House Holds Up On Omnibus Tax
The Texas House blocked final action on the omnibus tax bill amid a dispute over a federal mandate. A Senate-amendment to create a surplus commodities agency faced removal, with a $39,000 setup at issue. Leaders planned to strike the controversial section Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas House
Senate
House
US Department of Agriculture
Texas
Sam Hanna
Dallas
T. M. Collie
Eastland
S. J. Isaacks
el Paso
Hanna
Collie
Allan Shivers
A. M. Aikin Jr
George Moffett
Chillicothe
Department of Public Welfare
Durwood
Congress
Frost Warning Predicts Frost in Austin Thursday Morning
A light freeze and frost are expected Thursday morning in Austin with a low near 30 degrees at 7 am. Temperatures will be near freezing through the morning, then rise to the low 60s in the afternoon under fair skies. Wednesday’s 24 hour period saw 0.02 inch of rain. a cold front has moved across the state from Port Arthur toward Louisiana and Mississippi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Port Arthur
Louisiana
Mississippi
Experimental Twin Jet Plane Explodes in Air
A twin-jet experimental plane exploded in the air during a test run at El Segundo California. The blast killed the flight engineer and the wreckage fell into an oil storage reservoir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Segundo
Calif
FEPC Battle Delays Adjournment in House Vote Fight
The House refused to adjourn and pushed toward a final vote on the FEPC bill to curb hiring discrimination by race creed or color. Southern Democrats lost a bid to end the session 239 to 165 as filibusters extended debate into the night, with a roll call showing renewed efforts after midnights. The stakes center on President Truman’s civil rights program and the fate of a federal fair employment commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
FEPC
Federal Commission
Truman
Steed
D-Okla
Fair Employment Commission
Powell
City to form sanitation committee after Cox charge
A city official forecast a citizens committee on Austin sanitation to be appointed soon to study all sanitation measures. The panel would include health authorities social workers civic leaders doctors and other volunteers to inspect cleanliness standards and report needed improvements to the City Council.
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Austin
George Cox
Cox
Six Bowie County Prisoners Escape From Jail
Six prisoners sawn bars in a Bowie County jail cell at Boston Texas and fled on foot after beating a trustee in hospital with head wounds. Five prisoners awaited trial and one was bound for state prison. highway patrol and sheriff set roadblocks and searched late Wednesday night. Jailer Sam Raney reported hearing nothing until the last man escaped.
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Texarkana
Bowie County
Boston
Texas
Highway Patrol
Sheriff's Department
Sam Raney
Raney
Overalls Showed That Well-Fed Look
In Amarillo on February 22 a grocery store suspected a Black customer after he wore inflated overalls. Workers found three T bone steaks three club steaks nine boiled ham packages and a dressed chicken tied in the leg. The man received a 20 day county jail sentence.
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Amarillo
City Tells Supreme Court on Police Firemen Unionization
Austin officials defend minimum wage law provisions in a appeal over longevity pay and sick leave for police and fire employees. The suit, brought by over 100 city workers, argues for increases beyond the $180 minimum and contests how sick leave accrues under the 1948 act. Lawyers debate legislative intent and constitutional questions about city autonomy and universal application.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Mayer
American Capitol
Austin
Trueman O'Quinn
Supreme Court
High Court
Fire and Police Department
O'’Quinn
O’quinn
Orville Jobe
Waco
Jobe
Robert Burns
Third Court of Civil Appeals
James P. Hart
60 Day Phone Dispute Truce Agreed Across Nation
Washington February 22 1946 the CIO Communications Workers of America and President Truman agreed to a 60 day postponement of the nationwide telephone strike to allow bargaining under federal mediation. Bell System officials and union leaders urged continued work and an immediate start to negotiations. The union seeks a 15 cent per hour wage package plus shorter hours and training periods.
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Washington
CIO Communications Workers of America
Truman
Beirne
Tuman
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
H. T. Killingsworth
Long Lines
Communication Workers of America
Bell System
Britons Vote in Historic 1945 General Election Amid Socialist Debate
Britain faces a pivotal vote as 34 million eligible electors decide the course of postwar socialism. Labor led by Attlee seeks to extend reform against Churchill's Conservatives, with Liberal hopes and tight polls shaping the final hours before polling opens at 7 a.m. across the four nations.
