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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1940
Page
3
Cairo dispatch reports Italian defenders at Bardia under heavy artillery fire continue to wait for developments. British plans for a direct storm are doubtful, with starvation likely to decide the outcome. Elsewhere patrol activity noted along the Kenya Sudan border.
War department orders transfer Col Tra A. Rader inspector general of the Eighth Corps area to Tamiya Florida for similar duties at the Southeast Air district headquarters. Rader is a veteran air officer who has served here since September 1939.
Dispatches report improved weather speeding Greek advances against Italian positions in Albania. Greek artillery and air units active, with a bomber blowing up an Italian ammunition dump, important heights seized, many prisoners taken, and two Italian bombers shot down. Fighting continues in Tepeleni Kitsura and North Chimara sectors.
Shanghai reports that Roosevelt in a Sunday address commits the United States to aiding Britain and China, fueling belief of a broader Sino Japanese war expansion into the Pacific. Tokyo and Chungking fear a clash with the United States, with observers predicting Japan may react in the Southern Pacific to counter U.S. support for China.
Members of the air, G G G military warfare, national guard and Red Cross offices at Fort Sam Houston moved Tuesday into five new temporary buildings recently erected just north of the post quadrangle on Nock New Brambels avenue. The various units formerly had offices in the post quadrangle.
The Tower hotel on Gray son street at Eighth Corps area headquarters will be razed to make way for the National Bank of Fort Sam Houston. The bank will be a one story building fronting 76 feet on Gray son street, replacing the present bank located half a block away.
Washington report notes Senators Connally and Johnson pressed heavy new income taxes in the must class to finance defense. They cited at least 31 billion dollars in extra revenue and targeted personal, corporate incomes, electricity, cosmetics and luxury goods with brackets rising to 4000 to 150000. Proposals included war profits taxes up to 80 percent and issuing about 20 billion dollars in defense bonds. A general sales tax was considered unlikely. Action could stretch into April.
The Dromore crew arrived in Boston with word that 11 of 50 U S destroyers traded to England remain at Halifax Nova Scotia and St Johns Newfoundland awaiting trained crews to cross the Atlantic.
A capsule of 1940 war milestones as listed by Associated Press. Chamberlain cabinet reshuffle. Daladier resigns. Reynaud becomes French premier. Germany invades Norway and Denmark. British troops land. Dunkirk withdrawals begin. France signs armistice. Belgium Netherlands fall. Italy enters war. Battle of Taranto. Greece invaded. Axis axis and British actions escalate. Roosevelt trades destroyers for bases. Rome Berlin axis solidifies. Italy halts and retreats in Africa. British siege of Hafia.
On the western front the French attacked in force by Alsace capturing Recfelsen and Aurestein. German bombers raided Calais while Austrian and Russian armies fought fiercely in south Poland and Galicia. Strype river drenches were captured as Messink celebrated news of a Russian army division wiped out on New Year’s Eve. Nazi propaganda claimed Britain would face an air offensive to break the deadlock.
In Chicago on December 31 General Robert E. Wood accused President Roosevelt of delivering a virtually personal declaration of an undeclared war on Germany in his Sunday radio address. The America First Committee, led by Wood, plans to press for a program for timely intervention before the new Congress. The group reports booming membership and chapters in 15 eastern cities, with the merge of the Ro t Call of American Women into the committee.
About 20 attendees are planned for a dinner to toast Theodore W. Smith, a New York real estate operator who died December 15. His will provides the dinner by his own request and posthumous expense coverage. Probate was filed yesterday in a private note, with an ad writer urged to place a quick announcement.
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