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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1951
Page
1
Former American suspect faces extradition over alleged killing of an OSS officer in Italy during wartime. Case centers on wartime espionage and postwar legal actions involving U.S. nationals with ties to Allied intelligence. Proceedings expected to determine charges and potential extradition terms.
The committee announced its final export decision amid fears of organized crime. Herbert RK Conor stated he preferred letting the station die after 35 intensive hearings.
The article reports on US charged Americans linked to an OSS operation in Italy facing trial in absentia. It cites Roberto Borghese forecasting trial locations Verbania or Novara with possible dates in September or November. Italian suspects Mannini and Tozzini confess, naming Icardi and Lodole as key figures.
Scattered phrases mention Texas, Topeka, and several names including Mrs Ted and Mitina Jordan. The text seems to capture casual social snippets, a tank bath, a meeting, and a weekend visit sequence with unnamed individuals. Sensitive dates or places are unclear due to OCR errors.
Lee Drive grading and paving advance from West Main to Market Street beside Weingarten's. Three crews lay steel and pour concrete at a brisk rate while grading shifts dirt north to form a culvert area. Holland-Page engineers target completion by Lee College opening on September 24.
Twenty six Explorer Scouts and three leaders from East Harris Island depart Baytown by air conditioned bus for a multi state trek to Camp Philmont New Mexico They join about 200 Sam Houston Area Council scouts at Camp Strake and plan a tour through New Mexico West Texas and Mexico visiting Alpine Carlsbad Caverns McDonald Observatory Taos Indian ruins and the atomic proving grounds in New Mexico Advisor Frey leads the group with assistants Veselka Kubik and Arnold Names include Roy Lucas Billy Simmons Bill Martin Reagan Denison Gary Armer Clive Roberson Biddie Sloan Donald Clifton Johnny Veselka Servando Campos Robert Powers John De Verter Raymond Woodroft Lloyd Guidry J G Fo it Jimmy Ji l Wilbur Morrist Travis Porter Gene Brady David Rogers and others.
Three Egyptian divers rejected cash prizes after King Farouk stories offended them. At Folkestone ceremony Hamad Farouk’s masthead dog won 1000 pounds while two teammates each took 250 pounds. Cairo sources say they acted on government orders relayed via Egypt’s London ambassador. Liberal compensation was promised.
Colonel Keith RK Compton 36 of St. Joseph Missouri set the pace in the Bendix race, crossing the National Air Races finish line in his F-36 jet at 1 31 p m EDT today. He became the first finisher from Murroe California, marking a notable early lead in the event.
A Baytown squall dropped 60 mph gusts causing scattered damage and brief power outages, with seven Houston Lighting and Power poles down and a small fire from a fallen limb. Lights returned by morning except Cove Road, ferries paused briefly, temperatures cooled to 71, while 161-degree highs and 100-degree streaks persisted elsewhere.
Alton Wuensch collapsed from heat prostration after a 110 degree fever while operating a machine at the Southern Canning Company in Highlands. Rushed to a Highlands physician then San Jacinto Memorial Hospital, his temperature spiked to 116 degrees as doctors fought to lower it. Wuensch, 22, of 1701 Maryland, had worked at the plant four years and remains in critical condition with convulsions. Other heat victims this week include Elbert C. Long and workers Ocie Payne Jr and Gules Protte, all recovering or stabilized.
Washington reports government grants workers a two percent wage boost to match rising living costs. The new cost-of-living yardstick, approved by Economic Stabilizer Eric A Johnson, loosens wage controls set during the January 26 wage-price freeze, letting increases up to 10 percent above January 1950 levels or aligned with cost-of-living changes since January 25. The Labor Department price index has risen about 1.7 percent in seven months, with new figures due next week. Johnson calls the regulation definitively stabilizing.
A dangerous hurricane with 125 mile per hour winds brushed Jamaica and moves toward the Yucatan Channel and Gulf of Mexico. The Miami Weather Bureau reports the storm, now 5350 miles south of Miami, traveling west-northwest at 20 mph. Past Jamaica blows offer little forecast guidance as it heads toward the Gulf.
Chicago publicist Rudy Turilli offers $10,000 to anyone who proves J Frank Dalton, who died in Texas this week, was not Jesse James. Affidavits from former James gang members back the claim, while Keokuk native Frank Bell recalls seeing James's body in St Joseph. Turilli showed Dalton fingerprints he says match James’s prints.
A four man UN Communist subcommittee met near Hae song Korea to discuss a cease fire on a mapped line. The session lasted 3 hours 18 minutes with lunch break and a new meeting set for 7 pm Baytown time.
Vice Admiral C Turner Joy, UN truce chief, said despite an armistice, UN forces must keep military guard up until a final settlement of the Korean problem. He warned a border stalemate could leave Communist armies a constant, intolerable threat and emphasized protecting troops during any armistice.
In Tehran Britain warned it would pull its 159 oil experts from Iran if negotiations stall. Iran's Vice Premier Fatemi rejected threats, saying Iran would not cede control of its oil sales and would seek other buyers. The standoff followed Iran's Senate approval of a $25 million loan from the US Export-Import Bank to aid its crippled economy.
The FBI rounded up six more Communist Party leaders near Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including Steve Nelson, as part of ongoing raids after the Supreme Court upheld convictions of top leaders. Four fugitives remain subjects of the manhunt as authorities press the crackdown.
San Jose report says Cheyenne, real name Eleanor Steck Roguin, performed an impromptu roadside strip act to free herself after a man she met hours earlier pulled her from her car. She fled along Bayshore Highway pursued by the assailant, who stepped on her ankle and was driven away by motorists Tom Miller and Julian Simon. she was taken to a hospital.
Sergeant Charles H Smith returned home on a 10 day leave from Fort Bliss to attend the funeral of his uncle John E Smith who died Thursday at home in Wooster Ohio. He is the son of Mr and Mrs C E Smith of Harkins.
Wetumka Oklahoma hosts the second annual Sucker Day to lampoon a con man who fleeced residents. Parade floats depict how F. M. Morrison allegedly swindled townsfolk when he toured as an advance man for a circus. Citizens bought ad space, hay, and supplies for elephants amid the mock event.
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