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Newspaper

Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1950

Page

3

Lancaster College student confesses to fatal murder

State police said 25 year old Le Gibbs, a senior at Marshal College, confessed to fatally beating 21 year old Miss Jim Baker on a lover’s lane near Lancaster after offering a ride from campus. He described dragging the body, attempting to burn it, and hiding it under a cottage before returning to campus.

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Reserve Medical Officers Needed For War Games

An urgent need for Organized Reserve Corps medical officers of any grade except generals to serve as umpires in Operation Portrex is announced by Colonel Oscar B. Abbott. The joint Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps war game runs February and March, with duty releases around March 20 to 30. Umpires will begin at Camp Lee and move to Vieques near Puerto Rico. reporting extended to January 23.

Austin Organized Reserve Corps Oscar B. Abbott Texas Military District Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Norfolk Virginia Camp Lee Vieques Puerto Rico Abbott ORC Medical Corps

Not To Oppose Taft Lincoln Bolts GOP In Ohio

Murray D. Lincoln, a leader of the material farm cooperative movement, announced he would not seek the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Robert A. Taft in November. He also bolted the Republican Party and left open the door for future candidacy, saying he could not cope with the major problems of the times. He aligned with the Democratic Party to represent the people’s interests. After discovery of a death, the husband was notified by the police.

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Grand Jury to Review Hospital Fire Confession

Davenport Iowa January 19 a case of an insane young woman who confessed setting a Mercy Hospital fire killing 41 women will go to a county grand jury for consideration Prosecutor Clerk Fliseth said Epperly 22 Rock Island Hidings was found with dementia praecox by a three member sanity commission She was an inmate of the hospital mental ward when the blaze began January 7 and later confessed to starting it Fliseth said no murder charge would be pressed at this time. the case will be presented for investigation

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