Astor speaks on career and life in Hollywood
Miss Astor describes a long film career under contracts with major studios and touring shows. She recalls illness and surgery, then a return to acting on stage and TV drama, and plans for a new tour with Don Juan in Hell while awaiting a grandchild. She notes a 1920 film start at age 14 and reflects on age perceptions.
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Astors
Hollywood
Miss Astor
Warbia
Paramount
Fox
MGM
Eeeis
Mary
Don Juan
Hell
Wyatt Earp Enforces Tombstone No Gun Rule
Wyatt Earp aims to enforce a no gun policy in Tombstone Arizona as gunfighters rally. He takes deputy duties from Ford Wagner and plans a late evening confrontation with Curly Bill and allies at Allen Street. The scene centers on a tense buildup before a planned showdown near the Palace and Bird Cage.
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Wyatt Earp
Tombstone
Ariz
Johnny Ringo
Wyatt
San Angelo
Tex
Curly Bill
Monk Wilson
Phoenix
Tucson
Wagner
Ford
Goose Flats
Stilwell
Burnell's
Sulphur Springs Ranch
Ford Wagner
Fairbank
Benson
Wells Fargo
Express
Allen
Palace
O. K
Ringo
Clantons
McLowrys
Pony Deal
Frank Patterson
He-Coon
Charlie Bassett
Bat Masterson
Deadline August 21 for POW pay to veterans
Washington reports veterans injured as prisoners of war from Korean hostilities may receive $2.50 per day of captivity. If a veteran is deceased, the payout goes to his family. Arkansans with eligible but unfiled claims include three cases, while nationwide claims exceed $12 million to date.
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Ment
Pearl Carter Pace
Arkansans
William B. Lightfoot
Fayetteville
Floyd E. Brown
J. Floyd Brown
East 21St
Little Rock
Joe B. Powell
Florence P. Berkey
General Delivery
Russellville
Washington
Sam
Arkansas
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Commission
Congress
Hoxie Integration Draws Letters Of Criticism
Mail has poured in to Hoxie school officials criticizing and in some cases praising the town action to mix Negro and white students in public schools that opened last Monday. Superintendent K E Vance said most critical letters came from Memphis Mississippi and Georgia. Hoxie was the first east Arkansas town to integrate its schools though the change affected only a few Negro pupils.
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Hoxie
East Arkansas
K. E. Vance
Memphis
Mississippi
Georgia
Jacksonville Beach parking meters collect 164.35 before operation
The town installed its first parking meters last year ahead of an ordinance. Parkers paid over 300 dollars before the law took effect and the city donated the funds to the March of Dimes. Now 200 more meters exist and 164.35 was collected before they began operating.
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Jacksonville Beach
Fla
Texas Land Scandal Case Advances in Third Week
The theft trial of former Land Commissioner Bascom Giles continued into its third week in Austin with no jury in sight. The state plans at least another week of witness testimony after presenting 10 of 59 subpoenas. Giles, 54, faces charges of stealing 6800 dollars tied to a veterans land transaction involving the Rosenow ranch.
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Austin, Tex
Ulp
Bascom Giles
Gilles
Veterans Land
Rosenow Ranca
Kinney County
Giles
Brady Land
L. B. Ruffin
Brady
Sam McCollum
Land Board
Ruffin
Negro Held in Terry Blast Probe
A 50 year old African American man, Ensley D. Fats Williams, was arrested in Little Rock on suspicion connected to the Thursday dynamiting of the Terry Dairy Co. plant. Sheriff Gulley cited general background in the arrest, and Williams’ detention followed hours after a habeas corpus petition was filed and then dropped. Two blasts caused about 150000 dollars in damage. the AFL Teamsters denied involvement.
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Little Rock
Terry Dairy Co
Ensley D
Fats) Williams
Tom Gulley
Williams
Terry
Robert J. Brown
Gulley
Brown
Fred W. Terry
AFL
Grandmother Welcomes 16th Grandchild as 11th Child Born
Mrs Hollis Luce of Pirtland Michigan became grandmother for the 16th time on Thursday. The following Tuesday she gave birth to her 11th child, a son. Her new grandson is the son of her daughter Mrs Donald Morse, 27.
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Pirtland, Mich
Hollis Luce
Donald Morse
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B. W. Edwards
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Don L. Westbrook
James H. Pilkinson
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