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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1950
Page
3
French designers divide over concealing versus flaunting the female form this spring. Jacques Fath and Dior push straight minimalist lines with short skirts and high collars while Roc Balenciaga and Schiaparelli emphasize hips and bust with flowing skirts, drapery, and tailored waists.
An advertisement promotes Endocreme a hormone cream claimed to combat weather worn skin. It targets outdoor women noting sun wind and water exposure and promises fresher firmer younger looking skin. The copy touts decades of use since 1937 and lists a price of $3.50 plus tax.
Budapest reports a new 16 cent rate for fixed telegrams including birthday greetings and congratulations. One example text says I send my love to the baby and hope that he becomes a militant member of our society building socialism.
Private Raymond Pickens, 19, of Houston, was sentenced to 50 years in prison by an Army court martial for the murder of a Japanese woman on November 23 in Yokohama. The verdict was for second degree murder and is subject to review by a brigadier general and the judge advocate general.
Washington reports that government agencies hoard materials with unnecessary stockpiles. The General Services Administration told the House Appropriations Committee that one agency holds a 93 year supply of light bulbs, 247 year supply of looseleaf binders, and 168 year supply of filler paper, highlighting wasteful inventory practices.
SAN ANTONIO March 14. Two men charged with the daylight robbery by assault of the Gulf Brokerage Company were placed under 5000 bond each in a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace M. D Jones. Charles A. King 28 of Quanah and Malcolm K. James 31 of Dallas were the defendants.
Felipe Nolasco Alonzo, 17, faced a murder charge in Justice Travis Blakeslee's court after a pistol slaying at a cafe on Webberville Road. Alonzo says he shot the wrong man while attempting to help a friend, wounding John Contreras, 21, who died eight hours later at Brackenridge Hospital.
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