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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1941
Page
2
A draft case complaint involving Methodists prompts a probe. Officials examine a church associated matter, with officials from the organization coordinating the inquiry. Names and exact roles are unclear in the fragment.
A historic plea argues governments must train youth in democracy through comprehensive education and school based military training. It calls for universal, better democratic schooling, civil welfare, and a robust citizenry to defend democracy and national liberty. Emphasizes reform via genuine democracy over autocratic efficiency.
A UT group plans a Christmas trip to West Point with 25 Texas coeds invited to join 566 plebes for the holidays. Hostess Mrs. Odie Minatra says no beauty contest is needed. the Texas delegation will stay in the presidential suite if they win entry. Departure would be by special bus on December 20.
Los Angeles district attorney William Plect Paimes asked the FBI to investigate whether Methodist church officials sought to interfere with law enforcement in supporting Henry Welty Kukns. The Brethren Methodist church’s conscientious objection committee criticized the case, pledging church members to seek lawful alternative service, while Palmer said the request could trigger obstruction-of-justice charges.
Cayness to Assume Post as state auditor under Governor Gabe Stevenson, takes office January 1, succeeding B. P. Battle who was appointed to fill an unexpired term. Gevpress, an accountant from San Antonio since 1821, plans to move his family to Austin by the end of the school term.
A wage hearing in Ames was postponed to 8 p m Tuesday in the case Weeks versus Grayburg Company over overtime pay. Weeks claims 7081 in wages and hour law penalties and 780 for attorney’s fees. He was employed as a pumper by Hear Luling and discharged October 15, 1940, with wages claimed from October 24, 1938 when the act took effect.
City commissioners approved payrolls in a brief Tuesday session. The pay list totaled 828.26 with expenses to Mayer C. and Ruin and city staff, including a 6.80 item for the Bison shell night.
Soviet dispatches describe German routs at Tula and near Leningrad as Soviet artillery and cavalry pursued retreating troops. News notes resilient German efforts at Sevastopol with air strikes and naval bases under heavy bombardment while Russian transport ships and port facilities faced attrition.
German submarines reportedly sank four armed merchant ships totaling about 24 000 tons in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions as part of a coordinated patrol. The British loss and damage tally was announced with other bombing and escort actions noted, while unrelated notices and ads appear in the page.
Rome dispatch reports Royal Air Force planes attacked Naples with four successive waves causing material damage. Twenty five persons killed as a building was demolished by a bomb. Forty civilians were wounded. In Libya near Givenarea German anti aircraft batteries shot down two enemy planes. Northwest Ethiopia Gandar fronts saw repelled British attempts.
Fragmented war report notes German pressure near Leningrad and at Baypatono while Nazi air attacks claim devastating blows. Soviet dispatches claim gains around Nawalege, with Red armies pushing near, as Japan asserts readiness amid U S crisis and Tokyo fears naval shifts. Moscow protest over Soviet fronting ingeming and Papaneane issues appears.
Washington budget officials rejected a War Department request to fund bronze markers for soldiers graves in the next year's appropriation. Harold D. Sutin, Budget Bureau director, said the change would shift marker production costs to defense industry suppliers and families. The move, aimed at saving bronze, would affect future grave markers and reduce overall bronze usage.
RAF cadet Jimmie Brown a British flying trainee near Port Myers charged with attempted assault of a young woman. State's Attorney Clyde Wilson Seid said the man appeared to have been struck about the head and face and Brown denied the charge claiming the woman was injured when she fell.
London reports an authoritative source saying many German soldiers on the Russian front wear women’s furs and other makeshift clothing. He notes very few Germans are properly equipped for fishing in the Russian winter.
In London on October 1 a report states Prime Minister Churchill carried a pistol on a trip to Wyanes as security. Former secretary Brendin Bracken said Churchill asked for his heavy pistol before boarding a plane, explaining it was for defense if attacked by the enemy.
Lumon Nov Ibe Arita approved 120,001,000 bushels of wheat from the Canadian Wheat Board, the ministry of food announced. The cargo aims to replenish stocks depleted by shipments to Russia and follows a May purchase described as history’s largest single purchase.
RAF sorties struck German held northern France with heavy anti aircraft fire observed from morning skies. Allied fighters pressed operations over Howogne and surrounding channels as bombardment and patrols targeted coastal and inland targets.
The U S Navy announced that American merchant vessels plying to and from the British Isles and northern Europe would be the first armed under the neutrality repeal. The second priority covers ships entering the Red Sea and the third for those sailing into the South Atlantic. The move follows President Roosevelt signing the repeal and shifts the policy toward arming ships for belligerent ports.
London reports that British commentators describe Franz Von Papen as seeking Turkish aid to host German troops in Turkey. The British insist Turks, as a key ally, will resist any German use of their territory and would fight to block the move.
A report asserts that a British Gestapo like secret police was created in Britain by German agents. The article mentions Herbert Morrison, Lord Poynsonby, and Bedford, alleging surveillance and alleged dealings with Germans amid wartime suspicions.
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