Laredo Times (Newspaper) - September 23, 1945, Laredo, Texas i 1 an l War Industries F * - I h - * A Thought A Day For he to I will have mercy on whom 1 will have mercy and I will compassion on whom I will have a f * 64 th YEAR No. 86. PAGES + 1 SEPTEMBER 23, 1945. FIRST EDITION PRICE 10c Union Chief Asks No More Stoppages Mediation LAAF To Co In Op ays COL. SUTTON 0 CHEST FUND INDICATED Despite all the rumors and reports floating around ever since the Army Air Field is not going to be closed least for a That official word comes from Gen. E. H. in of the Southwest Corps of Gen. Marks yesterday reported the return of grazing lands used by LAAF for its air-to-air gunnery and added that the return of the property to the 348 owners in no way affect Che Laredo Army Air Field which will be continued in according to the latest advices received in the Southwestern Succeeds Bobzien | Col. James S. Sutton arrived in Laredo late Friday to assume command of succeeding Col. Edwin L. appointed the first week of Mrs. Sutton and their two j dren are expected here from within the next two The colonel is an old Army 1 ] Ik JT air man who received his I V at Kelly Field alter obtaining A CCI commission at West Point He Sept. 22.-Reticent, served several ang hero 20-yeatvoltf Army of trom the film CROIX DE nation's most decorated First Lt AUDIE L. of is presented an award from the French the Croix de Guerre avec Etoile by Gen. W. A. Eighth Service command chiff of in ceremonies at Bemedaled Audie Murphy Tentative figures presented to the Laredo Community Chest Executive Committee for screening Friday afternoon would indicate a goal of no less than for its first year's six drives in The committee resumed Saturday afternoon its study of various Those agencies for whom representatives appeared to ask definite amounts Girl Salvation and Boy Scouts Figures were submitted showing actual disbursements of the Catholic Orphanage in as well as an estimate of the but the amount to be set remained Another heavy item outstanding was the War for USO lyant Executive First to appear before the board was schools Supt. William P. president of the Girl Scouts Council of He reported that there are 10 troops with combined membership of 200 The asked would 4�>canitfli where North working his capital vv wun Actor s ai to combat w commanding crash the fickle gates of ficer of the 306th of the Con- I * Honor and Col. Sutton P1 every other American from for hopes to OTHER name of MISS NELSON of Lake entered the trial of Samuel C. Epes at New York for the murder of his wife when the prosecution named Miss Kings land as other woman for whose love it claimed Epes murdered his wife and buried her in a GEN. r BOOST on We Congratulate r Members Of The Stork an airliner to be greeted in whose home he'll She a guest his to be dis- 4 What his plans for a movie Murphy and said he didn't But Cagney was not so saw his picture in the said the of the knew he had Personality - and without telling I got in touch with and here Sergeant and Lauro G. Rames of Hebbronville unce the birth of a son at Mercy Hospital September 21. Mr. and Isaac Olivarez of 510 San Dario announce the birth oi a daughter at Mercy Hospital September 21, Mr. and Mrs. Pedro is. of 417 Hidalgo announces we can't tell you birth of a daughter at but after Audie has Hospital September 21. Mr. and Mrs. G. Laurel of been around here awhile and we get a little better we 807 announce the birth may be able to work something a daughter at Mercy Hospital out in the way of a September 22. screen Daily Washington Merry d Ky PEARSON Col. S. Allen now an active service the 4-* ARMY PEARSON SUGGESTION On Sept. 4, Drew Pearson urged the War Department to furlough returned veterans instead of making them mark time in On Sept. 18, the War Deportment announced that soldiers returning from overseas will be given 45 days temporary duty at MEXICO Sept. 22- Finance Ministry said today that the increase of U.S. purchase price of Mexican silver from 45 to 71.11 cents increase Mexican losing Finance Minister Eduardo said there existed hoarded silver savings totalling which would * worth He said the government would not call in this silver ily but would cover circulation needs by bills and copper and nickel Foreign Minister Francisco Castillo Najera said he had instructed the Mexican embassy in Washington to express the Mexican government's appreciation of the OPA step arid stress on Page 6) be Next was the Salvation represented by Major Wilton He reported actual expenditure of for fiscal and requested from the The organization proposes to cease business or tambourine but would continue sale of the and a Christmas Cry campaign that the purchased street for their Sees U.S. DREW PEARSON BELGIAN BULGE BATTLE DESERVES CONGRESSIONAL U. S. COLONELS WARNED GERMAN ATTACK NAZI GENERALS OPPOSED HITLER'S BULGE Congress is really interested in investigating military efficiency rather than in political it will probe the disastrous Battle of the Bulge as well as Pearl at Pearl Harbor weer only around 3,000, But casualties in the Battle of the Bulge totalled around 60,000. And just as Pearl Harbor set us back in the so the Battle of the Bulge delayed victory in General Eisenhower hnd hoped to finish Germany In the by but overwhelming losses during