Mrs Church and Mrs Coates Hostesses at Party
Mrs William Church and her daughter Mrs Ebner Coates entertained with a luncheon at the Bright Shawl in honor of Miss Hester Harrison Amanda Hurnt Annie Laura Beckmann and Margaret Walker on Wednesday. The Order of the Alamo plans a spring fiesta ending with a Court of The Old South featuring period costumes and stage settings. Mrs J W Nixon is mistress of the robes and Miss Mildred Johnson will oversee the dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Church
Ebner Coates
Hester Harrison
Amanda Hurnt
Annie Laura Beckmann
Margaret Walker
Harry Harrison
Laurence Hurst
Adolph Beckmann
Stella
Steves Walker
Mil
Order of the Alamo
Court
Old South
J.W. Nixon
Mildred Johnson
Miss Ann Harley to Be Guest at Luncheon
Miss Clara Mame Adams and her grandmother Mrs. W. H. Chambers will host a luncheon at 12 30 Friday February 2 at the J Anthony hotel in honor of Miss Ann Harley whose marriage to Aanda will take place February 5 at the local church guests include relatives and close friends of the couple
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Mame.Adams
W. H. Chimbers
the &J. Anthony Hotel
Mico Ann Harley
A Anda
Ta M. Benfin
Victoria
W.B. A
Nell Moaty
Nelle Bull
Wille Printz
Nellie Bull
Montana Street
Nancy Butler
Bessie Dolan
Ational Legislative Committee
Fannie Mae Benkendorfer
Blur Bonnet Grove Woodmen Circle
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Braves
Dolan
Benkendorfer
Ida Vick
J. M. Benkendorfer
Peepus Christey
Mexican Dinner Held for Women at Medical Parley
A Mexican dinner and game party was held Tuesday evening for visiting women doctors at the International Post-Graduate Medical convention at the Bright Shawl. Hosted by the Women’s Auxiliary to the Bexar County Medical Association, the event featured Mexican table decorations, a long Mexican room table with pottery fruit red berries and magnolia leaves, and other tables with Mexican scenes. About 125 guests attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Parley
Bexar County Medical Association
Invitations Mailed for Harley Ridder Nuptials
Mr and Mrs James Harley announce the marriage of their daughter Ann to Alfred Joseph Ridder Jr. on Monday February 5 at eight o'clock in the evening at Saint Peter Prince of the Apostles in San Antonio Texas. A reception follows at the She Woman's Club located at 1700 San Pedro Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harley-Ridder
James
Harley
Ann
Alfred Joseph Ridder Jr
Saint Peter Prince of the Apostles
San Antouly
Texas
She Woman's Club
Seventeen Hundred and Seventeen
San Pedro Avenue
Mrs Ganahl Hosts Luncheon For Miss Harrison
Mrs Fred Ganahl will entertain with a luncheon in honor of Miss Hester Harrison at Fort Sam Houston Officers Club on Sunday February 4. The debutantes and their escorts will be included in the guest list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Ganahl
Hester Harrison
Fort Sam Houston Officers Club
Delphine Suarez to Exhibit Her Paintings at Bright Shawl
Delphine Ranney Suarez wife of Lieut Edward Suarez of Randolph field will exhibit her watercolors and flower studies at the Bright Shawl on February 3 She was born in San Antonio in 1914 studied at the Paris Atelier of the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and painted floral still lifes in Hawaii and California The meeting of the Catholic Women's association postponed to January 30 Debutantes to be feted at a Four-Day Ranch Party February 7 at Miss Wolfson’s ranch with many local social figures in attendance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphine Ranney Suarez
Courvoisier
San Francisco
Martin Head
Charles Stone
Charlotte
N.C
Marjorie McKay Long
Sem Kone
Shaw
Flame Cave
Laura Deekmann
Rupert Lundgren
A. F. Gilam
Willian F. Schutz
Martha Tompkins
Oklahoma
Sisters to entertain at La Fonds dinner party
Misses Mary Louise and Hazel Tips will host a dinner party at 7 30 p m Wednesday at La Fonds to compliment debutantes Miss Margaret Whisenant and Margaret Walker So The San Antonio Women s Christian Temperance Union will meet at the president Mrs Neal Ellis home 716 Hays street at 2 p m Thursday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A
