Rescue Chance For 20 Victims Of Plane Crash
Thirty seven survivors of a twin engine plane that plunged into the Atlantic were aboard the destroyer USS Saufley near Miami. Eight bodies recovered and one man identified died of a shark bite. Pilot Joseph Halsey and co pilot William Holleran were among those saved. 20 others are not believed to be found alive. The flight from San Juan to Wilmington carried 62 Puerto Rican migrant workers and three crew. The wreck occurred about 275 miles east northeast of Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Joseph Halsey
Seattle
Wash
William Holleran
Westair Company
Saufley
Halsey
Pedro Gugman
Cape Ann
Gugman
Charleston
S. C
Washington
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Wilmington
N. C
Japan to Consider New Controls on Communists
Japan's attorney general said the government may expel Communists from civil service teaching posts and key industries after purging 24 Communist Party Politburo members from public life by MacArthur order. Parliament to discuss new controls. seven purged leaders are MPs. public sessions allowed briefly to wind up affairs.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Communist Party
Shunkichi Ueda
Ueda
National Federation of University Students
Asahi
Reds
Robin feasts and cherry tree foiled then strawberry patch trouble
A county judge protected his cherry crop with cheesecloth but robins return to raid his strawberry patch. An idle New York bus has wandered thrice on off duty drivers. A California packer’s wallet, lost eight months ago in England, is finally found and returning home.
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New York
Florida
Kingston
N. Y
White Plains
California
England
Seven Year Old Girls Magazine Drive For Community Chest
Annette Stout of Little Caro and her father collected and donated $10.55 to the Community Chest in Austin. Carol, about seven and a half, sold magazines door to door with a cardboard ad and prayed for help to avert hunger for local children if the Chest failed to raise $38,000. She matched her earnings with her father's gift and delivered the money to Chest collector Ted Thompson.
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Carol Annette Stout
Kenwood
Little Caro
Annette Stout
Austin
Carol
Austin American-Statesman
Stanley Rk. Stout
Senate approves $2 billion farm support funds
The Senate voted 46 to 5 after 12 hours of debate to add 2 billion dollars to the farm price support program. Republicans pushed to trim price guarantees to farmers and reduce the bill's total.
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Washington
Senate
T&P Walkout Of Trucksters Stalling System
Three hundred truck drivers and mechanics of the Texas and Pacific Motor Transport Company went on strike Tuesday. The walkout involves the entire system from El Paso to New Orleans with Bath city drivers also affected. The union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters AFL, cites wages and working rules as the dispute.
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Dallas
Texas and Pacific Motor Transport Company
el Paso
New Orleans
Bath City
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The
Motor Transport Company
M. R. Dixon
Texas
Louisiana
Tapotor Company
Last Call In Preliminary Austin Census
Austin census eyes late counts as overtime office closes. District supervisor John Manning aims for minimal error while a city survey finds 16 missed residents amid a 235 units test, averaging 3.66 persons per meter.
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Austin
Census Office
John P Manning
Taylor Glass
Washington, D. C
City Tax Department
Walter Seaholm
B. H. Cruce
Seaholm
Census Headquarters
John P. Manning
Manning
Bureau
Ima Nell Rippy
South
Congress Avenue
Addie M. Taylor
Paquito Street
J. H
Louisiana Senators Summon Newsmen
A Louisiana Senate special committee summoned publisher David Stern III and editor Clayton Fritchey of the New Orleans Item for a hearing on an editorial calling state lawmakers trained seals. The Senate invoked a constitutional clause to imprison for 10 days those deemed disrespectful or contemptuous, and named a five man committee to enforce it.
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Baton Rouge
LLP
Senate
David Stern III
Clayton Fritchey
New Orleans Item
Fritchey
Stern
Summer Temperatures Return to Austin This Week
Austin will see temperatures return to near summer levels as the Weather Bureau forecasts highs in the nineties this Wednesday afternoon. Skies will be clear with warm conditions following a spell in the eighties.
