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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1941
Page
7
Soldiers from AEIGH move southward as tensions flare near the front. Reports indicate a continued push with limited details available from page one coverage.
NAIRORT Kenya April 15 Major Sir Henry John Delvis Broughton ordered to be tried by the supreme court for the killing of the Earl of Erroll, hereditary local high constable of Scotland, found shot dead in his automobile January 24 near Bake Presta. Witnesses testified to gatherings with the Broughtons as ships in the Piraeus area were attacked. Mediterranean operations saw four stops sunk and eight damaged as retorts of war.
Berlin reports nineteen grounded planes were destroyed by Nazi bombers on airfields in southern England during the night. Hungarian and Turkish fighters were also said damaged. Earlier reports claimed a major industrial works in Manchester received four direct hits, disrupting production.
May 18 will be observed as an American Day by proclamation of the president. The focal division of the Department of Justice and the Immigration and Naturalization Service will cooperate in San Antonio, sponsoring events honoring recent entrants admitted by the immigration court.
Seven Medical Corps officers proceed to training at Camp Bowie to complete a month long refresher course. The group led by Lt. Col. Crocker includes Moore, Schrath, Morton, and Murfin, among others, with duties at Fort Sam Houston and San Antonio. Overnight field training moved the Third Army headquarters from Bakth-Young lower 40 to Camp Bulls and back to San Antonio.
Roosevelt issued two proclamations extending export controls. Effective immediately, construction and conveying machinery and certain mining and plumbing machinery are restricted. A second proclamation effective May 6 adds coverable products including some vegetable fibers and certain textile items. Further items to be announced in a few days.
Pleading guilty to burglary, Marlin Trantham and Vernon Dubois were sentenced to lower years in the penitentiary by Judge W. W. McCrory in district court Tuesday. Trantham and Dubois, both charged with breaking into the home of Mrs Mary McAlister at 240 Richmond Avenue on March 1, faced prison terms.
The Montana board of education accepted the resignation of Dr George P. Fruumons as President of the State university at Missondle with pay until his contract expires September 3, 1942. The action was announced in Helena on April 15.
Tom Menamera, manager of Mayor Maury Maverick’s reelection campaign, faced a $1 parking violation in municipal court. He appeared early with a marked meter ticket and explained the sentence came after the grand jury indicted four others in a separate case.
SHANGRI L April 15 The Moscow Far East diplomacy saga widens as the Japanese Soviet pact is hailed as a major victory in Tokyo. Russian sources say Stalin Molotov plan to elaborate angles in Tokyo while Chungking shifts courses with Washington and London eyeing the evolving alignment between Japan and the Soviet Union. A new Pacific war scare looms as Japanese circles anticipate moves toward Chungking.
Walter Winchell catalogs bustling New York nightlife with names like Jane Stetless, Victor Mature, Beverly Barbisch Lealle, and Boris Karloff. He notes stage and screen chatter, theater sightings, and social skirmishes, weaving a dense portrait of midtown glitter and backstage whispers.
Brooks Field's 359 officers and men, led by Major Jatin W. Ranga, depart for Ellington Field Houston to establish a pilot training center. Seventy fliers from several squadrons join Kelly Field units to form a replacement center for bombardiers and navigators. Training planned to begin mid May with Randolph Field transfers by April 25 and navigators coordinated with Kelly Field.
British air patrols repelled several formations of German fighters over the English Channel with fighter sweeps over Northern France and a North Sea coast encounter near Boulogne, as air activity in the region intensified.
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