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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1946
Page
3
The newly organized Mothers Club at Boys Club unit No 1 will elect officers Thursday night at the hall on Leona and Matamoros streets. Director Frank Bernal announces the group plans a December 2010 fundraiser to buy sweaters for basketball players. Free ad writing assistance offered via F-12351.
New York Dec 7 A sharp opening in railroad securities followed the Interstate Commerce Commission's approval of a 17.6 percent rise in freight rates late yesterday. Market watchers anticipated continued gains on rail issues as the new policy impacts shippers and carriers nationwide.
Berlin December 7 A Soviet source said German farmers in the Russian occupation zone who reneged on mixed harvest quotas were being imprisoned.
The Moscow radio reports Elliott Roosevelt and his wife visited Tiflis, capital of Georgia, greeted by high Soviet officials. In Los Angeles, James Roosevelt welcomed a second son weighing 3 pounds 8 ounces, condition excellent. John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark welcomed a six pound girl named Sara Delano. James Roosevelt trails Earl Warren in California governor race with 3,203 write-in votes.
Washington dispatch reports Elliott Roosevelt's former girlfriend Ruth M Briggs a WAC captain in Algiers and secretary to Ambassador Smith leaked his pro Soviet remarks at a Moscow embassy party. Briggs reportedly relayed Elliott's claim the Soviet Union kept its word while the United States and Britain violated Pacts at Yalta Potsdam and Tehran.
Chicago December 7 news reports Col Paul W Mapes will present a belated Purple Heart to Windolph at his Lead South Dakota home for wounds suffered in the Little Big Horn battle decades earlier. Windolph won the Congressional Medal of Honor and is now credited with rightful Purple Heart entitlement after WWI and a later army restoration. The item notes a delayed recognition and cites an interview with Windolph.
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