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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1939
Page
15
The Girls' Cotillion club invites members and guests to a "Suppressed Desires" dance at the Country Club on Friday evening February 3. Twenty five new members were welcomed at a recent meeting.
Representative from Pennsylvania renews push for an $8 billion national highway system criss crossing the continent. The plan calls for three transcontinental and six north–south routes 100 feet wide with airports at intersections from Florida to Los Angeles and from Texas to North Dakota, bypassing cities where possible and complete construction by 1984. Local labor by nearby workers would be required.
Washington Jan 11 The army air corps will open bids January 25 on a new fighting plane described by official sources as a revolutionary single engine parasub design. Experimental models will be submitted at Wright Field Dayton Ohio. The air corps aims to stay ahead of foreign developments and already fields pursuit planes with claimed speeds of six miles a minute, with higher speeds rumored for P 40 models.
Mrs Rhea and Dr Robert Lee Rhea plan marriage set for Thursday evening with around 20 guests at the parents home. Marvin Watson will be best man Dd bride to be will be matron of honor. bridal party includes Larlys and Mye Drs. White blossoms and a gondola water scene center the dinner table.
Daily parties outline the social schedule for Katherine Let- Steer and El Muir. Jedd Roe hosts a cocktail party before a dinner by Joe Frost Jr. and Henry Menge. Friday dinner guests include Jack Denike and Miss Letteer with Miss Helen Kran tor. Mrs Albert Steves II hosts a large party Wednesday, January 18, preceding Mr and Mrs Albert Steves III’s wedding party.
Flint Michigan. Jack Wight, 49, a carpenter, is jailed after being accused of pouring kerosene on his wife Ann 84 and setting her afire. She is reported in critical condition with burns from neck to knees. Sheriff Wolcott said she named Wight as the attacker. Neighor Earl Hart helped extinguish the blaze. The sheriff plans to seek an assault with intent to kill warrant.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt summoned prominent women from twenty states to the White House to plan their role in the fight against infantile paralysis. The conference precedes a nationwide broadcast by thousands of women workers over NBC Blue Network at 4 p.m. Central Standard Time.
Mothers of five convicted slayers traveled to Albany to plead with Governor Lehman to spare their sons. The five men—Dominic Guariglia, Isadore Zimmerman, Philip Chalet, Artie Friedman, and Joseph O Laughlin—face the electric chair in Sing Sing the week of January 22 after being found guilty of the April 1997 slaying of Detective Michael J. Foley during an attempted holdup. A social welfare effort accompanies their plea as clemency petitions mounted, with 300,000 signatures already sent to the governor.
A nine mile sewer project across several San Antonio sections was submitted Wednesday to WPA authorities for approval by city WPA engineer Thomas H. Coghill. Coghill also filed a street improvement plan, the first of several requests planned for the week.
The Iron Age weekly review says the steel business has improved to about December's early level, but no strong upward trend has emerged in the new year. Steel ingot production for this fleet is estimated at 52.5 percent of capacity, up half a point from last week.
A fragment references a robe for Christmas with a price detail of 1.65 to 185 and a line about someone not receiving a robe. The brief uses a questioning tone and abrupt phrasing.
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