Kissless Honeymoon and Sea Saga Highlight Radio Picks
The column previews RKO Radio comedies Next Time I Marry featuring Lucille Ball and James Ellison, and Pacific Liner with Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, and Wendy Barrie aboard a Shanghai to San Francisco voyage. It notes Mickey Rooney directing and producing a new four reel Huckleberry Finn picture.
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R.-K.o
Lucille Ball
James Ellison
R.-K. O. Radio
Victor McLaglen
Chester Morris
Wendy Bare
Shanghai
San Francisco
Missing man hint widens search for Abilene youth
Local and state police widened their search Friday for Jack Philips a 24 year old Abilene baker who vanished near San Antonio around December 4. He reportedly had 100 on him when he parked his six wheel truck on Produce Row then walked away about ten days ago. Philips mother is ill and his wife an expectant mother is grief stricken, per a letter from his father J B Philips. A second man Thomas Pursley dairyman 1128 West Olmos Drive was found in Houston suffering amnesia.
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Jack Philips
Abilene
Jt. B. Philips
Thomas Pursley
Dairyman
West Olmos Drive
Houston
Sheriff's Office
Attacks Reported On Three Sap An tonians
Three Sap An tonians treated at Robert B Green hospital after Friday assaults by unknown assailants. Minnie Payne 19 of 403 North Flores Street slugged in Main Ave area. A J Carter civilian at Randolph Field cut on left shoulder near Hays and New Braunfels Ave. Romeo 14 of 315 North Street minor cuts at East Commerce Street.
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Robert B. Green Hospital
Pound
Main Avenue
Minnie Payne
North Flores Street
A. J. Carter
Randolph Field
Hays Street
New Braunfels Avenue
Romeo
North Street
East Commerce Street
Salvation Army Seeks to Find Man Axel Abildstrom
The Salvation Army social service department is seeking Axel Wilhelm Abildstrom, last known at care of W. B. Armstrong, 535 Grayson Street, San Antonio. Brigadier P. E. Flynn says Abildstrom came to the United States from Denmark in 1923 and has been in Texas most of the time. Denmark relatives have not heard from him since 1934.
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Salvation Army
Social Service Department
Axel Wilhelm Abildstrom
W. B. Armstrong
Grayson Street
San Antonio
PE. Fynn
United States
Denmark
Texas
Salvation: Army
Flynn
Quin's Service Over 6 Years as San Antonio Mayor
Mayor C K Quin nears completion of six years as mayor on St Patrick's Day 1939 following more than nine years in San Antonio city government. Born March 24 1877 in Louisiana Quin moved to Texas and built a legal career in Columbus before moving to San Antonio in 1923. He helped negotiate gas and light rate reductions saving consumers about 450 000 annually and later formed a law partnership with Mayor Chambers successor. Quin is married with no children and holds Mason and Travis Park Methodist church memberships.
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C. K. Quin
San Antonio
St. Patrick's
C.K. Quin
Quin
Louisiana
Weimar
Texas
Telegraph Messenger
Taugint
Columbus
Munford H. Kennon
King Kennon
Foard, Thompson and Townsend
Townsend, Quin
Haddon, Quin and Hoye
John W. Gaines
Gen. Jones A. Harley
M. Gaines
Milami
Chambers
Travis Park Methodist Church
Missing Canadian Author and Wife Found Safe
Jack Tanner, a farmer author, and his wife who disappeared Monday while hiking for a book, were rescued after being trapped in a Rose Creek cabin by a severe Fraser River valley snowstorm. They returned to their Mission home today.
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Vancouver
Dalas
Jack
Tanner
Mission
Rose Creek
Fraser River
Fire claims one life at seven story Hotel Lido New York
A hotel fire on New York s East Side destroyed the seven story Hotel Lido at Columbus Avenue and Sixty fifth Street. One man identified as Manheim Wexler age 65 died of shock and smoke inhalation. Mrs Lillian Bernstein and her husband Samuel were rescued with varying smoke injuries. Firemen evacuated guests from upper floors as residents used ladders and fire escapes to escape the blaze.
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New York
Sixty-fifth Street
Columbus Avenue
Manheim Wexler
du Rossevelt Hospital
Wexler
Lillian Bernstein
Samuel
Nat Emmelowicz
Debussy Estate Receives Royalties From Rewritten Works
The Robbins Music Corp announced that the estate of Claude Debussy would net about $60,000 in world royalties from a rewritten collection. The figure reflects royalties earned over the composer’s lifetime from his music and related rights.
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New York
Robbins Music Corporation
Claude Debussy
Dovtog
Hats Off and You're Out With the Girls Hat Club
Danbury High School reports a student-led hat policy as girls organize a Hat On every head club. The vote sanctioned boys without hats being excluded from events, reflecting Danbury's noted hat manufacturing as a principal local industry.
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Danbury
Conn
Dansury High School
P. S.hat Manufacturing
Black Sheep Vincent McBrien Admits Killing Sister
New York report says Vincent Joseph McBrien known as Charlie the Horse, captured by two police, confessed to killing his sister Elizabeth at their Hartford home on May 29 after demanding money from his father. He called himself a bum and loafer.
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New York
Vincent Joseph McBrien
Hartford
Vincent
Farrell
Elizabeth
PWA Success Touted as Speed of $1.4 Billion Drive
Secretary Ickes told President Roosevelt that the Public Works Administration has been 100 percent successful in carrying out its large spending program. The report to the White House suggested Roosevelt may back making the PWA a permanent agency. It highlights the rapid start of a nationwide $1.4 billion construction push and notes 8317 projects contracted in six months with work expected on most by extending the deadline set by Congress.
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Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
White House
PWA
BWA
Ackerrad
Conegress
New Rail Fare Plan Studied
Washington reports an interstate commerce commission study of postalized passenger rates to inform congressional debate on railroads. Wheeler asked W M Splawn to analyze the plan. Hastings proposed nine zones with fares by class and a fixed parcel-cost approach, including low suburban rates and a New York to Chicago trip for about $1.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wheeler
Monteana
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
W. M. W. Splawn
John A. Hastings
New York State
Hastings
New York
Chicago
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A. K. Quin
Paul Steffler
Phil Wright
Jacob B Rubiola
Theo Plummet
Shaw
Idal
Ensemble
Texas’ Greatest Jewelers
Houston ST
Dallas and
Fort Worth
N.Y
Bernstas
Bert
Avon
Joske
ALL Society
Don Richards
Huddingtons
Southwest
Tust
Entire Stock Society
Entire Stock Society Brand
Cross
Hudder
Dugkon Street Moor
Joske’s
Clotees
Black
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