Bexar County Defense Council Meets Tuesday On War Work
The Bexar County Council of Defense will meet Tuesday at 4 PM to discuss all war work. Officials will announce committee personnel and survey winter tasks. Plans include clerical worker and automobile support for Thursday registration in county precincts. Twenty autos have volunteered. more are needed. The Mexican labor issue and counter German propaganda in border crossings will be discussed. The council will also review its financial condition.
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Bexar County Council of Defense
Theta Betanus
Red Cross
Wolff & Marx
Eugene Johnson
Society Notes Highlight Local Socials and Army Entertainment
The Woman's Auxiliary of the 1st M G A opens a new term at Mrs Richard J Pruitt home. Harmony Club hosts a social series at oclock. Kelly Field vaudeville artists entertain convalescent soldiers at Camp Travis weekly. Socials include Catholic Women’s Guild Y M C A meetings and Lutheran Brotherhood concerts benefiting soldiers. A Boerne dance honors Sergeant Steed’s Seven Syncopators.
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M. GA
Richard J * Pruitt
Red Cross Convalescent House
Camp Travis
Kelly Field
Fagundes
Beatty
Schubert
O'Connor
Reichenbach
Kelly Field Amusement Unit
Jacobson
Sergt
H. M. Steed
Boerne Dancing Club
Kronkosky Hill
Lust
Sergeant Steed
Banks to Lend $2.5M to Drought Areas in Texas
Dexas banks will place between two and a half and seven and a half million dollars in drought relief loans accessible to farmers and ranchers. A drought relief committee will coordinate lending through community banks with support from the War Finance Corporation and a Dallas San Antonio banking group.
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Dexas
Lexan
W. J. Ramsey
Dallas
Federal Regerge Board
Ramsey
W. W. Cobber
State National Bank of San
Collier Sid
Texas
Collier
Henry Ford
Detroit
Bankers Meeting
Bankers
Washington
War Finance Corporation
Tke Pryor
San Antonio
Marion Sansome
Mr. Collier
Mesarg
J. AS Kemp
Wichita Falls
John N. Simpson
Railroad order limits wartime data for Texas roads
The Texas Rail Road Commission ordered Texas rivers to stop compiling certain statistical data for its annual report due to wartime staff shortages. The change, effective during the war, will ease about 30 percent of the workload for the railroads, which are currently hampered by clerical shortages. Entertains for Brother. A separate item notes Miss Trina Besch hosting a farewell surprise party for her brother Lieutenant Albert Besch at her home with games and refreshments, listing many attendees.
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Austin
Ten
Railroad Commission
Voexas
Trina Besch
Albert BE. Besch
Helen Stein
Hedwig, Rief
Alma Lorenz
Cireie Krompkin
Bertha Ries
Tessie Methven
Elsie Schultze
Emma Qobaval
Henrietta Effer
Erma Effer
Emin Seiffert
Touston
Willard Johnson
Bruner
Fred Paufeh
W. T. Brauch
Charlie Thoreng
Eska Brechel
Hector Mabritto
Monroe Cordis
Saraphine
Extinosa
Willian Northway
Lenny Ulirieli
A. FE. Heseh
Henry Schaub
Caped Alien Enemy Arrested in Chicago
United States Marshal John D. Lynn announced the capture in Chicago of Paul Buehspeis alias George von Rottweiler by federal agents. Von Rottweiler, previously arrested in Rochester as a dangerous enemy alien, had escaped after a June arrest in Chattanough Tennessee.
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Rochester
N. Y
Chicago
Paul Buehspeis
George von Rottweiler
United States
John D. Lynn
von Rottweiler
Chattanough
Tenn
Ferdy
Camp Travis to Hear Largest Soldier Chorus Yet
Eight thousand soldiers from the First and Second Groups Depot Brigade will join a sing at the sounding board near Avenue 2 and Leuth Street Camp Travis Tuesday night. Sergeant Herbert Wall directs the program with buck and wing dancing contests as added features for the event beginning at 9:15 o clock.
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Depot Brigade
Avene 2
Leuth Street
Camp Travis
Sergt
Herbert Wall
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Cloudcroft
N. M
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H. E. Robertson
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Marion
Dicta Hutchins
Robertson
W. W. Robertson
el Paso
Maxwell
Catholic Women's Association
East Commerce Street
Ladies’ Aid and Missionary Society of the
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First Baptist Church
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Mr. Cash
Harry Lander
Walker
Mr. Casic
Grocerteria
Ave. C
Lutheran Brotherhood Club
Louise Willke
Boerne
Adolph Scebe
Woodman
Arthur Claassen
Schubert-Lausig
Eugene Staffel
Kreissler
Marshall
Mattei
Lascia Chio Piango
Handel D
Jeanne Fillette
Mary Aubrey
Miss Scanrane
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Jurleigh
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Hornberger
Cahn
Louise Wilke
Adolph Lecbe
America
Claassen
Ave. S
Lutheran Brotherhood
Brotherhood
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Travis
Arthur A A. Mauina
35Th Infantry
Amerton
Comet
Samuel Rita
Gustave B. Johnson
Henry Kemnitz
John Th. Olson
Angels
Cornet
Stave Bi
Johnson
Foren
Vale
Swift & Company
U.S. A
San. Antonio
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Medina St
R. H. Hammanm
Lula Dean
Stidham
Okla
Talcom Ise
Hertzberg’s
Sterling and
Sheffield
Hertzberg's Corner
New York
Wales
Percy Tyrrell
O. C. Besch
Floyd Goodell
A. J. Besch
Henry GL. Besch
Hernandez
Crockett
T. B. Baker
Menger
Stara
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the Menger
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