Truman State of the Union Message Slated Today
President Truman will address the 82nd Congress in a noon speech outlining foreign policy to halt the spread of communism and detailing a budget potentially reaching 75 billion dollars for rearmament. Security precautions surround the Capitol as Congress plans to press defense and foreign policy legislation.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
United States
Capitol Hill
Capitol
Washington City
Secret Service
Spence
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hunted convict leaves latest car in Mexico
Missouri ex convict William Edward Cook 24 suspected of killing eight persons abandoned the latest victim’s car in Mexico 40 miles inside the border as the FBI surmised he headed back toward the United States. Richard B Hood FBI Los Angeles said tracks near the car indicate Cook signaled another northbound vehicle.
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Blythe
Richard B. Hood
FBI
Los Angeles
Robert H. Dewey
Seattle
Cook
Cooks
Guy Woodward
el Centro
Imperial
Woodward
Mexico
Calexico
California
Mexicali
Baja
Calif
Hood
Dewey
Starcke Named as Candidate for Austin's Most Worthy Citizen
Max Starcke, LCRA general manager, is among 24 nominees for Austin's Most Worthy Citizen for 1950. The final winner will be announced at the Austin Real Estate Board dinner at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
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Max Starcke
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Austin
Starcke
Austin Real Estate Board
Stephen F. Austin
LCRA
Cotton price records near Elgin and Texas
The Elgin area reports the highest cotton price in a half century possibly a Central Texas record. A steering committee will outline the final push for St David's Hospital with about 200000 dollars left to raise of a 1300000 dollar program. Babe Didrickson Zaharias is named top woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century and starts the second fifty years strong.
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Elgin
Texas
Reuben
St. David's Hospital
Babe Didrickson Zaharias
Lubbock Man Heads Advertising Managers
Wayne Healy advertising director of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal was elected president of the Texas Newspaper Advertising Managers Association at the semi annual meeting in Fort Worth. John H Landers Temple Telegram was named vice president and Homer Belew Star Telegram secretary with eighteen member papers represented.
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Fort Worth
Wayne Healy
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Advertising Managers Association
John H. Landers
Temple Telegram
Homer Belew
The
Star-Telegram
Rites Dedicate Hospital Built By Fr. Weber
The Holy Cross Hospital at 2600 East 19th Street was dedicated with Bishop Louis J. Reicher presiding. Fr. Francis R. Weber led a ceremony highlighting the hospital’s Be founded to serve sick and extend Christian charity. The two story facility has 52 beds and aims to expand after retiring a $180,000 debt, with open house to follow.
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Holy Cross Hospital
East Austin
Louis J. Reicher
Austin
East 19Th Street
Francis R. Weber
Congregation of the Holy Cross
Taylor Glass
George W. Cox
Texas
Reicher
Cox
Federal Hospital Construction Fund
State Health Department
Christopher J. O'Toole
Congregation of Holy Cross
New York City
Bernard I. Mullahy
CSC
United States
Holy Cross
Father Weber
Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
Weather outlook for Texas warms as freeze fades
Austin forecasters expect 60s to 60 degrees with a light freeze Tuesday morning. Monday highs near 64 with fair skies, and lows around 27 before dawn. Gently rising springlike temperatures spread across Texas as weekend north winds retreat.
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Austin
Texas
Weather Bureau
Rio Grande Valley
Dalhart
Solons Arrive in Austin for Start of 52nd Legislature
Incoming Texas lawmakers gathered in Austin ahead of the 52nd Legislature convening noon Tuesday. The session faces civil defense, tax, redistricting, and reform challenges, with a $110 million new money need over 10 years. Governor Shivers will report the fiscal plan and tax directions at a joint session Thursday.
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Austin
Texas Tidelands
Texas Education
Allan Shivers
Texas
House
Senate
Roberts
Calvert
Reuben E. Senterfitt
San Saba
Wardlow Lane
Ben Ramsey
Shivers
Fighting Flows on Past City Indicating Fall Coming Soon
AP dispatch from Tokyo reports United Nations troops clinging to Wonju in central South Korea as Communist forces push near the 38th Parallel. The US Eighth Army says Allied lines hold the road and rail hub 55 miles southeast of Seoul despite enveloping attacks. Weather limits air support. Far East Air Force flew under 350 sorties.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Wonju
South Korea
Eighth Army
Seoul
Don Huth
Peatcuuilly & Tmialets
Korea
Far East Air Force
Huth
Matthew B. Ridgway
Suwon
38Th Parallel
Syngman Rhee
Pusan
Ridgway
Tom Lambert
John Randolph
Path of Retreat Recounts Bitter Korean War Memories
AP dispatch recalls the Suwon withdrawal and early Korean War fighting as Brig. Gen. George M. Barth leads a southbound retreat. It notes first American deaths at Osan and Shadrick, tactics, refugee turmoil, and Chinese push toward Wonju and Wonju’s fall, with Ridgway tightening refugee policy.
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Gonvoy
Barth
Osan
Smith
Taft Signals Support for Atlantic Pact Army Pending Ike and Congress
Senator Taft said he would back creation of a 1,000,000-man international army under the Atlantic Pact if General Eisenhower and Congress approve. He urged surveys and warned the United States should avoid overcommitment, favoring a total force around 2.75 million with a defense budget near 40 billion.
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Taft
Ike
Congress
Washington
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Trafe
Eisenhower
Comander
Europe
East
Truman
NBC
Defense Department
Department
Pentagon
Russia
Eisenhower Returns to Europe With Warning to West
General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Paris to command an international army to deter communism. In a radio address he urges unity among Atlantic nations and warns adversaries to heed history. He meets French Premier Pleven and other leaders and lunches with British Marshal Montgomery.
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Eisenhower
Europe
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Orly Field
Rene Pleven
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Neal Douglass
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Seeene
Wesssresseeeres
Centex
Peete Ene Enee
Lubbock
Rites Dedicate Hospital
Weber
John E. Hull
Army
Solons
Joint Legislative Commission
Gilmer-Aikin
George M. Barth
Charles B. Smith
Lambertville
N. J
Kenneth Shadrick
Skin Fork
W. Va
Shadrick
Japan
Formosa
China
France
Britain
Alfonse Juin
Hitler
Marshel Lord Montgomiery
Nazi Germany
Wliiers
Alfred M. Gruenther
Eisenhow
Robert Carney
A Tic
Mediterranean
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