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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1950
Page
12
Wesley Warnell of Orange announced his bid for state elective office as a rumored candidate for flotorial representative. The unsigned ballot notice references his stated intention to run and seeks further verification from local election authorities.
Ward Stephenson announced that an unsigned Democratic ballot application in Orange County was filed late. He said former chair John Young handed the unsigned form to Warnell moments before the filing deadline and did not notice the omission until after the deadline. The county executive committee will decide next Monday.
Vatican sources warn of a violent total offensive by communism against Catholicism behind the Iron Curtain. Poland Hungary Czechoslovakia Romania and the Baltic states face church suppression with monasteries seized clergy jailed and Catholic activities eradicated.
Senate inquiry into RFC lending questions a $18.5 million loan to Carthage Hydrocol Inc for a Brownsville Texas synthetic gasoline plant. GOP National Chairman Guy Gabrielson heads the lending firm. Capehart and Fulbright urge private financing and warn of political use of government funds. Considered under tension with Truman plan to move RFC to Commerce and opposition from bankers and press interests.
CHICAGO June 15 Bushman the 500 pound 22 year old gorilla at Lincoln Park Zoo is steadily improving after heart disease arthritis and age-related decline. Keeper Eddie Robinson who has tended him for over 20 years says Bushman is more active moving to a rear cage run and napping there he has eaten guavas from Saratoga Florida and shows better appetite overall.
Hartley Iowa with 1500 residents faced a staged Red invasion led by James F Green of Omaha. The American Legion event included a mock stockade, sessions in communism at the school, and the seizure of the town weekly The Hammer and Sickle before executions.
Berlin reports indicate Russians force German and other West European women and girls into Siberian slave labor camps. Repatriates say they met girls of various nationalities working in mines and forests of Asiatic Russia. Data were registered by the German Red Cross in West Berlin and by the Fighting Group Against Inhumanity.
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