Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, October 13, 1946. Death of Vinegar Joe Stillwell, Horrific crime in Casper, The Price of Meat, French Fourth Republic.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, October 13, 1946. Death of Vinegar Joe Sti...: I failed to note it yesterday, but October 12, 1946, was the day that controversial World War Two General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell ...

Sunday, October 13, 1946. Death of Vinegar Joe Stillwell, Horrific crime in Casper, The Price of Meat, French Fourth Republic.

I failed to note it yesterday, but October 12, 1946, was the day that controversial World War Two General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell died at age 63 following surgery for stomach cancer.

Stillwell is famous for being in command of US forces in China for much of the war, where he clashed constantly with Chiang Kai-Shek.  He frequently insulted Chiang, who took it, and with Stillwell not realizing that Chiang understood the insults.  He was recalled from China in October 1944, but was slated to have command of the Tenth Army in Operation Olympic, which the end of the war kept from occurring.

Stillwell was one of the many senior military commanders who died almost immediately after the war.

The Rocky Mountain News noted the death on this day.

The murder of a woman from Denver, which occured in Casper, made the news.

I'm surprised by this, as usually I've heard of the more notorious crimes in the Casper area, and this one was horrific.  Nonetheless, I've never heard of this one.

I haven't included the article, but the price of meat was a huge deal and the news noted that Truman was going to take up the topic the following day.

It was a Sunday, so the Parade magazine section was part of the very large paper.

Meat prices, and food prices in general, continued to be a real problem into 1946.  I've posted an essay here regarding hunting during the Second World War, as that struck me as a way to try to offset rationing.  I didn't realize at the time that a related problem, availability of meat, carried on into the immediate post war era.

Lex Anteinternet: So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in genera...So what about World War Two?

One answer to whether this was common or not was interestingly provided by the J. R. Williams cartoon Out Our Way, where it was a bit of a running gag for awhile.

The post war era would not have been hampered by gasoline rationing, like wartime hunting was, which again makes me wonder to what extent some folks people supplied their tables by hunting.

Voters in France went to the polls and approved a constitution for the country's Fourth Republic.  The constitution created as weak president.

Last edition:

Friday, October 11, 1946. Cancelling conscription.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1946 World Series, baseball, Conscription

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 16, 1946. New agencies.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 16, 1946. New agencies. Sentencing...: The Bureau of Land Management was created within the U.S. Department of the Interior, by merging the Grazing Service and the United States G...

Tuesday, July 16, 1946. New agencies. Sentencing the perpetrators of the Malmedy Massacre.

The Bureau of Land Management was created within the U.S. Department of the Interior, by merging the Grazing Service and the United States General Land Office..

The BLM, which does good work, has been one of the most abused and derided agencies in the American West.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, April 12, 1946. Chips.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, April 12, 1946. Chips.:   Chips, who had started off his life as a family pet and who went on to be the most decorated American war dog of the Second World War, die...

Friday, April 12, 1946. Chips.

 

Chips, who had started off his life as a family pet and who went on to be the most decorated American war dog of the Second World War, died. He served in the Algerian-Moroccan, Tunisian, Sicilian, Rhineland and Central Europe Campaigns and won the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart prior to the military ruling that only human beings could receive such awards.

He was returned to his owners, where he later died, after the war.

Last edition:

Thursday, April 11, 1946. Nostra culpa.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Albert Einstein, Cheesecake, children, France, French Empire, Post WWII Occupation of Germany, The Press, The relationship between men and women, U.S. Air Force

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War fo...:   I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, ...

Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.

 

I"m putting up this interesting Out Our Way cartoon from this day in 1946 as it refers to something we've discussed here before, and its a bit surprising.

What we've discussed here before is hunting during World War Two.

Here's where we looked at it earlier:

Lex Anteinternet: So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in genera...So what about World War Two?

Labels: 1940s, Food, hunting, Rationing, World War Two

I've always thought this was one of the more interesting threads on this blog, and it's one of the many ones I post and wonder why there's never any comments on it.  But that's common for blogs.  Usually, they don't get posts.

Anyhow, this cartoon by J. R. Williams sort of confirms what I'd suspected.  Some people supplemented their table fare during the war by hunting.

Williams was, as we've discussed before, a Canadian cartoonist who moved to the U.S. with his family at age 15, locating in Detroit.  He soon dropped out of school and became an apprentice machinist, providing topics for his cartoons which frequently depicted machine shops.  He drifted after that, something not uncommon in that era, and worked as a cowboy in the West, as well as serving a three year stint on the U.S. Army as a cavalryman.  All of that experience likewise reflected itself in his cartoons.  Family life, in spite of his being a bit short (again, not all that uncommon for the time) also featured frequently.  

He became a professional cartoonist in 1922 and remained one until his death in 1957 at age 69.  He'd used the proceeds of his cartoons to buy a ranch in Arizona, before relocating later on to Pasadena, California.  His cartoons carried on to some extent after his death in the hands of other artists.

Anyhow, one of the things about his cartoons is that depict fairly accurate slices of life, and this running gag from 1945-46 no doubt did.  The father has taken an elk and a deer, and the family is keeping it in the ice box.  The part that surprises me is that I really like venison, and these cartoons suggest that this venison was bad, which may be explained in an earlier cartoon I'm not familiar with.

Eighteen nations entered into an Agreement on Reparation from Germany.

The USSR ratified its August 16, 1945 treat with Poland stealing the eastern portions of the country, and giving parts of Prussia to Poland.

"Southern Resorts Fashions" were on the cover of Life.

Last edition:

Sunday, January 13, 1946. The relentless advance of malevolent technology.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Cartoons, Chinese Civil War, Japan, Marshall, Newspapers, Smoking, technology, Technology is ruining everything, tobacco