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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1941
Page
1
Campaigners for the 1941 Community Chest report $196 708 29 raised toward the 345 939 goal by Monday. Men’s division luncheon at the Gunter Hotel contributed over $13 000. women’s division planned another report Tuesday. Subscriptions from half the donors were turned in, signaling progress.
Speaker Leroy Jeffers warned that the last ten percent is the hardest to raise and urged full funding to feed hungry children and defend American life. Division reports show varied quota gains from 114 to 319 percent, led by D A Powell and manufacturing. Negro workers plan organizing four teams and twelve instruction sessions with Towner and Weiss.
Clothing valued at 250 dollars was stolen Tuesday by a thief who picked a lock to the home of Mrs Id Shelton at 1802 Lee Hall Street. Items included boots five shirts and several jackets. James Thenmals of 1001 Kayton Avenue reported an electric clock stolen from his car. Tools were stolen from the Frochaus Traler company at 1008 South Flores Street after a thief broke through a window.
Alamo Post 2 of the American Legion in San Antonio has sent twenty five enlistment applications to local recruiting headquarters for the naval reserve. Legion members expect to fill the quota of men and arrange enlistment ceremonies for the overseas war effort. Navy gains support from Legion efforts.
Nazi high command asserts gains as German and Italian forces seize a Donets river armaments complex. Red Army reports blunting a Moscow push near Mozhaisk with heavy losses to German troops. Moscow workers vow to fight to the end. RAF strikes German ports while Germans pound Liverpool area and North Wales. Berlin touts U boats sinking 98200 tons in three days. U.S. help pledges renewed Atlantic confidence. Japan’s new premier weighs foreign reaction amid cabinet upheaval. Fresh Canadian and American volunteers reach England.
A condensed recalls of World War I era events dated October 21 1916. Highlights include Austria's premier Count Karl von Stürgkh assassinated during a Vienna meal. British forces advance near Le Sars in the Somme front while German and Bulgar forces push Russo Romanian troops from Black Sea coastal positions. Winston Churchill urges trench nations to resist German aggression while Britain resupplies and bombs target Berlin Milan and Turin are cited in July actions.
The South Texas chamber requests a federal probe into pattern cotton losses in South Texas blamed on picker shortages. Ray Leeman says the issue draws attention in Washington after being asked by Mulliken of the agricultural labor committee for further data on county losses, mostly from Nueces County and Corpus Christi area. A&M club hosts Law and Hewlett to speak at 6 30 p m Tuesday at 644 p m Tankerslay San Pedro Avenue.
Dangerous floods hit northern and central Kansas as cloudbursts drenched the Smoky Hill, Cottonwood and Neosho basins. Salina and Emporia endured the worst impacts with evacuated families, marooned livestock, and high water on roads and highways.
Lieut Col Leia Bell, from the Third Army general staff plans and training section, will head the Bullis School program at Camp Bullis. The first class of 144 second lieutenants will report November 7 for six weeks of training at the Third Army junior officers training center. The course begins November 10 and will run as long as needed during the current emergency.
A rarity musical sponsored by the Tuesday Winsleal club will be held Tuesday night at the Catholic Community Service center. Miss Barbara Henstey will play a violin, including San Vitenio i Swite, composed by herself. A group of semi classical songs will be sung by Miss Eknel Hayes and Miss Rost Mary Hurt will play an accordion solo, with Mrs Corine Tayloe Royall in charge of entertainment.
Found guilty of taking $10 from Ramundo Rodrigues at 302 Zacatecas alley on October 15. Ladislado Vasquez, county jail address, was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to one day in jail by Judge McCallum Burnett in County Court at Law No 1. A report notes 4684 boys have joined San Antonio Boys' Club units since opening the tire with Gen Frank G Bolles, board member, announced Tuesday.
Frank Ree, 42, Greyhound driver, was involved in a two-vehicle crash at Seventh and Broadway while en route from Dallas to San Antonio. His bus, carrying passengers, collided with a car driven by John A. Shirley, 74, near the Menger Hotel. The impact forced police to clear the scene as the bus driver was allowed to resume his route.
fragmentary weather notice reports wind from the northeast six miles per hour near Mund UES. mentions rainfall totals for January around 24 inches and 23.98 inches for Manila radial area. notes moon phase and forecast details for today with high and low temperatures and an 8 p.m. observation time.
A tale recounts Willie Addison’s plan to spark a house fire using Bengal lights and pie plates. He triggers the blaze, and the household reacts in panic before his father disciplines him with a stern but benevolent scolding, shaping the episode into a cautionary ending.
The Jape nest navy Was rated today by all authoritative source as being very powerful, efficient and well-manned and very strong against Attack. Many ships overburdened with arma ment. The source lists battleships, aircraft car fitters, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines with numbers, noting economic blockade vulnerability.
Ronald Vincent assumed duties as manager in the Southwest Texas district for Travelers Insurance, transferring from the Dallas office. He was formerly assistant manager and has three years with the company. Willie Addams caused alarm with a prank involving a smoke-filled hall and window rescue, later revealed as a joke.
San Antonians reportedly heeded Fire Prevention week lessons as of Tuesday morning the city had logged 63 hours with no fires. Fire department last report indicated a brush fire near six thirty Sunday night was extinguished.
The Wage Hour Division announced distribution of a 21 page booklet titled How to Keep Wage and Hour Under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1948. The booklet was unveiled Tuesday at the field office located in the Federal Building as part of the department’s outreach program.
In an open letter to Le Havre’s municipal government Petain protests Allied bombings of the German-held port on France’s channel coast. A separate official note attacks British treatment of French officers captured off Somaliland, while the news agency questions U.S. defense production.
Washington reports that Georgia is moved entirely into the Eastern Time Zone. The change unifies the state with Florida and the eastern region to resolve time standard differences. Citizens petitioned to include all of Georgia in Eastern Standard Time after previous partial coverage and prior denials in nearby states.
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