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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1949
Page
15
The Tyler Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon featured "Little Butch" the 600 pound baby elephant from the Dailey Brothers Circus. Butch rode an elevator to the hotel’s second floor and was served a regular plate lunch amid stiff company manners.
State police disclosed they are keeping a young woman under protection who provided the initial break in Delaware's Lonely Hearts killings. Mrs Inez Brennan, 43, confessed to plotting deaths with her three sons and was linked to a nurse’s aide Dolly Dean who helped reveal eerie acts at the Brennan farm.
Douglas Aircraft Company reports net income of 2,001,529 dollars for the quarter ended February 28, yielding 3.34 dollars per share. This compares with 23,862 dollars or four cents per share a year earlier. President Donald W. Douglas cautioned that industry uncertainties prevent using first quarter earnings as a reliable full year gauge.
Rice Institute associate professor James Caddall Morehead Jr. will become assistant to the president, a new post created to handle Rice's expanding activities. He will assume the role May 1 after graduating from Princeton and Carnegie Tech.
Six year old Travis Paul Shaw of Converse Louisiana, known as the blue baby, will be operated on Friday to correct a rare heart condition at Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies in Dallas. A Dallas surgeon will perform the operation with funding provided by The Shreveport Times and its readers.
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