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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1939
Page
12
Dr Lewis Weoressor argues the pound’s decline need not depress U S prices. He says Britain’s war burden and shift away from gold influence its imports and currency value. He urges a return to a free gold market and a higher dollar price level to restore healthy economic life.
The city recreation department staged its first annual autumn festival on Friday at Liam's Field with 275 children and 13 creation centers participating. Two baseball games and music by the Mexican Tipica orchestra, Mexican Christian Institute banjo band, and the Negro WPA orchestra accompanied speeches by Roger Stokes, acting recreation director, Mayor Maury Maverick, and Commissioner Henry Bein. Mrs Exa Young, playground director, arranged the program.
Don Politico names Legionnaire Clem J Smith as personality of the week for his auditorium event and ties the nomination to future political hopes. The piece recalls earlier Emma Tenayda’s week, notes calls for public office and mentions a riot linked to prohibitionists in 1887 involving Mayor Callaghan and others, with ongoing municipal court proceedings and various testimonies and adjournments through June 1887.
Two Englishmen Professor J P Trend and Professor Edward Dent of Cambridge left late for England from New Orleans aboard a steamer, with San Antonio police hoping to secure passage for freight. City traffic records show 228 accidents, 30 traffic deaths this year, and August injuries totaling 73 with 110 last August. Bexar county reports a drop in fatalities from January to August, 1929 to 39 for the same period.
Jeanine Ann Hardin 3 delayed police report says a car jumped the curb and struck a child in the front yard, with others injured in separate collisions including Felice Mendoza and Edward Padilla. Drivers Federico Huricada and Alfonso Gomez face the incident details. victims treated at Medical Arts and county hospitals.
Delegates at the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Boston tackled resolutions on U S foreign policy. Nebraska contingents urged United States withdrawal of protection from nationals remaining in war zones after warning, cash and carry on commodity sales to belligerents, and rigid government control of munitions. The convention also pressed for wartime veterans pensions matching those of the American War era.
Governor W. Lee O'Daniel reappoints James W. Daugherty of Geeville and Miller Ainsworth of Luling to the Texas College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville board of regents for six years. A. H. Kennet of Mercedes is named to replace J. D. Reickman of Karnes City, also for six years. Brown of Dallas named to pharmacy board for six years.
An intensive education and prevention campaign for tuberculosis among Mexicans in the Southwest is being organized by the National Tuberculosis Association. Secretary George Th. Crate of the local county group said a recent survey shows national mortality from TB is falling, but rates among Mexicans remain alarmingly high.
The column lists a parade of names and movements from the Big Bend area and beyond. Franklin Rueyner and Arthur Rouquel send postcards from Panama while others discuss Caribbean cruises, Kerrville speeches, and travels to Canada, New Mexico, Maryland, and Port Lavaca. Local residents including Richey, Tappan, Gillespies, Goad, Offer, Ammer, Wic ke, Mann, Seng, Jones, Elmer Pons, Myrna Erler, and Thale are noted for journeys, gatherings, and social events as townsfolk men and women reflect on routes, vacations, and upcoming plans.
Earl Johnson a former city health department employee was named deputy state labor commissioner in charge of the Bexar county office replacing B S Cavenaugh who led the local office for three years Johnson who lives at 919 West Elsmere Place is a brother of Judge Everett F Johnson of the Fifty seventh district court and Gar Wright Johnson attorney Cavenaugh said he had not been ousted until Johnson produced his credentials at the courthouse Thursday Johnson will receive 150 per month Cav anaugh
Oklahoma Kansas and New Mexico resumed lifting their self imposed 18 day ban on crude production to avert a price cut. Texas Louisiana and Arkansas had already eased restrictions while a coordinated shutdown had slowed pumps since August 16.
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