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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1918
Page
8
Geneva report notes Swiss frontiers shut at midnight isolating the country in Europe. The bread shortage worsens as wheat reserves are projected to exhaust within six to seven weeks, even if current small rations are cut further.
An old health advert warns that meals harm those with kidney and bladder troubles by releasing uric acid. It claims Haarlem Oil Capsules from Gold Medal remove the poison, offering relief and a guarantee refund if unsatisfied. Your druggist sells them and urges insisting on the Gold Medal brand.
A sensational 1900s style ad touts the PLAPAO method for hernia treatment. It alleges 7000 yearly deaths from rupture and promotes a free at home test, claiming the device cannot shift or pinch and vows a natural closure of the hernial opening. It urges readers to send name and address to Playao Co. for trial information.
The Ministe rial Union invited The Light to cover a session at the Y M C A building. A reporter attended but was given a poor seat and told to depart after questions about funding for a vice crusade. The chairman later allowed certain guests to stay as officials clarified meeting confidentiality. The group authorized a seven member committee to work with the Anti-Saloon League and arranged cooperation with the Texas State Medical Association meeting in May.
Kelly Field aviators have logged over one million miles since January 17 with no fatalities. The record equates to about forty trips around the globe at 60 to 90 mph winds. In a 39 day period there were 16,820 flying hours and many flights were seen by Laurel Heights residents during a large city flyover.
Mrs. Annie Laurie Wilson, 21, died at 10 30 Sunday morning in a hospital from a gunshot wound received January 23 at the Shannon home where her husband J C Wilson and others were injured. She leaves a husband, parents in Pleasanton, a brother from Camp Bowie, and a sister, to be buried in Pleasanton. Depot safe robbed at union station in Batamford, Texas, $80 stolen, no arrests.
About six hundred dollars in leather oats rope and copper wire were recovered by city detectives after the arrest of a white man Sunday night. The items were identified as stolen from Camp Stanley. The suspect had earlier been released on bond after a prior arrest for stock theft at Camp Stanley. Investigations continue with no further arrests yet. Friday night burglars broke into Praeger Hardware at 322 East Commerce Street, stealing twenty rifles and forty pistols valued around five hundred dollars. Entry was via a ladder and skylight. A separate report notes two automobile thefts Sunday night, one recovered. Victims include L B Vickers and R J Nace.
Chaplain Minifie of the City of London Guards speaks at 8 pm Monday at First Baptist on With the Fighting Forces in France and will show a captured German war film and motion pictures from the front. A free talk with an offering for relief work. A second lecture Lights and Shadows of the Great War as Seen by an Army Chaplain is set for Tuesday at 11 30 am in the St Anthony Hotel tapestry room with more motion pictures.
Multiple Army officers and medical officers are reassigned or reported for duty at Camp Travis Fort Sam Houston Camp Bowie and Fort Bliss. Leave granted for several lieutenants including Coker Brett and Funston. Separate Supreme Court decision denies federal bribery jurisdiction in Ohio 1916 election cases. Kenedy school district approves local tax extension by a large margin.
Washington March 4 Agreement on railroad compensation under government control was reported to Congress. The plan bases payment on the three year average net income ending June 30 last and mirrors Senate language. No allowance for post control improvements reduces annual compensation by about 6.5 million dollars. Senate conferees may include all short line railroads under the act, leaving two main issues to resolve.
A Sunday aircraft crash near Fort Worth killed Royal Flying Corps mechanic W. A. Hayes and injured Lt. Bate Lt. Frank Flynn and Cadet B. E. Carroll. The four were aboard the same plane which dived 400 feet at Hicks field.
Hayes died at a hospital an hour later. Bate sustained a fractured leg and internal injuries from which recovery is unlikely. Lieutenant Flynn and Cadet Carroll were in the same plane. Carroll was being instructed by the officer. Flynn survived with a crushed face and head, remarkable vitality noted by hospital authorities. Carroll suffered a fractured jaw, broken knee, broken hip, and internal injuries.
An explosion at George W Armstrong and Company steel mills in Fort Worth, Texas, early today killed two Mexican workers and wounded several others. A crude pipe bomb shipped in a junk car caused the blast at 4 a.m., the pipe loaded with bullets and stopped with wood. The victims were working near shears when the device exploded.
No deaths at Camp Travis in the last five days. The pneumonia outbreak shows improvement with 265 cases reported as of Saturday, indicating the spread is abating.
Director General McAdoo ordered a rearrangement of passenger train schedules between Chicago and St Louis reducing daily trains from fifteen to nine. The change takes effect March 17.
Major I H Drennan, formerly in charge of ground officers training at Kelly Field No 1, is placed in command of the engineering department at Kelly No 2. Major Harmon is ordered to Fort Worth to lead similar work, with the engineering department crucial to training success and aviator safety.
The third liberty loan drive begins with a clergy meeting in Bexar County at 11 o'clock Tuesday and a public rally at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium. W H Clifford of the Federal Reserve Bank, sales manager, convenes the event. Judge John Lee Brooks of Dallas and Belgian Red Cross nurse Miss Marie van Gastel will speak.
City clergy and invited men and women will attend a Tuesday luncheon at the Gunter Hotel where Miss van Gastel will speak. She will relate experiences from her Red Cross nursing work in Belgium.
General C G Hoare supreme commander of the Royal Flying Corps in Canada and the United States narrowly escaped death after a forced landing at Hicks Field. He suffered severe facial and head injuries and is recuperating in Toronto. Officials withheld details though it is known the nose mouth and cheeks were badly lacerated and bruised.
The Chamber of Commerce received 150000 fresh onion sets from Crystal City. George A. Roark, assistant secretary and Garden Club chairman, arranged with a Crystal City grower to ship 100000 plants daily. Onion sets will be sold each morning in lots of 1000 for 46 cents, 500 for 20 cents, or 250 for 10 cents to 20000 Garden Club members to keep something growing year round and lower living costs.
The fifth classical concert of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra will be held Tuesday evening at Beethoven Hall. Conductor Julien Paul Britz leads the program with soloist Mrs. Clara Dugan Madison performing the MacDowell A Minor Concerto for piano and orchestra in three movements.
Washington March 4 The internal revenue bureau ruled earnings from poker are taxable income while gambling losses cannot be deducted when computing the tax. The decision applies to profits from poker games and related winnings, affecting players and organizers nationwide.
Mrs Ed Tolle of 128 Dashiell St reports constant distress in her back and sides with sharp pains when bending. Since starting Doan’s Kidney Pills in February the pains disappeared and she can bend over without discomfort.
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