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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1948
Page
2
Tehran newspapers report Soviet frontier guards attacked Iranian border troops last Tuesday, killing one Iranian soldier and wounding others. A government source confirmed the reports as true.
French and English forces fought a final stand on Chimney Island in Ontario in 1760 as European powers contested North American control.
Williamson County voters attend last town hall on reallocating tax levy funds to road work and improvements. Judge Sam Stone and Commissioner W C Stern call meetings across the county. Hoxie School gathering endorses the amendment and road bond proposal to connect Precinct 4 communities.
The Seventh District convention of the Laymen's League of Texas Christian Churches met in Llano at the local Christian Church. Bruce Banks of Taylor opened with worship, and Mayor M. C. Dalhan welcomed attendees. Mrs. Jay D. Howell led the morning program with guest speakers from Fort Worth, Austin, Smithville, Indianapolis, Luling, and Austin. A banquet followed at Hotel Liano.
Mrs. Gwyreldyn Conger Steinbeck was granted a Reno divorce from John Steinbeck on grounds of extreme cruelty of a mental nature. They wed in 1943 in New Orleans and have two children, Thom, aged four, and John, two, with custody settled separately. Steinbeck resides in Pacific Grove, California. Mrs. Steinbeck is to testify in the November murder inquiry into Leonard H. Wolff’s death near Reno.
The average restaurant roe serving equals half a large shad roe, about 10 000 to 15 000 eggs. A single fish yields from 23 000 to 32 000 eggs in its roe.
Tuesday 300 delegates from 78 churches in the Kerrville District of the Southwest Texas Conference will meet at the First Methodist Church of Kerrville. Forty one pastors will attend and participate in the gathering.
General James A. Van Fleet’s personal plane, loaned to a Greek Army corps commander, was destroyed by a guerrilla mine during landing at Florina Airport. Van Fleet was not aboard. five Americans and the Greek general escaped injury as the aircraft burned. Four more mines were later found on the field, likely planted by the Mt. Vafiades guerrilla group entrenched west of the town near the Yugoslav border.
The battered body of Irving Ross an ECA mission official was found in his abandoned car in Vienna s Soviet zone. A girl companion blamed four Russian soldiers and was hospitalized with a skull fracture. American officials confirmed the death but withheld details.
The angler fish features a stiff bar behind its mouth with a dangling lure resembling fresh meat. When a small fish takes the bait, it is swallowed by the angler fish.
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