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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1943
Page
4
Mrs Joseph Suro ais 25 testifies her husband Charles, a detective fiction devotee, acted out violent scenes on her to test descriptions. She recounts being choked and mauled before her death. Superior Judge Joseph Sabath grants a divorce. husband now an army corporal did not oppose.
Maj. Gen. Nathen F. Twining of Charlotte N G told a press conference Allied Solomons air force after air strikes against Kahki airdrome on Bougainville left the Japanese air arm largely crippled in the area. He added that since the raid Vella Lavelle has been effectively cleared and the Japanese had little chance to reply.
Hollywood gossip notes Virginia Mayo, a Sam Goldwyn glamour find, is poised to lead the Petty Girl project after significant backing from Charles Koerner and Billy Rose’s Diamonds show. Warner Brothers signs Angela Greene for a long run, plus Johnny Davis signs a three year contract for 12 pictures with Producers company.
CHICAGO October 12 Farm machinery rationing will be reduced from 1 to 31 items and distribution controls will be halved a War Food Administration official said. Items such as tractors harvesters milking machines and feed grinders remain on the ration list under the new program effective October 15. Lee Marshall director of the office of materials and utilities of WPA said the better outlook for machinery production in 1944 makes a more flexible program and easier local distribution. He noted authorization for manufacture of new machinery next year has doubled to 80 percent of 1940 output with no quota restrictions on pair parts. The program divides into three schedules. schedule 1 includes 19 types deemed most important to the food production program with rationing and county distribution control. schedule 2 covers equipment like milking machines and feed grinders with state level controls. schedule 3 has no rationing and largely covers tractor mounted equipment and follows existing tractor distribution. He emphasized there will be no idle stockpile and plans are based on 80 percent production with a 20 percent reserve.
Two Texans appear on overseas casualty lists issued by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Fred Hugh Davis of Throckmorton is reported missing on active service, while Sgt. Frederick Henry Blake of Corpus Christi, previously listed missing, is now presumed dead. Davis's mother lives in Throckmorton and Blake's wife resides in Corpus Christi.
Bishop Cuthbert O Gara recounts how he and 32 Catholic priests and brothers faced a Japanese firing squad for an hour and a half in Christmas 1941 before being spared. The group, tied and held, prayed together and received absolution before being released via Vatican intercession. His Hong Kong rectory was later bombed.
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