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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
8
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration plans ceiling prices on used cars within the next 30 to 60 days. Prices will be based on January averages with 20 percent reductions for as is cars. Multiple price sets will account for regional differences and gradual decreases as cars age.
Walter W. McAllister, chairing the Bexar County War Price and Rationing Board, reports February’s new car quota is lower than January. He notes the quota cut and that demand still far exceeds the limit, requiring careful review of every application and approval only for highly essential occupations.
Federal state Market News Service notes hog receipts 600 with prices steady and mixed cattle quotes. Readers encounter garbled vendor names and scattered price figures. overall tone references feeder cattle and calves, varied sheep and goat bids, and uncertain estimates amid weathered OCR.
Obituaries list Charley M. Skelton 53 of route 2 West avenue and others including Mrs Evelyn J. Crites 62 Mrs Mary Munoz and Emil Andreoli with services and burial details. Also mentions Mrs Olivig Andreolli and Mrs Grace French survivors, and several other local deaths with funeral arrangements and locations. The text includes market news dated San Antonio with cattle hogs and feed prices.
A garbled vital statistics listing enumerates individuals with ages and dates in February, including Freeris Jones aged 73 and numerous other names with scattered locations and dates such as 214 Peers and 2610 Chi. The readable fragments mention multiple birth or death related entries with several February dates and various names.
Fury White of Gl Derson Street reported a young woman snatched a purse containing $109. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon near Rast Commerce. Police arrested the young man and recovered the money.
Bettencourt of the Speakers' forum will discuss the thirty four year anniversary of the Boy Beauts in a 4 13 p m Friday talk over KTSA as part of a Sam Hous sponsored Veterans of Foreign Wars series. Registration opens February 15 for a free tuition war training course Industrial Physiology and Supervision in room 307 at St Marys Dawning College 112 College Street ROOM AND BOARD
Washington report notes civilians face 40 percent fewer tires in 1944 amid tight military demand. Rubber Director Dewey warns essential truck and bus hauling may be cut and notes a gap between demand and production for planes, combat vehicles, and other military uses. Civilian tire rationing remains. the 1944 plan expects 18 to 24 million passenger car tires, far below prior estimates.
Braniff's plea for direct San Antonio to West Texas connections was denied while Continental Air Lines routes to Hobbs New Mexico via Pasa were approved. Mayor Mauermann said the decision overlooks cattle industry travel and Big Bend travel potential. Beginning April 16 one passenger plane and one freight flight will depart San Antonio daily to El Paso via Continental.
The report details several oil wells in Texas and nearby regions with perforations at various depths, rates of production, casing depths, and notes on shut-ins and resumption of drilling. It mentions Standard Oil of Texas No 1 Canzles, Carrino-Wilcox, and Vicksburg field activity, plus a move to Clare, Kentucky.
Mexia prison escapees regroup as three are recaptured on the Corsicana Waco highway near Hubbard and Mount Calm. Two others were seized at Corpus Christi after a woman reported two German speakers at her home. In Kentucky, a boy aids the capture of Gerd Roempke from Camp Breckenridge, found in Sturgis wearing an Africa Corps jacket.
Ottawa reports Canadians may see meat rationing eased soon as Finance Minister James Lorimer Osley said current supplies create a condition that could permit removing restrictions.
The Fololsh telegraph agency said the entire Jewish population of Pinsk and surrounding towns has been massacred by the Germans. Pinsk, a manufacturing town in eastern Poland, had a peacetime population of 32,000, the majority Jewish.
City hall employees attended a screening titled The Strength of Our Enemy shown by courtesy of the war department. The council chamber was filled to view the film about German and Italian forces in North Africa, presented as a wartime educational effort.
A mine collapse in Pittston, Pennsylvania, buried 2 year old Jule Ann Fulmer as she wandered a residential street. Coroner and mine inspectors opened investigations into fault and safety. Mayor Reilly urged legislation to shore up abandoned tunnels undermining the town.
Classified fragment shows garbled February issue line about want ads and quick solutions. Reads as ad filler with unclear product references and no concrete items or names to identify.
Gaylord M. Eavenson notes a Star Ruby ring sought by a pilot to fence for his San Antonio wife. The flier, now embarrassed, cannot recall his wife's name but recalls she lives in San Antonio. He had flown with the pilot in India about six weeks ago and asked to bring back the ruby. The chamber of commerce is to be contacted about the matter.
Fort Wayne Indiana February 10 A 13 month old boy William Harry Johnston is recovering after burns from a red hot implement allegedly used by his father James C Johnston 31 to punish the child in a family quarrel Police said the act aimed to harm the wife and the father is jailed awaiting further action
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