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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1944
Page
4
An old style ad text promotes Doan's Pills for backache and kidney symptoms. It touts quick relief, appeals to readers with aches, swelling, and frequent urination, naming Sidney Wubea Sush and urging readers to ask a druggist for Doan's Pills.
Allied dispatch details Thunderbolt fighter-bombers cutting lines near Chartres France in 18 places and bombing synthetic oil plants around Hannover Hamburg Magdeburg and a depot near Stockholm. Over 1500 American heavy bombers attacked targets in Pas de Calais and central Germany while 21 planes landed in Sweden. Weather and losses noted with Ninth Air Force units based in France under Maj Gen Quesada.
Night fighters and fighter pilots shot down dozens of Nazi pilotless bombs. Four flying bombs fell to one district’s defense, with several exploding in the air. Allied measures and U S bomber raids around Pas de Calais pushed back the rocket attacks as Germany warned of trials ahead.
Police report that a small safe containing $750 was taken from the Toddle House at 1022 Main Avenue between 9 p.m. Monday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. The 250 pound safe was carried away after burglars broke a rear door lock, manager C. L. Gordy said.
The American Ninth Air Force trains fighter aces in its sky patrols to shoot down German rocket bombs. Mustang Pilot Lieut. Lewis Powers of Albuquerque, New Mexico, downed two rockets and helped shoot another with an RAF fighter, after previously scoring a hit. An alert U.S. Army maintenance crew later used a 40-millimeter gun bound for Normandy to reportedly shoot down a pilotless plane over southern England. Captain Albert S. Benning, of Jackson, Mississippi, spotted a projectile rushing toward the field and scored a direct hit with the second round.
In Gounty Court at Law No 2 Judge C J Matthews fined two drivers 77 each and suspended their licenses for six months. Charles A Cobey of Virginia Avenue South San Antonio was charged with assault with a motor vehicle after a head-on collision on the Laredo highway in April. Nienslo Armendartz of 627 Mayfield Boulevard was injured in the same accident. Robin A Booker of 600 West Euclid Avenue faced a charge of driving while drunk on June 4 Hildebrand Avenue. charges were brought by state highway patrolmen J R Hall and Ben Kreuger.
A man faced charges for faltering two prescriptions for rapro phine sulphate. A final hearing before the commissioner is set for Wednesday.
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