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Newspaper

Austin American

Location

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 25, 1949

Page

4

Notable skeet champion faces double marriage suit in Cleveland

Pretty Patricia Jelm Helbig of Akron, a former national women’s skeet shooting champion, fights her second husband’s court action seeking to dissolve his divorce. He claims she wed Helbig while still married to him and alleges intimate liaisons and a predicted “purgatory” sentence if the divorce fails.

Cleveland Patricia Jelm Helbig Akron Ohio Common Pleas Samuel H. Silbert Charles R. Jelm Jelm Patricia Helbig Melissa Carl M. Myers Myers New York State Boston

Finance Groups Asked To Help Foundation Job

Austin Development Foundation invited bankers investors and finance groups to plan how to connect local capital with industrial opportunities. About 30 representatives met the foundation directors at the Driskill and will outline a roster of local investors and a channel for information to investors. A second conference is to be held within about 10 days.

Austin Development Foundation The Foundation Driskill Austin C. B. Smith W. O. Harwell Pbuilding Smith

Man Electrocuted in Bath Near Corsicana

Ocie N. Ellington age 26 died after contact with an electric light connection while taking a bath. The accident occurred Thursday in Bath Corsicana.

Bath Corsicana Ocie N. Ellington

World AUL SHORT remembered as Rialto Theatre manager in 1929

The piece recalls Paul Short a practical joker and Rialto Theatre manager in Chattanooga Tennessee in 1929. It details exploits including a wired chair stunt a large firecracker prank and a weekly pony giveaway at a kiddie matinee. It then reviews the film Bad Boy starring Audie Murphy Lloyd Nolan Jane Wyatt and James Gleason at the Paramount with other listings for local theatres.

Aul Short Rialto Theatre Chattanooga Tenn Paul Short Publix Hoot Gibson Rialto Short Windron Allied Artists Kurt Newman Robert D. Andrews Paramount Theatre Marshall Brown Lloyd Nolan Mrs. Brown Jane Wyatt Danny Lester Audie Murphy James Gleason

Saturday Schedule of Westerns and Adult Features at Local Theaters

The listing shows a slate of films including Johnny Mack Brown, George Houston, Claude Rains, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Young, Dana Andrews and Ingri Bergman. Titles include The Fighting Ranger, Lone Rider's Texas Justice, Fuzzy, Frank and Jesse James, Dick Tracy Returns, Escort Girl, Flame of New Orleans, Trailing Danger, Gods Country, Champs of Oxford, Returns, Adam Had Four Sons and Deep Waters. Showings run through Saturday at multiple venues including South Austin Drive In Montopolis Drive In and Chief Coach.

Lone Rider Texas Justice George Houston Fuzzy St. John Frank Jesse James Dick Tracy South Austin Robert Wery Oxford Urel and Hardy Montopolis Robert Low Coeah Saturda Adam Ingri Bergman Dana Andrews

This Co-Ed Knows About Rushing Now

Walter Robert Ullrich a 21 year old chemistry major told his Kappa Alpha Fraternity brothers how it felt to be rushed by the sororities at the University of California during rush week He wore a borrowed New Look as Mary Lou Ullrich and attended teas at most sororities Ullrich said he received 14 cups of tea a dozen tiny sandwiches seven invitations and 27 coed numbers plus one house mother during the process

Berkeley Cal Walter Robert Ullrich Kappa Alpha University of California Mary Lou Ullrich Ullrich

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