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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1949
Page
4
President Miguel Aleman says Mexico will honor its international defense commitments under the 1947 Rio de Janeiro treaty. He highlights agriculture and industrialization as top goals to boost production, curb imports, and strengthen the peso amid past currency devaluation.
In St Joseph Missouri a 45 year old transient Tommy King is held after officers locate the battered body of his wife Ingrid King near river road and railroad tracks. Coroner says four blows killed her two weeks earlier. A hoax report from Leavenworth Kansas prompted investigation. Police pursue a second woman who warned of the murder.
Firemen halted a raging brush fire that moved from a marsh to threaten a 15 square block suburb northwest of New Orleans. Crews used water and bulldozers to stop the blaze, which had burned for about three weeks and forced evacuations. Authorities warned only a heavy rain would extinguish all remaining flames. Some residents burned nearby brush and drenched ground as a precaution.
Harry Gilfillan of Battle Creek Michigan came south for the winter and built a dozen benches in Archer Park McAllen with officials saying it was okay. He plans to keep building more if the mayor allows and has no family or plans to work elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley this winter.
In Fort Worth a lawsuit filed in county court at law states J Frank Benton seeks 869.39 against E E Dickie over a 1947 cattle purchase Benton says he bought 11 calves hoping for Aberdeen Angus heifer calves and a bull calf to breed. The animal proved a steer and Dickie contends Benton knew it was a steer and that he did not intend to sell breeding stock.
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