Army Building Chieftain Derzhimer to Leave for Baltimore
Capt A F P Derzhimer San Antonio construction quartermaster who supervised 15 000 dollars in improvements at army posts over five years will depart for Baltimore in September. He will be replaced by Capt Edwin Dunstan who has served in Washington DC. Derzhimer oversaw 168 non commissioned officers quarters at Fort San Houston and construction at Randolph Field including paving hangar protection chapel schoolhouse and drainage. He supervised the new 2 000 000 hospital at Fort Sam Houston now nearing completion and worked on Kelly Field runways paving a 200 000 gallon gasoline storage tank and first permanent buildings. Bonds and hardware at Brooks Field and other air corps projects also occurred under his watch. He joined the army in World War I and later helped in the purchase of 14 army camps. A Bucknell graduate native to Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F P. Dershimer
San Antonio and Vicinity
Armay
Baltimore
Edwin Dunstan
Washington, D.C
Derzhimer
Fort San Houston
Randolph Field
Ford
Sam Houston
Dershimer
Kelly Field
Brooks Field
Duncan Field
Air Corps
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Normayle
Washington
Camp Taylor
Panama
Pennsylvania
Bucknell’s
Univ
George Schiferl
Grover Cleveland
Fred Lockwood
Shaw Bost
Menger
Texas
San Antonio
Thayer
McIntyre
Prassel Brothers and Local Highlights In San Antonio
The Bexar Facts notes FRANK and NAT PRASSEL out dancing, the A B Marcus show coming to town with Mayor K. Quin rumored to have refused a prior Marcus engagement, and DON Redman with his band playing at the Negro Auditorium on the thirteenth. Also mentions a new Fort Sam outpost, Peggy Ann Landon lookalike, assorted city anecdotes, birthdays, and local gossip about residents and events in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Claro
Prassel
Frank
Nat
A. B. Marcus
K. Quin
Marcus
Don Redman
Negro Auditorium
Fort Sam Houston Quadrangle
Dorothy Waits
Peggy Ann Landon
Joe Finck
Virgil Smith
Coast Guard
AL Floore
Empire Manager
Walter Rollins
Perry Gragg
MRL
Gladys Coy
C. of
Santa Claus
New York
Girl Sees Killing as Tricycle Loss
In Houston on an August day a five year old girl noted that the tragedy arose from a parent’s actions after J O Wimberly 53 and Mrs V F Mangum 45 killed themselves and another woman. The jury verdict was murder and suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Joe Ann Jordan
J. O. Wimberly
V. F. Mangum
Wimberly
Shirley
Justice of the Peace
H.W. Wills
Franklin Spears Opens Campaign With Highland Park Rally
Independent state Senate candidate Franklin Spears announces kickoff of his campaign for the forthcoming primary. An open rally at Highland Park is slated Friday at 3 p.m. with H.W. Green as tally chair and Walter Tynan speaking. Spears plans further speeches next week from his Madison headquarters amid opposition from Pat Jefferson, Citizens’ League candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Spears
Highland Park
H.W. Green
Sceairenan
Walter ‘Tynan
Fen
Spears
Madison
Pat Jefferson
iSquare Garden
New York City
Citizens’ League
Ischaikow
Mae
Russian aviators plan nonstop flight to Juneau Alaska
Two Soviet pilots Sigismund Levanesvsky and Victor Leychenko embarked from Kofel toward Sand Point Naval Air Station seeking a nonstop flight to Juneau as part of an air trade route to Moscow. They requested weather data from the U S Weather Bureau before departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Juneau
Alaska
Moscow
Sigismund Levanesvskyi
Victor ‘Leychenko
U. S. Weather Bureau
Kofel
Sand Point Naval Air Station
Washington
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Ghned
Bexar
Charles M. Dickson
Medina
Tim Griesenbeck
Oscar Kramer
Tommy Dorsey
Olmos
Dorothy Musgrave
Teg Lewis
the Majestic
Roy Tate
Inventi Alor
Uhe
Wool
Sais
Flan
Sateen 0
Wolff & Marx
Nor-East
Well & Marxen
Wolls & Marx—Men’s State
SOX
Universal
Sonny
Well
Marx—Boya! Dent, —Mala Heer
Rere
Wee Edie
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