Tacoma Dock Fire Damages $100,000 Pier On Puget Sound
A creosote fueled fire on a 750 foot Tacoma Municipal Dock pier damaged about 100000 dollars of property. The blaze started at nine am and burned a 300 foot pier section loaded with lumber and steel for the Tacoma Narrows bridge. Fire crews from Tacoma fought the flames for three hours.
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Tacoma
Wash
C. J. Eisenbacher
Puget Sound
Portacoma Municipal Dock
Tacoma Narrows
Sound
Lightning Kills Nine Cows in Indiana Barn
AURORA Ind March 6 Lightning killed nine cows in a barn near here Saturday night six in a row of twelve and three in another row were also killed. The farm owned by O J Bischoff of Cincinnati suffered about 2950 dollars in cow losses. No fire and only minor barn damage. Manager Louis M Dudgeon said the lightning likely struck a power line into the barn and spread through steel stanchions. The six surviving cows in the twelve were unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ind
Louis M. Dudgeon
Dudgeon
O. J. Bischoff
Cincinnati
Trial of US Red Leaders Opens In Earnest Today
In New York a war era trial of 11 top US Communist leaders begins amid defense challenges to the jury system. Jurors and press access are restricted while Irving Saypol notes no seats for the public. 93 reporters will cover the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Irving H. Saypol
United States
States' Spending To Be Hiked In Next 12 Months
The Council of State Governments reports budgets for 30 of 34 states call for higher spending in 1949-50. Education and welfare needs drive increases. California tops at 1.06 billion, New York near a billion. Highway programs, veterans bonuses, and housing aid also rise amid inflation and salary costs.
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Chicago
Council of State Governments
Council
California
New York
Idaho
Maine
Missouri
West Virginia
Austin College Plans Major Expansion in Sherman
Austin College in Sherman announced the largest expansion in its 100 year history. The program, led by James A. Fant, will cost over 600000 and include a gymnasium health center student union and president's home. Construction starts next fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Austin College At Sherman
James A. Fant
Board of Trustee
Canadian Admiral Reports Minor Trouble on Athabaskan
Rear Admiral H G de Wolf, Pacific Coast flag officer, said on Sunday that only minor disciplinary trouble occurred aboard the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan and denied a published claim of a two hour mutiny in Acapulco.
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Victoria
B. C
H. G. de Wolf
Pacific Coast
Athabaskan
Acapulco
Senate Demo Predicts Changes In President's Labor Program
Senate Democrat Tydings predicted the Truman labor bill will be altered materially before Senate passage. House hearings open Monday, with a flood of arguments for and against the act to replace Taft Hartley with Wagner Act provisions.
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Senate
Washington
Tydings
Maryland
Truman
House
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
Elbert
Labor Department
House Labor Committee
Grieving Airmen Bodies Retrieved From Mexican Peak
Nine airmen including eight from the Air Force and one Navy crewman perished in a C47 crash on a Sierra del Barro mountain in northern Mexico. Rescue teams worked five days to recover the bodies, aided by ranch staff and rubberized sacks, with patients transported to Kelly Air Force Base after arrival at Laughlin Field.
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San Antonio
Mexico
Kelly Air Force Base
Hamilton Afb
Calif
Serranias del Barro
Whitehead Ranch
Air Force
Navy
Kelly
Robert Rizon
Luis Reyes
el Grifo Ranch
Reyes
el Grifo
Frederick L. Harcourt
McCord Field
Harcourt
Laughlin Field
del Rio
Pastor Dies During Los Angeles Wedding Ceremony
Rev. Thomas Harrell aged 68 collapsed and died at the Church of the Universal Master during the wedding of Robert L. Parker and Dorothea Fretz Gee of Los Angeles. He was pronounced dead after being carried to an anteroom. another minister completed the ceremony. A reception followed with belief he suffered a stroke.
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Los Angeles
Thomas Harrell
Church of the Universal Master
Robert L. Parker
Dorothea Fretz Gee
Harrell
Hit and Run Driver Kills Night Watchman in San Antonio
In San Antonio on March 6 a 68 year old night watchman Carren Johnson was killed by a hit and run driver near the police headquarters. Johnson's body was dragged a block by the car and police say they are seeking the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Carren Johnson
Johnson
Funeral for Former Bakery Operator Mrs Burke Held
Paris March 6 funeral services to be held Monday for Mrs John A Burke 76 a former bakery operator who died Sunday in Paris. The obituary notes her long service in local bakeries and family ties to the community.
