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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1940
Page
2
A Barrsdale field army bomber made a forced landing in a pasture near Shreveport Louisiana with eight aboard while returning from Blackwell Oklahoma. It could not be safely towed for takeoff and was to be shipped back to base. No injuries reported.
Twelve courses for night students will be offered at the San Antonio public night school beginning Monday at 5 30 p m announced by C E Troutz. Classes meet each Monday Tuesday and Thursday from 5 30 to 9 40 p m. Installation will be given by twelve commercial field experts. Subjects include Office practice typewriting bookkeeping tachiste calculating machine practice letter writing business English shorthand dictation commercial Spanish business arithmetic public speaking and civil service exam coaching.
Registration opens for St Marys fall term and Woodlawn school admissions with specific registration days 8 am to 4 pm at St Marys and 7 pm to 9 am at downtown college night school. Civil Aeronautics Authority flight training applications number 73 but details pending from GAA. Four new classrooms added at the Woodlawn and Wight schools to handle enrollment growth.
Bro Urian HW Fleege arrives in San Antonio to take a professorship of willi talion at St Marys university. He comes from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC where he earned his Ancler's degree in June. He has taught at the Society of Mary schools in Belleville Missouri Chicago and elsewhere. He is a native of Dubuque Iowa.
A mangled census line claims Turkey’s population split with 7,800,100 males but the female count is unreadable, showing missing digits. The fragment hints at a 25 year period data error and suggests a significant female figure omitted or corrupted in the record.
A new law in Turkey mandates every lien holder to adopt a family surname. The measure aims to standardize naming across records and reduce confusion in property and financial transactions nationwide.
In an East Canadian fort ceremony the Royal Navy handed over 30 American reconditioned destroyers. British sailors lowered their colors and marched ashore as flags were hoisted aboard. Captains’ pennants were raised on the destroyers, signaling a ready postwar transfer for hemisphere defense.
Turkey reports about 6000 miles of good roads and 4000 miles in need of repair understating the scale of road maintenance needs.
In Asuncion provisional president Higinia Merinigo takes over after a fatal air crash killed President Jose Felix Extigarruba and Senora Estigarripa. Merinigo retains cabinet, appoints Pantino Antala as war minister, and Estigurcita, aged 52, historically led Paraguay in the Chaco war.
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