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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1943
Page
21
Fresno report notes Mr. and Mrs. F. Brets celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. The couple, long associated with early settlement roots in the Indian Territory, mark half a century of marriage and memories along the Lower Rio Grande region.
Cpl Barney WQSS details wartime experiences on Guadalcanal, recalling comrades lost and the longing to return to action. He explains the pull of home and the vow to join a final Tokyo parade, while honoring fallen Marines and carrying medals from a New York friend and a Catholic chaplain.
PLoresville reports that Marent Vera, husband of Mrs C H Roemer of PLOresville, is listed as a day prisoner of war. A Red Cross message to Mrs Roecher Mera confirms he has served in the Pacific for over a year, the first greeting in ten months. The note calls it a holiday message through the Geneva Red Cross. Another brother, Daniel Vavra, serves in the navy.
March. Temporary 'pHee ceilings and vegetables will be announced by Side Week as a result of the hearing here Sunday conducted by Geof frey Baker of the OPA and attended by about 100 vegetable men.
New York dispatch reports a Navy speaking tour for Cpl. Barney Tow, GuadalcanaI hero and former boxing champion, has been postered indefinitely due to a malaria relapse from service in the Solomons. Tow was admitted to a Long Island naval hospital after a Monday illness, delaying an appearance at Madison Square Garden. Doctors say his fever rose to a peak then fell toward normal, with no definite date set for return to duties.
War Department discloses that a number of Jap Americans from relocation centers have been approved as volunteers for an army combat team composed entirely of citizens of Japanese ancestry. Induction may have begun, with large numbers applying. training and assignment details remain unsettled as volunteers await placement in infantry, artillery, engineer, and medical units.
The North American aviation plant in the Dallas area produced its maiden four engine Consolidated B-24 Liberator. North American President J H Einderberger credited Ford Major and Consolidated Aircraft for parts and cooperation enabling the first unit. He said many more B-24s would follow.
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