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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
2
A fragmentary piece notes recent painting by a local artist in Brackenridge Park San Antonio. Shacks long in park areas were removed by the jelly and a communistic hammer and wrench motif appears on a crumbling adobe home near the polo field while sharks mingle near a nearby beer wall and a bear statue stands adjacent to a fence.
J C Capt assistant to the director general of the census bureau in San Antonio defends census questions set for April 2. He argues critics push a political agenda, notes the questions align with public records and that secrecy is absolute. He cites historical origin under Hoover and asserts no new disclosures are sought.
At Vatican City on March 7, Myron G. Taylor, Roosevelt’s envoy to the Vatican, attended a semipublic consistory for the canonization of two prospective saints. The candidates are Mother Mary Euphrasie Pelletier of France, founder of the Good Shepherds for care and protection of young girls, and Gemma Galgani, an Italian woman who died in the late 19th century. Both had been beatified in 1938.
Britain's giant liner Queen Elizabeth completes a secret voyage from Clydeside to New York, hailed as a sea mastery symbol amid war. News notes Germans’ Bremen reply, Sweden’s peace talks, and Russia Finland armistice chatter. Finland calls up more men, Soviet losses and island gains reported. Welles arrives in Paris for talks, while Romania pledges neutrality amid oil resource pressures.
The city faces panic as Smyrna endures shelling by fifteen allied warships. Reports say residents huddled in fear while authorities called non commissioned officers to readiness. On the eastern front, fighting continues along the Vistula with major battle characteristics emerging on the left bank.
American citizen John Blalock was detained by Japanese authorities in Tsingtao after leaving a British bank with Chinese currency. Police restrained him briefly at naval headquarters before confirming his American identity, returning his money, and releasing him with an American consul observer present.
In the North Sea wreckage bearing the name Grutto and a missing light raft were found, interpreted as evidence of the 920 ton Netherlands freighter Grutto en route between England and the Netherlands. The ship carried 18 crew members.
In Helsinki on March 7 a Soviet commissar displayed a whip said to have been used by a Commissar as part of an exhibition of war booty. The display drew attention from spectators and local authorities.
Fragmentary report shows Dallas bidding for a Baptist session while a train wreck in Denmark and Sweden region kills 21, including 16 children. The convocation ends with awards and officer elections amid chaotic agenda.
A Dutch submarine identified as O-11 was raised in the Nieuwe Diep in a 26 hour effort after a collision with a tugboat sank the vessel. Rescue crews picked up two warrant officers and a crew member while the remaining 28 of 30 crew members were saved and reached safety shortly after the incident.
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