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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1940

Page

3

War debts and mobilization detail a Nazi claim of pay

Berlin reports Fritz Reinhardt asserts Germany is paying for the war with no major tax hikes or new loans. He cites 1940 income tax projections and a rise in national production under Hitler. Separately, U.S. reports troop movements as Third Army units move from the Louisiana war area to Fort Sam Houston and San Antonio, with guardsmen arriving by train and motor convoys proceeding. Berlin also notes eleven presumed crash survivors found alive after a Yugoslav plane wreck in the Karst mountains near Zagreb and Spalato.

Berlin Fritz Reinhardt Vnto Germany Reinhardt Adolf Hitler Hiller Egular Army Third Army Louisiana San Antonio Texas National Guard Fort Sam Houston Vin Radio Zagreb Spalato

Death watch on Burke-Wadsworth draft bill protests

Senate attendants said no move to end the death watch protest against compulsory military training. Women in black veils, members of the Congress of Mothers of America, demonstrated in the reception room outside the Senate chamber. They pledged to stay until the conscription bill is defeated or the November elections.

Washington Senate Congress of Mothers of America Chesley W. Jivney

MASTER MIND SEEN IN DEATH OF TROTSKY

MEXICO CITY August 23 Slavin Leon Trotzky lay in state under a police guard as authorities seek evidence of an international mastermind behind the exiled Bolshevist leader's assassination. Officers kept watch over Frank Jackson and Sylvia Aguioff, while US Consul George Shaw described Aguioff as hysterical. Police chief Leandra Sanches Salazar said the investigation is incomplete. Jackson, posing as a friend, wounded Trotzky with a pickax. Burial plans remain unclear with talks of a New York funeral followed by cremation and ash return to Mexico.

Mexico City Leon Trotzky Frank Jackson Brooklyn N.Y Sylvia Aguioff United States George Shaw Col Leandra Sanches Salazar Vhtef Police Secret Service Jackson Trotzky New York Mexico

Haakon Remains in London Report Updated

The Norwegian legation announced that King Haakon remained in London today. A German controlled French radio broadcast claimed he had left England and was en route to the United States, a report heard in New York via NBC.

London Halakon New York N. B.C England United States

New Unity Seen in Clipper Move

In Bermuda August 2017 a resumption of the Bermuda route for transatlantic mail was seen as Intermed quarters noted. The move followed a recent period of censorship at Bermuda and a dispute over Pan American Airways stopping its transatlantic routes. Officials declined to say if the government influenced the decision. The censorship is expected to bolster the British blockade and hinder German or Italian owned securities reaching the United States.

Wablinwion Bermuda United States Great Britain Europe I Pan-American Airways

Doverites Begin Trek to Interior

Dover England Aug 23 red and green vans carry belongings away from the seaport now a front line city as 41000 residents flee after German shelling across the channel. Damaged stores a church hit dwellings demolished a police guard watched debris amid shattered plaster and a stained print from Hanfstaengel shop.

Dover England Dover Hills George Fitzpatrick Jesus Franz Hanfstaengel Munich Putes Honfstaengel Harvard Adolf Hitler

Roosevelt plans Labor Day swing to discuss TVA power policy

President Roosevelt's proposed Labor Day trip south aims to dedicate a Tennessee Valley Authority dam and offer a platform to address public power projects and the TVA versus Republican opposition. Willkie, head of Commonwealth and Southern, indicated the visit would spotlight the administration's energy policy and political contrasts.

Washington Roosevelt Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Republica Woendylt L. Willkie Commonwealth and Southern Corparilion Plana Hage Yeatoyiay Chickamauga

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