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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1938
Page
3
Swedish Girl Scouts marked the twenty fifth anniversary of their first charter in Stockholm on June 15. The movement now counts more than 70 000 members nationwide.
Japan opens its first stage dancing school in Tokyo aimed at primary school graduates with a yen for terpsichore and a horror of mathemetics. The program targets young hopefuls seeking professional dance training in a formal academy.
In Miami on June 1, Franklin Pierce McCall faced a hearing on the ransom kidnapping of James Bailey Cash Jr. He pleaded guilty as State Attorney George Worley, ill with boils, arrived with a nurse. The victim’s father, James Bailey Cash Sr., testified about his missing son and the ransom notes found in a shoebox after $10,000 was paid.
The trial charted how Emanuel McCall and associates planned to abduct Skeegie Cash. Testimony detailed ransom notes, money collection, and the discovery of the boy's body in a thicket after tense FBI questioning. Authorities described McCall’s initial denial then full admission of kidnapping.
Texas led the nation in new auto sales for the three months ending April 1, 1838, at 93.7 percent of 1837, with Oklahoma near 82.3 percent and North Dakota at 29.2 percent. The Midwest remains the strongest region, from the Mississippi to the Rockies, while Arkansas and Kansas trail guidance.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation foreclosed on 31 properties in May, the highest monthly total this year. County records director M. C. Truth notes that 124 sales and 127 foreclosures have occurred so far this year, with 38 foreclosures in April and 16 foreclosures already this month.
Principal sources of American marble include Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut New York Georgia and Tennessee. The note compiles a regional view of dominant quarries and distribution across the Northeast and Southeast.
Fort Worth June 15 Governor James V Alberleal presided as more than four thousand Texans attended a statewide traffic safety convention. Allred, head of the traffic safety committee, urged an effective drivers license law and discussed forming a permanent safety league. Resolutions favored creating a safety league, revising highway laws, raising urban speed limits to 60 mph, setting 20 and 30 mph zones in cities, and permitting the DPS to revoke licenses with reduced penalties for drunken driving.
In May the city weights and measures inspector John Spelers reported 347 gasoline pumps inspected with 34 condemned. Of 94, 16 shorted motorists and 18 overcharged fuel. Weights and measures checked 593 scales, condemning 79. 28 destroyed as illegal, 32 overweight, and 19 short weight.
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