Army Field To Be Civilian Air Field Near Mission
Oct 9 Mission reports Moore field air strips and hangars near Mission will open Tuesday as a civilian freight and passenger airport. Operations will be run by Moore Field Air Activities Co. formed by W R Devine and J M McGoodwin of Houston, after a temporary operations permit was granted by Mission MeA and Edinburg mayors.
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Fore May
Army Air Field
Miles Jorth
Moore Field Air Activities Company
W. R. Devine
J. ¥. McGoodwin
Houston
Mea
Edinbury
CAA Probes Airliners Crash Near Fort Frances Warren
CAA and United Airlines officials continued their investigation of a four engine DC-4 crash near a munitions dump at Fort Frances Warren while landing at Cheyenne airport. Two people were killed instantly Margaret Slint and Wilhelm Wang both from San Francisco. Pilot L J Smith of Atherton Calif injured. Allan Harmon of Charlotte N C reported motor trouble before the crash.
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CAA
United Airlines
San Francisco-on-Chicago
Fort Frances E. Warren
iCheyenne
Margaret Slint
Cambridge
Mass
Wilhelm Wang
San Francisco
L. J. Smith
Atherton
Calif
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Texas Treasury Near Half Billion in State Funds
An audit shows State Treasurer Jesse James held 495,858,847.57 in cash investments and other securities as of August 31, 1946, marking a near half billion total for the treasury.
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Austin
UINS
Jesse James
State Treisury Department
Wives Held In 2 Slayings Fort Worth Case
Mrs. Alice Cole, 34, was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of her estranged husband James Clairence Cole, 31, Monday night in Fort Worth. Bond was set at $10,000. Cole reportedly said she did not want anyone else to have her former husband.
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Alice Cole
James Clairence Cole
Houston wife charged in cafe murder of husband
Ruth Hamner of Houston was held on $1000 bond after a murder charge filed in connection with the slaying of her 28 year old husband Fred G. Hamner. The former paratrooper was shot in a cafe they operated, the couple having married four months earlier.
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Houston
INS
Ruth Hamner
Fred G. Hamner
Three Navy crew listed after PBY crash near Corpus Christi
The navy released the names of three PBY seaplane crew members after a crash at the naval air station Monday night. Pilot Lt. Ralph H. Garrick USNR is missing, co pilot Aviation Cadet Roy Wilson USNR also missing, and Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class W. J. Szewesky was slightly injured. The crew were based in Pensacola Florida, and the plane was among more than 100 aircraft flown here to escape the Florida hurricane.
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Naval Air Station
J. G
Ralph H. Garrick
USNR
Maggie L. Garrick
Norway
Roy Wilson
Los Angeles
W. J. Szewesky
Aviation
Pensacola
Fla
Florida
Heirens Held Insane Transferred to Menard Prison
William Heirens the 17 year old known as a slayer of Suzanne Degnan and two women was deemed mentally unbalanced by prison psychiatrists and moved under guard at the Illinois Penitentiary pending transfer to Menard state prison for the criminally insane after he allegedly stoned an armed guard seeking to be killed.
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Khl
Shoe Prices May Increase
An OPA official announced potential price hikes in men’s and women’s dress shoes using calf leather due to higher imported calf skin costs. Reconversion Director Jain R. Steelman justified the move to avert a threatened 40 to 50 percent cut in shoe production over the next three months, citing a sharp decline in domestic hide production from fewer cattle reaching markets.
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OPA
Jain R. Steelman
Steelman
Navy shifts ships in Mediterranean
The U S navy announced the 6000 ton cruiser Spokane would arrive at Plymouth next Wednesday to relieve the 10,000 ton cruiser Houston as flagship of Adm. Richard L. Connolly s U S Twelfth fleet. The 27,000 ton aircraft carrier Randolph will join the Twelfth fleet in the Mediterranean early next month, relieving the 45,000 ton carrier Franklin D Roose vel which will return to the United States.
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U S. Navy
Spokane
Plymouth
Houston
Adm
Richard L. Connolly
U. S. I Twelfth Fleet
Randolph
Mediterranean
Franklin D. Roosevel
United States
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