Senator Vandenberg urges H bomb ban and UN pledge
Senator Vandenberg called on President Truman to notify the United Nations that the United States would suspend mass destruction weapon work when the hydrogen bomb can be dependably outlawed. He cited world threats and urged international control while others push for rapid H-bomb development and deployment plans amid air guard measures.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Truman
United Nations
Tydings
D-Md
Congress
Bricker
Ohio
White House
Russia
Air Guard
Air Force
Ben. Vandenberg
TB X RAY BOX SCORE
X rayed Wednesday pennee 510 total x rayed to date 12 034 The mobile X ray unit will be stationed on Congress Avenue at the Chamber of Commerce Building Thursday.
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Congress Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
State of Emergency Ordered at Bonham
Officials in Bonham and Fannin County declared a state of emergency as a severe ice storm cut communications in at least 34 cities and left several towns without water. The storm stretched from Wichita Falls to Dallas and Fort Worth and into Paris and Greenville, with emergency crews mobilizing from Temple to restore services and aid hundreds of affected families.
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Associated Press
Bonham
Fannin County
Texas
Wichita Falls
Abilene
Dallas
Fort Worth
Paris
Greenville
Austin
Weather Bureau
I. W
Stormy) Davis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Corpus Christi
Fannin
Red River
UT Enrollment Lagging With 13 718 Registered
The University of Texas enrollment stood at its lowest figure since the end of the war with 2 937 students registered for the second semester. Total enrollment through Wednesday reached 13 718, with late registrants expected to push it just above 14 000. H A Calkins said lines moved rapidly Wednesday except for a final jam before closing.
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University of Texas
H. A. Calkins
University
Senate backs constitutional amendment ending Electoral College
The Senate voted 64 to 27 to submit a new proportional system for presidential elections to the states. It would abolish the Electoral College but keep state vote totals, distributing votes by proportion of the national popular vote. If no candidate exceeds 40 percent, Congress would name the President from the top two.
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Washington
Senate
Lodge
R-Mass
House
Lucas
Illinois
Congress
Truman
House Rules Committee
Banking
Labor Committee
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Chamber
Smith
D-Va
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Wanda Wiley Ends East Coast Polio Campaign Tour
Wanda Wiley poster girl for the March of Dimes and her companion Linda Brown returned home after touring eastern cities to promote polio funds. They were joined by Linda's mother Mrs Leonard Brown and Wanda's guardian Mrs Lewis Hatelin along with Trudy Whitman from the NFIP. They head to a fashion show in Little Rock before continuing to Austin and San Antonio.
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New York
Wanda Wiley
March of Dimes
Linda Brown
Fund To
Linda
Leonard Brown
Wanda
Lewis Hatelin
Trudy Whitman
National Foundation For
Little Rock
Ark
Texas
Austin
San Antonio
Bastrop County 4 H boy wins steer championship at Houston Fat Stock Show
Heine Niedig of Elgin captured the boys breed championship with a Brahman Shorthorn crossbred steer at Houston's Fat Stock Show, aiming to challenge the open class Brahman champion and possibly claim the grand championship valued around $15,000 at Friday's auction.
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Dave Shanks
Austin American
Houston
Bastrop
South
Heine Niedig
Elgin
Bastrop County
Edwin Zieschang
FFA
Niedig
Mills County
Bobby Zane Egger
Star
Frank Norvell
Burnett
Egger
Mim
Texas
Mason County
Fort Worth
Aberdeen
Angus
Burnett Ffa
Central Texans
Theo Crenweige
Llano
Norvell
H. A. Fitzsimons
Fritzsimons
Pecos County
Chicago
Red Eye
Reds Demand Japs Emperor Be Prosecuted
Soviet note to Dean Acheson calls for trying Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal for alleged germ warfare plots. U S officials say the move is a propaganda gesture and will be vetoed. Congress leaders condemn it as nerve.
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Washington
Russia
Hirohito
Japan
Communist Party
Philippines
United States
Far Eastern Commission
Kremlin
Texas House Urges Truman Fire Acheson
The Texas House approved a resolution urging President Truman to dismiss Secretary of State Dean Acheson over statements supportive of Alger Hiss. The vote was 92 to 24 with three present, after a two-thirds suspension tally and rapid passage from the rules to final approval.
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Texas House
Truman
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Alger Hiss
Hiss
House
Rules Committee
Sam Hanna
Dallas
J. M. Heflin
Houston
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Rep
Heflin
Harris County
Democratic Executive Committee
Woodrow Bean
el Paso
Manford
Atomic cribbing rustles brain wave cheaters
Turin based School Inspector Professor Giulio Pedinini reported that two students were caught using atomic age cheating methods during Latin exams. One student submitted papers identical in punctuation. the other wore bandages housing a walkie talkie receiver, while the partner used a cast concealing a transmitter.
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Turin
Italy
Giulio Pedinini
Pedinini
Governor Allan Shiver Appeals for Mental Health Funds
Governor Allan Shiver urged immediate funds to operate state hospitals and to start a long range building program. He asked for a special temporary tax to cover the emergency, raising levies on oil, gas and sulphur production, liquor, cosmetics, autos, cigars, and utilities.
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Margaret Mayer
Ameri
Capitol
Allan Shiver
Keith Kelly
Fort Worth
Kelly
W. O. Reed
Dale
House
Durwood Manford
Senate
Grady Hazlewood
Hazlewood
Texas
Manford
Omnibus Tax Tops Revenue Proposals
Three tax bills up to 42 million a year were unveiled in the Texas House amid Governor Shivers call for hospital program funding. The omnibus levy would add 15 percent to all tax schedules, with funds set for eleemosynary care.
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House
Allan Shivers
Joe B. Fleming
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Ay Graham
Dolph Briscoer
Negro Prof Pays His Fees at UT
W. Astor Kirk paid enrollment fees in the University of Texas Graduate School on Wednesday. He paid $26 for two government courses and had not been officially informed where or when he would be taught, later saying he sought advice from his father in East Texas.
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W. Astor Kirk
University of Texas
Kirk
J. C. Dolley
University Ymca
East Texas
Amputee WWI Veteran Kills Self After Confession
Andrew Louis Blasko, 25, a World War I amputee from Norfolk, dictated a suicide confession while pinned beneath his wrecked car near Danville Florida. He claimed a buddy lied about Sgt Lemons and then shot himself as dozens watched. Detective records note campaign ribbons and a Purple Heart.
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Danville
Fla
Andrew Louis Blasko
Norfolk
Blasko
James Hughes
John Tate
Bee
Tate
McGuire Veterans Hospital
Richmond
H. A. Wiseman
Danville City
McGuire Hospital
Julich
Germany
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D-Ga
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Little Charlie Stone
Central
Charlie
Charles A. Stone
Fredericksburg
Temple
Highway Patrol
Celeste
Muenster
Leonard
Alton Ernest
Shivers
John Kee
D-W Va
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Walter Judd
R.minn
GOP
Alexander Panyushkin
State Department
Gov
Raymond Brooks
The
Austin America
Davis Clifton
Jack Cox
J. F. Gray
Ray Kirk
Beauford Jester
Board For Hospitals and Special Schools
Kirkpatrick
Youth Development Council
Fleming
Charles R. Jones
Buddy
Jack Lemons
Lemons
Florida
Hughes
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