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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1946
Page
3
Fire swept through a mercantile store and lumberyard owned by Jesus Montemayor president of the Vila Acuna chamber of commerce in Villa Acuna Mexico causing extensive damage to both properties.
Advertises Nix Vitamin Tablets promising to restore gray hair color with calcium pantothenate and vitamin G. Claims are touted as harmless and non fattening with claims that thousands use the product. Available at Sommers Drug Stores with no mail orders shipped.
In Houston on June 14 workers walk out in a dispute over union recognition. About 350 million dollars in commercial building, including W S Bellows and Tellepsen projects, were halted as pickets formed at the McCarthy center and other Farnsworth sites.
The Bexar Metropolitan Water District plans a $6,519,000 sewer and storm sewer bond election likely on August 15. It includes $2,250,000 in compensation bonds to meet existing obligations and fund district contracts, with a goal to expand disposal capacity from 25 to 40 million gallons daily and provide universal sanitary sewer service. A suburb Alamo Heights may add $127,000 bonded debt if the district takes over its sewer system.
Tokyo June 14 The Fifth Air Force officially abandons pursuit of 500 airmen still listed as missing in action from World War II. Since V J Day the force has accounted for all but 500 of 2366 men listed as missing during operations from Australia to Japan.
June 14 report notes Pauline Bruce, daughter of actor Nigel Bruce, set for marriage. Also mentions Geoffrey Page, R.A.F. squadron leader credited with shooting down fifteen German planes. No wedding date given.
President Truman announces Paul V. McNutt will become the first United States ambassador to the Philippines. McNutt currently serves as high commissioner and is in the islands coordinating preparations for the July 4 independence inauguration.
After capture in San Antonio on June five, authorities found 21 pounds of refined marijuana and six pounds of crude marijuana valued at about 26000, brought from Mexico by an unidentified woman. Alejo Agredano of Chicago was held on 3500 bond and Mamuel G Lopez on 1500 bond. Lopez’s brother Louis Lopez is still sought by customs agents.
In radio address Premier Alcide de Gasperi urged Italians to back the republic regardless of last week's plebiscite. He condemned King Umberto II for exile and said Umberto is part of the national catastrophe while calling for expiation from the monarch and the government.
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