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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
13
President Truman nominated Victor Russell to a second term as collector of customs at Port Arthur Texas. He also named Joseph L Wisniewski as US marshal for eastern Michigan to succeed the late John J Barc.
Puerto Rico Labor Commissioner Fernando Sierra refused Citrus Emergency Harvest Inc of Los Angeles a request for Puerto Rican workers. He said the governor Earl Warren had promised not to send Puerto Rican labor to California while unemployment exists. He noted contracts were being signed to send workers to the Midwest and Northwest where demand persists.
The Dun and Bradstreet index of wholesale food prices this week declined to 5.77 from 5.79, 14.5 percent below the year-ago level of 6.75. The index covers total wholesale cost of a pound of 31 common foods. higher prices were seen for wheat corn rye barley sugar eggs potatoes and lambs while oats bellies lard butter cheese milk cottonseed oil cocoa steers and hogs fell.
President Truman signed into law the Air Force plan to build a protective radar network for national air approaches. The project in cooperation with Canada will cost about 161 million dollars with roughly half for radar bases and the remainder for equipment. The system includes offshore radar picket vessels run by the Navy under Air Force control.
ATLANTA March 30. The lights glare as two suspects point to a nervous Negro in a reversed lineup. Detective Lt. Glyn Cowan drums up two men held in connection with a holdup. The victim was first questioned, then suspects identified him. Strickland could not pick out anyone. Heard and Burch identified the victim and admitted the $7 holdup.
In Bristol a county court ruled that under English law an illegitimate child is not the father’s child but solely the mother’s. The case involved a landlord seeking to evict a man, a woman, and their illegitimate child. the court held the family clause of the rents act does not apply as the word family hinges on marriage.
Mabel Viscountess Exmouth widow of the 7th Viscount Exmouth died in Hindhead Surrey England at age 77. She was the daughter of the late Richard Gray of San Francisco and Queen's County Ireland.
In Hiroshima on March 30 Miss Tazu Hirano, 80, walked four miles because no transportation was available to reach the wedding with groom Jinbei Oshige, 81. The ceremony was held at the groom’s house.
Butlin and associates press ahead with a potential 4.5 million dollar Butlin Texas holiday village near Austin. William E Butlin led talks in the Bahamas with a New York prospectus awaited. The foundation praised local lawmakers for enabling a 15 million dollar Lower Colorado River Authority dam program.
During World War II more than 280000 Americans were killed in action while cancer caused 607000 deaths in the same period. The stark figures contrast military losses with disease as public health concerns rise.
Earl Henry Waller 61 a rancher and market operator of Bruni died at his home Tuesday night after a heart attack in Laredo March 30.
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