Belgium Prime Minister Seeks King Leopold Abdication Decision
Prime Minister Jean Duvieusart and three ministers met King Leopold III at Laeken Palace to urge the monarch to decide his abdication. The cabinet leans toward Leopold quitting, while some ministers favor leaving the choice to the king. Clashes in Liege and calls for civil war warned by Socialists underscore the royal crisis as separatist tensions rise.
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Brussels
Belgium
Jean Duvieusart
Leopold III
Laeken Palace
Leopold
Liege
Laeken
Wallonia
Pair Hurt When Cycle, Car Collide
An Austin couple in their early twenties suffered injuries in a Sunday night motorcycle car crash at 12th Street and Airport Boulevard. Carol Blackshear and Private Calvin Seeley sustained compound fractures. Seeley may have internal injuries. Police identified the car driver as John Calvin Linn. Brackenridge officials had no full condition report late Sunday night.
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Austin
12Th Street
Airport Boulevard
Carol Blackshear
East 41St Street
Calvin Seeley
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Seeley
John Calvin Linn
Rosewood Avenue
Brackenridge
Pasr
Truman May Seek Standby Price Wage Controls Monday
President Truman may tell Congress on Monday whether to vote price wage and rationing controls on standby. Republicans push for broad, immediate measures while Bowles Humphrey urge rapid universal controls and Baruch favors executive timing. Congress to receive White House letter and a Monday briefing as showdown nears.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Republican House
White House
Senate Banking Committee
House Banking Committee
Senate
Maybank
Humphrey
D-Minn
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
OPA
Bowles
House
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
GOP
Reps
Allen
Jackson
Nixon
California
Byrnes
Davis
Wisconsin
Potter
Ford
Michigan
Boggs
Del
Cotton
Guill
Texas
Keating
Lovre
Morton
Nelson
Norblad
Ore
Jarrell Woman Killed in Wreck
One dead and five injured seven including a 13 year old in a two car head on crash eight miles north of Georgetown on Highway 81. Mrs. Charles T. Mersiovsky 43 of Jarrell died en route to a Georgetown hospital. The boy Robert Roy 13 is in critical condition after brain surgery. James 27 of San Antonio the other driver was arrested for aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and negligent homicide.
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Georgetown
Charles T. Mersiovsky
Jarrell
Robert Roy
Seton Hospital
Church
Joe Lester James
San Antonio
James
Henry Montichek
Williamson County
Rudolph Mersiovsky
Mersiovsky
Louis Bergstrom
Charles Brandon
K. B. Hallmark
Dick Tracy Mats Shortage Hits Austin Readers
Central Texas fans of the Dick Tracy comic strip face a mats shortage this week. The Austin American reports no mats have been received and readers must cut down their adventure diet until mats arrive, likely Tuesday morning.
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Central Texas
Austin American
Winged Victory Hand Found After Long Debate
Illinois reports a flying saucer sighting with a pilot testifying to touching one. Art history notes a breakthrough as archaeologists uncover the Winged Victory hand after nearly a century of debate. High school mentors gather in Austin for a massive coaching school with 1,000 to 1,500 registrants.
Hot Dry Weather Forecast For Austin
The Weather Bureau at Municipal Airport expects hot and dry conditions in Austin with strong southerly winds. Partial cloudiness is forecast for Monday morning, giving way to bright sun by early afternoon as forecaster Howe FE Dunham notes.
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Howe FE
Dunham
US Weather Bureau
Municipal
Austin
MacArthur Flies to Formosa for Key Conference
General MacArthur flew from Tokyo to Formosa on Monday for a defense conference with Chiang Kai-Shek and Nationalist leaders. He was escorted by Admiral Struble and senior staff as part of U N goals to safeguard Formosa from Chinese Communist forces. The trip follows Truman orders to protect Formosa and to urge an end to attacks on the mainland.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Formosa
Chiang Kai-Shek
Arthur D., Struble
Seventh Fleet
United Nations
Public Information Office
United States
Truman
China
Pany
Haneda
Bataan
United States Defense
Far Eastern Command
Korea
Anthony
Labor Dept Takes Over War Manpower Role
Secretary Maurice J. Tobin orders full use of the US Employment Service and state offices to meet defense plant manpower needs. Goodwin's report outlines unemployed pools, demographic shifts, and strategies to boost labor supply including more women and older workers, longer factory hours, and reallocating civilian production for war.
