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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1940
Page
7
The Edison Institute reports that power production for the week ended May 11 totaled 2.3875 billion kilowatt hours, a slight rise from the previous week and up 10 percent from the year-ago period. All major regions contributed, led by a 15.8 percent gain in the central industrial states.
Four members of the Thomas ion High School band, all Preach horn players, returned with two first places at a regional horn meet in WAKO. Bands from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico competed. Wayne Brown, 16, won first prize as a French horn soloist. The quartet featured Gerry Slosson, Barbara Sheffer, and John Shults. ED Giffen directs.
In Dallas on May 15 Theodra Muldrow, 48, a Black man, was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of a white woman. Ernest McCay, 15, received an indeterminate reform school term. Albert Wesley Jr., 18, is slated for trial May 27.
In a long session Commissioner Uhr faced sharp criticism as "outstanding obstructionist" while court officials and civic delegations debated funding and testing voting machines. A 300 machine rental proposal and a bond plan for both machines and a tuberculosis hospital were discussed with a Friday hearing set and a potential July primary test.
The San Antonio Talmud Torah will hold its annual picnic at 3 p.m. Sunday on the grounds of Agudas Achim synagogue and Hebrew Community Center at 12 East Quincy Street. The event features reels of The Furim Pictures taken by J. Lewin, president of the Hebrew community and school. The U. S. consumes 800 million matches daily, about 300 billion a year.
In a suburb, 33 voters favored voting machines with attorney Guy Bonham warning that a county-wide rollout without an educational campaign risks denying residents a fair choice. He urged careful preparation before any broader adoption.
Fort Worth May 15 Franklin D Roosevelt leads in the Texas State networks political poll with 59.3 percent of the popular vote among 10 percent of registered voters. John Garner 22 percent, Hull 8, Dewey 5.8, Parley 2.3, Taft 16. Governor race shows O Daniel at 49.5 percent, Thompson 23.8, Ferguson 1 14, Sadler 4.1, Harry Hines 1 06. Railroad commissioner voters favor Brooks 35.5, Culberson 18.6, Hardin 15.7, McDonald 13.4, Hill 4, Smith 6.9. Elliott Roosevelt projects completion of 120 000-voter poll by June.
PORTSMOUTH New Hampshire navy records rename the sunken submarine Squalus to Sailfish as a fresh log opens. The vessel sank in a faulty dive last May 23 at 40 fathoms and was raised, with 26 men perishing in the tragedy.
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