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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1949
Page
7
London on Sunday saw crowds celebrate the end of candy rationing with smeared faces and sticky fingers. Shoppers flooded shops for dolly mixtures bulls eyes and humbugs as merchants imposed limits to protect stock. Food Minister John Strachey won friendly editorials calling him Sugar Daddy.
A spokesman for the council of free Czechoslovakia said underground forces in Czechoslovakia called off an attempt to overthrow the Communist government. Preparations had been made, but the effort was dropped because the situation would not justify such a sacrifice.
The House Un American Activities Committee opens hearings on Communist influence in the American Slav Congress and CIO United Electrical Workers Union. Testimony includes an ex Polish attache claim and names Judge Blair Gunther and John Sherman of Pittsburgh. The committee says some union leaders are Communist officers and may broaden public access later.
AP Foreign News Analyst James D. White argues that Communist China, swelling in power, aligns with Russia in a divided world. He notes Mao Tze tung’s hostile stance toward the Atlantic Pact and how peace talks with the Nationalists collapsed after the pact’s terms were published. The piece links China’s posture to Cold War dynamics and fears of a third world war.
An elderly farmer in Abilene Kansas shot and killed Dickinson County Sheriff E F Davis and his deputy Milton Davis before dying in a house fire started by the assailant. The farmer also wounded his housekeeper and brother in law, with one neighbor shot as flames spread. A coroner’s inquest was planned for Monday.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration announces E. S. Hensley age 45 of Memphis Tennessee as director of the office of aviation safety. He succeeds J. S. Marriott who returns to his post as administrator of the sixth region in Los Angeles. Hensley was deputy director and studied at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Florida.
E. C. Logsdon of Austin has been elected president for 1949 by the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security during its Saturday meeting in San Angelo.
In Cannel France Bao Dai the deposed emperor left by plane for Indo China where he may regain the throne in a United Viet Namese State. Supporters of Ho Chi Minh staged a quiet protest in Saigon and Cholon with leaflets calling Viet Namese to stay off the streets for three hours.
Republican Premier Mohamed Hatta flies to Batavia to direct his delegation at Dutch Indonesian discussions over the next days. It is his first departure from Bangka since internment after the capture of Jogjakarta leaders. He will not join formal UN sponsored talks but will stand by.
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