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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1946
Page
11
Chicago dispatch reports fear of a meat famine as packers rush a large cattle run to market ahead of new OPA price ceilings. Softening hog and cattle prices follow, while industry officials warn the winter could bring true scarcity unless ceilings are adjusted.
San Antonio market on Tuesday showed an average receipts day with little price movement. Most cattle held steady though slaughter calves fell 25 to 50 cents in some sales. Hogs led declines with heavy weights down about $2 and stocker pigs also lower.
Judge Robert W. B. Terrell in 37th District court granted a temporary injunction restraining Dan Swinford operator of a Martin street parking lot from molesting or contacting Myss Nellie Matlock of 147 Wellington street. Matlock, formerly married to Swinford, alleged continued unwanted visits after learning he remained married to another woman.
Berlin Aug 2 The Russia military government today ordered partial unfreezing of savings in the Soviet zone to allow war widows and wives of war prisoners still detained to draw as much as 300 marks from their husbands accounts at the military exchange rate.
FRANKFURT Germany Aug 27 WAC Captain Kathleen Nash Durant testified she was promised freedom if she helped recover 1500 dollars in royal jewels from Kronberg castle She and Col Jack Durant face trial in a seven colonel court martial Durant said statements were coerced and not voluntary She said arrest came early morning after sleep deprivation and questioning without breakfast by Cal Ralph Pierce and criminologist Leonard E Keeler The defense argues the statements were compelled and cites promises from officials including Secretary of War Walterson and Eisenhower to keep publicity quiet
Continuing rains across Texas brought cooler temperatures and halted a damaging summer drought. The Weather Bureau said a drop in heat was recorded with temps averaging in the 90s. Corsicana reported the heaviest rain at 3.63 inches, while Liano and Dublin reached 102 degrees.
The weather service forecast afternoon thundershowers for Monday that did not occur. Tuesday and Wednesday were predicted to be humid with high temperatures around 54 degrees and 95 degrees.
W. H. Eckhardt reports two pushcarts and two hundred empty feed sacks taken from Union Feed, 906 Soul Flores Street, on Tuesday. Police urge any witnesses or info leading to recovery of material.
In Chicago last night Frank Powyczynski, 66, shot and killed a neighbor woman and wounded two men before shooting himself. Police found notes blaming three neighbors for his dog's death last June. He left a cryptic closing line.
A shooting outside a scattered apartment building leaves three dead and one wounded before the gunman, identified as Powyczynski, retreats to his basement and fatally shoots himself. Victims include Mrs Mary Sczymcrak 65 landlord Constantine Zygles 71 and Joseph Sosnowski 68. Weather forecasts note scattered showers and highs in the mid 90s with cooler evenings.
The U S army provost marshal reports Capt Norman T Byrne 45 of Hollywood California arrested in San Francisco August 12 by CID officers and brought to Berlin to answer charges of removing two paintings valued at 10000 and quantities of porcelain from Germany He served as fine arts and monuments officer for the Berlin district office of military government and is held in quarters awaiting further action
Joseph Freeman of Bexar filed suit in the 3rd District seeking 1453 from Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association of Nebraska. Freeman held a policy since September 1928 and says he was ill from January to September 1945, and the company refused payment for disability, hospitalization, and attorney’s fees.
Eldon Cude chief clerk announced a vacancy for a city court clerk. Applications are invited from 11 am to 1:08 pm. The position offers a salary of 160 dollars per month and a knowledge of Spanish is preferred.
Thirteen people died and fourteen injured across three Texas wrecks and incidents on Monday night and Tuesday. The list includes Me Chamberlain family near Weatherford, Starkie Collins Milton of Shreveport burned at Seagoville, Ivy Pope and daughters hit by a train near Grand Prairie, Homer Bradley of Lancaster in a Denison crash, plus drownings of Amelia Walker in Ranger and Roy Minton in Galveston. Five Tharp children were seriously injured in Houston when a cannon ball fragment exploded.
Cool A Henderson 53 of 3210 West Salinas booked Tuesday for burglary of 1200 dollars from Black Wine company at 320 South Comal Street Sunday night. An employee for six years he admitted taking 40 dollars and leaving the rest in a winery vault. Arrested by Officers L W Jackson and E E Kelly he used a company key to enter the place opened the safe and knocked the knob off to fake an outside job. Henderson, a foreman, reported the burglary Monday morning.
In a crowded Moscow courtroom Gen. Gregorie Semyonov, longtime White Guard leader, recounted a 30 year old anti-Bolshevik plot with Japan to seize power in the Soviet Union. The trial, before the Soviet Supreme court, features eight defendants and a tight guard presence as testimony unfolds.
Tokyo dispatch notes roast sparrow rising as a Japanese delicacy as Niigata farmers sell bird snares to protect bumper rice crops from sparrows migrating from Manchuria. In Singapore port, around 1000 traction workers walked out, halting transport services in a strike over rice demands.
In Shanghai Father Frederick A. McGuire says Chinese Communists expelled all Franciscan missionaries from Shansi areas and seized mission property worth about 125 000 dollars. He details evictions starting in 1941 at Tienping, kidnappings for ransom, and the August 19 1945 seizure of the Tienping bishop who surrendered arms.
In Hollywood on August 27 a mixup over furlough papers led Ali M. Ipar a Turkish national and fiance of actress Virginia Bruce to be briefly jailed by Fort MacArthur officials before release. Capt. William Becker manned the case saying no charges. Ipar claimed the incident was a mistake tied to leave papers. Bruce and Ipar, planning a Las Vegas honeymoon, had met in Mexico City where he produced films. Bruce, 35, has been wed twice before to John Gilbert and J. Walter Ruben.
Paris peace conference report says Secretary Byrnes demands a written promise from Marshal Tito that no American planes will be shot down over Yugoslav territory. Byrnes doubts verbal assurances given to U.S. Ambassador Patterson suffice.
Undersecretary Acheson said the United States might still raise Yugoslavia before the United Nations Security Council but only if a threat to peace existed. He maintained Yugoslavia had complied with the U.S. ultimatum and stressed the issue would be brought before the council if warranted.
A five day period with no communicable diseases reported by the city health department ended Tuesday. Two cases of diphtheria were reported, three of rheumatism, and one each for scarlet fever, whooping cough and pneumonia.
The U S Navy announced that the 45000-ton carrier Franklin D Roosevelt and the 10000800 cruiser Little Rock with three destroyers will call at Pireaus and Salonika next week as a courtesy visit inspired by admiration for the late President Roosevelt.
Australian delegate J A Beastey denounces Soviet tactics as lies and intimidation during a political and economic commission session on the Italian frontier. The clash ends amicably as Australia and France push standing committees to study disputes while denying Russia greater influence.
Mrs. Marion Craven who handles sugar ration books for the OPA in Miami shows a black eye after an elderly applicant Mrs. Daisy Aldrich demanded a replacement ration book. Aldrich punched Craven and grabbed a book before fleeing. she was reprimanded by the district director and warned to behave. Both women faced officials as bystanders described the embarrassing scene.
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