County VFW Club Leader Guilty in Slot Machine Case
A six man Travis County Court at Law jury found Arthur Batson senior vice commander of a local VFW guilty of permitting intermittent playing at the Riverside Drive clubhouse. The trial established three seized slot machines as evidence and Batson faces $100 plus court costs with a motion for new trial filed.
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Arthur Batson
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Batson
VFW
West Riverside Drive
Perry Jones
Travis County
W. A. Knudson
Riverside Drive
Knudson
Wright Stubbs
Rex Fowler
Katherine Bleymire
Truman Pledges End of Surpluses By Brannan Plan
President Truman urged Congress to end farm surpluses by adopting Brannan plan methods. He called for tighter production controls and government payments to producers when prices fall below a fair level, and noted new acreage supports tied to stricter controls. The Brannan plan faced GOP and committee resistance as Congress debates farm policy.
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Truman
Brannan
Washington
President Truman
Congress
Cooley
D-Nc
House Agriculture Committee
Key West
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
Sisters Admit Fib to Census Taker on Ages
Two sisters in Chicago confessed to census supervisor George H. Seward that they had lied about their ages for years, claiming to be 11 years younger than they are. They called to apologize after learning the penalties for Census falsehoods. Seward said records would be corrected and personal data remain secret.
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Chicago
George H. Seward
Seward
Harvey sent a friend to Easter center in Austin
James Dunn star of Harvey visited the Austin Cerebral Palsy Center Monday with a couple of Harvey kinfolks as an Easter gift. Six year old Donna Ruth Spain befriended the rabbits and Dunn, praising Easter Seals. Donna Ruth attends the center for speech therapy at 1513 West Sixth, Austin.
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James Dunn
Donna Ruth
A. A. Spain
West Sixth
Center For Speech Therapy
Neal Douglass
Dust storm and cool front sweep West Texas
Dust and strong winds accompanied a cool norther that dropped temperatures by up to 53 degrees in parts of West Texas. Wichita Falls saw a record April heat of 99 before a plunge to 57, with dust reducing visibility and shadows of twisters in nearby Oklahoma. Rain totals were light, aiding late crops as forecasters predict cooler, windy conditions into Tuesday.
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Associated Press
West Texas
Texas
Childress
Clarendon
Lubbock
Wichita Falls
Big Spring
Sweetwater
Oklahoma
Harvey Young
Tulsa
Claremore
Oklo
Gould
Ark
Hog Prices Steady to Slightly Higher in Chicago Market
In the first market in nine years without supports or ceilings hog prices held steady to a bit higher on Monday at Chicago Union Stock Yards. Arrivals were slightly below expectations, with final prices steady to 15 cents higher per hundred pounds than last week. Market factors remain driven by supply and demand.
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Chicago
Union
Engine Trouble Grounds Bixbys Flight Attempt
Calcutta April 3 The dream of Dianna and Bob Bixby breaking the world circling aviation record ended when a faulty engine forced them to return to Calcutta after taking off for Tokyo. They had logged 11,836 miles of 20,735 planned and were about 40 hours into the trip, over half the journey.
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Calcutta
India
Dianna
Bob Bixby
Tokyo
Bill Odom
San Francisco
Golden Gate City
Planes of Soviet Origin Reported in China Air Conflict
Nationalists claim Soviet origin planes attacked over Chapu Hangchow Bay injuring two pilots as one force reportedly used red star insignia. They note Suchow base near Nanking with Soviet crews, antiaircraft batteries, and radar in Shanghai Hangchow region.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red China
Chapu
Hangchow Bay
Shanghai
Suchow
Nanking
Communist Air Force
Shanghai-Hangchow
Five year old girl rescued from bathroom by firemen
In Oshawa Ontario on April 3 a five year old girl, Marlene Johnson, locked herself in the bathroom for two hours. After pleas from her parents and a fireman offering a ride on a red fire truck the door finally opened and she emerged.
