Wright Made Boss Of Navy In Europe
In Naples on June 14 Vice Admiral Jeremiah Wright assumed command as chief of U S naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Naval guns saluted as he raised the ensign replacing Admiral Robert B Carney who becomes Allied commander in chief for Southern Europe.
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Wright
Navy
Europe
Naples
Italy
Adm
Jerauld Wright
U. S
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Robert B. Carney
Carney
Southern
Three Students Seek More Draft Deferment in Odessa
Funeral services are set for Loyd Glenn Swindell 31 killed in an 85 foot fall from a rig near Rankin. He lived in Odessa since 1945 and is survived by a widow a daughter Barbara Lee two brothers and four sisters. Hubbard Funeral Home in charge. Draft board chair J Feld McKinzie explains deferment ends require a written request to continue. colleges send test results automatically to local boards but do not imply further deferment without a request.
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Loyd Glenn Swindell
Derrick
Uptown County
First Baptist Church
Swindell
Pittsburg
Hall and Stewart Drilling Co
Rankin
Odessa
Barbara Lee
W. D
T. F. ‘Swindell
H. R. Hawkins
B. C. Sterling
Paramount
Calif
William Stokes
Glad
J. Feld McKinzie
Ector-Andrews County Draft Board
McKinzie
Doe
Autopsy Sought After Infant Death in San Antonio
In San Antonio a 13 month old boy Jack Allan Holman was found dead in his bed with a plastic mattress cover over his head. Justice of the Peace M D Jones ordered an autopsy to establish cause of death, noting smothering as a possibility but seeking conclusive proof. The mother Dolores Holman works at a packing plant and is separated from her husband.
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San Antonio
Jack Allan Holman
Justice of the Peace
M. D. Jones
Jack Allan
Dolores Holman
Polio Deaths Reported in Houston Area
Health authorities reported two more polio deaths in Houston on Saturday, raising yearly and monthly totals. Jules M. Weathers 35 of Baytown and Esther Marguerite Bolanos 7 of Houston were the latest victims. Six deaths in June push Houston's year total toward 98 cases with 38 since June 1.
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Houston
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Jules M. Weathers
Baytown
Esther Marguerite Boanes
Manuel Bolanos
Wilburn Withdraws From Texas Second District Race
Beaumont June 14 Emnett Wilburn center attorney withdrew from the race for Congress in the Second Texas district Saturday afternoon. The move leaves 11 candidates in the campaign for the post now held by Rep. J M Combs of Beaumont who is not seeking re election.
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Wilburn
Congress
Beaumont
Emnett Wilburn
Center
Texas
J. M. Combs
Combs
Meteor Rumbles Over Seattle Seen Across Northwest
Seattle residents awoke to a bright meteor that lit the night sky and exploded into fragments near Seattle at 1 26 a.m. Eye witnesses from Oregon to Montana reported sightings. J Hugh Pruett of the American Meteor Society traced a northeasterly path about 350 miles high with fragments possibly landing between Seattle and the farther east. Two Seattle officers estimated the object hovered around two thousand feet above.
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Seattle
J. Hugh Pruett
Pacific
American Meteor Society
Northwest
Oregon-California
Montana
Pruett
Tacoma
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