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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1948
Page
1
Detroit July 2 Ward's automotive reports this week’s motor vehicle production in the United States and Canada will total 112 349 units. This compares with 95 027 units assembled in the two countries last week.
Democratic and Republican leaders clash over a possible special session as Truman faces pressure to reconvene Congress after the Democratic convention. Eisenhower allies plot in Philadelphia with James Roosevelt while a St Louis Post-Dispatch report claims the White House seeks a public pivot to remove Eisenhower as a possible Democratic candidate.
In Washington on July reports say George Allen, friend to Truman and Eisenhower, will be sent to New York to urge Ike to withdraw from the nomination race. Allen, guest of Eisenhower, declined comment on the spy issue. Meanwhile a severe cloudburst floods downtown Hondo, forcing Latino families to seek shelter in the courthouse for a second night in seven days. The flood recalls 1935 when water reached two feet in stores as merchants move merchandise to higher levels. Downtown streets flood but the city itself is spared extensive damage.
ST LOUIS July 2 Pevely Dairy Co bowed to consumer protests and revoked a two cent per quart milk price increase.
Gov. Jester stated in Houston that General Eisenhower is the man for the job and could win either ticket. He expected Eisenhower to be placed in nomination before the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.
A fragmentary daily weather bulletin reports humidity around 74 percent at 11 30 am July figures, plus monthly totals and deficits, moon phases, sunrise sunset times, and wind. It covers extended forecasts for Texas Gulf plains and north to Panhandle with above normal temperatures, scattered thunderstorms, and moderate precipitation through weekend into next week across a wide area including Houston, El Paso, Dallas and surrounding locales.
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