UT Accepts 2 Of 3 Negroes For Graduate School Entry
Two African American applicants were admitted to the University of Texas graduate school, becoming the first of their race to enroll. Jim Saunders Chase of Austin and Horace Lincoln Heath of Waco completed registration and planned to start classes while a third applicant, J. H. Morton of Austin, awaited records to determine admissibility. The move follows the Sweatt v. Painter ruling mandating admission of Herman Sweatt and signals a shift toward nonsegregated study.
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University of Texas Graduate School
Jim Saunders Chase
Austin
Horace Lincoln Heath
Waco
Chase
Heath
Samuel Huston College For
Morton
McCown
Texas State College For
Killeen Grows to 7106 Residents in 1940 Census
The 1940 census shows Killeen near Fort Hood with 7,106 residents, surpassing Belton at 6,242. Moody, Mart, West, and McGregor in McLennan County also rise or fall, while Gatesville and Copperas Cove in Coryell County gain, and Kingsville in Southwest Texas surges 117 percent to 16,857. Fort Hood's presence anchors central Texas growth and affects nearby communities.
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Associated Press
Texas
Killeen
L W. H. Skelton
Fort Hood
McLennan County
Moody
Mart
West
McGregor
Coryell County
Gatesville
Copperas Cove
Second Armored
Belton
Wilbarger County
Leon County
Kingsville
Great King Ranch
Texas College of Arts and Industries
Vernon
Buffalo
Centerville
Bufa
State seeks broader curbs on racing wire
Texas Attorney General Price Daniel said he will ask the Travis County District Court to widen its injunction against Western Union to stop the flow of gambling information to bookie shops. He cited raids in Dallas El Paso and Austin where Western Union equipment aided illegal gambling and urged swift hearings and cooperation with law enforcement to extend bans beyond horse racing information.
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Associated Press
Price Daniel
Travis County District Court
Western Union
Daniel
Telegraph Company
District Court
E. Preston
Dallas
Preston
Willis E. Gresham
Gresham
Jack Roberts
126Th District Court
el Paso
Texas Line
New Mexico
State Line
Austin
Texas
Orange All Calm As Sabine Rises
Orange Texas reports no immediate flood danger as Sabine River rises toward a 7.2 foot crest expected by Friday. Mayor May or Raymond Sanders notes the eight foot levee built in 1945 should protect low areas, with National Guardsmen patrolling the dike for breaks.
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Orange
Navy Station
Raymond Sanders
Sabine River
Weather Bureau
Sanders
Thompson schemes five-state Texas tidelands plan
Railroad Commissioner E O Thompson proposes dividing Texas into five states under an annexation treaty to win 10 Senate seats for tidelands control. He does not specify which new state would gain authority. A note from a supposed four year castaway on a Gulf island and a California barbecuing narcotics case also appear.
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E. O. Thompson
Texas Tidelands
Texas
Congress
Civilians Take Control in East Germany Berlin
The ADN reported Soviet authority shifted from military to civilian leaders in Berlin and three East German provinces. General Kotikov was replaced by civilian Sergei Dengin as Berlin control commissioner, with Malkin for Brandenburg Urasow for Saxony and Panschin for Thuringia succeeding military officers.
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Berlin
East Germany
ADN
Alexander Kotikov
Sergei Alexeijevitsch Dengin
Dengin
Grigori Nikitowich Malkin
Brandenburg
W. M. Sharow
Serge Ivanovich Urasow
Saxony
D. P. Dubrovski
Stepan Sacharowich Panschin
Thuringia
I. S. Kolesnitschenko
Foreign Ministry
Control Commission
MacArthur orders purge of Akahata editors in Japan
General MacArthur's crackdown targets 17 key Akahata policy makers amid government talks of suspending the Communist Party newspaper. Akahata defies by continuing to publish with warnings of a general strike, as Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida discusses next moves and potential suspension of the paper.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Communist Party
Okahata
Red Flag
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Akahata
Kyoto
Mussolini
Hitler
Tojo
Katsuo Okazaki
Japan Communist Party
Suit Asks Refund Of Tideland Rent
Texas Supreme Court reviews a US tidelands suit against Texas over a $123,360 refund of oil lease rents on submerged offshore lands. Ohio Oil and Melben Oil seek mandamus against Land Commissioner Bascom Giles Treasurer Jesse James and Comptroller Robert Calvert to force repayment for 1949 rent paid under protest.
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Texas Supreme Court
United States Tidelands
Texas
Ohio Oil Company
Melben Oil Company
Bascom ‘Giles
Jesse James
Robert S. Calvert
Supreme Court
Price Daniel
Gulf
Giles
Warm Again With Forecast for Showers Friday
Weather charts for Austin predicted another warm day on Thursday with partly cloudy skies and highs near 90 degrees. The forecast showed some showers possible Friday after a Wednesday peak of 87 degrees by 4 p.m.
