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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 02, 1944

Page

3

Mexico Confident Of Victory In Final War Peace

President Manuel Avila Camacho delivers New Year message from Mexico City stating 1944 will be a year of victory and peace in the approaching final of democracies. He urges total war lead to total peace and calls for clear principles guiding postwar cooperation and responsibilities among nations without conquest or territorial aims.

Mexico City Juli Munel Avila Camacho Avila Camacho Mexico

Germans Mark Students for Death

New authorities designated a group of students and teachers at Trondheim high school in Norway as free hostages and warned they would be executed if any students or faculty escape to Sweden. The Stockholm paper Sven ake Daghbledet reported hostages remain at liberty but marked for death, while surveillance continues. In RORWELL Massachusetts, professor Ephraim L. Wood, former Amherst Latin professor who taught former President Calvin Coolidge, will lie in state for funeral services Monday.

New York Trondheim High School Norway Miey Stockholm Svenake Daghbledet Rorwell Mass Ephriam L. Wood Amherst College Calvin Coolidge

Immobile Nelson and the London Brains Trust Event

In Trafalgar Square I observe Nelson’s statue amid pigeons and a kneeling man kept company by a persistent policeman. Later at Cambridge I join a historical costume party and a Cambridge debate, then describe a brains trust with a British tank regiment where questions from soldiers drive concise, information focused discussion.

Nelson Ness John Guster Fife Brains Trust Cambridge Ohio Marc Ried Civitife Ufe Insurance Indiana Anmy

WFA sets 1944 meat allocations and gas ration rules

The War Food Administration tentatively sets civilian meat at 67 percent of 1944 supply, about 132 pounds per household, with 17 percent to military and war services, 12 percent to lend lease Red Cross and US territories, and 4 percent for contingencies. Auto dealers must file inventories, receive R-569 receipts, and pass R-568 to new owners. January 11 deadline for dealer inventories. Also Indian music recordings: 200 preserved in Library of Congress archives.

Washington INS War Food Administration Lendlease Red Cross W. W. McAllister Thaii Mnan Fasion Board

Servicemen Discuss Postwar Policy at Pinehurst Club

A wartime gathering features servicemen debating U S foreign policy after the war. Questions range from a Republican victory in 1944 to Ireland's neutrality and American soldiers’ pay. An Indiana corporal notes happiness versus bought pleasure, while Walter Lippmann’s book is praised as essential for informed democracy.

U. S Ireland England America Indiana Walter Lippman U.S

Confederate Vet Dies at 103 in Dallas Home

Tanseac Erwin Tate, believed to have organized Texas’s first Confederate veterans band, died at his Dallas home age 103. Born in Red River County, he served as a captain in the Confederate quartermaster department, held government jobs in the Indian Territory, later became a Texas Ranger, and remained active in music until near his 100th birthday.

Dallas Jan Erwin Tate Texas Red River County Indian Territory Texas Ranger Pat

Old Ballots to Go as Waste Paper in Kansas City

City Clerk Howard Payne and Attorney General A. B. Mitchel used a legal loophole to repurpose old election ballots as waste paper. The plan, prompted by an ancient statute, will burn no ballots and instead recycle them as ordinary paper.

Kansas City Howard Payne A. B. Mitchel

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