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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1940
Page
5
Ripley's photo of Bozo the dog sitting on a stair with front paws on a lower surface sparked chatter on North Flores Street. The animal, famed for alerting owner Esther Sutton to a prowler, has perched in that odd pose for years, drawing comment from neighbors.
By order of Col George F Moore commandant 20 San Antonio students Friday named as commissioned and non commissioned officers T B Richey named lieutenant colonel R G Tonkin commands cavalry H A Derrick second in command Company B W Haberer second in command Company B L A Glazer commands Company F H F Warnke leads Company A chemical service G T Worthington commands Battery E R W Parker Jr in command W L Mayfield captain Battery F F Naussauer Jr executive officer Battery G A S Downs first lieutenant Lee Rite Jr G R Somerville master sergeants W C Sleeper first sergeant and other appointments within engineers coast artillery field artillery infantry and composite regiments were announced as part of the officer corps.
The U S civil service commission announced reopenings for air corps technical school instructors in the war department amid a national defense staff shortage. Positions include instructor 3800 dollars per year associate instructor 3200 dollars assistant instructor 2600 and junior instructor 2000 with eligibles to be listed by field such as carburetion engines hydraulics instruments mechanics propellers fabric work sheet metal welding heat treating parachutes and air corps fundamentals.
A gusher caused oil to spray fronts and windows of Kreitz bakery at 2346 South Presa Neach partner shop at 2338 South Presa and a filling station at 2342 South Presa. Police were asked to investigate Friday night.
Rabbi Robert J. Kahn associate rabbi of Temple Beth Israel of Houston spoke at the Rotary club luncheon Friday noon. He will preach at weekly services Friday at 8 p.m. at Temple Beth-El with Obi Ephraim Frisch and Rabbi David Jacobson leading the service. The volunteer choir conducted by Mrs. L. L. Marks will perform.
Contracts awarded Friday for two army building projects at Fort Sam Houston and San Antonio at San Fernando cemetery. Bids totaled 167130 dollars for corrugated iron barracks and mess halls with completion by December 15. A separate bid of 4242 dollars covered temporary barracks and other structures at Fort Youston, to be opened Monday. A floral cross memorial and thousands attended the Archbishop Arthur Chamberlain rites.
The Petroleum Workers union announced it will rally 18,000 members against President Cardenas in oil industry reforms. Union leaders say discussions with the oil administration have broken off after a federal labor board authorized executives to break the collective contract and adopt the president's program amid stated economic needs.
Ruth Coit Hall will be known as St. Marys Hall starting in June 1841. Mise Coit, who retired in 1937, urged the trustees to formalize the change. The institution began as St. Marys Hall at its 1879 founding.
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