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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1942
Page
3
News analyst Jal Wy Stott speaks to the Optimists on Wednesday about The War and Latin America. The briefing previews a new Latin America themed work in progress titled Werksong dt Latin-aterica.
K Quinn urges Texas service members to exchange with Japanese captives. He wrote to Senator Connally, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after a letter from Theodore Hillmer of Columbus. Hillmer, in Panama Zone, asks for Howard Goetz of San Antonio to be exchanged for a prisoner. Goetz, captured when Guam fell, is held in Japan with about 770 Texas boys.
A proclamation from the Texas governor and school authorities calls for registration of young men aged about 18 to 20. They are asked to turn over facilities for registration, with the measure extending from January 4, 1923, to June 30, 1924. No tax or combat duty applies at this time.
The army expands tire salvage and retread to conserve rubber. Six large shops in the Eighth Corps area will retread casings using specialized machinery under Quartermaster Corps guidance. A busy plant in the region can turn out 370 repairs daily, with shavings recycled to manufacturers.
New York July 23 German American band member George Schwindl, 43, killed himself with gas in his Manhattan apartment amid federal grand jury investigations of an outlaw organization. Schwindl, a German-born defense worker who joined the band in 1989, was fired from Brewster Aeronautical Corporation when the plant was Navy taken over.
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