Stock Entries Arrive Today At Coliseum
Travis County 4 H Club and FFA exhibitors travel to Austin for the 10th annual stock show at the new coliseum. Weigh in starts at 9 am at Union Stockyards under Johnny Moulden. entries include list of 4 H and FFA competitors with alternates. The Lem Scarbrough Foundation bids to buy champion steer for charity. sale Thursday at 1 pm.
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Dave Shanks
Austin American
Travis County 4-H Club
FFA
Austin
Union Stockyards
Johnny Moulden
Coliseum
Lem Scarbrough Foundation
Settlement Club
Giddings Man Dies at Work Here
William Fredrick Kissman a 58 year old Giddings resident died suddenly while working at the Wakasch Grocery 2000 Guadalupe early Monday night The physician attributed the death to natural causes aiding police in the investigation The body will be sent to Giddings for funeral services Wednesday by Wilke Funeral Home Survivors include two sons Martin and Edwin Kissman and a daughter Mrs Gertrude Mathijez all of Austin
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William Fredrick Kissman
Giddings
Wakasch
Guadalupe
Kissman
Wilke Funeral Home
Martin Kissman
Edwin Kissman
Gertrude Mathijez
Austin
State Car Law Violations Prompt Car Vessel Reforms
State Auditor C H Cavness reports flagrant violations of state car laws and urges drastic reforms. He proposes severing most state cars except Highway Patrol use or shifting enforcement to the patrol, with resale options for current assignees and mileage travel reimbursement for private cars. Cavness also backs cuts in small print bids, extended sick leave, Christmas holiday rules, a state budget officer, and unified control of local funds like the state treasury.
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C. H. Cavness
Beauford H. Jester
Highway Patrol
Cavness
Largest Texas gas tax hearing draws record rural delegation
More than 3 000 county officials and farmers packed the Texas House for a four hour revenue and taxation hearing on Representative C S McLellans 30 million rural road financing bill. Supporters cited relief for farmers while opponents warned of limited revenue and alternative taxes. The hearing stretched past 1 am as speakers from Waco Central Texas Lee and McLennan counties argued for and against the plan and its gas tax approach.
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Texas
Statehouse
South
Edwin Seay
Raymond Brooks
House of Representatives
C. S. McLellan
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Farm Bureau Federation
Texas Rural Roads
Capitol
McLellan
J. S. Simmang
Lee County
House
John Peter Stubbs
Stephenville
R. A. Fuchs
Brenham
A. B. Tarwater
Plainview
R. W. Calvert
Hillsboro
Waco- Central Texas
B. Y. McDaniel
J. McGregor
McGregor
McLennan
J. Walter Hammond
Tyeslor
John S. Simmang
Giddings
County Judges and Commissioners Association
A. S. Wear
Bryan
Jim Cantrell
Princeton
Case March
Waco
March
Ray C. Johnson
Amarillo
Senate Panel Delays Action on Wallgren Nomination
The Senate armed services committee will decide Tuesday whether to delay further action on the nomination of former Washington governor Mon C Wallgren to chair the National Security Resources Board.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mon C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Rival Leaders Claim Edge in Texas Basic Science Debate
In Austin, House floor leaders Bill Ziviey and Henry Lehman urged a fast vote on the basic science bill, with Ziviey claiming about 75 votes for passage and Lehman predicting 75 against. The measure would require exams for healing art practitioners in six subjects, and both chambers have advanced the bill toward a showdown this week or early next.
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Fred Williams
Austin American Capitol
Lamar Ziviey
Temple
Henry Lehman
Giddings
Zivieg
Lehman
Ziviey
Sol Bloom Dies of Heart Attack in Washington
Representative Sol Bloom of New York, long a House foreign affairs chair, died Monday night at the US Naval Hospital from a heart attack. Born March 9, 1870 in Pekin Illinois, Bloom directed the 1932 George Washington bicentennial events and became a nationally known showman and legislator as he challenged traditional myths about the nation’s founder.
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Washington
Sol Bloom
D-Ny
US Naval Hospital
Bloom
Pekin
Ill
House Foreign Affairs Committee
George Washington
Senate OKs Aikin fund for needy school districts
The Gilmer-Aikin measure creates a special fund to help financially strapped districts finance a guaranteed minimum education program. Aikin says the program would cost the state about 30 million dollars more annually. The Senate in a 27 to 2 vote sends the bill to the House, part of the wider state school reorganization effort.
