Houston to Produce Plays for Release in New York Plan
Ralph Mead announced a plan to move stage play production from New York to Houston with shows staged at the Shamrock Hotel Emerald Room then moved to Rockefeller Center Rainbow Room in New York. The first year aims for four plays with mixed New York professionals and Houston locals, financed by local share sales.
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Tot Crushed by Wheel After Car Fall in Childress
In Childress a 19 month old girl named Diane Wakefield fell from a car and was crushed by the right front wheel. She died shortly after arriving at Jeter Townsend Clinic. This marked the second similar accident in 42 days in the city.
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INS
Diane Wakefield
Jeter Townsend Clinic
L. E. Wakefield
Point of View: Auditor Fixes King County Form Heading
Seattle June 23. County Auditor Robert Morris spotted a typo in the monthly financial report forms to county department heads. The last column should read Unexpended Balance, not Unexp pected Balance, and the next 5 000 forms will be corrected.
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Robert Morris
King County
Designers push bras for 24 hours wear including bedtime
New York reports that brassiere makers aim for women to wear bras 24 hours a day including at night. Jed Sylibert cites 80 percent adoption and five million women using falsies, with a decade of campaigns expanding sales and boosting sweater demand.
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Jed Sylibert
Guild
Sylbert
Mexico Expands Border Patrols Against Smuggling Rings
More than 100 federal agents from the Federal Security Police will be reassigned to border points after a Ciudad Juarez seizure of contraband valued near a million pesos. Five smugglers were captured, with weapons and vehicles seized, and charged with smuggling resisting arrest and assault.
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Marcelino Inurreta
Ciudad Juarez
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Ramon Valdemar
Alberto Leal
Lorenzo Ramirez
Victor Renteria
Tucker Aides File Not Guilty Pleas in Court
Preston Tucker and six co defendants pleaded not guilty before Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan to charges of SEC violations mail fraud and conspiracy in Tucker Corporation operations. Judge Sullivan referred the case for reassignment due to a related conflict but declined immediate trial, citing a crowded docket and possible delay. Floyd D. Cerf, head of the investment firm that raised 18 million for Tucker, also pleaded not guilty.
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Preston Tucker
Philip L. Sullivan
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Tucker Corporation
Frank J. McAdams
Sullivan
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McAdams
Floyd D. Cerf
St Johns Day Traditions Brought by Canary Islanders to Texas
The Texas Latin American community observes St John’s Day with rituals. People dip in ponds or bathe, a hair blessing via doorsill and hatchet, and the Las Mananitas serenade for John derived names at dawn. Canary Islanders settlers in San Antonio are credited with these customs.
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John
San Antonio
Memphis boarding house uses toy horn to signal bathroom access
At Mrs. Margaret Dozier's boarding house in Memphis residents avoid lines by honking a toy horn near the door when the coast is clear, signaling bathroom availability.
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Memphis
Tenn
Margaret Dozier
Andy of Houston Receives Star-Studded Tribute
Ralph Alexander Anderson known as Andy, longtime Houston Press columnist, was feted at a 750-person dinner in the Emerald Room of the Shamrock Hotel. Gene Tunney and many leading journalists, politicians, and sports figures praised his 59 years of service as a community voice. A maroon 1949 Lincoln was presented as a surprise gift to Andy and his wife.
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Musician Hal Grayson Arrested After Sanity Hearing
Hollywood reports Hal Grayson former five thousand dollar weekly orchestra leader was arrested on suspicion of drunkenness after a dispute with a cab driver on private property. He had just been declared sane by a superior court jury days earlier following a psychiatric hearing.
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Hal Grayson
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Explorer Scouts Sail On Pacific
A group of 23 Ogden Utah Explorer Scouts aged 15 to 21 sailed Thursday aboard a Navy transport for a 15 day Pacific cruise. The Navy said it marked the first time Boy Scout trainees traveled on an active Pacific Fleet ship, with prior cruises on reserve vessels. The group toured the bay area Wednesday and sailed aboard the USS General Breckenridge for Pearl Harbor and return.
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Iowan Is Guest Of J. F. Wright
Mrs Fern Johnston of Ottumwa Iowa is visiting in the home of Mr and Mrs J F Wright at 1804 East 22nd. The two women were wartime neighbors in Portland Oregon where their husbands worked at the Swan Island shipyard.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
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Ore
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