New York Prepares for its Biggest St Patrick’s Day Parade
New York gears for a five hour St Patrick’s Day parade led by Police Commissioner William P. O’Brien with 65 battalions. The Irish celebration includes parades, balls, and parties across the city as shamrocks and Irish fare flood stores and venues from midtown to restaurants such as Cavanagh’s.
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One Schoolboy Dies in Blast At Tank Farm
A 16 year old Mont Belvieu High School student John Wiley died in a blast at the Sunray Oil Company lease in Mont Belvieu. Firefighters battled flames for two hours, and the cause remains undetermined.
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Sunray Oil Company
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Leopold Urges Recall to Throne
Exiled Belgian king Leopold III said the Sunday referendum expressed the national will and urged Parliament to make him king in fact or to abdicate. He pledged to accept the decision and remain at the nation’s disposal, while Brussels viewed the move as appeasing. Parliament is expected to invite Leopold to return and end Prince Charles's regency.
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Switzerland
Leopold III
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Leopold
Brussels
Prince Charles
Luling Man Dies in Wagon-Truck Crash
John Greenwood a 75 year old Black man died when his wagon was struck from behind by a gravel truck at Prairie Lea near the Luling San Marcos highway. He had lived in the Luling area all his life and died at noon Thursday.
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Prairie Lea
Luling-San Marcos
Greenwood
Flying saucer sighted over Mexico City by film crew
A shiny flying disc hovered above the central airport in Mexico City at noon drawing hundreds of witnesses. Columbia Pictures and other cameramen shot color and black and white film of the object, which officials said would be sent to the United States and Mexico for study.
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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 Says Sherman
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman warned Congress that Navy cuts threaten the service’s top task of guarding against enemy submarines. He said the budget’s austerity hampers readiness, though he supported the program as the best available. Navy leaders defended the budget while signaling reluctance to oppose Defense Secretary Johnson.
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Washington
Forrest P. Sherman
Congress
Defense
Louis Johnson
House Appropriations
Navy
Francis P. Matthews
Louis Denfeld
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Army
Marine Corps
C. B. Cates
Russia
Texans hunt for statement in Marfa sheriff slaying
In Ojinaga Mexican officials block Presidio County Attorney Norman C. Davis from interviewing Jose Villalobos 26 who is jailed there for the killing of Marfa Sheriff Ottis Morrow. Villalobos allegedly fired four times with the sheriff’s gun during a struggle. a second assailant is not ruled out.
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Texas
Jose Villalobos
Ojinaga
Rio Grande River
Presidio
Pasquel Valdez
Presidio County
Norman C
Sonny) Davis
Villalobos
Chihuahua City
Ottis Morrow
Valdez
Davis
Chihuahua
Mack Tarwater
Morrow
Mexico
Calvin Durst
Cuchillo
Local front page feature praised by Austin readers
Civic readers praise the expanded and centralized front page of the Austin American Statesman. Businesses and professionals like J. Rector Allen and Pod Ashford commend the new coverage for its clarity and color. The hometown front page will continue four weekdays and Sunday editions.
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Austin
J. Rector Allen
E. M. Scarbrough and Sons
Pod Ashford
Reynolds-Penland, Clothiers
Austin American-Statesman
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Acheson Outlines Seven Steps for Peace with Russia
Secretary of State Acheson listed seven actions Russia could take to reduce world tension and enable peaceful coexistence, including treaty cooperation for Germany Japan and Austria and allowing satellites their own sovereignty. He warned Moscow is unlikely to change without demonstrations of good faith and stressed readiness to discuss and negotiate while avoiding being exploited.
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Calif
Russia
Acheson
Germany
Japan
Austria
United Nations
Stalin
San Francisco
Asia
Red China
Labor Row Could Cost City 30000 At Power Plant
City Council member Emma Long warned the labor dispute at the Brown and Root boiler project may cost Austin about 30000 per month if delays persist. A 150 day schedule and a union picket line kept non union workers unloading equipment while local labor officials defended the stoppage as a protest against the contract.
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Brown & Root Construction Company
Brown & Root
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Lower
Colorado River Authority
LCRA
Trades Council
Bob Hill
Bill Parkins
Austin
Chester Smith
Glass
Labor
City Hall
Smith
Lonnie Estes
Estes
Mrs. Long
Navy reveals dosimeter dog tag for radiation illness
The Navy says it can store living skin for grafts after an atomic attack and has a dosimeter dog tag that records exposure. A blue tag signifies a fatal radiation dose, guiding doctors to prioritize near white or pale blue cases. Rear Admiral Clifford A. Swan is involved.
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Washington
Navy
Clifford A. Swanson
Sunny Mild Days for Austin and Texas Friday
Forecast calls for sunny and mild weather in Austin Friday and Saturday with a 45 degree low and 75 degree high on Friday. Saturday brings a 52 degree low and 78 degree high as southerly winds move in. Thursday's Austin range was 49 to 73 with warmer weather expected across West and East Texas.
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Texas
TV Ban Sought on Ingrid Bergman and Lover
Senator Edwin C. Johnson demanded that Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini be barred from American television as immoral characters. He argued they cannot enter the United States for moral turpitude and urged FCC programming standards to be adopted if needed.
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Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Ingrid Bergman
Roberto Rossellini
United States
Johnson
Wayne Coy
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Congress
Senate Commerce Committee
Bergman Ossellini
Coy
Congressional Record
Target Practice Lands Gun Toter in Exile
Vacurine Melendez a 33 year old busboy pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon after firing into a crowded Chicago tavern. He was sentenced to three months in jail and three years probation. The judge ordered him to stay at least 100 miles from Chicago during probation.
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Vacurine Melendez
Melendez
Samuel Epstein
City Detectives Hunt Fog Lights and Trumpet Theft
City detectives searched Thursday for two amber fog lights missing from E. B. Hood’s car on Avenue H while in front of his house. A gold and nickel plated trumpet was reported missing from Fred Ponds Jr's room in Loving G Dormitory at Samuel Huston College.
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Hood
Fred Ponds Jr
Samuel Huston College
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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 detectives obtained a confession from Cruz's wife and Cruz himself. The lie detector indicated Cruz was truthful about being with Sosa that afternoon and later beating him, while another suspect was released.
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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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