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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1944
Page
13
A San Antonio wife is praised for secretly smoking cigarettes for 17 years to deceive her husband. She only smokes in the morning after he leaves, avoids smells at dinner, and has maintained the ruse despite social scrutiny. The column notes this as a remarkable, harmless deceit.
Brig. Gen. Aubrey Hornsby unveiled a plaque celebrating all San Antonio women serving in the WACS during a city observance marking the second anniversary of the corps. A downtown parade, concerts, dances, and open demonstrations run 4 to 9 p.m. at Alamo Plaza through Saturday with bands from Randolph Kelly and Brooks Welds and Fort Sam Houston taking part.
Lieut. Col. Louis A. Hammack of San Antonio, who commanded a tank battalion with the Fifth Army in Italy and led the 4th Battalion in Tunisia, has been ordered to duty at the armored command school at Fort Knox Kentucky in a disputed Tuesday report.
Arthur Baer argues that a long campaign run risks overexposure and self-praise. He jokes that Roosevelt could be in the White House 16 years, mocking promotion of extended terms and suggesting the presidency has gained performative flair.
The War Food Administration will pay Bexar county dairy producers 4 cents per hundredweight for milk and 6 cents per pound for butterfat through August 21, with higher rates from September 1 to March 31, 1845. County ACA administrator C. A. King reports total dairy payments of $120,231.75 for 1943-44, with March-April estimates around $75,000. S: Norman M. Gruber of Brackenridge High, now in the military police in Hawaii, is elected commander of VFW Post 3870 in Honolulu, after three years overseas.
Staff Sgt. Rudy Gonzales of 604 South Firo Street has flown 60 combat missions as a tall gunner aboard the Flying Fortress with the 5th Air Force in the Mediterranean theater. He is decorated with the Air Medal and 12 Oak Leaf Clusters for destroying three enemy aircraft including a Salon de Provence air raid and a Bremer factory attack. Fellow airman Staff Sgt. Reinaldo C. Garza has also earned the Air Medal for bombing missions as a top turret gunner aboard a B 24 Liberator in the 15th Air Force in Italy.
Members of the San Antonio Tech Service reserve will begin training with rifles Tuesday afternoon at the Tech rifle range. Mrs. Dorothy Cochran and Miss Winkre D. Luckenback sponsor the unit.
Colonel Chester L Sinder son of Mr and Mrs J T Sinder 1131 West French Place has been appointed commander of a veteran 15th Air Force P 47 Thunderbolt fighter group at an advanced air field in Italy He has been overseas since November 1942 completed 36 combat missions earned the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters credited with shooting down a Messerschmitt 109 March 28 flown first combat mission over Sardinia August 1943 and later over Sardinia Sicily and Italy His wife and young daughter reside in Paris.
Spiced fruits, pickled and brandied items will be reinstated on the ration list on July 1. Hugh B. Lesesne, acting OPA district food rationing officer, announced the return after these items were removed in December to help merchants move on hand stocks. Knight to speak at St Mary’s University Law School at 7 p.m. Tuesday on The United States. Gourta.
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