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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1946
Page
2
The navy approved the presentation of the battleship Texas as a memorial at San Jacinto. The Texas lies at Norfolk and will move to Baltimore then Houston, where it will berth beside the ship canal, under Texas officials ready for the arrival.
Two persons died and seven others were injured as a fourth alarm blaze swept two downtown buildings in Lancaster early today. Firefighters battled the blaze as the city faced its fourth major fire alarm in six youths involved in the incident.
The War Department announced reductions in regular army officer applications from 108 582 to 97 550 after withdrawals and disqualifications for physical and mental fitness. Vacancies now run just under one in ten, with about 400 officers to be added by July 1 to the 15 500 already in the regular army.
Willie Francis, 18, sits in a New Iberia jail cell eating candy and says he feels pretty good about the U S Supreme Court agreeing to review his case. He was convicted of murdering St Martinville druggist Andrew Thomas after an electric chair malfunction on May 3 and claims the device only tickled him.
State attorney general says millal rules on recorded plats not approved by county commissioners before 1946 are legal and enforceable. The issue arose from a subdivision east of the city where plats were initially rejected in 1945 but approved after January 4, 1946. Purchasers based 1946 assessments on the plat, and the AG cited the constitution statutes and court decisions. Dickison sought the opinion to avoid duplicated work in the assessor’s office.
A full military service for Frank Lynn Shildt, 19, seaman first class, U S N R, will be held Friday at Akers Funeral Home. Interment will follow in New National Cemetery. Shildt drowned accidentally in Portland Oregon on May 4 while serving two years in the Navy and seeing combat in the South Pacific China and Japan. His parents Chief Warrant Officer and Mrs H R Schildt were notified by the Navy this week. A grandmother Mrs W S Leslie also survives.
Louisa Kentucky June 12 Mrs Delbert Sprouse 75 year old bride speaking for herself and 18 year old husband has flatly rejected two offers to appear in Newark amusement spots and then said well maybe The elderly woman told a newsman who delivered the telegraphed offers over the 20 mile road to the newlyweds log cabin near Gladys God knows we need the money bad enough but money isn t everything
Police questioned a suspect Wednesday in a case of $500 theft from Marvin Crawford, reported while he was at a house near Water and Goliad streets. In Victoria courts, Jack Hill, 24, of 401 Sarafe Street, was booked for vagrancy.
Houston detectives report a fatal double shooting at a coffee shop. William Van Rice, 36, killed his wife Essie Rice, 30, then shot himself in the neck and died. Mrs. Rice died en route to hospital. Police said the couple were estranged.
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