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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1944
Page
7
A 1943 summary from Glen L Ellison shows San Antonio Stockyards reporting a 234 percent gain in cattle and 107 percent in calves while sheep and goats rose 69 percent. drought forced earlier marketing and higher quality issues. Total 1943 sales reached 256.875 million dollars versus rspected prior year.
WASHINGTON Jan 11 Rush L Holland 77 former assistant attorney general and grand exalted ruler of the Elks lodge 1908 99 died at the Shoreham where he lived He was a prominent Republican worker credited with a leading role in Hoover’s 1928 nomination He also chaired Colorado Republican state committee from 1912 to 1922
A heavy bomber crashed at the Dalhart Army Air Field killing four crew and injuring six others. The deceased were Lieut. Fred J. Piechman of Milwaukee Wisconsin and Randolph Smith of Andalusia Alabama, among others. Frontier details incomplete due to damaged text.
Southern governors and congress members mapped a joint declaration for freight rate equality with the industrial East to spark a new economic era for the South. Governor Prentice Cooper said a united regional stand would be announced at a White House lunch with President Roosevelt, aiming to remove discriminatory rates and boost regional factories and prosperity. The group includes Holland of Florida, Arnst of Georgia, Sports of Alabama, Ade gins of Arkansas, Broughton of North Carolina, Johnston of South Carolina and Serr of Oklahoma.
A quirky radio program listing highlights segments and hosts for the day. Ed Sullivan, Joan Brooks, Denny Berkner, and Richard Cranks are among the presenters and performers noted. The page references music, variety acts, and the ongoing Mexican Hour with a mix of entertainments.
New York Nov 11 The mystery behind a marine in the Southwest Pacific asking for 500 Willkie campaign buttons is explained by NBC Washington correspondent Robert McCormick. He says sailors earned penalties for grousing. a “weeping slip” forced tears on the chaplain. ten slips earned a special badge and a Willkie button as proof of a terrible grouser.
PHILADELPHIA January 17 General Henry J. Arnold chief of the U S Army air force arrived to receive the Poor Richard club’s roid medal of achievement for boosting the A L into the greatest air force on earth He will receive the award at the club tonight during the thirty ninth annual dinner Guests include General L Martin Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and Juan Trenne president of Pan Am Airways system
The War Department on Monday announced the Distinguished Flying Cross award for First Lieutenant Sidney W. Weatherford of San Marcos for exceptionally meritorious aerial achievement and heroism during flight operations.
Rabbi Barnett Brickner of the National Jewish Welfare Board says American soldiers will demand more true religion and less dogma when they return from overseas. He notes less denominationalism and prejudice, high morale abroad, but rising concern over sexual morality at home and fears wives seeking divorce while husbands fight.
London dispatch reports nine people killed and about 30 injured in a London bound train crash near a suburban station. Three American airmen died. several U. S. soldiers were among the injured as two crowded troop trains from Yarmouth and Norwich were telescoped. Father George Fressanges, a Royal Geographical Society fellow, died this morning.
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