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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1946
Page
2
The remains of Miss Catherine Fennessey were sent Monday to Sioux City Iowa for services and interment Tuesday. She resided at 1012 West Summit Avenue and died Friday.
Postal Life and Casualty Insurance offers a new accident policy for ages 65 to 85 with benefits up to 500 for disability, 100 monthly income, 1000 hospital care, and other coverages. Cost is 1 cent per day, 3.65 a year, with no medical exam and 10 day free inspection. No money required to write name, address, age, beneficiary details.
The U S announces recapture of an escaped prisoner from an army stockade named Joseph E Wieswa who fled to a Japanese house of prostitution in Yokohama. Authorities report the incident as shocking and Wieswa's parents are due to appear in Washington tomorrow.
A war department board of review will hear the appeal of a death sentence imposed by an army court martial two months ago on Hicswa for slaying two Japanese civilians. Other escapees from a Yokohama stockade included Pvt. Kirby Willis and a Japanese man Yoshitalsa To, both captured in a house of prostitution. Willis faces a 20 year rape sentence. Representative Harry Towe said findings will be sent to President Truman for final action.
About 600 pairs of nylon stockings were issued to members of the Women’s Army Corps at Brooke General Hospital and Brooke Army Medical Center on February 28. The pay and nylon issue marks the first regular quarterly stock for WACs replacing rayon. One WAC commented humorously on future luxury benefits.
Washington March 4 House Republicans narrowed their choice for national chairman to two lawmakers, Clarence J. Brown of Ohio and B Carroll Reece of Tennessee. Brown, in his fourth term, is a former country newspaper publisher and Ohio official. Reece, a lawyer and veteran, is in his thirteenth term. A selection is expected by April 1 as Republicans seek a chairman with congressional background.
Frank Lucien Shreks, 85, retired division traffic superintendent of the Southern Pacific railroad, died yesterday in Beaumont after an illness of more than two years. He served with the railroad for several decades and was well known in transportation circles.
Mathias F. Rennolds, 74, will be buried in Mission Burial Park after services at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Southside Funeral Home. The Rev. C. E. Bryant will officiate. Rennolds died Sunday in a local hospital.
Entry form requests participants to mail or deliver to the Majestic Theater in San Antonio by 10 PM Friday March 8. The signer authorizes publication of photos or news releases to Tom Breneman, the San Antonio Light, and the Majestic Theater and agrees to follow all contest rules.
Readers are urged to craft extreme hats from odds and ends for The Light's Gontiest Hat Contest tied to Tom Breneman's Hollywood broadcast from the Majestic Theater on March 14 and 15. Entrants mail entry blanks by March 8. finalists chosen nightly with cash and merchandise prizes totaling 300 dollars plus 500 dollars in merch certificates.
Miss Ellen Louise Brient, longtime superintendent of the Nix hospital for 15 years, retires and transfers hospital responsibilities to Miss Pearl Smith effective March. Brient, a Texas nurse leader born in England, plans continued nursing involvement and serves as director or president of several Texas hospitals and nursing groups. She resides in San Antonio with ties to Port Arthur and Brownsville hospitals.
Tokyo dispatch says 75,000 Japanese servicemen killed or missing in action still await the urns denoting final notification. The demobilization ministry cited a shortage of urns as delaying delivery, Kyodo News Agency reported.
Catholics in the Galveston diocese are urged to offer prayers for the conversion of Russians during Lent. The admonition comes from Most Rev C Byrne bishop of the diocese, as part of Lenten practices and devotions.
Deeds filed Monday with County Clerk Fred Huntress record two property transfers. Mortgage Loan and Agency sold the old Vance homestead on Nueva Street to Gibbs Mac Daniel for 125000, now home to U S Employment Service and Farmers market. The second sale covers Sol Franke Company’s site at 517 East Houston Street to Ol Prank and Abe Rosenberg for 122500, a two story brick building facing Houston Street between Broadway and Alamo.
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