French Navy Patrol Boat Fights River Blockade-Runners
On the Bassac River in Indo China a French Navy patrol boat engages four sampans smuggling rifles and rice. Ensign Stephane Despretz, 24, describes nightly missions, noting frequent attacks and the sinking of smugglers, with one engineer wounded and boats sometimes lost to bazookas. Despretz plans to visit America someday amid dangerous river warfare.
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Rench Navy
America
Indo- China
United Press
Robert C. Miler
Robert C. Agner
Bassac River
Indo-China
Bassac
Mekong River
Bessac
Stephane Despretz
Kiskas
Despretz
Aalt
Svea
Lille
France
Flying Discs Sightings Reported Across Regions
Reports of flying saucers spread from Havana to Altoona with pilots, priests, and observers claiming sightings. The Air Force remains skeptical, while believers describe multiple discs over cities and minarets, and sketches resemble True Magazine art.
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Berkeley Springs
West Virginia
Navy
Robert B. McLaughliin
True Magazine
Hunter
MicLaughlin
Bursa
Turkey
Best on KREL and Sunday calendar mishmash on air
Program listings show KREL 1360 AM with a dense Saturday schedule featuring church services, musical segments, and talk, plus a long Sunday lineup of gospel, news, and entertainment. Multiple named programs, times, and local shows are listed across the block, reflecting a busy weekend broadcast rhythm.
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Krel
Sato
Mycle
Tsazestries
Texas
Kiwanians Pledge Help in Clean Up Campaign Baytown Club backs Baytown Clean Up with police chief and department support during luncheon at Community House.
Baytown Kiwanis pledged cooperation in the city Clean-Up Campaign at a Thursday luncheon at the Baytown Community House. A 33 member Baytown Junior High School girls chorus entertained, directed by Mrs. Warren Bunting, with songs ranging from a Polish prayer to April Showers. New members Herbert Meyer and H. Head were introduced by Rev. Wayne McGleskey. Guests included Don Perkins Jack Reber T D O'Brien and Robert Larker, president of the Key Club.
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Baytown
Wayne McGleskey
The
Luschool
Don Perkins
Jack Reber
T. D. O'Brien
Robert Larker
Key Club
Mexico To Hold Sheriff's Slayer Near Chihuahua City
Jose Villalobos 26 told officials he was fed up and will be held in Chihuahua City penitentiary pending extradition. Gov Miramontes said suspect jailed and fingerprints sent to Marfa for comparison with prints on Sheriff Morrow’s car. Sheriff Otis Macrow was found dead in his car with a bullet wound. motive and killer unknown. Texas officers handed case to Mexican police after leads near the Rio Grande.
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Tex
Jose Villalobos
Presidio County
Otis W. (Blackie) Macrow
Chihuahua City
Mexico
Foglio Miramontes
State of
Chihuahua
Sun Gay
Morrow
Presidio
Texas
Rio Grande
Concrete Paving Start in Wynnewood Addition
A concrete paving project begins in the Wynnewood Addition northwest of Highway 146. Shedy Lane will be paved from Sunset Drive to South Fourth Street. Contractor Joan Edy works for Wynnewood owners Sturman and Crabbe under city inspection by City Manager C. D. Middleton and public works director C. W. Grantham. City Council specifications may lead to water and sewer extensions and further paving plans. A one room house in Baytown Woods burned earlier today. cause under investigation by Baytown firemen.
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South Fourth Street
Joan Edy
Wynnewood, Sturman and Crabbe
C. D. Middleton
C. W. Grantham
Ets Middleton
Paroled Indiana Klan Leader Stephenson Leaves Prison
In Michigan City Indiana D C Stephenson Sr former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan left after parole granting him release 25 years after being convicted of murdering Miss Oberholtzer aboard a train. Governor Schricker had commuted the life sentence to time served and Stephenson planned to live with his daughter in Tulsa Oklahoma where a job awaited.
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Morchigan City
Ind
D. C. Stephenson
Indiana Ku Klux Klan
Merge Obderholtzer
L Stephenson
Henry F. Schricker
Stephenson
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Indiana
Oberholtzer
Indianapolis
Hammond
Alfred Dowd
Runaway Gasser Draws Tourists to Tyler
TYLER March 18 a freak tourist attraction as a runaway gas well spews an estimated 6 000 000 cubic feet daily promising to lure thousands of sightseeing Texans this weekend. Observers outside a half mile watched experts prepare a cap to be placed over the well later today. Two prior attempts to belt the flow failed as gas fumes filled the air after the well blew out when drillers set off explosives.
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Tyler
Gardeners' Corner A New Sweetpea And How To Plant It
Gardeners' Corner reports on new sweet pea Severade with salmon rose and white blooms. It highlights two more varieties Sweetpea William and Sweetpea Cheers, plus timing, watering, and transplanting tips for best July blooms.
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Dean Hallids
Central Press
Sweetpea William
Sweetpea
Cuthbertson
Churches To Open Clean Up Drive Campaign Schedule
The Steering Committee set a March 28 week schedule with daily emphasis for church cleanup efforts. Church Co operation Day on Sunday, Pick up Day Monday, Safety and Fire Prevention Day Tuesday, Health Day Wednesday, Landscaping and Planting Day Thursday, Vacant Lots Day Friday, and Inspection Day Saturday.
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Bartlett Johnston
Hartman
Neighborhorod Improvement
Six Jersey Calves Delivered To Baytown Under Sumner Foundation
Six registered Jersey calves were delivered to Baytown Jedey for the Sumner Foundation Program. The Reese Dairy Farm near Weco sold them to a Chamber of Commerce committee for 250 dollars per calf. Calves will be awarded to deserving farm boys and are housed at the Theo Wilburn farm until distribution.
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Jersey
Baytown
Jedey
Sumner Foundation
Chamber of Commerce
Reese
Weco
Mose Stroner
Theo Wilburn
Baby gas emergency in Duluth leaves family treated
In Duluth Minnesota Wil loughby woke to his infant crying and found his wife unconscious from gas leakage. The trio received medical treatment after the incident.
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Slarm Duluth
Minn
Weeley Willoughby
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