Badman Cook Admits Slaying Six On Spree
The FBI report details Carl Cook confessing to a six victim killing spree across multiple states. He abducted Mosser and forced a perilous highway tour through Oklahoma City Wichita Falls Fort Smith Joplin and other locations before the Mosser family was killed near Joplin. Cook fled to Blythe California Mexico and was captured wearing the victim Carl Mosser's jacket.
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Mosser
Albuquerque
FBI
Cook
Wichita Falls
Carlsbad Caverns
N. M
Mossers
el Paso
Houston
Texas
de Queen
Ark
Fort Smith
Joplin
Blythe
Homer Walrip
Oklahoma
Walrip
Dewey
Mexico
California
Santa Rosalia
Lower
Mex
Carl Mosser
Navy Kingsville Jet Training Base Opens July 1
Kingsville will host a Naval jet training base opening July 1, two months earlier than planned. Rear Admiral John Perry announced transfer from Pensacola and projected 7,500 personnel and a decade of operation. The base will provide the final jet training stage for cadets.
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Kingsville
Naval
John Perry
Advanced
Pensacola
Fla
Perry
Austin Mothers Blast Reading Methods At City Meeting
About 60 parents, mostly mothers, urged change in Austin reading instruction. Critics claimed the flash the card system helps only 20 percent of children and called for more phonetics and earlier intervention for retarded readers. School officials acknowledged a problem and promised action at next week’s board meeting.
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Virginia Miller Fitch
Mathews
Baker
Austin
Frances Thorpe
W. I. Kocurek
City School Board
San Francisco Plans Disaster Airlift With Street Strips
San Francisco sheriff's air squadron organized an airlift of small planes using city streets as emergency landing strips. The plan would bring medical supplies and personnel to disaster sites and evacuate the wounded if needed.
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San Francisco
Sheriff's Air Squadron
Sinclair Lewis ashes return flight to Minnesota
An urn bearing the ashes of Sinclair Lewis departed Rome on a Pan American World Airways flight bound for Minnesota. The 65 year old author died January 10 in a Rome clinic after heart failure following bronchial pneumonia. The urn is to be delivered to his brother Dr Claude B Lewis of St Cloud for burial in the family plot.
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Rome
Sinclair Lewis
Pan American World Airways
Claude B. Lewis
St. Cloud
Minn
Lewis
Chaplain Dr Otis Rice Links Parish Role to Hospital Care
Dr Otis Rice of St Luke s Hospital New York City spoke on clergy in pastoral counseling at a dinner sponsored by the Hog Foundation and the Austin Travis County Mental Health Society The Texas survey aims to gauge hospital religious programs impact and Rice notes chaplains join therapeutic teams with psychiatrists and social workers in state hospitals.
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Otis Rice
St. Luke's Hospital
New York City
Rice
Hogg Foundation
Volunteer Services Commission
Austin Travis County Mental Health Society
Texas
State Board of Hospitals and Special Schools
Department of Pastoral Services
National Council of Churches of Christ In America
Valentine resigns as Valentine urges immediate price controls
Valentine informs President Truman of his resignation after clashing over timing and method of price and wage controls. Disalle and Johnston named to lead expanded Economic Stabilization Agency with authority over prices, rents, credit, and mobilization actions.
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Mansfield
House
Truman
Valentine
Michael V. Disalle
Wilson
Disalle
Toledo
Ohio
Johnston
ESA
Washington, D. C
US Chamber of Commerce
Economic Stabilization Board
War Manpower Commission
Stalin
Capitol Hill
Sparkman
Leon Henderson
OPA
Jackie Coogan Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving
Beverly Hills California January 19 Jackie Coogan The Kid of the silent era pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge He posted 250 bond and requested a probation hearing set for next Wednesday The 36 year old actor involved in a late Thursday traffic crash police said he had few drinks and attempted to tuck the nose of his low slung sports car under a parked vehicle
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Jackie Coogan
Truman decries dictator Stalin and calls for united effort
President Truman denounces dictatorship and inflation, urges Americans to mobilize brains across government to meet home and world challenges. He defends freedom of worship, speech, and elections, predicts victory in the struggle for spiritual values, and asks business editors to publish facts while welcoming honest criticism.
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Mr. Truman
Truman
Combat Forces To Be Doubled Debate On Korea Troop Targets
Senator Johnson pressed Adm. Sherman on raising combat strength to 3 325 000 by June 30 and 3 462 205 by year end. Sherman said a new target could be set if international conditions do not improve. Defense asked Congress to grant a monthly combat bonus of 50 dollars for enlisted men and 100 dollars for officers retroactive to June 27 for Korea service with six days of combat in a month.
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Senator Johnson
Adm
Sherman
Defense Department
Congress
Korea
Three Children Die In Seattle Apartment Fire
Three Tyus children died in a hotel apartment fire at the Victory Hotel in Seattle. A fourth child, Ruby, 5, was in critical condition as firefighters recovered the victims from the fourth floor unit. A book of paper matches was found in the bedroom where the blaze began, likely started by children playing with the matches.
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Seattle
Henry Tyus
Henrietta
Freddie
Henry
Ruby
Tyus
Victory Hotel
Fifth Avenue South
Washington Street
W. H. Douglas
Robert B. Rogers
Linda Darnell Seeks Cruelty Divorce from Per Marley
Actress Linda Darnell filed for divorce from cameraman Per Marley charging mental cruelty and asking custody of their adopted daughter. Marley will not contest. they wed in 1943 and separated previously with a July breakup noted amid Hollywood activity.
