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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
12
Mexico City reports that sixteen thousand Mexican workers have gone to the United States to ease farm and rail labor shortages this year with 28,000 more to depart soon. Contracts for 29,000 workers already in the United States have been renewed, according to Secretary of Labor Francisco Trujilo Gurria.
Washington dispatch reports that draft deferment will cover about 40,000 key workers aged 18 to 24 to protect essential war program activities. Officials outlined a list of must plants and said younger men with irrefutable essentiality should be deferred while broader deferments under 26 are restricted.
Funeral services for Morris Bell 21 Marine Second Great die in Jacksonville Florida after a train auto crash in which he was a passenger. Held at Akers funeral home at 10 a m Friday burial at Mission burial park. Bell son of Mr and Mrs Bell Cliff Avenue father principal at Harlandale High School. One companion killed two others hurt. he had been at Naval Auxiliary Station Geed field Fort Bliss. Brother James Bell at Officers Candidate School Port Sill Oklahoma. FR SAN ANTONIO LIGHT MARCH 18 1944.
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