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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1939
Page
1
Jan 17. Japanese forces launch a new push to drive 3000 Chinese entrenched along the slopes of Lushan mountain and threaten 23 Americans and 7 other foreigners at health resort Kuling. New fighting around Kuling follows as reinforcements try to wipe out Chinese defenders and cut supply lines.
Berlin reports that the treason trial of Kurt Schuschnigg former Austrian chancellor is tentatively abandoned and he will be moved to a private house under surveillance following the German Anschluss with Austria.
A Texas audience hears Governor James Stephen Hoge’s inaugural address excerpted with reflections on duty, religion, and the aim of government to serve the people. The piece links Hoge to Hogg, urging citizens to support a sober, principled administration guided by faith and constitutional duty.
Fair and colder conditions stretch across Texas and the south with northerly winds. North temperatures dip near freezing with frost likely in the northeast. Panhandle and coast see colder nights but some moderation by midweek. Abilene to El Paso show variable readings with clear to cloudier skies and several locales reporting light frost and a few scattered showers.
Douglas W. Luther received a $50 fine and costs after pleading guilty to negligent homicide before Judge McCollum Burnett in County Court at Law No 1. The death of Col. J. De Camp Hall occurred on a state highway No 81 on November 21, 1837. Luther’s license was suspended six months.
Sleet and rain moved into the Panhandle and West Texas as a new cold wave swept the state. Overnight Borger had three inches of snow with temperatures around 27 degrees, while Lubbock recorded an inch of moisture. Amarillo saw snow, and Vernon awaited a rain to snow transition amid a forecast of a hard freeze and windy, frosty conditions across West Texas.
Col. F. C. Harrington, WPA administrator, opposes a House relief bill provision barring political activity by WPA workers. He says restrictions should apply to recipients of relief funds but not to relief workers, and urges a $875 million appropriation to operate the WPA. The House reduced the amount to $75 million.
In Rome on January 17 the bitter reaction to French disparagement of the Italian army led veterans to return medals won in World War I. Brigadier Silvio Lucco Mussing, a Turin retiree, started the campaign by sending his croce di guerra to a Rome newspaper amid mounting Franco-Italian tensions and fascist distrust over Paris aiding the Spanish government in its civil conflict.
London dispatch says the British destroyer Thanet chased a Japanese destroyer and compelled it to release four Chinese fishing junks seized locally. The junks were handed to the British warship without incident, marking the first recorded British naval intervention in such seizures by Japan.
Berlin heads Lindbergh arrives from Paris to attempt license flight back to England in his monoplane after weather halted prior tries since October 31.
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