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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1941
Page
6
Fire Chief Hart will ask the city council to permit larger gasoline storage tanks at service stations. He favors a maximum of 1120 gallons, doubling the current limit, to reduce trips, fumes, and fire danger from multiple small tanks.
Almoona Pennsylvania June 25 3 year old Betty Bossler vanished yesterday from a summer cottage near Bellemeade nine miles north of Altoona. Bloodhounds from Rockview prison joined state police and volunteers in a nightlong search through Brush Mountain district but did not locate any trace of Betty, daughter of Mr and Mrs Meryl Bossler. She was playing with other children when she disappeared.
Indianapolis, June 25. A letter to the public library describes wartime shortages and overdue math books. The writer, a prospective recruit from Canada, notes delays and hopes to return books when possible, reflecting broader wartime impacts on library services.
Jim Ferguson urges voters to back Governor O Daniel for U S Senate and explains how the state Constitution triggers a chain of vacancies involving Lieutenant Governor Stevenson and Governor Daniel. He argues Daniels win creates Stevenson as governor and outlines past election vote totals to justify his stance.
The Chinese colony of San Antonio hosts a July 4 picnic at Theodore H. Wu’s Hills Road home featuring hhop suey, dancing, games and color to aid United China relief. Entertainment includes an orchestra, Chinese performers, and various games with admission 60 cents. Proceeds fund relief efforts and a local United Chinese relief chapter plans activities for the nationwide campaign.
At St Paul and Minneapolis area ceremonies 75000 men gathered under a starry sky for the Ninth National Eucharistic congress holy hour. Archbishop John J. Mitty addressed the crowd while discussions at the congress debated labor rights and the duty to share in profits amid hard times.
The attorney general ruled two proposed Bexar county measures unconstitutional. One would have added a 23 cent tax levy per $100 property value for hospital expansion. the other would place all courthouse employees under the county commissioners court. Both were advanced by Senator Franklin Spears but rejected on constitutional grounds.
About 500 alumni from North and South America gather at the Gunter hotel for the sixteenth annual homecoming of the Texas Chiropractic College. War conditions deter international attendance. petition to President Roosevelt seeks a chiropractic corps in the armed forces. Notable speakers include Dr. B. J. Palmer and Dr. J. R. Drain, with sessions on chiropractic topics and a graduation ceremony at San Pedro Playhouse.
Ronald Tan Campbell, former British minister to Yugoslavia, is named minister to Washington and was knighted by King George VI. Emil W. Fey, convicted of murder in Bexar County, was granted a new trial by the Court of Criminal Appeals after evidence of a prior threat was ruled improperly admitted.
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