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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1950
Page
5
A DC-3 operated by Aigle-Azur crashed after takeoff from Casablanca Airport killing 21 of 30 aboard. Eight survivors were critically injured. a wreckage fragment hit a nearby house injuring a mother and child. All victims were French on a Paris to Dakar flight.
Floods from a 13 inch rainfall swept rural East Central Nebraska. A car carrying five people was washed off a highway near Fullerton. all aboard perished. Victims identified as Ray Bogner and family from Hastigs and a Schumacher niece. York McCool Junction Beaver Crossing towns faced severe inundation with evacuations by boat and National Guard amphibious vehicles. Emergency shelters opened in York.
In Philadelphia on July 9 Jennie Culbertson Powers, age 78, attended Sunday School at Westside Presbyterian Church, a habit she has kept for 75 years. Church friends say her record is unequalled in the United States and once verified at a national convention in Washington. She notes she has three homes and plans to remain devoted to her church.
Labor Department data show total employment at 61,482,000 in June with signs of a breakout year. Survey covers 99 major production centers and 53 smaller communities, reveals eight areas shed labor surpluses and construction leads gains alongside durable goods, service, transport and trade growth. Anticipates surpassing 61,600,000 peak set in 1948 despite potential manpower additions from armed forces.
A 34 year old New York bricklayer, unable to own a car, took a 10 ton sanitation truck from his Brooklyn street to cool off. Assistant Sanitation Foreman Salvatore Cassata spotted him driving the vehicle and halted the man, charging him with grand larceny. The driver explained he only meant to use the truck to cool down while away from home. The regular driver, Harry Burack, had left the truck unattended in front of a restaurant during lunch.
West Berlin anti Communist press claimed Soviet satellites plan to recruit international brigades to aid North Korea. Berliner Stadtblatt cited East German sources tying Warsaw to a brigades hub with Berlin and Moscow backing, while Stadtblatt named Wilhelm Zaisser as a brigade recruiter figure.
Liu Shih Sing, a Nationalist legislator, was executed in Kwangtung Province for espionage dating from last year. The sentence was carried out Sunday in Formosa era context.
A Pennsylvania Greyhound bus bound from St Louis to Indianapolis crashed with a northbound car at Route 40 and Route 127 near Greenville Illinois. Three were killed and 35 injured, including five babies. Driver John L Burk 34 Indianapolis said he swerved to avoid the car.
Senator George of Georgia said he will push a billion dollar excise tax cut bill and hopes the Korean crisis may ease in 10 days or two weeks. He favors a deeper cut than the House 20 percent dine and dance tax and warned debate in the Senate may wait 10 days. He noted big corporations would fund the loss and hearings will tackle a 433 million dollar corporate tax increase and closing loopholes.
William Grant Sherry, who divorced Bette Davis in Juarez, says he will marry Marion Richards on August 6. Richards, 23, from Pasadena, was formerly nursemaid to Sherry and Davis’s three year old daughter.
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