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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1944
Page
2
A disjointed scene follows a man as he battles a chaotic city block toward a pawnshop. He encounters crowds, a locked gate, shouting bystanders, and a frightening urban procession before retreating to a cold shower and recalling his craving for drink.
Mrs Bickele entertained at the Peraux room of the St Anthony hotel in a lumcheon honoring Miss Dorothy Hii er. Covers were set for Mrs R Hil ker and several Misses Verna Pagenstecher Marlon Nordan Elisabeth Vaughan Peggy Callan Madeleine Cline and Jane Hall. Miss Hulker will depart for Columbia Missouri in mid December to teach horseback riding at Stephens College. She is a UT graduate.
Miss Lallier was reviewed at her home 02 Mandalay Drive East after spending the past year on the West Coast. She toured the Redwood Empire along the northern California coast and the Pacific Northwest with stops in Eugene and Port Orchard, Oregon, Spokane, Washington, and other towns.
A Canadian visitor Allesnes Staughatt of Eamon ton Alberta visits her aunt Mrs C J Rothentine and others in the Randolph fete P T A. They meet at 3 p.m. Monday at the Pea school with a first meeting to precede a ten club calendar event. Hawntday evening features and local club notes follow.
The Conservation society hosts an atonal and camiyat evening from 8:30 p.m. to midnight on the river banks. The Woodlawn Agenda elite meet Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the home of President Mrs. Russell B. Grieve, 2135 West Kings Highway. Mrs. Robert B. McBride reviews Hungry Hill by Daphne de Maurier with co hosts Mesdames Charles L. McGehee Arthur Fabra Ralph W. Russell and Dewey Btrauch.
A garbled provocation piece mentions ARTHUR AT, war talk, and costs cited as $30,000 to WIM. It references Mater Incorporated and a Monon Mochrine, with scattered phrases about war on home grounds and a suggestion to paste over a rip to a screen door.
Community notices list Modern Dance at Herman's Hall on Austin Highway October 7 with free Sunday dancing and patterns from San Antonio Light. Dallas educator James Owen Mahoney dies after 40 years with Dallas public schools. Local venues host dances and events including Maonight Tavern near Helotes, Hermann Sons Carnival at 625 S Marys, and various bands performing at TOP and Victory Playboys venues.
Hollywood gossip notes Charles Boyer is courted for Typhoon while Jean Gabin and Les Miserables projects swirl. Columbia weighs Jacobowsky and the Colonel. Elysa Knox signs three year Monogram deal. Parson photos reveal Balaban’s defense corps losses. Maisie Go Go scales Reno box office. adoptions, marriages, and renovations pepper a busy showbiz page.
Anent of Antion reports a three year old named Shields showing remarkable skill by dismantling light fixtures door handles and a telephone. He accompanied his father to a bank and disappeared only to be found by a baker who says such a boy could do the job of experienced hands. The incident mentions the boy removing handles from a night safe.
A loud explosion from large fire crackers disrupted the premiere of the Communist political committee’s controversial revue “FD, Re Victory Bandwagon” in Boston last night. Earl Browder had just finished speaking when the blasts rattled the Symphonic Hall audience, causing brief confusion among attendees.
HOLLY WOOL, mother to a baby girl weighing pounds and four ounces, born yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital to Cleve Lake and Mrs Falkers Yan. The child is named Marlon Es, with the family placing hope on a stable home. Washington reports war production officials will release duck material to relieve cotton picker shortages, with West Texas holdings cited as sufficient to meet meat requirements.
Dr Ross, guest preacher for the 11 am service at Bescon Hill Presbyterian Church, comes from a Southern Presbyterian mission station in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At 7:30 pm the evening series resumes with a discussion on the Gospel of Matthew as part of introductory New Testament studies.
Report notes fugitives still at large near Grass Lake as authorities pursue four men. Warden Harry H. Jackson of the prison system ordered intensified search and a bar spreader used to breach a cell block. The escape involved a four foot clearance from the ground.
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