Dirt Slide Derails Ten Freight Cars East of Whitefish
A dirt slide 15 miles east of Whitefish Montana derailed a locomotive and ten freight cars on the Great Northern main line. The slide buried 40 feet of track under four feet of dirt but no injuries were reported. Rail traffic was detoured except for eastbound No. 2 as repairs were expected to finish in about 20 hours.
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Whitefish
Mont
Here
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Red Chiefs Surprise Visit at Berlin Army Day Reception
High Russian officers attended an American reception in Berlin on Army Day for the first time since the city was divided. Soviet ambassador V. S. Semionov and Lt. Gen. M. I. Dratvin joined Major General George Hays and Gen. Lucius D. Clay at the event. They had previously indicated they could not attend.
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Berlin
George Hays
Lucius D. Clay
V. S. Semionov
Germany
M. I. Dratvin
Hays
Pacific Fleet Shrinks as 20 Destroyers Shifted to Atlantic
Pearl Harbor April 6. The Navy reports 20 Pacific destroyers moved to the Atlantic, leaving 48 in the Pacific a 25 percent cut. The shift follows cuts in fighters and bombers and concentrates anti submarine power on the West Coast Alaska and waters of China and Japan.
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Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
East Coast
Pacific
Alaska
China
Japan
Pacific Fleet
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mediterranean
Boxer
Valley Forge
Britain’s steady recovery eyed as model for Western Europe
Colonel Willard Chevalier told a Austin audience that England’s path to revival lies in higher productivity and modernization. He cited Anglo American productivity efforts, Marshall Plan support, and Britain’s shift from relief to self-sufficiency, stressing a strong Britain as seed of a strong Western Europe.
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England
Willard Chevalier
New York
Hogg Auditorium
Britain
Europe
Great Britain
Chevalier
Anglo-American Productivity Council
Marshall Plan Administration
Hutchins Warns War Near as World Neighbors War
Dr. Hutchins, University of Chicago chancellor, told Inland Empire Education Association teachers in Spokane that the cold war could trigger a shooting conflict with only victims. He urged world government, opposed the Truman policy, favored Wallace’s approach though warned both would fail, and called vast military preparations useless.
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Spokane
Wash
Russia
United States
On M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Bus passenger sprayed by sprinkler truck in Memphis
In Memphis a bus passenger, shouting for the door to close, was sprayed when the driver halted beside a city sprinkling truck. The incident occurred as the standee passenger urged the door shut.
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Memphis
Tenn
Underground battle rages near Taiyuan in China
In Taiyuan deep underground, 200000 Reds besiege 170000 Nationalist defenders of Shansi Province. Tunneling reached about 20 miles by Reds and over 100 miles by Nationalists as oil lamps burn and propaganda by loudspeakers voices the siege. Governor Yen Hsi shan said food is scarce and surrender would require central permission. he vows to die rather than fall to Communists.
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Nanking
Taiyuan
Shansi
Marshall Yen Hsi-shan
Metropole
Tsingtao
Li Tsung-Jen
Twist of Neck One Too Many Twist of Neck One Too Many
Arthur B. Spradley, 44, Houston rig builder, suffers a fracture of the second cervical vertebra after an automobile crash. Doctors immobilize his neck in a brace and warn that any twisting could be fatal during recovery. He has a history of serious injury and must remain vigilant while healing.
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Houston
Arthur B. Spradley
Spradley
Army Island Rule Under Senate Eye
Senate judiciary committee ordered an investigation into Hawaii martial law after Pearl Harbor. Chairman McCarran said the probe will focus on wartime civil rights curtailments and alleged abuses, with a subcommittee likely handling the inquiry.
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Washington
Hawaii
Senate Judiciary Committee
McCarran
D-New
Army
Navy
Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
Phone Hike Hearing Slated in Louisiana
The Louisiana Public Service Commission set a hearing for April 18 on Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company rate increases. The commission expects about a 19 percent rise in local and long distance revenue, following a preliminary session used to review the company’s finances and prior allowance of $2,900,000 yearly income in 1947.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Commission
Th Commission
Fort Worth Plans To Honor Fliers
Fort Worth will honor the Lucky Lady II crew Captain James G. Gallagher and his team with a noon arrival, a Carswell Field ceremony, city parade and a dinner where lifetime Fort Worth citizenships will be conferred. General Curtis E. LeMay and Amon G. Carter join in the ceremonies with six hundred guests expected.
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Fort Worth
Amon G. Carter
James G. Gallagher
Curtis E. Lemay
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Carswell Field
Edgar Deen
Gallagher
Eighth Air Force
Azores
Arabia
Philippines
Hawaii
William C. Kingsbury
D. E. Bailey
W. H. Blanchard
James C. Selser Jr
Sheriff Crew Gets County Radio System Approval
The Travis County Commissioners Court approved a county police broadcasting system with five two way car radios for the sheriff and four deputies after Sheriff Ernest Best withdrew a request for two patrol cars. The system, to be housed in the jail atop the courthouse, awaits FCC wavelength approval and countywide feasibility checks before operation.
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Sheriff's Department
Travis County Commissioners Court
Ernest Best
Tom Johnson
Federal Communications Commission
Gun Molls Aid Street Gangs In Brooklyn Warfare
Teen-age gun molls act as auxiliaries to roving gangs in Brooklyn according to officials at a Brooklyn adolescents court. The girls named Shangri La debs Chandeliers and Robinettes hide weapons, supply alibis, and accompany male hoodlums in attacks and forays.
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New York
Brooklyn
De-Nazification Pardon Granted Berliners
Western Berliners receive a sweeping amnesty pardoning up to 70 percent who have not yet been de-Nazified. The Allied authorities exempt those aged 30 or under, 65 and older, or 50 percent disabled, excluding prior denied appeals.
