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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1950
Page
1
In San Francisco on May 24, Princess Fathia and her commoner husband Riad Ghali prepared to end their kissless, plutonic marriage. Ghali, 31, reportedly willed Fathia in Moslem rites, noting the marriage would be great. They maintain separate suites and Civil status remains undecided.
The Midwest experienced hot conditions with highs in the 90s across several cities including 99 at Tyndall and 97 at Chicago as warm southerly breezes kept temperatures elevated into midweek. No significant weather disruptions noted.
A speeding car skidded 86 feet after braking, jumped a curb, and struck two steel lamp posts on a freeway. The driver and three passengers were injured lightly. one driver fled and was later arrested for negligent collision and driving while intoxicated. Dorothy Shelton, 27, was jailed for negligent collision, DUI, and driving without a license. In Wichita Falls, Sohn L. McMahon, 74, a pioneer oil man, died of a heart attack at his home.
FBI says Gold, born to Russian parents and raised in the United States, acted as an intermediary for Soviet intelligence linked to Fuchs. He met Fuchs in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, and Cambridge receiving information from Los Alamos notes. The last meeting was September 1945 in Santa Fe New Mexico before Gold's arrest during a medical treatment in Philadelphia.
Washington reports government findings place Harry Gold as a Russian espionage agent since 1940 after recruitment by Jacob Golus. Rep. Elston predicts Gold’s Philadelphia arrest and says FBI will pursue other spies. Gold’s 1947 appearance before a New York federal grand jury is noted along with Elizabeth Bentley’s testimony.
Two people died while fishing in a gravel pit near Grand Prairie as a boat capsized. Mrs Walter Jones 22 of Irving and Sergeant J D Burleson 29 were drowned. Jones's husband and Mrs Burleson survived by swimming to safety. Burleson was on leave from the Aleutians and en route to Kelly Field for a new assignment.
A fragmented weather note lists May precipitation, sunshine, wind speed, and temperatures. It includes moon phase as last quarter, sunrise and sunset times, and a short pest count for Alternaria and other fungi.
Hollywood reports a friend hints Frank Sinatra and wife Nancy may reconcile. Sinatra arrived in town yesterday and was a guest at the home of Paul Budley.
Risher of 121 Musk ages Street received 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of maliciously firing a gun at or near a private residence. He admitted aiming a shotgun on May 7, with shots entering the homes of Evelyn Sheppard at 250 Muskogee Street and Thelma Foster at 257 Muskogee Street.
A San Antonio youth identified as John W. Britto Jr., 16, son of Lt. and Mrs. T. Britton, is hospitalized with poliomyelitis. He was admitted Tuesday after illness was confirmed on Wednesday at Brooke General Hospital. His father serves at Connally AFB.
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