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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1946
Page
1
Naval officers released photographs showing the 26,000 ton battleship Arkansas lifted from Bikini lagoon by an underwater explosion. The ship remained intact in air before breaking into five pieces and sinking after impact, with high speed films allegedly captured from U.S. Saidor. Names were withheld.
Weather notes give scattered figures for humidity, precipitation, and wind across multiple cities. It mentions July humidity around thirty percent, 82 percent more, and wind speeds near 20 miles per hour. times for observations and tides are listed but many values are garbled. The segment includes multiple city names and unclear measurements.
British prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross urged the death sentence for 22 top Nazis at Nuremberg. He named defendants from Hermann Goering to Martin Bormann and declared them guilty as the tribunal adjourned for Monday. The speech followed opening cases by the American prosecutor and preceded further summations by French and Russian teams.
Britain accepts a proposal to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab provinces under a federal government as a basis for negotiations with Arabs and Jews in London. Talks aim to finalize before the United Nations assembly meeting in September, following cabinet committee discussions completed yesterday. US Secretary Byrnes in Washington said the panel adopted a partition plan, with Jewish agency leaders to meet in Paris Monday to determine policy.
An authoritative Jewish report says 10 Jews were seized from a passenger train near Lublin by an outlaw band and shot. Paris dispatch notes Jewish sources claim an immediate admission of 10,000 Jews to Palestine could be the price for any action.
An authoritative but unofficial source says the American army will leave Shanghai starting August 3 with about 700 officers and men to be ferried to the United States. Transfer of other troops to Peiping and Nanking is planned to follow.
In Jerusalem Gen Sir Miles Dempsey visited the bomb damaged King David hotel amid safety review speculation for Palestine. Police hold 376 people tied to the group, with Aralgarh implicated in planting the explosive. Death toll rises to 78 with 27 still missing.
In Oklahoma City on July 27, Pastor John Paul Lambert and his wife Emily were reunited at the municipal airport after he arrived from Bonner Springs Kansas. They spent the night talking in a hotel room and planned to return home for a second honeymoon. The pastor, 41, of the Church in the Country, said they had talked out their separation and would visit local book stores before resuming church duties.
A Clinton hospital closed its maternity ward today amid an outbreak of infant diarrhea. The disease has claimed 16 babies in two weeks in nearby Alton, Illinois.
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