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Berlin
House Approves Sailors War Pay for Japanese Camp Victims
Eleven sailors of various nationalities captured by Japan during the war stand to receive back pay totaling nearly $100,000 under a House bill sent to the Senate. Payments range from $18,900 for captains to $2,625 for others, covering service on the Taiyuan and time in prison camps.
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Washington
House
Senate
Java
Philippine Islands
Representative Jackson
D-Wash
War Department
John W. E. Warrior
Maesteg
England
John Reid
Ayr
Scotland
T. G. Teffersen
Oslo
Norway
Carl O. Young
Bellingham
Wash
Clifford L. Godfrey
Seattle
R. R. Horn
Everett
T. A. Fox
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph Cvic
Frank Foster
K. A. Olafsson
Munkedal
Sweden
Gus As Fallgren
Hallefors
Mrs Long Supports Glass for Mayor in Upcoming Vote
On May 2 after the new council is qualified Mrs. Stuart Long announced she will vote for Taylor Glass for mayor. She noted many residents call wishing either W S Drake Jr or Glass and she believes Glass will win and has her vote.
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Stuart Long
Taylor Glass
W. S. Drake Jr
Glass
Tong
Commerce Officials Approved in Senate
The Senate commerce committee unanimously recommended confirming Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as undersecretary of Commerce and, by a 10 to 1 vote, Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr. as assistant secretary of commerce. Whitney, then assistant secretary of the Air Force, testified briefly. Blaisdell had been acting in the post. one senator opposed, unnamed.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr
Commerce
Whitney
Air Force
Blaisdell
Appeals Court Sends Wiley Case Back
The Court of Criminal Appeals sent back the case against John Wiley of Houston who was assessed 20 years for murder. Wiley killed his 70 year old uncle Dan King with a knife on July 14, 1948. Justice Beauchamp noted error in not limiting prior felonious convictions mentioned to witnesses.
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Court of Criminal Appeals
John Wiley
Houston
Wiley
Dan King
Tom Beauchamp
Beauchamp
Obituaries from Wichita Falls and Taylor notices
Obituaries list Clifford P Fore died at a local hospital with funeral at Cook Funeral Home officiated by Rev Beery and Rev Moore Jr. Pallbearers named. memorials at Memorial Park. Also mourners for Augusta Sandberg Infant Porfirio Ray Kunschick Jesusa Vera Edith Raven Bennie Ludwig funeral details in Taylor area. Burial at Oakwood Cemetery and Memorial Park, multiple churches and funeral homes involved.
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Clifford P. Fore
Clifford Phillips Fore
John Silas Fore
Mary Phillips Fore
Cook Funeral Home
John K. Beery
Ward Memorial Methodist Church
J. E. Moore Jr
First Nazarene Church of
Austin
E. H. O’shields
Henry Gilbert
S. J. Worthey
Bruce Greenwood
F. B. Schooley
John Houston
Albert Ellis
George Lawler
Burton Stayton
Dr. O. B. Keil
Lester Jones
Carter McGregor Sr
C. H. Parker
Guy Roberts
Fred Ebner
Pete Tidwell
John B. Rhea
al C. Flackt Sr
S. R. Ludolphus
Wiley Robertson
R. L. McFall
Julian McFall
B. T. Adams
C. J. Shumake Sr
Jim Robinson
Wichita Falls
W. K. Guinn
Atlanta
Georgia
Lang Holland
S. S. Cooper Jr
James G. Hamer
A. T. Hanretta
Sigman W. Hays
John Focht
Walter Prichard
John Parnell
H. H. Beasley
James E. Patterson
Hershel James
G. E. Cotton
M. G. Carter
John T. McCutcheon
Henry H. Hankey
H. J. Feugh
Memorial Park
The
Masonic Lodge of
Augusta Sandberg
Walter Kerr
Oakwood Cemetery
Porfirio
L. R. Cole
Capitol Heights
Edith Raven
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
E. L. Sparks
J. S. Robinson Jr
Charles Robinson
Raymond Hayes
H. O
Brian Raven
Frank Reven
Howard Southwell
Taylor
Bennie Ludwig
Condra
H. C. Ziehe
Taylor City Cemetery
Airport expansion planned at Robit Mueller Municipal
Robit Mueller Municipal Airport will enlarge the passenger loading apron and paving around T-hangers for privately owned planes under a 105 000 improvement program. J E Motheral says the Civil Aeronautics Administration in Washington has allocated 50 000 federal funds, with 55 000 city money to be added. Approval from the CAA is needed before bids. A second project for a 228 000 radar system and 13 600 director finder unit may be deferred due to a 5 million cut in CAA requests. Motheral notes radar plans exist only for San Antonio Dallas and Austin.
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Robit Mueller
J. E. Motheral
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Washington
Motheral
CAA
Texas
San Antonio
Dallas
Austin
Witness fined for groan in Texas court
J. R. Duncan of San Antonio, a witness in a damage suit, groaned during a federal judge's ruling. The judge warned of a $500 fine and then fined Duncan $100 for the groan, with Duncan paying the amount and leaving.
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Corpus Christi
J. R. Duncan
San Antonio
Duncan
Allen B. Hannay
Hannay
WV deer harvest dips to record low in large state
West Virginia hunters killed 4,959 deer last season, 412 percent of the legal tally. The total marks the lowest hunting take among states with 100,000 or more deer.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
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University of Texas
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University School of Journalism
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Mentopolis
Louisiana
Walter C. Hellmann
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New York City
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Appeals Court
Ray Kunschick
Okinawa
Hylton-Manor Funeral
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Santa Maria de la Luz
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