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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1940
Page
1
A May 2 1940 Monmouth Beach note from Lewie Nix quotes William Randolph Hearst and Len Simeon praising Journal editorials on Americanism and navy defense. Nix describes Hearst’s naval background as shipbuilder and inspector and shares a sent article comparing battleships and bombers for reader interest.
Lewis Nixon laments betrayal by peers in 1922 delaying a strong national defense plan centered on advanced battleship design and new warfare concepts. He argues for improved battleships, gravity bombs, noiseless aircraft, and electric weapons, urging controlled shipbuilding amid labor constraints and financial costs.
Britain expanded arrests of prominent subjects across the empire seizing two London managers of Mitsubishi and Mitsui. Japanese officials protested saying the measures were not retaliatory and stressed they feared a broader spy ring. London and Tokyo reports noted diplomats seeking full explanations as arrests extended to other nationals.
Generally fair Saturday night with cloudy Sunday. Little temperature change expected. Light to moderate southerly winds. Airport temperatures show Saturday high near 90, Saturday night low around 29, Sunday high near 98, Friday high 101, Saturday low 76. City readings show Friday 101 and Saturday morning 76. Weather notes reference coast winds and western Texas patterns with partial cloudiness and scattered showers possible.
Three persons were injured Saturday when a coupe carrying 19 passengers overturned at Concepcion Park after entering Theo Avenue Fort Sam Houston. Driver William Leon Ramous, 21, suffered a broken jaw. Charles McDonald 20 Pat Gan Houston sustained a broken right leg. Helen Ramons 17 endured facial injuries. Others were treated at Station Hospital. A second crash injured Mrs. T T Vanderhoeven 65 in a collision at San Pedro Avenue and Bina Street.
A 27 year old New York model Elen Legge Nash visiting a Westchester estate on Nell R. Andrews drowned after diving naked into a pool. Police and medical examiners ruled it accidental drowning after 40 minutes of resuscitation. The incident occurred on a weekend stay with Andrews, a cosmetics maker. Nash was found by guest Vicki Grey. Andrews, formerly married to Dorothy Hall, had remarried in 1932 after a Reno divorce.
Cairo reports British air force strikes hit Italian oil depots and airfields in Eritrea. Bombers caused great smoke plumes as they returned safely. one Talay bomber was reported shot down with crew captured. In Libyan frontier fighting, hundreds of Italians killed and large quantities of war booty seized by British.
The Dominions Office announced that additional Australian troops have landed in England to reinforce the thousands who arrived in mid June. The statement gave no exact numbers but said the men left Australia in the latter part of June and reached England in recent days.
BUCHAREST Aug 3 UP Transfer of 1300,000 492,000,000 persons to the countries of their ancestry is Adolf Hitler's plan for disposing of Romanian Hungarian territorial problem, regardless of how much said Romania intimately cedes. German diplomatic circles said today. Under this scheme, all Hungarians in Romania would be returned to Hungary, all Germans in ceded Transylvania would be moved to the Reich, and Romanians in such areas as well as present Hungary would be transplanted into Romania.
A dispatch from Algeciras reports Italian bombs hit Gibraltar again amid intense anti-aircraft fire. Spanish observers saw several strikes targeting principal military objectives at the British base, signaling renewed air raids.
King Haakon of Norway, who fled on June 9 after halting Norwegian resistance to the German invasion, observed his 68th birthday in London today. The former prime minister Stanley Baldwin shared the birthday note, and he was described as a fugitive king living in exile.
London August 3 rich champagne drinking Nazi and Fascist internees are overworking as waiters and waitresses. British prison wardens protested to the government asking increased staff.
New York August 3. Dr Gerhardt Alois Westrick German government agent will quit the Scarsdale estate he and his family used for the summer after reports tied him to prominent American businessmen. The motor vehicles commissioner revoked his license and plates for failing to declare an address change and a disability. Attorney Harold A Cadlan said Westrick would vacate next week as arrangements were made.
Allied and German air actions blaze across Britain as daylight and pre dawn raids toll minor damage and casualties. German high command claims merchant ships sunk and ports targeted while Britain reports fires on oil facilities and scattered strikes from the southeast to Scotland.
Berlin reports a Shanghai kidnapping of Binwanpao newspaper editor TaheGheng. He was dragged into a car near Lan-Cheng by three Chinese men and carried away. The incident is linked to blacklist actions by the Nanking government under Japanese influence.
Senator Burke predicts Vice President Garner will resume duties as presiding officer in the Senate early next week after leaving Washington to vote in the Texas Democratic primary. Some acquaintances doubted his return.
Duke Kahanomokuy aged 49 and former Norma Alto wed in Mokwi Exava Church with witnesses Mia, Doris Dike Cromwell and Sat Tabinamarn present. The ceremony marks a high profile union for the Olympic swimming champion now known as Inevitt of Mohoia.
Milwaukee police report the arrest of four young iron workers and an accomplice in a plotted extortion tied to a homemade submarine. The scheme aimed to deliver ransom over Lake Michigan then submerge and flee by water. One suspect admitted building a seven foot submarine with oxygen tanks and a conning tower.
Shifting conditions produced a blistering 101 degree peak at Stinson Field Friday afternoon. Forecasts warn for a hot Saturday with near 99 degrees and a more humid, partly cloudy Sunday with continued high temperatures.
Tokyo reports the Kanoye government weighs sending Foreign Minister Matsuoko to Berlin and Rome to seek a strong political entente with Germany and Italy. It also contemplates regulating relations with Russia and building a large far eastern bloc even if it risks friction with the United States.
Hollywood dispatch notes that over 30 American airmen are en route to Ottawa to become Royal Air Force flight officer instructors at 340 dollars monthly. The plan allows pilots to serve overseas while retaining U.S. citizenship, with no oath of allegiance required.
Tangier dispatch reports the British fleet homeward from Gibraltar after dividing into two groups. The force includes five submarines seven destroyers two aircraft carriers three cruisers and three auxiliary ships en route to bolster Atlantic defense.
Four members of the house military appropriations sub committee will leave August 11 for an extended inspection trip to Alaska. Representatives Snyder Terry Starnes Case and Lieut. Col. H. Sherril will depart, visiting Fort Bliss Telly and Randolph fields and Fort Sam Houston.
Hongkong dispatch quotes the acting chief of Japanese contraband control in French Indochina describing important representations to Vice Admiral Devaux, governor general of the French colony. The move coincides with Gen Nishihara’s arrival in Tokyo to confer with Premier Konoye.
British arrests of leading Japanese in London and across the empire follow rumors of a wide spy ring and are framed as not retaliation for Japanese actions against Britons. Tokyo papers say motive is retaliation. Reports say Nazi bombers hit Britain day and night. Italy and Africa fights yield heavy losses and large captures.
Camden North Carolina August 30 five workers dead in the $2,000,000 blaze that leveled a four block downtown area. Part of another body found in charred remains of the R. M. Hot Hingshead Paint plant as officials say they continue to dig through ruins after explosions and fire swept the area Tuesday.
Frederic Clemson Howe, 72, prominent advocate and head of the federal Beriulture and dustment administration, died today at Martha's Vineyard hospital in Oak Bluffs Massachusetts. The self described fighting idealist pursued reforms for the average man and shaped civic policy through decades of public service. Howe was a recognizable figure in Progressive era debates and a vocal proponent of social and economic reform.
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