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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1946
Page
1
An advertisement promotes Expert Assistance from The Light offering trained ad help to reduce costs for your Light Want Act. Dial F-12231 for details and enrollment.
In a Pittsburgh story attributed to Ray Springle, Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania is accused of plotting to supply millions of barrels of Mexican oil to Nazi Germany in the late 1930s to aid Hitler's war machine. Guffey responded with a denial.
Vagabond owned by Straus and Sons of San Antonio was judged grand champion in the five for one class at the Louisiana State show. Another Stratus Hereford, Monty Rupert 140th, was also named grand champion as the herd heifer.
John L. Lewis escalates demands in the soft coal dispute with Interior Secretary Krug, threatening a walkout by 400,000 miners two weeks before a prior deadline. The article notes parallel hard coal agreements, rising pay forecasts for air pilots, and ongoing labor tensions across unions and transport sectors. Police report port and shipyard clashes, arrests, and a Seafarers union peace effort amid broader industry strife.
James C Petrillo president of the American Federation of Musicians demands wage and overtime increases from 13 transcription companies. He seeks a new scale of 30 dollars for every 15 minutes or less musicians work on transcriptions with double pay for the orchestra leader, current scale 18 dollars.
Chrysler leaders of the UAW CIO units meet in Detroit to map a strategy for boosting pay to offset rising living costs for about 70,000 production workers. Wage talks are expected to start after leaders set minimum pay requirements, a decision seen as shaping the wage pattern for the auto industry and possibly all CIO unions.
The threat of a new pains strike early next year shadows aviation as 1400 TWA pilots walkout enters its third day. In a separate dispute, American Airlines two-engine pilots filed a mediation demand after talks with the AFL Air Line Pilots Association failed to reach agreement.
Washington reports that the OPA and agriculture officials are preparing a broad decontrol list to be released today. Expected targets include flour bread and baked goods while some staples like sugar and rice may stay under control. Milk cheese butter may remain under dairy controls.
The document presents humidity 74 percent for October and a precipitation total of 41 inches for the past 24 hours with a month deficiency of 0.99 inch. Sun set at 6 p.m. Wednesday and rise at 6:41 a.m. Thursday with a pelx at 2:35 p.m. Thursday. Moon rises at 6:10 p.m. Thursday and sets at 5:31 p.m. Wednesday. Moon phase is New moon. Winds at 41 a.m. Wednesday are south-southwest at 12 mph. Tides at Aransas Pass show high at 2:38 p.m. and 0:45 p.m., lows at 0:00. Palen count lists molds ragweed grass amaranth with respective tallies. City temperatures for various locales are given including Austin 68 and Corpus Christi 4 7. The article ends with a note on Arabs and Muslims in Palestine noting about one ninth are Christian.
Richard and Eugene Camp were found guilty of malicious mischief by Judge Charles J. Matthews in County Court No 2. Each man was fined 100 dollars for destroying property at 2213 Blanco Road belonging to Meader on June 17. The report also notes a U.S. bird population estimate of at least five billion.
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