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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
9
The government seeks draftsmen to work on maps posters graphs and technical plans with pay ranging 1452 to 3163 dollars yearly. Applications are accepted at Room 216 of the post office per R F Milam secretary of the civil service commission.
A federal grand jury investigating small loan companies and operators delivered a presentment praising investigators for their work after a five month hearing. The jury indicted 14 loan chains and 94 individuals for alleged Sherman Act violations. The document was signed by jury officers and numerous members.
The Army will reopen Stinson Field for training of service command personnel bound for overseas service. Stinson runways will continue to be used by Randolph and Brooks fields under a new agreement, with the field made available for training of planes from those facilities.
Inquiries from operators continued as inspectors reiterated that truck tires must be inspected periodically. The program requires inspections every six months or 5000 miles, whichever comes first, with results reviewed at the Transit Tower.
Rowand Braaiey of the Texas committee on post war problems will speak Saturday in the Oriental room of the Ginter hotel to interested persons forming a San Antonio chapter. Mrs Claude Tu of Austin, also a state committee member, will be present.
The Milenf Pennies campaign donors will be honored during an 8 15 a m Sunday service in the Plaza hotel ballroom. The Business Men's Bible class sponsors funds for an orphan Boy Scout troop through the campaign effort.
Detective Buck Haddox said four A B Frank Company employees allegedly tossed merchandize out upper windows in bundles. Juveniles 17 and 16 were arrested and turned to county juvenile authorities while two older workers, 19 and 18, were charged with theft. Recovered items include 120 dozen socks 100 dozen handkerchiefs and boxes of pencils and hair combs. A woman reported seeing packages fly from the windows and land near Navarre street bridge. Police nabbed two suspects as they gathered the bundles.
A dispatch reports that the first group of German prisoners from the Allied beachheads in northern France were landed last night at an invasion port in England. The scene conveyed shock and mixed emotions as Axis troops were captured after the initial assault.
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