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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1946
Page
9
Allied headquarters announced in Tokyo on May 14 that Japanese labor unions now total 1.7 million members, a figure reported as four times the prewar peak.
In New York on May 14 the Belgian delegation urged the U N subcommittee on Spain to press Francoist Spain for the handover of Leon Degrelle, the former Belgian Rexist leader, calling the regime a refuge for Belgian Quislings as part of Polish accusations that Nazi criminals and atomic researchers are sheltered there.
Hoover urges delay on renewed famine rationing after global survey, hoping world harvests improve and reduce emergency. Truman and Anderson back cautious approach favoring voluntary conservation and restricted grain use until harvest. Hoover plans to visit South America to mobilize relief and push for stronger voluntary wheat and fats conservation. Mills and elevators facing shutdown threaten bread supply as major plants cut operations.
May 14 Buffalo reports a threatened bread supply as inadequate wheat shipments curb production at the city’s mills. Curtailments total about 70 million loaves daily, with two large Buffalo grain elevators already closed. A Washburn-Crosby official cites government limits on domestic grain grinding as the cause.
Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson warned at a convention that famine could last five years. He described famine as a catastrophe and questioned whether mankind and civilization can survive amid prolonged hunger in war-torn regions.
Lewis W. Baldwin aged 71 a longtime Missouri Pacific leader died at his home after weeks of illness He had been chief executive and president of the Missouri Pacific and its subsidiaries since resigning from Illinois Central in 1923 The record notes his role as co trustee during bankruptcy and later leadership of the railroad.
In Brisbane a group of 300 housewives led stevedores onto a coastal food ship and began unloading 4000 tons of Tasmanian potatoes. The port remains crippled as workers had refused wool cargoes over double baling. About 100 vessels, including 10 bound for Britain, are stalled while drought of cargo continues.
Chicago dealer W A Gibbons reports seven British made automobiles sold in the city last week. He notes they are costlier smaller and slower than American cars and cites models seating four with 40 to 50 mpg at 35 to 50 mph. The 10 hp car lists at 1895 dollars and the 8 hp at 1743 dollars.
Paul Utesch former convict wanted in San Antonio and Detroit for forgery has been arrested in Los Angeles and will be sent back for trial. He was located after a San Antonio soldier saw him selling tamales in El Paso. Chief of the police bad check dept confirms the return. Also to be sent to Houston is C E Hourland another forgery suspect arrested in Dallas.
DENISON May 14 First commercial cruises on Lake Texoma will be inaugurated next Sunday at the farm highway 84 piers. A 50 foot boat with capacity for 48 passengers including sleep ing accommodations for 18 will head a two boat fleet. The other craft is a 23 foot vessel. Dr Lee A Dubridge 45 a leading wartime radar figure has been named president of California Tech Pasadena Calif May 14 INS
A special train carrying 200 Mississippi citizens will spend two hours in San Antonio on July 14. Mayor Gus B. Mauermann was advised Tuesday in a letter inviting him to address the group. The letter came from Dennis Murphree, former Mississippi governor.
Fraternal week will be observed here in May 1925 to celebrate the National Fraternal Congress of America's sixtieth anniversary. Mayor Gus Mauermann and Governor Coke Stevenson proclaimed the period Fraternal week. San Antonio will hold its observance May 22 at 8 p.m. at Sons of Hermann hall 525 South St Marys. Carl Rickers grand president of Sons of Hermann will be master of ceremonies.
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