Patterson Case Faces Deliberation as Jury Recessed
In federal court Judge Ben H. Rice Jr. recessed the Patterson forged government check case after a 5 p.m. deadline with jurors excused to Friday at 9:30 a.m. The judge, called to San Antonio, had the defendant's testimony read to the jury. Also, Mrs. Irland West won $3,000 in a civil action against Anchor Casualty Company over injuries to her husband from the Southwestern Tate Corp. deaths from heart disease.
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James F. Patterson
Ngoon
Ben H. Rice Jr
Rice
San Antonio
Anchor Casualty Company
Mrs Hiss Denies Part In Passing US Documents to Reds
New York June 3. Mrs Priscilla Hiss testified in the federal perjury trial of her husband Alger Hiss denying any role in passing state secrets to a Russian spy ring. She said she did not type or hand over documents to Whittaker Chambers and did not see her husband hand them to him. The government alleges the Hisses used a Woodstock typewriter to copy exhibits 5 through 47.
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Mrs. Hiss
Reds
New York
Priscilla Hiss
Alger
Soviet Union
Chambers
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Hiss
State Department
Hitchhiking Pests Reach Across Borders
Air travelers report pests hitchhiking on planes between nations as an emerging hazard. Experts warn insects can travel unseen in luggage and cargo, risking agricultural and ecological impacts. Officials urge inspections and stricter controls at ports of entry.
Weather Keeps Crime Dormant in Austin Burglary and Theft Reported
Police reported only one burglary and one theft in Austin on Wednesday as heat kept crime low. The Standard Drug Company on Guadalupe Street was entered during the night with 15 cartons of cigarettes 40 in change a cigarette lighter and some drug tablets stolen. Entry was gained by prying a side shutter. Detectives H H Kullenberg and A G Renck investigated with a fingerprint check that proved unsuccessful. Mrs Cyrus Miller of East Fifth Street said a car radio was taken from her vehicle while parked near the post office.
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Austin
Standard Drug Company
Guadalupe Street
James Reynolds
H. H. Kullenberg
A. G. Renck
Cyrus Miller
East Fifth Street
Boy, 6, Behind Wheel Sparks Traffic Trouble in San Francisco
Six year old Richard Bates started a car left by his mother Patricia Bates. Police cited him for multiple traffic violations after the car backed into an intersection hit a patrolman, collided with a taxi and another car, disobeyed pedestrian right of way, and ran a stop sign backward. The officer hit kept his citation back.
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San Francisco
Richard Bates
Edward Martinson
Patricia Bates
Magnificent captain court-martialed after carrier runs aground
Commodore George R. Miles, senior Canadian naval officer afloat, is relieved of command of the aircraft carrier Magnificent after a naval court-martial finds him negligent for letting the ship run aground on June 4 near Port Mouton. Two hundred feet of the 18,000 ton hull were damaged, and Magnificent lies in dry dock awaiting repairs costing about one million dollars.
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Halifax
N. S
INS
George R. Miles
Canada
Magnificent
Port Mouton Harbor
Anchorage
Lucky Strike Cigarettes Advertise Superior Tobacco Quality
A steady stream of tobacco samples from all growing areas goes to Richmond laboratory analysts. Reports of quality guide buyers at auctions for Lucky Strike makers, who rely on confidential scientific data and judgment to select finer, lighter, milder tobacco for their cigarettes.
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America
Richmond
Virginia
Truck Driver Injured In Wreck Shooting
A 56 year old truck driver Roy Morise is in critical condition after a shooting linked to a minor auto crash on Houston street Tuesday night. Suspect Robert L. Windsor 59 a nightwatchman is charged with assault to murder and carrying a pistol before Justice of the Peace Tom Maes.
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Houston
Roy Morise
Houston Street
Robert L. Windsor
Justice of the Peace
Tom Maes
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Gorter
Austin Life E Insurance Company
Goe
Oaru Tas
Canada Dry
Lloyd Liquid
Lucky Strike
Americas
Cyste Tre
Treadwell
Optometrists
Boek
the American Tobacco Company
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