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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1945
Page
5
Don argues the market is a menace tied to speculators who set low prices for producers and high prices for consumers. He claims the Antonia market is unorganized and poorly enforced, with sanitary regulations largely ignored and diarrheal outbreaks recently reported. He notes agents reporting on the market after reviewing conditions.
The City Health Officer questioned whether polluted vegetables from the market or irrigation water caused illness. Officials debated ordinances covering the market, health cards for produce, and responsibility across departments as a luncheon on a new San Antonio produce terminal discussed marketing organization, refrigerated warehouses, docks, and railroad facilities.
Three German prisoners of war escaped from Camp Hood during a work detail last night authorities said. The men were identified as Johann Hummel, Wilite Tange, and Heinz Bachmann, all described with heights around six feet four inches and varied eye and hair colors.
Washington January 30 A row over overseas newsprint allocations erupts as Rep Lytle H Boren and Rep Clarence J Brown demand state department explanations for a 5000 ton allotment to unidentified French interests and criticize plans for additional shipments to the Netherlands Belgium and France noting the total remains far below requests from publishers in liberated areas and the original 90000 ton need.
Mrs. Sarah Gilman of Belen, New Mexico, announced that her last son, Pvt. Willam W. Gilman, 18, stationed at Camp Walters, Texas, would not be sent to combat. The family had already lost two sons in action or captivity, prompting a War Department decision to keep one safe surviving son overseas only if the family has suffered multiple casualties.
Eastman Kodak Company and the Rochester ordnance district announced a new M-10 range finder for anti aircraft guns. The instrument is 39 inches long and 10 inches in diameter with two telescopes producing red and blue target images. It mounts on a director that provides firing charts electrically to the gun battery and automatically computes elevation and lateral factors for accurate fire.
Col James Roosevelt son of the president says a telegram he sent at a Pullman conductor’s suggestion caused a one hour seven minute delay in departure of a Chicago bound train from Chicago. He and his wife were returning from his father’s inauguration on the Manhattan Limited when the wire was sent. Officials later said fast travel westward largely offset the delay by Salt Lake City.
COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Jan 30 Pvt Dwight F Conrad 33 was under trial by court martial for evading overseas service. The case, disclosed by Second Air Force headquarters, was held at the Topeka Kan airbase amid safety related injuries allegations.
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