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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1916
Page
2
Mrs. C R Tower will read a paper on San Antonio the Ideal City to Ottumwa federated women’s clubs. Her husband, candy manufacturer, seeks data on utilities population finances for inclusion in the paper likely to appear in their local paper. A San Antonio booklet with the data has been mailed to Mr Tower.
In Belfast on October 7 the Harland & Wolff shipyard announced it will begin three freight vessels using a standardized construction principle. More ships are ordered on the same method which reportedly cuts initial cost by about one third and speeds delivery by about 25 percent.
In Austin the carriers in the Western District of Texas equity docket filed a 25 page replication to the Texas attorney general's answer in the rate injunction case. The document denies any legislative act estopping action against Interstate Commerce Commission orders and asserts federal supremacy over state railroad regulation. It argues no land grant law can bar carriers from contesting unjust or confiscatory rates or FCC orders.
The text outlines that Texas land grants to railroad companies were granted with conditions to survey two sections, finance surveys, and build miles of track. It notes the grants were made when railroad transport was scarce and lands largely valueless, many certificates resold for little, and later foreclosures moved lands to third parties. It also argues the 1853 state law did not provide for repayment to the carriers and contradicts claims of rate divisions and state rights to reacquire properties.
The reply argues Texas intrastate traffic costs 100 to 300 percent higher per unit than interstate. It says free passes mostly benefit employees and officials, and that low passenger rates and special discounts support travel and revenue. The document comprises 19 divisions and is signed by rail company lawyers.
London reports a government department being created to manage demobilization. A card index will record each soldier’s identity occupation and prewar wages to aid reintegration. The department will nominally be under the War Office but will gain importance as the war ends.
The Ministry of Munitions has expanded from a small start under David Lloyd George to about 6000 staff, growing at 300 per month. It now occupies 21 buildings, runs millions of munition workers, oversees mechanical transport for Allied armies, and supplies a third of France’s raw material needs.
A New York physician extols iron intake over medicines to restore strength. He promotes ordinary nuxated iron, claiming it doubles strength and endurance within ten to fourteen days, and offers refunds if results fail or if organic issues exist. The ad targets fatigued, nervous readers and urges testing by exercise.
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