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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1951
Page
18
A Macon, France resident finding his wife’s body after a drowning returns home to an unsettling reunion as his wife opens the door. The incident follows a tragic death detected in the area, with authorities reviewing the case.
June 13 report says two F-84 Thunderjets disappeared on a training flight over Germany and crash landed in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain. Pilots were Lt. G. Roland of the US Air Force in Germany and Lt. Bjoern Johansen of the Norwegian Air Force. both landed safely.
El Mojan, a fishing village on Lake Maracaibo Venezuela, sits on stilts above the water with swaying catwalks. It lies near a major oil development in the lake.
Representative Ramsay of West Virginia criticized Senator McCarthy for planned disclosures about Secretary of Defense Marshall. Ramsay asked McCarthy to remove him from mailing lists and condemned McCarthy's past accusations against the State Department as failing.
Providence, RI June 13 Two Air Force Saber jets from Otis AFB collided in flight injuring both pilots who parachuted into a field near Abbott Run. Lt M A Corba 23 of Belleville Ohio and Lt L R Kirby 24 of Burlington Vermont were rushed to Notre Dame Hospital Central Falls. Corba veteran of the Korean air war. Wrecked planes dropped into a field per Otis Field spokesman.
A verdict of accidental death was returned in the death of W. R. Maltsberger of Texas who was fatally injured when a power mower ran over him. Family suggested a lightning strike might have knocked him from the mower, but hospital staff discounted the theory.
Woodrow W. Snowden a 33 year old resident of Colorado City was killed in a crash east of Sweetwater when his car hit the Santa Fe Railroad underpass on Highway 86. Co riders Martin Young 18 and Freeman Brown 17 were taken for treatment but reported not seriously injured.
In Pusan on June 13, South Korea’s vice defense minister Chang Kyung Keun rejected claims that 50 000 Republican army trainees died from inhuman treatment and disease. He overstated the number as fewer than 700 by end of March and Health Minister Oh Bhan Yung reported 263 deaths since April 1. No UN funds are being used to maintain the camps.
Prentice Harris, an Amarillo Black man, today was sentenced to 90 days in Potter County jail after pleading guilty before County Judge Gene Jordan to aggravated assault charges. He was accused of attacking Robertha Richard of 316 West Second. Harris was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Tom Deaver.
Washington announced the appointment of George W. Armstrong Jr. as a member of the Wage Stabilization Board. Armstrong, president of the Texas Steel Company, is a director of the National Association of Manufacturers and regional vice president of the Texas Manufacturers Association. He served on the Eighth regional war labor board during World War II.
Police arrested hotel lifeguard James Bunch, 22, of Miami for breaking into cars then swimming away with loot. Bunch, head of the Miami Beach auto theft bureau said he would swim from his hotel post to a nearby street ending at the waterfront, steal from a parked car, and return to his post with the stolen items.
Los Angeles reports that Samuel A. Guiberson, a 76 year old Dallas oil man, will pay his 33 year old former wife Virginia over a quarter million dollars under a court approved settlement. She withdraws her divorce complaint, allowing a Texas divorce obtained by her husband last December to stand. She receives a $75,000 Hollywood house, cash and oil well royalties in Texas and California. They were married five years.
Van White of LX Ranch reported two wrist watches stolen yesterday afternoon while he slept in his car near Third and Tyler. He had brought the watches to town for repair.
Providence report says greio Rotondo a barber plans to profit from his invention an adjustable automobile speed governor He hopes the device will bring wealth and recognition and says he would like to learn how it feels to be called mister.
In Chicago on June 13 a bomb from a car damaged a flower bed at the home of Negro chemist Dr Percy Julian in Oak Park. Ira Elyea, 50, a private guard, was on the porch when the car passed, then an explosion followed. A maid and two Julian children were inside. The couple left for Baltimore for Julian’s father’s funeral.
Joel S. Quinones Mexican consul stationed here departed by plane to Torreon Coachilla Mexico due to his father’s death. Funeral services will be held there tomorrow. He expects to return to Amarillo in about two weeks.
US marshals round up 68 bookie agents and ex-employes of Guarantee Finance Co on tax evasion charges in Los Angeles. Secret indictments target a seven million dollar a year bookmaking racket linked to top officials convicted of conspiracy awaiting appeal. Kefauver crime committee focused on the operation. LB sheriff's office criticized for inaction. Walter S. Binns, Chief Assistant US Attorney, called indictments ineffective.
The city uses bolted wire trash baskets to curb thefts after thieves took about 800 receptacles worth 14.50 dollars each over two years. A six-location Manhattan test program is underway to deter larceny and protect street infrastructure.
The system will be put into effect citywide as sanitation workers cannot lift the bolted baskets to empty them. Nylon mesh bags are placed inside the baskets to collect trash. filled bags are removed and emptied before returning. Two bags needed replacing after being scorched by cigarettes, and the department may substitute nine lightweight metallic mesh bags.
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