Laredo Plans Washington Birthday Fete
Laredo residents prepare for Washington's Birthday celebration on February 22 with a parade, a 3 day rodeo, a 200 cast pageant called Wings of Time, a cattle show, a veterans hall, music by Herbie Kay's orchestra, pole game, and river-crossing events with Nuevo Laredo. Officials expect safety support from the state department and Boy Scouts.
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Joe Puig
Dan Laning
Radio Sation Woat
Piirce
D. P. Barrow
Caremites
Treparer
Matias de Liane
Mexical
Texas
International Bridge
Washington’s Birthday Hall
Herbie Kay
Hapgle Pass
Laredo
Nuevo Laren
Mexico
Wings of Mercy Starts Production in Tollywood
Tollywood reports production on Wings of Mercy with Sobn Best and Joan Fontaine in lead roles. The romantic adventure of a young surgeon unfolds before cameras at R.E.O. Radio. Cast includes Alec Craig Frank M. Thomas George Trying Phil Huston Jane Walsh Digna Gibson Billy Gilbert and James Conlon. Glin Reid produces and Lew Tanders directs.
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Wings of Mercy
Tollywood
Sobn Best
Joan Fontaine
R.E.O. Radio
Alec Craig
Frank M. Thomas
George Trying
Phil Huston
Jane Walsh
Digna Gibson
Billy Gilbert
James Conlon
Glin Reid
Lew Tanders
Local San Antonio society notes and nightlife chatter
The column lists names and brief vignettes from Bexar County social life including Frank Laro, W. Mortiron, and references to bars, a Ritz Carlton mention, and various locals such as Noble Sise11, Jon Langley, Eugene and Natalie Mitch, and Maureen Brooks. It mentions a life saver, a bridge hobby, breath deodorant gag purchases, a banker’s narrow escape, North Alamo Street gossip, trailer camps, and newly publicized city health publicity chief Outlaw.
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Frank Laro
W. Mortiron
Ritz-Carlson
York
Noble
Sissle
Blake
Francis Irene Barr
Jon Langley
Thab Okt
Howe
Ovb
North Alamo Street
Eugene
Natalie Mitch
W. D. Outlaw
City Health Department
Maurine Brooks
Alamo Street
Promoter Describes Mexican Play Town Vision
Promoter Wolgang Schoenborn of Frantionadora de l Acaputcc describes Acapulco as a teenage playground like Gotham. In San Antonio he said plans since 1924 aim to make Acapulco a pleasure mecca eight hours from Mexico City with a yacht club hotel and a fort 1521 to be turned into a museum.
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Mexico
Gotham
Wolgang Schoenborn
Frantionadora de l ‘Acaputcc
S.A
San Antonio
Acapulco
Borrezi
Fruit Diet in Film Tries Actor's Taste
HOLLY Woon Feb 4 1950s gossip notes actor Guinn Big Boy Williams forced on a fruit diet for a film scene. He eats 12 bananas day one and has no dinner appetite. Two days later director Christy Catanne alters script allowing two pears and an apple instead.
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Holly Woon
Guinn
Williams i
Williams
Christy Catanne
Willigins
German aid in dope ring foiled in Hamburg
Washington reports that US narcotics officers, working with German authorities, helped break a vast international drug smuggling ring. Hamburg court jailed August Del Gracio, said to be the final of ten European drug barons linked to the largest narcotics operation ever uncovered. Commissioner Anslinger led the US effort.
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Washington
INS
United States Wars Codes Bureau
Tig
Hamburg
Augie
del Gracio
Europe
Harry J. Anslinger
Texas House Focused On Bills As Legislature Hits One Month
Austin, Feb 19. The Forty-fifth Texas Legislature reached its one month mark with lobbyists and lawmakers debating engrossed bills for the coming week. The month’s tally shows 13 measures sent to the governor, about 557000 in appropriations, seven tied to specific fee and season laws, and one general state measure. The farm college directors at A and M were authorized to lease land for oil and gas development.
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Austin
TNB
Texas House
Texas
Lubbock
A. and M. College
Arrest in Germany of Del Gracia Claimed After Five Years
Anslinger voiced that German police faced long trouble with the case phase and have kept constant vigilance for five years. Today’s news signals that the effort has paid off with the arrest of Del Gracia in Germany.
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Germany
del Gracia
Anslinger
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Wotier
Wolff & Marx
Hailliburton
Radio Theater
Eeadly
COATS
Imperial Seals
Anotthe
Bexar
Trays
Thrilling Group of Fine
Jacquard
Wolk
Marx
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