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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1949
Page
4
Land search for a missing C-47 failed to verify downed-plane reports in Terrell County near the Big Bend. Air and helicopter units from Briggs AFB El Paso Lowry AFB Hamilton AFB and March AFB joined the effort as Kelly Air Force Base crews were recalled from Hamilton Field.
Calves from San Saba will enter the upcoming San Angelo Fat Stock show. Otis Hopson, an FFA member from Cherokee, shows an Aberdeen-Angus. Jimmy Lewis will exhibit a Hereford. John Ed Keeney, also of Cherokee, plans two Herefords. Mack Hillin, an FPA member, enters the grand champion Southdown ewe from last month’s boys show.
Funeral services for 81 year old William Voges will be held today at 2 p m from McCurdy Funeral Home. Holland L Boring pastor of Church of Christ will officiate with burial in the Legal Cemetery. Survivors include five sons WA San Marcos Walter Lockhart Albert Austin.
The FBI is exploring links between the Fernandez Beck pair and the death of Myrtle Young of Green Forest Arkansas. The couple lured victims with love letters then drugged and killed them to steal life savings. McMahon noted a possible third accomplice in Downing killings but suspects only Fernandez and Mrs Beck. A sanity test by three psychiatrists precedes any plea. In Michigan first degree murder carries life imprisonment, no death penalty.
An Atlanta man cited Bible verses to avoid an illegal parking ticket. He sent John Smutt and Police Chief Herbert Jenkins postcards asking for relief or payment options. Jenkins said the traffic judge would decide the outcome.
Llano March 2 Leon Haynes 77 pioneer ranchman of this section died in a Burnet hospital after a long illness. He was the father of A. R. Haynes Llano. Surviving children include WV Haynes Charlie Haynes and Mrs Margaret Bergmann all of Round Mountain.
The Kerrville Times shifted from a weekly to a daily edition after more than a century. It will publish four afternoons a week Tuesday through Friday and Sunday mornings. Co publishers are Sam Braswell Jr and G Ran kin Starkey with Braswell serving as editor.
Rep. W. R. Poage of Texas conferred with Secretary Brannan on grain sorghum support price. He urged an immediate announcement and a price at 0 percent of parity to keep farmers from switching to cotton, which is 90 percent of parity.
Sofia March 2 The Communist prosecutor said 15 Protestant ministers may not face death as he found the defendants miserable and pitiful. He cancelled 42 witness appearances, saying evidence is abundant and clear. Prosecutors allege pastors spied for the United States, aided by church funds used to pay espionage.
A student Chetnik leader was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor for treason and attempting to overthrow Premier Tito's government. Eight others received 4 to 20 year terms. The Chetniks, wartime underground, were led by Gen Draja Mihailovic, executed in 1946 for treason.
STOKYO March 2. A Japanese actress Yoshiko Okada fled to Soviet Sakhalin in 1937 to escape police. She crossed snowy terrain in a horse drawn sled on December 31, 1937, seeking Soviet control after being suspected of funding the outlawed Communist party.
A meeting of all ropers interested in reorganizing the Llano Roping Club has been called in Llano. Clifford Martin is noted among organizers, with details to follow in the Licht.
General Leon Lopate, new police chief of Mexico City, undertakes a major crackdown on armed private citizens amid long standing disarmament efforts. The force raids bars and night spots, yielding hundreds of knives and pistols in eight hours as homicide remains a top cause of death alongside gastric, pulmonary, and malaria. The era sees heightened crime readings and calls for stricter gun control.
A bill introduced by Rep Wayne Wagonseuer would appropriate 300 dollars to obtain a message from Col William Barrett Travis of the Alamo garrison. The plan envisions inscribing Travis's message beneath a portrait plaque to be placed in the house repents chamber.
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