Kelly Field not to be diminished by hospital order
Chamber of Commerce assurances say wartime orders will not reduce Kelly Field’s aviation imports. Camp Greene near Charlotte should not imply Kelly Field will lose its capacity as a key training and mobilization site, officials note. Army expansion per Winston dispatches supports ongoing activity and importance of Kelly Field.
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Kelly Field
Chamber of Commerce
Camp Greene
Charlotte
Winston
War Plans Highlight Aviation Base and Camp Facilities
The report notes possible need for two concentration camps and details Melly Field expansion with workshops capable of producing five hundred aircraft machinists weekly. It states the War Department will not build a base hospital for aviation, deeming it unnecessary, while Senator Morris Shephard quotes General Saltzman calling for more hospital capacity at Camp Greene. An emergency hospital exists at Kelly Field with anticipated support from Fort Sam Houston and Camp Travis.
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Melly Field
Old Cruiser Newark to Return as Navy Quarantine Ship
The Newark a ship built in 1887 to 1851 will rejoin the navy as a quarantine vessel stationed at Newport Rhode Island until the war’s end before returning to the public health service. Newark served around Cuba the Philippines and Central American states and at Guantnamo. The vessel will be towed from Providence to Newport after extensive refitting.
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Newark
Navy
New York Evening Post
Navy Register
United States Public Health Service
Providence
Tt. I
Quaraine Service
Newport
R. 1
Public Health Service
Cuba
Philippine Lands
Central American States
Guantnamo
Ports eyed for reinforced concrete shipyard jobs
San Antonio leaders joined engineers in touring Port Aransas Rockport and Aransas Pass to assess sites for Emergency Fleet Corporation concrete shipyards. Officials expect a Washington report within weeks and construction to begin within sixty days with Rockport Port Aransas and Iselly Field among candidates.
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San Antonio
Port Aransas
Emergency Fleet Corporation
G. Parker
I. W. Hubbard
EWO
Washington
Pacific Coast
J. H. Haile
Chamber of Commerce
Iselly Field
Camp Travis
Corpus Christi
Sant OC. Bell
George CU
Holmgreen
John KR
Martin
J. 3
Peter
A. K. Ponder
C. Leel
Rockport
Aransas Pass
Tnis
Hockport
Gulf Coast
Minneapolis to Set Fly Traps to Fight Pest
Public health official Dr. H N Guilford says Minneapolis may install municipal fly traps to curb breeding sites at an estimated cost not exceeding 74 cents per trap. Traps, modeled after those used in other cities, would be placed along streets where flies are most numerous to reduce the pest.
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Minneapolis
H. N. Guilford
Guilford
Minneapoli
Countess Plans 10 Visit This Country
Lady Drogheda of London organized a masterful air craft exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery. She will sail soon for America to display her collection.
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Lady Drogheda
London
Grosvenor Gallery
America
Plan Wider Street Aimed At Guilbeau Widening
A proposal to widen Guilbeau Street between South Flores and Garden Streets will be brought to the council. The plan envisions a 60 foot curb to curb street with a bridge over the San Antonio River linking Guilbeau to Tolle Place, ending dead ends on both Guilbeau and Tolle Place. A conference with Mayor Bell Dr EG O Hyans and Selig Deutschman discussed deeding land on the south side of Guilbeau school property and implications for Carnegie Library board land on Market Street.
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Guilbeau Street
South Flores
Garden Streets
Katy
San Antonio
Tolle Place
Garden Street
Quilbeau School
Bell
EG. 0. Hyans
Selig Deutschman
Fred Terrell
Carnegie Library Board
Market Street
Special Hotel Rates for Officers and Enlisted Men
Hotels in American cities offer patriotically reduced rates for those in uniform. The Grunewald New Orleans joins the program with floor rates for single and double rooms, detatched bath or private bath, and per night charges. A Notel officer’s club room on the balcony floor is also noted. A Kansas City testimony reports a hotel bill of 1 per night for in uniform. A teamster school under Maj. R R 1 Migdalski opens Friday at Remount Station No 2 Aviation Tex. Six week course enrolls sixteen enlisted from the Toth Depot Brigade and two from the 359th Infantry.
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Camp Travis
Grunewald
New Orleans
Applerble
Kansas City
Nan
Migdalski
Fridsvyy
Remount Station No. 2
Aviation, Tex
Toth Depot Brigade
359Th Infantry
Remarkable escapes in London raids amid widespread destruction
London Telegraph reports heavy bombardment in a western London residence district. Many buried or injured as ceilings collapsed and debris entombed residents. Rescue teams and medical staff treated the wounded through the night, with witnesses recalling narrow escapes and a golfer and others surviving largely unharmed.
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London
London Telegraph
T Yo
Mrs. Brown
Wright
Ohio Blind Make Brooms Trade Training Leads Blind to Independence
The Columbus Dispatch notes Ohio’s blind commission excels at empowering adults through training, making them self sufficient and improving their outlooks. The agency has expanded many experimental programs and stands as a model others watch, with trade training for the sightless highlighted as key.
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Commission
Ohio
Fits Commission
Columbus Dispatch
Hia
Trade Training Department For Sight
Break the Fetters that Bind You
An exhortation urges immediate effort for success in wealth and honor. It emphasizes health and sharp nerves as essential, warning that only fast, focused action will keep up with today’s pace. It urges readers to prepare themselves and maintain top health and resolve.
Sensapersa Blood Tonic Promises Vitality Boost
An advertisement touts Sensapersa as a blood tonic and nerve seedive to combat insomnia nervous indigestion irritability and memory weakness. It claims doubled nerve health in ten days with two sizes priced at 0c and 1.0 at local druggists or The Wagner Drug Store.
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Lome
Moore
LEEDS
Just
Houston Street
Spasia
Man Laboratory
Philadelphia
S. A. Machine and Supply Co
Whisenant’s Home-Made
Avenue C and
Travis St
Mike
Gulf Towns
San Antonians
Aransas
South Texas
Tio Grande
Countess OF
Drogheda
Katy Depot
School For Teamsters
Mia
Efe E. Klenpe
Averill
Minnesota
Fargo Sanitarium
A. M. Fischer
Palm Beach
Workingmen’s
Kaufman
345Th Field Artillery
Ht. S Abernathy
Camp Bulle Ls Thursd
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