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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1949
Page
9
The Rev. William Morley a 30 year old priest at St Joan of Arc Catholic Church received a gun permit from the board of safety to exterminate 30 pigeons blocking redecoration of the church in Indianapolis.
Rita Hayworth plans to resume her movie career, with agent John Hyde stating she will return to Hollywood by October and earn about 5000 dollars weekly. Aly Khen supports the move while pursuing California horse racing interests, as the couple completes their Cannes wedding events amid a French marriage act.
In New York a mother, Mrs. Geraldine Vetter, 38, was sentenced to up to three years in the penitentiary after being convicted of burning her nine year old son’s right hand over a stove last Thanksgiving. Judge Owen W. Bohan said she deserved no sympathy and the act was to frighten the boy who she claimed stole change from her purse.
A page from The Austin American presents a humor feature titled Time for Fun with a list of word associations and reader supplied jokes. It includes cartoons and samples such as a California reader Betty Anne Robinson and a Newark reader John Pastore, plus a chalk on the boat gag and a station name riddle.
Yoshinari Kajihiro, a former Japanese soldier, goes on trial in St. Louis on grand larceny for stealing a rowboat. He rejects a plea to petty larceny and faces up to two years in prison, saying he would rather jail here than return to Japan. Immigration holds him after admission that he sneakily boarded a U S Army ship and settled in the United States.
Los Alamos scientists face a flea outbreak among local families described as a billion trillion strong. Officials warn the insects may reach a critical mass before a safe solution is found. Only cyanide kills the fleas, but it would kill people. An official jokes about setting off an atomic bomb.
In Wichita Kansas on May 25 an eight year old boy Gerald Duane Howard son of a farmer near Mulvane drowned when a tractor turned over in a creek. He was pinned beneath the machine as his 12 year old brother Gary Lee rode nearby. Passersby pulled the boys from the water but Gerald died.
Gary Lee was taken to a hospital after an incident on the farm left him with cuts. Details on where and how the injury occurred are not provided in the readable text.
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