Cafe Owner Faces Bribe Charge After Gun Threat
Jesse Gonzales a cafe and tavern owner, arrested after he allegedly threatened a city inspector at gunpoint to resist a closure order. He claimed bribes from the inspector and cited past associations with Police Chief Hopkins and others as he defended himself at the scene.
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Weiry
Jesse Gonzales
Pisto
Aubrey Hopkins
Gonzales
Lewis G. Robbins
Baltimore
Broadway
Buena Vista Street
Julia Carlin
James Tafolla Jr
Justice of, the Peace
Bret Corrigan
Assistattt
City Food Anspresor
R. A. Cox
Hopkins
Frank Brady Promoted City Clerk In Brief Meeting
ex Newspaperman Frank Brady, longtime private secretary to Mayors Quin and Mauermann, promoted to City Clerk on Tuesday by Mayor Mauermann. The ordinance authorization followed the vacancy left by Sam Bennett who quit to run against County Commissioner Kim Donnell. The council met briefly with no quorum and adjourned until Wednesday morning.
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Frank Brady
K. Quin
Gus BH. Mauermann
Mauermann
Brady
Sam C. Bennett
Kim Donnell
Winant Arrives For Parley With FDR
United States ambassador to Britain John G. Winant arrives in Washington to confer with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State on his first trip home since last summer. In Austin a welding foreman Jack Thomas aged 39 was killed when a heavy equipment truck overturned at Holland Page Industries yard on Georgetown road.
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Washington
John G. Winant
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Ful
Austin
Jack Thomas
Holland Page Industries
Georgetown Road
Berlin Bomb Ruins Shown As Allies Tighten Grip Over City
Berlin dispatch from May 16 describes aerial view of Unter den Linden after American bombing. Observers note fire-gutted buildings and intact embassies amid scheduled hits on Goebbels palace and other landmarks. Parallel report from London details German air raid on southern England with casualties, and Allied operations over France and Germany.
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Reutenait
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Unter den Linden
Cty
Col. Eliott Roosevelt
Empire State Building
New York
Times Square
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Herrenklub
Adlon
Brandenburger Gate
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London
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Ludwigshafen
Objectiven
Germany
France
RAWS
Bédin
Paris
Atlantic Wall
Total Destruction of Paris Nazi Plan
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS reports Nazi plans to reduce Paris to rubble as retaliation for Berlin and other bombed cities. Escaped refugees corroborate, noting fortifications around Champs Elysee Place de la Concorde and key sites including the chamber of deputies and Ecole Militaire.
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Hitler
Europe
France
Seine
Champs Elysee
Place de la Concorde
Hues
Fountain Islands
Crillon
Chamber of Deputies
Place de la Goncorde
Ecole Militaire
Champs de Mars
Place de la Republiqu
Kohima Ridge Falls to Allied Forces in Key Front Battle
Dispatches report Kohima ridge now in Allied hands signaling the end of the largest Indo Burma front battle. Southeast Asia command cited Japanese thrusts near Imphal repulsed and British tanks clearing 15 bunkers with 150 enemy dead in Kohima area. body count rising to 300 in battlefield area.
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London
Rauters
Kohima
India
Kohima Ridge
Indo-Burma
Akyah
Bay of Bengal
Buthedaung
Paletwa
Labawa
Kaladan
Kohime
Thave
Admiral Mountbatten
Mountbatten
Tank
Kohima Junction
Treasury Wai] Lon
Winchell Remark Brings Rebuke in Canadian Row
In WUTAWA on May 16 the Progressive MP Dr. Herbert Bence of Toronto faced reprimand after he questioned whether columnist Walter Winchell was paid by the Canadian government to promote the war effort. Defense Minister Teighton Ralston demanded resignation or stronger action, saying Brireé should hang her head in shame.
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INS
Herbert Bence
Toronto
Cnt
Walter Winchell
Teighton Ralston
Brireé
Hia
YMCA Anniversary Program Set in Gunter Hotel
Lions Club hosts a YMCA anniversary program on Wednesday at the Gunter hotel. Secretary sncr0. .rown will speak and a quartet including W A Souther B B Mansfield Bill Farley and O D Johnson will provide music for the Y’s hundredth anniversary observance.
