Badman Cook Visitor Passes Through Amarillo
Bill Cook, once a feared figure in the Southwest, rode through Amarillo under guard en route to Alcatraz after a 300 year federal sentence for the Mosser family murders. He spent about 90 minutes in Potter County jail reading, appeared uncooperative with reporters, and was moved by Rock Island then Santa Fe trains.
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Bill Cook
Southwest
Amarillo
Oklahoma City
Alcatraz
Cook
Potter County
Carl Mosser
Rock Island
Santa Fe
Oakland
Cal
Stephen S. Chandler
Rex Hawks
Oklahoma County District
California
Clarence Mills Priday
Mosser
Hawks
Justice Department
White Cook
Imperial County
Robert Dewey
Seattle
Dewey
John R. Marler Rites Conducted
Funeral services for John R. Marler age 32 were held at 2 pm at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr. Smythe H. Lindsay of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church officiating. Interment followed in Llano Mausoleum. Marler, a Phillips Petroleum employee and World War II veteran from Amafillo, died Saturday morning at St. Anthony's Hospital. survivors include a son, a brother, his father and mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Marler
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Smythe H. Lindsay
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
Warren Freeman
Homer Cowan
Verne Gordon
Patt Powell
Bill Sercomb
Ernest Logan
Phillips Petroleum Company
Chamber of Commerce
Llano Mausoleum
Marler
Ama- Fillo
St. Anthony's Hospital
Hattilu White Weds William Marlborough Addison in Richmond
Maj Hattilu White a WAC and former Amarillo businesswoman married Saturday night in Grace Baptist Church Richmond Virginia The bridegroom is William Marlborough Addison of Richmond The ceremony occurred before White Fort Lee press release says she will soon deploy to Germany White was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1943 and worked as a secretary in Amarillo prior to service Both families are named and the groom hails from Richmond
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Hattilu White
WAC
Amarillo
Richmond
Friends
William Marlborough Addison
Grace Baptist Church
Addison
Fort Lee
Women’s Army Corps Training Center
Department of Defense
Germany
Great West Mill and Elevator Company
Canadian River Gas Company
Charles A Davis Joins Wolflin Insurance Office
Charles A Davis was appointed Assistant manager of the Charles A Wolflin Company’s insurance department. He is a 1942 Amarillo High School graduate, served three years in the Navy, studied at Rhode Island State College, and previously worked as an assistant manager at a Pawtucket agency. He and his wife have a 15 month old son, Alan.
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Charles A. Wolflin
Charles A. Davis
Davis
Amarillo
Navy
Rhode Island State College
Pawtucket
Rhode Island
Alan
Goering Poison Story Declared Hoax by Journalist
An Austrian journalist confessed that his tale of supplying Hermann Goering with poison to cheat the gallows in 1948 was false. Pete Martin Bleibtreau, 29, said he invented the story and signed a statement denying giving cyanide to the Reichsmarshal.
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Mernberg
Germany
Hermann Goering
Pete Martin Bleibtreau
Bleibtreaus
Bleibtreau
Nuernberg
Goering
Vienna
Reichsmarshal
International Military Tribunal
Courthouse Records and Local Transfers of Property
A long list of warranty deeds records transfers across multiple Austin area blocks and neighborhoods including San Jacinto Heights G&S and Hitchcock-Wallis with buyers such as Looney Beaty Sealey& Forwood and Crowe clients. Also listed are marriage licenses and domestic relations cases with several divorces including Blackburn Gilmore Snodgrass Nicholson Turner and Germany. A note touts a new life-size self inflating duck decoy by American Magazine for duck hunters.
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Lula Calverly
Roy W. Looney
San Jacinto Heights
Noel Cooper
Horizon Investments
L. J. Vogel
T. Crowe
W. M. Burke
H. W. Richards
Hitchcock-Wallis
C. G. Hester
C. E. Dozier
W. C. Roberts
Mabel F. Stubblebine
Lakeview
J. W. Gray
F. M. Lefforge
Anna Payne
Charles Coeur
Beaty, Sealey& Forwood
Ira L. Paul
Florence Levitt
Wolflin Park
G. F. Milleret
B. M. Blackburn, Jr
Jewel R. Allee
Odis Shoffner
Nellie L. Barnes
J. B. Coe
Mirror
A. D. Bilansit
Meda van Wyatt
Belmont Park
Stanley W. Crowe
C&g
Holland
C. T. Crowe Et al
G&s. G
Amarillo Families Hopeful Over Letters From Korean War Prisoners
Two Amarillo families and a Clarendon grandmother received letters from sons held as prisoners of war in Korea. Morris Estess and Rey V. Ratliff described in hopeful terms, noting good care and expected release after the war, while officials said their names were mentioned in a propaganda broadcast.
