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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1944
Page
9
An editorial denounces illegal gambling in San Antonio and urges church, school, and citizen action. It warns open gambling corrupts government, empowers racketeers, and ties to law enforcement and public officials. Calls voters to demand enforcement and reform.
Washington reports Secretary Stephen Early described a Douglas C R4 Skymaster equipped with a passenger elevator used in government missions. The aircraft, not built for President Roosevelt, has been in full service for weeks and may be deployed abroad. no presidential use planned.
Viipuri, a key Finnish seaport, reportedly fell to the Russian army after heavy shelling from positions nine miles away. Swedish reports cite Red Army advances through a gap in the Mannerheim line. Moscow and London sources had not yet confirmed.
The two Army Air Corps officers killed when a plate crashed near Dallas were Col Thomas Thurlow and Lieut Dion A Boy of Wright Field. The fatal crash occurred minutes after the Hughes round the world flight plane departed Love Field for Midland.
Cpl. George Smith of Stoke-on-Trent rode a motorcycle near Peru Gia on June 20 with a German paratrooper clinging behind him. Smith said he was tired of war and asked to be taken in as ambulances moved along the road.
Amandated Press reports a week of extreme heat and storms across New England, the South and Midwest, with Alaska enduring a severe heat wave. At least 10 deaths linked to the heat and storms as temperatures plunged in the Middle West and several cities set records.
The Tokyo dispatch quotes Japanese sources warning Saipan could serve as a base for B 23 Superfortress shuttle bombing missions against Tokyo. It notes 1530 mile distance, sea approach and return to avoid interceptors, with both sides keen to control Saipan as Pacific fighting continues.
London reports French underground sources say German forces in Paris rounded up hundreds of men to concentration camps but switched the suspects with loyal resistants at the last moment. On the French Swiss frontier Germans held hostages from Bellegarde after Maquis raids and executions were reported in northern France amid sabotage actions.
Ten of the fifty injured in the Santa Fe passenger train collision near Fowler are reported in serious condition. One man was killed. Eyewitnesses credit two army nurses and three civilian doctors with saving several lives as they worked three hours in an improvised operating room in a baggage car.
Washington reports the House sent to President Roosevelt a bill granting government job preference to two discharged veterans their widows and wives of disabled veterans from any war involving the United States.
Forecast calls for fair conditions in the San Antonio area Tuesday through Wednesday with highs around 93 degrees. Expect widely scattered thunderstorms near the Tower coast Tuesday. More weather details appear on page 2-A.
Allied forces push north on the Italian mainland entering Perugia, a major communications hub 72 miles southeast of Florence and 85 miles north of Rome. The campaign netted about 1800 prisoners, most German, with 500 enemy dead or wounded. Elba fell after a swift bombardment, and Monte San Martino villa Napoleon was captured unharmed.
Allied units push from the south and east toward Perugia as British and American navies supply troops. German minefields and harassing fire slow progress while sporadic pockets of resistance persist. By yesterday's end the Rome offensive has captured 27,000 prisoners since it began.
Austin June 90 If a motorist had the gasoline and fires for the could travel continuously on pavement without leaving U S Highway 277 from Villa Acuna on the Mexican border to Burkburnett on the Oklahoma state line The highway department and nounend closing of a gap north of Del Rio provides continuous pver ment from Del Rio via Sonora Angelo Abilene Stamford Seymour and Wichita Falls to Burkburnett.
Major Clyde Tingley posted a $10 reward for the arrest of vandals who raided the city zoo for the second time. They cut wires at the pheasant cage stealing 60 birds, broke into the deer pen and killed a two year old deer, and last week released four buffalo and two deer before capture.
Allied forces reach Cherbourg’s fortified area as American troops push four miles toward the port in an all out offensive. Valognes Montebourg and Quienville fall under U S control while British forces strike near Tilly sur Seulles. Cherbourg port heavily shelled as German defenses collapse.
London June 20 Prime Minister Winston Churchill said a German invasion attempt on Britain in 1940 had been smashed before heavy concentrations of ships and troops could reach continental ports. Churchill answered questions from Maj Vyvyan Adams on whether invasion plans crossed the channel and if any ships reached front ports, noting much shipping was sunk and some troops were withdrawn.
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