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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1949
Page
4
Judge J Harris Gardner runs a home based juvenile court trio with staff reports and family participation. A shy student explains an aggravated assault after an exciting football game and is placed on probation with parental responsibility doubled.
Dr A Warren Stearns asserts sex offenders are criminals not mental patients while Truman, addressing the Shah, stresses united efforts against fascism and a renewed European role for Germany without rearming. Bidault's agency remarks frame postwar cooperation and reintegration.
The editorial urges changes to Texas habitual crime and sex offense laws arguing current rules allow dangerous repeat offenders to be released after serving sentences. It cites the need for emergency measures, possible lunacy charges, and broader commission study during the upcoming session to better protect society.
The author argues for voluntary treatment first but supports commitment to psychiatric institutions for habitual offenders where criminal tendency is evident. The goal is to protect the public and children, with safeguards of expert testimony and jury confirmation, and to give rehabilitated individuals a path back to normal life.
A 1948 report describes a secret meeting of Communist Politburo members at 135 East 12th Street where agents learned to form united fronts, infiltrate Republican and Democratic clubs, and bridge to Wallace's Progressive movement. They were urged to target CIO and AFL groups, boost liberal candidates, and undermine FBI Chief J Edgar Hoover.
A reader asks about fallible weather signs and January inaugurations. The answers note no sign is always reliable, explain a moon halo and sunset color, and detail presidents inaugurated in January. Additional Q A cover vacations, boxing knockouts, mildew conditions, Home Sweet Home authors, major state fairs, dollar bill costs, Old Faithful eruptions, toll roads, and daily height variations.
A 10 pound goose is half its own weight. the answer is 20 pounds. In the race the hare starts 100 yards behind a tortoise and runs ten times faster. compute the overtaking time. The booklet Puz zles Tricks and Magic offers solutions and more puzzles with a 15 cent request to Austin American Information Bureau.
Washington gossip notes Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman maintains sobriety in social settings by drinking but not consuming alcohol. A cabinet figure claims he never drinks, instead savoring the appearance of a refill at parties. The piece also touches on a 1943 uranium shipment to Russia linked to Boris Pregel and broader Cold War energy intrigue.
A collage of Broadway buzz and media chatter notes Mrs. M. R. Knickerbocker pursuing libel action against Daily Scommunist over a pro-Nazi accusation. Agnes Smedley heads to England to write a book while Marilyn Gordon weds Richard Howie’s son at the Pierre.
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