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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1945
Page
3
Mayor afauermann unveils an all-light, four-card traffic ticket plan with a city auditor receiving the fourth card. The system aims to prevent tearing up tickets and erasing records after a 53,000 charges check across two years, signaling a reform to curb discrepancies and ensure accountability.
Junior high school girls are invited to Play Day at the YWCA located at 403 Fifth Street every Saturday at 10 p m. The first session runs through March 17. Activities include crafts jumbling tap dancing singing and swimming in a heated pool with a small fee. DEPOT DUTIES EXPANDED Fort Worth Quartermaster depot operations are transferred to the San Antonio Army Service Forces depot per Brig Gen J A Porter commander.
Mystery coded messages from Yugoslavia, captured by RA.A. wireless oper ators in Italy, aided locating and rescuing about 250 airmen, mostly Americans, who bailed out over the Balkans during German occupation. The messages referenced a squadron emblem on a wall and included U. S. Fifteenth Air Force APO number.
Rabbi Eisendrath of Chicago director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations will tour western and southwestern cities including San Antonio Friday. He founded the Canadian Open Forum and Canadian Conference of Christians and Jews, ordained 1928, author of The Never Failing Stream. He speaks at 10 20 p m Friday World Day of Prayer service at Presbyterian Church and at 8 p m Friday at Temple Beth El, with a reception afterward at the Community Center.
Special Officer Perro Gonzales was wounded in the right thigh when his pistol discharged as he dropped it at about 1:90 PM Thursday. He received treatment at Robart B. Green hospital. In Athens a government statement reports 9300 corpses exhumed in Athens and Phaecus following recent events, about 3200 of which were executed by ELAS or killed in combat or by stray bullets.
Dr H P Tromus resigns as superintendent of the Woodmen of the World Memorial Hospital, northeast of Alma Heights, due to ill health. Dr B M Clayton becomes acting superintendent as Col T W Patterson of Omaha approves the move. The 150 bed hospital opened in 1923 and has treated 3600 tubercular patients with high cure rates across disease stages.
Maj Jay T Treat wife Mrs Alles Treat and daughter Bunny of 802 Yorkshire celebrate his Bronze Star in the European theater. Enlisted 1994, trained weather duty at Randolph Field, later forecast Allied invasion weather with Col Crick. After combat hazards he earned four campaign stars and the Purple Heart on return from duty.
Highway Patrolman Warnke warned residents Thursday that dumping garbage on Callaghan road in Precinct 2 is illegal and will lead to charges. The notice mentions 10 newborn calves dumped on the road this week and fines from 25 to 200 dollars per offense.
Quis W. Oldham of Kerrville a member of the 41st Infantry 36th Texas division received the Silver Star for gallantry in Italy on May 31 1944. He drove a lead cart carrying weapons to Company M1 when enemy fire hit the route causing confusion and forcing troops to take cover. Despite bursts of machine gun fire he attempted to arm a rifle bearer and return fire before being knocked down by another burst.
Captain George Howard Morris aged 20, back from Italy, is described as one of the air forces youngest captains. He serves as pilot of a B Flying Fortress and holds the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters and two Presidential unit citations. Awaiting a new assignment at Kingman Army Airfield Arizona after overseas service with the Fifteenth Air Force. Wilbert A Richarz 33, son of Mrs L G McCarty, also cited with Air Medal and four oak leaf clusters for combat over Europe as radio operator in a Flying Fortress. Fleet Lieutenant Royce Way is noted for returning from overseas service as a Marauder bomber navigator with the Ninth Air Force.
Profile of Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus, commander of the First Infantry Division, as a veteran artillery expert known for teamwork with infantry. Describes his personality, leadership style, daily frontline presence, and artillery theories emphasizing aggressive, coordinated fire to overwhelm German forces.
Lieutenant Hay, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hay of 1139 Gulebra Avenue, led a bombing attack on key enemy installations. Despite heavy flak and smoke from prior fires, he maintained a straight run to release bombs on target and guided his formation back to base safely.
In the Aachen area northeast, General Andrus directs mobile artillery against a German counter-attack. His 98-gun battery strikes swiftly, six minutes after sighting the attack, breaking up the effort. Andrus favors a 155 mm howitzer and reads Mark Twain when off duty.
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