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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1940
Page
2
The report notes extreme heat in February with a 93 degree top, marking new high records and the warmest month since 1917. January also set all time and wave records, while rainfall reached 1.86 inches, above normal, with 57 percent sunshine. Snow and sleet traces appeared early. wind hit 41 miles per hour, the record being 47 in 1697 on February 17.
The Antonians will be well represented at the annual Baptist Sunday school convention opening Sunday for three days in Harlingen. About three hundred will attend from here, with Rev. Willis of the Bay district missionary leading. On the program are Mrs Troy Campbell, Frank St, Troy Campbell, Dr Perry Webb Quillin, Rev Mr Ray, Mrs Beth Layton, Sam Bellew, and H H Deering. Ta illan Skinner, naturalization examiner in San Antonio, spoke at the District 3 meeting of the Texas State Teachers Association on Adult Education viewed by the examiner.
Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. P. Potemkin was appointed commissar of education replacing P A Turkhin. The move echoes past leadership transitions with Masim Litvinoff and Vyacheslav Molotov tied to earlier foreign policy shifts. Turkhin reportedly relinquished his post.
A dispute at San Antonio Junior College altered plans for a March state contest entry. After three weeks of rehearsal for It Must Be the Climate the staff lost interest and the cast shifted to Twentieth Century Lunaby with parts assigned by the students. New cast members joined Dollyanna Stein Terry Batley Stella Megginsson and E A Coleman with Al Boatman Wendover and Nell Donnell added.
Two San Antonio women were hospitalized with first and second degree burns from hot grease and boiling water on a Friday. Juanita Uvalde, 46, a restaurant cook near Robert B. Green hospital, was burned on hands and arms after a pot toppled. Estelle Ruiz, 24, of 830 South Laredo Street, also received treatment when pots and pans overturned during meal prep.
Foreign policy moves shadow heavy fighting across Europe. Soviet led offensives push to Viborg while Finland bears pressure. In Berlin, Sumner Welles begins talks with Joachim von Ribbentrop as British aerial reconnaissance expands to German ports. Germany signals no peace talks while Britain tightens coal blockade.
A luncheon in Milam cafeteria honored Robert S. Hedges, assistant San Mateo postmaster, who completed forty years in the department. Speakers included Postmaster Dan Quill, postal inspect ors Albert Sprenger and L. R. Marshall, and other officials led by toastmaster L. M. Chavex.
Paris reports two cargo boats sunk in mid February by a German submarine and a mine. The 4754 ton F.1, M.15 boat lost 15 crew. the 39 ton BL.M.25 boat hit a mine with four men dead. French communique notes patrol and firing activity in the Luteral region.
A weather digest reports temperatures, wind, humidity and precipitation notes for several cities. It lists highs and lows for Abilene Albuquerque Amarillo Atlanta Austin Dallas El Paso Houston and more, with wind directions, moon phase, tides, and occasional cloud cover details. The piece includes monthly humidity averages and rainfall totals, plus sunrise and sunset times and tide information for Aransas Pass.
London March 1 Sir Percy Ashley British cotton controller said today Eitan might shift some wartime purchases from the United States to Brazil if a shortage of foreign exchange forced a substitute source for North American supplies. India and Egypt could not be considered alternatives and Lombrade Indian cotton would not meet requirements. we are already buying from Egypt.
In London the British House of Commons approves a war prosecution budget of 1.435 billion dollars. The orders in counsell aim to block all goods from entering or leaving Germany. A Russian Cossack cavalry brigade breaks through at Kresnosele in Poland, targeting von Hindenburg's army.
The Dublin dispatch reports a 2200-strong strike by municipal workers tied to the Royal Air Force mission reaching Berlin. Most city services were halted at night with fire protection disrupted. The strike, the third by British scouts seeking wage increases within a week, would cost about $200,000 annually.
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