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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1944
Page
4
Marine Corporal W. Jerry Rice Jr returns from 14 months overseas. He served in four Pacific campaigns, was hospitalized in the South Pacific and United States, and was reassigned to Corpus Christi. He contracted a fever from a bed bug bite in New Britain. He is a former Jefferson High student.
Col Oscar A Heinlein has been promoted from lieutenant colonel to regional colonel officer for seven Southwestern states. He arrived in San Antonio to command the Third Weather region after 17 months overseas in Australia and New Guinea. He established the Hirstall WAC weather stations in the RAF weather service with three stations at Kelly Field Bergstrom Field Austin and Carlsbad New Mexico. He and Mrs Heinlein reside at 2007 West Craig Place.
Judge John F. Onion voids the three year old annulment declaring J G Rountree still married to Bench Rountree in Seventy third District Court Beeville rancher seeks cross action citing Beulah Rountree missing since marriage End of ruling notes required adjournment and succession of judges involved.
Cincinnati dispatch reports United Mine Workers leaders disclosed demands for a new soft coal contract. The package includes a shorter work day, inclusion of supervisory and technical staff, under the stated salary scale, and provision of certain free equipment, with basic rate left as the headline item. Negotiations are set to begin in March unless government wage ceilings rise sooner.
Acting Prime Minister Ernst von Born announced Finland will cede Karelia and Petsamo, pay 300 million dollars in reparations over six years, and disarm and hand over German troops. The agreement sets Russian advance, Allied use of southern airfields, and partial naval adjustments while Finland restores a peacetime footing.
Nine women and three men were seated in Salinas Superior Court for the murder trial of Frances Andrews 27 of Cannell Valley society matron accused of killing Jay Lovett 19 in a jealousy case. The prosecution asked talesmen about the death penalty and willingness to accept circumstantial evidence while Andrews claims Lovett shot himself after goodbye at her door.
Harry Abbott Jr} 50 brother of film comedian Bud Abbott died yesterday in Los Angeles from a brain tumor.
The Guadalupe Club hosted a tea dance at the community center on Wednesday with about thirty guests. The event featured a Latin American service and welcomed Broun from Fort Sem Houston.
A large quantity of riding spurs and other surplus property is described as easily convertible into cash by the treasury department. The notice appears in the San Antonio Light on September 20, 1944, indicating available items and the means to convert them to funds.
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