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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1946
Page
16
J Franklin Spears is honored in San Antonio with a farewell ceremony. A WWI cavalry veteran and lawyer, he led reform in both Texas houses and opposed the sulphur lobby. He served again in WWII, leaving a legacy of courage and public duty.
Washington columnist George Rothwell Brown criticizes Senate debates on British financial aid as distractions from domestic problems. He compares current policy to a social worker ignoring her family while assisting others, noting the nation’s coal strike amid grand schemes to bolster Britain.
Hollywood gossip reports Johnny Weissmuller will star in Tarzan again with Sol Lesser, starting with Tarzan's Dangerous Game. Ben Lyon named executive talent director in London. Dan Duryea shows an Adolphe Menjou vibe in White Tie and Tails. Talks of Mary Martin in Magi jyh Miller and It Happened on Fifth Avenue add star power. Bogart eyes Lauren Bacall for Dead Reckoning while Mae West Rings Me Twice teases Shuberts.
May 31 1926 L C Bishop head of the city health department gains new authority to enforce sanitation. Licenses to operate will be granted only after meeting sanitary laws. Mayor John W Robbin vows to preserve the Municipal auditorium grounds and keep any new structures from marring its beauty. A separate note reports a 21 year old aviator seized with a shipload of grain alcohol in a border smuggling case between San Antonio and Mexico.
Westbrook Pegler accuses Henry Morgenthau former secretary of the treasury of aligning with the left in the Democratic party and enjoying private use of a luxury Lockheed Lodestar plane on Beacon trips. The piece details fuel ration abuses, Secret Service guards, and censorship surrounding his private flights.
Doctors Louis Taft and Henry J. Tamen of Philadelphia report that chronic digestive upsets may stem from common foods fats and sugars rather than obvious abnormalities. After X ray exams of the bowel stomach and bladder showed no issues the researchers identified spastic colon linked to regular dietary fats and sugars. They caution that many foods upset bowel function but only a few trigger persistent symptoms in susceptible patients.
Topics cover diary honesty versus self pity in self observation and memory. It notes teenage girls showing sadness in diaries while cautions on diaries exaggerating feelings. It also cites education linked to family size and Bernays critique of Public Opinion tendencies.
A statewide health institute for Texas club women will be held soon after a public health study by each club. Mrs. James W. Hampton leads the project with involvement from local officials schools physicians and organizations to examine disease control maternal and child health water sanitation hospital facilities and community health services.
A teenage girl asks if rumors from peers or the Merchant Marine boyfriend are prompting a breakup. The advisor suggests the man may create stories to end the relationship rather than speak openly, and urges clear communication to resolve doubts.
Dr H N Bundesen notes patients often feel fullness belching and heartburn after fats and sugars. Diarrhea occurs with any sugar. various fats trigger trouble. Symptoms improve when fats and sugars are removed. intolerance may cause digestive disorders and warrants medical consultation.
Pattern 9208 quick like magic features princess lines and easy sewing for teen sizes 10 to 16. It requires 238 yards of fabric and is offered by the San Antonio Light pattern department with 20 cents payment and order details.
A swirl of show business gossip cites Walter Winchell style chatter about food shortages and rising chef wages at resorts, feuds between Antoinette Bonnelly and Lucien Lelong, Joe E. Lewis at Ciro's headed to Cleveland, and Martha Stewart in Hollywood amid divorce law chatter. It notes radio agency cutbacks, tax probes into insurers, and lurid notes on socialites and Neumann-like scandals, with mentions of Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, and Frank Loesser.
A San Antonio Light reader Linked as Olga E. Gigsthad writes about government sugar conservation during a world shortage. She questions rationing fairness, notes homemade preserves vs store bought, and asks why Canada was not rationed during the war, signing as a long time subscriber.
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