Wortham Rites Slated Today
Funeral services for Guy E. Wortham 63 longtime chief oil water with the State Fire Insurance Commission will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at his home 2108 San Antonio with Rev W C Raines officiating Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery Wortham a Austin lifelong resident born at 2108 San Antonio served with the commission since 1921 Survivors include two sisters Miss Louise Wortham and Mrs H B Bonham Weed Corley Funeral Home handling arrangements
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy E. Wortham
Wortham
San Antonio
W. C. Raines
Oakwood Cemetery
Commission
Austin
W. B. Wortham
Hogg and Culberson
Louise Wortham
H.&. Bonham
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Aerial Kidnap Case Opens in Court Today
In a transcontinental custody dispute a grandmother, mother, father and six children will appear in New York court. Kathleen King abducted the Lynch children from California, and Marianne Teitelbaum seeks custody via habeas corpus while Zoel Lynch also seeks return of his children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Zoel Lynch
Coalinga Calif
Marianne Teitelbaum
Lynch
Nancy
Thomas
Mary- Jo
Judith
Kathleen King
California
Courthouse Records Plus Local Divorces and Notices
Multiple district court entries list divorces annulments and filings in BIRD BETH and 126TH districts including Rita Lopez Ladislado Lopez and Ann Meyer Sutherland William Sutherland plus filings for Maude Yates Forrest Cher seo Christine Wheeler Delores Sterling James Wheeler Robbie Hill and city matters Austin declaratory judgment. Marriage licenses issued to several couples and new car registrations listed by dealers and owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
126Th District Court
Roberts
Ann Meyer Sutherland
William Sutherland
Maude R. Yates
Forrest John Cherseo
James C. Wheeler
Christine Wheeler
Delores Sterling
Charlies
William Sterling
Robbie Hill
Carl D. Hill
Austin Fire and Police Departments
City of Austin
Ice-Mint Medicated Balm Claims Cool Comfort
Advertises Ice-Mint medicated balm as a remedy for burning foot pain and hard callouses. Promotes fast relief and soothing action with a frosty menthol feel. Encourages purchase at drugstores and highlights mass appeal.
Gravedigger's Tale Could Save Convicted Slayer
In Saginaw Michigan on December 8 a 24 year old gravedigger named Herbert L. Gulembo confessed a lurid tale of lust and murder. He claimed his silence would wrong an innocent man and feared he might go haywire if not believed. He spoke to a barroom crowd and then to police describing the slaying in Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saginaw
Mich
Pennsylvania
Herbert L. Gulembo
Gulembo
Kathryn Mellor
Philadelphia
Jenkins
Joseph Bugenske
Ad Art Exhibit at UT: Advertising Art in the United States
The University of Texas presents a Mu seum of Modern Art exhibit in the Texas Union gallery from December 6 to 20. It surveys American advertising art with 18 panels nine posters and eight mounted newspaper advertisements. Aimed to show high standards of advertising art through works by Binder Kepes Bayer Nicola? Schawinsky and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Museum of Modern Art
University of Texas Department of Art
Texas Union Gallery
America
Denmark
Joseph Binder
Gyorgy Kepes
Herbert Bayer
Erik Nische
Elexi Brodovitch
Paul Strand
Xanti Schawinsky
Oil discovery yields no royalties for Colorado homesteaders
Pleasant View Colorado December 8. Oil found on Jack Yates farm in Southwestern Colorado failed to yield royalties after mineral rights were reserved by the government when parcels were sold. Yates and his wife may receive damages for trees and nuisance value, but no land royalties. Yates notes similar luck in Texas where oil was found nearby but not on their land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant View
Colo
Jack Yates
Colorado
Yates
Texas
Woodson
Clue Could Lead Police to Stolen Army Coat
John T. McCutcheon Jr. reported Wednesday the theft of an olive drab Army coat from his car in the 3700 block of Guadalupe. He noted a snag hole in the back and a greasy spot on the left ear, offering a unique description as a lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. McCutcheon Jr
Bouldin
Guadalupe
McCutcheon
Austin Negro Chamber Elects Calhoun President
The Austin Negro Chamber of Commerce announced officers to take office January 1. T. C. Calhoun was elected president and T. A. Mayes executive secretary. Other officers include Oliver B. Street vice president, Mrs. E. M. Vansen recording secretary, Mrs. Jessie L. Shelton treasurer, and E. E. Johns parliamentarian. Directors will be named at a December 15 meeting at George Washington Carver public library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Negro Chamber of Commerce
T. C. Calhoun
T. A. Mayes
Oliver B. Street
E. M. van Dyke
Jessie L. Shelton
E. E. Johns
George Washington Carver Public Library
Criminal Cases Set After Christmas
District Attorney Bob Long said no additional criminal cases are scheduled in district courts until after the Christmas holidays. Judge David Wilcox of Georgetown, who had been in Austin all week, left for home after assisting crowded courts and sat on the bench for Judge Charles O Betts, who was hearing civil matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Long
David Wilcox
Georgetown
Austin
Wilcox
Charles O. Betts
Bellamy To Speak To Lions Thursday
County probation officer S L Bellamy will discuss the role of a juvenile court in the community at the Lions Club luncheon. The event at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel will feature introduction by program chairman Dr Harold Broadbent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. L. Bellamy
Lions Club
Stephen F. Austin
Bellamy
Harold Broadbent
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Berlin
Robert Howley
Sidney
N. Y
Katharina Rudzewski
Courthouse Records
Bird District Court
Gardner
Rita Lopez
Ladislado Lopez
Beth District Court
Betts
Ralph S. Fuller
Katherine Fuller
Matthews
Florence Alexander
Ora Gbneed Alexander
Thurman
J. Pesante
Roy Haywood Jr
Limberg
Harry E. Goff
Betty Rove
Thurber A. Outlaw Jr
Doris Irene Forster
Jean E. Junker
Claudine A. Moore
Jeffington
Harry H. Power
Studebaker
Thomas B. Hooks Jr
Reed Sales Company
Plymouth
Verne Blomquist
Dorothy F. Harrison
Jack M. Park
Chrysler
A. H. L. Ward
Ford
Forest
Herman E. McKinney
E. R. Nuckols
R. H. Bayer
Chevrolet
H. Wittenbure
Nash
Bayard J. Jenkins
Mellor
Well
Uncle Sam
Negro CC
Calhoun
Kenmore Electric
Ers
Kent Coffee Makers
Sears
Turkey
Congress Ave
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