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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1945
Page
4
Pacific front dispatch from Saipan depicts clerks and U S Army nurses shopping in a civilian life moment despite war. Norman Wolfe, a chief clerk, helps nurses pick hats and undergarments while Marines and staff share light, humorous exchanges about sizes and past city life. The piece blends wartime duty with domestic fashion whimsy.
Maco Stewart, 48, of San Antonio and Galveston, was elected president of the state board of education and the state board of vocational education during a meeting in Galveston. A prominent business and philanthropic figure, Stewart leads Stewart Tile Guaranty Co and chairs Guaranty Federal Savings and Loan, serves as a director of American National Insurance, and is a major independent oil producer in Texas.
Hollywood dispatch reports MGM will film the history of Stars and Stripes, the famous army newspaper. Victor Orsatti sold Metro the idea. government authorization pending. The piece notes the paper’s WW2 origins, $3 million in earnings, and lists former staff and contemporaries.
Federal and city officials filed charges against four men and one woman in San Antonio and Austin for a series of safe crackings. Names include Donald Pogue and Mike Garcia among the arraigned, with accusations of forcibly breaking into a building used as a post office to steal. The burglary involved H's war store at 801 North New Braunfels Avenue and a prior February 12 incident.
Portable remedy claims to ease chest colds with a warm poultice. Notes relief from cough sore throat bronchial irritation and chest muscle soreness. Mentions use for sprains bruises swelling and general aches. Encourages using Antiphlogistine in tube or can at drug stores now.
A series of burglaries in Austin tied to drug store thefts. Suspects include James Holman 23 and Joe Zamora 32, with arrests on charges of burglary and theft of cash from Hill s Drug Store 745, Star Drug Store 1260, and the Night Hawk Cafe 675. Detectives Swift and Kelly reported numerous complaints in Justice Corrigan s court.
Reported burglaries target Hawk and Atar drug store and Hill's drug store, with Garcia charged in part. Brief note on Prichard Refining company burglary and attempted burglary. Austin record notes a long stretch without traffic fatalities ending today. Billy Gee Hodge, 4, fatally struck by car, son of Zechariah Hodge.
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