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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1949
Page
5
Washington reports federal rent controls may end next summer due to booming home construction. Lawmakers doubt another extension will pass when the current law expires June 30. Administration decisions hinge on defense area needs and state decontrol initiatives.
Beeville Texas resident Mrs Ben Foley reports relief from dandruff and itchy scalp after using Baker's Hair Tonic. She advocates the product for her family and notes a money back guarantee if it fails to work.
In San Francisco a chipped stone claiming to be from Blarney castle was displayed at St Marys cathedral during a festival drawing Irish community attention. The stone vanished after guards left briefly prompting claims of a prank and disputes over authenticity.
German losses are tallied from Wehrmacht data through Jan 31, 1945, totaling about 3,000,000 dead plus 5,000,000 wounded and 4,900,270 missing, with civilians contributing large additional fatalities. The piece contrasts World War II civilian toll with World War I and notes civilian deaths far outpaced military losses. It also comments on French government instability and U.S. presidential salary history.
House investigators will quiz California heiress Mrs Louise Brantsen accused of financing Communist party activities and working with Soviet agents. Subpoenas were issued for Brantsen and New York publisher Joseph Gacy as first witnesses in the renewal of the House Un American Activities committee probe of the Communist underground in the United States.
Beverly Hills reports Jane Fowell, 20, a singing film actress and Geary A. Steffen Jr., 26, former ice skater rivaling Sonja Henie, honeymoon along the California coast after their Saturday church wedding at the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd. Fowell is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Burce of Portland Ore. Steffen is son of Willie Ritchie, former lightweight boxing champion. He works as a California boxing commission inspector.
Corsicana native Capt. John Sonny Mays, about 35, an air force weather officer, died in a B 29 crash off Kindley Field last Thursday. He was among 11 men killed when the plane plunged into the sea. Names of the deceased were released by the air force yesterday.
In Berlin on November 7 an U.S. provost marshal ordered security measures after a charwoman found four cases of uncapped dynamite near a former GI club. Two cases were in front of the club and two behind the building, prompting an investigation.
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