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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1942
Page
3
The farm bloc members mail to Lyttelton in London as February rainfall totals reach 0.64 inches, the lowest February total in over a decade. In Tyler, the city marks its 70th straight day without a traffic fatality, amid weather and movement reports.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ryan Sef, 82, widow of Col John J. Ryan, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Madeline Sophia chapel, followed by interment at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. She died Sunday at her daughter Mrs. Joseph King’s home in Philadelphia. Survived by daughter Mrs. King and son Brig. William Ord Ryan of Riverside, California. The obituary notes her Detroit birth, move to San Antonio in 1472, Ursuline academy graduate, and role in local music circles.
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson wife of the congressman has gone to work in his Washington office. A letter to Austin mayor Tom Miller says they are working hard to maintain Lyndon's standards while he is away in the navy. She works without pay.
An Austin high school strike attempt called democracy protest led to typical absence levels. March 2 marked a Texas history milestone, according to school officials. In Beaumont, February building permits reached eighty as inspectors reported activity near 1927 levels.
In San Antonio the fighter plane fund remains alive as donations pour in despite plans to end it. A Santa Rosa hospital nursing school group gave 17 dollars in pennies, nickels, and dimes, led by Sister Hilda. Fort Sam Houston’s 157th Service Unit contributed 10.20 dollars, led by Norris Cahee. Lamar school children donated 1.93 dollars and Coline Garden school’s Grade 1-A gave 2 dollars. H. S. Smith contributed as well. Funds are being sent to a central agency to purchase a full-sized bomber for the U.S. military, with a call to donate to defense bonds and stamps in the future.
A blaze at the Crawford-Austin Manufacturing warehouse damaged government contract items including cors mattresses and haversacks. Estimated loss is $50,000. No sabotage suspected. A light bulb shattered in the shop is noted as the apparent cause. Local authorities investigated the fire.
Agriculture Department will index personnel and equipment from five Eighth Corps states to aid civilian defense. The plan, approved by Secretary Wickard in Washington, assigns responders to a district and catalogs trucks, shovels, fire extinguishers, and expert staff. A mobilization committee will oversee equipment needs, dispatch, duration of service, and return, with bureaus including chemistry engineering economics and others participating. COCO enrollees and equipment are excluded.
In Houston on March 7 at 7 a m a Texas company sharply reduced oil purchases and well production in New Mexico Texas and Louisiana President W 56 Rodgers cited critical Gulf coast transportation constraints that strained storage facilities as the reason for selling accumulated crude oil and refined products.
Werbert Hoover Jr son of the former president has invented and patented a device to locate oil deposits. The device claims an improvement over prior methods by using a mechanism similar to dynamite explosions to create miniature earthquakes and then measures the resulting waves for accuracy.
In New York on March 3 authorities hung a nocturnal dry belt around the Brooklyn navy yard and taverns nearby voluntarily agreed to close at 1 a.m. instead of the legal 4 a.m. affecting about 180 tavern owners and yard workers and sailors.
Harrisburg report says a bill was presented to a legislative committee to impose a 10 year prison term and a 4000 dollar fine for theft of aura tires or tubes, signaling a tougher crack down on tire theft.
Gasoline poured along Vine Street near Hollywood and Vine ignited ten autos, destroying five. Patrolman W T Schottmiller observed the blaze but found no source for the fuel. theory suggests deliberate pouring and ignition. Police puzzled by how the fuel appeared on both sides of the street.
Washington March 3 P Senator Vandenberg Michigan Republican proposed with Democratic support today that President Roosevelt be given the power to veto legislative riders to appropriation bills The effort of the senate farm bloc to attach a parity price amendment to a 36762137300 million military appropriations bill showed the need for legislation to permit the president to strike out individual items or riders on money bills Vandenberg backed by Chairman Van Nuys of the senate judiciary committee favored a constitutional route while also considering a simple law approach The war and navy departments were assured they would not purchase government held crop surpluses with the funds involved Farm bloc members abandoned efforts to attach the parity price provision to the huge measure The president would be wrong to veto a bill while a rider to veto in the same act was not possible Meanwhile the house agriculture committee wrote into its bill a restriction against using Commodity Credit Corporation funds to dispose of crop surpluses to depress prices Senator Russell Galway predicted the provision would be retained in the senate if the house passes it MUSIC FESTIVAL SET AMARILLO March 3 VP The Panhandle Music festival contests for 19 seats are announced for March 12 3 14
The speaker argues that poor quality or misrepresentation by manufacturers drives customers away and bankrupts firms. He claims market forces automatically enforce price, service, and quality. He dismisses critics of the system and urges opponents to try running a business to feel public pushback.
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