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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1944
Page
1
A dangerous incident is recalled when an engineer nearly lost control but was restrained by a firefighter just before catastrophe. About 200 people escaped harm as the scene was contained, described in the American Weekly insert of Sundays Light.
Three Mexican men Franco Inciguez Franco 30 Calderon 30 Mendoza 24 appeared before U S Commissioner Knight on charges of smuggling $1850 in costume jewelry into the United States via Laredo and Possession of $1000 in unpaid jewelry duties. Bond reduced from 1000 to 500 each. cases examined at a West Side hotel after tips of a large seizure.
Corporal Glenn A McClain of the engineers was awarded the Soldier's Medal at Fort Sam Houston Reception Center by Col. T G Gottschalk. The ceremony included duty officers, reclassification men, POW guard detachment, and the 938th Army Service Forces Band, ending with retreat at 5 46 p m. The Oklahoma resident earned the medal for bravery near Oro Bay New Guinea on July 4 1943.
Army dance bands from Eagle Pass army air field and Normoyle will provide music for a joint USO dance at the Sunken theater Saturday evening. Lieut. Bobby Byrne directs the Eagle Pass band and Sgt. Lee Kohlenberg the Normoyle band. Soldiers from San Antonio area posts are invited and girls enter with a USO member card. A feature will be entertainers from stage screen and radio now serving in the armed forces in this area.
Pvt Elbert L Estes a San Antonio paratrooper whose life was saved by plasma after fighting in the Southwest Pacific repaid part of his debt to the Red Cross He gave a pint of blood at the Fort Worth Red Cross blood bank en route to Brooke General Hospital saying he wished to give two pints but they would only take one He had not registered at the hospital Wednesday morning.
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