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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1930
Page
1
An IWS report from Washington July 5 notes the annual cost of veterans pensions may top 800 million this year, nearing 1 billion within five years. Congress aims to expand disability pensions for World War I veterans while boosting Civil War and Spanish-American War benefits, lifting total beneficiaries past one million.
The bill redefines pensions for widows over 70 to 18 dollars monthly and adjusts Spanish American war pensions to 20 to 60 dollars with new grants for short service. Civil war pension costs for 1920 total 140 million dollars while Spanish American war rolls exceed Civil War totals. The July 2 report notes more Spanish American War veterans on pension rolls than Civil War dependents, and readers are advised to use classified ads for yard work jobs.
General Charles P. Summerall chief of staff will review the combined commands of the Usmp Bullis GO M C and Camp Branley MO in a parade at Camp Bullis at 10 45 g m Wednesday. Cadet officers lead Company A B C D E and F with named captains lieutenants and sergeants from San Antonio Dallas Cuero Arlington Fort Worth and other Texas towns.
A list from Fort Worth to Abilene and San Antonio names lieutenants captains and sergeants assigned as permanent guard and rotor bearers for the camp. Individuals include M Nugent Ricks Hullington Tindley Fulton Lehvao Kelth Murray Dudley and others serving in Company D and Headquarters Company across multiple towns.
New York on July Fourth saw at least six deaths and many injuries from fireworks and accidents. Police reported 13 year old Sophie Davis seriously burned when clothes caught fire from sparklers. Fireworks bans were ignored, and rescuers battled fires, drownings, and car crashes across the city and nearby.
Five persons dead and nine injured in the metropolitan Detroit Fourth of July toll, as a checkup revealed today. Two persons were killed in a nu-
Fourteen people were seriously injured when a shooting star exploded above a crowd of about 50 000 watching a municipal fireworks display at the city park. Police say the panic led to multiple injuries as spectators rushed to escape the event.
Dallas July 1 AM fire and pageantry announce the dedication of the Defoige John J. Simmons in Dallas on Monday July 14 at 12 20 pm to mark the canalization of the Trinity River toward Mexico. The ceremony precedes the spiderdredge operation as the first step in turning basin construction and Trinity River canalization linking to Dallas and Fort Worth. The event supports the Trinity River Navigation Association and local reclamation districts with chambers of commerce and business leaders present.
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