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Austin
Mercury
Train derailment near Devalcs Bluff injures no one
Rock Island line Cherokee derailed near Mesa Arkansas with 26 passengers aboard. Officials in Little Rock called it a partial derailment as the engine and first five cars left the tracks but did not overturn. no injuries reported.
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Devalcs Bluff
Ark
Rock Island
Deat Mesa
Here
Wednes
Ik Island
Little
Ork
Eight missing as B29 plunges in North Sea off Suffolk coast
A US Air Force B29 crashed into the North Sea off the Suffolk coast during a training flight. Two survivors and one body were recovered. eight crewmen are missing. The plane belonged to the 72nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron based in California. Captain Henry J. Walsh and Staff Sergeant Warren J. Ebert survived.
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London
North Sea
English
Third Air Division
Smiths Knoll
Suffolk
Sculthrope
Britain
Royal Air Force
19Th Air-Sea Rescue Group
Lemon Bank
72Nd Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron
Fairfield-Suisan
Sacramento
Calif
Henry J. Walsh
Warren J. Ebert
Wavell Honored In Abbey Rites
Britain held a hero’s funeral for Field Marshal Lord Wavell at Westminster Abbey. The body, carried by boat from the Tower, was guarded by the Black Watch as reps of royalty and military officials from many nations attended. Burial followed privately at Winchester.
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London
Britain
Lord Wavell
Westminster Abbey
Palestine
Somaliland
Crete
Tobruk
Burma
Westminster
London Tower
Thames
Wavell
Lord Nelson
Black Watch Regiment
Germany
Winchester
Acheson Holds Line on German Rearmament and West Defense
Secretary of State Acheson said the United States will not rearm Western Germany to strengthen Western defense against the Soviet Union. He defended demilitarization of Germany, supported UN Charter principles, and urged building Western military and economic power to foster peace. He commented on Lie’s efforts to reopen East–West negotiations and dismissed a sudden war on coercion.
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Germany
Acheson
Omar Bradley
West
Russia
Trygve Lie
Lie
London
John Foster Dulles
Japan
Korea
Dulles
Douglas MacArthur
State Department
Warsaw
Poland
House
United States
Britain
Western
Bradley
Joints Chiefs of Staff
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations
Secopd
Marshall warns against self contained defense plan
General George C. Marshall told the House affairs committee that arming the United States alone and leaving Europe undefended is wrong both psychologically and militarily. He supported President Truman’s request for 1.222 billion for a second year of mutual defense aid to non Communist nations, while cautioning about potential Soviet reactions and urging gradual European buildup.
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Washington
Free
Europe
George C. Marshall
Congress
Faraion
AAV Mos 2
Eee
Truman
Russia
Marshall
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Western
Judd
R-Minn
China
Chiang Kai Shek
City population count ends as 700 put on rolls
Austin laboring census workers wrapped two months of counting as 700th person was added amid a late surge of calls. Mrs. Kathleen Steele and Mrs. Mary J. Harrison become the 650th and 700th to be counted, prizes valued at 16.50 awarded, with a final December count to include reports sent to Washington D C. and President Truman.
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Austin
Silas J. Maxwell
Kathleen Steele
Avenue H
Mary J. Harrison
Lamar Boulevard
Taylor Glass
Maxwell
Washington D. C
Truman
Census Bureau
Walter Seaholm
California Primaries Foreshadow Governors and Senators Races
Warren leads Roosevelt in both California party primaries by wide margins as returns show Warren and Roosevelt vying for governor and Nixon and Douglas battling for the U S Senate. Early tallies from 13 154 of 17 995 precincts favor Warren over Roosevelt and Nixon over Douglas in the Senate race with similar patterns echoed in other states.
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Associated Press
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Richard M. Nixon
California
Warren
Roosevelt
GOP
Nixon
Douglas
Boddy
Guy Gabrielson
National Party
Chan Gurney
Epracemen
Francis Case
Blican Senate
South Dakota
John A. Engel
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Austin, Waco
Lyman Jones
Texas State
W. Astor Kirk
Tillotson College
Houston
University
Kirk
The
American
Sweatt
Henry
Hank) Durham
Amber
Veronica
Liverpool
England
Durham
Atlantic
Sabine
Gulf of Mexico
Eeennere
Terve
CLA
Radio Tee Ee Tenes
MICS
Reuben Popp
Seeeereree Society
Eee Ees Eeewes
Badewade Seetens Oorat
Dety
Tideland
Moscow
Gen. Marshall
Jimmy
Avon
Gurney
Senate Armed Services Committee
Case
Pepper
D-Fla
George Smathers
Frank Graham
Willis Smith
Raleigh
Graham
Reynolds
Smith
Sen
Smathers
Florida
John E. Miles
Miles
Dennis Chavez
David Chavez Jr
Chavez
Agriculture Department
John J. Dempsey
A. M. Fernandez
Dakota
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