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Newspaper
Hayward Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1946
Page
5
Ciudad Trujillo reports 64 dead and at least 200 injured from a Sunday quake and tidal waves in the Dominican Republic. Tremors continued with Zanjon village nearly destroyed. shelters formed as relief agencies rush medicine, food, and water purification equipment from Puerto Rico.
New York URI officials of the American Communications Association announced a 2 PM EDT embargo on all international press messages. The move follows a six day strike against Press Wireless Inc as union members protest 46 operator layoffs due to reduced postwar traffic.
CHICAGO AP Scores of persons willing to donate skin give four year old Melvin Snyder a chance to live after doctors found no more skin to cover burns from his pajamas catching fire while he played with matches. Parents Paul and Snyder asked newspapers to spread the appeal. La Roi resentenced to die on October 25 after a series of reprieves since 1942.
Two battered ships with about 2,000 illegal Jewish immigrants reached Haifa as British forces fortified the barred port with warships, tanks and infantry to guard against outbreaks. About 1,500 more immigrants aboard five ships in Haifa harbor awaited fate with unconfirmed reports of transfers to Cyprus camps.
Sheriff’s deputies investigated after Mrs. Charry Wild reported teens firing a .22 rifle in a creek area near her home at 724 Hampton Road. She said the youths also harmed or shot pigeons kept on her property valued at 15 dollars each.
Hayward Protestant board for religious education opened its drive to raise 3500 to expand the program for 1946 47. The plan funds a released time program from public school for children whose parents file written requests. The budget aims at 7000 with churches expected to provide about half and outreach to 350 citizens willing to underwrite the cost for one child each year.
Soviet Prosecutor Ivan Alexandrov charged that the German high command prepared a germ war against the Allies. He backed the claim with an affidavit from Major General Walter Schreiber, former German medical corps officer and professor of hygienic bacteriology at Berlin University, now a Red Army prisoner.
Fared R. Dobson reported a $65 auto radio theft from his home at 2750 A Street. A prowler entered through a unlocked door between 1 pm and 7 pm Saturday, rummaged dresser drawers, but took no other items.
Tennyson Improvement Club voted to join the Wic Hayward area chamber of commerce and appointed a live committee to run a membership drive led by Peter Alexander Park M Hyde and Ralph Polilter. They will issue a member questionnaire on upcoming improvements and addressed airport flight concerns over the district.
Prague date from UNRRA chief Taunt din states UNRRA should cease operations December 31 due to no contributing governments providing funds. He notes future aid will be decided later and Czech UNRRA effort is 65 percent complete with shipments likely through January 1947. He praises Czech resolve and cites food conditions as strong.
Washington Okla ORA approves nine percent rise for metal household furniture with seven percent from manufacturers and two percent previously absorbed by resellers, to be passed on to consumers as part of revised OPA rules. Exemptions include latex dextring and all vegetable adhesives used in foods and common staples like flour rye biscuit arrowrootหรือ potatoes.
Swedish army launches daylong probe after reports of rockets crashing and zipping across the sky in an apparent rocket barrage. Army sources call the incidents serious and say origin must be found. theories point to German Nazi V weapons and possible Russian experiments, with Baltic testing zones cited.
Washington officials began four days of hearings as the OPA decontrol board, created under the new law, heard grain industry representatives demand government restraint on grain prices. Growers, millers and traders argued current and expected supplies make restored ceilings unnecessary, part of a broad first test for the board as it weighs whether to restore controls on grains meat dairy and other foods by August 21 and whether subsidies should resume.
Albert H. McDonald, 19, identified by police as a fugitive from the Lancaster detention home, held in Wakland Washington. Authorities say he is suspected of committing several burglaries in the Oakland area after escaping May 29 in a mass breakout from Lancaster. He was captured while apparently hiking toward his home.
Mayor John Haar called a council meeting after receiving the final draft from the planning commission. The planned discussion will highlight the likely feeling of the city council and planning commission regarding revisions to the proposed zoning ordinance.
Fire crews including convict labor and federal forestry staff battle a large Upper Lake blaze in Mendocino National Forest, now about 1800 acres with fears it will not be contained until reaching 8000 acres. Another wildland fire near Clear Lake was subdued after threatening brush and timber. An additional blaze 12 miles west of Willis in Colusa County scorched 12,000 acres before containment.
Two colored men were involved in a stabbing affray in Centerville last night. The victim, Oscar Winfield, 38, was taken to Fairmont hospital with slash wounds to the left breast. Chantie Custom, 43, was arrested as investigators from the Shovill’s office questioned a suspect in the coat at Wye Bay.
In Chicago a coroner's jury concluded that the suspect Heirens, linked to a series of local killings, is the likely slayer. The inquest found no psychiatrists available for testimony and notedBloodshed details were limited to the readable fragments from the corrupted report.
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