Deaths and Funerals in Austin and Surrounding Areas
Pauline E Becker widow of Herman Becker dies at 300 East Fourth Street survived by two daughters Mrs. Wilde and Mrs. Haenel of Austin two sons Herman and Theodore of Austin a sister and two brothers Funeral at Cook Funeral Home Monday 4 p m Rev F G Roesener officiating burial Oakwood Pallbearers listed Webb Boucher dies at local hospital survived by brother O V Boucher Body at Cook Funeral Home pending arrangements Minnie Ray 81 dies in local hospital member of St Davids Episcopal Church survivors include two daughters Mrs Roy H Jones and Mrs Clifford Gandy one son David L Ray burial Oakwood Memorial Park Funeral for Bobby Ray Thompson nine month old son of Mr and Mrs Tommy G Thompson Monday 11 a m Weed Corley Funeral Home burial Oakwood Cemetery Mrs Freda Brune funeral at Cook Funeral Home burial Memorial Park June Eubanks Harvey L Brock funeral at Field Funeral Home burial Lockhart Cemetery. Leonard Eubanks 63 dies at Holland funeral Tuesday 4 p m Holland Tabernacle burial Holland Cemetery.
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M&s
Pauline E. Becker
Herman Becker
East Fourth Street
Paul A. Wilde
August Haenel
Austin
Herman E. Becker
Theodore E. Becker
Cook Funeral Home
F. G. Roesener
Oakwood Cemetery
Freda Brune
John K. Beery
Memorial Park
Webb Boucher
O. V. Boucher
Minnie Ray
St. David's Episcopal Church
Roy H. Jones
Kingsville
Clifford Gandy
Robstown
David L. Ray
Dallas
Bobby Ray Thompson
Tommy G. Thompson
Weed- Corley
Arthur O. Kaul
Vera Williams Eubanks
Holland
O. B. Archer
Beaumont
Raymond Peel
Corpus Christi
Louia Vernon
Ralph Eubanks
Duncan
Okla
Lockhart
Harvey L. Brock
Field Funeral Home
C. W. Ferguson
First Christian Church
Lockhart Cemetery
W. H. Hill
L. M. Dotson
Cortisone Widely Distributed to US Hospitals
Rheumatics aid Cortone becomes broadly available as Merck receives FDA approval to allot three 300 mg vials per hospital. The drug targets rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever and related diseases, with hospitals charged 28.50 per vial, down from 200 per gram during trials.
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Rahway
N. J
Merck and Company
American Medical Association
Merck
Soviet Minister in Denmark to resign on June 28
Andrei Plakhin the Soviet minister to Denmark will withdraw from his post on June 28 after five years in Copenhagen. He asked to be transferred to another post. no successor has been announced.
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Copenhagen
Denmarks
Andrei Plakhin
Denmark
Plakhin
Shriners Arrive in Los Angeles for National Convention
Huge Union Station traffic marks a wartime peak as Shriners from 101 cities in the United States Mexico and Canada descend on LA for the national convention. While bread bakers and transit workers strike six camels parade at Sycamore Grove Park and thousands attend a Sunday program ahead of Monday arrivals and cornerstone ceremonies for a Crippled Children Hospital.
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Los Angeles
Union Station
Shriners
United States
Mexico
Canada
California
Imperial
Harold Lloyd
Galloway Calhoun
Sycamore Grove Park
Zor Temple
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin State Society
Beach
Santa Monica
Billings
Mont
Long Beach
Tacoma
Wash
Truman
Ararat
Last day cinema listings feature big names and multiple showtimes
The page lists final showings for Paramount Capitol WaRaITscant Austin YANK SOUTH and other theaters. Casts include Majorie Main, June Allyson, Betty Grable, Rosalind Russell, William Holden, Gregory Peck, and Maureen O Hara. Start times span day and night with numerous daily matinees.
