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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1949
Page
8
In Shanghai during May, Communist soldiers are described as sparing the public, declining food and beds, and preferring self restraint. A merchant witness recalls a soldier lecturing crowds on not taking from the public, choosing hot water over tea, and enduring three days without bread. The report notes this discipline as an indicator of the Communist Army’s appeal.
A 16-year-old boy Randolph Brewster is jailed in Cumberland Maryland on murder charges after admitting a bad dream led him to shoot his brother and sister in law Katherine Brewster 18 and Thomas Brewster 23. Katherine died from two shotgun wounds. Thomas was wounded in the leg. The youth claimed he woke dazed then fired after being told to get the gun. He fled with the victims to a hospital before being captured by state police after a high speed chase over mountain roads. The Brewsters had two young sons aged 9 months and two years.
Mrs. Ed win Toulson has been notified of her appointment by the United States Civil Service Commission to the position of post office clerk at Kyle. The appointment was made following a competitive examination. Miss Helen C. Wallace is postmaster here.
In Rutland Vermont on May 26 a war veteran Ralph J Fugatt 29 of Springfield Mass walked free after a Memphis cotton broker Edward C Sanders 38 paid a debt judgment and jail costs totaling 2682 dollars. Fugatt had been jailed indefinitely under an old Vermont debtor law for 2 months over a 2189 dollar judgment. Sanders said the aid was a loan not generosity and Fugatt can now start anew.
Dr. J. J. Johnson has been appointed councilor of the seventh district of the Texas Medical Association, replacing Dr. C. E. Gambrell. He will serve Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Lampasas, Lee, Llano, Travis, and Williamson counties.
June Wilke, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E L Wilke, is elected Taylor High School Band drum major replacing C W Matteck. She becomes the first girl in the role since 1939 when Jackie Titsworth served as drum major.
Fifteen year old Walter Anderson of St Francisville Illinois confessed robbing Bill's restaurant using a .32 pistol and a roll of bills. He said he wanted a new start in life at reform school after being moved between relatives. Anderson was taken to Vincennes police, then turned over for welfare checks.
Moscow reports a decree to raise state deliveries of meat milk butter eggs wool hides bristles down and horsehair by 50 to 100 percent over 1949 1950 and 1951 under the 1949 51 livestock plan. Target totals specify meat hogs eggs milk butterfat and other products for state stores and farms.
An even dozen boys and girls will receive diplomas from St Mary's High School Sunday at St Mary's Catholic Church. The Very Rev Louis J Reicher bishop of the Diocese of Austin will preside at the commencement program. Donnie Zimmerhanzel and Patsy Kovar are co valedictorians and Cecelia Thonig is salutatorian.
Workmen prepare barracks on the Senate lawn as Capitol repairs begin within 30 days. The House meets in the Old House Office Building caucus room after July 1, while the Senate uses the old Supreme Court chamber nearby, a dim room with skylights, a dais for nine justices, and portraits as the body adjourns to its temporary home.
Mrs Izabeth Ernest of New Lebanon was awarded 5000 for breach of a 1947 contract in which Ada Wise of Dayton allegedly agreed to refrain from courting her husband Urban B. Ernst. Detectives testified they saw Mrs Wise with Ernst, though Wise denied any breach. Mrs Ernest, mother of eight, married in 1905.
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