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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1944
Page
4
The parents meeting of Troop 14 and unit members was set near the front area. The event, dated February 4, aims to discuss bed and building matters with attendees to join in planning and support.
A Kansas City era feature details Walter the handyman for L. W. Baldwin, president of Missouri Pacific, who describes his boss as the best there is. The piece recalls Baldwin’s private car No. 11, Walter’s loyalty, and Baldwin’s focus on passenger travel from San Antonio toward Mexico.
A reader headline-like note claims stomach pain caused Jack Spratt to eat fat, citing indigestion and bloat. The message promotes Udyn Tablets with a dubious money back offer, urging a first dose and pharmacy purchase.
Four German shells struck an American field hospital at Anzio on February 12, killing two women nurses and wounding four medical officers and three enlisted men. The toll brings American nurse fatalities on the beach head to six since the landings three weeks earlier. An additional four horses were killed in a recent German air raid on an American evacuation hospital.
London British Conservative MP Capt Leonard Gammons warned that a largely American force would face a difficult and bloody invasion of Europe. He spoke in London at Oxford University Conservative meeting, saying the assault would be decisive yet risky after years of training.
Randolph Flier receives the Air Medal from Col. Walter G. White at the Randolph Field Central Instructors School. Lt. Dews earned the medal for 13 missions against Japanese forces on Guadalcanal before malaria forced hospitalization and a return home. A native of Arkadelphia, he attended the school in Texas.
Lieutenant Kenneth D. Dial, 22, of the Air Corps, died in an airplane crash on January 2 in Trinidad British West Indies. He was buried there with full military honors. He trained at Cimarron field and Randolph and Kelly fields, served as a gunnery instructor at Harlingen, and later at the B 26 bomber school at Del Rio. Survived by his mother Vivien Vance and several siblings and aunts. Army announces additional South Texas casualties including Corporal Alvin Daniels.
Despite their colossal size, many marine engine parts are machined to an accuracy of one-thirtieth of a human hair. This precision enables reliable performance in engines weighing hundreds of tons, reflecting advanced manufacturing and quality control standards.
G e Troutz principal of San Antonio evening schools was elected president of the South Texas Guidance association at Tech High. Other officers elected were En sign Dorothy Des Bailey vice president A.S. Ni Ry and Ruth Mueler secretary treasurer.
Mayor Gus K mwavermann diverted 32000 from his own budget to Park Commissioner Henry Hein to remove old trees and plant new ones in city parks. The planting must be completed within ten days as Hein’s department lacked funds.
A Texas health department weekly morbidity report shows malaria cases at 150, well above the seven year median of 47, marking the highest incidence since 1927. The same bulletin notes 405 chickenpox cases and warns physicians to watch for smallpox masked as chickenpox, urging vaccination to prevent a malignant outbreak.
Dorothy May Sacs, 11, died after a .22 caliber bullet ricocheted from a sparrow shot by her 18-year-old brother Lloyd and passed through her shoulder and spine. The accident occurred in Mine Feb 12.
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