US Rejects Short Wave Plan At World Conference
The United States refused to sign the world short wave broad agreement at the International Radio Conference. George Sterling headed the US delegation and warned the conference that America would not accept being 10th in world affairs. He reserved the right to boost station power to offset limited hours.
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United States
Soviet Russia
George Sterling
USA
Voice of America
Sterling
Eee Wes
Russia
Clark Attends Delta Tau Delta Frat Dinner Here
Attorney General Tom Clark will be in Austin Sunday as honor guest at a Delta Tau Delta Fraternity dinner and reception. He and Mrs. Clark will visit the Austin chapter, of which he was once president and whose Ramsey is a member, before returning to Washington. The Shamrock Hotel in Houston hosts the Founders Day Banquet with national president Paul Hoffman.
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Tom Clark
Austin
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Clark
Houston
Delta Tau Delta
Washington
Ramsey
New Shamrock Hotel
Paul Hoffman
ECA
Hoffman
John Fry
Jester
Shivers
Durwood Manford
Tom Miller
T. S. Painter
University Law School
San Jacinto
County Considers Opening Road Through Venable Place
Travis County Commissioners Court will hear a request to open a road through the old Venable Place on North Bull Creek on April 13. A petition from area residents was presented this week and asks Mrs. Dorothy Duval and other property owners to appear before the court next Wednesday for a decision.
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Venable Place
North Bull Creek
Travis County Commissioners Court
Dorothy Duval
Secret British Test Will See Ship Exposed to Atomic Rays
The Admiralty prepares a top secret experiment on the cruiser Arethusa in Falmouth Harbor to fire gamma rays at a warship. The test, not a death ray, will be conducted with strict secrecy and involve radioactivity directed from pontoons off the South Coast, likely in the Solent near June.
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London
Admiralty
Arethusa
Falmouth
New York
Norew
Snard
House of Commons
John Dugdale
Dugdale
Portsmouth
Solent
South England
Isle of Wight
Bridges Push Dismissal of NLRB Chief and Taft-Hartley Reform
In San Francisco on April 7, the CIO Longshoremen Union led by Harry Bridges urged dismissal of NLRB general counsel Robert Denham and called for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. The convention accused Denham and the act of undermining the West Coast hiring hall and injuring the longshore agreement. Bridges’ group favors replacing Taft-Hartley with Wagner Act protections and criticized CIO moves toward WFTU withdrawal while debating WFTU ties among ILWU officers.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
CIO
Robert Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Denham
Act
Bridges
Wthdrawal
World Federation of Trade Unions
WFTU
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
ILWU
Smallest full grown cow claimed in Everett Washington
A dwarf cow measuring three feet long and two feet high, weighing about 90 pounds and aged between two and three years, was bought by Roy Tower as the smallest full grown cow in the world. Vets question its bovine status, suggesting possible cross with a midget deer.
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Everett
Wash
Whidbey Island
Roy Tower
Snohomish
Vickers Heads Optimist Club in 1949-50 Banquet
F W Vickers installed Thursday night as president of the Optimist Club for 1949 50 at the Austin Hotel Capital Ballroom. Louis Sein led ceremonies with officers and directors named for Opti Club and Opti Mrs. groups.
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F. W. Vickers
Optimist Club
Capital
Austin Hotel
Faye Shelton
Louis Sein
Optimist International
E. J. Davis
Coy Dobbins
Charlie Howell
J. B. Moreland
Verner Magnuson
Henry Ramsey
J. K. Beery
Ronald Weaver
James J. Kuley Jr
Neville Johnson
Jack ‘Dismukes
Travis LaRue
S. E. Mylan
Bertie Heard
Mire Club
Winifred O. Gustafson
Conrad Fath
M. H. Miller
Aubrey Moyer
R. W. Vickers
Mesdames
Viola Lee
Ruth Howell
Mildred Manor
Shudde Bess Fath
Lost Twins Father Donates to St Anthony's Hospital
Farina Sr and Loretta Sigrist donated 100 to the hospital to aid rebuilding after a fire at St Anthony's. The Sigrist family, with eight living children, previously faced the loss of a third set of twins born March 19. The newborns were cared for at the hospital after birth at home.
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Effingham
A Farina
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Eons Sigrist
Eileen
Irens
American Medical Association
Sigrist
Loretta
Pioneer Burnet Rancher's Rites Slated Today
Marble Falls April 7 Funeral services are set for 3 p m for John Wesley Yett 89 a Burnet County pioneer who came from Tennessee at age eight He lived in West Texas briefly and was a merchant civic leader Survivors include his widow daughter and sister with pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed from Burnet County and surrounding towns.
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Marble Falls
John Wesley Yett
Yett
Burnet County
Tennnessee
James H. Yett
West Texas
Central Christian Church
H. Daniel Morgan
Central Christian Church of
Brownwood
T. Richard Carthright
First Baptist Church
M. Preston Manley
Sone Methodist Church of
Marble
Maude Wilson Yett
Aileen Yett
Mary Elizabeth Deniston
Fort Worth
Haircut of Utah Prisoner Be Bee Ends In Barbering Triumph
In Salt Lake City on April 7 Hiram Be Bee a 65 year old inmate held by Utah State Prison resisted a sanitation driven haircut. Warden Mason Hill and three guards restrained him in a barber chair as the barber trimmed his hair and beard despite his protests that hair is his personal property and a constitutional right.