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Los Angeles
Linda Darnell
Per Marley
Miss Darnel
Marley
Miss Darnell
Hollywood
Deaths and Funerals in Austin Area Readers
Miss Kittie Rose Carlisle's services were at Weed-Corley with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Annie Neumann Stark, 77, to be buried Oakwood after 2 p.m. service. John Calvin Norman to be buried Masonic Cemetery Caldwell after 2 p.m. service at First Baptist. Ward Bailey rites at Cook Funeral Home. burial Capital Memorial Park. W. E. Ketchum funeral at Cook with burial Oakwood. Edward N. Arms 86 buried Oak Hill after Briggs-Gamel service. Daniel N. McQuaig 54 military funeral at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Jim Izard services at Heartsfield Chapel, Bartlett Cemetery burial. Otto Neid 37 Llano veteran buried Llano Cemetery. Survivors listed for several.
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Kittie Rose Carlisle
Weed-Corley
John Barclay
Lawrence Bush
Oakwood Cemetery
Forrest Morgan
Earnest Baker
Tom Hill
L. M. Fertsch
Jake Hirshfeld
William Payne
Annie Neumann Stark
Lewis P. Speaker
John Calvin Norman
First Baptist Church
Caldwell
White
Buria
Masonic Cemetery
Hylton Manor
Ward Bailey
Cook Funeral Home
O. G. Barrow
Capital Memorial Park
W. E. Ketchum
Dallas
John B. Davidson
Edward N. Arms
Jim Izard Bartlett
ANS
Jim Izard
Heartsfield Chapel
C. T. Brockett
Blooming Grove
Louis Snowdy
Holland Methodist Church
Bartlett Cemetery
Charles Coffee
Washington, D. C
Sam Izard
San Angelo
Walter Holt
Bartlett
Lillie Slane
Portales, N. M
George Conoley
Blackwell
College deferment debated for draft aid rule
Harvard and Tufts leaders back delaying undergraduates and graduates from draft during a transition to universal service, while critics warn against militarizing education. Odegaard supports principled changes but seeks clarifications. Pickett cautions against Army influence.
Luxembourg Offers Steel Plants and Tiny Army to Eisenhower
The grand duchy of Luxembourg proposed supplying major steel plants and a small army to General Eisenhower for Western Europe defense. Eisenhower arrived from Rome for 24 hours of talks with Grand Duchess Charlotte and Luxembourg leaders, praising governments for defending freedom. He noted similar strong resolve at every stop on his Western defense command tour, while recalling violent riots in Italy during his visit.
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Luxembourg
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Dwight D Eisenhower
Western
Europe
Eisenhower
Rome
Charlotte
Italy
Truman Visit Requested by Corpus Christi Officials
Corpus Christi officials urge President Truman to spend his winter vacation in Texas due to milder weather. Jeff E. Bell, chamber manager, sent a telegram noting Key West is too cold and praising Corpus Christi Naval Air Station as an alternative. Temperature given as 82 degrees with sunshine.
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Corpus Christi
Truman
Florida
Washington
Jeff E. Bell
Female carp can produce vast egg numbers in season
A female carp yields up to two million eggs in a single spawning season, highlighting the prolific reproductive capacity of common carp in freshwater ecosystems.
O Donnell Recalled By Air Force Command Over Bomb Talk
Major General Emmett O'Donnell returned to Washington at the invitation of Air Force high command to discuss his interview urging use of the atomic bomb on Red China. He landed at Bolling AFB and said he came to discuss Korea operations and his March Field press conference.
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Emmett
Rosie) O'Donnell
Far East Bomber Command
Korea
15Th Air Force
March Air Force Base
Calif
Red China
Washington
Emmett O'Donnell
Air Force High Command
O'Donnell
Bolling Air Force Base
Nathan Twining
March Field
15Th Strategic Air Force
Air Force
O’donnell
Hoyt Vandenberg
Orvil Anderson
Air War College
Maxwell Base
Ala
Anderson
Russia
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Bill) Ricks
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Lamar
Mutual
Mutual Savings Institution
E. 19Th ST
Aoe
Yi Hac
WEED
Corley Funeral Home
Lavaca At
Lith
Austin, Texas
Daniel N. McQuaig
New Braunfels
Daniel Newton McQuaig
Fort Sam
Houston National Cemetery
Parish
Eugene MccQuaig
Marshall McQuaig
Eilene McQuaig
Betty Sue McQuaig
James O. McQuaig
Mississippi
Ollie McQuaig
Allen McQuaig
Jim McQuaig
Neal McQuaig
William McQuaig
Alabama
Carl McQuaig
Carl Thornhill
Gilbert Martin
Louisiana
Richard A. Ludwig
Arthur Bloedorn
Adolph Eggeling
Harry Schnautz
Edwin Friesenhahn
Henry Ober Kamph
William Kolterman
Charles Schuman
Otto Neid
Llano
W. W. Lipps
Neid
Luling
Chamber of Commerce
Mary Neid
San Antonio
Lon Ed Neid
Glen Neid
OWL Taxi Service, Inc
Vv. R
Ralph
MOOG_H
Tex
Spurlock
Harvard University
Charles E. Odegaard
American Council of Learned Societies
Odegaard
Professions
Clarence E. Pickett
American Friends Service Committee
Leonard Carmichael
Massachusetts
Tufts College
AF Command
Harrold A. Cavness
T. F. Caldwell
W. M. McGinnes
Tething
Topham
Ovance
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