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Paramount
Ma and
Pa Kettle
Majorie Main
Percy Ban
el Ponte
Esate Tate
the Reformer
the Redhead
June Allyson
Ack Powell
Rosalind Russell
Ando
Robert Gummings
Austin
Wife
William Holden
Thias Robert
Mills Bros
Yank
Gregory Peck
Mane Ariowe
Davy Crockette
Bill No 7
Aaheed
Id Carey
Shelley Winers
Arlowe
Wasee
Ed Macurray
Maureen O'Hara
Thefts From 2 Cars Reported at Barton's
Two men report thefts from cars while swimming at Barton Springs in Zilker Park. Edsel Zetterower, an airman at Bergstrom AFB, says two wallets with $27, a lighter and a watch were taken. Wayne Browning reports a jar of pennies a diamond ring two watches and a .25 pistol stolen from his vehicle near the bath house.
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Barton Springs
Edsel Zetterower
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Wayne Browning
East Avenue
Bath House
Zilker Park
Chow Poisons Airmen at Burtonwood Camp Hospital
Twenty US Air Force men were in the camp hospital near Burtonwood Air Base Sunday after a poisoning incident attributed to Chow. The men were treated for exposure. condition not yet disclosed.
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Warrington
Eng
Ai Force
Burtonwood Air Base
Negro man held after rape and shooting in Texas
In Rockwall Texas a 25 year old man named L C Sims confessed to raping a 60 year old woman and shooting her six times. He led officers to a pool at a cotton gin where a 41 caliber revolver was recovered. The victim Mrs C H Thurman remains in critical condition in a Greenville hospital.
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Rockwall
North Texas
Texas
S. H. Denson
L. C. Sims
Josephine
C. H. Thurman
Greenville
Denson
Sims
Texas Ranger
Levi Browley
McKinney
Collin County
William L. Brown
TPA To Watch State Economy
Fort Worth Texas publishers adopted a vigilance over the next Legislature focusing on economy at the closing session of the Texas Press Association convention. Arthur H Kowert of the Fredericksburg Standard chaired the legislative committee during the gathering.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Texas Press Association
Arthur H. Kowert
Fredericksburg Standard
TPA
French War Brides On Trip Back Home
A chartered plane left Oakland Sunday carrying 42 French war brides bound for France for a summer visit home. The party included 10 men and 19 children, with 9 infants, some accompanied by husbands and others on family trips aboard the Trans Ocean Airways craft.
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Oakland
Calif
France
Transocean Air Lines
Ministerial Alliance To Hold Pease Picnic
The Austin Ministerial Alliance hosts a Pease Park picnic Tuesday at 5 30 p.m. Ministers citywide are invited. Each family should bring a basket lunch. Rev J E Chester vice president leads. Dr Edmund Heinsohn presents nominating committee report.
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Austin
Pease Park
J. E. Chester
Alliance
Edmund Heinsohn
Ex Western Electric Vice President Dies
Howard A. Halligan 76 retired vice president of Western Electric died Sunday in Los Angeles. He joined Western Electric in 1896 and retired in 1922. He served as president of the Mountainside Hospital Board of Trustees in Montclair New Jersey, where he lived for many years.
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New York
Howard A. Halligan
Western Electric Company
Los Angeles
Halligan
Western Electric
Mountainside Hospital
oMntclair
N.J
Burglary of Garage Reported to Police
The only burglary reported Sunday was at the Jess Allmen Garage at 114 East First Street. Burglars pried a board from a window to gain entry and stole a small amount of change from a cash register, Allmen told police.
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Jess Allmen
East First Street
Allman
Weather Summary for Austin and Coastal Regions
Fragments from a weather log show cloudy conditions and temperature notes for Austin with a Monday sunset at 7 36 p m and moonrise around midnight. Reports reference rainfall totals and rainfall accumulations including an inch and 2 45 inches, with temperatures listed for Galveston Brownsville San Antonio and El Paso.
