Bread Lines Loom for Next Month
Chicago observers warn bread shortages will tighten next month as flour supplies stay scarce. Ward Baking reports a 40 percent cut, while H Piper Co cites 235 percent flour reductions and even popcorn flour as a possible substitute. Millers foresee continued tightness until July wheat harvest. Ballard and Ballard warn of mill closures. Pillsbury blames hoarding by housewives for flour scarcity and predicts lean months ahead.
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Chicago
Ward Baking ‘Company
H. Piper Company
Thruster B. Morton
Ballard and Ballard
Louisville
Philip W. Pillsbury
Minneapolis
Tle
Rationing Talk Reemerges From Stabilization Chief
Stabilization Director Chester Bowies said rationing could be restored if world food conditions worsen. He spoke after former President Herbert Hoover urged waiting until crops are harvested. Bowies cited meat butter cheese and possibly bread as items that might need rationing.
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Washington
Chester Bowies
Bowies
Herbert Hoover
Umti
Bowles
Texas Wheat Prospective Production Falls in April
Texas wheat production dropped by about 24.5 million bushels in April according to the U S Department of Agriculture. The USDA cited continued drought in northwest Texas as the main cause and noted May 1 prospects at 35.666 million bushels versus 59.94 million in April.
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Austin
Texas
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Fort Worth to Host 36th Fort Worth Will Entertain Reunion
The 364-Division association annual reunion is set for Fort Worth on September 7 and 8, with association directors selecting the city for the meeting. A session held yesterday marked the anniversary of the division’s landing, confirming the event details.
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JSTIN
Sec Ang
Fort Worth
Ang
Association
Not Under Quarantine in San Antonio Says Health Official
San Antonio is not under quarantine and there is no ban on traffic into or out of the city. Acting city health officer Dr E. Aryiit said this Tuesday. Large meetings of adults over 22 are not forbidden but discouraged. Children may be served in any eating place. meals at home are recommended. Those under 22 who are employed may continue work.
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San Antonio
E. 5
Areniit
Hamelin
No Extension in San Antonio Public Schools Term Plan
San Antonio public schools will not extend the term to makeup lost time after a health department order closing schools. If reopened within two weeks regular activities continue to term end. if reopening in week three, closing activities start immediately. Graduations, diplomas, and grade plans depend on current standings and may be mailed or delivered as needed. Administrative offices stay open. teachers may be reassigned.
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San Antonio
Health Department
L E. Stutsman
Tschool
Heights
City Health Department
Alamo Heights
Hailstorm Ravages East Texas Crops and Property
Vicious hailstorms and heavy rain struck East Texas Monday night causing extensive damage across Smith Cherokee Nacogdoches Anderson Weed Upshur Gregg Henderson and Houston counties. Lindale 14 miles north of Tyler suffered at least 250000 in blackberry crop losses and Fort Worth airport reported up to 75000 in damage. Large hail shredded vessel coverings and dented all metal planes as 60 to 1200 ships were damaged in minutes. Reports by the Associated Press note widespread telephone communications were impaired.
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Associated Press
East Texas
Smith
Cherokee
Nacogdoches
Anderson
Weed
Upshur
Gregg
Henderson
Houston
Hall
Lindale
Tyler
Fort Worth
San Antonio Stricken by Sudden Citywide Quiet Panic
A mysterious illness prompts a citywide quarantine as youths stay home and adults limit activity. Stores report sharp drops in business while officials study the outbreak. Army and state medical teams search for the disease carrier, examining flies and other vectors. Madrid reports a tremor felt in Murcia with shaken houses.
Citizens Aid Cleanup Reports San Antonio Sanitation Issues
San Antonians report insanitary spots amid poliotike concerns. Police field calls about standing water in streets vacant lots and under houses near Guadalupe street by Our Lady of the Lake college. Mrs Dan Sullivan reports alley behind 115 Oakmont street uncle cleaned for years. Dispatcher R A Perez relayed to health department.
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San Antonians
Guadalupe Street
Our Lady of the Lake College
Dan Sullivan
Oakmont Street
R. A. Perez
Truman Calls Rail Confab
President Truman summoned leaders of the five major railroad brotherhoods and railroad operators to a White House conference to avert a strike planned for Saturday. Agreement sought on labor issues amid growing rail disruption fears.
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Washington
Truman
Brotherhoods and
White House
Punished Boy Hangs Self in School Cloakroom
A Penns Week grammar school fifth grader Frank Miller, 11, was found dead in a cloakroom with a rope around his neck. Police said he had been sent to the cloakroom after disturbing class. Det. Dennis Dore noted the rope was tied to a coat hook using a girl’s jump rope.
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Trenton
Jan li
Penns Week Grammars Theal
Frank Miller
Anna Lannahan
Dennis Dore
Prize Picking At IIT Alumni Fund Winners
In Chicago on May 1 during the Illinois Institute of Technology 1946 alumni fund drive twenty five winners are announced. Miss Madeline Dent and Miss Irene Hirens choose nylons among prizes that also included wines antiques sugar butter gold toothpicks.
