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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
2
First callor revenie at Fort Sat Houston reception center draws tepid enthusiasm from selectees as meals arrive. Recruits trained a month report average weight gains near ten pounds per man amid concerns over bland seasoning and limited variety.
A wartime dining log shows Lieut L J Semrad as mess officer at a training center. A random day’s menus list breakfast of scrambled eggs fried bacon corn flakes milk fruit bread butter coffee. Dinner includes baked ratvk uetters and sauerkraut boiled paw blaes stewed carrots and turnips and a combination salad.
British reinforcements poured into the Libyan front as the Nile army massed for an assault on Bardia. Field and naval guns bombarded the town while fast units struck west, with Italian defenses described as fortified in depth and a major assaulton Bardia expected after sustained bombardment. Reports note no Italian rescue seen and Ethiopian uprisings brewing nearby.
Taylor officials announce a twelve year elementary to be phased in starting 1941 under Superintendent B. T. Robbin. The policy will apply to most districts but will not affect students of the dbah school division.
Miss Billie Mac Wilson reports a burglar entered her Gillespie Street home and stole a purse containing $9.70. Police found the suspect pole after the break in. The item list mentions groceries and a kitchen menu. A separate fire incident caused about $80 damage at Willie Jaimson’s residence on Anderson Avenue, investigated by firefighters.
Diary entries by John Ward volunteer from Beast county draft board describe basic training days. He details skull practice, military courtesy lectures, drill under Lt Willits, and learning rifle parts including the 45 caliber bolt action and the auto matic rifle. Weather aids marching while he notes many rifle parts and nomenclature.
A blaze blamed on an overheated heater caused $265 in damages to John Hardwick’s home at 2715 South Zarramora Street. A cigarette tossed into a pile of tags sparked a $10 fire at Mike Villareal’s home, 407 Guadalupe Street, with another cigarette starting a $5 fire in an apartment occupied by J. T. Lovelace at 220 Worth.
Austin, Dec. 23. The railroad commission accepted the resignation of John E L Taylor effective January 1. Taylor became chief supervisor of the oil and tax division after the election of Commissioner Jerry Sadler. Commission members Ernest Thompson and Jerry Sadler confirmed the resignation and offered no further comment.
Leon Woleltaff, clerk to the combined Bexar county...there would be the thorn selectees sent to mining eats unt eter dhe holidays. Local yards will receive ther heeyotas Indhanary, Watthail said.
The city bank will close Tuesday at noon and remain closed until Thursday morning in observance of the Christmas holiday, Mayor Maury Maveries announced Monday.
City officials approved 3561 from the special election fund for the December 17 charter election. The appropriation also covered rental payments for polling places. An ordinance was passed exempting property of St Anns Catholic Church from taxation.
Spanish motion picture director and playwright Mientas Voulau de Urries died yesterday and was buried in Santo Isidro cemetery. He collaborated on American films and worked in Hollywood in 1926 and 1927 at age years old.
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