Freezing in City Forecast Today
Weather outlook for Austin calls for a 32 degree low before sunrise and a high near 50 Tuesday afternoon. Snow was reported near Lake Buchanan and areas around Taylor with several flood warnings and rainfall events across Williamson County.
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Williamson County
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Salem
Louisiana
Tennessee
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Kenwood
Harris County
Electra
City
Five Texas convicts escape prison farm in Sugarland manhunt
Posses with bloodhounds hunted South Texas woods for five escaped Negro convicts armed with razor sharp steak knives after ten broke from Central Prison Farm No 1 near Sugarland. Recaptured were four men including Willie Wheat Jr Mack Maze and Fred Hatch while six remain at large as officers from multiple agencies continued the search.
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Sugarland
South Texas
Central Prison Farm No. 1
Perry A. Segall
Bellaire
Sam Warfield
Willie Wheat Jr
Harrison County
Arglary
Robert Jones
A. J. Mledenka
Mack Maze
Dallas County
Fred Hatch
Dallas
Kaufman
San Francisco Man Leaps to Death Before Crowds
Edmond Lewis a 30 year old San Francisco sheetmetal worker leaped from a sixth floor Market Street department store as hundreds watched. Police and fire crews struggled to place nets while Lewis laid his coat over the edge and waved the crowd back before jumping. He carried a torn letter to his mother seeking her arrival as his wife and children were missing. His sister identified him at the morgue and said a dispute with his wife preceded the separations.
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Edmond Lewis
Market Street
Lewis
Louella Lewis
Natchitoche
California
Mildred
Jettie
Edmond Jr
Valeria
Mobile X-ray Unit Stays At South Austin Station
The X-ray unit continues service with 551 total X-rayed today and 16,781 to date. The mobile unit will be stationed at the South Austin Fire Station Tuesday.
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South Austin
Fugitives Vanish Into Death Valley
FBI and sheriff officers tracked two young Marines from Tonopah Nevada toward Death Valley after a double holdup and car theft in California. Murray Cretz 19 of the Bronx and Douglas Bright 20 of Neder land Texas were identified. they fled with a 1949 Oldsmobile, ammunition and food, after taking $100 from James Udal and leaving behind a stolen 1934 model.
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Death Valley
FBI
Sheriff's
San Bernardino
Calif
Murray Cretz
Bronx
Douglas E. Bright
Nederland
Texas
Tonopah
Nev
James Udal
Bishop
Walter E. Moore
Reno
Moore
Patrice Ramirez
Santa Paula
John L Lewis to reopen soft coal talks under court order
Mine Chief John L Lewis will resume bargaining with soft coal operators under a federal court directive amid a nationwide strike. About 372,000 miners idle as pickets roam Pennsylvania and West Virginia, with violence reported and governors weighing seizures of mines.
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American Wire
Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
George Love
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co
Northern and Western
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Operators Group
US Steel Corp
United Mine Workers District
Colecard Bargaining
Burnita Matthews
Coal Miners Welfare Fund
George Livengood
Smithfield
Livingood
Gordon E Dean Named Acting AEC Chairman
Washington February 13 informant said President Truman may appoint Gordon E Dean as acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission succeeding David Lilienthal. Lilienthal to step down Wednesday ending a long government career beginning with the TVA in 1933.
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Washington
Truman
Gordon E. Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
David F. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
TVA
Edgar Approved By Senate Panel
State education chief nominee Dr. J. W. Edgar won Senate committee approval along with about 150 other governor’s nominations. The panel also backed John B. Shepperd for secretary of state, while Elwood Hall’s Industrial Accident Board post was not acted on. Edgar’s $17,500 salary was set by the State Board of Education ten days earlier.
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J. W. Edgar
Senate
Edgar
John B. Shepperd
Gladewater
Shepperd
Allan Shivers
Board For State Hospitals and Special Schools
Youth Development Council
Basic Sciences Examiners Board
Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Schools Seek Court Order to Preserve Annual School Transfer
The City Board of Education ordered a mandamus suit to force Austin to continue $175 000 annual transfers from water and light profits to public schools. Pending district court action, the board may include a separate general fund transfer in the case.
