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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1944
Page
10
Warner Gros created hundreds of authentic portraits of Mark Twain and copied them for the makeup department so Fredric March could closely resemble the famous author in The Adventures of Mark Twain.
An 18-year-old married woman from Dallas came to town seeking work and encountered legal trouble. She faced aggravated assault charges in County Court-at-Law No 2 and a separate case for failing to stop after hitting a pedestrian in Justice Bat Cortigan's court. City Detective John J Caperton arrested her after her car struck Nearl on Hildebrand Avenue and Broadway.
Witnesses describe obtaining narcotics from Dr Edward Burg over three years, with patients suffering chronic nephritis heart disease and tuberculosis. Alonzo Neal and Lee Wer testified to long term morphine and codeine prescriptions and high costs, while others explained dependency and lack of medical oversight during Burg’s federal trial.
Akron April 11 General manager W S Richardson announced that the synthetic rubber plant in Louisville Kentucky operated by B F Goodrich for the government has produced over 100 million pounds 40 000 tons of rubber since November 1942 Through March 31 1944 the output surpassed Americas 1943 total from Latin America Africa and Mexico and the plant now exceeds its 60 000 ton annual capacity Also included is a note on ancient Norwegian whaling records dating to 417 A D.
Dr. Merman Hilleboe, tuberculosis consultant for the U S Public Health Service, will recommend a man to head San Antonio s tuberculosis control bureau. Dr Lewis C Robbins city health officer, says the recommendation will go to Dr George W Cox state health officer for assignment if acceptable. The candidate from Kansas declined the offer saying his Kansas program is in formation and will take about a year.
General Eisenhower visited Ninth Air Force medium bomber stations during his first stop in England. He watched Marauders take off for their third attack in 30 hours on targets in occupied Europe, including the rail center at Charleroi. He toured a Marauder cockpit and congratulated the crew as Spaatz and Breerton accompanied him.
In a Free Yugoslav radio communique Tito's partisan forces repelled German attempts to seize the town of Mrkonjigrad along the Sarajevo to Italian front road. Farther along the line in western Bosnia fresh battles raged as German troops held the Bihac area 70 miles south of Angreb and tried to control communications centers.
Mrs Margaret Miller and daughter Mary Martha thrilled by first overseas phone chat with Col E B Miller commander of a B 24 Liberator group in the Seventh Air Force Central Pacific. They spoke Monday afternoon as clear as in San Antonio with the father hearing their I love you message. Miller has served since last October and helped in a final bombing mission over Truk. He has earned the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster and the Soldier's Medal. Gibraltar has belonged to Britain since 1704.
Pvt. Eugene Lopez aged 26 of the 71th Railroad battalion died after contacting a live wire while welding a locomotive tender at the Southern Pacific roundhouse on Milam Street. Capt. Rothenberg at Brooke General Hospital pronounced him dead at 12 35 p m. Police report the Fort Sam Houston unit is based at Camp Cushing south of the army post. Fire Company No 2 rescue attempts failed.
In New York attorney Edward V. Broderick was ordered to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court over his conduct in the Wayne Lonergan murder trial. The jurors were never picked as the March 3 postponements followed his failure to appear, and Judge John J. Preseli signed the order after dismissing the jury panel. Lonergan was later convicted of second degree murder in a separate trial.
Quads born to Norah Rose Carpenter and Sgt William Thompson Jr. thrive in a Derbyshire nursing home with infants Michael, Madeleine, and Maureen weighing 6.5, 5.75, and 5.25 pounds respectively. Father visited week before Easter. mother out of hospital ready for visits. One quad MacDonald died at birth. Thompson seeks divorce to marry another woman. Air Marshal Walter R Kenny dies in Ottawa at 50.
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