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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1945
Page
9
A vivid account from a Light’s composing room seller about the tangled modern web of laws and red tape in a vehicle sale. He details how a converted truck requires multiple offices, affidavits, licenses, gas coupons, tax steps, and ration checks, leaving the buyer and seller entangled in bureaucratic delays.
Major Horace M. Brown Jr. receives honors in northern Italy from Gen. Thomas E. Lewis of the 8th Blue Devil division. Brown, adjutant to the Blue Devil artillery, is son-in-law of Maj. Gen. Sloan and husband of Mrs. Brown of 233 Greeley Street, San Antonio. General Sloan previously led the 88th division. Brown’s wife remains in San Antonio as he serves overseas.
A justice of the peace ruled death by natural causes for B. E. Morrell, 50, of Memphis, found by an employee in his room at the Robert E. Lee hotel Tuesday after being discovered Monday afternoon.
Price panels of war rationing bonds will check prices for tires tubes and related services in 0 counties or via San Antonio district during April. Clifton George Jr announces the survey to measure compliance with pricing, record keeping and posting rules. Sellers must provide purchase details and post ceiling prices for new and used tires and tubes and related services. This general survey covers about 350,000 establishments nationwide.
The Texas House rereferred a bill requiring non-highway users of gasoline to pay a four cent per gallon tax to the revenue and taxation committee after highway panel objections. The move eliminates highway committee authority to act further. Representative Hubert A. Lee led the rereferral, aiming taxes stay with revenue and taxation for funding all weather road projects.
The Old Trail Drivers will hold its rehearsal monthly dance at 6 p.m. Thursday in Pioneers Memorial hall. Ab Brite and his roediesten will play.
Dist. by International News Service, Bugs Baer rails at editors and reporters in a caustic column. The piece mocks bombastic rhetoric about bombing Japan and the Mikado as a jab at aloof leadership, provoking a heated newspaper reaction in Bisbee, Arizona.
Col W A Pickering’s daughter 20 plans to shift from University of Texas radio studies to airborne landings equipment. She travels to San Antonio to spend a week with her parents before serving as civilian engineering aide at Wright Field. Army Air Forces rep Margaret Ann Smith is taking applicants for a 24 week aircraft radio course starting April. Participants receive $145 monthly plus tuition. Several San Antonio women completed the A A F program, including Maxine McLean Joyce Brown Betty Morrison Ingrid Granberg Eugenia Wilson Evalene Wetherall Margaret Books Jacquelyn Goffey and Jacqueline Lehmann.
Mike Ada and J D Gasper report multiple break ins on Tuesday. Ada found jewelry worth 100 dollars and eight dollar shoes missing after burglars hit his cafe on Eas Commerce and home. Gasper fired twice at thieves who later stole fog lights and two caps from his car. The note mentions the first American ambulance plane used in World War I at Lake Charles Louisiana.
From this area, seven men from San Antonio and vicinity serve at a Supers fortress base in the Marianas. The list includes Manuel Tamez and Jesse L. Meador Jr plus several others with their addresses and family details.
A garbled wartime note suggests fear of a Japanese attack on Washington. The speaker mentions the White House and a straw ferry on a shoreline, but the meaning is unclear and the text is largely nonsensical.
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