Rain Helps Central Texas Crops With Late-Week Showers
Rain across Central Texas brings moisture from the Hill Country to the sandy regions easing drought conditions for pastures and newly planted corn. Officials predict more rain Friday and Saturday as farmers face quotas and uncertain yields. Johnson City reported about 1.5 inches, Llano saw 0.75 inch, and the wider area benefited rangeland while some small grains were too late to respond.
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Texas
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Central Texas
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Austin American
Yanee
Patterson
Llano
T. D. Tanksley
Llano High School
Prague Convicts Two USIS Workers of Espionage
A Prague state court found Dagmar Kacerovska and Lubomir Elsner guilty of spying for the United States and acting against Czechoslovakia. Kacerovska received 15 years, Elsner 18 years, plus fines and rights deprivation. Both faced additional charges of insulting pro Soviet powers and public incitement against the republic.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United States Information Service
United States
Dagmar Kacerovska
Lubomir Elsner
Joseph C. Kolarek
Republic
Reds Admit Firing on US Plane and Honors for Pilots
President Truman, in a news conference marking six years in office, touted national prosperity and improving world affairs. He defended his record, attacked critics, and outlined plans on FEPC and the Marshall Plan while noting farm surpluses linked to Maine potatoes.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Maine
As You Like It mocks Soviet life in Mosinee stunt
A witty feature jokes that communists will seize Mosinee Wisconsin on May 1 and imprison leading citizens in concentration camps. It declares the entire town would live under a Soviet dictator as a stunt to show life under communism. The piece parodies fear and lists related items across pages.
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Wis
Red Youth Group
Boy Scouts
Beauty's Husband Gets Another Job
The estranged husband of Frances Cloyd, Mrs. America of 1949, was ordered by Superior Judge Robert Bureb to show cause why he should not provide temporary support for his wife and their three children. The order was issued in San Diego on April 13.
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San Diego
Calif
Robert Bureb
Arthur T Cloyd, Jr
Frances
Clark Receives UT Coif Honor and Proposes Public Law Center
Justice Tom C. Clark received the University of Texas Law School Coif honor at a tribute dinner in Austin. He urged creation of a Texas Public Law Center to serve law graduates and the public, outlining five areas including statewide legal aid, legislative drafting, criminal justice administration, penal law reform, and state administrative law.
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Order of the Coif
US Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Clark
Page Keeton
The
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Neal Douglass
Tom C. Clark
United States Supreme Court
Truman
University of Texas
Dean Page Keeton
Justice Clark
Travis County
Commodore Perry
Law Institute
Texas Public Law Center
Austin
Texas
Law School
Texas Legislature
Legislative Council
Attorney General of Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals
Attorney General
State Department of Public Safety
Few Brewster Till Pee
Texas City Blast Laid to US Error
Federal Judge T M Kennerly ruled the United States bears responsibility for the Texas City disaster, citing blunders and negligence. He extended the ruling to $200 million in damage suits filed by 8,485 claimants, a mass action to determine individual merits in separate trials.
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Texas City
Houston
T. M. Kennerly
World Citizen Davis and Dancer Wed in Public Quaker Style
In Ellsworth Maine on April 13 Garry Davis a stateless war vet 28 and Audrey Peters 21 exchanged vows in a public wedding at city hall plaza. About 500 people attended as a Unitarian minister led a simple liturgy while cheers horns and screams of high school girls erupted afterward. The ceremony promoted the idea of brotherhood among men and nations as Davis renounced US citizenship two years prior.
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Maine
Garry Davis
Hollywood
City Hall Plaza
Audreyeters
Brotherhood
Two Centexans Die Three Injured In Car Mishaps
Automobile crashes Thursday killed five year old Phillip Davis and 82 year old S E Wyatt of Smithville. The boy died when his pickup collided with a sedan south of Lockhart. Wyatt died when his car hit an MRT passenger train near Upton. The Yorktown couple and Wyatt’s daughter Grace Hancock survived. Sheriff Edd Williams reported the boy rode with his father in the truck. The train was northbound from Smithville to Waco.
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Lockhart
S. E. Wyatt
Smithville
Upton
Davis
Wayne Davis
Waelder
Caldwell County
Edd Williams
Roy Gruetmacher
Yorktown
Lockhart City Hospital
San Antonio
Wyatt
Waco
Grace Hancock
Jim Fitzwilliams
British Missionary In China Murdered
The China Inland Mission reports missionary Frank Parry aged 60 was shot to death in Kunming. Parry served as financial secretary to the mission for Yunnan Province. The shooting happened last Saturday at his office. motive is unknown.
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London
China Inland Mission
Kunming
Frank Parry
Yunnan Province
Prison Escapee Nabbed At Carnival In City
Ralph Hobart Coble, 30, of Colorado, sought by FBI and police for a year, was arrested by city detectives and FBI agents at First and Chalmers Streets near the Alabama Exposition Shows. Indicted for grand larceny in Carson City Nevada on June 6 1949. He escaped prison after confinement and was described as dangerous if armed. He will be returned to Nevada to face trial.
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Thorp
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Southwest
FBI
First
Chalmers
Ralph Hobart Coble
Carson City
Nev
Washington, D. C
Merle Wells
Pete Weaver
Coble
Nevada
Medals Indicate Four Fired on Craft
Moscow announced the awarding of the Order of the Red Banner to four airmen for excellent service after admitting a missing United States Navy plane was fired on. The unarmed Privateer vanished en route from Wiesbaden to Copenhagen after being chased by Soviet fighters near Latvia.
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Denmark
United States Navy
Order of the Red Banner
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Baltic Sea
Moscow
Pravda
Russian Communist Party
Latvia
Wiesbaden-Copenhagen
Presidium
Supreme Soviet
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Baltic
Air Force
Kastrup Field
Russia
United States
Pauper's Oath Ends Rutland Veteran’s Jail Term
Bernard J. Smith 24 of Fair Haven becomes last of three Vermont veterans jailed under the poor debtor law to win freedom by taking the pauper oath before the Jail Commissioners. He swore assets under 20 dollars and left jail with his father and attorney. He remains debt liable for amounts over ten dollars weekly, and remains subject to judgment attachments.
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Bernard J. Smith
Fair Haven
Board of Jail Commissioners
Smith
Rutland County
Phillip Phelps
George Goddard
Vermont
Conceesa
Memphis, Tenn
Bak Smith
Mary Mangan
Vermont Supreme Court
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