Indochina Seen As Red Pivot In Asia Conflict
In Tokyo on January 23 American military authorities warned Indochina could become a pivotal point in a Communist advance across Southeast Asia. They noted Chinese forces pressuring the region and Viet-Nam links, with French forces defending a vast border area while equipment shortages limit future warfare capability.
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Vacumatic Carburetors Offer Gas Savings for Vehicles
Wisconsin inventor introduces the Vacumatic device to curb over rich fuel mixtures. The automatic system, based on supercharge principles, claims fuel savings and easy installation for cars trucks and tractors. Vacumatic Carburetors Co. of Wauwatosa invites readers to request full details or send name and address on a penny post card.
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Vacumatic Carburetors Co
State
St. Wauwatosa
Wis
Three Auto Crashes Hit Freight Car on Atlantic Avenue
Between 6 30 p m and 9 45 p m three automobiles smashed into the same moving freight car along Atlantic Avenue. The car had moved only one block in the interval and no injuries or suspects are mentioned.
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Boston
Atlantic Avenue
Death Sentences for Nolan Expedition Captives
On January 24, 1804 the King of Spain ordered the execution of two of the ten captured members of Philip Nolan's expedition into central Texas. Nolan was killed when Spanish troops attacked his force. one captive John Pierce had died earlier. The nine remaining captives were to be tried, and Ephraim Blackburn drew a four, being hanged the next November. Historians debate Nolan's Texas aims and his Burr-linked connections.
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Spain
Philip Nolan
Nolan
Texas
New World
John Pierce
Ephraim Blackburn
Little Joe
Wilkinson
Aaron Burr
McCarthy Opposes Depletion Tax Cut in Oil Industry
Houston oilman Glenn McCarthy criticized President Truman's proposed reduction of the depletion allowance, saying it would slow wildcatting and harm independent operators. He warned the move would affect wages, royalties, schools, and road building, and hurt the broader oil industry lifeline.
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Houston
Glenn McCarthy
Truman
Congress
McCarthy
Former Texas State Bar President Dies
Allan D. Sanford, 80, former president of the Texas State Bar Association and Waco's oldest practicing lawyer, died Sunday. A former Waco mayor and city attorney, he helped organize the Waco Young Men's Business League, which became the chamber of commerce. He came to Texas about 1890 from Tennessee, settled first at Corsicana, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1893. Surviving are his widow, a son Allan Jr. of Phoenix, two half-sisters and three grandchildren.
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Allan D. Sanford
Texas State Bar Association
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Texas
Tennessee
Corsicana
University of Texas
Allan Jr
Phoenix
Ariz
Oil Thief Steals 32-Gallon Barrels and Grease
A thief emptied a bulk oil station in City Nebraska stealing four 32 gallon barrels of cylinder oil five gallon cans of gear oil and 75 pounds of grease with a total value of 150 dollars reported by police.
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Neb
Ashley Predicts Hospitals Money Program Victory
Senator Carlos Ashley of Llano forecasts a prompt and full success of the eleemosynary financing program to be taken up by a special legislative session next Tuesday. He favors an adequate hospital and institutions program and later a permanent funding source, noting a tax source was closed by a constitutional amendment. He visited his Senate office Monday and will remain in Austin through the session period.
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Carlos Ashley
Llano
Ashley
Allan Shivers
Senate
Austin
Pipe Smoking Seen As Major Lip Cancer Cause
CHICAGO Jan 24 A cancer researcher says pipe smoking is a causative factor in at least 40 percent of 363 lip cancer cases studied. Dr Bernard Widmann of Philadelphia notes pipe smoking as a predominant etiologic factor with an 83 percent curability rate in 259 adequately treated patients and low incidence under age 40, with only four of 363 cases in women.
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Chicago
American Journal of
Bernard Widmann
Philadelphia
US Atomic Panel Member Osborn Resigns
President Truman announced Frederick H. Osborn resigns as deputy US representative on the United Nations atomic energy commission. Osborn will stay in an advisory role. John C. Ross, deputy US representative in the UN Security Council, to serve as acting deputy on the atomic energy group. Osborn began his UN post March 12, 1947.
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Washington
Truman
Frederick H. Osborn
United Nations Atomic Aay Commission
Osborn
John C. Ross
UN Security Council
Atomic Energy Group
Wreckage Cleared After Freight Train Derailment
In Klamath Falls Oregon on January 23 the wreckage of 21 freight cars was cleared from the Southern Pacific right of way and service was restored at 6 am Monday after a freight train derailed Friday night when a boulder rolled onto the tracks.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Southern Pacific
Monay
Prince Otto Hohenzollern Faces Death Crisis in Mexico
In Mexico City on Sunday self styled Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern, claiming heirs to a non existent German throne, was found deteriorating in an interior ministry jail. Officials say he alternated between poisoning symptoms and a nervous crisis while blaming the FBI. His federal court case is set for February 23.
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Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Interior Ministry
Otto
Virginia Kirk
New Orleans’ Society
Red Cross
FBI
Prince
Mexico
Texas Farmers Seek Cotton Quota Redistribution in Suit
Ten Texas farmers filed a US district court suit in Washington asking the court to redraw cotton acreage quotas by county. Judge Matthew McGuire presided as the case began while a House subcommittee announced Feb 7 hearings on cotton quota revisions. The full Agriculture Committee cited inequities from 1948 to 1950 due to missing crop statistics and noted Texas was allocated 7,637,029 acres of a 21 million national quota.
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Washington
Texas
US District Court
Matthew McGuire
Gulf Coastal Bend
House Agriculture Subcommittee
Full Agriculture Committee
House
Truett Barber
Corpus Christi
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles Brannan
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promised to Help Weight Gain
An ad touts a medical tonic for underweight individuals with two wings appetite and digestion. It claims Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery increases appetite, helps convert food to flesh, and adds pounds, urging readers to buy at drug stores in tablet or liquid form.
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Dr. Pierce
Lawyer Held Tongue At Fatality Inquest
In Mission Kansas a prominent Olathe attorney refused to testify at the inquest into the automobile death of his 31 year old secretary. Counsel for W C Jones blamed the attitude of Johnson County Attorney John Anderson Jr for the action.
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Kan
INS
Olathe, Kan
W. C. Jones
Johnson County
John Anderson Jr
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