Allies Hold As German Forces Press In At Montdidier
German counterattacks along the Aisne front faced stiff French resistance with heavy losses to Jaeger and guard divisions. French airmen dropped eight tons of explosives while American prisoners increased south of the Clignon. Paris, aided by Italians Belgians Portuguese and British, stands ready as the Montdidier front holds with renewed confidence.
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Clignon
Complogne
Aisne
Aminns
Somme
Flanders
Paris
Montdidier Front
City Club Discusses Entertaining Texas League of Municipalities
The City Club met at the Gunter Hotel with Edward Paxton urging involvement in entertaining the Texas League of Municipalities under Chamber of Commerce direction in San Antonio. A committee was agreed to form, chaired by Maise, with Sttres Dunham and Castanea named. Morris Stern spoke briefly after being welcomed back, and a directors meeting was scheduled for Friday. Two young musicians then provided entertainment after lunch.
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Gunter Hotel
Edward Paxton
The
State University
Texas League of Municipalities
San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce
Maise
W.S. Sttres
Dan Dunham
A. J. Castanea
Morris Stern
Gunter
Soldier Killed In Motorcycle Crash At Kelly Field
Corporal A. R. Johns, 23, of the 616th Aero Squadron and Kelly Field fire department, died after a motorcycle crash on South Flores Street near Arsenal Streets. He swerved to avoid a car driven by Mrs. L. T. Watters, struck a telephone pole, and died en route to Santa Rosa Hospital. Johns, from Oklahoma City, had a Chicago relative and is to be held at Fort Sam Houston base hospital. He previously worked as a firefighter and driver for Lieutenant Joyce at Kelly Field.
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Kelly Weldon
Joyce
Alatani
Campaign for Thrift Stamps organized across Bexar County
Preparations for the census precede the Thrift Stamp drive with a Friday 8 30 PM Beethoven Hall meeting for registration blanks and final worker instructions. Countywide organization spans all school districts and wards with chairmen appointed for each precinct and district to lead registration and pledge campaigns.
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Beethoven Hall
Bexar County
San Antonio
Riday
T. B. Applewhite
Louis Campbell
J. S. McNeal
Searney Mason
F. M. Coleman
M. C. Judson
F. X. Ball
H. J. Adams
Charles H. Schneiden
Sehnur
Henry Smith
Lorenzo Morales
Sam H. Galm
Henry Linn
Henry Stubing
Otto Marckwardt
A. J. McHarg
A. B. Spencer
Henry Loeffler
Julius Loeffler
Henry Adams
Joe E. Halbardier
B. GC. Querent
J. Dy Beck
Ben Wright
L. B. Schultz
Louis Donop
Beverly Young
Louis Kuntze
F. Mclean
William Biehl
M. Meehler
Schneider
Mike Franger
S. B. Moore
A. I. Brehm
F. Vogel
August WV. Ernst
Z. B. Wright
B. Stanfield
Gua Toud
Chamber of Commerce Wi
Bell
Americans and French Halt German Advance Near Compiegne
Allied forces report heavy fighting along the Matz and Oise fronts west of the river. French counterattacks checked German advances toward Compiegne while Americans and French repelled assaults near Chautea-Thierry and the Marne region. French lines shifted west of the Oise to cover Laigue forest as German pressure eased on the Courcelles-Anthewil line.
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Associated Press
Matz
Oise
Noyon
Compiegne
Courcelles-Anthewil Ine
Aronde
Quiscamp
Carlespont
Laigue
Ribe+court
Flanders
Morris
Thss
Ypres
Latgue
Compeigne
Aisne
Dommiers
Cutry
Vilers-Cotterets
Cagnon
Montcourt
Bussuires
British daylight raid advances on Flan ders front and near Arras
British troops pushed a short distance southwest of Morris and east of Dickebusch Lake in daylight operations with prisoners taken. French forces improved positions near ridge wood and captured 30 prisoners. A daylight raid south of Arras inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and recovered a trench mortar. two more were destroyed.
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London
Flanders
Morris
Ridge Wood
Arras
Dickebusch Lake
Woman seeks annulment in San Antonio court over German husband alien
A San Antonio woman files in the Thirty seventh District Court to annul her marriage, alleging her husband, married May 18 in Wilson County, is an alien enemy to the United States. She seeks restoration of her maiden name and contends she would not have wed him had she known he was German and not naturalized. The filing cites the marriage was contracted under false pretenses and asks the court to void the union.