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Paris
John A. Burke
Mary Z. Edwards
Marion Edwards
Holly Street
Susie Cole
Fearl Snyder
Houston
Austin
Noah Edwards
Dripping Springs
Fred Edwards
Annie Pearson
Eden
Mattie Haster
Bell George
Eric Burchett
Johnson City
Ernest Peal
Ed Peal
Chiropractor C L Vaughn Offers Gentle Pain Free Care
C L Vaughn chiropractor advertises gentle painless treatment using diversified methods. office at 1010 Rio Grande offers convenient parking and a phone number 2 7354 for appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Vaughn
Rio Grande
Axis Sally Trial Enters Final Phase
The Axis Sally treason trial moves into its seventh week as final pleas begin. Mildred Gillars, 48, known as Axis Sally for Nazi broadcasts, faces potential conviction with the jury to decide if she betrayed the country. The judge would set any punishment if convicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mildred E. Gillars
Miss Gillars
Curran
23-Ounce Baby Weighs 17 Pounds After Year
In Columbus Ohio on March 6 Nella Theresa Davis daughter of Sergeant and Mrs Samuel R Davis celebrated her first birthday. Born weighing 23 ounces she now weighs nearly 17 pounds and is reported in perfect health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Nella Theresa Davis
Sergeant
Samuel R. Davis
11th Airborne Returns Home From Pacific Duty
The 11th Airborne Division ships back to New Orleans aboard the General R. L. Howze ending a six year Pacific and Japan deployment. One thousand one hundred forty four soldiers and 105 dependents arrive, many aged around 19, after five sea breakdowns slowed the journey.
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New Orleans
11Th Airborne
United States
Pacific
Japan
R. L. Howze
Laredo Bridge Keeper Dies After 57 Years Service
Luis Varela aged 78 and longtime keeper of Laredo's international bridge died at home after a long illness. He served 57 years with the Laredo Bridge Company and was for years the superintendent of the footbridge over the Rio Grande dividing the United States and Mexico.
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Laredo
Luis Varela
Laredo Bridge Company
Varela
Rio Grande River
United States
Mexico
San Angelo Rancher Dies at Baylor Hospital
A. J. Ratliff, 63, San Angelo rancher and member of a prominent family, died at Baylor Hospital after arriving by ambulance from his Ranger home. He had been ill for almost three years.
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Dallas
A. J. Ratliff
San Angelo
Baylor Hospital
Ranger
Dudley Douglas
Austin
Checker Front
West 19Th
Lucille Douglas
Oma Showalter
Cowden
Ill
Frank
Arthur Douglas
Denison
Claude Douglas
Oklahoma City
Weed-Corley
Harry M. Moffett
Memorial Park
Otis Anderson
J. M. Odom
Will E. Odom
G. F. Thornhill
Eddie Westling
Chester N. Williams
British Acid-Bath Murderer Described as Lover of Music
Barbara Stephens, 20, described John George Haigh, 39, as a sensitive lover of music and food while recounting his charm. Haigh, charged with dissolving Mrs Olive Durand Deacon in acid, is under psychiatric observation in Lewes Prison Hospital as prosecutors consider insanity. The case links disappearances of other wealthy Britons and follows a Scotland Yard probe into crimes for profit.
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London
Britain
John George Haigh
Barbara Stephens
Haigh
Olive Durand-Deacon
Scotland Yard
Barbara
Valerie Carr
Archibald Henn
Rosaie
Valerie
The
Sunday Pictorial
Rosalie
Hendersons
Brighton
W. D. McSwan
Donald
South Kensington
Lewes Prison
UCLA to Push Action Over Bay Psalm Book Theft
UCLA librarian L C Powell says severe disciplinary action will be sought against Charles J Glenn a UCLA graduate student caught Friday night escaping the library with the Bay Psalm Book valued at 100000 He was booked on burglary suspicion released on 2000 bond and faces superior court Tuesday Glenn says the act was a prank intended as part of a fraternity initiation Officials and owners will decide on charges after university action.
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Los Angeles
L. C. Powell
UCLA
Charles J. Glenn
Portland
Ore
Glenn
Powell
Clarence Dykstra
Jefferson Davis’s Texas era and frontier expansion
The 1853 appointment of Jefferson Davis as secretary of war shaped Texas history through plans for a southern transcontinental military railroad and frontier outposts. He urged routes through Texas, eyed artesian wells, and sought troops to guard against Indians, with Fort Davis named in his honor.
