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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1939

Page

2

Hard Work and Faith Build Utah Family's Success

Pleasant Grove Utah Sept INS The Christiansen family writes an old fashioned American success story on wind blown plains. Eight years ago Papa lost his mechanic job and faced foreclosure but they used two assets faith and savings to buy four acres of weed choked land. They pulled weeds built a two room house created a garden and now maintain barn cottage jams mower gardens fence lines irrigation ditches and four acres of fruit and an orchard. His work ethic gained him a mail route up American Folk canyon proving a formula for success: anyone can build a better home and living with hard work.

Pleasant Grove Utah Christiansen Utsh Christiansens Papa Christiansen Chriskarsens Papa Mema Theat

French Victory Front Push Extends 13 Mile Line

War report cites French victories over Germans on a 13 mile front near Paris to Verdun with heavy losses for crown prince troops. Berlin claims Maubeuge captured after two days of fighting toward the Aisne. Polish front reported as German drive repulsed near Lemburg while Tinant razed in southeast Poland. London notes a British attack damaging a German tank column.

In News Service Kaiser Paris Verdun Berlin Maubeuge Lemburg Poland Tinant London

How to Pronounce War Names

A guide titled How to Pronounce War Names by the Ankhetated Pree offers a Polish pronunciation key for Eastern Front terms. It lists target place names like Bydgoszcz Krakow Lodz Gdynia and Wilno with phonetic renderings and notes on rivers such as Wisla and the Vistula.

Bydgoszcz Bromberz Gdynin G-dee-nyz_ Katonice—Kah-in-vre-ts¢ Klele—Ky . Krakow—Kra-kut. Lodz—wWoodzh Taublin Loob-leen Tyow iLemberm Naréew Plonsk Pwons Poomo-zhe Poznan Poz-nan Prxemysi—Pshe Pool-tusk Bandomierz Wesrstawa Warsaw

Polish defenses north of Bromberg fall short in war report

A wartime dispatch describes Polish fortifications near Bromberg as incomplete with concrete work unfinished and roads blocked by improvised barriers. It notes trenches lightly dug, incomplete bunkers, scarce anti tank barriers, and somber scenes of war including abandoned farms and damaged trains along the road.

Bromberg

Eats Way to Farm Aid in Federal Surplus Plan

America shifts to farm prosperity via food stamp program expansion. It targets moving surplus crops into relief distribution, with trials in Rochester Toronto Dayton Seattle and Birmingham and a Des Moines rollout. Officials hint at extending to 100 cities and testing in Ottawa county Oklahoma with expanded access for low income private sector workers. The scheme began in Rochester NC using exchangeable orange stamps for groceries, offering a 50 cent blue stamp per dollar to be spent on listed surplus items like flour fruit prunes cornmeal butter dried beans rice and cabbage.

New York Sent INS America Rochester Dayton Ohio Seattle Wash Birmingham Des Moines Town Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation Wallace Pottawa Tomie County Oklahoma Feer N. C Commierces

Neutrality Among Radio Hams Urged by League

Newington Conn Sept. A proclamation urging strict neutrality among the 50 000 radio amateurs in the United States was broadcast by the American Radio Relay league. It urged conversations be limited to technical subjects and that no military information be disclosed. The proclamation warned that any amateur who disobeyed would be severely punished.

Newington Conn Sept INS American Radio Relay League

Sadler Favors Hike in Oil Allowable

AUSTIN Sept 8 Railroad Commissioner Jerry Sadler said the European demand has risen and he would favor increasing the Texas oil production allowance after Friday's proration heating. Commission members indicated the nation's largest producer would see a 16 percent cut as hostilities began.

Sadler Austin Jerry Sadler United States Texas Moy~ Fiay Commission

Anglo-Saxon burial ship unearthed near Ipswich estate

Archeologists reveal a possible 1400 year old Anglo-Saxon burial ship on Mrs Br brety’s Ipswich estate, described as England’s most important find since Tutankhamen. Excavation by Guy Maynard and team uncovered a large vessel beneath a tumulus with carved bearded faces, a cabin like roof structure, and a ceremonial scenter with a four-faced stone.

London INS Englan Tutanskhamen Inswich F. M. Pretty Olmaxerd Guy Maynard Ipswich Breity Hans Wellév

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