Forecast for East Texas Bloomberg area shows partly cloudy skies
The forecast calls for party cloudy conditions Tuesday afternoon and night and Wednesday with no significant temperature change. A low around 64 degrees is expected Tuesday night as temperatures remain warm through midweek in East Texas.
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East Texas
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Frederick Faust known as Max Brand and creator of Doctor Kildare stories was killed in action on the Garigliano front during the opening night of the Fifth Army offensive. The Harper's war correspondent and prolific pulp author had been reported wounded earlier and joined the assault with Allied troops.
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Naples
Frederick Faust
Harper's Magazine
Max Brand
Garigliano
Faust
Fifth Army
American war correspondent Faust killed in action near Santa Maria
Henry Buckley of Reuters was wounded by shell fire in the theater loge jeep area on Sunday and is recovering in a field hospital. Faust, a renowned American crime and western writer, was found dead on the battlefield south of Santa Maria. He would have turned 52 on May 29 and is survived by his widow Dorothy Dillings. He authored 45 books, including The Untamed and The Outlaw, with an estimated 25 million words produced in the last two decades.
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Reuters
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Santa Maria
Infante
Minturno
Gulf of Gaeta
Dorothy Dillings
Los Angeles
United States
Degtry
Rio Grande
cor+ Teapondent
Troops Fight Forest Fire In Massachusetts Frontier
More than 400 Massachusetts state guardsmen joined volunteers from six communities to battle a forest fire five miles wide in a long front. Nearly 4000 acres burned destroying two homes and forcing both military and civilian crews to work alongside dozens of firemen. Soldiers and sailors stationed nearby fought side by side with volunteers from southeastern Massachusetts cities.
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River
Mass
Massachusetts
Aix
Monterrey Gas Relief On Way
Monterrey reports gasoline en route from Tampico amid traffic woes for the second day due to shortages. Many workers missed work as buses did not run, hitting plants and reducing production.
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Monterrey
Mexico
Tampico
Sparre
Italy Losses Below Plan In New Italian Offensive
Allied officers in Naples report Allied casualties as "less than expected" while praising airmen and French empire troops. The official cautions Fifth Army progress will slow due to terrain and bridge repairs after capturing new positions. In Houston, R. R. Pumpkin, 30, of Lufkin, dies from a broken neck after a crusher incident near Cleveland.
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Naples
Italy
Alxandri
Houston
R. R. Pumpkin
Lufkin
Cleveland
Allies Break German Lines Near Cassino In Fast Offensive
Allied forces drive through the Gustav line south of Cassino and overrun Spigno and Capo Dacqua as French troops push toward Fonte-Corvo. British and Indian units repel counterattacks around Cassino while American forces advance along the Garigliano valley and press toward Monte le Cigita. Prisoners exceed 300 and German resistance tightens on Hill 108 as combat rages along the Rapido frontier.
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Lud
VPI
Lic River
Spigno
Cherigiano
Pammere
Capeured
Ausoniia
Tyrrhenian
Eighth Army
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Gariguxno
Ban Ghorghymem
Lirt
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Cassino
Rapido
Garigliana
Arunet
Spigne
Capo Dacqua
Monte le Cigita
Fifth Army
Soret
Advancing Yanks Find Spigno Deserted By Nazis
American Fifth Army troops pushed into Spigno a mountain stronghold to find the town largely deserted and rubble from bombing and demolition. Prisoners were taken near Mount Cavita and in Castellanorato as enemy infantry reportedly withdraws. Two sources say Germans pull back while French Legionnaires recount escape from a prison camp. Artillery and tanks fought along the Tyrrhenian coast with over 200 prisoners captured in the sector.
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Sid Feder
I Wale
Fifth Army
Gpane
Mount Cavita
Ausente
Castellanorato
Bolgno
Tyrrhenian
Ing
French Foreign Legionnaires
Victor Hobeson
Birmingham
Ale
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Russie
David, Sadler
Rockhill
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