Night Before Christmas Death Claims 4
Five year old Veronica Gazak and brother Andrew Jr were found dead in a Toronto apartment on Christmas Eve. Gas from an unventilated refrigerator caused oxygen depletion. The family including parents, a 33 year old bank employee and 32 year old mother, lay in separate bedrooms. A sister reported the tragedy after failing to reach the family. Also in Victoria a funeral was held for Bryan Messick, 28, shot by a stray bullet during a gun battle. Roy Backelbury, 41, charged with murder. Chester Cawthorn, 26, also wounded and charged with assault with intent to murder.
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Veronica Gazak
Andrew Jr
Your Angels
Veronica
Gazak
Victoria
Bryan Messick
Messick
Roy Backelbury
W. F. Crawford
Chester Cawthorn
Cawthorn
Orange Rape Hearing Set for January Ninth in Orange
Trial of Paul LaFleur of Houston on a rape charge against a Orange girl was scheduled for January 9 in Orange. He faces additional charges of assault with intent to murder and three armed robbery counts with February 6 trial dates set. The victims were attacked in a parked car near Ned.
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Time picks Churchill as the man of the half-century
Time Magazine selects Winston Churchill as the man of the half-century for 1900 to 1950. The feature credits his leadership in two world wars, wartime morale, and the Fulton speech that helped shape postwar Western security and aid programs.
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Time Magazine
Churchill
Man of
New York
Winston Churchill
Ernest Hamlin Baker
Time
the Magazine
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Fulton, Mo
Fulton
Western Europe
Berlin
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Gonzales County Donates 1568 To CROP For Cotton Oil
Gonzales County contributed 1568 dollars to the Christian Rural Overseas Program. The gift, presented by treasurer George W. Holmes to Texas CROP director Elmore R. Torn, is earmarked for buying cotton oil oleomargarine for overseas shipment. Gonzales County led Texas in directing donations to this food product.
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Gonzales
Christian Rural Overseas Program
George W. Holmes
Gonzales Crop Committee
Elmore R. Torn
Texas
Alfred Lindemann
Cost
Gonzales County
Would-Be Mom Pleads With World Leaders for Peace
Patricia Capella, a 26 year old American dancer married to Jacques Capilla, asks Truman Stalin Pius XII George Vincent Auriol to guarantee peace so she can have babies. She labels Stalin the only architect of peace and urges broad pacific action to avert war. She formerly lived in New York.
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Patricia (Reynolds) Capella
Detroit
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Jacques Capilla
Saratoga
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Pius XII
Stalin
King George
Vincent Auriol
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