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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1942
Page
1
Billy Mitchell testified before a House Military Affairs Committee, predicting a future conflict with Japan. He warned Alaska would be the strategic key, arguing Japan could seize Alaska, bomb major cities, cripple industry, and conquer America if unchecked.
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell warned Alaska must be impregnable or Japan would seize the Aleutians. He foretold an attack at night from a fog. The 1940 chart shortages and lack of survey echoed his prescient warnings to Congress, linked to ongoing naval affairs debates.
Reported links sought between three brutal incidents after a soldier from Fort Sam Houston was found dead in a culvert near Garrity Road. A 22 year old Austin woman was stabbed and found nude in a nearby house, while a blood stained package with a trench coat and shirt was recovered from Salado Creek. Police pursued possible connections as investigations continued.
A British Lancasters raid on Dusseldorf described as a vast mass of flames. Sgt Eugene Chouiniere, Waterford, N. J., said the city dissolved into a single fire mass visible from the Dutch coast. Bombers hit factories for aircraft, guns, and motors. more than 50 lucettes and thousands of incendiaries were dropped. destruction rivaled Cologne’s 1000-plane blows.
Plans to pool 109000000 bushels of wheat for postwar relief involve Argentina Australia Canada the United Kingdom and the United States. The international Wheat Council will oversee pooling and price controls to prevent market disruption after victory. Roosevelt approved US participation naming Paul H. Appleby Leslie Wheeler Norris B. Dodd as delegates. Incinerator death by own action in Los Angeles.
The University of Texas regents dismiss Ian John W. Spies as head of the Galveston medical branch and strip all faculty at the Snedlest branch of administrative powers. Acting dean is Dr Titus Harris, with Dr B W Bertner named temporary cancer research division director. The action ends a period of turmoil and follows probation by the National Association of Medical Colleges.
BEATTLE Aug 1 The Aleutians campaign draws comparisons to Britain's commandos as American troops fight in extreme weather. Zanuck, former Hollywood director now heading Army photo units, notes the tough, foggy conditions and the relentless flights over treacherous terrain as morale remains high and fighting spirit strong.
Allied bombers struck Dusseldorf in a record raid, smashing over 150 two ton bombs on munitions plants, railway yards, oil depots, and docks. The attack, described as the most concentrated in aerial warfare, created widespread fires and massive destruction across four to six square miles of the industrial city.
American army and Royal Air Force bombers blasted Tobruk for a third time, hitting harbor facilities and two Axis ships amid widespread wreckage. A new U.S. air repair base in Eritrea is operating, repairing damaged planes and returning them to action on the desert and Mediterranean fronts.
A break at the Tucker Ark prison farm left one convict dead and another seriously wounded. Warden Z A Workman was shot during the incident and evacuated to a Pine Bluff hospital, where doctors fear for his life. The slain convict was Woodrow Ryker, 25, jailed for robbery, and the wounded guard is John R Hodges, a four year term inmate.
The maritime commission reports a July record as 7 cargo ships and 5 tankers entered service, totaling 290000 tons. July deliveries include 52 Liberty cargo ships and eight for Britain, with 71 ships completed in July raising total merchant ships since January to 299.
In Australia near Port Darwin nine Japanese planes were shot down by U S flyers in an alert raid. Reports say no Japanese pilot bailed out as the formation attacked and combat crews claimed the victory.
From London and Vichy reports a wave of unrest spreads through Hamburg and Paris as food riots intensify. In Hamburg Gestapo forces fired on a crowd wounding several, with mass arrests noted amid repeated Allied bombing. In Paris, a riot near the Orleans Avenue left one dead and multiple wounded as police and gunfire disrupted a line for food distribution.
In San Jose California today Dr Albert Newlin, director of the temple memorial observatory at South Clear University, warned Japan may suffer major quakes next year following a ten year cycle. He cited the 1923 quake and the 1933 damage as pattern proof and noted Wednesday’s quake centered in Indochina as likely preliminary activity.
German forces push 40 miles toward Kushchevsk on the Rostov to Novorossisk rail axis. Soviet units resist at Salsk and Batalsk while reports claim 1400 casualties and tanks were knocked out near Kushchevsk. fighting narrows to the Caucasus front as the Stalingrad corridor remains contested.
American and Allied airmen claimed to have shot down at least 38 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes in 48 hours. The reports cited attacks on Hengyang in Hunan and Port Darwin, with 20 of 44 planes destroyed over Darwin. Three American planes were lost in China, with all pilots saved.
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