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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1945
Page
2
Berry forced 0 saw up own tables in wartime context. Fragmentary OCR lacks clear events or entities, making precise summary difficult. The readable bits suggest a disrupted scene involving Berry, tables, and wartime setting, but details are too incomplete for a firm card.
Witness Ratger Norman Kemp Dixon, an undercover informant, described a night at a Turf club with dice games and a hidden card from Chicago. He said he entered via an elevator, identified as a research agent, and noted meeting Marilyn Waitten as the gambling proceeded through the night of October 18 and 19.
Private Breger travels abroad and recounts a casino episode involving Fred Jurinsky. Dixon, a ranger, details betting, chip loss, a darts-like dive into a money box, and a dramatic raid where Berry questions his Chicago ties, while Dixon defends using state funds and legality under investigation.
A London dispatch reports German and Russian forecasts of a major Allied offensive on the Western Front. They predict large Canadian First Army action on the Siegfried Line northern wing and note Allied use of deception and troop concentration near Aachen and Brest as a broader assault looms with the Big Three meeting.
A thousand residents in a farming region gathered to back a resolution by the Oregon Property Owners' Protective Association calling for deportation or removal of people with Japanese ancestry. Speakers claimed Japs in the United States or born here are sixth generation citizens and should be moved.
Dallas Feb W Phi Beta Kappa may drop the University of Texas from its approved list. President Homer P Rainey said at the Allen Day dinner that a committee was sent to Austin to inspect affairs. Committees from the Southern Association and AAUP have also investigated conditions at the university.
Fragmentary testimony shows questions about raids, arrests, and missing inventories. The exchange touches on whether individuals were arrested, other raid locations, and why no report or inventory was filed, with objections and sustained rulings shaping the record.
Hollywood reports Humphrey Bogart will star opposite Barbara Stanwyck in The Two Arts Carralls a Broadway melodrama with J Peter Godret directing. Republic will produce with Herb Yates coordinating a high minded project and John Ford discussing story and casting. Othello film talks surface with Joe Ferrer and Paul Robeson eyed for roles as market notes and shifting plans.
A bustling page reports Mrs. W Wolfe hosting a weekend house party at Letancho Loto near Leakey with Navy officer Chief Everett Bawman visiting his mother Mrs. Rene Powers. Other items list club meetings, fashion patterns, and Hollywood chatter including Jimmy Cagney, Brenda Marshall, Lucille Ball, and Keenan Wynn, plus military leave updates and telegrams from the South Pacific.
H and The Ch Omega alumnae plan a 4 p.m. gathering at the Twohig house with Mrs. Reynolds Cate and Mrs. 6. 8, Medal as hostesses. Tejas Service club met Friday at Mrs. J. Nis home, playing bridge. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Howard Fleming of Cleveland Ohio and Mrs. H. B. Stout of Omaha Nebraska.
A Double Bath event at Oak Grove and a performance by Adda Dabbu Poude co and cowboys at San Antonio Junior College in the auditorium of W. G. A.
The pastor of the Heliitebent Spiritul Christian church at 1014 South Presa street will be publicly ordained to the ministry this Sunday. The Rev. V. R. Gamma, president of the Texas Spiritual Christian Synod, will officiate at the service. The Rev. Floyd Humble of Bloomington Florida will speak on The Outpouring of the Spirit.
Beacon Hill Presbyterian adults will meet at 7 35 p m Sunday to continue studies of New Testament introductions with emphasis on the Dock of Philemon. Members will meet at the same time with Miss Winifred Verner.
Social calendar lists the marriage of Mrs Havel Burnett to Avsine at St Mark's Episcopal Church at 3 p m followed by a reception at the bride's home. The San Antonio Symphony Society presents Rudolf Serkin the pianist at 8 15 p m at the Municipal Auditorium.
The morning worship featured F. D. Wilmeth delivering the sixth sermon in his Bible series on Archeology at Northaide church after a Dallas stop last Thursday at Colonial Church of Christ. He returned by Saturday and gave the Sunday morning address, continuing the series.
Turnev. Geracates pastor of Hulsache Avenue Baptist Church 1339 West Hulsache selects “Prayer” as the theme for both morning and evening services. Sunday school will study the fourth chapter of First Corinthians.
Grace Church of the Nazarene Denver Boulevard and SE Anthony schedules a Sunday evening sermon themed Ingle Chooses Interesting Text Yoo Late and Too Little. Rev J P Ingie, pastor, will speak. Sunday morning Rev Mr Engin begins his second sermon on stewardship based on The Parables of the Pawnds.
Minister J A Dickey of Beacon Hill Church of Christ will preach at Sunday morning service with the theme The Cross. The evening sermon will be on Preaching the Cross by Mr Dickey Schantag at the same church located at 298 West Magnolia Avenue.
The first in a series of weekly midweek Lenten services will be held at Bethany Evangelical and Reformed Church at East Myrtle and Kendal streets at 7 p.m. Wednesday led by Rev. Cath Burkle.
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