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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1946
Page
11
Police book assault against Mattie Elgin 38 of 819 Lombrano Street for pouring hot water on James E Elgin at their home while he slept. The incident occurred at the same address as their residence.
A suspect escaped from Western Auto Supply at 126 Villifa Street after failing to crack a safe. A skylight entry alarmed a nightwatchman who alerted police. Officers broke down a door but found only damage. A pursuit led to the Ormsby Motor Company roof where the man vanished after gunfire.
A government vehicle was involved in a highway accident in Texas during June. An announcement Monday noted the graduation of another class of 4 percent enlisted men from the driver’s school at the field. Lectures by city and state highway officials were included in the course, in which students had 5a hours of driving instruction.
The man killed June 22 on the Austin highway was identified by the FBI in Washington DC as Ira Emmett Latham of Houston. Latham died after being struck by a car. identification came from fingerprints on file.
The Army airline that logged nearly 1,000,000 passenger miles between Kelly Field and Washington D C in June has extended service to Newark New Jersey. The four engine planes will continue to stop at Mobile Montgomery Fort Benning Fort Bragg and Washington with no mishap reported.
Ecuadorian voters chose members for a new assembly amid antigovernment strikes and government charges of revolutionary plotting. Left and center parties abstained. turnout was light with many blank ballots or write-ins. The assembly meets August 10, while President Velasco Ibarra, in office since 1944, says he would quit if requested.
Welburn O Barnett, 20, of 245 Chickering Avenue, said he put $1 in his shoe after a hunch. Three men intercepted him at Wavarro and College, beat him, and took $26.30. Juan Gonzales and Pedro and Dave Rodriguez, all named residents, were accosted by four youths who tried to rob them, then cut each victim with knives.
Morris Muster president of United Furniture Workers resigns claiming Communist domination of the CIO executive board. He also resigns from the CIO Committee of Industrial Organization and accuses the international group of chicanery and intrigue.
City and school back tax collections for the year ending May 31 totaled 557 627, about 48 527 over the budgeted 509 100. Commissioner Albert Callaghan announced the city share at 357 945 versus 316 100 and the schools at 199 682 versus 193 000.
An inquest Monday investigated the shotgun death of Arthur Varley Wright an attorney aged 51 found dead Sunday night in his home at 246 West Josephine Tobin Drive. Wright was discovered by his son Harold 16 with a shotgun wound to the chest.
Berlin reports Marshall Mae Duffie of New York resigns as UNRRA mission chief in the United Kingdom in protest against US House action restricting relief funds. He cites press restrictions and releases a radiogram from F H LaGuardia accepting the resignation and pledging continued relief to Ukraine and Byelorussia.
The San Antonio Veterans Administration relocated its contact offices to 102 West Crockett Street. Regional manager Marvin A. Harlan told veterans and dependents seeking claims or information that the former office on the post office’s second floor is no longer in use.
Enlistments at the San Antonio Air Technical Service command began at Kelly Field. Payrel D Chamberlain, a Brackenridge High School graduate and mechanic helper at the field, headed 2009 with the enlistment.
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