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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1941
Page
10
Finis Scott postmaster of the house says mail to congressmen on the lease lead PIM is lighter than other major measures. He notes letters pale beside food, court decisions, arms embargo repeal or reorganization bills, and lawmakers report opposition dominates the mail.
Gen Grigue, 94, former commander of the Getrela division of Confederate veterans, died at Soldiers Home Sunday. Officials say he may have been the last Confederate survivor of the Battle of Atlanta and he was a charter member of the original Ku Klux Klan.
Manila reports Maj. Gen. George Grunert, commander of the Philippine Department, U.S. Army, announced plans to give 8000 Philippine army reservists an additional year of training under the United States program. The measure aims to strengthen readiness amid ongoing regional concerns.
United States Steel Corp reports a record quarter with $92.76 million net income and peak employment of 272,087, yet pension prepayment charges and CIO criticisms temper optimism as steel output hits new highs and auto industry policy debates unfold. Jack Temple and Miriam Ellsworth wed in Reno after a Palo Alto notice.
A British report says 1000 American bomber planes will be dispatched to Britain by May for use in ferry operations. The output will exceed U S production, covering winter builds, with pilots qualified for trans Atlantic ferry flights aboard each month.
Chicago February 3 Marshall La Mote, 20, collects bone scrolls at De Paul University College of Law to paper a law office wall yet cannot practice for a year due to age. He graduates February 4 as Doctor of Jurisprudence but cannot take the bar exam until January 19, 1942.
In fog and confusion a report says pilots from Fort Douglas Utah transition to horseback patrols as air units bomb targets nearby. City Manager George Seeley secured measures to keep officials away from grounded pilots and the public.
A western rancher Rayither Dave Lamb rigs a trap for magpies using a barred cabin and a stove pipe to lure birds inside. Fifty magpies enter, feed, and become unable to exit as the pipe shapes trap them. The success repeats at another vacant cabin nearby.
Rome February 3 4 The Italian high command issued a communique claiming patrols and artillery bombed Greek troop concentrations and that air detachments in North Africa bombed mechanized columns. East Africa saw bitter fighting near Agordaf and Harentu with enemy air activity over Bardinia. An English Spitfire monoplane was reported as shot down and the pilot captured.
German scientists report a new process turning hop plant vines into fiber. Hop fibers, once processed, were found to be about three times as strong as cotton and more wrinkle resistant, with potential for paper and textiles.
Mexican ambassador to the United States Dr Castillo Najera is to fly back to Washington Wednesday after being recalled for talks with President Manuel Avila Camacho on advancing negotiations and ongoing issues between Mexico and the United States. The report references a focus on the 40 hour week.
Fort Sill Ohls notes Major General Key says the Forty-fifth division is ordered to move within days after February 2 to Abilene Texas for a new camp. Service troops arrive around February 24 with 7000 men at a 10 hour workday, sanitation lines and roads already under way. The division draws personnel from Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona and Colorado.
The text explains how personal exemptions and dependent credits are prorated when marital status or other eligibility changes occur within a tax year. It provides examples for joint returns, separate returns, and head of family scenarios, and outlines how credits and exemptions are shared or merged during year-end transitions.
Washington February 11 A battle raging to test Wendell Willkie's party leadership centers on choosing a successor to Joseph W. Martin Jr. as Republican national chairman. Willkie backs President Roosevelt's lease-lend bill, stoking opposition and signaling a possible leadership split. Des Moines meeting and Omaha conference shape fraction.
In Washington on February 3 the AFL C10 dispute over Ford workers rose as Willard Green said Ford employees at River Rouge and Dearborn plants lack a union majority. The A P of L disputed this, while the CIO claimed the AFL sought to aid a campaign against unionization.
County commissioners reviewed estimated rights-of-way costs for proposed military highways totaling about 400000 dollars. Estimates cover segments from Fort Sam Houston to Camp Bullis, Kelly Field to U S Highway 87, and connections to U S Highway 90 and Bandera Road, with various acreages purchased for widening and road work. The court approved buys totaling 113 acres for 1257.05 dollars and 195 acres for 70 dollars, and sought bids to study asphalt purchases for road construction.
Mrs. Osa Johnson, famed African jungle explorer with a movie camera, wed her business manager Clark J. Gets in a ceremony conducted by Mayor LaGuardia. She listed age 46 and occupation motion picture producer on the certificate. her husband is 47. Her first husband Mortis John Getty died in a Hollywood plane crash in 1987.
In Greeley Colorado students at Colorado State College of Education move to an honor system to curb cheating. President Kenneth Nice heads an Associated Students committee to investigate violations and draft the code. The plan aims to deter cheating and enforce consequences for infringing the policy.
Washington Feb 3 10 The NLRB instituted changes in its administrative machinery to speed Wagner Act violation cases. The changes forecast greater supervision over case status and increased authority for regional directors with Harry AL Mun reportedly to succeed Warren Madden as chairman.
A derailed fragment reports a man pleads to stealing a nickel and is acquitted after a train delay, with stray dialogue and unclear names. A separate note mentions William Wilcox, 30, found dead in a Calvert grocery. Sheriff Ben Moevan comments no clear city identifiers.
Corpus Christi Feb 3 Private entertainers announce a half Tallon dollars in construction this week. Lichtohstein's department paved Finns for a $425,000 building to be ground broken soon at Chaparral and ear upgense projects. Wala and Burney of Corpus Christi and Ban Antonio will be general contractor. Limerick building base to pierceh New York ready-to-wear line. G. L. Limerick owner. cash consideration of $125,000 announced. The new owner says the 9 store would be in stated more.
Los Angeles police probed the death of Dolores Del Mar 21, a Hollywood dancer, who leapt from a yacht at the Los Angeles harbor after a party. Four others aboard Arthur Hamburger 35 Robert Tracey 29 and Alyce Dere 27 and Del Mar’s body was recovered two hours later amid conflicting accounts. An inquest was ordered.
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