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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1942
Page
10
The article notes a mass draft and mobilization across services affecting morale. It cites widespread strikes in war plants, with 70,905 employees involved and 2,028,824 hours lost in February. It questions the fairness of exemptions for labor leaders and contrasts frontline duty with homefront labor unrest.
A new musical unit called the Korn Kobblers debuts on KTSA occupying Tuesday Friday and Saturday at 9 15 p m Their instrumental lineup includes rare instruments and their mouste is described as unlike any other group on the airwaves with a distinctive style.
Pranksters dumped a large collection of street markers, house numbers, and a street barricade on the front porch of Mrs. E. Libbey s home at 1615 West Rosewood Avenue Tuesday. Officers said it was probably a prank.
A radio and broadcast preview notes Detroit’s factories rapidly shifting to war production. Highlights include CBS and NBC segments titled Automobile Show of 1942, with Eddie Dowling hosting We The People, Marion Hutton and Modernaires with Glenn Miller, and Dorothy Kilgallen on Voice of Broadway. The program lineups feature performers, drama, and music from across the nation.
Two airships Resolute and Reliance have been accepted for patrol work by the Navy. The Resolute previously carried advertising and passengers over Los Angeles and the Reliance arrived from Miami, Florida to join naval service and search for submarines.
Five crew members parachuted to safety after an army bomber developed motor trouble and crashed near the ocean north of San Diego. The five victims are Lieut. Francisckerhart of Delhi Iowa pilot Lieut. Harry Av Van Nuys Calif Pl Flint Class Joint in Oklahoma City Pvt Jack F Meye Davenport Iowa and Py Harold H Carlson Hector Minn. A separate crash near Shreveport left Second Lieut De With a Kelley 24 of El Dorado Ark and Second Lieut James G lGarithers of Leland Miss dead after the plane went down about 12 miles north of Shreveport.
A garbled OCR list mentions radio shows and entertainers such as Musical Clock Musical Glock and Twenty Fingers, with scattered names like Stella Unger Kate Sufi Tony Pastor and Lorenzo Jones. The fragmentary items include program tags, personalities, and station notes, lacking coherent context or a clear storyline.
A rundown of local motherlodge events features Good Morning Wake Up and Cowboy Serenade performances. Neighborhood clubs present Merritt Ruddock Silver and Gold, Melody Strings, and the John Metcalf trio. Bing Crosby affiliations and a Noonday Swing pageant headline the concert, with National Theater and Johnson family listed among participants.
Public affairs and special events listing for KTSA outlines programs from 6:15 p.m. onward. Highlights include World Today from news capitals, Report to the Nation on federal work, Linton Wells News, Second Husband drama, Are You a Missing Heir in probate court files, Briarees features and Amos ’n’ Andy, We the People hobbies, late-night music with Edie Dowling Mark Warnow orchestra and performances by Shep Fields Benny Goodman Tony Pastor and Vaughn Monroe.
Frazier Hunt, famed war correspondent and author, will launch a biweekly program from the Columbia network Tuesday night. A veteran of more than 20 years, Hunt has covered conflicts from Vladivostok to Buenos Aires and interviewed kings and dictators. He is nicknamed Apike from his college days at Nichols University. He and his wife reside in a model fort in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Austin residents vote on an Army airfield purchase proposal in a local measure to repurpose acres for military use with city action expected tomorrow.
Five men swindled Mrs. Dilla Von Husen of Detroit of her $5800 life savings using a race horse veal scam. She met the first man near February 27 at the Gunter hotel and joined a tour in which a fake pursed card and horses were shown. She traveled to Detroit to obtain 3800 for the scheme, then suspected the con and contacted police after another man offered to take her to headquarters. The suspects fled in a car at Nacogdoches Avenue.
Ewes on ONAND ISLAND, Neb gave birth to 23 lambs from eight mothers during a period in March. The flock produced multiple sets of twins and triplets with several ewe lambs noted among the newborns. Owner John Newbert mmust manage the unusual lambing yield in the farm’s breeding program.
War Production Board sources said reclaimed rubber could face civilian use restrictions as rubber and latex supplies tighten. The alert signals possible curbs on nonmilitary products to conserve strategic materials amid ongoing supply concerns.
A Me 109 fighter from Germany’s Luftwaffe goes on a six day exhibition in San Antonio at Travis and Navarro streets from 10 am to 10 pm daily. Technicians from Kelly Field will aid assembly as funds are raised for U S fighting forces, with the plane touring under Bundles for America.
Medical testimony challenged the state's theory that a burned body found on the San Jacinto riverbanks in November was J. C. Franklin. Defense witness Miss Helen O’Keefe, and X-ray experts debated spine matches while other witnesses questioned the blood stained garments and dental work.
Services were set for 2 p m Tuesday for Mrs Ida Haeuster 84 of 910 Richland boulevard who died Sunday The Rev John Scherzer to officiate at Wishe Funeral home then body to LaGrange for burial She was born in Fayette county in 1877 former wife of George Hensler grand president of the Order of Hermann Sons in Texas Survivors include husband Lee Haeuster of LaGrange sons Edwin Haeuster of Houston Leslie Haeuster Camp Blanding Fla daughters Anita Wilcox Engle Lake and Leola Voelkel Austin brothers William and Rudolph Marquart sisters Annie Glese Minnie Meinnen Nine grandchildren and one great grandchild
A benefit game party will be held by the Animal Defense League in the Dairyland Auditorium at Zp Th. jPalaay.
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