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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1940
Page
2
Washington reports the banking committee approved a 200 900,000 expansion of capital for the Exsport- Lmoport bank loan to Finland. The revised Brown bill imposes limits on future credits and forbids loans for arms, preventing violations of international law as interpreted by the state department.
A vintage ad promotes Black and White Ointment for quick relief from itching burning and soreness of minor skin irritations. It pairs with Black and White Skin Soap as a cleansing product, noting the line has been famous for more than twenty years.
War roundup reports a familiar pattern in European warfare with British ships defending against Russian incursions. Britain confirms the loss of the 1470 ton destroyer Exorouth and nearly 200 men. Subzero weather fears rise over Soviet air attacks as heavy bombing claims surface near the Kinnish-Soviet frontier. A French report cites a thwarted patrol thrust in the Vesgey mountains and Japan protests Britain over wartime naval interference with the Talula Maru and Asama Maru incidents.
In Bombay on January 24 leaders of India's Moslem League mobilize to oppose Friday nationwide self rule protests by the All-India National Congress. Gandhi prepares for a crucial conference with Lord Irwin, viceroy, with talks possibly Friday. Moslem League urged nonparticipation in Friday demonstrations.
Weather summary with temperatures, humidity and precipitation figures. Northeast wind at 0 miles per hour at 9:00 am. Humidity 86 percent in January, 78 percent mean. Total precipitation 0 none in 24 hours ending 7 am. Deficiency 0.54 inch since Jan 1, total rainfall 0.64. Moon full Wednesday. Tides noted for Aransas Pass. Temperatures and cloudy to clear conditions listed for multiple cities including Albuquerque, Amarillo, Austin, Birmingham, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, San Antonio and many more.
British admiralty reports the destroyer Exmouth sunk by torpedo or mine in the North Sea on the twenty fifth anniversary of World War I. No crew members saved. Exmouth was a 1475 ton flotilla leader built in 1914 with 178 men wartime crews expanded by about ten percent.
Carrollton Mo Jan 21 Prosecutor Grover C Jones dismissed a murder charge against Ben Schuster in the fatal beating of a six year old neighbor Richard Schuster recanted his statement saying his father struck Billy Austin with a board and Jones cited lack of reliable testimony
Paris Soly reports a 48 hour wave of Russia mania near the frontier with Germany. The story, datelined from the Russian frontier, says January 14 talks in Moscow between Molotov and Werder von Schulenburg and Ribbentrop and Schwartzer dealt with changes to the Galician frontier of former Poland.
Services for Mrs. J. Coleman Jones, former head of the languages department and Kidd-Key college in Sherman, will be held here Thursday. Mrs. Jones, wife of the late J. Coleman Jones, once a state commissioner of pensions, died in a Dallas hospital Monday after teaching in San Antonio public schools.
Washington dispatch reports the Dies committee granted another year to investigate un American activities while the House debated a 1.032 billion dollar treasury and post office appropriation bill. Opponents pressed to cut 11.491 million and the Senate reviewed a 250 thousand dollar Puerto Rico land fund and a 247 million dollar emergency defense and neutrality bill. The committee faced sharp questioning over its procedures.
In January 24 11 police edict in Miami prohibits all games of chance at the Lawrist Te resort center including church sponsored events. Sergeant C O Huttoe leads the vice squad in enforcing the ban as Hindlon and Richard H Hunt attorney for Safety Director Daniel G Reynolds testified before a federal grand jury.
A digest of wartime items notes a British naval engagement off Bogger Bank in North Sta, reporting the German cruiser Blucher badly damaged along with two other German battlecruisers. Austrian artillery pressures Russian trenches near Tarnow in Galicia as German forces attack French positions near Veeges.
Two people were injured when a vehicle overturned two miles south of the city on Highway 66. Leonet, AT, suffered a fractured skull while A. R. Martines, 58, was cut and bruised. Official details are unclear due to fragmented text.
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