Rate overhaul to fix wartime transport fairness
A columnist urges overhauling the freight rate structure to ease shortages and rebalance transportation costs for farmers, laborers, merchants, and railroads. It critiques OPA price controls, notes real and artificial shortages, and argues for rapid, rational reform during wartime to prevent further perishable losses and regional disparities.
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Washington
Hercules
South
West Texas
OPA
Department of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Ex Reporter Diehl’s Record of World War Firsts
Ex-reporter Gent Kemper Diehl, now a lieutenant with an anti aircraft battery, earns three wartime firsts. He lands with Patton in North Africa on November 8 1942, fights in Casablanca and Bizerte, leads in the Sleiytz assault, and downed three enemy planes in the Italian campaign. He writes home to his mother Mrs Margaret Diehl.
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Kemper Diehl
Diehl
North Africa
Patston
Casablanca
Bizerle
Africa Corps
Capell Bon
Diel
Sleilytz
Margaret Diehl
Lamant Street
Mare Nostrum
Sing Song Set for River Theater
A community sing song will be held at the Arneson River Theater at 8 30 p m Monday under the direction of the city recreation department The program is open to the public and will also include Mexican and Spanish dances by Rosita.
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Arneson River Theater
Rosita
Navy Veteran to Visit Wife Here in San Antonio
Lawrence Fpp petty officer second class who has served in Africa for ten months is due to arrive in San Antonio Tuesday for a two week visit with his wife at 811 Rosemary Avenue.
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Lawrence
San Antonio
Iwil
Rosemary Revenue
S.A. Dealers to Hear Stove Ration Rules
San Antonio furniture and hardware dealers will meet Monday at the Gunter to learn the new stove rationing program set to take effect August 24. Oliver FLC M. Johnson, liaison officer of the regional OPA in Dallas, will speak. After August 24, private buyers must present a certificate from the Bexar county war price and rationing board to purchase stoves designed to run on coal wood oil or gas. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Epp of 308 Grand boulevard are hosts. he has served in the Navy since January 14.
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San Antonio
Gunter
Natel
Oliver Flc
M . Johnson
OPA
Dallas
Bexar County
Officers to Meet Here Study War Prisoner Problems in Texas Camps
Quarterly FBI police conference in San Antonio will present methods for handling issues created by war prisoners. The all day session begins 9 40 a m at the Texas theater with a afternoon session at Municipal auditorium. Speakers include Mayor Gus B Mavermann Police Commissioner P L Anderson Judge C B Slatton Sheriff Owen Kilday and others. Sound films Inside Fascist Spain One Day of War in Russia Invasion Kill or Be Med to be shown.
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Texas
Brace
FBI
San Antonio
Texas Theater
Municipal Auditorium
R. C. Suran
Gus B. Mavermann
P. L. Anderson
C. 8. Slatton
Owen Kilday
A. S
Ben ¥. Poster
Ralph Winton
Spain
Russia
At & P
Two Women Struck by Car in Santa Rosa Hospitalized
Dora Mae Stewart and Mary Evans, both pedestrians, were injured after being struck by a car at Wormmerce and Eighteenth streets in Santa Rosa. Stewart, 25, of 305 East Edmonds Street, and Evans, of 316 Dwyer Avenue, suffered multiple abrasions and possible internal injuries. driver identified as Santos Lopez, Route 4, Box 290.
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Wormmerce
Eighteenth
Santa Rosa Hospital
Dora Mae Stewart
Edmonds Street
Mary Evans
Dwyer Avenue
D River
Santos Lopez
Backrng Down On the News By Bugs Baer
A theatrical, self referential column by Arthur Bugs Baer riffs on Goebbels and wartime blitz fears. It mingles slang and history, cites Warsaw Rotterdam and Coventry, and skewers media pretensions while tracing Baer’s satirical persona and influence on public discourse.
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Arthur
Bugs
Baer
Ens
Herr Goebbels
Herr
Rites Set for L A Officer and Crash Victim
Funeral services planned at Porter Loring chapel for Lieut Ridley B Holleman Jr 23 of 1629 Edison Drive died in an airplane crash near Lake Charles Louisiana on August 8 Chaplain James H B Martin to officiate with military burial at Mission Park Holleman a pilot with the 477th bomber squadron based at Barksdale Field Louisiana is survived by father Ridley B Holleman Sr a sister Miss Lois Holleman and grandmother Mrs G Holleman all of this city.
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Porter Loring
Ridley B. Holleman Jr
Edison Drive
Lake Charles la
James HB. Martin
Mission Park
Holleman
477Th
Barksdale Feld, le
Ridley Br, Holleman Sr
Lois Holleman
G. Holleman
Peanuts Trapped in Warehouses Delay Market Start
Congressman Kilday via telegram to Assistant Secretary Hil urges immediate action to release peanuts held in local warehouses. San Antonio Manufacturers' Association says the crop nearly replaces cotton and is stalled, halting warehouses, peanut shelling allocations, and payments to producers. Market sits idle until the agriculture department arranges payments and forms.
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Grover Hil
Paul J. Kilday
San Antonio
Bain Peanut Company
Aericulture Department
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Jacob L. Devers
Abbott
Robert HL. Littlejohn
Jonesville
D. C
Paul R. Hawley
College Corner
Ohio
River Theater
Irene Dailey
Arma Corp
S.A
A. A. Epp
Grand Boulevard
Navy
Cam
Warsaw
Rotterdam
Coventry
Lunions
Mewintyre
Adams
Aalut Quincy Adms
Trolland
Portugal
George Washing
L.A
Cresson H. Kearny
Panama
George J. Brett
Caribbean Defense Command
Kearny
Mary Cresson Kearny
Grbson Street
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Wire
Nelly Dons
Martha Mannings
Doris Dodsons
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