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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1949
Page
6
The House, with all votes in favor, sent to the Senate a bill to raise veterans and disability payments by more than 112 million dollars annually. The measure faced White House objections but passed 354 to 0 on the roll call. First year cost is estimated at 112,597,300 dollars with impact on about 2,024,000 veterans.
The United States protested Communist authorities over delayed action during mob violence at the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury. The Shanghai consulate siege by former US Navy workers ended after 30 hours, with negotiations ongoing and a plan for arbitration presented by the Communist Labor Board.
Charles Lewis Watley age 34 of Haskell was killed in a highway crash between Mankins and Dundee. His car boarded a fence then struck a tree. Two other persons were injured in Wichita Falls report dated August 2.
Lipscomb County residents plan Aug 5 to 7 festivities for Booker Texas noting the 1919 cross‑state relocation of the town from La Kemp Oklahoma after the Santa Fe Railroad line reached Spearman. About 150 residents expected to attend.
Houston engineers sketch a $30 million skyway that would run five miles from the Houston Port Arthur junction to Eureka as a double deck four lane system up to six stories high The project awaits city and state approval and may require complex right of way and financing decisions.
The Houston Cotton Exchange reports season exports through Port Houston totaling 912 652 bales up from 678 111 last season. Rail shipments dropped from 600 171 to 342 151, while total shipments reached 1 256 646 bales versus 1 278 282 previously.
Energetic C. C. Witherspoon of Ferris delivered two first bales, Dallas and Ellis County firsts, ginned Monday. The 526 pound Dallas County bale came from 834 acres in the southeast. the 515 pound Ellis County bale from 266 acres six miles east of Ferris. Both bales will be auctioned at the Dallas Cotton Exchange. Witherspoon used 55 pickers at dawn Monday to lead the Dallas first-base race.
The article notes a present method of simplifying tile installation by mounting small clay tiles on large paper strips and compares it to a technique that originated in Asia Minor in the 13th century.
Prague reports claim a Vatican American plot to spark civil war in Czechoslovakia was foiled. Communist press named Organization X led by Allen Dulles and Francis Spellman as involved, with Vatican secretary Montini and Jesuit Janssens cited. London and New York reactions noted.
An auto carrying two Santa Barbara Catholic priests crashed into a parked lumber truck near Gallup New Mexico on US 66. The Rev. Patrick Roddy was killed and the Rev. Alex O'Brien was seriously injured.
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