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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1942
Page
10
Engaged: Mary Anne Teal to Lieut William A Copeland in a planned summer wedding. Copeland, from Oklahoma, educated at Texas Tech, stationed at Dina Toid, and the couple have ties to San Antonio cities. Mary Anne is a Mamr Heights alumna with a San Antonio University degree and Epics member. Other local notes cover church group meetings and social plans.
Miss Louise Smith daughter of Mrs T B Halstead Burnet and the late FE B Smith of Raleigh married Glenn Ro Marple son of Harple Sax Antonia in a Raleigh Edenton Street Methodist Church ceremony attended by families and friends. The bride wore white pique with Irish lace and carried a white Bible with orchid shower. The couple reside Fort Blading Florida.
Jerves Ley Lyle Tins announces the engagement and approaching marriage of his daughter Betty Jean Goldston of Houston to Joseph Clarence Goldston, son of Mr and Mrs We te Goldston of Goldston. The bride elect is the former Mrs J L B Lytle and will complete studies at Mary Baldwin College. She graduated from the University of Texas and belongs to Pi Beta Phi and the San Antonio Gris faltilion club. The groom elect earned a BS from the University of North Carolina and joined Phi Delta Phi and the Texas Law Review. he attended the UT law school and is a member of Alpha Epsilon, Allegro club. The couple plan a ceremony at 8:50 p.m. on August 1 at the First Presbyterian church, followed by a Cascade Terrace reception at the St Anthony hotel.
DETROIT July 13 Mrs Dorothy Kemp Roosevelt widow of C Hall Roosevelt and sister in law of the president s wife today an would seek the Democratic congressional nomination from the Seventh Michigan district Roosevelt is 42.
Houston driver Gallbry escaped serious injury when a heavy merchandise truck struck a culvert and overturned four miles from dine Aga highway early Monday. Police reported minor injuries and vehicle damage with no other casualties.
Eugene J. Houdry, head of Maudry Process, testified before a senate committee that his firm developed a process to convert butane into butadiene in one unit, reducing steps from four or five. Rubber dealer Elliott Simpson accused four firms of enormous profits from scrap rubber schemes tied to the Rubber Reserve, outlining commissions and sorting pay along with high-value scraps.
Two county officials suffered injuries from weekend incidents. Commissioner Rudy Stappenbeck slipped at home Sunday and leg bruises were reported. County Judge Charen W Anderson appeared on crutches after a ride near Snindo Creek where a horse dragged her 100 yards and she fell from the saddle.
Judge C. J. Mannews granted a continuance until 2 p m in the bawdy house case of Ann Layton of 644 1 2 East Commerce street at the Waldorf hotel. Attorneys for both sides sought clarification of arguments. The case, appealed from Corporation court, tests vice drive. Layton and ten other women were arrested July 2, with one co-defendant found guilty of vagrancy and fined $40.
Lynden B. Solomon y, IAT representative, back from Pacific duty as a navy lieutenant commander. He resumes congressional duties after complying with a directive to place armed forces members on inactive status. His duty included time in Australia and New Zealand. Mrs. Johns on notes he will greet constituents briefly before resuming office. An auto accident injures three women when a driverless car crashes into a pole, brush, and a home, with fire causing minor damage. Earlier, 13 year old John Neal Jones drowned in Wallace lake near Carthage.
In July 1914 three U S bomber crewmen crash landed in New Guinea high ranges. They patched a 1914 biplane with improvised materials, salvaged parts from an older model, and spent days attempting a rescue flight before abandoning the effort and striking through jungle to a trading post. They were later rescued by an Australian aircraft.
PAMLBANDS, July 13. A miner suspect in the killings of Mito Sautien 65, his wife, Mary Stay 14, and their housemaid was found dead of suffocation in a tunnel near Fairbanks after fleeing surrender demands. FBI agent and U.S. Marshal had pursued him for hours, building a fire and firing into the shaft. Authorities believe jealousy drove the triple slayings.
State Auditor G. C. H. Cayness told Governor Coke R. Stevenson that old age assistance warrants rose in July by 54,351 over January, a 4452 percent rise. In two months the increase was 32,054 or 22.0 percent, with the six month average up 2.67 percent.
An arbitrator named by the war labor board in Washington D C. sets a wage increase for Willamette Valley lumber mills Oregon. He says most mills will pay about 74 cents more per hour under the final award.
A San Antonio Public Service Company balance sheet reveals a doubtful bill of 95 000 tied to street lighting. Commissioner P G Anderson previously claimed the city would not pay it, noting a 55 000 budget line item. The ledger lists 78 838 in uncollectible accounts. The dispute arose during annual budget talks over arrest rights tied to blacked out districts.
Hollywood gossip notes sign Teresa Wright for Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt at Universal. The piece catalogs cast talk, industry moves, and personal snippets from stars like Lana Turner Gene Kelly Rosemary Lane Rosemary Lane plays a stage role and Jean Ruth plans Beverly on screen while Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester face relationship rumors.
Lieut Col and Mrs Dewey Cape depart San Antonio for their new post in Atlanta Georgia. A series of informal gatherings were held in their honor as they prepared to relocate after long service in the city.
A collage of gossip notes from Walter Winchell style pages recalls John Gunther Kay Alton and John Whitaker amid hotel window oddities. It covers public figures like President Quezon, Cafe Pierre performances, and The Diamond Brothers opening at Mother Kellys with edgy Broadway anecdotes and street observations.
The city council authorized borrowing 275000 from Frost National Bank for current expenses in 11 notes of 25000 each. An 8000 appropriation funded library expenses. July payrolls totaled 380080.83 with 386 for new airport payroll, 42.83 for Siison field, and 10 for advertising payroll. The ordinance also extended Gus Mallermann’s civil service appointment to one year.
Joseph A. Lockard, formerly a private aged 40, earned gold bars in the Signal Corps School after giving the first warning of Japanese planes near Peathamore. The promotion was announced at Fort Monmouth on July 14, with his rise from private to lieutenant in the Second Light.
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