Holy Week rites mark Austin church observances
Holy Week observances begin Thursday across Austin churches with Holy Eucharist and special services. St Mary's Cathedral and multiple parishes plan Masses, mandatum, tenebrae, candlelit Communion, sermons, and choir presentations, featuring bishops Reicher and Hines and pastors from St David's, Church of the Good Shepherd, St Austin's, and other congregations.
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William J. Weeg
Austin
St. Mary's Cathedral
10Th and
Brazos
Louis J. Reicher
John E. Hines
Diocese of Texas
Church of the Good Shepherd
Episcopal
Exposition Boulevard
Windsor Road
St. David's Episcopal Church
Charles A. Sumners
St. Austin
Ev. John Stanley
Chicago Paulist Mission Band
Cc. E. Bludworth
Shettles Memorial Methodist Church
Govalle Methodist Church
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
James I. McCord
Solon urges rockets for red propaganda
Senator Flanders proposes U S use guided missiles and remote control planes to drop hand bills and peace pamphlets over the Soviet Union. He calls for a political offensive to explain why the world fears Russia and arms against it, saying radio reaches only a small portion of Russians.
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Washington
Flanders
R-Vi
United States
Soviet Union
Senate
Russia
Midland Girl Remains In Coma Thirteen Weeks
Jo Ann Edwards twenty one of Midland has been in a coma for thirteen weeks after a January auto accident near Odessa. doctors say she remains unconscious as her condition is monitored and treated.
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Midland
Odessa
Jo Ann Edwards
Here
Smith Attacks Governor As Trying To Run House
Representative Preston Smith of Lubbock accused Governor Beauford H. Jester of trying to decide what legislation the House should consider. The House debated the Gilmer-Aikin school bills while the Senate passed a judges retirement bill with amendments and addressed rural aid school fund deficits.
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Smith
Associated Press
Preston Smith
Lubbock
Beauford H. Jester
House
Jester
Gilmer- Aikin
Senate
Gilmer-Aikin
West Texas
Rae Files Stil
Waxahachie
Jim Taylor
Taylor
Texas
John L. Crosthwait
Dallas
Pacific Northwest Hit by Massive Earthquake
A severe Pacific Northwest quake at 11:56 am PST caused ten deaths and millions in damage across Olympia Tacoma and Seattle. Buildings cracked water mains failed and traffic halted while seismographs at the University of Washington recorded the event as a No 8 intensity. Survivors faced shattered brickwork and fallen debris with emergency shelters activated in Olympia and Seattle.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Reion
Puget Sound
Fox Island
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
Olympia
Washington
Oregon
British Columbia
Idaho
Marvin Klegman
Longview
Castle Rock
Jack Roller
Centralia
Mark Kuveric
Alfred Welander
Cosmopolis
Konrad Sorenson
University of Washington
Smith Tower
Red Cross
Sheldon Williamson
Washington State
Equitable
H. P. Everest
Arthur B. Langlie
State Insurance
R. W. Finke
Legion chief warns of armed service strife risking national security
Perry Brown national commander of the American Legion told Texas lawmakers that armed services strife endangers security. He urged swift unification under Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and pressed for $500,000 for Texas to aid veterans claims processing. He warned against excessive military spending without real protection and promoted stronger citizen defense training.
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Raymond Brooks
Austin American Capitol
Texas
Louis Johnson
Perry Brown
Beaumont
American Legion
House
Senate
Brown
Austin
American Legion State Department
Congress
France
Veterans Administration
Islation
Texas House
Legion
Gvernor Beauford Jester
William McCraw
Bertram E. Giesecke
Western powers loosen German industry restrictions
The United States Britain and France plan to revive Western Germany by retaining 159 reparations plants while easing limits on key industries including shipbuilding aluminum ball bearings heavy tractors and synthetic ammonia to speed German self sufficiency and European revival. Secretary Acheson said Germans would gain broad latitude in foreign trade subject to occupation veto and warned against fear of German industrial competition suppression.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Berlin
Acheson
Frankfurt
Strippers Scrap False Peace at Bradley's Front
In New York on April 13 a street fight outside Bradley's restaurant on East 54th Street erupted between strip tease artists Georgia Southern and Joann Collier over who gets the closing spot and who wears falsies. No blood was spilled.
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New York
Georgia Southern
East 54Th Street
Joann Collier
Arnold Shields
Bradley’s
Joann
Georgia
Early's Appointment Confirmed by Senate
The Senate unanimously confirmed Stephen T. Early’s appointment as undersecretary of defense. Early said he hoped to assume duties by May 1 after a brief call with President Truman and was formerly press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Washington
Senate
Stephen T. Early
Defense
Early
Truman
Roosevelt
Grand Jury Turns Heat On Pinball Racket
Travis County grand jurors pressed an alleged pinball and slot machine racket worth about 1.5 million dollars annually. Captain Ted C. Klaus ordered officers to confiscate illegal devices on sight. Sheriff Ernest Best pledged continued effort as Texas Rangers rumors swirled about county raids. County Judge Mace Thuman Jr. turned over 357.18 in coins from 15 seized machines for further investigation. Thirty seven one ball marble tables were seized and 15 defendants pleaded guilty with cash boxes opened.
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Travis County Grand Jury
Ted C. Klaus
Klaus
Ernest Best
Texas Rangers
Travis County
Mace Thuman Jr
Grand Jury
George Pope
House Approves Record Peacetime Arms Budget
The House approved a 16 billion military budget, the largest peacetime bill in U.S. history, after a brief whirlwind debate. Only one vote opposed it as the Navy bid for 300 million extra for naval air was rejected. Representative Cannon of Missouri participated in the roll call.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Air Arm
Marcantonio
Al-Ny
Mahon
D-Tex
Taber
R-Ny
Cole
Appropriations Committee
Armed Services Committee
Army
Air Force
Truman
Moscow
Russia
Europe
Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
Armed Services c Fee
Britain denounces Soviet breach of 20 year pact and Berlin blockade talks
London accuses Russia of violating the wartime friendship treaty and pursuing a Berlin blockade lift via Polish channels. New York reports UN review of Israel joining and Jeruselam plans. New Delhi notes an Asian conference pressing UN to restore Indonesian authority. Los Angeles outlines atomic powered airplane hopes and Navy funding clashes in Congress.
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London
Britain
Russia
Berlin
Germany
New York
Israel
UN Assembly
Jerusalem
Folke Bernadotte
New Delhi
Los Angeles
Oak Ridge
W. J.J. Koshuba
Western Metal Congress
Moving Words Rolling Them In the Aisles
Oregon State Senator Allan Caroson delivered a thunderous Senate floor speech calling a bill earth shaking. The Capitol trembled as he asserted the measure's impact during Wednesday debate.
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Associated Press
Oregon
Allan Caroson
Senate
Russia accuses NATO members of planning atomic war
At the United Nations Assembly, Andrei Gromyko charged the North Atlantic Pact nations led by the United States Britain and France with preparing an atomic war against the Soviet Union He called the 12 nation NATO a bloc aimed at undermining the UN and noted the USSR was the only great power excluded from the pact.
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New York
Russia
United Nations Assembly
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
USA
Great Britain
France
Soviet Union
Warren R. Austin
Security Council
United States
United Nations
Ussr
Gan
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