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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1949
Page
2
White Band PVO rebels initiate a large-scale attack on Sagaing on the Irrawaddy west bank opposite Mandalay. Government reinforcements rush in as this marks the second PVO strike in five days, with prior assault on Sagaing repelled after heavy losses.
Two Georgetown University students John Hurst and Henry Owens survived a five hour ordeal on a jagged rock in the Potomac River near Little Falls. Fishermen and harbor police coordinated a breeches buoy rescue, with belts and lines securing the climbers to safety. Both students, from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, reported no injuries.
National Service Officer Richard H. Crider will be in Austin on Monday and Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Building Ninth and Lavaca to assist veterans. He will also attend the Austin DAV chapter meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. at 307 East Live Oak.
Will Crow of Dripping Springs seeks to buy a carload of mohair at 36 cents a pound but doubts sellers will agree. The piece also reports on the San Marcos area cotton improvement contest, trailer makers in Marble Falls, drought and pest concerns, and Tuesday poultry prices in Austin.
Paris gossip reports Rita Havyworth’s hair darkening as she and Indian Prince Aly Khan plan a quiet civil wedding after Aly injures his leg. The couple deny a post wedding costume ball but confirm nuptials soon after his two week recovery.
Radio Operator Kenneth Sinclair lost a leg to a harpoon injury aboard the Southern Venturer after a loop tore his leg. Messboy Dennis Ord saved him by applying a rope tourniquet and a hammer handle. Sinclair, awake, vowed to return as radio operator if accepted.
A Communist newspaper in Rome claimed Princess Margaret's vacation costs were paid from Italian reparations. A British Embassy source denied the report and an Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman called the story absurd, not even worth a genial response.
Taylor May 8. Charter members of the Taylor Chapter of the Eastern Star will be honored at a covered dish dinner Monday evening starting at 6 30 oclock. A regular meeting will follow.
Three veterans bills gain public hearings before legislative committees. The House state affairs panel will hear the veterans bonus proposal by Rep J A Benton of Wylie at 7 30 p m with an estimated 300 million cost funded by higher cigarette and alcohol taxes. The other two measures go before the House military affairs panel Tuesday at 7 30 p m. Additional hearings include a water districts board of equalization bill before the House conservation panel Monday at 4 p m and a firemen and policemen civil service expansion bill before the House municipal and private corporations panel Tuesday at 8 p m.
Washington reports foreign aid purchases totaling 5,498,187,000 under the Marshall Plan. The Commerce Administration announced 306,076,000 in weekly procurement authorizations for finished goods and key inputs like metals oil chemicals machinery and foodstuffs. Allocations cover Austria Belgium Luxembourg the American British and French zones of Germany Denmark France Greece Italy Indonesia Holland Norway Trieste and Britain.
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