Austin Travis Census Boosts Tenth District
The 10th Congressional District shows a net population gain of 27,224 to 313,334 despite eight counties posting losses. Travis County rises to 160,381, up 49,328. Austin grows 44,034 to 131,946. Other towns and counties in the district report varied gains and losses.
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Associated Press
Austin
Travis County
Texas
San Marcos
Bastrop
Burnet
Caldwell
Hays
Lee
Travis
Washington
Williamson
Smithville
Elgin
Marble Falls
Lockhart
Luling
Giddings
Brenham
Georgetown
Taylor
McAllen
Maverick County
Walker County
Huntsville
Corpus Christi
Bee County
Rockport
Aransas County
Two Life Rafts From Downed Bomber Sighted
The Air Force reports a B29 with 11 crewmen missing near Guam after a practice bombing mission to Okinawa. Two life rafts were spotted 140 miles southeast of Tokyo and a Guam search plane dropped a life boat to survivors.
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Air Force
Guam
Okinawa
Pacific
Milk Strike Nears Settlement As Union Votes On Wage Plan
PITTSBURGH June 22 The two week old strike halting milk deliveries for three million people appears close to settlement as the AFL Milk Truck Drivers Union sets a meeting tonight to vote on a new wage proposal.
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Pittsburgh
AFL
Irae
Truman rejects 70 group Air Force as unaffordable
President Truman reiterates that the United States cannot pay for a 70 group Air Force despite a Senate House conference panel proposing a ceiling of 70 groups. He notes budget limits and that authorization does not fund additional planes without appropriations. Other defense steps include Navy modernization and submarine and destroyer upgrades.
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Truman
Senate House
Furne
Congress
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
House
Giant B36s Endure 38-Hour Pacific Training Flight
Six to eight colossal B36 bombers roared from Fairfield-Suisun to Hawaii for a 38-hour nonstop mission. The route suggested a central Pacific run toward the Marshall Islands as Brig. Gen. C. S. Irvine led the operation from Hickam Field.
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Hawaiian Islands
Pacific
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Fairfield-Suisun
California
Honolulu International
Fairfield
C. S. Irvine
Carswell Air Base
Fort Worth
Texas
Tinker toad shows signs of life after long burial
A toad named Tinker, buried under six inches of concrete for nine years, surfaced with signs of life on Thursday. He remains pale gray and avoids insects, his normal diet, as staff monitor his recovery.
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Tinker
Driver Stops Car and Bull Loiters Downtown
Noble D. Mays halted his car at a downtown traffic light when a young bull numbered 996 climbed onto the hood. The animal slipped off head first and led police on a downtown chase for about an hour before wandering away from stock pens.
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Mays
Number 996
Acheson Sees Peace Parley Dependent on Soviet Leaders
Secretary of State Dean Acheson told Harvard alumni that real peace with Russia requires Soviet leaders to adopt a live and let live attitude. He said no amount of Western diplomacy will solve mutual problems while the Soviet Union pursues inordinate ambition. Acheson affirmed US readiness to meet at international tables and praised Western Europe’s recovery under the Marshall Plan as 10,000 plus listeners heard in Harvard Yard. The speech stressed a North Atlantic defense meant to prevent aggression and uphold free states independence.
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Mass
Dean Acheson
Russia
United States
Acheson
Harvard Alumni Association
George C. Marshall
Europe
Secretary of State
Harvard Yard
North Atlantic
Free World
Soviet Union
Free States
Asia
Senate approves three year peacetime draft extension
The Senate backed a three year renewal of the peacetime Draft Act with limited presidential authority during emergencies. The House and Senate approved a stopgap 15 day extension as they work out a final bill. A House vote also allowed 2,500 aliens to enlist for potential citizenship after five years.
