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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1948

Page

4

Kilday Airs Johnson Talk in San Antonio Broadcast

Rep. Paul J. Kilday will urge election of Lyndon B. Johnson to the U.S. Senate based on Johnson's record as a House member for nearly 12 years in a radio address at 9 p.m. Monday over KABC. The appeal will kickoff an intensive Johnson campaign week in Bexar county ahead of the Saturday runoff, capped by an outdoor rally at the municipal auditorium. Johnson plans to be in San Antonio Tuesday to meet precinct managers as the campaign stresses Get-Out-The-Vote. Kilday will discuss Johnson's national and international record, defense support, and friendship for Bexar county residents.

Paul J. Kilday Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Senate Johnson House of Representatives KABC Kilday Bexar County Municipal San Antonio

Little Miss America winner Kathleen Flynn declines Hollywood offers

Kathleen Cecile Flynn a Spokane girl crowned Little Miss America turns down a radio guest appearance TV shows and a Republic Studios movie contract to return home with her mother Mrs Howard A Flynn stressing family priorities. Michael Louis Perich 12 of Sacramento won All American Boy honors and will stay in Hollywood for the awards.

Hollywood INS Kathleen Cecile Flynn Kathleen Republic Studios Screen Children’s Guild Hollywood Hown Howard A.flynn Washington Flynn Michael Louis Perich Sacramento Calif

Admiral Thurber Relieved in Nanking Change of Command

Rear Adm. Harry R. Thurber of Hoquiam Washington commanding the U S naval advisory group in China was relieved today by Rear Adm. Francis P. Old of Norfolk Virginia at Nanking on August 3 in a formal change of command setting reported by the Associated Press.

Nanking Harry R. Thurber Hoquiam Wash U. S. Naval Advisory Group China Francis P. Old Norfolk

Love for Mother Taking Her Back

Hollywood reports Merle Oberon returning to shoot with Lucien Ballard for a new project to be produced by Robert Sparks and Manchester Boddy. Operation Malaya, a wartime melodrama, centers on rubber smuggling from Malaya to the United States. Oberon will play a Malayan cafe singer loyal to the American cause. Wanda Hendrix and Audie Murphy plan two weddings, one in Mexico and one in Farmersville Texas, delayed by Wanda’s mother, with the couple returning from Italy to wed twice.

Louella D. Parsons Hollywood Merle Oberon Lucien Ballard RKO Manchester Boddy Robert Sparks Malaya United States Japan Merle Lucien Wanda Hendrix Audie Murphy Mexico Farmersville Texas Audie Wanda Italy

Mexico frets as silver prices fall

Mexico faces economic anxiety as silver prices slip for the first time in over a year. The metal now trades at 72.75 cents per nine ounce, a level that could worsen fiscal strain if the decline persists.

Mexico Mexico Cty

Fires Spread Across East Texas Forests

Forest fires in east Texas continue to burn thousands of acres of tinder dry woodland as the Texas forest service and volunteers battle blazes. Flying embers spark new fires, with reports rising from 36 to 78 on Sunday.

Lufein Texas

Stranger bragged of planned stickup that failed

Austin drugstore manager Greenwood Wooten heard a stranger confess to casing the shop for a robbery with a .38 inside his pocket but losing nerve. The would be robber asked to cash a $5 check, which Wooten obliged, only to discover the check was made of pure rubber.

Austin Greenwood Wooten Wooten

Wallace Attacks Missouri Ballot Move on Progressive Party

New York dispatch quotes Henry A. Wallace denouncing Missouri secretary Edgar C. Nelson for barring the Progressive party from the state ballot as a baldfaced effort to influence the election. He says Pendergast and Truman fear the party’s rising support and notes the broader comic and entertainment listings in Puck magazine.

New York Henry A. Wallace Missouri Edgar C. Nelson

Kyle Retires as Ambassador to Guatemala

Edwin J. Kyle, U S ambassador to Guatemala for three years, travels home to College Station to retire from diplomatic service. He is a 72 year old dean emeritus of Texas A M College's school of agriculture.

WEW Orleans Edwin J. Kyle U. S Guatemala College Station School of Agriculture of Texas A.M. College Allew Kyra

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