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Newspaper

Austin American

Location

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 12, 1949

Page

3

Diverse Obituaries Reported From Local Funeral Homes

Funeral services were held or set for multiple residents and relatives across the area. William Lieberum 38 years Austin family survivors include four daughters and two sons. Infant son of Stanley Law son Jr. burial Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs John Matysek Sr 72 died in Taylor with children Frank Joe Johnnie and others. Mrs Brown White 72 buried Memorial Park. Elizabeth S Rumsey 79 buried Oakwood with listed pallbearers. Tommy Alex Troll 42 buried Copperas Cove. Mrs Cleo Bentley funeral at Cook Funeral Home with daughter L F Fruge.

William Lieberum Cook Funeral Home M. B. Harris Memorial Park Lieberum Austin Frieda Hunke Alvin Kerlin Clara Galler Raphine Werchan Adolph Lieberum Alfred Lieberum Lawson Stanley Lawson Jr J. E. Chester Oakwood Cemetery Ronnie Lynn Lawson John Matysek Taylor Czechoslovakia Eddie Schoen Lydia Matysek Frank Joe Johnnie Condra St. Mary’s Catholic Church Stephen Brown J. J. Polansky St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery Brown White Weed- Corley C. S. McKinney Alamo Heights Elizabeth Rumsey Elizabeth S. Rumsey Weed-Corley O. C. Crow Curtis R. Hale Sr Curtis R. Hale Jr J. D. Grubbs T. L. Rylander Ed Mallett H. H. Studer Tommy Alex Troll Hylton Manor R. B. Sweet University Church of Christ Copperas Cove Cleo Bentley

Smithville Club Hosts Preschool Show for Safety Talk

The Smithville Optimist Club hosted about 500 school children at a Saturday morning matinee at the Texas Theater. Speakers Julius Roensch police chief Hands Pearce school superintendent and Bob Dexter theater manager supplemented a Roy Rogers film to stress bicycle safety for students.

Smithville

Cancer Experts Press Five Point Plan to Detect Cancer Early

At a national conference in Portsmouth 60 experts outlined a five point program to find silent lethal cancers early. They urged universal doctor office cancer detection clinics improved centers and wider chest X ray surveys for TB. Government backing for simple blood tests was pledged with hopes of saving 100000 lives annually.

Alton L. Blakeslee Associated Press Portsmouth N. H American Cancer Society John R. Heller National Cancer Institute

Ethiopians Celebrate Own New Years Day

Ethiopians marked New Year on Sunday in Addis Ababa as the country follows its own calendar. Emperor Haile Selassie hosted an open house at the palace while a thousand sheep were slaughtered for the traditional raw mutton feast.

Addis Ababa Ethiopia Haile Slassie

Representative Favors Inquiry Of Navy Row Over Power Wreck Charge

Representative Sasscer urged Congress to probe defense roles amid charges the Navy is being weakened by Pentagon policy. Captain Crommelin alleged the attack bomber force is deteriorating and morale is down, criticizing the general staff and the Tydings law.

Washington Sasscer D-Md Congress Pentagon Navy Army Air Force John G. Crommelin Lasseer Crommelin General Staff Tydings Senate Armed Services Committee

Austrian Catholic Vote Rule Issued

Austrian Catholic bishops issued a joint decree urging believers to vote against an anti church leftist dictatorship in the Oct. 9 elections. The Presidium of Catholic Action implied support for Leopold Figl’s Peoples Party and called abstaining voters sinful, stressing democracy and religious freedom as at stake.

Vienna Austria Catholic Action Leopold Figl Peoples Party

Condition of Man Hurt At Taylor Is Improved

Angel Serato of Los Angeles, struck by a car while crossing a Taylor street Saturday, is reported in improved condition Sunday. He was with a cotton picking crew.

Taylor Angel Serato Los Angeles Dallas Richard Slocum Lancaster

Senator Morse Injured in Oregon State Fair Race

Senator Wayne Morse, 49, Oregon Republican, was thrown from his sulky during the Oregon State Fair Horse Show. He suffered a back injury and a temporary concussion, with X rays showing he is in good condition and likely to be released within a few days. He was unconscious briefly after his head hit the tanbark arena floor.

Salem Ore Wayne Morse Oregon Tanbark Arena

Burnet Eastern Star Members Attend Austin Installation

Burnet Chapter 425 of the Eastern Star sent eight members to the Fidelis Chapter installation in Austin last week. Attendees included Mrs. Emma Ulrich Mr. and Mrs. Amos Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Bill Novell Mrs age 4 Dodson and Mrs. Ora Baer.

Burnet The Eastern Star Fidelis Austin Emma Ulrich Amos Jenkins Bill Novell Dodson Ora Baer

Eastern European Scheme Charged To Tito by Reds

Prague dispatch reports the Czechoslovak Communist newspaper Rude Pravo alleging a Tito led plan to unite Eastern Europe against the Soviet Union. The piece ties Budapest meetings in 1948 to an assassination and military plot involving Laszlo Rajk and Matyas Rakosi as part of a wider anti Soviet campaign.

Prague Czechoslovakia Marshal Tito Yugoslavia Eastern Europe Russia Czechoslovak Communist Sunday Rude Pravo Red Right Hungary Tito Budapest Alexander Rankovic Laszlo Rajk Rajk Matyas Rakosi Gyorgy Palffy Pravo

Magician Trunk Trick Nets Robbers in Cambridge Cab

Cambridge Massachusetts. Cab driver Roscoe O Spooner 26 used a trunk trick to trap two suspected armed robbers Francis J Tagen 24 and John Fitzpatrick 23 who allegedly robbed him of $8 in Charlestown then tried to abandon the cab Spooner freed himself and flagged a police officer to detain the pair.

Cambridge Mass Roscoe O. Spooner Charlestown Spooner Francis J. Tagen John Fitzpatrick

Detective Slayer Dies at Guns Of Three Policemen in St. Paul

In St Paul Minnesota a Negro gunman Oliver L Crutcher 30 killed detective Allan Lee and wounded Patrolman Odean ron pea before police killed him with a hail of bullets James Griffin 32 a Negro patrolman helped seize Crutcher after he hid under a bed in a tear gas filled apartment Crutcher died en route to the hospital Police said he had a long juvenile record of petty crime

ST. Paul Minn Oliver L. Crutcher James Griffin Crutcher Griffin Allan Lee Lee Odean Ron Pea Minnesota Capitol

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