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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1947
Page
23
A vintage ad touts Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a treatment for nighttime urination, acidity, and bladder flushing. It claims Dr Kilmer developed a 16 herb formula generations ago and offers a free trial by mail or a bottle through physicians, urging readers to take as directed.
Representatives of the Fourth Army and the San Antonio General Distribution Depot will attend a two day conference in San Francisco starting Monday to plan bringing home the Pacific war dead. The initial shipload in October will repatriate those who died in the Pearl Harbor attack.
The Hollywood U5, last and largest of 18 US units to serve in Los Angeles, will close its doors with an open house Sunday and Monday acknowledging the service of millions of veterans and men.
Washington dispatch reports James A Farley recounting a mid 1939 conversation with Franklin D Roosevelt in which the president said he would not seek a third term but urged party unity and endorsed continuing his policies. Farley also stated Roosevelt saw Wendell Willkie as the likely Republican challenger and discussed other potential nominees and Catholic influence with Cardinal Mundelein.
Ralph W. Morrison was re elected to his ninth term as president and chairman of the Texas Mexican Railway company. The announcement came Friday at the annual meeting in Laredo, with the annual report noting a request to the Texas Railroad Commission for a fast freight service between Laredo and Corpus Christi.
Washington June 27. Legislation to restrict gasoline and petroleum exports was introduced as the House Merchant Marine Committee opened an inquiry into oil shipments to Russia. The measure, by Chairman Weichel, would bar exports unless defense and domestic supply protections are certified. The panel probes why oil is sent abroad as U.S. faces rationing. Weichel notes defense says oil and product imports are necessary for the East Coast from the Middle East, and cites U.S. tankers on loan to Russia hauling large quantities since January.
In San Francisco on June 21 Russian tanker Mi brus loaded 42,191 barrels of California Diesel fuel oil and prepared to depart. A second Russian ship in the harbor waited to load 13,000 barrels of the same fuel before the June 40 deadline barring oil exports to reversal of embargoes.
Former vice president of the International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union and APL pleaded guilty in federal court to tax evasion totaling about 85 000 dollars for 1939 to 1941. He was fined 30 000 dollars and sentenced to five years in prison by Federal Judge Penny W. Geerlals.
An aerial view shows vast farmland along the Nemaha and Missouri rivers in southeastern Nebraska and northwestern Missouri turned swampy by floods. Des Moines river waters push higher, threatening Ottumwa and Rabville IA as Des Moines and Raecoai rivers bring Iowa's highest flood levels in 44 years.
Ina Dermons records indicate widespread homelessness across the Midwest including Iowa Nebraska Missouri and Illinois with damages to crops estimated in the region. The note cites persistent sand shortages and lingering hardships for residents and farmers.
COLLEGE STATION June 27 The board of directors of Texas A and M college yesterday announced it contemplates no changes in the military status of the school This denial followed a Bryan representative Teague’s Washington claim the board would switch A and M to a civilian based ROTC system The board also announced the dismissal of Dr F B Clark head of the economics department after he testified before the board for about 20 minutes accusing college administration of faculty intimidation
Actress Mary Brian, 38, married George Tomasini, a film editor, in Santa Monica on June 27. The ceremony marks a second marriage for Brian and follows prior public notices of the couple’s union.
Detroit June 27 Judge John P Scallen ruled for protections for an alligator asleep in a Belle Isle park cage after Patrolman John Bordo reported seeing Oscar Butler cheering near the animal. Butler admitted stamping feet to provoke movement. the gator stirred and bystanders were saved from potential harm.
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