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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1946
Page
3
The luncheon meeting of the Bexar County Republican Women's organization scheduled for Friday at the St. Anthony hotel has been canceled, per president Mrs Walter Gruve.
A compiled notice lists Army and Navy separations with names and home addresses. Included are First Lt. Robert M. Lyon Capt Fred W. Steinberg Staff Sgt Gerald Newcomb and others from various streets, plus Navy ratings such as Lt Sophie Herrera Bernice Kelley Adolph Gayle Sinclair and several ranks with home addresses.
Washington May 29 Attorney General Tom Clark will be honored at a dinner hosted by the Texas State Society in Washington. The event marks recognition of his public service and ties between Texas and national affairs.
In NAUHEIM Germany May 25 three witnesses testifying in the Lichfield field trials protested what they called injustices by the army. Sgt Saul I Russ of Brooklyn said witnesses are detained as dangerous criminals while accused officers roam free. The witnesses testified in the case of Lt Granville Cubage of Oklahoma City among six officers charged with brutality to prisoners in a U S army guardhouse at Lichfield England. Russ said a TWX from London branded them bad characters and noted they were held in the guardhouse for 12 days without explanation. they demand freedom while awaiting trial.
MOBILE AL. Byron Pinkston of the naval department recruitment for civilian workers overseas relates helping a Mississippi girl pass a typing speed test. After a failed first try and a drink to ease nerves, she is told to remove her shoes and, with stocking feet on the floor, clocks 58 words per minute on her third attempt.
David Fleming, an Irish Republican Army leader, remains without food at Crumlin prison on day six of a hunger strike. He began the fast to press for his release, and reports state he is in the same condition as yesterday.
J M English 36 president of J M English Truck Lines died in Columbus Texas from an accidentally inflicted bullet wound received Sunday at his ranch near the city. He led a 20 year trucking career and owned ranches in Columbus and Ada Oklahoma where he raised Herefords. During WWII he commanded all trucks from the Persian Gulf to Russia via Iran and was discharged as a major in 1944.
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