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Gilmer-Aikin
Senate
House
A. M. Aikin
Aikin
Beauford H. Jester
Senate Panel Approves Second Marshall Plan Installment
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved 13 to 0 the $5.58 billion second Marshall Plan installment aimed at Western Europe recovery. An amendment urged European unification while warning it could probe Russian leverage. Committee kept fund intact, with 15 percent of wheat to Europe as flour, and directed ECA head Paul Hoffman to favor U S economy in purchases. The bill moves to the full Senate after resolving a southern filibuster.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Connally
D-Texas
Russia
ECA
Paul Hoffman
Hoffman
Senate
House
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Foreign Relations Committee
Taft backs effort to curb Senate filibuster over civil rights
Senator Taft joined administration efforts to limit debate on a proposed Senate rules change aimed at breaking a southern Democratic filibuster. He said he would support Barkley's ruling if debate can be curbed by a two thirds vote, though many Republicans and Southern Democrats oppose it. Deadlines on rent control loom as the fight tests the chamber’s power to end filibuster tactics.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
GOP
Barkley
Lucas
Illinois
Sparkman
Wherry
Nebraska
Reds May Plan On Showdown In Early Diplomatic Clash
Reports from London Paris Washington Copenhagen Rhodes and Santiago describe a global wartime politics snapshot. Stalin may press for a showdown after the Atlantic pact signing. Chilean elections show government gains while Communists perform poorly.
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Reds
Europe
London
Josef Stalin
Mayor Miller withdraws from Austin council race
Mayor Tom Miller announced he will not seek a ninth term on the Austin City Council. He asked the city clerk to remove his name from the ballot, citing a desire to let voters choose a capable government. Councilman Taylor Glass and Don Weedon also withdrew, reducing candidates to 21 for five council seats.
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Tom Miller
Austin
Miller
Taylor Glass
Don Weedon
Weedon
A. J
Bert) Maloney
Maloney
Austin American
Earl Shelton
Glass
Griffin Named To High Court
Meade F. Griffin of Plainview will be appointed to the Texas Supreme Court by Governor Beauford H. Jester to replace Associate Justice A. J. Folley who resigns and returns to private practice in Amarillo. Griffin is UT Law graduate, former Hale County judge and district attorney, Texas Bar Association director, WWI veteran, and war crimes prosecutor in Germany. Born in Cottonwood Callahan County, married with two children.
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Meade F. Griffin
Plainview
Supreme Court
Beauford H. Jester
Griffin
A. J. Folley
Amarillo
Justice Folley
University of Texas
Hale County
Texas Bar Association
Germany
United States Army Branch
Cottonwood
Callahan County
UT Law Dean To Be Relieved Of Office Work
University of Texas Law School Dean Charles T. McCormick will relinquish administrative duties by the end of May to focus on teaching and legal writing. President T. S. Painter announced a budget council review for a successor and noted McCormick’s long service since 1922 with time at North Carolina and Northwestern.
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Charles T. McCormick
University of Texas Law School
T. S. Painter
Inter
Law School
McCormick
Dallas
Board of Regents
House Painter Fatally Stabbed in Cisco Fight
Jiggs Sublett a 35 year old house painter was stabbed to death during a struggle outside the Laguna Hotel in Cisco early Monday. An oil field driller is jailed on murder charges. Sublett was stabbed three times by a pocket knife at about 4 15 a m Cisco lies ten miles west of Eastland.
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Cisco
J. C
Jiggs) Sublett
Laguna Hotel
J. B. Williams
Eastland
Sublett
Williams
Judge McKay Elected Grand Master of DeMolays
Kansas City March 7 Judge William R McKay of Los Angeles was elected grand master of the Order of DeMolays at the grand council held Monday in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
William R. McKay
Los Angeles
The
Order of DeMolays
Odom Battles Storms and Icing on Non-Stop Flight Bid
Rock Springs Wyoming March 7 Bill Odom pushed his small plane eastward seeking a non-stop light plane record. He reported 3 361 miles flown in over 23 hours since leaving Honolulu and hoped to reach Teterboro New Jersey by Tuesday morning despite storms and icing.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Bill Odom
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Honolulu
Teterboro
N. J
Odom
Oakland
Calif
Donner Pass
Sierras
Reno
Nev
California
Oregon
Idaho
Wyoming
Golden Gate
Waikiki
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Gordon Swenson
Curtis Neidig
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Pflugerville
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Austin Ffa
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Chicon
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Star
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Manor Ffa
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Joe Dacy
Sears, Roebuck & Company
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Pleasanton
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Central Texas
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Hallettsville
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Llano
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Rhodes
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Sally) Gillars
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