Mary Louise
Hazel Tips
la Fonds
Margaret Whisenant
Margaret Walker
The
San Antonio Women's Christian Temperance Union
Neal Ellis
Hays
Jaycee History for 21 Years Cited at Banquet
A review of the 21 year history of the junior chamber of commerce movement highlighted the San Antonio JCs banquet. Ernest A. Baets, president of the national JC organization, delivered the review. Albert Buss, last year’s chapter president, received the outstanding young man in San Antonio for 1939. Mack Fader chaired the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycee
Junior Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
Missing liner tragedy rocks Genoa toll fears rise
Genoa reports show at least 921 missing from the burned British liner Orazio with fear toll could top 1000. Survivors totalled 643 on original list minus 12 German passengers removed by a French patrol ship, while Mussolini’s paper blames French delays for the loss and questions Barcelona reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Marseille
Colombo
Orazio
Pattol
Royal Neighbors Camp to Elect Officers Week Meeting
The Royal Neighbors of America camp Monte de Piedad will meet Thursday with President Susie Lopez Burke presiding. Officers will be elected and all officers will present yearly activity reports. Juvenile camp elections move to last Saturday each month at 3 p.m. at Biblioteca Mexicana. Altar society bingo set for Friday at Sacred Heart hall. Interior decor group meeting postponed to Feb 2 due to guest speaker absence. venue at Mrs Perry Kallison’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Neighbors of
America
Camp
Monte de Piedad
Biblioteca
Susie Lopez Burke
Biblioteca Mexicana
Altar Society of Sacred Heart Church
Sacred Heart Hall
West Commerce Street
Interior
Deca Vatig Study Group
Hie San An
American Association of University Women
B. i Sadowsky
Perry Kallison
Primera Drive
Wives of Doctors Honored at Luncheon
Mrs Amos Graves and Mrs Frank Martin Jr hosted a luncheon at the Bright Shawl on Wednesday to compliment Mesdames James Allen Allen Ochsner Lawrence Smith and Bernard Denzer who accompanied their husbands to the medical convention. The table featured a bright yellow cloth and ruby glassware with miniature pictures holding colored flowers. Covers were laid for 22 guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Graves
Frank Martin Jr
James Allen
Allen Ochsner
Lawrence Smith
Bernard Denzer
Picurros
Magruder Heads U.S. Tank Detail
Brig. Gen. Brice Magruder assumes command of the army's largest tank concentration. Secretary Woodring announced about 260 tanks stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia would join Third Army command maneuvers next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brice Magruder
Woddring
Fort Benning
Third Army
Special Deputy Status Voided by Constable Meeks
Special deputy status and all deputy constable commissions are canceled as of January 1. Constable Stephen M. Meeks directs all commission holders to report to his office to determine renewal viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen M
Charles” Meeks
Meeks
Glass industry praises safety glass advance at meeting
G. P. MacNichols Jr. of Toledo, VP and sales manager of Libby-Qwens-Ford Glass, declared safety glass the key development for automobiles in the last decade during a three day Southwestern division meeting of the National Glass Distributors association at the Plaza Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Libby-Qwens-Ford Glass Company
National Glass Distributors Association
Plaza Hotel
Glass and window conditioning reforms noted at meeting
MacNichols highlighted glass and a heated room strategy as key advances. The Dallas meeting opened with T B Jackson leading 75 attendees, while I A Myers and G G Pastie Wall welcomed visitors. Reports on the San Francisco convention were given, with a luncheon on the Pinza roof concluding the day. Speakers for Thursday included Bhiswanger, Chapin, and Tucker, with Governor Chaniel to speak via broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacNichols
