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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1949
Page
6
In Shropshire County, six "spies" allegedly outwitted police and 260000 residents during RAF Operation Dodgem. Sixty four were captured. locals claim they weren’t briefed on the game and rules. Spies wore varied clothing and fled in RAF style gear. captures credited to police and security officers.
Metropolitan police report 19 000 juvenile delinquency cases in Tokyo in 1948 up from 17 000 in 1947. About eleven thousand involved theft with others ranging from blackmail to prostitution.
Senate leaders expect to pass the House approved oleo margarine tax repealer if dairy state senators avoid a talkathon. The measure would scrap federal taxes on oleomargarine and require labeling for oleo served in public places.
Chovanec a 21 year old man died instantly when his car crashed into a concrete culvert on the Buttersville Highway near his Fayette home. Funeral services are planned for Tuesday at 9 am at the family residence with burial in Fayetteville Catholic Cemetery. He is survived by his parents two sisters and four brothers.
The highest human altitude was 72,395 feet set during a 1935 balloon ascent by Ngee.
On this day in 1907 Texas created the Department of Agriculture by statute appointing Colonel R. T. Milner as the first commissioner with a $2500 salary and $600 expense allowance. The department began Sept 1 and surveyed 381,075 farmers in its first year. A decade later, on the same day, the State Highway Commission was established.
New York April 3 There are signs Nikolai Voznesensky former head of the state planning commission may have left the Politburo. Associated Press dispatches from Moscow omit his name in lists of members and are not explicit but imply a removal. Voznesensky 45 was the Politburo’s youngest member and had just been replaced as planning chief.
In Greece on Sunday forty persons including communists and rebel guerrillas were sentenced to death. Twelve from the communist execution squad were condemned by the Athens military tribunal for arson at a government garage. Twenty-eight guerrillas captured in Peloponnesus were doomed by a Tripolis tribunal for sabotage and killings. The Grammos front saw continued fighting with rebel forces entering from Albania. Casualties reported: rebels 63 killed and 67 captured. Army 13 dead and 20 wounded.
President Truman signed a law establishing an undersecretary of defense with a 10000 dollar salary. The appointee will outrank the Army Navy and Air Force secretaries and act with full authority in the secretary's absence, with nomination timing unclear.
Texas agriculturists pressed for a state vegetable inspection law after Oklahoma cancelled eleven cabbage shippers licenses upon finding lice and worms in shipments. Walter T. McKay urged inspection, while Rep. Jack Wisener introduced a bill to fund a self supporting plant inspection program in Texas.
Texas building awards for the week ending March total $23,276,567 with $5,644,874 for the San Angelo dam project. Previous week was $11,416,451. Residential $6,720,567 engineering $13,195,575 non-residential $3,360,692. One family homes under $7,000 total $5,658,300. Yearly total $259,836,313.
Armstrong Cork Company announced reductions in the price of its asphalt tile ranging from about three to nine per cent. The announcement came Sunday from the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, firm as part of a broader move to stimulate sales and adjust to market conditions.
Nanking reports indicate a cease fire proposal at Peiping talks while Communist forces press attacks along the Yangtze and in Hankow region. Government sources count 8,000 Red casualties as battles threaten river traffic to Hankow and strategic bridgeheads.
Fred Garrett Weathersby age 76, a longtime figure who helped lay out Silsbee, died in a Beaumont nursing home after several years of illness. He lived in the area for decades and his work helped shape the town’s early layout.
In Paris during 1797 a man leapt from a balloon at an altitude near 2000 feet. The dramatic escape underscores early aviation challenges and daring demonstrations of flight.
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