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City of
Austin
City Board of Education
J. M. Patterson Sr
Ben Powell
Taylor Glass
Fred Nagle
Gus Moos
Powell
Trueman O'Quinn
Moncy Morning
Emma Long
Johnson demands review of US guided missiles program
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson urged an immediate review of the nations guided missiles program saying Russia leads in delivery capability. He warned the United States may be two years behind and called for pooling research across services to accelerate development.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtexas
Russia
United States
Johnson
Texas
Senate Armed Services Committee
Secretary of Defense
Congress
House Approves 1 Cent Cigarette Tax for Hospital Program
The Texas House approved a 1 cent cigarette tax increase by 112 to 27, funding 37.5 million for the hospital building program over seven and a half years and the rest for hospital operations. Limit set to 5 million yearly building fund with 22.5 million surplus bolstering operating funds.
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Senate
House
Board
Jack Ridgeway
Ridgeway
Douglas E. Bergman
Dallas
Davis Clifton
Jack Cox
Truman Talks About Running for Re-Election
President Truman hints at running in 1952 after a White House visit with California supporter George Luckey. Luckey, vice chairman of the California Democratic central committee, reports the president said “maybe so” if the same team remains, and vows support. Luckey will attend the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Washington.
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Washington
Truman
California
White House
George Luckey
Los Angeles
Democratic Central Committee
Luckey
Austin SoPac Division Awarded Safety Plaque
The Dallas Austin division received a safety plaque for the third straight year as the safest among Southern Pacific Lines seven divisions. Superintendent F E Hoefer accepted the plaque Monday night from T M Spence, general manager of the Southern Pacific Lines, in Houston.
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Austin
Southern Pacific
F. E. Hoefer
Dallas-Austin
T. M. Spence
Houstor
Southern Pacific Lines
Mayor challenges Cox to show dirt in Austin
Mayor Taylor Glass and City Manager Guston Morgan rejected Dr. George W. Cox’s claim that Austin is a dirty city. Cox urged specifics on alleys and city conditions while health officials offered no concrete complaints and outlined planned cleanup efforts and polio precautions for May.
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Taylor Glass
George W. Cox
Austin
Guston Morgan
Dr. Cox
West Austin
State Health Department
Morgan
Texas
Primer
Lake Austin Boulevard
Levander
Glass
Tic Tac Toe Wizard Builds Mechanical Brain at Kellogg High
Noel Penne Elliott, 18, Kellogg High School senior, reveals a nine-square machine that plays tic tac toe using switches and lights. The device reportedly wins about 40 percent of the time and can even cheat, with Elliott noting bugs and ongoing improvement after three years of work. He was a Westinghouse science talent search finalist.
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Kellogg
Ida
Noel Penne Elliott
Kellogg High School
Noel
Westinghouse Science
The
Machine
MacArthur Grasp on Western Pacific Powers Outlined
Washington confirms General Douglas MacArthur will command all U S forces in the Western Pacific in wartime with control extending to the fleet and peacetime naval operations in Japanese waters remain under Admiral Arthur W Radford. The Joint Chiefs of Staff described a clarified relationship between MacArthur’s Orient command and Pacific naval forces. Assistant Secretary Hickerson signaled openness to UN discussions on atomic energy amid Soviet protests over the UN AEC’s leadership and China’s seat. France and Nationalists debate Peiping recognition as Mao’s regime gains traction. Paris notes a cautious stance after a Hanoi operation aimed at clearing Mos cow-supported Ho Chi Minh forces in Annam.
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Western Pacific
Tokyo
Arthur W. Radford
Pacific Fleet
MacArthur
Orient
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Far East
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Pacific
John D. Hickerson
United States
Russia
United Nations
Hickerson
Jacob A. Malik
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Paris
France
Qarters
Georges Bidault
Britain
Mao Tze-Tung
Peiping
Mao
Indochina
Ho Chi- Minh
Saigon
Hanoi
Annam
Moscow
Ho Chi-Minh
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