Europe
Norway
Sweden
T. B. Jackson
Dallas
Ia. R. Myers
San Antonio
G.G. Pastie
Wall
Kansas City
San Francisco
North Storms
Chicago
George W. Gutanan
Wichita Falls
Pinza
F Argyle
Wills
Millan S. Bhiswanger
Memphis
Lowell Chapin
Niles
Mich
R. B. Tucker
Pittsburgh
W. Lee Chaniel
Texas State Network
Two L A Residents Join Garner Drive Committee
Two Los Angeles residents joined the Garner-for-President club advisory committee of 100. The appointment was accepted Wednesday by Harry Hertzberg, with San Antonio attorney and former state senator R. J. Boyle also accepting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hertzberg
San Antonio
R. J. Boyle
Doctor Merrick Hearing Set In San Antonio Case
Hearing for Dr Edward Merrick a San Antonio physician charged with violation of the Harrison narcotic act is set for 11 a m Thursday US Commissioner Paul Lockhart will preside Merrick was arraigned Thursday in a complaint filed by Federal Narcotics Agent H C Williams alleging he sold one fourth grain of morphine sulphate A temporary bond was set at 1000 dollars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward H. Merrick
San Antonio
US 5
Paul A. Lockhart
Dore
Merrick
H. C. Williams
German pledge to Italy reported in Paris dispatch
Paris January 24. The Petit Parisien quoted an INS dispatch reporting Chancellor Hitler promised Premier Mussolini that his regime would prevent any Soviet violation of zones in Italian or Hungarian interests. The statement followed talks between the two leaders about security in Eastern Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
INS
Hitler
Mussolini
Petit Parisien
Pair Sentenced on Charge of Gun Toting
Two men pleaded guilty in county court Wednesday to unlawfully carrying pistols. Homer R. Wilkinson received a $100 fine plus $22.20 costs for carrying a pistol on January 7 in McLeary Street address 521. Porter B. Click was sentenced by Judge Charles J. Matthews in County Court-at-Law No. 2 to one month in jail after pleading guilty to a like offense on January 16. Rubin Garcia of 318 Congress Street Houston was sentenced by Judge Matthews to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to theft of clothing valued at $1453 from Mrs. A. Suell of Sears Roebuck and Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCollum Burnett
Homer R. Wilkinson
McLeary Street
Charles J. Matthews
Rubin Garcia
Congress Street
Houston
Matthews
Uheft
A. Suell
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Mexican Highway Men to Be Feted in Chicago Dinner
Mexican highway officials traveling to the American Road Builders association convention in Chicago will be honored with a dinner at the St. Anthony hotel Wednesday night. Host William H. Furlong, director of the Pan-American Highway association, will preside. guests include Jose Rivera Jorge Galvez Prospero Castro and Jose Alvarado. Furlong will accompany them to the Chicago meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Road Builders’ Association
Chicago
St. Anthony
William H. Furlong
Pan-American Highway Association
Jose Rivera
Mexican Automobile Association
Jorge Galvez
National Highway Commission of Mexico
Prospero Castro
Jose Alvarado
Commission
Furlong
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Order of Alamo
Court OF Old South
Moultrie Powell Freeman
Miss Dorothy Steves
Penny Wise
the Little
San Pedro Playhouse
Delphine Suarez
Catholic Women's Association
W. D. Sickel
Rome
Popolo Ditalia
Milea
Mite
Mapatch
Barcelona
Royal Neighbors Camp
Pearl Bridges
Westway Club
Kasidah
Blue Bontet Lodge
Ladies Society of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Eveinemen
Barsch
J. F. Lohrke
Teom
Elzabeth Tynan
Silhouette News
Ree
Magruder
U.S
L.A
Garner Drive
Etreus
le W. Storms
Circus Town
Macnichoi
Jachbon
Italy
KTSA
Adwriter
Womer
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pullman
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