State hunts for murder suspect Horton on statewide broadcast
A broadcast Saturday sought tips on Sedrick Horton, an elevator operator charged with the murder of 37 year old Mary Lowery. Police and deputy sheriffs searched for Horton after a warrant was filed, with doctors noting two tooth marks and scratches on Horton used as the basis for the charge.
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Sedrick Horton
Mary Low Lowery
Polaris Street
W. A. ‘Hogan
Glitinger Snr
Horton
Hogan Gala Hie
Rey Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth
Rem
Croicforb
San Antonio
Austin
Elven Horton
Gittinger
B. J. Arendt
V. D. Hoffmaster
Lowery
Jack Martin
South
Flores Street
Summers Drug Store
Martin
Leks
Missy Lowrey
Ded
Bat Corrigan
Lampasas Waste Paper Drive Ends
Lampasas Lions club and county 4-H clubs wrap up a paper drive with Adamsville 4-H 2500 pounds Warung 1000 Nix 4-H 1400 Locmete club 200 and Lampasas Heliot O Texas 4-H 4500 pounds. Total collected 40000 pounds.
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Lampasas
Lampasas Lions Club
County
Adamsville
Warung
Nix
Heliot O'Texas
Ministers Set Installation At Travis Park
New officers of the San Antonio Ministers association will be installed after a function at Travis Park Methodist Church on Thursday. Officers include Rev. Howard N. Porterfield president, Rev. Ennis B. Hill vice president, Rev. Willam d. Spreen secretary, and Rev. R. B. Kelley treasurer. The installing officer will be Dr. J. Richard Spann, retiring president.
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San Antonio
Two Floresville Soldiers Die in World War II
Floresville reports two local servicemen killed in action. Pvt. Tony Alfaro, 22, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel Alfaro of Mort ville, died in Italy on April 30 after overseas service in North Africa and Italy. He left a wife and year old son Pic. Juan A Montoya, 18, infantryman in the South Pacific, died May 25 from wounds sustained in action. His parents are Mrs and Mrs Adolph G Montoya of Floresville, and he had three sisters.
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Floresville
Tony Alfaro
Aid
Samuel Alfaro
Mortsville
Italy
North Africa
Hig
Pic
Juan A. Montoya
Fisrenville
Montoya
Germans press Rome drive as Allied forces push toward Artena
Allied forces in central Italy report heavy German counterattacks under Field Marshal Kesselring while American tanks and infantry advance to Artena and near the Casilina road. Air bombardment cripples German traffic as British Canadian and French troops push west, capturing key villages and challenging retreat routes from Rome.
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Elon
Italy
le Fray
Adriatic
Albert von Kesselring
CBS
Moigtta
Ttber
Ger
Mark W. Clark
Corl
Mount Arresting
Artena
Marmontone
Via Cassling
Mar Tenth
Rome
Leptal Heights
Avestiny
Artene
Givellanello
Velletri
Frosinons
Casina
Val Imomane
Tivoli
Qirl
Melfa River
Oliver Lesse
Highway Six
Arce and
Ceprano
Arth
Avezzano
Theseeking
Eighth Army
Lirt
Liki
Sacco Tvers
Mount Catro
Terelle
Arce
Roccasoces
Castrocield
Melfa
Amaseno
Via Casilina
Fish Army
San Giovanni
Pastena
Quattordiel
Rosondo
Priverno
Amnaseno
Castella
Valentina
Germania
Clementa
92Nd
Cori
Cisterna
Cork
Valmontone
Thheir
Anomines
Georgetown Rites For Mrs Podraza
Funeral services were held for Mrs Tony Podraza 43 in Georgetown. She is survived by her husband three sisters and five brothers. Reports from the war front recount American gains near Velletri and Carocceto with German counterattacks repelled and several enemy commanders captured.
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Gluxgetown
Tony Podrass
FR. Sprageins
Taylor
Henry Marchback
Dallas
Tils. Daggs
Columbia
Clifford Falmar
Ranqueta
Texas
J. W. Falmar
Fort Worth
Monroe Falmar
Austin
Tom Falmar
Gause
Jessie 2. Falmar
Houston
Chinese Capture Warong in Burmese Hills Northeast of Kamung
Chinese jungle fighters seized Warong, an enemy stronghold in the northern Burmese hills northeast of Kamung, officials said. The fall jeopardizes the encircled Jap garrison at Myitkyina as Stilwell's forces push deeper. On the India frontier, Japanese positions near Bishenpur south west of Imphal were driven back, one battalion reportedly wiped out with its commander killed. Allied gains included three Jap ridge positions southeast of Kohima.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Warong
Kamung
Stilwell
Garriion
Myitkyina
Bishenpur
Imphal
kWed
Admiral Mountbatten
Kohima
Billion Dollar Agencies Bill Approved
The May 27 report says the House Appropriations Committee approved a one billion 104 million dollar bill for the Labor Department, Federal Security Agency and related bureaus for fiscal 1945, cutting 61 million from 1944 and 69 million from the Budget Bureau request. The measure lowers FSA education budget and warns agencies against propagandizing for funds.
