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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1941
Page
2
The column sighs over a Bulgaria Turkey pact and Soviet moves as Greece faces pressure. It argues Washington and London distort the scene, praises Russia for staying out and warns Americans to mind their own business amid a web of German Balkan diplomacy.
The British force at Kut el Amara faced a Turkish siege and was bombed from the air by Germans. German attacks in the Vimy sector were repulsed and French counterattacks near Tahure in Champagne were driven back. One year ago today the British destroyer Daring was sunk by a Nazi U boat with 157 lost, Britain's sixth destroyer loss of the war. Turkey prepared for the war by readying to invoke imperial powers.
RITES FOR BANKER HYATT ARE HELD IN WICHITA FALLS AS PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE OF LOCAL OFFICIALS IS RELOCATED. THE MOVE TRANSFERS THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE FROM LIEUT. COL. SHORTS OFFICE TO A NEW POST SITE NEAR THE CLOTHING WAREHOUSE AND BASEBALL FIELD. CAPT. G. H. BISHOP JR. NAMED PUBLICITY OFFICER FOR THE DIVISION, WITH LIEUT. COL. ROYDEN WILLIAMSON ASSIGNED AS PUBLICITY OFFICER FOR THE HIGHT CORPS AREA. TRANSFER INVOLVES SHIFTING FROM QUADRANGLE EAST WING TO A ROOM AT THE HEAD OF THE STAIR AT THE SALLYPORT.
Fort Sam Houston gears to receive and process 2700 Texas selectees from March 1 to March 14. Groups of 150 begin reporting Monday with daily arrivals through March 10, then 120 more per day to end of period. Total inductees in Eighth Corps about 19,290, with overall corps area increases of 26,500 by March 20. Selectees head to replacement centers at Camp Wolters Camp Wallace and Fort Sill, plus destinations Edgewood Arsenal Fort Monmouth Camp Wallace Coast Artillery. Among inductees are 276 Black men and 125 in early March, with some Negro selectees sent to Fort Stil reception center.
Snow fell at daybreak in the Dover Strait with a gale and choppy seas slowing Royal Air Force and German operations. In Scotland, German bombers attacked two northeastern towns, machine-gunning a schoolyard and a bus. Bombs wrecked homes, killing three and injuring others as residents sought safety for children and passengers.
Funeral services for Mrs Joseph Allan 60 who died Tuesday at Rollittis Brook Hospital in Lampasas are scheduled. A Lampasas resident for 36 years she is survived by a sister Mrs J R Patter son of McGregor three brothers W E LaBousty George LaBounty and LaBounty of tragic city.
A dense weather teleprinter listing compiles numerous city readings for May 6 1942. It records temperatures from Medford Oregon to New York and Seattle to Tampa, noting clear, cloudy, and smoky conditions, humidity, wind direction and speeds, rainfall totals since January, moon phases, and notable weather anomalies across many states and regions.
War roundup reports mounting tension as Japan accuses Britain of belligerence and sends thousands of Australian troops to bolster Singapore. Two Japanese fleets sighted near the Gulf of Siam, while German supplies move toward Bulgaria through Yugoslavia. Greeks and Italians in fierce fighting before a German push, with a Dutch ship claimed destroyed by Nazis. Italy’s siege-bound garrison claims to repel a British assault at Giarabub as snow closes the English Channel and RAF activity wanes.
In a letter to Danny Dreeben the Maverick president Mayor Maury commends the Boys' Club work among underprivileged boys. The piece notes the club's three units in the Far East, with ongoing support amid tension.
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