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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
7
Funeral services for Mrs. Leita Small, a longtime custodian of the Alamo for 24 years and a native of San Antonio, will be held at 10 o clock Wednesday. She died Wednesday.
Funeral plans set for Friday at Porter Lor ing chapel with interment at City cemetery No. 1. Mrs. Small, custodian of the Alamo since July, held many postions in D A R and historical groups and hosted notable figures including Edwin Markham and Amelia Earhart. Survivors include daughters Grace and Ruth Small and Mrs Homer D Bushnell, a sister, and three brothers. Pallbearers listed.
FRANKFURT August 29. WAC Captain Kathleen Nash Durant was found not guilty of conspiracy though her trial continues on theft of the Hesse crown jewels and AWOL charges. The court granted a delay to September 16 for additional U.S. witnesses. Durant said dismissal of conspiracy would help her husband Cal W. Durant and Maj. J. David Watson as they face larceny-related charges.
A Chicago visitor claims a gust blew a suitcase from a 25th floor hotel window but the bag was recovered intact. At Port Aransas, the Roy Moystons boat hosts gatherings as the Bartlett Cockes enjoy a shrimping trip with a 425 pound haul. A playful misquote ends with a girl noting her sister will be down soon and is naked as a jaybird.
Brownsville's housing authority assumed custody of the 360 acre Fort Brown installation, with the city announcing the takeover yesterday.
Alamo Heights society member Tessie Belle Arnold is engaged to Paul J Maurer son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Maurer of Cadott Wisconsin. The couple plan a near future wedding. Miss Arnold is a Trinity University student active in student journalism and sororities. Maurer served as an Army Air Forces photo reconnaissance pilot and recently left the service after over three years.
Coast guard patrols hunted for survivors of the yacht Verano after it sank in rough Lake Michigan waters near South Haven. The $2160 vessel owned by Maynard Dowell of Park Ridge went down off shore with three men aboard, one described as an experienced sailor. A rescue was begun as a lifeboat approached, and a plane and boat search was ordered at daylight to find Chester Granath, an employee, and two other men nicknamed Fred and Ben.
Governor Edward Martin ordered a state police probe into the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania. The action follows a request from Justice Meier Steinbrink of the New York State Supreme Court, who chaired the Bnai Brith anti defamation league board.
A 24 year old Detroit mother, Mrs. Margaret Androyna, told police she abandoned two of her four children in a cab to avoid eviction and had no place to take them. Her husband, Anton, found the children missing and she was arrested. In Mississippi, pollor myelitis cases reached 197 for the year with three new cases reported.
Alfred D. Hawley and his sons Alfred Jr and John plan a river trip starting Saturday to Alexandria Hay New York, then by boat up the St Lawrence to Sumamer Island to visit Mrs Mawleys mother, returning via Bilis ford New York to see Mrs Alson Shanty. Ensign Aida Lucille Jackson of the navy nurse corps reports for duty at the U S Naval hospital in Houston. Edward A Jaeckle elected chairman of the San Antonio Master Plumbers and Heating Contractors association executive board.
Mr and Mrs George McLernon announce the birth of a daughter Barbara Ann in Kansas City Wednesday morning. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs George McLernon and Mr and Mrs W J Slack. Mrs R Y Dougherty hosted a luncheon for bride elect Rose Mary Vordenbaum at the Menger hotel with guests James A W Vordenbaum A H Vordenbaum Jessie Page and Mary Mildred Vordenbaum. Presidents Council meeting postponed to September 9 to be hosted by director Mrs Ellen S Quillin at the Witte Museum patio.
Miss Mary Jordan James will return on Monday to Duke University in Durham North Carolina where she is a senior. She has been visiting her parents Colonel and Mrs Vintog James since July.
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