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Chicago
Ilinois Institute of Technology
Madeline Dent
Irene Hirens
Iran Speeds War Plans Amid Azerbaijan Settlement Push
Tehran May 14 The Iranian army hastened preparations for war as the central government pressed a policy of peaceful settlement in the Azerbaijan problem while preparing for possible conflict.
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Tehran
Azerbaijan
Japs to Vaccinate 370 000 for Cholera
TOKYO May 14 The Metropolitan health bureau intensified precautions after a confirmed cholera case. Jap and occupation officials plan to vaccinate 370 000 Tokyo residents this month.
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Tokyo
Metropolitan Health Bureau
Siamese Twin Baby Girls Die in Portland Hospital
In Portland Oregon on May 14 two Siamese twin girls born two weeks earlier to Mr and Mrs Edward Horse of Deep River Washington died in a hospital. One twin died at 6 95 a.m. and the other 25 minutes later. The babies were joined at the base of the spine lying like an S. The mother, 26, felt sorrow yet relief.
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Portland
Ore
Edward Horse
Deep River
Wash
DDT Opens Heights Polio War
Alamo Heights launches an all-out polio drive with DDT spraying and sanitation efforts. Crews work inside and outside garbage cans, burn rubbish, fix cesspools, and spray public areas including Olmos park basin while officials plan broader citywide measures and water supply checks.
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Alamo Heights
Heights
Robert A. Sturtevant
San Antonio
Sturtevant
Austin Highway
Olmos Park Basin
Red Proposal Turned Down
Paris May 14 American sources said Molotov proposed withdrawing Russian troops from Bulgaria if Allied troops left Italy. Byrnes and Bevin disapproved the suggestion, signaling no immediate Soviet pullback.
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Paris
Molotov
Bulgaria
Italy
U. S
State Byrnes
Bevin
Weather forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Partly cloudy Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday. Warmer Tuesday afternoon with a high around 68. Five day outlook shows temperatures near normal, then warmer Wednesday followed by cooler conditions Friday or Saturday. Rain chances rise with locally heavy showers and thunderstorms mainly Friday and Saturday.
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San Antonio
Polio and encephalitis cases listed by location and outcome
Tuesday noon report shows multiple polio and encephalitis cases across blocks of McKay West Ridgewood Melivaine Avenue B and other streets. Ages range from 2 to 49 with several deaths at Brooke General and Robert B Green Hospital.
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Pollo
McKay Street
West Ridgewood Avenue
Melivaine
Syearold
Avenue B
Polio
Robert B. Green Hospital
Brooke Hospital
Robert B. Green
New Braunfels
Castle Lanes
Hamilton Street
Avenue A
448 Shifted To 8. A. Service Command Transfers Personnel
Closing of the Eighth Service Command and 1 Dallas will transfer 448 civilian employees to San Antonio, it was announced at Fourth Army headquarters. Temporary quarters at Fort Sam Houston will house them while they seek homes. About half the military personnel from the Service Command also move to San Antonio. Others will join new army area headquarters being activated.
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Socam
Dallas
San Antonio
Fourth Army
Fort Sam Houston
Service Command
Army Area
Draft Ban Accepted In Senate Action
Senator Hill announces senate leaders will accept house prohibitions on drafting fathers and teenagers to prevent the draft act from expiring at midnight. The move aligns senate action with house terms to keep the draft in effect.
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Washington
Senator Hill
D-Ala
Senate
Common Factor Still Sought With Polio Outbreak
City health officials report two new polio cases and six suspected while eighteen total polio cases and three deaths tallied. Encephalitis adds two cases with one death. An Alamo Heights girl died at Robert B Green Hospital as medical teams survey homes for transmission. Cleanup crews move through creeks and river areas while mosquito surveys confirm no malaria carriers.
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City Health Department
San Antonio
Army
Health Department
Alamo Heights
Luther Drive
Olmos Park
Robert B Green Hospital
Edward Suikin
Southwestern Medical College
Gallas
H.R. Livesay
Fort Sam Houston
Sulkin
Sulkins
Tall
Foud-A- Tal
Livesey
Brackenridge Park
Truman Sets Merger Deadline
Washington officials report President Truman ordered Navy Secretary Forrestal and War Secretary Patterson to outline points for unifying the armed forces by May 31. White House Press Secretary Charles Ross said progress is being made and differences are being ironed out as top military and naval leaders meet after a 80 minute conference.
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Washington
Truman
Ross
Recon
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Kilgoee
State Health Dept
Laura Vrier
CWE
Ares
S. A
L.A. Streets
Army Act
Fredericksburg Road
Spain
Madrid
Logos
Murcia
Citizens Aid
Laber
Lran
Carson Street
Robert & Green Hospital
Broadway
Kings Highway
Polo
Mardell Street
8. A
Col
Livesay
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