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Amarillo
Korea
M. L. Estess
West Tenth
Morris
Elberta Henderson
Pierce
R. W. Wegner
Englewood
Colo
North Korea
P.S
Estess
Mrs. Estess
Estesses
Henderson
Army
Rites for Sterling Walter Johnson at 3 30 P M
Funeral services for Sterling Walter Johnson 71 held at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel officiated by Joe L Banks and Hoyt Houchen with pallbearers Witt Springer W R Ballard Joe S Powell J L Kelly Chester C Martin and Guy Byrd burial Llano Cemetery He died Sunday at his daughter's home in Amarillo born May 15 1879 in Arkansas lived in Amarillo seven years owned farm near Childress and property here Survivors include wife daughter brother sister two granddaughters and two great grandchildren
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Sterling Walter Johnson
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Joe L. Banks
San Jacinto Church of Christ
Hoyt Houchen
Central Church of Christ
Witt Springer
W. R. Ballard
Joe S. Powell
J. L. Kelly
Chester C. Martin
Guy Byrd
Llano
Mr. Johnson
Jess Maddox
West Twentyfourth
Amarillo
Church of Christ
Arkansas
Johnson
Texas
Childress
W. S. Johnson
Arkadelphia
Ark
W. C. Munn
Houston
Jack Sides
Osborne
Ohio
Bob Shedrick
Oklahoma City
Ronda Sue Shedrick
Stepanie Sides
Hawk wrestles cat in Mulgrave fall ends in death
A hawk seized and bore aloft a cat at Mulgrave Australia injuring its captor so severely that the bird dropped to the ground. The hawk was then killed with a club by bystanders.
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Mulgrave
Australia
Earth
Louis Maestas Rites Tomorrow
Funeral services for Louis Maestas aged 63 will be held tomorrow at 4 PM at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Rev. Fr. A. Rodriguez officiating. The farm laborer died Saturday when a feed grinder fell on him while loading onto a truck at the Bob Bland farm, 10 miles southeast of the city. He leaves three sons Nazrio, Ike, and Tommy, plus two daughters Florita Solas and Stella Fagardo, with burial at Llano Cemetery under N. B. Griggs and Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Maestas
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
A. Rodriguez
Maestas
Cleveland
Bob Bland
Nazrio
Palo Duro
Civic Club to Meet at Forest Hill School Annex
The Forest Hill Civic Club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the annex of Forest Hill School. The gathering will discuss community projects and upcoming events.
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Forest Hill
Forest Hill School
Meeting Tomorrow On Rail Union Shop
A meeting at 8 o clock tomorrow night in the 47th District Courtroom discusses the union shop law. Open to union and non union railroad workers and all railway industry workers in Quanah. A man was arrested Saturday near Chillicothe in connection with a house burglary. He was found selling two new automobile tires believed stolen in the Chillicothe burglary.
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47Th District
Quanah
Chillicothe
Bowie
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Maj
Virginia
Basfield
Eel
Drs. Hyden & Bray
Optometrists
Barfield
Sth
Arcricelin
Fe i
Amarillo Ice Co
West
Spades
Reppert Lumber
Mil W
Wolflin Insurance
Courthouse Records
Dsi
W. Johnson
Denver
Fort Worth
Dallas Bal Easel
Atta
Whiteway
al Ba
Marvene
Lipton
Tae
Fil Biscuits
Ballard
Kimbell
Jar
U. S
Oklahoma
I. A
N.W
8Th St
Loren W. Young
Elec Careies
Boxwell
Pate
Dumas Perry Ton—Spearman
On Rail Union Shop
Globe-News
Nab
State Farm
F. G. Campbell
B. B. Williams
Kenneth B. Murphy
Diate Farm Insurance CO
S. Hene
Dgwood
Sandringham
Bone
China
Ringham and the
Fresh
Brown House Shop
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