40 Hour Work Week Begins October 24 Across Nation
Washington reports a 40 hour work week with time and a half for overtime becomes law four weeks from today, replacing the 42 hour standard. The change affects interstate commerce employers, with exemptions for defense contracts and machine tools, engines, and aircraft, and may not greatly reduce weekly pay for most workers.
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Washington
U.S. Bureau of Labor
Defese
Walsh- Healey
Wage-Hown
Robbery by assault yields 15 year sentence for Jack English
Jack English of Edge hotel address was sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary by Judge W W McCrory in Criminal District court after being charged with robbery by assault for allegedly holding up Frank Galpin at 806 Goliad street on September 15 and taking $2. English was on parole from the penitentiary. A two year suspended sentence was given to Frank Nelson of 128 Howard street or 106 Maverick street for passing a forged instrument, by Judge Moe Grory.
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Jack English
Edge
State Penitentiary
Dudge
W. W. McCrory
Criminal District Court
English
Frank Galpin
Goliad Street
Frank Nelson
Howard Street
Maverick Street
Moe Grory
Jay Celebrated by 23rd Infantry at Fort Sam Houston
Maj Gen Walter Krueger opened an all day Organization Day celebration for the Twenty third Infantry at Fort Sam Houston. General Krueger spoke at morning formation led by Col C K Nulsen. The holiday included a picnic and a free vaudeville show in the old gymnasium with Chaplain BM Vines in charge of the program.
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Walter Krueger
Twenty-third Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Krueger
Infantry
Col
C.K. Nulsen
Infantry Post
BM. G. Vines
Postmaster Quill Reports Registration Blanks Shortage
Old news department notes Dan Quill says alien registration blanks ran out Wednesday morning. Stations opened again Thursday but supply exhausted. closed Thursday afternoon and to reopen Monday. Registrations reach 10 115 of an expected 15 000 total as the postmaster loses count of blanks runs out.
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Old News Department
Dan Quill
Quill
Red Cross to Meet at San Antonio Vocational High
Teacher sponsors of the Junior Red Cross will meet Thursday at 4 30 p m at the San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School Plans for the years work will be discussed Miss Inez Poster chairman of the organization has announced.
Giannini U S dispute heats up at bankers convention
Atlantic City September coverage reports A P Giannini clashing with the federal government over the American Bankers Association nominating process. W L Hemingway of St Louis is set as unopposed candidate for second vice president, sparking Giannini’s protest and threats of a floor fight. Russell G Smith of Bank of America weighed in, urging delay.
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P. D. Houston
Nashville
Tenn
American Bankers’ Association
Robert M. Hanes
Winston- Salem
N. C
Atlantic City
N. J
A. P. Giannin
Pacific Coast
American Bankers Association
W.L. Hemingway
Louis
Giannini
Glannin
Russell G. Smith
Bank of America of
San Francisco
Chahman
Smith
Donkey Rides Free as Zoo Builds New Trail
The San Antonio Zoological Society begins a new donkey trail outside the fence to move donkey rides offsite. Free rides for children start Thursday with tickets issued at the main entrance. Richard Friedrich announces three Colombian rails migratory birds from San Diego zoo and three trained elephants for a three ring circus arriving next Tuesday or Wednesday. The circus is set to begin early October with lion and tiger acts twice daily, three times on weekends and holidays.
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San Antonio Zoological Society
Richard Friedrich
Fred Stark
Priedrich
San Diego Zoo
Youngsters Hurt in Accidents in San Antonio
Two two year old boys were hospitalized after accidents Thursday. Pete Thermis, 3, from 1001 Kayton Avenue, suffered a severe gash under the left eye from a fall on a wire fence and faced emergency eye-saving surgery at Santa Rosa hospital. Earl Wayne Byrd, 3, of 304 Rose Avenue, received a head injury after falling from a car on Broadway. his mother, Mrs. Everett Byrd, said the door opened, ejecting the child onto the street, at Medical and Surgical hospital.
