Pista hotel to prepare a three day sales promotion course in Dallas in June. Members include D W Carlton Adolphus 4 Dallas Tom Powell Hen Milam Houston Henry Love Fort Worth Hayden Hudson Baker Dallas and George Atms Rice Houston. Representing the note r association are Bruce Carter Rice Dallas Chaney White Plaza Dallas and Tip Newell Grayson Shermer.
Three women faced misdemeanor theft charges after alleged grocery thefts from Broadway stores. Corrigan, acting with the state highway patrol, cited Eddie Bee Thelma Rhine and Anabelle Williamson with thefts valued at 2.75, 4.00, and 1.89 dollars from G. Carver’s Piggly Wiggly, L. Bobndstream’s A and P, and Val Shaefer’s Handy Andy on Broadway. Bail set at 1500 each, with trial scheduled for 11 A.M. Saturday.
Saturday San Antonio labor unions started a campaign to raise funds for Finland. Committee members named to contact unions included W. B. Arnold as chairman, with Paul Biels Gilbert Sweeney and Lonnie Beard. The motion picture operators and taxi drivers had already contributed.
Two young women, Anna Leo Wood and Edith Dieter, serve as deputy U S marshals with authority to arrest, carry guns, and serve warrants. Dieter recently transported a narcotics prisoner to Cincinnati and the pair occasionally surprise witnesses by serving subpoenas. They emphasize that law and order is not a solely masculine realm and train in fingerprinting and related duties.
Fire and Police Commissioner Louis Lipscomb announced enforcement of the 1899 chimney sweep ordinance after the fire department handled five alarms in two hours from uncleaned flues. The rule, requiring sweeps in January April and September, carries fines of 3 to 25 dollars or up to three days in jail if fire results. The city lists four official chimney sweeps available through the fire marshal, Lipseman said, with a minimum 50 cent charge for cleaning flues not covered by the ordinance.
Twenty five requests for audition blanks for the NYA all-American Symphony Orchestra have been received at Life office in San Antonio. Fenner Roth, NYA district director, notes February 1 was the deadline. Dr. Eric Sorantin of Our Lady of the Lake College heads the organizing committee with members Jerome Zouller Jefferson Tima and R A Chassehe.
Readers witness a scene at City Hall where trenches around the building resemble wartime fortifications. WPA crews claim the work is for spring renovations, focusing on furniture and upholstery of city properties, with Mrs Anne Aubert seen near a gas mask device while renovations continue in the basement.
Pupil participants from Tamar Elementary and Lamar area presented a Saturday radio program titled 1610 Your City in the school auditorium under Miss Mary Crider. Master of ceremonies was William Stringfellow with Jad Boyd Virginia Shypson Skippy DeLsuge Ann Willian Tommy Rowe Frances Preis Dait ink Rain Gilbert Avery and Eugene Bu among the cast.
A Chicago gangster wanted in Illinois was tracked from San Antonio to Del Rio and finally Laredo where immigration authorities took him into custody. Detectives followed his trail in a large, new automobile after he claimed to have just left prison. He identified himself as C. Sporks from Missouri and admitted joking about his past as he tried to explain his travel with a companion and the registration papers found on him.
The city’s garbage pickup system led to 150 coin collection boxes used for funding the President’s Birthday ball being moved. A garbage picker carted them away thinking they were trash. officials learned the loss and traced the boxes to a licensed garbage picker’s home on Saltillo Street.
John C. Kirkwood sues Gatarday Brothers Walsh Burney and George Prant in Forty fifth District Court seeking 45000 damages for the death of Mrs Alice Kirkwood. The petition alleges negligence by the defendants in causing her fatal injury October 10 as she left a store near a tunnel. Kirkwood seeks 35000 for himself and 1040 as administrator of his wife estate.
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