Texas Speed Killing Toll on Open Road Deaths
A Texas highway patrol briefing from Camp Mabry blames speeding for a rising highway death toll. Chief W. J. Elliot cites high powered postwar cars and a large share of fatalities on straight roads in daylight. The report notes about 60 percent over limits, urges public education and stronger enforcement with 2,260 speeding arrests in April.
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W. J. Elliot
Texas Highway Patrol
Texas
Elliot
Department
Chief Elliot
J. B. Carlyle
Okeh
Highway Patrol
Camp Mabry
Fisherman Discovers Knapsack of Tokyo 100-Yen Notes
A Tokyo fisherman hauled in a knapsack full of 100 yen notes. The piece playfully notes a yen for fishing and mocks pretentious slickers. It surveys rainy days, courting, and spring rains while hinting at verse to come and the value of a housewife's calling.
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Tokyo
One Way Streets Sparking Austin Traffic Dangers
The editors warn the Austin one way program prompts faster driving and dangerous intersections. Red lights jam, green arrows flash without amber warnings, causing near misses and a pedestrian being flung against a windshield. Increased congestion on Congress Avenue follows the change.
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Austin
Lavaca
Guadalupe
Congress Avenue
Seventh Street
Austin Transit
John L Lewis and the Miami District 50 Labor Scrutiny
A scrutiny of John L Lewis led District 50 amid labor clashes in Miami Beach. Max Caldwell’s Chicago departure and a $910000 loss expose turbulent union organizing by the Hotel and Tavern Workers and Mine Workers affiliates.
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Chicago
Max Caldwell
US Treasury Department
Miami
John L. Lewis
John L
Brother Lewis
District 50
Lewis
Max
Delaware Corporation
Bert Ross
National Afl
Cincinnati
Ross
Caldwell
Brother Caldwell
A. Denny Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miami Beach
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Tampa
AFL
United Mine Workers District 50
American Civil Liberties Union
Congressman Jacobs
John
John Lewis
Post-Mall Syndicate, Inc
Answers and Answers: Prison term for Laure Ingalls
Laure Ingalls was sentenced to eight months to two years in the Alderson women’s reformatory, W.Va., and released October 4, 1943. The Q and A cover health, social security survivor benefits, portraits of Presidents, and Alaska statehood vote tallies.
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A. Laura Ingalls
Women's Reformatory
Alderson
W.va
Washington Merry-Go-Round charges stick despite epithets of officialdom
Drew Pearson lists prominent figures who called him a liar over the years including Roosevelt Hull Vaughan Thomas Maragon May Lundeen and others. He argues that truth matters more than insults and cites various cases where officials faced consequences or jail.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Senator Taft
Taft
Sen. Taft
Harry Truman
Roosevelt
Stalin
Cordell Hull
FDR
Hull
Russia
North Africa
Mediterranean
United States
Mr. Hull
SOE
Truman
SOB
Harry Vaughan
Peron
Congress
Vaughan
Senate
John Maragon
Europe
Gen
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Agriculture Department
Parnell Thomas
Gen. Vaughen
Patenotre
Ellsworth Alvord
Andrew May
Erie Basin
Garsson Brothers
England
White House
Senator Lundeen
Lundeen
Minnesota
George Sylvester Viereck
Hitler
Wheeler
Bennett Clark
Viereck
Louisiana
Richard Lewhe
Seymour Weiss
Huey Long
Wiar
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway Heartbeat and Celebrity Sights on Display
Celebrities mingle with crowds as Mrs. E Roosevelt and F Sinatra spark attention on the town scene. Sharman Douglas buys magazines in the Edison foyer while Morton Downey and Peggy Hohenlohe charm patrons at Luchow's.
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California
Helen Gahagan Douglas
United States
Richard Nixon
Douglas
Congress
E. Roosevelt
F. Sinatra
B. Hope
Walter Gibson
Armando
Sharman Douglas
Edison
Morton Downey
Peggy Hohenlohe
Luchow’s
Associated Press News Rights Notice
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news in this newspaper and to AP dispatches. This notice reserves republication rights for the AP and the paper.
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THE
Associated Press
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Zour Capital City
Tom Whitehead JR
Dallas
Editors
Sheridan Downey
Downey
By Manning
Mighty Lewis
Brooklyn
CIO
Denny
Bronx Gypsum Board
Old John's
Cleveland Decorating Company
Birmingham
Hercules Powder Company
Kentucky Road Oiling Company
Laure Ingalls
B.O.K
Gilbert Stuart
MCY
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Alaska
J.G. A
Broadway
Heywood Brothers
Stanley Kramer
Ann Pierce
Santa Barbara
Walt Disney Exec
W. Rose
Bette Davis
20Th Century-Fox
David Sarnoff
S Graftons
Dionne Quints
Bob Montgomerys
Nick
Meusel
Dempsey
Tunney
Mike Lyman
Times Sq
Harry Old
Feds
Philly
Fuchs
Gene Autry
Jack Dempsey
New Mone
Okla
Errol Pic
Princess Ghika
Lee Bristol Jr
Louise Wells
Nbc-Tv
Life
New Orleans
Buchanan
Joe Kamp
Merwin K. Hart
E. A. Raimely
Karp
Frank Erickson
Hayfever
Timothy Weed
Jack Quinlans
Pat Quinlan
Robert Sterling
Joann Jaap
Barbara Cavanaugh
Hunter Meeghan
City Center
N. Y. Times
J. Brooks Atkinson
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Nations Organization
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