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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1949
Page
4
The piece reflects on how daily court calendar entries like marriage licenses and adoptions conceal human stories. It highlights cases from juvenile details to custody, divorce, and re adoption, noting most remain private while a few become public, underscoring the human drama behind routine legal records.
The piece notes unions aiming to protect unemployed members amid job losses across the Midwest. About 3,500 Kaiser-Frazier auto workers were laid off on January 14, with small plants in Toledo and Cleveland facing closures and fringe auto parts curtailed as big companies cut output. Heavy railroad layoffs and lingering unemployment across Michigan Massachusetts Connecticut New York and New Jersey are reported as workers await unemployment checks.
The CIO Community Service Committee led by Lee Perlis plans a reserve fund funded by employed CIO members to aid jobless workers. Each large CIO union would maintain an unemployed section and place counselors nationwide to counsel on food, taxes, and personal issues while opposing outside agitators.
The Q A column lists eight women in the House: Edith Nourse Rogers Frances Bolton Katharine St. George Mrs Cecil Harden Mary Norton Helen Gahagan Douglas, plus Mrs Reva Besone and Mrs Chase Woodhouse, and one woman senator Margaret Chase Smith. It covers Schweitzer alive in Lambarene, flamingoes not wild in the US, Stevenson gifting birthday rights, Lake Champlain WWI crossing, prewar passport rules, burial identifications, and calorie definitions.
The American embassy in Belgrade moves to seal a trade pact with Marshal Tito, trading copper oil and machinery from the United States for Yugoslav copper lead and zinc. The shift aims to shift Tito away from the Iron Curtain after Moscow cuts Yugoslav trade.
Broadway gossip column portrays Mme Chiang on Park Avenue and Gene Tierney entering a newsreel venue. It notes Tommy Morton’s ninth hit in as many at bats, Cardinal Spellman exiting a hotel, and quips about Jolson and Cantor. Mentions Reynolds’s praise for Mark Hellinger’s theater name, a Communist conspiracy case, and a lively, crowded night at shows.
The Texas Legislature debates a revived fair trade measure aimed at forcing fixed cigarette prices and punishing below‑price sales. Opponents fear broad price controls raising costs for essentials while supporters cite consumer protection. Also noted is a statewide fund drive against heart disease and Army shifts on Reserve duty signaling easing war tension.
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