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In a new traffic program aimed at eventual elimination of all traffic signal bells, the city yesterday began disconnecting the "stop" bells at intersections in the downtown district bounded by Market, California and Taylor Streets. Members of the traffic advisory board say the stop bell causes accidents: The minute it rings to stop traffic in one direction, the line of cars waiting to proceed is inclined to get under way, before the automatic signal changes. — Jan. 29 When the first rays of Easter's sunlight fall on the cross atop Mount Davidson next Sunday at dawn, there will be a small cluster of people at the foot of the cross. They will be wives and mothers and sweethearts of men who gave their lives to America on Bataan and others who today wait in Japanese prison camps for the day when America's growing might shall free them. — April 7 As stiff prison sentences and heavy fines were imposed on seven principals of the counterfeit C-2 gasoline ration stamp ring — including six years imprisonment and a $20,000 fine for Russell Youmans, key figure — it was revealed that new counterfeit black market gas stamp rackets have materialized. — May 5 Twelve San Francisco hospitals and fourteen others in Northern California will receive enough penicillin, after this week, to take care of their patients. — May 5 Headline:
S.F. Prays for Loved Ones on Invasion Day
President Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" into law today ......... giving many benefits to the ten million who return home as veterans of World War II. ......... The measure authorizes Federal loans, job insurance, schooling and other benefits. — June 22 Blast levels Port Chicago, causes massive loss of life: Naval authorities announced late yesterday that the toll of dead from the explosion of two ammunition freighters at Port Chicago had risen to 322 men and possibly will reach 372. In addition, the Nation's worst wartime disaster injured approximately 500 men, women and children, of whom an estimated 200 were military personnel. About fifty of these were injured seriously. Only four bodies had been found. ......... All others simply disintegrated. — July 18 Muni absorbs privately run Market Street Railway's citywide streetcar and bus system. "San Francisco's newly merged street railway system clanked off to a promising start yesterday, carrying the citizenry to and from work with efficiency expected by no one. Fare increases from a nickel to 7 cents." — Sept. 30 Fifty Negro sailors, charged with mutiny for refusing to handle ammunition in the loading of a Navy vessel, were found guilty yesterday by a court-martial board of seven officers. — Oct. 25 "Army Permits Japs' Return to West Coast; 110,000 Evacuees to Start Back January 2 Midnight": With San Francisco's current housing shortage, the problem was raised as to where the hundreds of Japanese originally excluded from here could be domiciled. Japtown, where they previously dwelt, has been largely taken over by Negroes. — Dec. 18 |
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