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Salt Lake City
Hiram Be Bee
Utah
Be Bee
Bee
Mason Hill
Board. Corrections
Hiram
Birth of Son for Former Austin Couple Baldwin Family
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Baldwin of Iowa City announce the birth of son Joseph Lamar Baldwin last Saturday. The mother Mollie Mossman formerly taught in Austin public schools. The father, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Baldwin, grew up in Austin, earned BA and MA from the University of Texas, and is pursuing a drama PhD at the University of Iowa.
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Joseph B. Baldwin
Iowa City
Iowa
Joseph Lamar Baldwin
Baldwin
Mollie Mossman
Denver
Austin Public Schools
J. W. Baldwin
University of Texas
University of Iowa
Yank Merchant Queen Approved
The Maritime Commission announced a 70 million dollar plan to build a 48 000 ton 980 foot passenger liner for United States Lines Inc to serve as America's flagship trans Atlantic vessel. Newport News Shipbuilding will construct the ship which will carry 2 000 passengers and resemble the size of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary with federal subsidies funding most costs. Construction is to take about three years and top speed remains undisclosed.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
United States
United States Lines, Incorporated
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Newport News
Britain
Houston Woman Plans Record Flight for 3 Kilometer Speed
Dot Lemon a Houston pilot announced plans to attempt the world three kilometer air speed record on July 3 and 4 using a modified P51 under National Aeronautics Association approval. Weather will determine exact timing as she aims to bring the mark back to America from Fritz Wendel of Germany who held the record at 469 miles per hour. A permanent three kilometer course will be built in Houston under NAA supervision.
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Houston
Dot Lemon
National Aeronautics Association
Fritz Wendel
Lemon
NAA
Weird red light in Cleveland sky stirs awe and mystery
Clevelanders report a strange glowing red light moving and hovering over the city Wednesday night. Officials including Ches ter Sobczyk of Cleveland Airport and Dr J J Nassau of Case Institute note the sight was unexplainable at the moment. The Air Force says most sightings are meteorological or natural phenomena and has no evidence of foreign missile activity, though a few cases remain unexplained.
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Cleveland
Washington
Air Force
Russia
Lost Patricia Anne Bogseth Found Safe After Search
A three year old girl Patricia Anne Bogseth was found safe in a strange bed about a mile from her home after a search of near North Side sewers and basements. Irene Wall a nurse and caregiver took the child in when she appeared lost in a park and notified police after caring for her. Nearly 100 police and volunteers searched the area after her mittens were found beside a garbage can in an alley Wednesday night.
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Chicago
Near North Side
Patricia Anne Bogseth
Irene Wall
Patricia Anne
Miss Wall
Frank
My How You've Grown Tabby Cat Lion Hunters in San Mateo
San Mateo readers report coastal hill sightings of mountain lions and a hunting party led by Al Mayne and Dev Capurio. Mayne used a rifle with telescopic sights and felled the tawny animal, later identified as Capurio's big yellow Persian cat.
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San Mateo
Calif
San Cony
al Mayne
Dev Capurio
Mayne
Capuro
Mutiny in Chinese Reservists Near Shanghai
Shun Pao reports about 1,000 members of China's government army reserve corps mutinying in Kashing, 60 miles from Shanghai. Soldiers looted shops and homes and split into two columns—one toward the sea to the east and one toward the mountains to the west. No motive given. unrest often tied to Communist agitation or pay.
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Shanghai
Shun Pao
Kashing
Funeral service for retire church leaders officiated by three ministers
A funeral service is planned Friday at 4 p m at the First Baptist Church with Reverends Aubrey C Russel P C Willisma and A C Gettis officiating. Burial details and further arrangements appear to be at a later time for Surial Mi of Balt and Ax Jee base of Taylor.
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First Baptist Church
Aubrey C. Russel
A.C. Gettis
Surial
Balt
Ax Jee
Taylor
Fire toll swells as city funds new hospital drive
The disaster at St. Anthonys Hospital leaves 74 or more missing and dead as authorities confirm 75 known dead with some victims unlisted. Mayor Kennelly urged citizens to donate to a $2.5 million hospital fund after a father buried two twin daughters who died in the blaze.
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Chi
Martin H. Kennelly
Citizens Everywhere
Family of Four Charged With Killing Storekeeper
WHITESBURG Ky one sheriff unit searched creeks around a missing storekeeper’s home as his wife Amanda Ison 48 and her four sons Ruben 18 Bruce 16 and Luther 14 were jailed on murder charges. They allegedly killed Herman Ison about March 5 and buried him in a shallow grave before moving his body.
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Whitesburg
Meee Eee Dam
Amanda Ison
Letcher County
Ruben
Bruce
Luther
Herman Combs
Herman Ison
Leah
Bee Combs
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Philip Murray
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Tee
Vickers Heads Optimist Club
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G. L. Jones
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Virgil A. Corbandt
H. B. Prather
John T. Taylor
Ernette C. Alexander
Dr. H. O. Lewis
BR. O. Smith
H. E. Faubion
R. T. Badger
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I. M. Franks
Lampasas
N. T. Stubbs
Tom Johnson
Johnson City
Granville Knox
McLean Knox
T. D. Vaughan
Arthur Littleton Bertram
H. H. Galloway
Walter Wallace
Bertram
Western
Trieste
Switzerland
Portugal
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Louis Alonzo
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Alonzo
Esther
Sobczyk
Richard Linehan
Serorwing City
Tran Se Funani
British Court
Natural’ School
Eccles Hall
England
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Magistrate’s Court
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van Coute
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