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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1941
Page
11
Detroit reports forty thousand five hundred deaths and two billion dollars in losses from motor vehicle crashes in 1941. Officials plan emergency traffic law enforcement with a national uniform program as zones form. Experts cite rapid vehicle use, limited highways, drunk driving, and wartime recklessness as key factors in rising fatalities and injuries.
An authoritative Fascist editor reports Count Galeazzo Ciano and Adolf Hitler discussed a possible diplomatic move involving Turkey. Ciano reportedly met Adolf Hitler at a German HQ near the Russian front last Saturday.
Committeemen of the AAA and county USDA members plan a Food-for-Freedom drive with intense boards to meet at the Yaza hotel Thursday and Friday to organize the campaign. B F P Vance, chairman, and Romeo H. Korth AAA airman will preside with speakers including O H Day AAS R E McBryde district field man for the AAA G Gibson extension service and Balloy Ragsdale.
Industrial Marine and Shipbuilding Workers strike silenced Robins Drydock and Repair in Brooklyn halting repairs on at least 14 vessels including a government craft. Officials claim 5800 of 6000 workers walked out. remaining workers served as fire and security guards with special passes. Dispute centers on a promised 5 percent wage increase that was withdrawn. Company plans a Manhattan meeting today.
Baylor University alumni unit at Goodfellow Field San Angelo will attend their first homecoming and the Baylor T. GU game on November 1 at government expense. Fifteen members travel as a group. arranged by Lieut. H. Scott. Four come from Waco. Public relations officer Hela announced. Financial assistance queried via Glassi- Heations ad listings.
Compiled notes recount Greece finalizing an entente accord and German destroyers attacking British shipping in the English Channel. British losses include two destroyers sunk and a transport missing. Across the front Bulgar Turkish German forces press the Russo Romanian line from the Danube to the Black Sea. One year earlier Italy invaded Greece as Metaxas and King George urged national resistance. Rome reports German troops advancing on the Maligg front in Rigynt.
Italian high command reports German bombers sank a Trilish cruiser during an air attack off the Libyan coast. Berlin says German dive bombers also hit a British cruiser near Bardin, Libya, while Italian torpedo planes attacked naval units in the Mediterranean. British bombings of Bengal, Tripol, and Misurata were noted. Carnival Dance Set at Leon Valley School October 41 with supper at 7:90 p.m. and a play at 8:30 p.m.
Army planes flow into the rugged Pacific Northwest for extensive air maneuvers with more than 14,900 civilian volunteers and a western Oregon blackout. Simulated bombing attacks start tomorrow, testing civilian and military defenses from the Canadian border to northern California amid fog and recent crashes in the Sierra Nevada.
A funeral was held Saturday in Pearsall for Lieutenant Walter F. Houston who died last Monday during a Southeast maneuver near New Bern North Carolina. Houston, son of Mr and Mrs Ray Houston of Austin, was a UT and Cumberland University graduate. He leaves his mother a widow and a sister and a brother.
The Rev. Joe Miller of First Baptist Brun calls to Trinity Baptist Church of South San Antonio. Pastor elect Miller, a Howard Payne College graduate, will assume his pastorate on November 3.
In Vichy on October 27 the labor charter was issued replacing trade unions with government controlled corporate bodies. Unions are dissolved and funds are seized, with membership mandatory in the new groups that supervise industry. Strikes and lockouts are banned, and wage questions fall under government control.
Prime Minister Mussolini, in a second public address this month, told peasants near Rome that Italy would press the war until victory is won. He asserted the effort to reclaim the Pontine marshes would continue with unwavering resolve, echoing his Bologna speech earlier in October and the “Hold firm” slogan.
College Station October meeting of farmers and agricultural leaders, chaired by B. F. Vance of the U S Department of Agriculture, promotes a fund for freedom. Officials from all agricultural agencies, farm groups and publications attend as talks push higher production and outline future conferences across the state.
Maj. Gen. Frank P. Lahm, army’s first plunge pilot, was honored in a Randolph field ceremony at 4 pm on Sunday. A ground review by cadets and a salute by 18 planes marked the 32nd anniversary of his first flight. Attending were Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger, Maj. Gen. George W. Strong, Maj. Gen. Richard Donovan, and other high ranking officers.
Germans claim breakthrough before Moscow while Russians concede ground but say lines remain intact. British workers press for western front relief as Japanese Russian frontier clashes are reported. Mussolini vows victory amid global pressure as Tojo proclaims no retreat. Air forces clash as Britain seeks shipping, Germany reports 20 000 tons sunk.
Border Patrol lists a temporary post for a radio operator earning 1820 dollars yearly. Requirements include typing and sending 40 words per minute. Applications should be sent to LA Bonazzi, district superintendent.
New York Daily News writer Capt. Lowell Limpus arrived in San Antonio with Linit. Lee 3. Thomas to gather material for a series on the air corps training program. They planned to visit primary basic and advanced flying schools in the Gulf Coast training center area.
In San Antonio a four year old girl, Maria Helena Zapata of 1203 Morates Street, died after being struck by a car at Marth and Medina streets. She died early Sunday at Robert B Green Hospital from a mangled leg and internal injuries. Driver was Dolores Jimenez of 1220 San Fernando Street. Justice of the Peace J W Layty ruled accidental death. Funeral held at 1 a.m. Survivors: parents Daniel and Mrs Zapata, brothers Daniel Rudy Joe Johnny, and sisters Hortense and Josepine Zapata.
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