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Texas
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
United States
Davis
Fort
Husband of Austinite To Be Buried Tuesday
The body of Lieutenant Duane E. Carey will arrive Monday in Wichita Falls for reburial Tuesday. Carey died in Egypt in 1944 while serving with the Air Force. Carey's wife Mrs. Linalice Carey and daughter Linda reside in Austin. Other survivors are his mother Mrs. C. M. Carey a sister Mrs. Mildred Taylor and a brother Wilford Carey, all of Wichita Falls.
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Duane E. Carey
Wichita Falls
Carey
Egypt
Air Force
Linalice Carey
Linda
Austin
Georgetown
O. B. Pennington
Gorgetown
Friedrich
Edmund Heinsohn
James W. Morgan
Ted Ford
Taylor
G. K. Fry
Trieste Shipyard Strike Seeks wider labor support
Striking Trieste Shipyard workers urged refinery, warehouse, and port staff to join the walkout this week. The stoppage risks paralyzing major industry in the Allied occupied port as AMG labor officials seek to mediate wage demands and job cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Trieste
Allied Military Government
AMG
Large Valley Ranch Sold to Retired Doctor
One of the largest Rio Grande Valley property sales in years involved 6 450 acres in El Indio Valley. The El Indio Land Company, Inc. sold the land to John W Weeks of Rosenberg a retired physician for 129 419 dollars.
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Eagle Pass
Rio Grande Valley
el Indio Valley
el Indio Land Company, Inc
John W. Weeks
Rosenberg
Weather Summary for Austin and Texas Cities
The report covers Austin with sunrise at 6 51 a m and sunset at 6 34 p m moonrise 11 10 a m and moonset 12 57 a m first quarter on 3 8 highest temp 83 on 3 6 lowest 2 on 1 31 rainfall 6.34 inches since Jan 1 excess 1.64 inches. Colorado river stages Montopolis 1.7 ft Lake Buchanan 1000 92 ft Lake Travis Marshall Ford 643 00 ft forecast little change. Sunday high low readings list Abilene 67 49 Fort Worth 83 55 Amarillo 56 36 Galveston 76 65 Houston 68 Brownsville 68 Laredo Ches co El Paso.
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Austin
Colorado
Montopolis
Lake Buchanan
Lake Travis
Marshall Ford
Texas
Abilene
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Galveston
Houston
Brownsville
la Corpus Chesco
el Paso
Obituary notices for Fulenwider Edwards Douglas Steglien and Pennington
Multiple obituaries from Austin Georgetown list Margaret Fulenwider and Mary Edwards, Dudley Douglas, Gusta Steglien, Jewel Darby, and O B Pennington. Surviving family members span Wyo to Denton with funeral arrangements by Cook Funeral Home, Weed-Corley, Friedrich, and local churches.
Big Egg Serving in Restaurants Standards Musings
The average roe serving in restaurants equals half a large shad roe, about 10 000 to 15 000 eggs. A single fish yields 23 000 to 32 000 eggs in roe.
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Eisenbacher
Cris Gelstein
Seattle
Gelstein
Indiana
Henry Tischler
D.V.M. Office
Austin Veterinary Supply
Brown
National “Board of Directors
US Communist Party
Harold Medina
William Z. Foster
Communist Party
Austin College
Lebey Littleside
Anc 221
Wes
LM Cleaner
Hatter
Ritlei
Sota Gammon
Fraulein
Munich
Germany
Karl Bauer
Bauer
Elizabeth
Baylor
Capital National Bank
Turkey
America
Philip Rosenbach
A.m
Austin Orthopedic
Appliance Company
Bear Creek Valley
Jane
East 38Th Street
R. J. Kidd
Mrs
Margaret Fulenwider
W C. Fulenwider
Billings
Wyo
Georgia McGraw
Chapell Rogers Reagan
Cook Funeral Home
Gusta E. Steglien
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Albert Jesse
Giddings Cemetery
Jewel M. Darby
Jewel Marie Darby
Raymond Darby
Clyde Palatie
Denton
Clyde Jefferson Hutson
Lillie McHenry
Casa Grande, Ariz
Lester Cantwell
Clarence Palatie
C. B. Pennington
ACAN
Frigidaire
Genuine
Willie
Ocure 3Rd
Funeral Home
T.H. Davis
Frank Linden
W. S. Birdwell JR
Martin Blomwuist
Austin’s
Thurlow B. Weed
Jack Corley
Lavaca
Eldon Powell
Florist
Wilke Noa
Galena
Guadalupe
Highway 81
Travis County
Nalle Bldg
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