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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
13
A fragment from a local column notes radio program quirks and shifts between shows, while wartime weeks boost tattooing, citing Jack Tryon and flag designs. It mentions Elaine Brackenridge’s choir plans, Maxile Chevalier’s stage role, and Leland Jamieson’s post as a flying instructor, among other brief items.
A rewrite man recalls a legend about a restaurant poison story that spiraled into a dramatic fabrication. A reporter, eating hot cakes, phones in a sensational tale of a cook named Joe Dowkes poisoning many. police later debunk the stunt as a mistaken, wild account.
County Farm Agent TH A Fitzhugh announced a trench silo demonstration for all Bexar county residents on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Gorbel school, 24 miles east of San Antonio. BR Excaly, trench silo expert from A and M college extension service, will conduct. The program will cover construction, filling methods, feed values, silage use, and casing as teen for youths.
San Antonio forms a patriotic unit under Gen. Cecil Hill to defend the city against a fifth column using popguns sling shots and wooden rifles. Headquarters at 602 McCauley street with members Kenneth Long Lloyd Schiller James Long Nelson Walker and Bobby Hill. Lacks proper air armament heavy tanks and complete gear due to unknown forces wrecking their sole tank.
Jesse Smith a city park employee reports finding a boy shooting a .22 caliber rifle at San Pedro Park on Thursday. Smith took the rifle from the boy and sent him home.
A San Antonio hospital treated five individuals for injuries after incidents linked to blind made goods. Katie Leonard, Frobert Ketchum, Rylvested Serrell, Vivian Stewart, and Jean Duval reported beatings or stab wounds in or near Lincoln park and Main avenue. The Vigilance Committee warned buyers to be cautious of high pressure sales by groups posing as allied with blind workers. The Texas Handicapped and Blind League is said to have no official ties to the local Lighthouse for the Blind and is accused of unethical sales tactics.
Attorneys for Ward Harris 19 filed a motion for new trial after a district court jury found Baris guilty of burglarizing J E Black's book store at 201 Fourth Street and sentenced him to two years. Harris's mother testified he was at a hotel assisting her workmen on February 19 making it unlikely he committed the crime. Oscar Kelly pleaded guilty Wednesday and received two years for the burglary, identified as the lookout.
R A Duryea of Hearne street Thursday elected judge vice commander of the Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars during the Galveston convention running Monday through Thursday. Mrs Nell Moody of Avant avenue named state president, Mrs Duryea secretary of the state women’s auxiliary. Tom H Carter of Lubbock named state commander and Capt A D Benton of Wiley chosen senior vice commander.
New officers were elected Thursday the Fourth Degree Assembly No. 780 Knights of Columbus. Re elected were Charles A Burk holder faithful navigator John W AMM faithful comptroller and Joseph Hartmanngruber faithful admiral. Other officers elected were John Quinney Tultuful piloty A Sanches faithful captain August Puchs faithful Inner sentinel and soln Piagorald AM ater sen Aine
Article satirizes Republican conventions with humorous imagery and political jibes. Mentions patriotism as keynote, party optimism after long control, and a playful line about baseball and politics. Includes note of a field meeting of the Amateur Astronomers' association of San Antonio at Brackenridge High School campus, 8 p.m. Thursday, per reporter R. M. W. Glenney.
E P Eisenhaur, chairman of the Bexar County Agricultural Union committee, warned that farmers who violate marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act will likely be fined. He cited recent fines in Cameron County as evidence. When quotas are in effect on cotton, a 3 cent penalty is charged for each excess pound, though farmers may market all they raise within their allotment without penalty.
A group of five boys aged 11 to 14 were captured after police tracked suspects from a prowler call at 505 South St Marys Street. They allegedly admitted to multiple burglaries including Western Auto store on 126 Villita Street and Lauterstein Jewelry, with rifles found nearby.
A four point program for hard of hearing children in special schools was outlined Thursday by Miss Belly Wright director of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing at a Plaza hotel luncheon. The program includes periodic hearing tests with medical follow up lip reading instruction speech training and vocational guidance. Speakers at the luncheon were E Wright superintendent of the lnte Bchool for the Deaf in Austin Richard Silverman of the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis T B Stutsman superintendent of the San Antonio public schools and the Rev Walter P Galatke president of St Marys University.
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