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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1944
Page
1
Graduating certificates will be awarded to 1924 members of St Martin Hall at a ceremony of Our Lady of the Lake college. The Rev John Burke will deliver the principal address at 7 p.m. in St Martin Hall during the St Martin ceremony.
Washington May 24. New tire production may begin this fall as A card drivers see 2,000,000 synthetic tires monthly, up from 1,400,000 in May. Production could reach 2,000,000 by fall, with tire access limited by local rationing boards. Gasoline A ration unlikely to rise this quarter. any boost depends on petroleum allocations. B ration expansion eyed for the East from 325 to 474 miles monthly.
Casualty notes list Lieut. Col. Luther H. Richmond as a prisoner of war in Germany per shortwave broadcasts, after being reported missing in action since April 15. He is a P-51 Mustang pilot with Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal honors, native to Chicopee Massachusetts, with prior service at Randolph and Foster fields.
London reported Russians probing enemy strength on sectors of the eastern front with patrols raiding German trenches for information. A reconnaissance party southeast of Tiraspol reportedly wiped out nearly a company of Nazis and captured dozens of prisoners. Red artillery hit concentrations of troops, and snipers claimed dozens of Hitlerites west of Moryr. Airmen sank two German transports in the Gulf of Finland.
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