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Washington
Labor Department
War Manpower Commission
Maurice J. Tobin
US Employment Service
Tobin
Robert C. Goodwin
Goodwin
Bureau of Employment Security
Record enrollment assured for 18th Texas coaching school
A large attendance was reported for the 18th annual Coaching School at Beaumont with 1111 enrolled as registration opened and enrollment expected to surpass last year’s 1135. Notables like Biggie Munn Hank Iba and Clyde Littlefield were on hand as the Texas Coaches Association welcomed Negro coaches and eyed a high turnout through Monday.
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Texas High School
L. W. McConachie
Beaumont
Texas
Stephen F. Austin
Association
Southwest
McConachie
Biggie Munn
Hugh Daugherty
Hank Iba
Oklahoma A&m
Clyde Littlefield
University of Texas
Maco Stewart
The
Coaches Association
Granger Girl Drowns in Farm Tank Near Granger
Louise Gellner a 19 year old high school senior drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming in a small farm tank between Taylor and Granger. Two boys narrowly escaped drowning and were rescued by her brother Gene Gellner. Dr. Wood Howard of Temple’s Scott and White Hospital certified her death at 4 pm. Funeral arrangements were set for Wednesday at Condra Funeral Home and St Cyril and St Methodius Church. She is survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs EB L Gellner and three sisters and one brother.
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EB L Gellner
Taylor and Granger
Gene Gellner
Wood Howard
Scott and White Hospital
Temple
Condra Funeral Home
Justice of the Peace
Sam Burnap
St. Cyril and St. Methodius Church
Miss Gellner
Lillie Anderson
Taylor
Ann Bales
Elsie C. Zonstesch
Gene Geliner
Granger
North Korean drive threatens Taegu and Pusan fronts
North Korean forces hammered Kochang Hamchang and Chinju in a wide south and west flanking push toward Taegu and the vital Taegu Pusan supply corridor. American lines held east of Kochang as UN air and naval units regrouped amid heavy fighting and mounting multinational support.
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Tokyo
Kochang
Hamchang
Chinju
Taegu
Pusan
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Kocchang
JS Eighth Army
Mustang
United Nations
Charles T. Joy
France
Netherlands
Canada
New Zealand
Hadong
Hal Boyle
General MacArthur
Fifth Air Force
Platoon Leaders Describe Escape From Korea Trap
Two reconnaissance officers recount how about 75 Americans fought through a North Korean trap near Kumchon Chirye and Kochang. Their command post was overrun, their leader killed, and vehicles destroyed as they escaped through mountains and a 35 mile trek to safety.
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Korea
Kumechon
Yongdong
Kochang
United States
South Korea
Ellsworth P. Lauer
Chicago
Kumchon
Ochang
Taedongmyon
Samuel T. Rhodes
Washington
Chirye
Lauer
Rhodes
Kumeh
Americans Seek Answers on Korea War Costs and Equipment
Widespread letters to lawmakers express frustration over military shortages and spending. Voters urge clearer defense funding, readiness, and even consideration of atomic options to end the Korean conflict swiftly.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
Congress
George D-Gai
Bridges
R-Nh
38Th Parallel
Humphrey
D-Minn
Chinese Planes Hit at Reds In Self-Defense
Chinese Nationalists claim air force strikes sank or damaged more than 150 Communist ships near Quemoy Island after a Sunday attack. The move followed intensified harassment of Formosa defenses with 500 ships involved and raised questions about US approval. Nine Armed Service attaches arrived at the US embassy in Taipei, signaling a shift in Formosa policy.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Amoy
China
Truman
Seventh Fleet
Air Headquarters
Quemoy Island
Taitan
Travis Ranchman Succumbs at 63 in Webberville
Clarence Seaton Burleson, 63, a noted Webberville rancher and member of a pioneer Travis County family, died in a local hospital. Survived by three sons Warren and Baylor Burleson of Webberville and Homer Burleson of Denver Cola, plus one brother and one sister. Funeral at Hylton Manor Monday 4 p.m. Rev J Sparks officiating. burial in Roger's Hill Cemetery.
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Clarence Seaton Burleson
Weaberville
Travis County
Webberville
Burleson
Warren Burleson
Baylor Burleson
Homer Burleson
Denver
Cola
Johnnie Burleson
Maggie Burleson
Hyl
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Stennis
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