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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1949
Page
3
Berlin reports that many travelers from Western Germany and West Berlin were arrested in the Soviet zone on their way to the Leipzig trade fair. The Telegraf said visitors were promised unhindered passage.
Boy Scout Troop No 32, reactivated by the Newman Club social action committee, will meet Tuesday at 7 23 p m in the hall above St Austin's Chapel. It is the second Catholic sponsored Austin troop since before the war. Organizers included Jim O Hara and Frank Gerling.
Washington reports Texas plans to add about 3,000 beds through 51 hospital projects but this remains far below the 89,352 beds needed. The federal program offers grants covering one third of construction costs. Texas has access to about five million dollars annually with several Austin hospitals already funded.
Yomiuri reports Premier Yoshida’s cabinet will form a committee under cabinet jurisdiction to study un-Japanese activities. The panel would not be a diet committee so Communists in the diet could demand seats, but the cabinet reportedly considers the plan meaningless.
Corpus Christi March 13 Attorney General Tom Clark has agreed to be principal speaker at the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner in Corpus Christi on April 8. Warren B. Phillips, general chairman, says two other Texas dinners will be held in Austin and Lubbock as fund raisers for the Democratic National Committee. Plate price listed as unknown.
In London March 13 Parliament heated debate over Field Marshal Montgomery’s beret. Alan Gomme-Duncan, former Black Watch colonel and Conservative MP, condemned the visorless headpiece as hideous and said it tarnishes the Army’s appearance.
London dispatch reports Lev Berg of the Soviet Geographical Society warning that the Soviet Union will not recognize any Antarctic sovereignty division unless it participates. He stated on Moscow radio that any solution without USSR involvement has no legal validity.
Shipped from Shannon to New York and to Dhran Saudi Arabia, over two tons of shamrock leaves arrive to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. The Irish celebrate the holiday with a global reach as Irish Americans receive the symbol of the Ould Sod across continents. St Patrick’s Day falls next Thursday.
Four Czechoslovak nationals landed at the Rhine Main air base near Frankfurt after a flight from a field near Prague. They were en route to Cologne but ran short of gasoline and were taken into Air Force protection. Names were withheld due to possible action against their families in Communist Czechoslovakia.
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