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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1940
Page
2
The piece argues for strict censorship to curb degenerate stage content in cities and to protect homes and youth from vulgarity. It claims public taste and higher morals will elevate literature, noting Miss Temple's success as evidence that purer art yields social and financial rewards.
Reports from Vienna and Budapest claim German forces massing along the Slovak frontier and near Hungary aiming toward Romania. Observers warn of rapid march plans, with heavy airpower and supply flows moving into Eastern Slovakia while Germany seeks oil to sustain its war machine, potentially tightening pressure across the Balkans.
In Bucharest on May 17, Romania decreed that all oil firms must sell and store in their own reservoirs any petroleum products needed by the army for potential war use. Private sources say up to 2,000,000 tons may be purchased by the army. The decree covers all firms, foreign or Romanian. Military circles report a new man called for each reservist on leave for farm work. Army strength is estimated at over 1,000,000 men.
A dense weather data compilation lists wind directions and speeds, humidity readings, precipitation totals, tides, and moon phases. It includes May mean humidity, rainfall since January, and daily high and low temperatures for numerous U S cities with brief condition notes.
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