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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1940
Page
10
Visiting with Parkers S A residents plan trip to coastal area as January weddings and social events brighten the mood. Ex queen and blonde bride-to-be reportedly set to wed on February 5, while Dorothy Douglass and Wyatt Trainer prepare for February 6 nuptials. Hosts and gatherings described, with bridesmaids and attendants highlighted amid travel for a seaside visit.
Miss Jeanne Keller entertained 26 guests at a Sunday breakfast at her home honoring Miss Louise Parker whose engagement to Lean and Sayers was announced recently.
Debutante Miss Margaret Whusenant to be honored at a cocktail event hosted by Miss Lou Emily Blackstock on Monday evening February 5 at her home. The party precedes a dance by Major and Mrs Charles Pales in Fort Sam Houston with new arrivals Major and Mrs Samuel White and children Peggy and Samuel Jr joining from Salt Lake City.
Mrs William Walsh of Tyler is a week long guest of Mrs Marie Hogg and Mr and Mrs Wesley Glah. Mr Walsh will return home Monday. A series of informal gatherings are being held in her honor during her stay.
Mr and Mrs Louis Schreiner entertained with a poizer party Sunday at Kerrville home honoring Miss Hester Harrison debutante. Forty guests attended. The San Antonio Credit Women's Breakfast Club met Tuesday evening in the Gunter Cafeteria with Lucille Youdouse presiding and Mildred Katamark in charge of entertainment. About thirty members attended.
Miss Estelle Bennett announced at a Los Angeles alumnae meeting that the Vassar fiftieth anniversary fund has reached 809 400 in gifts. Notable donations include 180 000 from Paul Mellon and Mary Conover Mellon and 100 000 from Edward Harkness toward scholarships and faculty support. The nationwide drive, started January 1, aims to raise 2 600 000 by June with 65 district committees organized. Bonnell leads the San Antonio drive with a committee including Pryor Minus Rice and Tanks.
The Captain Augustus Jones chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 will meet Wednesday at 3 PM in the home of President Mrs. J. B. Weight at 121 West Ridgewood Avenue. The St Ursin Mothers Club will meet at 2 PM Thursday.
A man pleaded guilty to simple assault with a motor vehicle on Monday and was fined 20 dollars with 22.50 dollars in costs in County Court at Law No 2 before Judge Charles J. Matthews. He was accused of striking Mary W. Cooney at 836 McCullough Avenue and appeared at Gramercy Place.
Chief Ray Ashworth announced a city registry program to deter bicycle thefts and aid recovery. Cards will be distributed to schools asking owners to record name address bicycle type color and serial numbers. An ordinance requires all bicycle sellers and buyers to be recorded prepared for city council consideration.
The Catholic Young Ladies club of San Fernando Cathedral plans a Mardi Gras dance on February 6 to raise funds for poor children. Miss Matta Chilling Jimenez heads decorations, Miss Maring Garza leads the decor committee, and other hostesses assist. A guest speaker Col. Robert Mercer Cheney is set for the next meeting.
A reception will precede a program by the Woman's Club literary department under Mrs Theodore Ty Munine. The Postal Supervisors' community group will meet Tuesday at 723 Kaytan Avenue hosted by Mr H Rehterhott.
A crowded roller derby event ends with California edging San Antonio by three points as the crowd roars. Officials and skaters such as Tina Bell, Hugh Senter, Billy Tavuns and Mary Fabian are listed among participants amid a chaotic OCR filled with names and stray characters.
Judge C A Leddy 69 of Houston former member of the Texas Supreme Court Commission of Appeals died suddenly Sunday night in Washington D C while guest of honor of the Spanish War veterans of Illinois at Columbia Country Club from a heart attack. He was appointed in 1927 by Governor Dan Moody to the Commission of Appeals serving until 1933 then returned to private practice. He is survived by his widow Anita Leddy a son C A Leddy Jr Houston court reporter a daughter Virginia Leddy of Dallas a brother Herbert Leddy of McKinney two sisters Mrs M A Maupin of Rowlett and Miss Susie Leddy of McKinney.
Eighteen WPA workmen began landscaping at the city hall as part of a project costing 817,214 to improve the city hall and the Spanish Governor's palace. First tasks include flower beds and shrubs. rest rooms will be added at the palace, with B. R. Heath as superintendent and Stowicting representing One City.
Galvestonians Miss Ning Murphy and her mother Mrs Derry spent a week in San Antonio visiting hospitality at the Bt Ane thony hotel Nina. Mardi Gras festivities in Galveston will soon begin. Mrs Etheridge hosted a buffet supper and tea party for her daughter Francen Peart, a mid term graduate of Mark Twain, with dining room decor in orange white and pink roses and gladioli. Sixteen priests were invited. Miss Katherine Ochse left for a brief Galveston visit. Invitations have been issued for a country club dancing event on Friday January 26 at nine oclock with dancing to follow at ten. Large reservations at the Bright Shawl weekly style show include James George Gratense and others.
President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a TVA proposal to develop electric power and flood control across six southern states. The message stresses TVA aims to raise life standards and improve navigation while producing recreation potential and broad regional benefits highlighted in the TVA study led by Harcourt Morgan.
Three prisoners, J. W. Mann, Robert Lacy Cash, and Andrew H. Nelson, overpowered a prison agent near Buffalo Texas Saturday and fled toward West Texas. A burned sedan with six guns used in the escape was found early today. Electra officers reported a burglary at a hardware store Sunday night and a small arsenal of pistols rifles and ammunition stolen. The auto was also stolen in Electra as the trio moved toward Colorado City. Officers tracked the car through Lontive about 34 miles from the crime scene. The fugitives were being transported to the state prison for life sentences when they escaped.
The third meeting of the city recreation department will be held at the YWCA at 8 p.m. Monday. The training Institute, with 82 enrolled participants, will focus on "instead of dances" taught by instructors Marthe Dickey and the Mark Twain school’s physical education director, with no young city recreation department dance director present.
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