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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1947
Page
3
Searchers planned today to continue the hunt for Frank Phillips of Houston missing since Sunday when his boat overturned off the Matagorda peninsula.
City health department reports 22 people affected by holiday illnesses. Since December 25 there was one typhoid case in the bounty, 35 pneumonia cases, five chickenpox cases citywide, and one scarlet fever case in Alamo Heights amid a wave of unwell residents. Dial F 12312.
Price Daniel of Liberty was sworn in as Texas attorney general in a bedside ceremony at his mother’s side. The simple act replaced a larger induction planned with Chief Justice James P. Alexander, while his mother Mrs Nannie Partlow Daniel and sister Ellen Virginia recover from injuries in an auto accident. Emma Ward, Daniel’s secretary and notary, administered the oath.
Maj Herbert Mayer, a newspaperman at heart, left Brooke General Hospital daily for Fourth army public relations. He witnessed 92 executions, reported on the jeweler slaying by two French apaches, captured the killers, and saw them hanged. His career spanned New Orleans Item, American, New York Daily News, Hearst, Panorama, and Mid-Week Pictorial, with commendations from Pershing, Marshall, Hodges, Harbord, and others. He served in World War I and II, staged mock bombing raids, and influenced the Hall-Mills case reopening.
New Year's day scenes include William Pryor at Two Years Before the Mast 2 MR and MRS Volney Ellis at La Paloma for Mexican food with guests Israel Rabinowitz Quintin Lawrence en route to Baylor Ray Herr on a train to Mississippi after a visit with Miki Pickering Royal King and Cynthia Harding recovering after Jack Berry party at La Fonda Flossie Childress Byron Sims wedding in 17 days Norma Ruth Stratton visiting Jean Williamson for the holidays Colonel W. K. Austin seen in sleet party with Roy Phillips clan at Mountain Tap Dinner Club attendees Ruth Tucker Jack SkaGcs Nelda Whitis Fou n Lahourcade Bruce Jeador and John R. Shaw Woodard Altgelt families at a pop scorn party photos and notes of various local social gatherings.
CHICAGO Jan 2 An Anti-Cruelty Society emergency man Bert Carnes left a sick bed to rescue a tom cat that had perched in the upper branches of a 65 foot tree on Aldine avenue for five days. After balking prior attempts Carnes slipped a noose over the feline and pulled it down into his arms. He took the cat to the society headquarters then went home to fight a severe cold.
Funeral services were held at Millersview for Mrs. Mary Ann Willman 76 who died at Brady hospital Monday. A native of Travis County she had lived in Cancho and McCulloch counties since 1818.
Funeral services for Charles W Moody age 58 of Houston and former San Antonio resident were conducted in Houston on Thursday. He was the brother of Mrs B M McGavin of San Antonio and had been connected with the Jack Neal motor company during his San Antonio years.
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