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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
15
A reader recalls a moving van delivering a large refrigerator to a tiny apartment and uses the moment to critique housing programs. He argues for more elbow room and spacious design, drawing on John Masefield’s housing critique and personal reflections on cramped city living.
Cartoonish column by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks military discipline and court martial as harsh, quoting digressive lines about soldiers, dancing partners, and punishment aims to deter others. Implicates army behavior with blunt, humorous critique.
San Antonio marks Infantry Day reflecting on local ties to battles in France Italy and Salerno. First Sergeant August Waskow of Temple recounts 40 wounds and the death of his brother Captain Henry T. Waskow, as J Ernie Pyle’s wartime narrative echoes. Eastern Airlines begins New York to San Antonio service with air mail cargo runs via Lake Charles.
About 200 factory owners and managers from Southwest Texas will attend a Plaza Hotel meeting next Tuesday to hear VE A Elliott, area war manpower director, explain the new manpower priorities program set to take effect July 1.
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