National Guard urged to grant leaves for summer camp
Major General Albert S. Johnson of the 49th Armored Division urges employers to grant military leaves for Guardsmen ahead of summer training at Fort Hood. He cites Korea's tense situation and says a strong defense may avert war, urging full strength and rapid recruitment while warning of Communist spies. A UN note from Lake Success describes headquarters, chambers, and visitor procedures at the United Nations.
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Albert S. Johnson
Dallas
49Th Armored Division
Texas National Guard
Gen. Johnson
Austin
Johnson
Korea
United States
Russia
America
Fort Hood
National Guard
Guard
United Nations
Department of Public Information
Lake Success
N. Y
Della E. Carlson
Sperry
International Secretariat
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
General Assembly
City of New York
Flushing Meadow
New York City
Flushing
Atom Bomb History Spans Five Years
Five year anniversary of the atomic bomb marks the July 16 1945 detonation at Alamogordo New Mexico. The report traces the project origins from 1905 theory to Los Alamos design and Groves leadership and notes wartime expenditures and personnel. It also recalls America’s 1918 1920 intervention in Russia and related troops and losses.
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Alamogordo
New Mexico
United States
Truman
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Roosevelt
National Defense Research Committee
Vannevar Bush
J. B. Conant
Manhattan District
L. R. Groves
Gen. Groves
Los Alamos
J. R. Oppenheimer
H. D. Smyth
Manhattan
War Department
Russia
Siberia
Archangel
Baker
Germany
Murmansk
Labor Priest Warns of Red Grasp in US Unions
Father McGowan argues American labor unions deliver practical bread and butter benefits, independence, and dignity, contrasting them with Communist controlled unions. He notes workers stay with familiar leaders, praises union solidarity, and warns Communists exploit distrust while claiming progress across UE FE Mine Mill and Smelter Workers.
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Pittsburgh
Father McGowan
National Catholic Welfare Council
America
A la Pegler
Post- Hall Syndicate, Inc
Answers and Questions from The Information Please Column
Readers send in questions answered by the Bureau of Information at 1200 Eye Street Washington DC. Topics cover Byron, whalebone uses, diamond polishing, Domesday Book, rattlesnakes, biblical swords into plowshares, and Sir Walter Raleigh’s diamond window myth.
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Bureau
Eye Street
N M
Washington, DC
Austin American
Worrisome Florida Gambling Ties Sink into Campaign Cash
Senator Estes Kefauver launches a Florida gambling probe tied to large campaign gifts to Governor Fuller Warren. The piece contrasts Kefauver and Iowa Senator Guy Gillette, notes three gambling factions, and cites $1.5 million spent in a single primary while Gillette dodges detailed scrutiny.
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Washington
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Florida
Fuller Warren
Warren
Kefauver
Guy Gillette
Iowa
Senate
Gillette
Miami
Old Capone
William H. Johnston
Chicago
Jacksonville
S. and G. Syndicate
Miami Beach
New York
Meyer Lansky
Frankie Costello
Broward County
S. and G
Dade County
Jimmy Sullivan
Degracer
William Johnston
Louis E. Wolfson
Kefauver Crime Committee
Pennsylvania
Joe Grundy
Jay Cooke
Kunkel- Cooke Committee
Fielding Wright, Jr
Mississippi Dixierat
Wright
Senator Stennis
Mississippi
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway gossip and wartime world views in one column
Sidewalk hawkers sell MacArthur Pipes on 42nd Street while theater wars loom near Shubert Alley. A Westchester home sale, showbiz marriages, and industry moves mix with Cold War era claims of Russia's global aims and Korea’s conflict.
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New York
42Nd St
MacArthur
Westchester
Runyon Fund
Tyson's
Shubert Alley
Astor Hotel
Gal Geene Courtney
Jack Dempsey
Jackie Jackson
Reader's Digest
Carol Lynn Gilmer
Mr. Roberts
D. Yellen
Mary O'Connell
Marion Stevens
S. Barclay
Broadway
LaMotta
Dewey
Gen. Eisenhower
Wallace Sullivan
Morning Telegraph
Phyllis Lane
Heinz Pickle
St. Clare's Hospital
Korea
Russia
China
Poland
Romania
Finland
Estonia
Latvia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Newspaper Distributor Notice of AP Reprint Rights
The Austin American and The Austin Statesman are AB Circulation members and AP members. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to locally published news and AP dispatches for republication in this newspaper.
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The
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
United States
Associated Press
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