Secrets Spy Klaus Fuchs Sentenced to 14 Years
London dispatch reports Klaus Fuchs, a German-born scientist who passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, received the maximum 14-year term at Old Bailey. The case spurred calls for a purge of British intelligence as authorities warn of a potential worldwide spy hunt.
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London
Klaus Fuchs
Soviet Russia
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
Fuchs
Lord Goddard
England
Old Bailey Court
Jekyll- Hyde
Russia
Birmingham
New York
Boston
Mass
Berkshire
Los Alamos
N. M
Harwell
Red Cross Drive Opens With 6487 Collected In Travis County
Travis County's Red Cross fund drive reported 6487 on the first day toward a 74555 quota. Advance gifts committee handled the early results while women volunteers began residential canvassing. Chairman Tom Miller said the operation will continue with repeat home visits and calls to reach the county goal within a week or ten days.
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Red Cross
Travis County
Red Cross Fund
Tom Miller
Advance Gifts
James E. Duke Jr
State Department
Joe Dacy
City Hall Adds 50000 Dollar Wing And Moves Departments
City officials plan moving into a new two story addition to the Municipal Building by Roland Moore Construction Co. The tax collector will occupy the entire first floor while finance and purchasing shift to the new second floor. Engineering and drafting will take space on the third floor.
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City Hall
Guston Morgan
Morgan
Roland Moore Construction Company
Prejudice Toward Leprosy Cited in Texas Tour
Mrs Julie Lake Kellersberger of the American Leprosy Missions said Texas ranks high in unwarranted bias against former leprosy patients. She and her husband Dr Eugene R Kellersberger arrived from New York to launch a three week tour of the South and West.
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Dallas
Texas
American Leprosy Missions, Inc
Julie Lake Kellersberger
Kellersberger
Eugene R. Kellersberger
Organizaon
New York
Li Will Challenge Chiang as Leader
Li Tsung Jen declares from New York that he will challenge Chiang Kai Shek for the presidency. Chiang resumes as chief of state, Li relegated to vice presidency. observers doubt Li can return or muster a quorum, while military forces remain loyal to Chiang.
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Taipei
Formosa
Li Tsung-Jen
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
New York
National Assembly
UN Talk on A-Ban at Moscow Pushed
Senator McMahon urged an unprecedented UN General Assembly session in Moscow to craft safe guards against atomic war and the hydrogen bomb. He urged broadcasting peace talks across the Soviet Union and placing inspectors in both nations as a step toward a broader Atlantic pact program for UN approval.
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Moscow
Washington
McMahon
Dconn
UN General Assembly
Senate
United States
Russia
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Foreign Relations Committee
General Assembly
United Nations
London
Europe
Austin Building Boom Accelerates in February Permits
The city building inspector reports 341 permits issued in February for new structures and additions valued at 3.30 million dollars. For 1950 total permits reach 6.41 million, outpacing 1949 pace. residential work dominates with 3.01 million dollars of the February total.
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Austin
Bridges and ILWU officers sign non Communist affidavits
SAN FRANCISCO March 1 The CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union announced its officers including President Harry Bridges have signed non Communist affidavits under the Taft Hartley Act Bridges faces a federal court trial for perjury over testifying at a 1945 naturalization hearing that he had never been a member of the Communist Party He denies membership but the affidavits allow the union to appear on ballots in possible National Labor Relations Board elections amid AFL Teamsters jurisdiction disputes.
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San Francisco
CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen'’s Union
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Communist Party
National Labor Relations Board
AFL Teamsters
ILWU
UMW Contempt Hearing Ends as Truman Impeachment Studied
The United Mine Workers contempt trial ended with Judge Keech studying a possible large fine. Indiana Republicans discussed impeachment action against President Truman over the coal dispute. Production dropped three percent in February as negotiations stalled and 600,000 workers remained idle.
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United Mine Workers
Richmond B. Keech
Indiana
Congress
Truman
Reech
Federal Reserve Board
Jenner ‘Rand
Jenner
US Grants Yugoslavs Loan of $20 Million
The United States on March 1 granted a second emergency loan of $20 million to Yugoslavia through the Export-Import Bank to help withstand the Communist trade boycott. Bank president Herbert Gaston said the funds are needed to prevent very severe hardship in Yugoslavia.
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Washington
United States
Yugoslavia
Herbert Gaston
Yugo- Slavia
Texas Independence Day Observance At UT Austin
UT Austin ex students join former students worldwide for the 14th Independence Day and 53rd Texas Exes Day. A morning convocation at 10 30 with James W McClendon and T S Painter, and a 730 p m dessert party in the Texas Union. University staff and guests discuss the $16 667 000 main campus plan and Galveston Houston Dallas construction totaling over $9 million with multiple speakers.
