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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1943
Page
3
John Steinbeck reports aboard a North African air transport, where combat crews endure a cramped cabin, cold winds, and a ritual blackjack game amid high altitude silence. Snowball the dog traverses the plane as crew brace for Africa and the first bombing mission, while soldiers describe enemy as a distant force rather than people.
The second millionaire marriage of Annabelle Adams, famed for the alphabet divorce case, was disclosed as she wed Louis Demanl Reot secretly last Saturday in New York. Chicago crane magnate Phila A. Orten had divorced Adams in 1941 after allegations of undue publicity. The couple is believed to honeymoon in California.
A Pan American visit is honored in San Antonio with a banquet at the St. Anthony hotel on Friday, hosted by Reagan Houston. The delegation from Guatemala Panama and Honduras arrives after a river cruise and reception, then trains to Los Angeles for the tour's second leg.
Sarantonio notes the city is the only U.S. place to train three graduates of the PRT academy of police science Washington in the police department. Commissioner P L Anderson says E P Bogasch will return September 1 after leaving for a war industry job. Other war trained men include Captains J Fred P Littlepage and John D Robards now at the police academy.
A desolate Kunai clearing in New Guinea hosts a tense award ceremony as Brig. Gen. Wurthmuth pins Air Medals and Oak Leaves on Maj. Gallup and others after 25 to 60 operational flights. Soldiers stand in line under searchlights, while later at the officers club Gallup jokes over a card game with Tom Lynely and Charley King, reflecting on medals and money as the war’s real rewards.
A young drugstore employee mistook costume jewelry for a valuable gem, triggering a chain of events leading to the arrests of two former Amarillo airport workers in a high profile jewel theft. Police traced the case to an air express shipment worth eighty two thousand dollars linked to Princess Doris Farid de Sultana of Morristown, with recovery efforts ongoing.
A Moscow broadcast citing the Soviet publication War and the Working Classes says punishment should target Nazi readers but not the German people for war outrages. Professor A Trainin argues Germans cannot be held legally responsible as a people and that Hitler and the state differ from ordinary individuals.
In the Business Service column of the Light Want Ads, an item highlights merits of a new service or product. The notice reads like a compact sales blurb with emphasis on value, contact options, and a brief claim of benefits.
Hollywood Aug 21 Frank Sinatra announced he has paid about 80000 to Tom Dorsey and Leonard Vanterson for shares they held in his earnings and settled Vanterson's claim for 17000. The deal buys out an 11 year contract tied to Dorsey and Vanterson with Evans noting the payout covers remaining obligations.
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