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London
Britain
Socialist Labor Party
Clement Attlee
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
House of Commons
Labor
Labor Party
George VI
Winston Churchill
Liberal Third
Laborites
Liberal News-Chronicle
Conservative Party
Liberals
Lord Beaverbrook
Daily
Express
Churchill
Attlee
Herbert Morrison
Woodford
Essex
Walthamstow West
Stork Staying Outta Politics Report Flare in Campaign
In London on February 22, the Conservative Evening Standard recounted a Labor Party speaker praising socialism during the British election campaign. A heckler replied, Britain has bonnie babies, why private enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Conservative Evening Standard
Britain
Truman labels Communism an armed threat to freedom
President Truman denounces Communism as an armed tyranny, vows to use force if needed to defend democracy. He speaks beside the George Washington National Masonic Memorial in Alexandria during Washington's birthday ceremonies, outlining aims to curb armaments and secure an international system for atomic control.
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Washington
Truman
Soviet Russia
George Washington National Masonic Memorial
Alexandria
United States
Mr. Truman
George Washington
Spy Ring Probe Voted by Senate
The Senate voted to investigate charges by Senator McCarthy that a Communist spy ring operates in the State Department. The resolution directs the foreign relations committee to conduct the inquiry with several GOP riders for full access to loyalty records and public hearings on disloyalty charges. Democratic Leader Lucas sponsored the measure and accepted the riders.
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Senate
Washington
McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lucas
D-Ill
Ferguson
Rmich
Morse
Rore
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Defense claims wrong man in Owens murder case
The Owens murder trial enters its fourth day as defense argues the defendant Roy Owens is not the killer. They point to James Douglas, a relative and half-brother of Vera Barton Owens, as equally capable, questioning Detective Lang about blood evidence on Douglas.
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Owens
98Th District Court
Roy Owens
Dallas
Vera Barton
Tiny” Owens
James Douglas
Columbus Woman Named to State Advisory Hospital Council
Miss Dixie Diefenderfer of Columbus was nominated by Governor Allan Shivers to serve on the State Advisory Hospital Council. Her name goes to the Senate for confirmation for the term ending August 13, 1955.
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Dixie Diefenderfer
Columbus
Allan Shivers
State Advisory Hospital Council
Senate
US Disclaiming Texas Harbors Tideland Issue
Attorney General Price Daniel disclosed a possible federal claim to all Texas ports and harbors in a brief for the tidelands case set for argument before the Supreme Court the week of March 13. The government contends California tidelands precedent governs Texas and Louisiana. Texas argues no such claim exists.
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Texas
Price Daniel
Daniel
US Supreme Court
Philip B. Perlman
Washington
Perlman
Austin
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Brownsvile
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Houston
Louisiana
California
Old Republic of
Taylorite Sought In Embezzlement
Herbert C. Dean, manager of the Taylor Amusement Company, faces embezzlement charges for about 5000 dollars, alleged to have been taken from Taylors First National Bank. A warrant was issued, police broadcast, and Dean’s wife located in Chicago. Dean previously worked with the Robb and Rowley Theater Circuit in Corpus Christi.
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Taylor
ANS
Herbert C. Dean
Taylor Amusement Company
Taylors First National Bank
Dean
Justice of Peace Sam BD
Burnaps Court
Howard Bland
Deans
A. O. Schier
Chicago
Robb and Rowley
Corpus Christi
Supreme Court upholdsDemocrats right to run party affairs
The Supreme Court ruled the Fort Worth Democratic Convention action to replace two state committee members in 1948 was within the party's internal authority and courts had no jurisdiction to restrain seating. The decision dissolves the injunction against Carter and Mrs. Douglas and preserves damages claims.
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Raymond Brooks
Capitol
Austin
Fort Worth
Neville G. Penrose
Bennett L. Smith
Con
Jack Carter
J. W. Douglas
Carter
Douglas
Penrose
Smith
District Court
Trial Court
Court of Civil Appeals
John H. Sharp
G. B. Smedley
Smedley
Tarrant County
Supreme Court
Democratic State Executive Committee
McAllen
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Harris County
M. D. Anderson Cancer Research Center
Callan Graham
Revenue and Taxation
Joe B. Fleming
Gram
Representative Hannas
John Lesinski
Michigan
House Committee On Education and Labor
Joseph A. Beirne
Federal Mediation Service
Stork
Brewster
Maine
Taylorite
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