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San Antonio
Pete Thermis
Kayton Avenue
Santa Rosa Hospital
Earl Wayne Byrd
Rose, Avenue
Medical and Surgical Hospital
Broadway
Everett Byrd
Earl
Attorneys Hold Conference With Grand Jury In San Antonio
Attorneys held a conference with the Bexar county grand jury on Thursday. Assistant District Attorneys Buck Gillinger and Acchie Brown were called in, Brown with criminal court statutes and decisions, suggesting the jury was considering indictments and likely to summon additional witnesses.
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Bexar County
Grand Jury
LJ. “Buck” Gillinger
Acchie Brown
Brown
Pridiy
WPA Exhibit for State Fair Ready
Al Melinger WPA public relations representative travels to Dallas to supervise the first assembly of 9 WPA exhibit items for the State Fair. Sidney Lanier school hosts Friday event beginning October with 12 parcels of pictures showing WPA work and payments by the WPA orchestra for the state.
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al Melinger
WPA
Lurnea
Dallas
Lanier
Sidney Lanter
Parking space added for Texas A and M Tulsa game
Before the October 5 football game additional parking will be prepared in the old rock quarry flats near Alamo stadium to handle between 5000 and 6900 cars. Dr. James P. Hollers said cooperation with police and school staff will ease traffic flow. Extending two streets to provide more entrances, including St Marys in Koehler park, may require a concrete bridge and costs approximately $30,000.
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Texas A
Mtulsa
Old Rock Quarry
Alamo Stadium
James P. Hollers
Board of Education
Hoilers
Paul E. Steffler
St. Mary's
Koehler Park
Broadway
Steffler
Good Fellowship Gesture Futile
District patrolman R Hernandez received an unexplained call at a house on Avant avenue on Wednesday night. The man of the house invited him in and proposed a friendly favor, afterward Hernandez realized the caller was the motorist he had stopped earlier that evening. He declined and suggested saving such efforts for the jail.
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R. Hernandes
House
Avant Avenue
Hernandez
Health Card Warning For Food Establishments
City health officer R. W. A. King declared war on employing persons without health cards in food handling venues. Inspectors found 30 workers without cards. warnings issued to employees and proprietors. Charges will be pursued in Corporation Court Friday or Saturday, with police ready to arrest offenders, to enforce the ordinance. Better values in good used cars offered in.
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R. W. A. King
King
Healthy Department
Health Department
Corporation Court
Police Department
City approves immediate curb on loading and emergency zones
The city council passed an ordinance prohibiting parking in emergency zones at all times and in loading zones from 8 a.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays. Fines can reach 200 dollars. The measure, created to take effect immediately, had been misplaced since June despite prior readings.
Fifty Year Light Subscriber Remembers Early San Antonio Paper
Peter Wrreciono of 422 North Street celebrated fifty years of continuous Light newspaper ownership, recalling his start in October 1889 when San Antonio’s Daily Light was printed near Losoya and Commerce. Born in Upper Silesia, he moved to the United States in 1889 and now works as a sewer treatment plant gardener.
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Peter Wrreciono
Northstreet
The
Light
United States
Wreciono
Peter
Wrzeelono
San Aditonio
George Dulling
Joske
Losoya
Commerce Streets
Charlie Bleder
Peter Recalls
Upper Silesia
Germany
Wrzeciowo
San Antonio
Sgartener
San Antonio Sewtage System
British Subs Sink German Supply Vessels
London reports British submarines torpedoed three German supply ships. Submarine H-4 attacked a convoy of eight vessels, sinking two, while the Tuna reported destruction of a large supply ship protected by two destroyers.
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London
Admiralty
Tuna
Natchez Opens Fifth Bridge Spanning Mississippi River
Natchez Mississippi opens a new bridge completing a $40,000,000 program to span the lower Mississippi. The $4,000,000 structure links the historic bluffs near Natchez with Louisiana lowlands and completes a chain of bridges at 10 mile intervals between New Orleans and Memphis.
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Natchez
Miss
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Stout
Memons
Tenn
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23Rd Infantry
RED Cross
Mert
Bankers Head
U. S
Linding Zone
Peter Wrzeciono
U.S
Mississippi
Ehind
Mercury 8
Mercury
Lincoln
Kinsel-Robinson Company
Lincoln-Zefhyr
Mercury Distributors
Fannin
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