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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 08, 1936

Page

2

Army to modernize with pneumatic tire tanks by 1941

Washington dispatch reports the general staff began a five year plan to place the army on pneumatic tired wheels. Major General Douglas MacArthur outlines a budget heavy with armored cars, self propelled guns, fast scouting vehicles and transport to support rapid warfare.

Washington, D. G General Staff War Department Congress Douglas MacActiur Rock Island, Tiortinance

Houston Teachers May Get 1929 Wages Back

Houston January 8. Restoration of a salary cut for school teachers was proposed today by Superintendent E. The plan would restore teachers to the 1929 basis and be effective if adopted by the Houston board, returning salaries to pre cut levels.

Houston

Debutante Luncheon Hosts Run Into New Year Events

Social notes recount a Bright Show luncheon honoring Miss Mary Drought and Miss Garplyn Treaccar with Mrs Adolph Wagner and Mrs Herman Schuchard as hostesses. Tables bloom with pink roses jonquils and lilies. Debutante sponsors Mr and Mrs Ted James and Mr Francis T Drought. Other gatherings feature Mrs T H Flannery hosting for Mrs B J Fitzgerald and a series of college and social events across West Moorland Texas A and M. the piece also clips a Toronto notice of a Niagara Falls wedding with Miss Margaret Lee McGlashan and Dr Kenneth R McAlpin.

Clara Adolph Wagner Herman Schuchard Mary Drought Garplyn Treaccar Barbare Church Mesdamés Ted James Francis T. Drought Miss Treacoar Miss Drought Bertie Stevens Townsend Frances Leng Margaret Ogden Josephine Spencer Dorothy Waugh Mary Crain Frenchy Hagood Patsie Wood Frances Felder Doris Callan Lee McGlashan Airs. McGlashan L. Lee McGlashan Niagara Falls Ont Kenneth R. McAlphin Edwin A. McAlpin McAlpin New York S J. James Gordon Christchurch Canon Hp, Plumptre Catheral Arthur F. White Eyre Davis Welland Roderick McAlpbin San Antonio Texas Wille Benjamin B. McAlpin Greenwich Genn Edward McAlpin Charles MeAlpin Madison N. J Preath McGlashan Mara Arthur White Hawthorn Gardens Waldo Avenue Riverdale N.Y Mrs. Roderint McAlpin Magnolia Avenue

Air Circus Preparations At Booth Presa Sheet Airport

Preparations were made at Booth Presa sheet airport near Brooksfield for the Flying Aces air circus on Sunday afternoon. The event, sponsored by Motor Transport Post No 1533, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will begin at 3 30 p m featuring parachute drop by Jack Huber, wing walking, dog fighting, sky writing and other feats.

Booth Presa Sheet Brooksfield Flying Aces Motor Transport Post No. 1533 Veterans of Foreign Wars Jack Huber

Open Forum at Westmoorland Set for Thursday

Southwest University faculty member Dr. Z G Granberg will speak on social and economic trends at an open forum Thursday night at Westmoorland College. The Mary Catherine hall event begins at 8 p.m. More than 100 people are invited, announced Westmorland faculty club president Mrs. Co Wanda Wunder.

Z. G. Granberg Southwestern University Westmoorland College Mary Catherine Hal Wunder Westmorland Georgia Page Mary Catherine Hall Mary Brown Campbell Plano A.B. Walker Virginia Iginer

Court curb Richberg urges curbing lower courts

Donald Richberg former NRA administrator calls for Congress to strip inferior federal courts of authority to rule on constitutional questions. In a New York Bar Association address he argues it is a travesty of representative government for one judge to annul laws enacted by Congress and approved by the president.

New York Donald Ri Richberg NRA Congress Richberg Bar Association of Supreme Legislative Assembly of

Rubiola Asked to Save Park Trees

City park plans draw concern as Bass Antonia Conservation Society appeals to Park Commissioner Jacob Rubiola to transplant hackberry trees in Travis Park and replace them with more desirable species. A society committee led by Mesdames L Larkin Rena May Erick Green Emily Edward DeCantabrana and Hugo Kauffman met the commissioner after workers began cutting trees.

Jacob Rubiola Bass Antonia Conservation Society Travis Park Ciety Mesdames L. Larkin Rena May Erick Green Emily Edward DeCantabrana Hugo Kauffman

Air Mail Service to S A Endangered

The future of San Antonio air mail links to the north hinges on a Wednesday Washington hearing where American Airways protests the Braniff contract on the Kansas City to Tulsa route. If canceled, San Antonio airmail would be delayed a full day, drawing pledges from Congressman Maverick and Senator Sheppard to defend service.

San Antonio Washington, D. C American Airways Braniff Airways Kansas City Tulsa Maury Maverick Morris Sheppard Chamber of Commerce

Black Draught Laxative Praised by Independence Resident

Mr. A Lemons of Independence Virginia says Black Draught has been kept at home for twenty years and helps his family. He uses it as a laxative for headache dull tired feeling biliousness and after heavy meals. He notes it gives prompt relief from constipation.

A. Lemons Independence

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