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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
7
Puzzling reports describe unusual mud flung by selectees from New York and Rendertown in Dodd Molt trenches. Soldiers complain of harsh weather and marsh mud, with East Coast solihers enduring cold calder conditions and improvised shelter amid hardships.
Expansion of the Toys club craft program is planned with workshops on mesak work wood carving and model making. A meeting at Home No 1 discussed installation of these crafts at other Roys sites and a new schedule for Thursday sessions.
Archbishop-designate Robert E. Licey proclaims a holiday for all Catholic grade and high schools in the archdiocese next Thursday. Catholic colleges are not granted holiday to avoid disruption. Bishop Licey and Apostolic Delegate Amleto Cicognani will visit Our Lady of the Cake College, St. John's Seminary, St. Mary's University, and Carnate Word College in five days of religious festivities surrounding the investiture.
Tonie Arnett of San Antonio is named to a Texas attorneys alumni committee for Yale University. The group acts as an advisory and sponsoring body to aid Yale funds and contributions.
A symposium of newspaper men and women led by T. J. Womack of San Antonio will convene at the state convention of the Texas Federation of Must elubs in Dallas from April 16 to 19.
County Judge Roy Hoffeing of Houston will address the Kiwanis club Friday at 12 15 p m at the Gunter Hotel. Hoffeing will speak on What Will Tomorrow Bring.
Washington reports the War Department plans to demobilize National Guard units after their year of federal service. Inducted soldiers will be discharged as peacetime defenses rely on new three year enlistees to reach 1,418,000 strength. Guard units will begin demobilizing by next September and be complete within six months.
An Army post at Fort Am Houston announced Thursday that inspector jobs for junior and miscellaneous posts are vacant. Ed A Feilie, secretary of the local civil service board, stated salaries of $1620 a year. Applications must be submitted to the secretary by April.
Three San Antonians in the Thirty sixth division at Camp Bowie Brownwood are promoted. Captain William Z. Beoggin of the One Hundred Forty first infantry rises to major. First Lieutenant Eqawine W. Wead in clerical warfare service advances. Specialist Grant W. Meare of the Sixty first Cela artillery becomes second lieutenant.
Lyons March 20 A dynamite blast struck a church during revival services injuring four or more people and shaking nearby homes. Sheriff Blanton and state police arrested a resident as a suspect hours after the explosion which occurred at the church door. The Rev R G Eastham linked the act to illegal sales from the pulpit while no arrests were announced for others involved. Rev Leroy McDowell of Vincennes was among the wounded. Debris damaged the church and nearby residences within a one mile radius. revival services were to resume.
Cameras will cover a giant field day with more than 300 planes forming the word wings in ground letters nine feet high, a trailing drill parade, and a pre first press showing of Paramount's I Wanted Wings. Stars William Molden Veronica Lake and Wayne Meris attend, Brenda Marshall plans to arrive.
The city council granted permits for filling stations at 2040 West Poplar and 2310 South Hackberry, authorizing two gasoline pumps and two storage tanks. Additional approval was given for two pumps at New Braunfels and Peck avenues for Gulf Oil Corporation.
Pictures of the Cotton Bowl game will be shown at 8 pm Friday when the Alma A and ML club meet at Turner ball on Nacog Moches street.
Veronica Lake, famed as a blonde Paramount starlet, intends to fly to San Antonio tonight despite her father’s critical illness. She is booked for a pre premiere event at Randolph Field where most of the aviation scenes for Wanted Wings were shot. If conditions worsen, she will depart for Texas and return to Hollywood as news dictates.
Texas House considers a $1.59 million appropriation to complete Big Bend national park area. On approval by Appropriations, the measure would transfer property to the Interior Department for National Park Service development. Governor O’Daniel expected to sign after passage.
Burns suffered by Marjerie Nel Brice, 19 months, at 108 Pearl Street after a fall into a tub of boiling water on March 9. She was treated at Robert B. Green Hospital. Parents named Mr. and Mrs. O We Brice. Dist F-12321.
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