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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1950
Page
5
Leonard Johnson 24, a hotel porter, died from injuries after falling three floors into an elevator shaft at the Herring Hotel in Amarillo. He stepped into the shaft on the 12th floor and landed on a descending elevator on the ninth floor.
In Charleroi Pennsylvania on May 4 a local centenarian Aunt Hannah Carson celebrated her 106th birthday. She sampled cake and predicted she will be back for more cake in about a year.
An 11 year old boy in Detroit developed gasoline fume addiction after sniffing fuels from the family car. Doctors report the boy saw goblin like figures, suffered hallucinations, and required sleep medication to recover. They warn that children should avoid gasoline fumes and note similar naptha exposure among workers.
Janet Eberle fifteen-year-old polio patient traveled 210 miles from White Plains New York to Polyclinic Hospital Harrisburg in a moving van due to the size of her iron lung. Police escorts cleared the way and her father Edwin Eberle a carpenter reported she handled the journey well as nurses and a doctor accompanied her. Her van carried a special engine to keep the respirator running during the trip.
Three Galveston fishing vessels overdue four days limped into the Cristobal harbor Panama Canal Zone. The Coast Guard had ordered a radio check along the Gulf and Caribbean coastlines for the trio. The ex Navy mine sweepers, owned by Oceanic Foods Inc, were bound for tuna waters off Peru. One ship reported a motor breakdown and the others towed the disabled vessel.
In Prague on May 4 the government newspaper attacked Pope Pius XI for meeting with US Chamber of Commerce representatives. It charged the Holy Year in Rome blessed monopolists and compared them to German war criminals and Franco.
London May 4 Britain appointed Dr Maurice H L Pryce 37 Englishman to succeed atom spy Dr Klaus Fuchs as chief of the theoretical physics division at Harwell The ministry of supply announced Pryce studied at Princeton 1935 37 Fuchs a German born naturalized citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison on March 1 for betraying secrets to Russia.
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