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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1950
Page
18
Livestock sale at the Austin Brock Yard totals 295 head including cattle hogs sheep goats and horses. Prices rise slightly from last week with calves to 27.75 per hundredweight hogs up to 17 and cows with calves to 251 per pair.
Joseph J. Barshop’s attorneys appeal a $25,000 fine and three year prison sentence after his Jan. 14 conviction on five counts of willful income tax evasion. He posted a $40,000 bond and faces charges tied to 1942-44 returns and about $260,000 in unpaid taxes.
The University of Tulsa refused to enroll two Negro women seeking graduate work. The decision by the university board of trustees, announced by President C. S. Pontius, stands despite a recently amended state statute allowing Negroes at the University of Oklahoma. Pontius notes the law does not apply to privately endowed institutions like Tulsa.
Llano County reports a wonderful spring season with general rains. Farmers in the Valley Spring area note moisture in the ground and plowing is expected to be well under way by the first of March.
Detroit February 22. Carl Bolton testified he did not shoot or threaten labor leader Walter Reuther. Bolton rejected claims by two former convicts that linked him to the Reuther attack and a related assault on Reuther's brother Victor. He urged jurors to accept his alibi and said he never offered money or threats to kill Reuther. The trial paused for Washington's Birthday recess.
Dallas reports John F. Krey of the American Meat Institute describes a campaign to make meat more tender. Researchers in Chicago, with federal support, have developed a slicer capable of cutting meat to 1 1000th of an inch to study meat structure.
Local schedules list a Paramount slate with Tell Jane Doe Judge and a Disney feature in color. Bela Lugosi stars in The Ape Man at Quern with various start times, along with The Adventures of Mr Ignabod and Mr To a Walt Disney cartoon. Other venues show To Be or Not to Be, It's a Great Feel, Adam's Rib and more with multiple daily shows through Thursday.
Washington feb 22 congress debated removing poorly behaving us district judges Hobbs bill would have supreme court appoint three lawyers to build a case and three circuit judges to try him the plan excludes appeals court and supreme court justices the move follows rare impeachment history with andrew johnson noted as a long case and concerns about insanity without full impeachments
US Attorney Irving Saypol said he is investigating Frank Costello for obtaining U S citizenship by fraud. The probe follows Robert Montgomery's bid to revoke Costello's citizenship. Costello, long described as a gambling czar, denied current ties to slot machines. Montgomery alleges false moral character on Costello’s 1935 citizenship filing and past bootlegging and tax nonpayment. Fingerprints show four prior NY and LA arrests 1908 to 1939.
Chicago letter carrier Sylvester Morris admitted taking $200 from a letter to pay on a $2,700 automobile. Federal Judge Elwyn R. Shaw gave Morris a choice between prison or probation if he clears his debt by next Tuesday.
Fauquier County records reveal a March 15 1777 lease between George Washington of Mount Vernon and Edward Wiseley of Fauquier for 130 acres of 3112 acre Springfield tract. The document outlines orchard planting and care, pruned and fenced bounds, and replacement planting if trees die, recorded Oct. 24, 1774.
LURAY Va Feb 22 Page County authorities charged Barbara Parks 26 with murder in the fatal shooting of her husband Robert Franklin Parks 38 a former Japanese war prisoner and retired army captain. The warrant was served as she cried she didn t do it. The shooting occurred at their farm home Saturday night and she told the attorney it was accidental while he showed her how to operate the pistol given for safekeeping.
Fred Kaderli San Marcos city schools superintendent is among 200 American superintendents invited to the flying classroom tour by the American Association of Manufacturers. He will visit Chicago Detroit and New York to tour schools and plants before attending the National Association of School Superintendents meeting in Atlantic City.
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