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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1948
Page
2
United Nations military observer reports Jewish planes and infantry violated the Palestine truce by attacking three Arab villages Jalig Terim and Ain Ghazit along the Halla Tel Aviv road on three successive nights. Villages occupied by Arab irregulars and Iraqi troops.
Hollywood notes Rhonda Fleming stays at Paramount for another picture following Connecticut Yankee and moves from Bing Crosby to Bob Hope as a singing glamor attraction in Easy Does It. Fleming becomes a rare bridge between Crosby and Hope as a leading lady alongside June Allyson and others in a lively industry roundup.
Bernardo Narding Anzures, 21, a film star, was sentenced to life imprisonment in May for killing his leading lady Lilian Velez and her maid Pacita Flores. Judge Castelo also ordered Anzures to pay 32500 to the heirs of each victim. The report notes Alan Ladd is about to appear in Paramounts The Great Gatsby in development.
In Los Angeles on July 26 a widow and mother, Mrs. Anna May Lemons of Oklahoma City, learned her son James St. Preston, 55, living in Kansas, was alive after 40 years. Preston, once an orphan in Atchison and misinformed of a drowning, traced via a brother James J. Cathcart of Sparta Illinois and an old family friend, changing his name from Cathcart.
Boston report details Leslie Hoskins of the African Society of Piano Technicians recounting objects unearthed from pianos. He lists coins, clothing, rings, lockers, watches, and even whisky bottles hidden by absent-minded players and a few moths noted as nuisance.
U S air power strengthens in Germany with sixteen Lockheed jets arriving at Fuerstenfeldbruck after a 5060 mile flight from Selfridge Michigan. Britain and the United States press ahead with large scale exercises in England and Germany as new Soviet jets debut at Moscow show.
Death Valley Scotty, noted California prospector, was recovering today in his camp near Las Vegas after a rattlesnake bit him three miles from his retreat. The bite struck his thumb as he cut the wound and applied help.
A crippled fugitive, 45, implicated in a Detroit hospital assault and escape, was captured in Toledo early today. Barry McQuire, 37, of Gary, Indiana, and Bayken's year-old wife Jean allegedly aided the getaway and remained at large.
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