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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1942
Page
2
Trinity students visit a church service led by Rev. Alvin K. Battey with Heber and A. Gantt Bishop Matty Hones noted as still available for class activities.
State Examiner H. Smith warns drivers to renew licenses by a Saturday deadline. Visit state highway patrol headquarters at New Braunfels Avenue with old license to receive a temporary permit receipt and renewal form. Mail forms to Drivers License Division Austin with 50 cent fee. renewals valid two years. Last minute rush brought 450 people to patrol HQ.
Lily Pons will perform with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Municipal Auditorium after two days of rest and rehearsal. The Texas engagement precedes her Chicago opera season opening and New York Metropolitan Opera duties, with plans to join conductor Andre Kosselanetz en route to Saint Louis and Milwaukee. The star and her entourage stay at the Guntor hotel. Edgewood High School debuts The Scout, its student paper, with James A. Forester as president and a roster of officers and staff members.
American Lutheran congregations in Gan Antone will join in commemorating the Reformation with services at Giwee Lutheran church on Avenue E and Fifth Street at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. G. A. Poehlman will speak, with the Lutheran Pastors’ conference liturgist and Walter Hellman assisting. choral music by the Grace choir.
Maurice M. Reeker, long associated with the Associated Press staff in New Orleans and a former sports editor for Louisiana Mississippi, is on duty at Fort Sam Houston as part of his wartime service.
Increased living costs and higher taxes are shown in the pocketbook of individuals. Last year those earning under 1000 dollars were in the red. this year those up to 1500 dollars face a deficit. Higher earners cut luxuries and boost savings.
Police investigate a woman found on a railroad track four miles from Alvin. A purse shows a purchase in $1, with a memorandum naming Mrs Florence Ramsey Weslaco Texas and indicates Mrs M A Hough of Weslaco will be notified. The body suffered severe injuries, suggesting she was dragged along the right of way. A train schedule shows travel from West Villinia to Weslaco.
London hosts a secret mass meeting of 2500 coal industry reps from 1300 mines as Churchill presses for higher output amid a coal shortage. Attendees include Smuts and Gwilyn Lloyd George with government supporters in attendance. Each miner receives a government allowance for expenses.
Hollywood reports film star Garson and Ensign Ney, both surprised by his father’s announcement that they would marry tomorrow. Ney’s father said the couple would wed in California with a Pebble Beach honeymoon plan. Ney recently appeared opposite Garson in a film and is newly commissioned, while Garson continues with MGM projects.
Dr. UP alldredge of Rastieli Teim will lead a weeklong study at the First ups tiat church starting Monday. He is described as a former worker among lepers in Africa. Rev Perry F. Webb, the church pastor, says the “State might” program will honor citizens from Novel and several states. Services begin Sunday and run daily at 7 p.m.
SAN ANGELO Oct 31 The establishment of a Texan co operative to handle Commodity Credit loans for the 1942 pecan crop will likely not be undertaken this year due to a very short crop. J L Rainey San Angelo horticulturist and director of the American Pecan Growers association says benefits would be meagre. Only the Uvalde and San Angelo regions show any pecans this year.
Delayed reports describe Allied advances in Egypt with shifting lines as infantry push forward. The text notes enemy positions retreating and ongoing combat amid unclear, fragmented dispatches from the front.
Lt Col Jamies A Healy spoke at Randolph Field on Army Day urging war bond purchases to aid allied relief and provide resources for U S forces. He noted the War Chest totals reaching 47000 with 15 percent of the goal met and praised volunteers in Red White and Blue divisions.
Differing versions of a dispute over visits to Mrs. Evelyn McKee’s home surfaced in a contested divorce case against Mark T. McKee. Testimony described Max de la Fuente, then Peru’s consul, staying at the house and sharing rooms, with mixed accounts of other guests and ongoing affection.
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