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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1949
Page
10
The university film committee presents The Four Norsemen of the Apocalypse starring Rudolph Valentino. The 1921 Metro release, based on Vicente Blasco Ibanez novel, features Rex Ingram directing with Valentino as Julio and Alice Terry as a Parisian butterfly.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. campaigns in the 20th District on the West Side, aiming to unseat Tammany candidate Municipal Judge Benjamin Shalock. He runs on a Liberal Four Freedoms Party slate after failing to secure the Democratic nomination, facing Republican William H. McIntyre and Annette Rubenstein of the American Labor Party amid weak prospects for both opponents.
The Daily Compass, a tabloid morning newspaper, issued its first edition in New York on Monday. It printed 150000 copies.
The United States readies a bold 125 million dollar program to aid underdeveloped regions in Latin America Africa Middle East and the Far East. It aims to prime private capital with long term projects in health agriculture reclamation flood control hydro power and trade ties to curb communism and boost Western markets. Turkey serves as a test with six million from ECA and US know how plus boats trains highways and farm machinery.
The tire industry reports curing a major problem with synthetic tubes in extreme cold. Winter tests show improved butyl rubber tubes resist buckling and air leakage that plagued Northern states and Canada in prior years. Butyl, a postwar synthetic, supplanted earlier GRS due to better performance.
Michel Havard an 88 year old French musician died in Santa Monica California after years of ill health attributed by relatives to malnutrition during the Nazi occupation of France He passed away Saturday in a local hospital Orgn and others not specified
Mrs. Ethel Knight of Norfolk reports the loss of two luggage pieces at a Greyhound station Sunday night. The large bag held shoes, a white suit, a sterling silver dish and dresses. the small bag contained costume and authentic jewelry including two sapphires. The tag shows Norfolk to Memphis to Dallas to Austin. A reward is offered. call Harvey O. Payne at 2-2424.
Boston May 16 Secretary of Labor Maurice J Tobin says his department could have averted the Ford motor strike He told reporters he wished the strike had come under his jurisdiction and would have prevented the stoppage.
J. Emory Clark a sales counselor will address the Austin Rotary Club at Tuesday noon. He is conducting a salesman ship school in Austin under sponsorship of the Sales Executives Club of Austin.
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