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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1944
Page
3
In a remote canyon the 29th cavalry troop commander Troop obstacle drills in the back maneuver area uncover a buried watch. Driscoll spots the glint, retrieves the watch, and it starts ticking again, functioning as well as ever.
Judge Augustus McCloskey ordered the city license and dues department to jail defendants who fail to pay fines. The weekly report shows total collections of $4920.29 with all prior accruals wiped, marking a shift to cash-on-delivery enforcement.
Naples March 4 Allied forces on the Anzio beachhead repelled three probing Nazi thrusts as German divisions totaling about 15,000 men pressed toward American positions west of the Aprilia Anzio road. British troops beat off two patrols, while Indian troops repelled a German company assault north of Cassino. The situation remained relatively quiet on all fronts, with about 3500 German troops believed captured since January 22.
The article notes Pucheu as a former member of the Comite des Forges, a powerful French arms and munitions cartel, and describes his role in an A I scheme with Germany involving Knupp and Schneider-Creusck, plus his later links to the Cagoulards. It recalls a 1930s attempted French dictatorship and Pucheu’s 1944 arrest in French Morocco after a prior report of a Paris-area shooting.
Raleigh Hammonds 32 narrowly avoids a drunken pedestrian and another vehicle while driving three passengers down South Laredo Street. He swerves at West Deviailon Street, skids 100 feet, hits a curb, and ends in a wrecked lot. All occupants are shaken. the pedestrian is treated at Robert B. Green hospital for a forehead cut.
LAMPASAS March 4 A ceremony at Kempner honored Maj. Whitfield Chalk a Mexican war hero. Robert Chalk Scott of Camp Hood son of Mrs. Scott Hyman aided in the dedication with other Camp Hood servicemen. A marble base was accepted by the U.S. government recognizing Major Chalk's service.
Brownsville March 4. Andrew E. Novak has been transferred to San Antonio by Braniff Airways and will serve as station manager there, as he did in Brownsville for the past two years. Novak joined Braniff in 1949 as a radio operator in San Antonio and later moved to Brownsville in 1942.
Amarillo reports Texas Rangers seek a pistol tied to the double murder of Dr. Roy Hunt and his wife Litlinfield Texas. A channel in the Canadian River north of Amarillo is being dug to divert water for search. a man was arrested on parole violation, no charges yet.
Cadet Melvin Knauth 19 of Granger was killed when his plane crashed near his hometown about noon Saturday. An observer said the aircraft spun and went down about a mile from Granger. Survived by his parents, a brother in Italy, and three sisters. He graduated Grammergh and attended John Tarleton college before enlisting in 1943.
Pvt. Howard Wayne Wilson, 20, is held by River Rouge authorities as his 13 year old wife Dianne Wilson returns to Detroit with her mother. The couple married in Detroit February 18 claiming she was 18, but her father says she was 13. The man also faces possible divorce actions from her father and mother.
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