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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1943
Page
2
A damaged OCR fragment describes a catastrophic explosion at a naval air station causing multiple fatalities and extensive damage. Names, places, and clear details are missing, but the text hints at a large-scale incident with casualties and presumed structural collapse.
Sophia C. Malgonads, 28, of 1917 Weer Commerce Errevt, sustained a forehead laceration when her car collided with a street vehicle. The driver did not hear the engine. Witnesses placed the engineer as D. V. Martin of 610 Avenue.
Hollywood gossip notes Gary Cooper signs to play a criminal comedy role in Casanova Browne produced by Nunnally Johnson for William Goetz. He plans to work overseas to entertain service members, with Nancy Kelly joining the cast and Paulette Goddard honored in Mexico.
Huisache Avenue Baptist Church will hold a songfest Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Pastor Rev. Luther B. Osborne announced. Speakers include Rev. Glen Dromegoole of Mitchell-Ter-Tere Baptist Church and Rev. Ben F. Holiman on the Big Buddy program. All-Singing led by John Dongins.
TEMPLE Sept 4 Bloodhounds treed the escaped German prisoners of war William Vietinghoff and Fritz Hormuff eight miles north of Copperas Cove. Camp Hood public relations office announced two other escapees who fled with them from the POW camp were not captured. Soldiers spotted Vietinghoff and Hormuff yesterday and the bloodhounds picked up the trail.
Fragmentary notice describes a dance at Bean2bel-lad hall on September 11 with performances by Piobetr Band and Advy and a late program from 2:30. Contains unclear venue names and timings.
Allied forces hammered Japanese communication centers in Western Burma. Beau fighters attacked Katha district while planes damaged river steamers and barges along the Upper Irrawaddy. RAF fighters bombed camps at Kraukpandu and Apavkwa, with convoys and river traffic targeted east of Ghauk and Yaw river. All planes returned safely.
Atlanta sept 18 a state legislative senate penitentiary committee report condemns whipping and shackling in Georgia prisons. It cites beatings with sticks and rubber hoses forced regimens and scant clothing, particularly affecting women. The panel urges abolition of most state and county work camps.
Capers Sauel Orr Sapers rector of Christ Episcopal Church Belknap and Russell will deliver a timely message at Sunday morning prayer and sermon service Holy communion will be administered at 11 00 am with church school at 9 30 am Sunday morning
Henry A. Fitzhugh of Bexar County outlines strategies for livestock, poultry, and dairy producers to meet war-time food goals. He stresses selecting good breeds and stock from sound sires, culling unprofitable dairy cows, and efficient feeding to reduce waste.
A garbled column by Arthur Bug Baer mocks wartime fears with comic political jests about Italy Mussolini and Hitler. The piece blends word play and misread names, noting public concern, satire, and social commentary from a distantly humorous perspective.
Gideons, led by J. W. Frazier and J. Wy, will conduct an evening service at the Government Assembly of God Church, 1716. The event details remain brief in this fragment but indicate religious outreach by Gideons in the community.
The report notes a high school student named George Wolfe, son of Mr and Mrs, who enlisted in December and was among young veterans discharged honorably after serving in the navy during the war. Details are fragmentary but indicate his strong family and local ties.
The long running Lets Pretend program, loved by adults and children, returns as a sponsored broadcast this week. Cinderella will air Saturday at 1 05 a m on KTLA. Miss Nila Mack created the series and has guided its success with adaptations and stage to screen talent.
Lieut. Trene ruentes leads holiness service at Salvation Army HQ Elm Street Sunday morning speaking on Patience Comfort and Hope Captain Horace Thomas speaks Sunday evening on Following Jesus at Salvation Army meeting by Salvation Army HQ Listen for Sunday program details and topics for the day
Trinity University day will be observed at Madison Square Presbyterian Church Sunday. Students of the college attend the Sunday school at 9 30 am and the regular morning service which follows. Dr Sarmud Terry, pastor, will preach on The Chrisvida Moor.
The Gideons Camp in San Antonio will hold morning worship at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Sunday and evening services at Government Hill and Glade Sidings churches. Offerings fund New Testaments for men in the armed forces.
Attendance increases at the Northside Primitive Baptist church now meeting in the San Antonio academy auditorium at 1090 North Flores Street near Hickman. Elder N. P. Vandiver leads morning services at 1090 block with a hopeful note on spiritual outreach.
Saturday lineup features Pactual immortal stories of war heroes in lighting crews and ships, Colonel Stuopnagel guiding a mood lift, inner sanctum fare, Hit Parade with Sinatra, Saturday Night Serenade with Jessica Dragonelle and Gus Hadschen, Groucho Marx show with Dorothy Lameer, plus a string of News segments and late programs concluding in the early hours.
A bus carrying 15 passengers was attacked by 40 to 12 armed masked men on horseback about 80 miles northwest of Mexico City. The driver Luis Extada and two passengers were wounded. The bandits searched travelers and stole cash and jewelry during the Wednesday night assault near Alma da on the unfinished Mexico City El Paso highway.
WashingtonSept representative Van Zandt of Pennsylvania former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced his resignation from Congress to enter active duty with the Navy in the Pacific theater He is 52 in perfect health and will return as lieutenant commander after serving as a naval signalman in World War I and in the Naval Reserve since 1912
Washington reports the Salerno landing cost the United States two ships, the 16 ton destroyer Rowan and the 450 ton tug Nauset, both lost to underwater explosions. The Navajo, sister ship of Nauset, also sunk by underwater explosion in the Pacific. Navy lists total US fighting craft losses at 117 since the war began. no casualties yet confirmed on Rowan or Navajo.
A church service at 11 p m Sunday at Highland Park Baptist 2000 South Hackberry will honor service members with a roll call. Only three of the 15 men are stationed away. relatives will answer for absentees. Chan lala QO G Matthews of Brooke General Hospital will be the principal speaker. Music by Mr Desmuke and the church choir.
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