Wife Shots Refuse to Testify Against Husband in Court
In ARDENA Mrs Gloria Davis refused to testify against her husband Robert C. Davis charged with assault with deadly weapon. Acting Justice D Clifford Higgins ordered the husband to return for a third preliminary hearing tomorrow at 1 30 p m. The contempt charge against Mrs Davis will be heard then as she remains hospitalized. Deputy District Attorney Tom Finnerty Jr said a wife does not have to testify but subpoenas for eight witnesses were issued for the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert C. Davis
St Gardena
Ardena
Gloria Davis
D. Clifford Higgins
Gardena Court
Los Angeles
Davis
Finnerty
Tom
P. Finnerty Jr
Higgins
Fraud Admitted in Court Lets Banker Escape Punishment
A Columbia Trust Co. president Philp Glatfelter admitted defrauding creditors and selling assets to avoid pay ment. Under Pennsylvania law he cannot be prosecuted for truthful testimony, and plans to turn over more than $10,000 to creditors to wrap up the case. The unusual ruling follows a claim about limitations on prosecuting truthful statements by defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolumbia
UPY
Baltimore
Pennsylvania
United States
Lancaster County
Glatfelter
Oliver S Schaeffer
Glattelter
German Princess in Texas Apartment
In Amarillo Texas a German princess named Cecilie surveys a small four unit brick apartment. Interior decorator Clyde Harris plans to move his bride into a new cottage as Cecilie looks to the Texas Panhandle and treeless plains. They wed in Germany last June and Harris returned to Amarillo while she awaited clearance papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Clyde Harris
Cecilie
Texas Panhandle
Kaiser Wilhelm
Harris
Germany
Hertis
States
Sera Et May
New York
Hamburger Sandwiches Urged Better by Restaurant Expert
In Atlanta on October 19 an expert urged restaurateurs to price and improve hamburgers to boost profits. He cited a 9 cent food cost as 45 percent of a 20 cent selling price and suggested raising value with 35 cent specials while cutting food cost to 40 percent or less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ntlanta
George L. Wensel
Ant Seat
Cuttin
Postmaster Meeks Faces Uncertain Duty After 1904 Appointment
Veennepin records show L Meeks entered the rural post in 1904 and has served long but now cannot secure a vacation. The postmaster contemplates next steps as the general schedule remains unsettled. Local officials report ongoing duties without clear relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veennepin
Texans in Roundup of Slot Machines El Paso
El Paso County deputies raided a club last night seeking slot machines found three one armed bandits and a still. The control board members inspected and declared it a bottling machine. Deputies ceased the search and returned to looking for slot devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el. Paso
Texas
El-Paso- County
Equor Control Board
Keys Left In Prowl Car Stolen In Utah
Bingham Utah October 19 patrolman J D Porter parked the department's only prowl car yesterday and left the keys in it while he performed routine duties. The police force was afoot and still looking for the thief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bingham
Utah
J. D. Porter
Bingham Police Department
Left handers Better at Dressing Babies Says Report
French Lick Ind Oct 19 The National Institute of Disper Services reports that left handed parents handle babies more easily by holding them in the right hand while applying the care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind
National Institute of Disper Services
Vishinsky Presses Anti Yugoslav Bid at UN Council
In Lake Success on October 15 AP reports Russia plans a new push to block Yugoslavia’s election to the United Nations Security Council. Vishinsky warned of consequences if Yugoslavia is chosen, citing past clashes over Tito, while Moscow vetoes continue on disarmament proposals and calls for broader big five consultations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Russia
Yugoslavia
United Nations’ Security Council
Andrei Vi
Vishinsky
Kretlin
Marshal Tito
VMS
Sss
Security Council
Ukraine
United Nations
Czechoslovakia
Council
Warren Austin
United States
Jakob A. Malik
Soviet Union
West
Ny Atomic Energy Commission
Tito
Red Invasion of Chusan Base Hinted
Hong Kong dispatch reports Chinese Communists showing signs of preparing an amphibious assault on Chusan Island's Nationalist air and naval base. Gen Chen Yi leads a sizeable force with invasion craft spotted on smaller islands. Formosa sources place his field headquarters near Ningpo. Evacuation orders shift civilian agencies as Nationalists rush to defend the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Chusan
Red
Shanghai
Taipei
Formosa
Chen Yi
Shang
Ningpo
Canton
Chen ¥i
Chu Bishek
East China Sea
Ane
Amoy
New Life Evening “Post
Namtow
Ex-national Legion Chaplain Kettell Killed in Crash
Rev. George F. Kettell, former national chaplain of the American Legion, died when his car crashed into a downtown building in Kolchester on Oct. 19. Age 62, he was pastor of St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church. police say he swerved to avoid a turning car. Kettell was elected Legion chaplain in 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kolhester
George. F. Kettelll
The
American Legion
Kettell
St. .Mary’s Roman Catholic
Ogets
Alvert
O. Daniels