the first two weeks of the Ardennes offensive helped drag out Hoy immy extra American lives were lost as a result of the spurt given is not But what is known is that S. officers immediately huge orders for more more more of almost everything as a result of the losses In the onu reason why acres and of surplus supplies scattered over the country What never leaked out at the time of the battle is thai 20.000 U. S. infancy were flown straight from the United into the Bulge by the Transport Losses were so heavy and men io tired that sufficient shock troops wore not In it was the longest troop carrying feat in Also H never leaked out that certain B. officers in Washington warned that the Bulge was and that wan to prepare ate a few of the things investigate profit to future military are tome On Page r Russia Sept. 20- Claude today that he believes the States help reconstruct but he gave of the amount of such Premier Stalin told visiting Congressmen several days ago that Russia would like to borrow from the United Pepper made his prediction that American help would be forthcoming at a press conference with Soviet He emphasised that he was expressing only his own personal Jerry Saddler Hints Race For Governor Sept. 22 Col. Jerry former brought out Salvation Army had property on Houston housing soldiers and in addition to a hall they have on Water Scouts Plan Camp The Boy Scouts were sented by H. L. who explained that Laredo has 14 troops with a total of 400 He mentioned that the Boy Scouts actually raised last year in want to get started on our We need a Jackson Last year 75 boys were sent to a camp in Corpus and this year 40 Mrs. Truman Phelps appeared on behalf of the Texas Social Welfare not to solicit but to express interest in local welfare agencies and ask the sponsorship of a two-day conference with speakers to be furnished by the Association for the purpose of helping educate people as to community No budgets or quotas have been The Committee is simply engaged in the preliminary work of studying the needs of the various welfare and the goal is to be fixed William N. Hall has been designated director of the which is to be a campaign from 10 to 24. Tells Horrors In Nazi Prison Sept. 22-(AV-Dr. Ada dark woman who described herself as ua Jewess from continued her story today of the horrors she saw while a prisoner of the Nazis at the Oswiecim S. Sept. 22- Lt. Samuel 27, was today mercy state's accusation of poisoning his pretty young Life imprisonment is the mandatory The jury the fate of the handsome young officer for Its verdict came at 5:15 p. m. in a courtroom crowded to overflowing eager mostly who avidly had followed progress of the trial since it opened Solicitor T. Pou Taylor asked the jury to send the son of the wealthy Virginia family to the electric he was made for and black and He the jury to return a simple murder conviction against the man the state accuses of his school teacher wife for the love of a 19-year-old Louisiana Sept. 22. Truman has instructed Gen. Douglas to strip Japan of its war production industries and limit the rest of its heavy manufacturers to strictly peaceful The White House made public the instructions in releasing a broad statement of States initial policy for The program laid down provides what top officials here have called a stem but not ruthless set of political and achieving the initial purpose which is sure that Japan will not again | become a menace to the United | States or to the peace and security of the General MacArthur earlier demanded an accounting of all Japanese financial dealings from Pearl Harbor day to the including those of the imperial household whose chief the reportedly has no intention of A member of the royal I said there was to Washington hints that would quit the Lt. Gen. Kenji top military field meanwhile went to work as usual at the Japanese war ministry despite an order for his issued oy on Page 12.) Sept. 22.-(#1-The nation's oil workers were urged by the president of the CIO Oil Workers Union today to hold up further strike actions pending outcome of a mediation conference called for Tuesday in I More than 21,500 oil workers were on strike in Mid-west and Texas coastal refinery cities as the union O. A. made his staTement in Fort The union is pressing demands of 52 hours pay for a 40-hour-work want to make an urgent appeal to oil industry workers over the nation to Hold up further strike actions pending the out come of the mediation conference called by the U. S. Conciliation Service in said Hopes for Understanding am hopeful that at the Chicago conference we can come that their there their CALLS chief of the Federal Conciliation EDGAR L. WARREN Saturday called a conference for Tuesday to seek an end to the spreading oil industry strike which threatens the entire nation with a gasoline SEEK ESCAPED NAZI Sept. 22 agents today were still seeking j English-speaking Wolfgang 24-year-old German prisoner level of of who escaped I Mexico Expects U. Ss Competition To Deflate Prices MEXICO Sept. 22.