President's ball to aid infantile paralysis in San Antonio
San Antonio hosts a Monday night event at the Municipal Auditorium to raise funds for infantile paralysis research and a county committee. Tickets are 1, with half the proceeds to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the rest to local aid. Four orchestras and two floor shows planned, no speeches.
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San Antonio
Municipal Auditorium
National Foundation’ For
M. Abbe Strunk
San Antonia
Eduardo Martinez
Jefferson, Brackenridge
Central Catholic
Tancing
Willam O'Donnell
Interstate Theaters
Old Mexico
Martinez
Rosa Elda
Notable San Antonio locals lampooned in city life feature
A colorful roster of city figures appears in a humorous portrait of local society. Sylvan Berry and Anita Smite headline lighthearted sketches, with Thomas Liddy from New Yorker, Ed Johnson cigar habit, Barney Brooke famed for cigars, Maj. T. A. Austin, Emmet Rahm buying a saxophone, and Howard Bush roaming corners. George Noonan, Boss Later, Pablo Villanueva, Rev. Charles Webb inaugurating a metaphysics class, Hugh Burnett Jr. in Los Angeles, a stylish midtown woman at Market and Soledad, Fred Prado quitting dime-saving, Danny Odom headed to Memphis with two dancers, Tad Die Klein and Bonnie Lothy, Jake Reich filing suit after a car crash, and Charley Galt hobbling from a midget auto race.
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Sylvan Berry
Anita Smite
Thomas Liddy
The
New Yorker
G. I
Incarnate Ward College
ED Johnson
Bernard M. Brooke
Barney
Maj T. A. Austin
Head
Emmet Rahm
Texas U
Austin
Howard Bush
George Noonan
John
Boss
Pablo
Villanueva
Charles Webb
Our Lady of the Lake College
Danny Odom
Memphis
Taddie Klein
Bonnie Lothy
Jake Reich
Charley Galt
Screen Actress Irene Coleman Files Second Divorce Suit
Irene Coleman, noted screen actress, filed a new divorce suit against Dr Edwin B Glass after a previous action was dismissed. She accuses the physician of domineering attitude and lack of affection, citing their May 1937 marriage as the source of irreconcilable differences.
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Hollywood
Irene Coleman
Edwin B. Glass
Miss Coleman
Texas Relief Commission Aids 55,050 Families In 1938
The Texas Relief Commission report shows 55,050 Texas families received food, clothing, and household articles worth over 9.5 million dollars in 1938. Totals include 42,227,973 pounds of produce and 4,202,734 clothing items distributed from Texas warehouses. Average monthly value per family was 14.65 dollars. Surplus foods came from the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. clothing from WPA sew ing rooms. Mattresses by WPA were also given. The federal corporation spent over 24 million dollars in Texas for food.
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Texas
Texas Rel Iief
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Ree L. Montgomery
WPA
Commission
Federal Corporator
Fifty-One Flying Cadets Named in Midwest
Maj. Gen. Stanley Ford of the Sixth Corps area announced the appointments of 51 flying cadets from Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan. Eleven are from Chicago. Cadets report at Randolph Field on March 1 to receive second lieutenants commissions in the reserve air corps after a year of training in Texas.
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Chicago
INS
Stanley Ford
Sixth Corps
Illinois
Missouri
Wisconsin
Michigan
Dr Houston Neeley laid to rest in Beeville funeral
Funeral rites were held Friday for Dr Houston Neeley 72 prominent veteran physician of Beeville. He died Thursday and his death follows a long career serving the community with veterinary care and public service.
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Neelexy
Beeville
Houston Neeley
Deaths for Kidnapping in New York First Under statute
New York Jan 28 The case of 2 year old ex convicts Joseph Bacoda and Demetrius Gulu faces death in the electric chair after a jury found them guilty of kidnapping and murder in White Plains N Y of Arthur Fried a contractor The verdict completes the mandatory death sentence and marks the first time death has been imposed for kidnapping in the state The trial was the first under the new kidnapping statute The state contends Fried was slain when relatives failed to ransom him Bacody and Gula admitted the crime but their confessions were disputed Fried survives and his brother Hufo knows his whereabouts
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New York
INS
Joseph Bacoda
Demetrius Gulu
Arthur Fried
White Plains
N. Y
New York State
Fried
Bacody
Gula
Radio Artots to Negotiate New York
The American Federation of Radio Artists agreed to start meetings Monday with a committee from the American Association of Advertising Agencies. The talks aim to avert a threatened national walkout of actors, singers and announcers on commercial programs. The committee is empowered to act for 80 percent of the commercially sponsored network programs and will confer without recess until a settlement is reached. Officials from the Columbus Broadcasting system and the National Broadcasting Company appealed to avoid strife and seek a settlement.
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New York
INS
American Federation of Radio Artists
American Association of Advertising Agencies
Columbus Broadcasting System
Songbird Ruth Out of Tune
Ruth Etting, the songstress, was not singing today as she entered a beauty parlor in Omaha. She criticized Omaha lawyers amid the Col. Moe Snyder shooting trial coverage and hinted at a world trip with Myr. She planned a long rest and said they might never return to their state.
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Omaha
Neb
Gan
Ruth Etting
Miss. Etting
Col
Moe Snyder
Visi
David City
Brotherhood Meet Slated at Grace Lutheran Parish
The largest gathering of Lutheran Brotherhood in the city is planned at Grace Lutheran Parish house Monday January 30 at 7 o clock. Charles B Treuter Grace Brotherhood president will preside Theo H Janssen M A of Texas Lutheran College Seguin will speak Herman H Oths state president will report on Texas Lutheran Brotherhood activities and discuss preparations for the February 12 state convention in Austin expected to draw 700 pastors delegates and laymen Refreshments will be served at 7 p.m.
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Grace Lutheran
Charles B. Treuter
Grace Brotherhood
Theo H. Janssen
Texas Lutheran College
Seguin
Texas Lutheran Brotherhood
Herman H. Oths
Austin
Texan
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