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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1945
Page
2
President Truman, after a rough flight from Washington, delivered Christmas gifts to his 93-year-old mother at her Grandview home. He described the trip as difficult and said he brought linens and socks for the family.
Albany reporter describes Sheriff Saylhard confirming a three am burglary confession tied to the death of logger Ernest Bowman, missing since December 18. Investigation leads to stream search, with suspects McLain, O Day, Ray Hears, and Manu questioned. motive unspecified.
Scattered text describes kidney function issues causing sleep trouble and backache. Mentions blood toxins, headaches, and general health decline. Placeholder product names and dubious remedies appear, highlighting concerns about misleading claims and the need for medical guidance.
North Carolina Democrat Congressman Joe W. Elgin, 44, was found dead in a gas-filled kitchen Christmas Day. Coroner A Magrider MacDonald ruled death by self-inflicted asphyxiation after a fall and a heart ailment worsened by illness. Theron J. Caudle, assistant attorney general and friend, discovered the body and had planned to take him to a job-related dinner.
Officers and men of the U S Army and Eleventh corps hosted a Christmas party for Japanese internees. Gift distribution and food led to large crowds and disturbances as crowds swelled from 600 to thousands, with volunteers and Red Cross workers handing out doughnuts while the program was curtailed. Civilians' meat consumption rose sharply year to year, with estimates of 126 pounds per person in 1935–39 and projected 145–165 pounds for 1946.
Applications for new trials in two death penalty cases will be heard by Judge W. W. McCrory in Criminal District Court Thursday morning. Defendants are Joe Gleva, slayer of Exen Foerster, 16 Aransas Avenue, and Harold Lee Palm, convicted of raping a high school girl.
A dealer identified as Dey was held under 1600 bond in federal court on a four count charge for selling 31331 pounds of poultry above GPA ceiling prices. A hearing before US Commissioner Paul A. Lockhart was set for 10 a.m. January 3. The action marks the fourth OPA poultry dealer filing in the area, following cases against Smiley, Westhoff, and Nixon.
In Shanghai on December 26 the army ordered the confiscation of all U S government property found in the city as it cracked down on black market operators who obtained food cigars clothing and other supplies from service members for the commissary depots and post exchanges. The market is wide open with GI canned goods displayed for prices such as 12 dollars per pound of coffee.
Hartford dispatch reports a Yale fire at Niles Sweet hospital where a delayed alarm due to faulty wiring allowed 13 patients to perish or die soon after. 21 elderly, bed ridden residents faced fatal outcomes as firemen arrived too late to save many.
Anticipating a demond by defense the county court selected a special venire in two murder cases to be tried January. Judge W. We McGany will pick 200 jurors from county tax rolls. Defendants Aurello Banchez and Manuel Garcia (addresses given) are indicted for the sword stabbing of Joe Gateis on February 28, 1945, and the fatal shooting of Prosper Castillo on April 1, 1945.
The Texas stamp goes on sale in San Antonio on Wednesday. Postmaster Das Quilb says 100,000 stamps have been released for the San Antonio area.
Evangeline Booth retired international commander of the Salvation Army, now 80, rushed ahead with plans for intensified activity on the West Coast.
The fragment mentions Dallas and Munich with a veteran figure. details are unclear due to broken OCR. Readable items include references to a veteran and a family meal connected to a holiday period.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion as a instant relief cough remedy for bronchitis and cold symptoms. It claims to ease coughs and promote sleep with no narcotics while offering money back if not effective. The piece also contains a miscellaneous local Christmas anecdote about Morris family plans and a furniture sale alert.
New York report states actor Russell Gleason aged 36 fell to his death from the fourth floor of the Hotel Sutton used as army barracks. Gleason, son of James Gleason, appeared in numerous films including A Quiet on the Western Front.
A Manila military commission on Christmas Day sentenced Wake Island commander Rear Adm. Shigamatsu Sakaikara and Lt. Comdr. Soichi Tachiwana for the October 7 1943 killings of eight Pan American Airways civilian workers and 98 Allied prisoners. Sakaibara ordered the executions when fearing American invasion aid.
U S military commission prepares to hear verdicts in Japan related war crimes. Tatsuo Tsuchiya testified saying he did not remember the American prisoner he supposedly killed and claimed he looked after prisoners. Prosecution accuses others of directing maltreatment and aiding prisoners.
Abraham Milian Milman, 24, a technician, was stabbed to death in a Brookly n dormitory during an apparent mistaken identity incident. He and roommates awoke to an intruder who shouted threats then left, returning to fatally stab Milman during a confrontation.
Tulsa man Edward A. Lawrence found a partial envelope containing a $25,351 check from a Missouri oil company to a Tulsa firm after a Christmas gift claim. He planned to visit the company treasurer to verify the windfall amid snow in downtown Tulsa.
Kenneth M Dourard 2a was at Liberty under 4500 bond Wednesday after arraignment before U S Commissioner P A Lockhart on a selective service violation charge. Dourard told investigators he was ta r n government hospital in Springfield Missouri the day he was to report to his Chicago draft board December 8 194d.
Maria Vasquez, 23, of 2308 Veal Marlin Street, treated at Robert B. Green hospital for two cuts on the face inflicted by an unidentified woman. The assault occurred Tuesday night near the California Wine and Beer house at 111 South Santa Reva Street, police reported.
Washington Pec 26 ir The Under Atales will send observers to monitor the election in Greene County where residents will choose representatives for the next assembly.
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