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Washinurun
House Appropriations Committee
Labor Department
Federal Security Agency
FSA
Office of Education
Congress
Children's Bureau
Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
Employees' Compensation Commission
National Labor Relations Board
National Mediation Board
Railroad Retirement Board
War Manpower Commission
Labor Importation Plan Abolished
Washington May 27. The House voted to abolish the labor importation plan. The plan would have allowed about 20,000 foreign workers from Puerto Rico to be transported to the United States for farm and essential war industry work.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
United States
House
Labor
Waste Paper Drive Gains Momentum in San Antonio
Waste paper collections rise as students and clubs push drives before the June deadline. Girl Scout Troop 107 and Boy Scout Troop 95 turn in thousands of pounds, with Collins Gardens schools leading at about 20,000 pounds. Prizes include 50 and 25 dollars. prices pay 40 cents per hundred newsprint and other rates.
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Riverside Community Center
Jean Wilson
Rose Ranick
Helen Dowlearn
Menberg
Cncldren
Riversido Community Center
Mise Roby Cochran
Opal “Walters
West
Boy Scout Troup ‘No
St. Mary's School
Highland Park
Milton Dresch
McKinley
Dunbar
Mark Twain
St. Agnes
Fenwick
Brackenridge
Gongyles
Pershing
Por Jr
Wwoodlawn
Ogden
Collins Gardens
Robert B. Green
Hertf
Knox
Tynan
Laura Steele
Mila
Night Watchman Peter Killett Fatally Shot in Lodging House
Night Watchman Peter Killett aged 48 was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the left breast at his lodging house in Fredericksburg. Justice of the Peace William Burns stated the death occurred several hours before discovery by a rooming-house attendant. Killett, a former Isis official, had complained of failing health and was never married, leaving nine brothers and eight sisters.
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Killett
Ts Stir
Lieutenant Flies 56 Missions Amid War Tales
Second Lieutenant Roy T. Pryor, part of a Twelfth Air Force B-26 Marauder crew in the Mediterranean, is home on leave with his parents at 818 Brooklyn Avenue. He recalls a furious April mission over Oilbla harbor Serbia, where his plane was hit many times but he achieved a belly landing. the turret gunner suffered minor injuries. Pryor has flown since March 1943 and earned the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.
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Roy T. Pryor
Biles
Twelfth Air Force
J. A. Embree
Brooklyn Avenue
Miami Beach
Fla
Oilbla Harbor
Sar
Dinia
Liewtenaty Pryor
Pryor
Soldiers Meet on Isles Aboard Ninth Air Force Depot
Two San Antonio men, Master Sgt. Ellis W. Walters and Master Sgt. Roamy F. Dandridge, serve at an advanced air depot headquarters in Great Britain. Walters is chief clerk to the admin chief, husband of Bernice T. Walters, with a wife and 18 month old son. Dandridge is chief supply clerk with the ign section, husband of Daney M. Dandridge. Walters is son of John S. Walters of Lufkin, Texas.
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Ninth Air Force
England
Ellis W. Walters
Bernice T. Walters
Sly Mary's Street
Roamy FE. Dandridge
Daney M. Dandridge
Mason Street
San Antonio
Great Britain
Sergeant Walters
John S. Walters
Lufkin
Hig
Clarence W. Walters
San Antono
Dandridge
Mra. B. R. Dandridge
Gore, Okio
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W. J. Bpreen
Allie
Georgetown
Mrs. Podraza
Fifth Army Aloone
Carl
Velletti
Young Patriots
San Antonio Saiway
Lnte
San Antono Light
C ‘the Light
American Waste Paper Company
Waste Iron & Metal Company
Te Wara
Joyce Alison
Betty Hull
Eldorado Street
A. D. Zucht
S. A
Ellis Walters
Roamxy Dandridge
Isles
D. Pacheco
Sis
Tceland
Western Electric Hearing Aid Home
Lat! Fetephione
Loborofoey
Audiphone
Madeeth Blitz
San Antoneo
Teves
Graysons
Makers
Mdtchitas
Grayson's
Spuns
Guaysoms
Plenday Maney Makar
Wrelalys
Smaranteed Yayon
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