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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1942
Page
13
In a stalled conversation Allan presses Bobby to reveal truth about Amy Forrestall and a fiance scandal. Jordan, flustered, explains his lifelong love for Amy and a pressure to pretend as her fiancé to shield her from a vindictive ex. Inspector grilling adds tension as truth edges closer.
The emergency management office opens a local information branch at 827-829 Majestic Building with Maurice L. Gardner in charge. It coordinates air defense, war work data in San Antonio, linking with Dallas regional office to provide central information on policies, actions, and aims of operating divisions. The office will act as a clearing house for civilian defense, priorities, salvage, health and welfare services, and inter American affairs. Telephone Garfield 6251.
Travelers to Mexico face higher tourist permits after the Mexican legislature raised the fee from 3.60 to 5 pesos. Reports show disparities as of midweek with Laredo residents paying 3.05 or more, while San Antonio still offered the old price. The new rules reached border towns gradually, and availability in consulates remained uncertain.
Leland Janes, listed at Duncan Field, stands four feet eleven inches, the smallest and youngest worker among the San Antonio Army field staff. A Brackenridge High School graduate, he worked as a tutor before becoming a flopper mechanic spinner and now serves as a messenger in the engineering department since December eighteenth. His duties include reading into use mat boxes in the post headquarters at 1002 Victoria Street.
Arthur Bugs Baer reflects on a long career and enduring fame as he plans to continue writing about radio and theater. He jokes about his outlook, the joy of long drives, and the idea of sacrificing comforts to stay in the public eye.
Mrs. Preserlek Koch and Dr. Wick hosted a golden wedding week in Wak, San Antonio, honoring 50 years of marriage. The couple, long residents of San Antonio after careers at Charleston and Midwest circles, includes Elsa Clemer Wick head of the voice department at the University of San Antonio. Guests gathered at the St. Anthony Hotel in a dinner at the Aamcacho room.
The San Antonio district of the Immigration and Naturalization Service reported a busy December with 155 investigations of BO1 aliens. The period yielded 22 arrest warrants, five deportations, 17 new legalization applications, and seven aliens who returned voluntarily to Mexico.
The So Antonio branch of OPM places Nishight production in Glass 1 of Preference Rating Order M-25. This enables deliveries of synthetic formaldehyde resins for flashlight manufacture to be covered by a B-4 rating, boosting flashlight supply for civilian use during blackouts.
The San Antonio Boys club volunteers its services for national defense. Board president Danny Dreeken announced intensified physical fitness and vocational training, plus other projects like a waste paper conservation drive. Members in New York have served as messengers for the aircraft warning service.
Emil Gembler 50 a farmer was found shot in his front yard five miles from Seguin on the Guadalupe highway. The body lay near a shotgun as Justice reported. Widow Mary Gembler said he had been ill for about a year. Services set for Wednesday at River Funeral Home with Rev A L Wolf officiating. interment in Roselawn. Survivors include wife and multiple siblings in Bexar County and nearby areas.
Police seek a suspect after Carmen Martinez aged 21 was reported abducted by her mother Mrs Juanita Martinez at 1816 West Travis Street in Commerce and Colorado streets. The report says the suspect forced her into a vehicle and fled the area.
Dr Terry, pastor of Madison Square Presbyterian Church and San Antonio Ministers' Association president, will speak this Thursday at Travis Park Methodist Church as part of a weekly noon service series themed Christ for This Crisis. He plans a sermon on Finding God Where You Are with notes on three guiding factors.
Albert E. Gates Su of Cincinnati will speak at the San Antonio Cadet graduation in the new post theater at 10:30 a.m. Lt. Col. R. Prosser, commander of Kelly Meld, will also address the graduates. If weather allows, an aerial review is planned for 9 a.m. Friday.
A man identified as Porter street was charged in County Court at Lincoln No 2 with theft of six lengths of pipe from C H Winter at 205 Penbury street on December 27. A meeting of the club directors is to elect a new chair Wednesday afternoon.
Blair Sergeant Robert L. McCirron, ex assistant recruiter for the Marine Corps in the area, reports back to duty at the recontig station in Bedera bulletin after weeks at Navy hospital in Corpus Christi. The office lists recruiters Styie Lyle Glen RR and Carl Haynes amidst varied shellfish varieties noted in the bulletin.
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