-{TP) bankers expect United States competition to deflate Mexican prices and to set the pace for industry In its September economic survey the Banco Nacional de Mexico comments that the United i States held inflation to 27.3 per cent among us exactly the reverse has Bank of Mexico index the report show prices of 32 essential articles and a half times above those of 1919 which was not a time of cheap the survey manufacturers and investors are moving cautiously because they expect national demand will turn toward the United States market until prices here are reduced to the those in the PLENTY OF GAS Hi in Laredo j Saturday reported they have enough gasoline on hand for the next ten but that the situation after that depends on whether the strikes of oil refinery workers are continued or Louis Texaco said of this we are all but we do not know what to expect tomorrow or the next Should the On 12� to an understanding so workers can go back to jobs with the assurance will be no reduction in * Motorists in the refinery cities where strikes were in progress entered the we with dwindling gasoline In some places voluntary rationing j In Texas alone at least 15.500 oil workers off the Thousands more in the Texas coastal section had to Ten Texas plants already were Voluntary Rationing A shut down of the Sinclair refinery in Houston stopped deliveries to Sinclair dealers and a gasoline shortage began to develop and fuel oil supply suffered another setback as CIO oil workers struck at the Lima refinery of Standard Oil Co. A for 1 in There was a somewhat similar program with most of that estimated 1,200 gas i per cent of the open j for business and limiting customers to five They considering restricting sales essential Big Tax Reduction Seen For Servicemen Sept. 22-(U.R) General Motors Strike Vote AskeS 22-'^V-The United Automobile Workers today petitions the which has heaped tional Labor Relations Board for words of praise on for winning the is thinking of adding a practical note by giving discharged servicemen a big tax reduction in their first year of civilian Chairman Walter of the Senate finance committee disclosed today that he is very definitely considering such an a strike vote in all General Motors Corp. plants in the nation represented by the Officials indicated the if would be set for Oct. 24. The telegraphed petition the Union's demand for a 30 per cent wage increase as the major issue underlying the To United i run for to achieve the whose military service started in 1�42, said he would become a civilian day like all other returning my first problem is to make a he said he would make in against commander of the Belsen and 44 other Nazis on trial as war Dr. Bimko said she saw her six-year-old her n a sister and her ents carted off the gas chambers at 7l! 1 I. 1 i f Y MORE BUTTER Sept. manufacturers will moro during three months of the year than during tho current OPA said it UNDER Sept. 22. - An authoritative source said today that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Ivan Subasic being held in his home by soldiers of Marshal Tito's Informed persons in Parte expressed belief that would resign Rules For Sending Messages Returned Soldiers Because of the difficulty of getting emergency messages to servicemen returning from the American Red Gross has announced the only conditions under which such messages will be may be handled when the officially designated next of kin has changed address and NEWS Behind The NEWS By RAY TUCKER The unexpected collapse of Japan has member of their immediate j formed the disposal of an are being held up ated hundred billion the new address is unknown io the but only if the family knows the port of entry into the U. Mrs. E. D. home service chairman of the Webb Co. chapter said may also be port is to servicemen where funeral arrangements ing their Mrs. Cluck i The large number of men and the rapidity with which they are processed j through ports of entry and other centers make it difficult for Red Cross representatives to deliver emergency she Mrs. Cluck further that with few when Surplus property was only a field directors have been able to minor worry until Tokyo locate servicemen it was But now the War and they had been in Navy Departments are worth of surplus war property into a major headache for Congress and the Although the legislators thought they had solved this problem when they passed the Surplus Property Act almost a year key Democrats on Capitol Hill conceded in recent debate that it has been botched completely and that a new start must be - t h 1 i A - - - t with their families before Cross contact was Red The walled-In Japanese Imperial Palace at for centuries the sacrosanct home of the of isn't so private A group of Gl's is shown heading into the grounds through of the opon Through archway may be domt tte Jao tot Poles Honor Ike Sept. 22.-(/Pi-Gen. Eisenhower came to this ruined capital and received a tumultuous welcome from thousands of Poles who lined the 1 streets and shouted Live America At luncheon in Belvedere determine unwanted goods at the rate a hundred million worth every twenty-four There are not sufficient to contain and there are not enough transportation facilities to haul them to convenient selling points throughout the Official ignorance on this subject is beyond Surplus Property officials do not know how much or what kind of goods have on They its President Boleslaw Beirut cannot discover where it is locai decorated the general with the I the United Cross of I On Page 16.) t i j 1 1 - 3 * 1 J - - 1 1 1 l k T
