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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1944
Page
7
A hospital card details cases of malnutrition and starvation among Latin American infants, noting mothers’ feeding practices, high death rates, and racial disparities in infant mortality. The report cites 1943-1949 data on deaths and clinic attendance, highlighting breast feeding’s protective effect and ongoing hunger risks.
CHICAGO April 8 INS Police dropped a probe into a supposed plot to sabotage Chicago war plants after a cup of paper fell from a library book bearing a note that papers were marked for saboing with a swastika. The only real lead named George Malone a 14 year old pupil at Quigley preparatory school who admitted prank authorship and the inquiry ended with reading too many spy stories.
Three U S news services adopted a National Geographic based style to standardize foreign place names to English usage for clarity in war reporting. Exceptions exist for prominent Anglicized forms like Rome Moscow Athens and Limerick and others. Also notes missing navigator First Lieut Eduardo Martinez Jr and wounded from the Mediterranean area and Southwest Pacific.
In East Texas oil fields the water injection program shows higher pressures, with current bottomhole pressures averaging 1009 pounds versus 1000 pounds 18 months earlier. Thompson notes a 5.88 pound gain in 80 wells monthly, and daily water reinjection reaches 1,326,033 barrels. Four new injection systems are under construction, aiming to handle nearly all produced water.
The Nazi agency DNA reported that Gen. Nikolaus von Falkenhorst told German troops in Norway that they are approaching the decisive phase of the war and will not capitulate. The remark was in an order of the day recognizing the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Norway.
Pvt. Thomas Smith, posing as a second lieutenant in Camp Kilmer clothing with gold bars, stopped soldiers on Harlem street and demanded salutes for about 20 minutes before four other soldiers grew suspicious. Police detained him. Smith admitted he bought the insignia after drinking.
Plans for an Allied international conference on postwar civil aviation were outlined in London with preliminary talks under way between Lord Beaverbrook and U S Assistant Secretary Adolph A Berley. Officials expect cross nation discussions with the Soviet Union and others before a formal international agreement, aiming for detailed technical understandings on multiple aspects of air transport.
Reports from London via Istanbul indicate Turkish chrome shipments to Germany are nearly three times higher than a year ago. Germany depends on Turkey for this metal used in high grade steel.
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