St Patrick's Day Parade Lights Up New York City
March 16 194-, 100000 attend the Fifth Avenue St Patrick’s Day parade led by Police Commissioner William P O Brien. 65 battalions march past, with Irish groups and a big dinner and many celebrations across the city. Shamrocks arrive by air, green goods fill shops, and midtown Cavanagh’s hosts a Dublin chef for Friday’s menu.
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Fifth Avenue
Clan-Na-Gael
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Comann Na Mhan
Friends of Irish Freedom
Police Department
William P. O’brien
New O'ork
Sons of St. Patrick
Donegal
Tyrone
Ould Sod
Zechoslovakia
St. Patrick's
Cavanagh’s
Dublin
One Schoolboy Dies in Blast At Tank Farm
A 16 year old Mont Belvieu High School student John Wiley died after a mystery blast at the Sunray Oil Company lease near Mont Belvieu. Firefighters fought the blaze for two hours as tanks exploded and neighbors felt the shock across the area. Police conducted an inquest and said cause of the fire was unknown.
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Mont Belvieu
Sunray Oil Company
John Wiley
W D. Wiley
Baytown
Here
Justice of the Peace
Fred Chitty
Wiley
John
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Leopold Urges Recall to Throne
In Geneva on March 16 exiled Belgian king Leopold II said the Sunday referendum expressed the national will and urged Belgium to appoint him king in fact or abdicate. He pledged to accept Parliament’s decision. Brussels saw the move as appeasing and likely to end the regency of Prince Charles.
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Switzerland
Leopold II
Belgium
Leopold
Brussels
Prince Charles
Luling Man 75 Dies in Wagon Truck Crash
John Greenwood a 75 year old resident of Luling was killed when a gravel truck struck his wagon from behind at the Prairie Lea city limits on the Luling San Marcos highway. The wagon was demolished and Greenwood died instantly. He had lived in the Luling area all his life.
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Luling
John Greenwood
Prairie Lea
Luling-San Marcos
Greenwood
Flying saucer seen over Mexico City as film crew shoots
Hundreds watch a shiny disc hover above the central airport in Mexico City while a motion picture company films the event. Cameramen use telephoto lenses for color and black and white footage for study by US and Mexican governments amid ongoing saucer sightings across the region.
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Mexico City
el Nacional
Sierra de Morones
Zacatecas State
Here
Zacatecas
Pedro Caloca Cortes
Guadalajara
Homer Davies
Columbia Pictures
Venus
Davies
Cuts Threaten Anti Sub Job Sherman Says
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman warned Congress that sharp Navy budget cuts will hamper guarding against enemy submarines. He said the force cannot fully meet its top duty despite supporting the best available program amid a tightened defense budget.
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Sherman
Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
Congress
Russia
Texans try to quiz sheriff slayer halted at border town
In Marfa Texas an effort to interview Jose Villalobos in Ojinaga Mexico was blocked by local officials. Presidio County Attorney Norman Davis and Texas officers abandoned the attempt after about four p.m. as a crowd gathered outside the jail. Villalobos is accused of shooting Sheriff Ottis Morrow during a struggle.
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Texas
Jose Villalobos
Ojinaga
Rio Grande River
Presidio
Pasque Valdez
Presidio County
Norman
Lenny) Davis
Villalobos
Chihuahua City
Ottis Morrow
Valdez
Davis
Chihuahua
Mack Tarwater
Morrow
Mexico
Calvin Durst
Cuchillo
Omaga
Life Magazine
Mploinet
Austin Statesman Expands Front Page Coverage
Readers praise the new hometown front page carried in the Austin American-Statesman. Officials, merchants, and professionals note improved paper quality, increased public interest, and appealing colorfully presented news and photos. The feature will run daily including Sunday editions.