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United States
San Antonio
Thirtyseventh District Court
Ah¢É
Wilson County
Germany
We must do anything to win the war Judge Carl says
Judge J I Carl called for total effort at a luncheon of the Woman's Unit of the Council of National Defense at the Menger Hotel. He warned that peaceful postentry life is over and urged unity and energy in all activities including food, home economy and clothing. He outlined the council's organization in counties and cities and emphasized the need for sustained effort by Americans. More than seventy women attended and a roster of speakers detailed allied government work and progress.
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J. I. Carl
Menger
Council of National Defense
Council
Carl
America
United Labor
Lee Joseph
W. A. Daniel
Judge Carle
Smithie ‘Graves
H. S. Mulliken
T. A. Coleman
A. G. Pancoast
Elizabeth West
A. B. Weakney
A. Sachs
Morris Stern
Harry Hyman
George Badger
Caroline Smith
Obituary of Mrs Susan Elizabeth Mann 69
Susan Elizabeth Mann 69 died Wednesday evening at 11 65. A Mississippi native, she lived in San Antonio 30 years. Survived by husband J H Mann four daughters I O Langworthy Henry Long of Dilly Tex Elizabeth Johnson of Wharton and Mary Mann of San Antonio one sister Mrs J A Crawford Fort Worth seven grandsons and one granddaughter. Funeral Friday afternoon from 3415 South Presa at 6 30 with Dr Porter of First Baptist Church officiating. Interment Mission Burial Park.
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Susan Elizabeth Mann
Mississippi
South Presa
Dr. Porter
First Baptist Church
Mission Burial Park
Porter Loring Funeral Director Advances Services
Funeral notices list Porter Loring as a former Shelly Loring Undertaking Co contact with Cr. 5738 and Pearce Robinson Undertaking Co private ambulance and motor equipment at 45% Soledad St Cr. 2323. Hagg McCollum Undertakers operate Ambulance and Ling Motor Service at Corner Ave C and Pecan with Cr. 404 and Cr. 362.
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Porter Loring
Shelly-Loring Undertaking Co
Pearce-Robinson Undertaking Co
Soledad St
Hagg & McCollum, Undertakers
Ambulance and
Ling Motor Service
Corner Ave
Pecan
Ady
Temperature Plunges From 93 to 82 Amid Wind Storm
A weather bulletin reports a rapid drop in temperature from 93 to 82 degrees at 1 PM Thursday, with winds up to 25 miles per hour. Seven minutes of wind gusts accompanied the change, and a 11 degree fall followed. The prior high for the season was 59 degrees on Wednesday. Forecasts for Thursday night and Friday called for 58 to 68 degree temperatures with light to variable gusts as a whirl wind event formed from rising heat.
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Fn Glrong
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Attermaigon
Officers ordered to the Philippines in wartime redeployment
Five field officers formerly on duty in the Southern Department are ordered to the Philippines. They include Col. Frederick W. Day of the Third Infantry at Magle Pass and Col. Al ford B. Kennington of the Seventeenth Cavalry in Arizona. Lieut. Col. James M. Burroughy and Maj. Witzhugh B. Allerdice of the 64th Infantry at El Paso, with others reassigned to musketry instruction, per a War Department telegram.
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Southern Department
Philippines
Frederick W. Day
Third Infantry
Magle Pass
Alford B
Kennington
Seventeenth, Cavalry
Arizona District
Cal
Idlehard U Sine
Paso
Wannington
Ohfo
Arizona
War Department
Red Cross workers aid refugees under fire at Compiegne
Paris June 13 Mrs Belmont Tiffany Beardsley Oliver Wheeler and others spent ten days and nights at a Red Cross canteen near Compiegne amid German advance. They supplied coffee sandwiches cigarettes and clothing to soldiers and fleeing civilians while under shellfire. Tiffany helped build a makeshift canteen and distributed goods amid ruins. A French battery captain showed her a shell firing souvenir, and officials later evacuated refugees to eastern and southern France as trains carried them away.
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Paris
Belmont Tiffany
New York
Sterling Beardsley
Palm Beach
James Oliver
Mooney Wheeler
Pittsburg
Red Cross
Compiegne
Beardsley
Complegno
Oliver
Wheeler
Hindenburg
Beangsles
Am Automobile
B. D. Spliman
Warrenton
Parla
Compleene
Bearstey
Tiffany
Red Cross Canteen
Mrs. Tiffany
France
Easy Safe Way To Tint Gray Hair Brownstone
A vintage reader ad promotes Brownstone hair tinting from Kenton Pharmacal Cov Sutte Covington Kentucky. It claims a harmless formula offering shades from golden brown to trepeat brown or black. Readily available at drug stores with a 1.18 price and a 10 cent sample offer from the manufacturers.
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Kenton Pharmacnl
Covington, Kv
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