Commando Tactics Nab Payroll Thief In New York
In New York garment district officers credited commando tactics for capturing payroll thief Joseph Roy Montgomery of New Orleans who fled with a $2000 payroll hatchet. Private James S Stokesbury of Seymour Connecticut, on sick leave, subdued Montgomery with a hip maneuver described as a hip mare leading to his arrest.
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Man Mountain Dew
Southwest Air Future Lauded at Fort Worth Luncheon
Dallas speaker ZL Welch Pogue, chairman of the acryonautics board, praised the Southwest air future at a Fort Worth luncheon. He noted growing travel and demand in the region and forecast strong aviation expansion nationwide.
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Polio Toll Rises to Six in Houston Epidemic
Houston July 31 two more deaths raise the polio toll to six in the current infantile paralysis outbreak. Victims include a 16 year old high school girl and a 32 year old married woman. Davis Hospital reports the new fatalities as officials search for the source and monitor other cases.
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S A Welders Take Shipyard Jobs From Training School
Nine students who completed training at the war industries school in Poplar have begun ship welding work. Five joined Houston Ship Building, three Brown Construction, and one Kaisers yards at Portland, Oregon, earning about two dollars an hour.
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Bombardier Hancock’s Lucky Number and War Tales
Personal friend Bombardier Believes 13 is Hancock’s lucky number. Firet Lieut Eddie Clayton Hancock, 209 W Pyrenford, returns to San Antonio on leave after seven months with the Eighth Air Force in Britain. He survived a mission over Lorient, France when flak tore his parachute. The 22 soon to be 23 year old is one of San Antonio’s most decorated natives with the Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He completed his 23rd mission May 13 1943 after graduating from Villalrville Army Flying School in 1942 as a second lieutenant and bomber. Hancock praises both British and American flyers and notes wartime life on the home front is less active. He expects to become a flight instructor after returning home with plans to pass on combat lessons to new bombardiers.
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Woman Slayer Mental Patient In Dallas Court Case Ended
Mrs. Mary K. Frailey who killed her two young children in Dallas months ago on the day they were to be taken by their father to Florida was in the Terrell state hospital today. Her case in Dallas courts ended as she was admitted Friday as a mental patient. A. S. W. Frailey, her husband, accompanied her and the marriage to Frailey was said to be void after his divorce from his first wife was set aside.
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