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Austin
University of Texas
Austin Ex- Students Association
Texas Union
James W. McClendon
Third Court of Civil Appeals
T. S. Painter
Fort Worth
J. FE
Dodo) McQueen
Port Neches
University
Exas
Galveston
Houston
Dallas
C. Read Granberry
Harlingen
D, X
Bible
San Angelo
Arts and
C. P. Boner
Freeport
Blair Cherry
el Paso
Ll. L. Click
Tyler
H. C. Gilstrap
Clyde Littlefield
Beeville
Roaring March Lion Imitates Doped Leopard
The March lion roared and ranted then crept into Texas as tame as Oklahoma City's doped leopard. A weak cool front lowered temperatures to comfortable winter briskness with a few showers on the coast and strong winds in far West Texas. Weatherman Hoye Dunham predicts rain late Thursday or Friday and a cooler morning Thursday with a rising afternoon temperature. Winds reached 28 mph with gusts to 42 mph from the north northeast. Wednesday's high 63 and low 40 with light morning rains at Beaumont Galveston Houston and San Angelo.
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Texas
Oklahoma City
Associated Press
Austin
Hoye
Dunham
Beaumont
Galveston
Houston
San Ae
Ownsville
Laredo
Lane Named Senate President as Session Ends
Senate selected Wardlow Lane of Center as president pro tem amid a nine year gap with the lieutenant governorship vacant. Gov. Shivers announced a statewide radio report and the legislature wrapped up key taxes, hospital funding, and a cancer research building appropriation, with plans to sign the omnibus tax bill and cigarette levy extensions.
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Senate
Wardlow Lane
Grady Hazlewood
G.C. Morris
Lane
Neal Douglass
Durwood Manford
Center
Allan Shivers
Shivers
Radio House
University of Texas
Texas Quality Network
Texas State Network
Liberty Network
Hazlewood
House
W. O. Reed
Texas
Cancer Research Branch
Congress
Padre Island
Gov
Manford
Two Gillespie Jail Escapees Remain At Large
Fredericksburg story notes that two of five prisoners fled Gillespie County jail using a bronze key to escape. James Meadows and William Meadows were still at large as authorities searched Gillespie and Mason counties aided by sheriff Robert Loth. Seaton returned to jail and the other escapees were recaptured or turned themselves in.
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Fredericksburg
ANS
Gillespie County
Mason
L. E
Cambell
Mason County
James W. Seaton
Gonzales
James M. Craig
Lubbock
Daniel Paul Parker
Joe S. Petsch
James B. Meadows
William L. Meadows
San Antonio
Robert Loth
Gillespie
Mason Counties
Two Meadows
Loth
33Rd District
Eastham
Craig
Parker
Seaton
James Meadows
Retrieve Prison Farm
Meadows Brothers
Commissioners Court Room
Highway 87
Brady
Meadows
Walburg 4 H Club Boy Calf Wins Top Williamson Honors
Harold Mickan, Walburg 4 H Club boy, won grand champion fat calf in Williamson County Livestock Show with a 780 pound Angus. Richard Liardon of Hutto earned reserve champion, while Davenport and Son of Hutto showed the champion fine wool ewe and ram. Georgetown exhibitors claimed multiple Hereford, Shorthorn, and Angus honors across beef cattle and sheep divisions.
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Gladys Carrier
Central Texas
Georgetown
ANS
Williamson County Livestock Show
Harold Mickan
Walburg
Richard Liardon
Hutte
Davenport and Son
Buz Lyons
C. P. Paulson
P. G. Skinner
Bartlett
N. A. Mason and Sons
Felix Melburn
Aberdeen Angus Breeder
H. G. Friedrich
R. D. Fletcher
Eli Davis Jr
Granger
State levy just a puff to buyers except for penny cigarette hike
Retailers say the 10 percent omnibus tax boost and penny per pack cigarette tax will barely affect consumers. Prices rise slightly on cigarettes and gasoline products while beer and whiskey see minimal or no changes. Car sales tax climbs to one point one tenths percent and collectors note the extra levy began Wednesday.
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Austin
Beer Association
Texas
Steve Heffington
House votes to create National Science Foundation
The House approved 247 to 125 a bill to create a National Science Foundation to conduct research and award scholarships in scientific fields. A Senate bill exists but differences must be resolved. Debate referenced Dr Klaus Fuchs’s conviction for passing US atomic secrets to the Russians and added a loyalty certification for foreign scientists.
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Washington
House
National Science Foundation
Senate
Klaus Fuchs
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