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Bennet A
Austin
Austines Galveston
Brownsville
Bank Antonio Af
el Paso
German Youths Told To March With Red Army
East and West German youth groups under Communist control are urged to back the Soviet army in a new war. The eight point FDJ peace order calls youths six to 24 to promote peace by supporting Soviet forces, backing Oder Neisse borders, and aiding the Communist front in October elections.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Germany
Free German Youth Movement
FDS
East Berlin
Stalin
FDJ
Central Secretariat
Oder-Neisse
Germany
Poland
Communist National Front
Czech Defense Chief Hails Russian Alliance
Defense Minister Alexei Cepicka praised a Czech Russian alliance at a graduation ceremony in Prague, arguing the pact should cause Western warmongers to reconsider. He stated the Czech air force training is not aggressive as claimed of Western militaries.
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Prague
Alexei Cepicka
Russia
Radec Kralovo
Egyptian Ministers Ban British and French Papers
Cairo reports the Council of Ministers banned the Picture Post of London and Paris Samedi Soir from circulation in Egypt. No reasons were provided for the action.
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Cairo
Egypt
Council of Ministers
Picture Post
London
Paris
Samedi Soir
Wellington Quake Awakens City With Minor Shocks
A sharp earthquake woke most Wellington residents shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday. No damage was reported.
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Wellington
N. Z
USPH Officials Fear Polio May Rise Suddenly
Washington reports the polio situation still uncertain as the 1949 epidemic record looms. Officials note 1,087 cases since March 1 versus 1,103 last year, warn a sudden rise is possible, and urge general health, rest, avoiding crowds, and delaying tonsil operations while stressing unknown transmission paths.
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USPH
Washington
Smuts Shows Encouraging Recovery From Pneumonia
JOHANNESBURG June 18 Smuts 80 was reported to be showing encouraging improvement after a new treatment doctors said he had an excellent night as he battles pneumonia.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Jan Christiaan Smuts
South Africa
Anglican bishop urges longer Tokyo occupation stay
Sydney dispatch reports Michael Yashiro, the presiding Anglican bishop of Japan, arguing that occupying forces should remain in Japan for four to five years to provide stability and strength to the country.
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Sydney
Australia
Japan
Michael Yashiro
FBI closing in on more suspects in Fuchs-Gold spy ring
The FBI, while not commenting, is believed to be building a strong case against two or more additional individuals linked to the Fuchs-Gold Soviet atomic spy ring. The development follows recent arrests of Alfred Slack and David Greenglass, with officials noting a pattern similar to the Gold case and the Los Alamos involvement.
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Washington
FBI
G-men
Russia
Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Klaus E. J. Fuchs
Fuchs
Alfred Dean Slack
Syracuse
N. Y
David Greenglass
New York City
Slack
Greenglass
Gold
Los Alamos
N. M
Two Injured in Del Valle Fight. Suspects Sought
The Travis County sheriff's office sought three men after an assault that left Manuel Ramos, 36, shot in the thigh and taken to Brackenridge Hospital in fair condition. Another victim, Fred Valdez, received treatment for stab wounds and was released. The incident occurred in the Del Valle area.
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Sheriff's Department
Manuel Ramos
Linden Street
Brackenridge Hospital
Fred Valdez
del Valle
Two Prisoners Escape Wichita County Jail
Two prisoners awaiting transfer to the state prison escaped from the Wichita County jail in Wichita Falls by cutting through two bars. Authorities issued alerts across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico. The fugitives were Billy Wayne Powers 26 a life term convict from Wichita Falls and Edwin Franklin Brewer 36 of Dallas recently sentenced to five years for burglary.
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Wichita Falls
Wichita County
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Billy Wayne Powers
Edwin Franklin Brewer
Dallas
Parker Chiropractic Care Brings Health to Houston Family
Mrs. O. O. Sanders of Houston credits Parker Chiropractic Clinic with curing her sick child and improving her eldest son Charles who had developmental and neurological issues. She praises the care after observing quick fever relief in one son and notable speech and behavior improvements in Charles after two months of adjustments. The piece promotes chiropractic as a logical, effective healing art used by Texans.
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Parker Clinic
Parker Chiropractic Clinic
Houston
O. O. Sanders
Sumner
Parker Chiropractic
Jerry
Charles Sanders
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