Father Kettell
Legion
Don't Kill Goose Warns Nourse on Economic Path
Dr Edwin G Nourse chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers warns in a speech that postwar progress risks faltering if government labor industry and farm attitudes do not change He cites wartime gains and peacetime reconversion and urges restraint prudent private enterprise and collective bargaining to sustain economic growth amid looming policy challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin G. Nourse
Churchill Urges World Hope and Unity at Bristol
Winston Churchill urged continued hope for peace and readiness to sacrifice for national honor during an honorary degree ceremony at Bristol University. He praised US Ambassador Lewis Douglas as a friend of English speaking unity and noted the United States’ unselfish international obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Eng
Winston Churchill
Lewis Douglas
Bristol University
Churchill
United States
Ex newspaperman gets capital post in Navy office
Edward B. Wilcox, former Philadelphia newspaperman, named special assistant to the undersecretary of the Navy to succeed Cedric Worth. Worth admitted to the House Armed Services Committee that he wrote an anonymous document criticizing the Air Force bomber program. The Navy suspended him and accepted his resignation early last month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Orr
Edward B. Wilcox
Philadelphia
Navy
Cedric Worth
Worth
House
Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Congress Reacts on Party Lines to Nourse Speech
Washington Oct 19 Economists remarks by Edwin G Nourse former head of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers drew both praise and criticism in Congress Critics labeled his complaint about deficits a political argument while Sen Watkins said he was the only member to follow a professional course Nourse asserted the need to put fiscal house in order and warned against government policies that fuel surplus holdings subsidies and production controls He is reported set to resign Nov 11 regardless of acceptance and faced questions about political influence on the council with lawmakers urging testimony on Truman economic programs Sen Ferguson noted the large government outlays cited by Nourse and warned of a flag of warning about economic sense
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edwin G. Nourse
Congress
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Sen. O'Mahoney
D.- Wyo
Sen. Watkins
Utah
Nourse
Watkins
Leon Keyserling
John D. Clark
O’mahoney
Senate
House Economic Committee
Truman
Economic Council
National Retail Farm Equipment Association
O'Mahoney
Keyserling
Clark
Sen
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Redlands Man Transferred to Rome as Second Secretary
The State Department announced transfers within the Foreign Service including Charles Philip Clock of Redlands California moving from Budapest Hungary to Rome to assume the position of second secretary and vice consul, reflecting a chessboard of posts in Washington’s personnel shuffles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redlands
Washington
Det
Foreign Service
State Department
Charles Philip Clock
Redelands
Calif
Budapest
Hungary
Rome
Ex President Hoover At New York Dinner
Ex President Herbert Hoover kept a 1200-strong New York Board of Trade audience laughing with a witty roll of current events. He joked about balancing the budget and foreign loans, said the welfare state is as controversial as mustard, and discussed federal organization while Gen George C Marshall sat nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover and
Marshall
Mortimer E. E Spragos
York
Herbert Hoover
George C. Marshall
New York Board of Trade
Hoover
Poe
Truman
Thousands Worship With Girls Claiming Virgin Mary Vision
Seven German girls aged 10 to 12 report nightly visions of the Virgin Mary atop a Bavarian hillside near TPRURN attracting about twenty thousand Roman Catholics. A three man church commission investigates while priests lead prayers as the crowd chants, then the vision allegedly vanishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tprurn
Germany
Lourdes
Dinnel
Sigsion
Nehru calls end of capitalism or communism in Asia
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told a New York audience that capitalism and communism cannot endure as rival systems. He said the stronger system that can deliver goods spiritually and materially will survive and urged an end to European colonial holdings in Asia. He spoke during a reception with the United Nations Correspondents Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Correspondents’ Association
Adi
Sid Ton
India
Nehru
Confession Heard in Old Murder Case
Oakland on October 19 reports an Oakland home operator aged 16, Raf faele Calzone, confessed to bludgeoning a once notorious New York bootlegger to death. He stated details of the slashing and that he struck Frate with a mer. Police had pursued the investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Raffaele
Calzone
New York
Politesand Eld
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oklahoma
Statehood
Meeks
Russ
U.N. Council
Mildred Leak
Alameda
Half Moon’ Bay
Ens. J. C. Leak
Ens. Leak
Alameda Air Station
Tea
Goose
Edwin
Economia Ateiners
Ashington
Capital Post
Mulls
Virgin Mary
Asia
France
Ho.Chiminh
Viet Nam
Indo-China
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!