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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
3
Dr Charles Wakefield Welch of Louisville told the Advertise Club in St Louis that President Wilson leads well while Roosevelt is self seeking. He urged supporting Wilson and allegedly called for interring Roosevelt during the war period, praising Wilson as the beacon for the nation.
The notice lists numerous officer appointments and transfers in the National Army and American Expeditionary Forces. Changes include captains and lieutenants assigned to infantry, artillery, and engineers, with postings to camps such as Camp Mier, Camp MacArthur, and associated artillery units. Retirements and replacements are noted alongside reliefs from West Point training and infantry replacements.
The San Antonio Light announces that W. C. Linden is authorized to bounce his candidacy for State Senator from the 24th District, covering Vexar Bendit Kate Gillespie Ban Déri Rand, subject to the Democratic primaries on May 87, 1918.
White and negro draft registrants totaling 124,525 are summoned to general military service in a Crowder issued call. Mobilization runs in July with entrainment dates and state camp assignments for white and black registrants across multiple camps.
The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Willie Porter of Bell county in a life sentence for the murder of Emma Staley. Campbell of Jones county got two years for manslaughter. Reversals and remands included Haynes Upshur county ten years for murder Bibb Tom Green life for murder Lacey Kaut-Man county fourteen years for murder. A rehearing motion lingered in Wat son case banker sentenced to 99 years for murder.
A Brussels escapee reports Belgian living costs sixfold under German control. Wealthy taxed, middle class ruined, laborers largely jobless and starving. Tuberculosis up 1060 percent, mortality more than doubled. Coal at Brussels costs 540 a ton. Anticipation of allied victory persists amid repression and torture chambers in Antwerp Charleroi.
A Women's Industrial Council proposal aims to replace the term servant with household orderly and train women as domestic workers. Centers would provide hours weekly for thirty shillings over forty eight hours, with centers offering dining and sleeping facilities under a managerial board to set charges, hours, holidays, and uniforms. This plans seeks a career path for thousands of girls amid wartime labor shifts and aims to place orderlies in homes as domestic service evolves.
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