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Damage suits totaling $34,589.88 were filed in San Francisco courts yesterday by 45 Market Street business places for losses incurred in the VJ-Day riots last August 14 and 15. — March 5
Columnist Cholly Francisco: "Come the 27th of this month, The Bachelors will be holding their annual ball, the first to be put on since 1942, when the Emperor of Japan was staging a counterattraction, and it was thought best to postpone all such frolics until such a time as they could be held without the risk of the guests being chased into air raid shelters." — April 8
To save the pitiful remnant left of the Jews of Europe, whose dark hours of torture have been followed by famine and fresh persecution wherever they have fled, the Jewish Welfare Fund of San Francisco will launch an unprecedented campaign today to collect $1,305,000. — May 6
Governor Earl Warren and other public officials won praise yesterday for their opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in a strongly worded denunciation of the Klan by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Conference expresses concern over growing boldness of the Klan in the West. — June 17
Rents in San Francisco will be frozen today at levels within 15 per cent of the June 30 ceilings. The new "stop-gap" ordinance covers all private dwellings, hotels, apartment houses and other places of residence covered by the recently expired OPA wartime regulations. — July 4
The greatest outpouring of voters in any special election in San Francisco's history yesterday smashed the attempted recall of Mayor Roger D. Lapham by a majority of 32,069 votes. — July 17
San Francisco's six long-planned Federal housing projects, abandoned at the outbreak of the war, may be constructed within the next two years. Plans include Ping Yuen, Glenn Crags, North Beach, Bernal, De Haro and Hunters View projects. — Oct. 22
Chicago racketeers are attempting to unload substandard olive oil in large quantities in the Bay area. Already the revelation of their operation has resulted in telephoned threats of murder against the informant. He is under police guard. — Nov. 14
San Francisco's waterfront, strikebound since September 30, came back to life last night with indications that operations will be resumed on a full-scale basis tomorrow. Longshoremen, marine engineers, and masters, mates and pilots win pay increases and other concessions. — Nov. 24
Oakland girded itself for a second chaotic day of the crippling Alameda County AFL general strike today. Oakland Mayor Herbert L. Beach made preparations to declare a state of emergency. His action came after sporadic street fighting and a disruption of virtually all business, except utilities, jolted the lives of a million people in Oakland and adjacent cities. — Dec. 4