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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1948
Page
3
New York April 71 Television cameras turned on Broadway last night for the first time as scenes from the new hit play Mister Roberts were carried over the Columbia television network. Look for it in The Light Want Want Ads.
Gov Beauford H Jester rejected the pardons board recommendation for George Scott a 1938 Bexar County murder convict sentenced to life and revoked his conditional pardon in 1946 due to his criminal record. He was jailed in Louisiana for car theft and the governor cited the crime and pardons revocation. Thrill to The Lone Ranger Flash Gordon Prince Valiant and others in Puck Weekly comics.
The mumps threatened to delay the treason trial of Robert H. Best as Edward Sittler, a principal government witness, lay ill in hospital. Chief Prosecutor Tom de Wolf notified Judge Francis J. Ford that Sittler would not be released for about 10 days and Ford would decide on the next steps.
An inquest verdict was withheld by Justice of the Peace M. D. Buck Jones pending results of an autopsy in the death of Edward Sheppel, 64, found near midnight at Santa Rosa avenue and Commerce street. Patrolman Dave Alsbury said the man had been sitting on a bench before dying. papers on the body suggested he was a transient from Baltimore, Md.
Gov Thomas E Dewey flies to Nebraska for a two day campaign to win Nebraska s 15 delegates to the Republican national convention He says the Nebraska primary will be a stronger test than Wisconsin since the field is full and there is no favorite son on the ballot He will land at Grand Island tonight to begin campaigning through Tuesday
Taft led the Nebraska presidential primary campaign on April 3 with six on the ballot, including Jane Sen Taft, Harold Stassen, Gen. MacArthur, and Gov. Dewey. Nebraska party leaders reevaluated Dewey as Taft’s main statewide threat as Wisconsin results flowed in.
Gordon W. Friedrich of San Antonio was named Bexar county chairman of the American Cancer Society fund campaign. The announcement came from former Gov. W. P. Hobby, state campaign chairman, as the drive spans the state and nation during April.
A 10,000-ton steamship collided at full speed with a 35-foot shark whale in the Caribbean. The vessel pinned the whale briefly as attempts to free it failed. Reversing engines, the ship freed the whale, which swam away leaving a blood trail. Capt. H. Conrad Brote reported the incident from the Ss. Del Mundo in port yesterday.
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