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American-Statesman
Austin
J. Rector Allen
E. M. Scarbrough and Sons
Pod Ashford
Reynolds-Penland, Clothiers
Austin American-Statesman
the American- Statesman
Acheson cites seven steps for peaceful coexistence with Russia
Secretary of State Acheson outlined seven actions he said could ease East West tensions including German Japanese Austrian peace treaties avoiding Soviet satellites stopping force against satellites supporting UN real arms controls and allowing Russians to know what happens outside their borders He warned Soviet leaders show no sign of changing without free world progress and said peace must not be bought at any price. He spoke at UC Berkeley after a San Francisco Asia policy address and emphasized limits on aid to non Communist Asia and a caution about Red China’s regional ambitions.
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Calif
Russia
Acheson
Germany
Japan
Austria
United Nations
Stalin
Soviet Union
San Francisco
Asia
Red China
Long Fears Labor Row May Cost City $30,000
City Council member Emma Long warned a labor dispute at the municipal power plant could cost the city up to 30 000 dollars if the clash lasts 150 days. A picket line stopped union workers from most of the expansion work while Brown & Root non union crews continued unloading boiler equipment.
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Emma Long
Brown & Root Construction Company
Brown& Root
Austin Building and Construction Trades Council
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Lower
Colorado River Authority
LCRA
Brown & Root
Trades Council
Bob Hill
Bill Parkins
Austin
Chester Smith
Glass
Labor
City Hall
Smith
Lonnie Estes
Estes
Mrs. Long
Navy develops dosimeter dog tag for radiation exposure
The Navy reveals live skin storage for grafting after an atomic strike and a color changing dosimeter dog tag that records wearer radiation exposure. If the tag turns blue the dose is fatal, guiding doctors to focus on near white or pale blue cases. Rear Admiral Clifford Swanson disclosed this in a House appropriations hearing.
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Washington
Navy
Clifford A. Swanson
House
Sunny and Mild Days Predicted for Austin
Sunny days with mild temperatures and cool nights are forecast for Austin. Friday morning may dip to 45 degrees with 75 by afternoon, while Saturday features a 52 degree low and a 78 degree high. Temperatures Thursday reached 49 to 73 as West and East Texas were warmer Friday.
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Austin
Texas
TV Ban Sought On Ingrid Bergman And Lover
Senator Edwin C. Johnson urged a ban on Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini from American television calling them immoral characters and alleging moral turpitude. He pressed FCC to consider programming standards and said Congress may act if networks fail to deal with the Bergman Rossellini affair.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
United States
Johnson
Wayne Coy
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Congress
Senate Commerce Committee
Coy
Congressional Record
Target Practice Puts Gun Toter Off Limits
Vacurine Melendez a 33 year old busboy pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon after firing a gun into a crowded Chicago tavern. He was sentenced to three months in jail and three years probation with a provision to stay at least 100 miles from Chicago.
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Chicago
Vacurine Melendez
Melendez
Samuel Epstein
City Detectives Seek Fog Lights and Trumpet Theft
City detectives searched Thursday for two amber fog lights stolen from £ Hood of 4201 Avenue H while parked at his home. A gold nickel plated trumpet was reported missing from Fred Ponds Jr of Samuel Hust College in Loving Dormitory.
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B. Hood
Avenue H
Hood
Fred Ponds Jr
Samuel Hust College
Loving
Lie Detector Clears One In Sosa Murder Case
Austin laborer Joe G. Cruz, 32, was charged with the murder of Pedro Banda Sosa of Seguin after Cruz allegedly confessed following a police report from his wife. Detectives had pursued multiple suspects before the confession and charging decision. Captain Ted C. Klaus praised the six day investigation and tied the crime to a sharp pocketknife used after an argument over a woman.
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Fred Williams
Austin
Pedro Banda Sosa
Seguin
Texas Department of Public Safety
Sosa
Joe G. Cruz
Travis Blakeslee
K. R. Herbert
Woody Rampy
Beverly Laws
Cers
Cruz
Ted C. Klaus
Sabine
Klaus
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