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Oshawa
Ont
Marlene Johnson
Harry Johnson
Oscar Thompson
Marlene
Unemployment Falls Sharply as March Output Rises
Washington April 3— The Census Bureau reports 561,000 fewer unemployed in March than February. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer called the drop encouraging and said it suggests the spring business upturn may have begun earlier than expected.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Sawyer
Navy says two kinds of saucers exist says Taylor
US Navy denies research into flying saucers while Henry J. Taylor claims two top secret designs exist. Radio reports say one is a pilotless disc that hovers near 30,000 feet and disintegrates. the other is a claimed twin engine craft stored at Langley Field.
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Wire
New York
North American
United States
Henry J. Taylor
US News and World Report
Navy
Taylor
American Broadcasting Company
Washington
Langley Field
Dallas
Porter Named API President in Oil Industry Move
Frank M. Porter was elected the American Petroleum Institute's tenth president in Houston on April 3 by a unanimous API board vote. The 58 year old Oklahoma man will earn 75000 dollars annually and succeeds William R. Boyd Jr. Porter also owns Fain Porter Drilling Co and led the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association for four years.
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Houston
Oklahoma
Frank M. Porter
American Petroleum Institute
Porter
API
William R. Boyd Jr
Teague
Institute
Fain-Porter Drilling Company
Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association
Sub hunt fuels mystery after apparent Soviet subs off California
San Francisco dispatch reports USS Colahan and crew tracking unidentified submarines off Northern California for four days. Navy officials, citing radar and sonar contacts, suggest a pack of modern subs likely Russian, though no direct sightings were confirmed. The probe follows a linked disappearance of Detroit importer Theodore Donay, amid a note alleging perjury against a trial witness. The Navy halted air sea searches pending developments.
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United Press
Dwight Geduldig
San Francisco
Colahan
California
Navy
Suc
Geduldig
Theodore Donay
Detroit
Santa Catalina Island
Coast
Sheriff's Office
Donny
Garner Brown
Donay
Perj
Supreme Court
USS Colahan
J. A. Holbrook
Fred Redeye
Holbrook
Redeye
Bar Association Defends Court's Hagedorn Rule
The Travis County Bar Association voted 27 to 7 to prepare a resolution defending the Texas Supreme Court in the William Hagedorn case. Attor ney G L Kuykendall said news stories unfairly condemned the court over a mule related auto accident and urged full facts be considered.
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Travis County Bar Association
Texas Supreme Court
William Hagedorn
Supreme Court
G. L. Kuykendall
Lockhart
Hagedorn
Kuykendall
Austin
High Court
Non-Partisan Panel Urged in Red Probe
Senator Lodge urged creating a non partisan commission to investigate espionage in the State Department, saying politics should be divorced from foreign relations. McCarthy attacked Dean Acheson while Lattimore denied the charges, releasing policy recommendations to counter McCarthy’s claims. President Truman ordered the FBI to ignore the subcommittee’s loyalty-file subpoena as the panel’s hearings stalled.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Rmass
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations
McCarthy
Secretary of
Dean Acheson
Lattimore
Department
Lattamore
Chiang Kai Shek
United States
Japan
Russia
Truman
Key West
Fla
FBI
Subcommittee
Senate
J. Edgar Hoover
Aes McCarthy
Cpy
Scott W. Lucas
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Podge
Bedsnek murder trial adjourned as death penalty sought
Iowa City April 3 The murder trial of Robert E Bednasek 24 was adjourned without a verdict after the state demanded the supreme penalty for the alleged strangling of Margaret Gee Gee Jackson 20. District Judge James P Gaffney scheduled a retrial verdict and jury charge for 8 am Tuesday as the prosecution and defense completed closing arguments.
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Iowa City
Iowa
Robert E. Bedsnasek
James P. Gaffney
Gaffney
Bednasek
University of Iowa
Sellor
Pretty Margaret
Gee Gee) Jackson
Jack C. White
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Harvey
Walter Stein
U. S. Weather Bureau
New Braunfels
China
Galveston Bay
United States of America
Army Air Forces
United States Air Forces
Petroleum Institute
Frederick Entwistle
Western Sea Frontier
Distan
Captainbrook
Bar Association
Acheson
Owen Lattimore
Baltimore
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Siadat
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