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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1942
Page
2
The Liberty Belles host an USO event Friday night at the Army club. Brooks Held Orchestra provides music as the Belles welcome soldiers, with Alamo Mission chapter Daughters of the Texas Republic organizing under Mrs. George Wurrbachts, chair.
Flagstaff with a population of 7500 endures a shutdown as local grocers drug stores and newsstands face limited stock and closed shops amid anti union protests. Merchants organized by the Flagstaff Merchants Association press for labor to speak for local workers while outside organizers are sidelined. The Gehtrak Labor Council met with Arizona labor officials to address demands, but results remained inconclusive as meals and services adapt.
Brazil reports Allied air and naval actions sinking at least one submarine off its 1100 mile coastline and damaging another. A German supply ship seized near Recife is claimed. Ambassador says a submarine was sunk and another damaged with a third captured, amid broader Atlantic engagements including Fernando de Noronha.
San Carlos May 29 An application to operate two 12 passenger horse drawn carryalls to handle commuter traffic was to come before the city council today Hills Hubbard operator of the H H ranch will already have the rigs capable of 15 to 20 miles an hour carrying passengers between the main railroad depot and residential district
Military service for Léonard Earl Crawshaw 46, native of Ava Tl, will be held at the Riebe Funeral home at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial in Nat orial cemetery. Survived by widow Fieanor Magnolia Crawshaw, mother Tlinnte Nail, brother Ross E. Crawshaw of Kansas City, Mo, and sister Hurmell Sadler of this city.
City officials announce Austin will sell about $20,000 worth of electricity monthly to Houston as part of a wartime power pooling program under the Western Power Reserve. City Manager Walter Beahwim notes the transfer will aid Houston’s industrial war needs around the clock.
The Saturday meeting of the National Protective Association and Townsend Club No 2 is postponed until Saturday June 6 due to a Decoration Day program. The meeting will be held at the municipal auditorium, the previously announced site.
Ismael Reagel, 6, a 4H club member from Pearsall in Frio County, earned a free trip to Chicago by posting the best single crop record in the National Farm Accounting contest. County agent N. H. Hunt reported the results from Pearsall on May 29.
A small plane and an automobile collided on a highway near the Grove City fireport last night. The plane, flying low to land, flipped over in the crash. The pilot and a passenger in the auto were injured.
Rome reports heavy Austrian losses along the Carso front as German reinforcements bolster the Rwhenian frontier. French seize a German post north of Vacherauville in Verdun. One year ago invaders struck from the West and captured Suda Bay Crete. British forces in Trig push toward Baghdad from Velusua, 15 miles from the capital. Secretary Stimson announces 8000 Beltish tere to be trained annually in the tilа country.
Investors profited during the first war period by buying wealth in income property. Bee Light Classifieds listed real estate ads.
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