Deaths and Funerals Notices
Funeral services are listed for Fabian Villanueva at Guadalupe Church on Friday at 3 pm with burial in Memorial Park. Emily Louise Grubbs of Lebbannon Illinois dies in a local hospital. survivors include three grandchildren in Pennsylvania and Illinois. body sent to Pittsburgh for services. Bertha Estell Correll to have 2 pm Friday services at Cook Funeral Home with Memorial Park burial. Amanda Witte Taylor 72 dies. services at 2 pm Friday at St Paul Lutheran Taylor with burial in Taylor City Cemetery. body at Condra Funeral Home until noon Friday.
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Fabian Villanueva
Guadalupe Church
Memorial Park
Emily Louise Grubbs
Lebannon
Elmer Grubbs
Pittsburgh
Mable Goldstrom
Wallace Fe, Rubbs
Lebanon
Cook Funeral Home
Bertha Estell Correll
Carlyle Marney
Amanda Witte Taylor
Amanda Witte
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Taylor
E. Herber
Taylor City Cemetery
Condra Funeral Home
Russians boast of world’s biggest Moscow subway station
London dispatch reports Moscow radio claims Russians will have the world’s largest subway station. A commentator says Russian garment factories now use machines that sew 50 percent faster than any in capitalist countries, performing over 1,000 operations previously done by hand.
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Moscow
Heroism Award For Sea Rescue To WAF Lt O Hara
WAF First Lieutenant Mary Patricia O Hara received the nation’s top peacetime heroism award for saving Katherine Boening from rough Galveston waters last July. Major General Charles W. Lawrence presented the Soldier’s Medal at Lackland AFB. O Hara, health development instructor with the 3700th WAF Training Group, left a shuffleboard game to enter treacherous seas and pull the 21 year old Galveston woman to safety. The citation praised her complete disregard for personal safety and cited Fort Crockett Texas officers who recommended the award.
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San Antonio
WAF
Mary Patricia O'Hara
Galveston Beach
Charles W. Lawrence
Air Force
Lackland Afb
O'Hara
V. C. O’harra
Vancouver
D. C
Air Force” Base
Katherine Boening
Galveston
O'Harra
University of Washington
Lackland
Grace M. Barth
Fort Crockett
Texas
United States Air Force
Magazine Lists Kissing Cautions
New York magazine Wo man s Life offers ten rules for kissing. Rules cover avoiding public displays, well ventilated rooms, temperature changes, contagious diseases, and post kiss health precautions.
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New York
Woman’s Life
Panhandle Wreck Kills Three, Slows Palmer County Officials
In Palmer County near Friona, a crash Thursday killed Mrs. R. H. Stone of Hereford and her nine month old baby along with Frank Phillips of Farwell, Palmer County commissioner. Two other children were seriously injured and several others were in critical condition. The Stone family was en route with Mrs. Pate to Clovis New Mexico when the collision occurred between a car and a pickup two miles east of Friona.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
R. H. Stone
Hereford
Frank Phillips
Farwell
Palmer County
Friona
Weather forecast for Austin area with cloudy skies
Weather report for Austin area notes cloudy conditions with a chance of rain. Hourly readings show temperatures from the mid eighties to around one hundred degrees during the day with winds near fifty to sixty mph in some gusts.
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Ureay
Austin
Escasiona
Sunnel
Margaret OBrien’s mother denies child caused divorce
Mrs Gladys Sylvia, Margaret O’Brien’s mother, says the child did not cause the divorce from bandleader Don Sylvie. She explains she was pressured into marriage after threats of self harm and photographers pressuring a Florida ceremony. Syvie blames Margaret’s influence for the split.
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Margaret O’brien
Hollywood
Margaret O'Brien
Gladys Sylvie
Margaret
Don Sylvie
Sylvia
Florida
Damage Suits Shape Life of Infamous Litigant
Arthur R. Van Wyke, famed for filing about 156 billion dollars in damage suits against Mae West and others, is jailed in Los Angeles area after an 890 dollar suit. A Santa Monica hotel accuses him of renting suites for 2000 dollars monthly yet paying only 110 during two weeks. Bond forfeiture, probation hearing set for November 7, and multiple grand theft convictions and appeals thread his case, including a trial Monday on a used car sale charge.
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Los Angeles
Arthur R. van Wyke
Mae West
Santa Monica
State Supreme Court
Wherry Sees Tax Cut Not Increase
Republican Leader Wherry said in Washington that Congress is more likely to approve a tax cut than a tax increase for the next session. He expects wartime excise taxes to be trimmed, arguing a fair and equitable tax bill will be considered, while noting Democrats may avoid new tax hikes in an election year.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Wherry
Capitol Hill
Texas Herefords win Louisiana Fair honors
Texas Herefords dominated the Louisiana State Fair Hereford show with George Staton of Johnson City Texas exhibiting the grand champion bull and M Andrews of Fort Worth presenting the reserve champion.
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Shreveport
George Staton
Johnson City
Texas
M. ©. Andrews
Fort Worth
Hunted Convict's Picture Identified By Attack Victim
A 64 year old man beaten near Cameron identified James H. Mitchell 20 as one of two attackers who robbed him and left him in a ditch after attending his wife's funeral in Houston. Mitchell is an escaped convict from a Houston area prison farm. The victim said two boys picked him up in Brenham then forced him off Highway 77 four miles north of Cameron where he was assaulted and robbed of car hat boots watch and about $10. He later came to and reported the incident to hospital staff.
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Midland
Houston
Brenham
Cameron
Tabor
Ambassador Picked for Yugoslavia
President Truman named George W. Allen as ambassador to Yugoslavia, replacing ill health retiree Cavendish W. Cannon. Allen will advance the Tito Kremlin split policy, with Mansfield tentatively named as next assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Allen, 45, entered diplomacy in 1930 and just returned from London after meeting Eastern European ambassadors.
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Washington
Truman
George W. Allen
Yugoslavia
Allen
London
Europe
Cavendish W. Cannon
Cannon
Marshal Tito
Kremlin
Moscow
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
New York
Mansfield
Belgrade
Tito
United States
UN Security Council
VA Does Not Favor McCloskey VA Hospital Use
A Temple citizens committee said the Veterans Administration told them no request exists to lease part of McCloskey VA hospital for a state eleemosynary institution. VA Chief Carl Gray reportedly resisted sharing any veterans facilities with another agency.
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Temple
A_ citizens committee
Veterans Administration
McCloskey VA Hospital
Washington
Carl Gray
Gray
McCloskey
Veterans Hospital
Frank Mayborn
Nothing Faster For Headache Relief Ad
An old advertisement touts BC as an ultra fast headache relief product. It claims multiple analgesic ingredients work together for neuralgic pains and minor muscular aches and offers tablets and powder at 10¢ and 25¢.
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