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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1949
Page
2
Police Chief R D Boss Thorp announced that 75 Austin intersections were cleared of shrubs weeds and trees considered traffic hazards. The work was done with the parks department under Patrolman J H Joslin with Thorp urging property owners to trim vegetation at intersections.
Private First Class Johnny W. Shriver of 3400 Hillview Road heals from a hip dislocation in Brooke General Hospital Fort Sam Houston aided by USO music. He was injured at Camp Hood with the 149th Division of Military Police National Guard. USO at the Alamo coordinates volunteer entertainment for 42 000 San Antonio area personnel and others served by 170 centers recently reactivated by the USO to provide recreation for peacetime forces.
In Louisville Kentucky on a Sunday two boys aged seven and six found a shiny 50 cent piece and forty eight more in a purse under a tree. Grandfather and father alerted police who sent the coins to the Secret Service after lab tests found only one genuine.
Services will be held here Monday at 4 p m for A A Vordenbaum a Seguin banker who collapsed and died while playing golf with two friends.
About 400 Texas bankers arrive in Austin for the Bankers Educational Conference, sponsored by the Texas Bankers Association and University of Texas, with three days of lectures on current banking problems, especially agricultural credit, in Hogg Auditorium. Delegates check into campus dormitories.
Marlon Brando reportedly signs for his first motion picture role in The Men to be produced by Stanley Kramer with Fred Zinnemann directing Teresa Wright co starring Brando rose to fame on Broadway in Streetcar Named Desire and is hailed as a future screen star. Production starts this month.
Two week choral festival begins Tuesday at First Baptist Church to establish a full time music program led by James Berry assisted by John Kemp and Mrs. Kemp. Sessions include voice instruction and nightly rehearsals through September 16 with participation open to interested singers.
Defense Minister Randolfo Pacciardi announced at a Pescara rally that Italy will modernize its navy starting in 1950. Italy can rebuild after January 1, 1950, within treaty tonnage limits of two battleships four cruisers four destroyers and smaller craft.
A West Berlin paper says a German prisoner of war freed from World War I has returned after 31 years. A woman in Gernrode received a telegram and met a train arrival, only to learn the man stepping off was her aged husband Fritz, long listed as missing.
Negotiations reportedly underway for television rights to Gone With the Wind as a Margaret Mitchell Memorial Program with a possible Austin rollout. Bing Crosby resumes CBS broadcasts September 21 with Abe Burrows Judy Garland as guests, and Bob Hope on October 5 with Peggy Lee returning as a regular. Stardust author Hoagy Carmichael notes earnings near 250000. James Agee’s Life Magazine piece on comedy prompts praise for Chaplin Lloyd Keaton Langdon. Top tunes listed by Variety include You're Breaking My Heart and Some Enchanted Evening among others.
A 15-year-old girl Charlotte Burns admitted to beating her sleeping father Charles Burns to death with a hammer after stating he would not take her places. Her 12-year-old brother Louis was with her as they fled to the brush and hid before authorities arrested them. The siblings later helped their mother with chores before the escape.
Several hundred Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from Texas visited the Corsicana children’s home and the Ennis old folks home. Donations were received for a new chapel at Ennis. Corsicana trustee J. S. Ellett presided. M. M. Madison welcomed the group and presented grand lodge officers. An Ennis program followed with a fine arts and musical showing led by C. M. McLaughlin and Mrs. Bessie Carter.
A Navy torpedo bomber crashed in a cow pasture near Honesdale, killing three crewmen and injuring a fourth who parachuted and fractured an ankle. Lieutenant H. L. Smith, navigator, survived. other identities withheld pending Navy investigation. The craft, en route from Akron to Quonset Point, plowed into a stone wall and broke apart without fire.
Auguste Mazoyer, French soaring champion, was killed when his glider, released from a tow at about 3000 feet near Geneva airport, descended rapidly and went out of control after towline release late Saturday.
Dr. Ralph R. Parker, 61, co discoverer of a vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever and director of NIH Rocky Mountain laboratory, died Sunday of a heart attack in Hamilton Montana after a brief illness.
New York report notes stock and commodity markets in the US and Canada will be closed Monday for Labor Day observance.
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