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D-Ga
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Armed Services Committee
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Utah
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Cain
Wash
United States
United States Army
Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Tackett
Dark
Representative Allen
R-N
Short
R-Mo
Senate Panel To Probe Primaries Expenditures
A Senate privileges and elections subcommittee led by Senator Gillette announces probes into campaign spending in the senatorial primaries across Florida South Carolina North Carolina Pennsylvania Illinois and potentially other states. Investigations will examine large expenditures by both parties including the States Rights Party in South Carolina with staff visits planned and formal notices issued in several states.
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Gillette
Iowa
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Senate
States Rights Party
Olin Johnston
J. Strom Thurmond
George Smathers
Claude Pepper
Hoey
Graham
Willis Smith
Prober Claims He Can Prove Service Divulged Secret Data
Senate investigators allege State Department officer John S Service transmitted top secret material to Amerasia figure Philip Jaffe. Service, testifying, denies wrongdoing and says the information was cleared for publication by FDR years earlier. He admits briefing Mark Gayn. FBI seized notes in 1945 Amerasia raid.
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State Department
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Philip J. Jaffe
Amerasia
Robert Morris
Millard F. Tydings
Morris
GOP Committee
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Roosevelt
Senate
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Patrick J. Hurley
China
Hurley
Mark Gayn
Gayn
Joseph R. Stilwell
United States
Chiang Kai-Shek
Brooks
Atkinson
Times’ China Court
Experimental Navy plane crash kills at least three near Bedford
A four engine Navy air plane crashed eight miles south of Bedford Virginia near the Paterson Mine Rock Quarry in heavy drizzle killing three and possibly more. Witnesses saw a burning craft as wreckage spread over rugged terrain. The coroner confirmed three fatalities including the pilot and co pilot.
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Here
Paterson Mine
E. L. Johnson
Johnson
Lynchburg
Charles D. Claytor
Frank S. Mitchell
Colot
Caltech Scientist Indicted on Perjury and Fraud Charges
A US grand jury indicted Dr. Sidney Weinbaum, a Cal Tech jet propulsion scientist, on eight counts of perjury and fraud for allegedly denying Communist Party membership to Army review board questioners. The case followed testimony by Dr. Jacob Dubnoff, a Cal Tech biochemist.
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US Grand Jury
Sidney Weinbaum
California Institute of Technology
Weinbaum
CalTech
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Army Review Board
Communist Party
James M. Carter
Jacob W. Dubnoff
Cal Tech
Ernest Tolin
Dubnoff
Carter
No. 122
Sydney Empson
Russia
University of California
University of Kansas
Trucker Killed by Flying Spare Wheel in Hillsboro
Otis David Jr., 26, of Fulton Missouri, was killed near Hillsboro when a spare wheel that had fallen from a truck bed struck him after he stepped out to search for it. His brother Robert was in the cab at the time. A second truck hit the loose wheel, causing the fatal impact.
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Hillsboro
Otis David Jr
Fulton
David
Robert
Temperatures Rise to 91 as Warm Friday Forecast
Temperatures warmed to 91 degrees Thursday after a low eighties the day prior. The Weather Bureau forecast slightly higher temperatures Friday with fresh southerly winds making it feel less oppressive and partly cloudy skies expected.
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Weather Bureau
NCAA Net Tourney Semifinals Slated at Penick Courts Today
The NCAA tennis semifinals reach the Penick Courts at Memorial Stadium with Earl Cochell of USC and Herb Flam of UCLA in singles, and Flam and Gene Garrett seeded for doubles. Tulane’s Jack Tuero and Rollins College’s Ricardo Balbiers meet in the other singles semifinal as rain-delayed action continues.
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Penick Courts
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Earl Cochell
Southern California
Herb Flam
UCLA
West Coast
Flam
Gene Garrett
Princeton
Gilbert Bo
Charles Devoe
Earl Reechall Snel
Hugh
Southern California i
Pfaster
Don Hamilton
College of the Pacific
Cochell
Stewart
Garrett
Jack Tuero
Tulane
Ricardo Balbieri
Rollins College of Florida
Tuero
Balbiers
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