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Austin
Weather Bureau
Volcano lava flow slackens to trickle on Hawaii
Honolulu June 6 Meena Loa released only a comparative trickle of molten lava Tuesday as Hawaii counts losses from the eruption, one of the most spectacular in modern times.
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Honolulu
Meuna Loa
Island of Hawaii
Son Fulfills Father’s Wish With Academic Honors
Jackie Shea 13 son of Navy Commander John Joseph Shea who died aboard the Carrier Wasp in the South Pacific earned top marks in school earning a choice of two high school scholarships reflecting his father’s wishes.
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Jackie Shea
Wasp
South Pacific
Jackie
John Joseph Shea
Austin Architect May Be First Black Student at Texas
University of Texas officials approved immediate admission on a non segregated basis for Heman Marion Sweatt and two other Black applicants, with John Saunders Chase likely to start classes immediately. Chase, 25, an Austin architect, holds a Hampton Institute bachelor and plans a master’s in architecture. Horace Lincoln Heath of Waco was also cleared for admission.
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University of Texas
Austin
University
T. S. Painter
Board of Regents
Dudley K. Woodward
Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt
John Saunders Chase
Chase
Hampton Institute
Hampton
Horace Lincoln Heath
Waco
Heath
Associated Press
South Texas
Supreme Court
Texas State University For
Stete
W. R. Woolrich
Lott Lumber Company
Anderson High School
San Marcos Street
Lie Proposals for Peace Move Before UN Members
Secretary-General Trygve Lie presents 10 points of his 20 year peace program to the 59 United Nations members. He urges Security Council meetings, new controls on atomic energy, arms reduction, UN army talk, universality of UN membership, and stronger human rights and economic development efforts.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Security Council
General Assembly
World Organization
Truman
Joseph Stalin
Britain
France
Russia
Gurney Defeated as Roosevelt Leads California Demos
South Dakota Senator Chan Gurney loses his Senate seat after a 40 939 to 33 847 defeat in the Tuesday vote. In California, James Roosevelt and Earl Warren contend for the governorship under cross filing with Roosevelt leading early in the Democratic race.
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Gurney
Roosevelt
California
Demos
Chan Gurney
South Dakota
James Roosevelt
Earl Warren
Francis Case
Senate
Case
New Mexico
Warren
Eneener
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Manchester Boddy
Los Angeles
Ingram Pickett
Mrs E H Bohls 74 Pflugerville Resident Dies
Mrs. E. H. Bohls 74 lifelong Pflugerville resident died at her daughter’s home in Austin Tuesday morning. Survived by four sons including Dr S W Bohls and Rev C L Bohls, six daughters, a brother J A Pfluger and a sister E L Fuchs. Funeral at Imanuel Lutheran Church Pflugerville with burial in Pflugerville cemetery.
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E. H. Bohls
Pflugerville
C. H. Warner
Dancy
S. W. Bohls
C. L. Bohls
Austin
Desse G. Bohls
Emil A. Bohls
Otto Wuthrich
A. M. Christenson
Faye Bohls
A. H. Koehler
San Juan
Eugene Raesz
Taylor
J. A. Pfluger
E. L. Fuchs
Hylton Manor
Imanuel Lutheran Church
Independent oilmen challenge tidelands ruling impact
Texans protest federal licensure of tidelands and possible seizure of state coast resources under Supreme Court ruling. R L Force of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association warns of nationwide confiscation, while Ben Ramsey labels the decision “the darkest day” for public education funding. Governor Shivers and state officials vow action through Congress.
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Tidelands
R. L. Force
Texas Independentroducers and Royalty Owners Association
Ben Ramsey
Texas
Ultimate Victory
Independent Oil Group
Supreme Court
Otine Capielan
Famionh
Minton
Congress
Bascom Giles
Tatewide
Galveston
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Millville
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Gordon Matthews
Civil Aeronautics Administration
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Westair Co
Centex
Eee
Ener
Ehmwee Wren
Weene
Reuben Cees
Eaiae
JO Ann Eicom
Thompson
T&p
Capitol
Ment
Union
Allan Shivers
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