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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1946
Page
12
James J. Sanders, 37, a war blinded cabinetmaker, races to find a home with his wife and teenage daughter within 24 hours. Landlords fear rent cost or blindness. he seeks a workshop space to work and live without disturbing neighbors while his wife hopes for aid from the OPA.
Hog prices climbed at Chicago stockyards with top hogs at 23.25 dollars, up 63 cents from yesterday, nearing the 1919 all time high. East St Louis hogs reached 24 dollars, an extreme for the day, while prime beef held at 27.50 per hundredweight. The OPA ceiling had limited movement recently.
The Laborite Daily Herald reprints a May 17 1919 cartoon by WII Dyson predicting the Versailles conference failure. It shows Lloyd George Wilson Clemenceau Orlando departing the palace as a crying child is seen behind a pillar. Attlee referenced the Paris conference in a recent speech. In Arkansas Lt. Gen. William Hood Simpson, former U S Ninth Army commander in Germany, is recommended for retirement due to physical disability.
Moscow brands the Austrian government move to nationalize German property in East Austria as illegal and unfriendly. Izvestia accuses Vienna of defying the Berlin conference reparations plan, saying German property should pass to the Soviet Union to satisfy Allied settlements.
Cedar Rapids Iowa July 31 194? The threat of a nationwide strike by 2700 Pullman conductors on August 7 was suspended temporarily. J W Fraser president of the Order of Railway Conductors said conductors have been notified the strike is paused until the railway labor act requirements are fulfilled. President Truman recently created an emergency board to study a wage dispute between railroads and Pullman conductors. Jackson Coming Home Nuernberg Germany July 31 Justice Robert H Jason head US war crimes tribunal leaves for Paris then New York on first leg of trip returns to Nuernberg in September.
Roy says qualified electors in Bexar county may use a paper ballot or any scrap of paper if voting machine delays threaten disenfranchisement. County Judge Charles W. Anderson spoke as a lawyer at Commissioners' meeting amid complaints of voters being turned away on July 27.
Russian Foreign Minister Molotov declared Moscow’s firm support for the just indemnification demands of nations harmed by Nazi aggression, urging a two thirds vote on matters at the Paris peace conference. Byrnes planned to push a two thirds standard or send unresolved issues to the Big Four for action.
A German V2 rocket built from captured parts soared to 104 miles, setting a new world altitude record in a White Sands proving ground test yesterday. It surpassed the prior July 9 record by 20.5 miles in the seventh test, as classified ads were cut due to a newsprint shortage.
Washington July 31. OPA prepared to boost prices on cotton textiles toffee breakfast cereals bakery products canned tomatoes corn and press. An official said increases average about 16 per cent for cotton textiles with a further 10 per cent on cotton cloth pricing. The decontrol board sworn in by Justice Black will meet to outline personnel and organization. Other planned rises include coffee to 10 cents a pound and smaller hikes on tomatoes corn and peas due to subsidy cuts. The breakfast cereal line may rise to offset higher costs while bread and bakery products likely gain with grain prices.
Milan dispatch reports Archbishop Alfredo Catalani Schuster of Milan warns black marketers they will be denied sacraments. The letter, sent to archdiocese clergymen, follows an appeal by city prefect for cooperation in fighting the black market.
WOAI station workers idle Wednesday under orders from George Southall of the Musiclane Society of San Antonio Local 23. Southall declined to reveal union demands, stating only that the station operates without a contract and seeks to remove union jurisdiction over public interest programs and ensure FCC and other laws apply. Maite Kleban cites two disputed contract points affecting sustaining and commercial programs.
J H Jarboe, head of a maze of instruments at the weather bureau, admits he cannot alter the forecast. He notes a torrid spell in San Antonio with possible thundershowers misread as a tease, but still expects the temperature to stay around the 102 degree mark.
A Coast Guard air mission carried diphtheria antitoxin and medical supplies to the USS Colby Victory 1950 miles off Newfoundland. A PBY rescue plane from Floyd Bennett Field delivered 300 vials of antitoxin and tests to Salem Massachusetts before joining an Argentia flight to drop the medicines to the troop transport.
County agricultural observers warn continued extreme heat and dry conditions will distress livestock and crops within two weeks. San Antonio records 103F as July remains unusually dry with only 0.2 inches of rain all month. Livestock shipments may increase to move stock before weight loss, while market news notes prices shifting as drought stretches into mid August.
A July heat wave sweeps Texas with widespread heat and scattered showers in the Rio Grande valley and Gulf coast. Snyder and Dilley each report 110 degrees in the past 24 hours, Beeville and Alice near 108, Seymour Uvalde and Laredo around 107, Mission 106, and Childress and Haskell at 103 to 104 degrees.
President Truman nominated John G. Erhardt of New York to be minister to Austria. He would become the United States first full fledged postwar diplomatic representative in Vienna.
Partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon and night and Thursday with high temperatures near 102 to 104 degrees and a low around 74 degrees. Wednesday’s low expected near 74 and Tuesday’s high around 103. Biga 100 appears as garbled text and not a measurable data point.
In Portland, July 31, a former soldier and his bride won a legal battle over her entry to the United States. Federal Judge Paul McCormick freed Helen Bouiss, held in Seattle, by ruling she could enter as the wife of a U S citizen who formerly served in the armed forces. Her mother is Japanese and her father German, and she was once the divorced wife of a Swedish citizen.
Washington July 31 Paul A Olson former secretary to Representative Coffee testified before the Senate war investigating committee that Eivind Anderson Tacoma car contractor tried to blackmail him into quitting the Tacoma mayoral race last January. Olson said Anderson warned he would use a $2500 check given five years earlier to injure him in the March election if Olson did not withdraw. Olson declined and noted the payment was a campaign gift, later linked to overdue campaign indebtedness. Coffee admitted receipt but did not report the amount, saying the sum was a campaign gift applied to replace indebtedness from an expensive 1988 campaign.
Washington July 31. Walkie talkies aid border patrol in spotting aliens trying to slip into the United States. Two sets are used by patrol cars and officers on foot to communicate with planes, a justice department official said.
W D Masterson manager of the city water board urged the public to conserve water during the unusual drought period. He noted 75 million gallons were pumped Tuesday, a one third rise from the previous day and tied the city’s earlier peak. He cited lack of equipment delaying the 500 000 improvement program and set irrigation days by house numbers with even addresses on Monday Wednesday and Friday and odd addresses on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday.
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