Trials by juries grow rarer in County Court at Law
The column notes fewer jury trials in minor cases as penalties rise and defendants plead guilty to avoid juries. It cites a four year sentence for third offense theft in Travis County and explains juries are now more costly to seat and harsher on crime. Other local items include Noble Latson’s new baby, Bascom Giles discusses land tips to an ex GI, George Pope’s street dispute, Mrs. Pharr’s bus fare nickel drain, and a deer-hunt miss by Chief Deputy Bob Baker.
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Travis County
Freddie Pharr
Wooldridge School
Santa Claus
Not Even Silence Is Golden Anymore
A collection of opinion vignettes touches on living costs, action over words, bond releases of top Communists, pork prices, the dollar eagle, coal leader John L Lewis, and economic life. It notes debates on a return to the gold standard and remarks on aging athletes and public discourse.
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United States
Texas Gas To Fuel Nation With Brownsville Plant
County Judge Oscar C. Daney reports Texas advances in a multi million dollar Brownsville project turning methane rich natural gas into motor fuels. The full scale plant aims to compete with refinery gasoline, boosting state revenues and supply for national defense.
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Texas
New York
Air Express
Oscar C. Daney
Brownsville
Labor War in the CIO UE Clash Across Radio and Unions
A 1949 Post syndicate piece details a $300000 broadcast by Arthur Gaeth attacking Catholic labor figures while linking the UE to pro Communist aims. The column portrays a cross country fight among pro and anti Communist factions within the CIO UE, ACTU and Catholic unions with tactics including intimidation and propaganda.
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Arthur Gaeth
United Electrical Workers
CIO
Gaeth
New England
ACTU
Origins of the coroner and Campbells song explained
A quiz-like excerpt covers the term coroner’s origin in England as custus pienitor ven coroniae and the Campbell family’s link to the song The Campbells are Coming tied to Mary Queen of Scots and 18th century rebellion. It also notes cats’ cleanliness, wide travel of some sea animals, tumbling weed, and Ernie Pyle buried at the National Cemetery of the Pacific with about 12 000 WWII burials nearby.
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England
Mary
Loch Leven
Campbell
George I
John Campbell
Duke of
Argyle
Ernie Pyle
National Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu
Hawaii
Pacific
Care of the Feet booklet warns of outgrown shoes causing child deformities
Dr. Joseph Lelyveld, head of the National Foot Health Council, explains how improper footwear harms children's bones and joints and offers guidance. Order the authoritative booklet for 15 cents from the Austin American Information Bureau at 316 Bye Street NE, Washington DC.
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Joseph Lelyveld
National Foot Health Council
Austin
American Information Bureau
Bye Street
Washington
D, C
Dawson becomes Democratic National Committee vice chairman
Washington notes mark a quiet shift as Congressman William Dawson of Chicago is elevated by Chairman William Boyle to the DNC vice chair, replacing Boss Frank Hague. The piece traces Dawson's unique background and the era’s civil rights shifts shaping party leadership.
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Washington
William Dawson
Chicago
Frank Hague
Jersey City
William Boyle
Democratic National Committee
Ed Kelly
Kelly
Roosevelt
Boss Hague
New Jersey
Hague
Bill Boyle
House Expenditures Committee
Hardy
Virginia
Lanham
Georgia
Bonner
North Carolina
Boyle
Dawson
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Oscar de Priest
Cong. de Priest
White House
Hoover
de Priest
GOP
FDR
Truman
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
N. Y
Powell
Winchell on Broadway and the rough era of press feuds
A historical survey of journalism's rough-and-tumble past highlights West Coast editor James King and rivals like Pulitzer and Dana. It recalls duels of wit and brass knuckles, early 1800s pony express rivalries, and Civil War mob actions, ending with Tribune journalists fortifying their offices against attackers.
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West Coast
James King
King
New York Ournals
Eé Herald
Tribune
The
Trib
Associated Press Entitled to Reprint Local News
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of all local items printed in this newspaper and to AP news dispatches, as stated in the notice.
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Associated Presa
Associated Press
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Noble Latson
City of
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George Pope
County Attorney's Office
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Mrs. Baker
Bob
Paul Hoffman
Russia
King Coal
John L. Lewis
Red UK
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Mike
WJZ
American Broadcasting Network
Charles Owen Rice
Pittsburgh
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Jim Carey
Jim
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CIO Electrical Workers Union
Bureau
Eye Street
N.E
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M. J
Drew Pearson
National Art Gallery
Harry McBride
Cellini
Rembrandt
World Food Bank
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Secretary of Agriculture
FAO
Secy
Acheson
Brannan
Uncle Sam
Department of Agriculture
Europe
Food and Agricultural Organization
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Joseph Pulitzer
Charles A Dana
Pulitzer
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Dana
Judas
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Frank Munsey
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