Gale Storm Strikes City Causing Extensive Damage
A severe hailstorm at 9 26 p m damaged Broadway area businesses. Police cars stopped and many windows were shattered including Smith Motor Sales and Ledlow Adams Motor. Public Service crews repaired circuits as 10 were knocked out and 75 repairmen worked overnight. Large plate glass panes and car windows were broken, car lots suffered extensive damage, and insurance loss estimates rose with windshields dented and awnings wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith Motor Sales Company
Ledlow- Adams Motor Company
Broadway
Public Service Company
Transit Company
Cashion Motor Company
Mission City Pontiac Company
North Alamo Street
McKinley
Southern Pacific
Howard Beckelmann
Rose Marie Buffet
East Commerce Street
Hen Vogel
Martha Coulter
Galveston
White Park
Leona
TE. Stats-Steel
Alphonso Lopez
San Saba Street
Eva Jimenez
North
Navidad Street
Nogalitos Street
Union protests health hazards at cement plant site
Laurence Taub of United Cement Workers union appeared before the health board to protest conditions near the Longhorn Portland Cement Company. He cited sewage from workers’ houses draining into a standing pond at the plant, creating a health hazard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence ‘Aun
United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers’ Union
Longhorn Portland Cement Company
Health Board
Taub
Cholera Threat Forces Food Ban and Damages in Tokyo
All American personnel in Japan were barred from consuming Japanese seafood due to cholera risk. Swimming or fishing in Tokyo Bay were forbidden. Military airports saw minor damage as planes were blown from hangars. At Municipal airport guard E M Carl reported planes wrecked. Police Chief Aubrey Hopkins reported extensive roof damage. Radio service interrupted, networks off air for 30 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Bay
E. M. Carl
Aubrey Hopkins
Polio Epidemic Fears Prompt City Health Meeting
San Antonio doctors and officials gathered to assess a rising polio like disease. They warned of a severe crippling outbreak starting from the Alamo Heights basin, urged cleanliness, bird and fowl transmission awareness, and child vaccination for under one year. Dr. Nixon and Col. Livesay emphasized rapid action and tissue collection to identify virus type while hospital systems prepared to support a national foundation funded fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.I. Nixon
Col
H. R. Livesay
Melvin Thorner
Alamo Heights
Thorner
Nixon
San Antonio
Street Plan Adds Flanders Sewer Project in Bond Issue
Street Commissioner Paul Steffler announced adding the Flanders street area to the proposed 1.1 million bond plan for storm sewers. Engineer HW Scott reported a lake forms after rains near Somerset road with no surface drainage. one man used a boat to reach his house. Postwar plan suggested an open ditch, but Steffler favored underground drainage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Steffler
Flanders Street
HW. H. Scott
Flanders
Somerset Road
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Gale
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Laredo
Bonnie J. Leyendecker
Texas House of Representatives
Webb
Zapata
Leyendecker
Colglazier and Hoff
State Highway Department
K. OF C
San Antonio Knights of Columbus
Order
Amarillo
Joe Klein
N. A. Quintanilla
Sam Libre
Health Department
State Health Department
Neal M. Randolph
Ted McGregor
Hhave
Austin
Polio
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Gulf Coast Dusting Company
Jall
Pat Neff JR
INS
Texas
Ausin
Hobart
Winn Velov
Arangas Pass
Abilene
Ag Nts
San Antonia
Medics Back Health Board
Sais
James A. Bethea
Brooke General Hospital
Livesay
Red Light District
Grant
Alamo Plaza
Af Commerce
Shaw's
Terthy
S. Oainty Solitaire
Texas’ Greatest Jewelers
East Houston Street
Psoriasis
Siroil Laboratories, Inc
Detroit
Michigan
Grants
Chambray
Union
Red & White
W. T. Grant Co
Commerce
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