Girl Friend Pleads Jail-Breaker Homer Cook to Surrender
In Munich the grief‑stricken German girlfriend Anna Sporer urged Homer Cook to give himself up as police hunt him across Southern Germany. Cook escaped a stockade near Munich for the third time in two months, with Swiss French Austrian police alerted and guards along the Czech border doubled. Cook’s Oklahoma family reacts, while Anna broadcasts her plea hoping for their happiness.
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Munich
Germany
Homer Cook
Here
Cook
Anna Sporer
Radio Munich
Chuck
Darling
Anna
Rainey Cook
Elvie Lewis
Warner
Okla
Homer
Badman
Dachau
Dealings With Hirohito Bared
A government report says General MacArthur refused to summon Emperor Hirohito immediately to avoid making him a martyr. He predicted the emperor would visit in due course, leading to a series of semi annual visits that aided understanding of representative democracy and democratic concepts.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Hirohito
Gen. MacArthur
Boogie-Woogie Target Boat Aids RAF Gunners
In Portsmouth on June 15, Royal Air Force tests a boogie woogie target boat guided by musical signals. Inventor F Parfitt says the method resists jamming, with notes from a conductor ship triggering distinct mechanisms to start engines reverse direction and steer.
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Portsmouth
Eng
Royal Air Force
F. Parfitt
Freeport Shrimp Boat Explosion Injures Two
Two men were badly burned and thrown into the water when a shrimp boat exploded and sank near Surfside Beach. Coast Guard rescued Albert Gaston and Robert Lee Hawkins. both were hospitalized in critical condition and later moved to Galveston Marine Hospital. Cause of blast unknown.
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Freeport
Surfside Beach
Coast Guard
Gilbert Ortez
Albert Gaston
Robert Lee Hawkins
Albert Arthur
Marine Hospital
Galveston
Publication Suspended by Liberty Magazine
Liberty Magazine will end 26 years of publication this Thursday and its name will be used on a new magazine. Lawrence Holmes, publisher of Taboo and Night and Day, bought the name and good will and plans a new larger Liberty in September resembling the old in broad appeal.
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Liberty Magazine
New York
Lawrence Holmes
Liberty
Ex Arlington Mayor dies and rebel leader captured
W F Altman 77 former Arlington mayor and merchant died after a six day illness. He served as mayor from 1935 to 1947 and ran general merchandise stores across Texas. Funeral set for 4 p m Friday at Arlington Methodist Church. In Burma Boekyar, white band PVO rebel leader, surrendered after his army was taken at Prome 160 miles north.
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Arlington
W. F. Altman
Altman
Texas
Arlington Methodist Church
Rangoon
Burma
Boekyar
PVO
People’s Volunteer Organization
Prome
Here
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Richard Hudnut
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Marvel
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Johnson
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Absorbine Jr
Phillips Magnesia
Polaroid
Walker
Nooth
Madison
Helene Curtis TU Tak
FITCH
Lanolin
Cara Nome Miniatures
Renfro’s “Duval” Drug Store
43Rd & Duval Sts
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