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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1940
Page
13
A fragment notes a Cot tonseed Crushers convention exhibit at the Gunter hotel with a Department of Agriculture label containing pink pills. It mentions the Goode family choosing a house by numerology and an Aunt Goode approving their selection, ending with a street corner hamburger sign.
The second edition of a four page weekly edited by Fred Sristol and Carl Kroeger hits stands Tuesday. The boys critique national events noting President Roosevelt and the mood of Washington. Local vignettes cover a Boerne trip, a student’s mishap, and light theater ads with playful humor.
A two week Junior Yank Camp for the First Texas Regiment of San Antonio opened at Land a Park in New Braunfels on Tuesday. Camp Doughboy offers swimming, handicraft, modeling, test work and first aid. A chapel program and a farewell house event are planned June 10 at 11 a.m., followed by a basket pie for Junior Yanks and parents. Governor Fan Higginbotham commands the camp, which ends June 22.
District Attorney John R. Iro asks for the attorney general’s ruling on the county voting machine contract amid questions by County Auditor Edgar Garvey about a budget amendment for incidental charges. Assistant DA Jay Levey says emergency status and budget sources dictate legality, with $8100 already moved from this year’s election fund and total rental charges at 12 926.250. If funds can be approved from the current budget, the contract stands. otherwise next year’s budget would be implicated.
In a ruling by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday, Charles J. Seeman, trustee of Ladin company in voluntary bankruptcy, was denied recovery of certain stocks and funds assigned to the National Bank of Commerce of Houston. The firm operated a store in San Antonio.
Tale recounts the imperial bodyguards of Emperor Franz Joseph using cane swords in old Austria Hungary. Prank A. Waller explains how walking sticks concealed four sided sharp blades, used to strike attackers, with the swords later passed down to Walter's family and now held by a local druggist.
Article fragment questions why war grounds on civilians and deserts. It argues a hypothetical total mobilization with vast forces to devastate the Sahara, noting only belligerents would be harmed and implying any such action would be an improvement.
P V Stith 44 of 310 Sant Alamo street was knocked down crossing St Marys street in the 100 block sustaining arm and leg lacerations. Driver named as T O Lenty Jr of 416 South Presa street. Stith treated at Nix hospital. In a separate collision M D Ackerman 44 of 821 South Mesquite street had two fractured ribs in a truck bus crash at Victoria and Cherry streets. Ackerman rode in a truck driven by J Guzman 42 of 1128 Victoria street which collided with a Public Service bus driven by R Popp 27 of 150 Weymouth street. Eleahor Smith 225 East Lonu st street treated at the rot y hospital for cuts and bruises after falling from an auto on Blanco road near Graemercy place. Floeka Downing 35 of 515 Elm street treated for an elbow inversion after falling from an auto at Burleson and Elm streets. Milton Shacket 19 of 122 Weymouth treated at the hospital for a dislocated arm while playing in Pedro park.
Lonnie Lentz will discuss what is to be done with foreign agents at the Lions Club gathering Wednesday in the Gunter hotel. Robert Barclay serves as chairman and will introduce Lentz and W Pat Camp, assistant district attorney and Kiwanis past president, who will speak on Flag Day observance. Charlalie the trained dog will provide entertainment.
The article notes progress on the San Antonio River Beautification project with about 95 percent completion. Excavation along the Pinza hoteline aims to finish the work from Pub Water to the Plaza hotel as preparations proceed. The dam near the Plaza hotel was tested last week, water flowing into the channel for the first time since work began.
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