Senate Finance Committee Approves Large State Spending
The Senate finance committee approved appropriation bills totaling over 54 million dollars, risking a larger deficit and potential tax implications. Bills cover higher education, state departments, new medical schools, and Lamar College, with adjustments to several projects and a key university medical school in Dallas.
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Associated
Senate Finance Committee
Dallas
Temple
San Antonio
Soil Conservation
Lamar Junior College
Beaumont
Senate
Houston
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Galveston Medical School
Texas State University
James Taylor
Kerens
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Demos Repeal Debate Ends With Wood Bill Rejected
The House amid a labor bill stalemate rejected the Wood measure after a 193 to 18 vote. Tuesday’s reversals saw 146 Republicans join 71 Democrats to defeat the plan, while Wednesday’s tally followed 193 Democrats, 18 Republicans and one American-Laborite in favor of remitting the Wood bill.
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Lockhart
Railroad Commission
Truman
House
Labor Committee
Rayburn
Representative Wood
D-Ga
Priest
Dtenn
House Labor Committee
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
South
Reds in Greece Seek Peace Ending Cold War Ties
Communist led Greek rebels offer to make peace amid hopes Berlin blockade lifting will end the cold war in Europe. Other items note Harris County gambling probe, UAW Ford talks, a possible Philippine presidential dark horse, and UN invites on Israel.
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Prague
Berlin
Europe
Houston
Dale Richardson
Carrie Nation
Harris County
Ministers To Meet As Berlin Blockade Set To End
Soviet Russia and the Western Powers agreed to end the Berlin blockade on May 12 and to discuss currency and German issues at a Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris on May 23. The four powers met behind closed doors in New York talks with envoys Jessup Cadogan Malik Chauvel. The move followed long disagreement over timing and prerequisites, and UN delegates welcomed the decision as a potential step toward broader German settlement.
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New York
Russia
Berlin
Council of Foreign Ministers
Paris
Porter McKeever
Germany
McKeever
Philip C. Jessup
United States
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Britain
Jakob A. Mank
Soviet Union
Jean Chauvel
France
Chauvel
Cadogan
Malik
Jessup
Washington
Dean Acheson
United Nations Security Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Council
Loyalists Preparing To Leave Hankow
Associated Press reports Chinese government forces prepare to abandon Hankow as Communist advances threaten isolation. Nanchang falls to Reds and Pai Chung-hsi moves headquarters toward Changsha while Shanghai faces uncertain fate and mass exodus aboard ships.
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Hankow
China
Nanchang
Kiangsi
South China
Canton
Pai Chung-Hsi
Changsha
Hunan
Pai
Cheng Chien
Hunan Province
Cheng
Peiping
FDR Jr. Appears Twice On Ballot In Special NY Race
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. qualifies for two ballot lines in the New York district of the late Sol Bloom with 25 630 signatures on a Four Freedoms Party petition. He is also Liberal nominated with anti-Tammany Democratic support for the May 17 special election. Opponents include Justice Benjamin Shalleck William H. McIntyre and Dr. Annette Rubinstein.
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New York
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Congress
Sol Bloom
Roosevelt
Four Freedoms Party
Liberal Party
Bloom
Benjamin Shalleck
Tammany Democratic
William H. McIntyre
Annette T. Rubinstein
Court tests eyed for Gilmer Aikin school bills in Texas
Rumors persist that legal challenges will seek court review of SB 115, SB 116, and SB 117 as the Senate nears final approval. Dr. L A Woods faces removal from his post, with an advisory role possible. arguments focus on a new official commission and tax equalization limits. A typographical error in SB 117 was corrected, while a $30 million rural road program already had funding certified.
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House
Senate
Rayburn
Texas
Capitol
Taft
Ohio
Gilmer-Aikin
L A. Woods
Beauford
Woods
Jimmy P. Horang
Archer City
Budget Fund Commission
Mop-Handler Strikes Again In Austin Burglary Spree
Police report a repeated mop-handle burglar in Austin using a bent coathanger and a slit mop handle to pull valuables from outside homes. The latest scene at 3210 Fairfax Walk left the thief fleeing. three nearby houses were hit Tuesday night netting about 70 dollars.
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Austin
L. H. King
Fairfax Walk
Tarrytown
Minister Freed In Slaying Case
The Rev. J. R. Davis Sr., a Travis County Baptist preacher, was acquitted of murder after a three day trial. The shooting of J. R. Malone near Mancahaca on July 14, 1948, followed an argument over a missing call and a $43 debt. The jury returned the verdict shortly after 7 pm with Malone's son J. D. Malone testifying for the prosecution. Davis testified as the defense’s key witness.
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J. R. Davis Sr
Travis County
Davis
J. R. Malone
Mancahaca
Malone
J. D. Malone
Quadruplets Born To Bronx Couple
A Bronx mother, Mrs. Ethel Collins, gave birth to two boys and two girls at Lebanon Hospital late Wednesday. Doctors described the mother and babies as doing well with everything under control. The birth occurs among roughly three live quadruplet sets per year in the United States, with odds of 551 271 to one.
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New York
Bronx
Lebanon Hospital
Ethel Collins
United States
British Navy postpones atomic ray effect test
The British navy delayed its first test of atomic ray effects on ship armor due to bad weather. The experiment was planned near the Isle of Wight with scientists on a pontoon prepared to bombard the cruiser Arethusa using gamma rays from an atomic bomb.
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London
Isle of Wight
Arethusa
UT I League state meet opens with events in Austin
The University of Texas Interscholastic League opens its 39th state meet in Austin drawing over 1400 Texas high school students. Contest events run Thursday through Saturday in one act play ready writers journalism tennis track and field declamation extemporaneous speech typewriting debate shorthand slide rule and number sense. A Saturday breakfast discusses proposals including a safe driving contest and new debate topics.
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University of Texas Interscholastic League
Texas
Austin
Hogg Auditorium
Department of Speech
University Interscholastic League
Guill Aool Chapter
and Scroll
Mexican Guanajuato Governor Predicts Texas Labor Ban Lift
Guanajuato Governor Infante predicts Mexico will lift its labor ban on Texas soon during Cinco de Mayo visit to Texas. He meets Governor Jester and plans talks at Zavala School auditorium with Good Neighbor officials and Mexican consul Dominguez.
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Luis Diaz
Guanajuanto
Mexico
Texas
Beauford H. Jester
Jose G. Herrara
Infante
Jester
Zavala School
Aleman
Tom Sutherland
The
Good Neighbor Commission
Capitol
Guanajanto
Zavala Family
Zavala
Taylor Glass
Tom Miller
Efrain Dominguez
Dominguez
House To Study Rent De-Control
The House set a statewide rent de-control bill for special consideration at 10 30 a m on Friday. The vote to take up the bill was 97 to 34 with opponents saying rent de control should be local government’s job.
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House
House Panel Removes Drink Tax Bill From Consideration
The House liquor regulation committee killed Rep A J Vale's bill to legalize liquor by the drink and impose a high tax. The measure, discussed on a brief voice vote, had little chance of passage this session and faced reduced opposition during the hearing.
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Austin American Capitol
House Liquor Regulation Committee
A. J. Vale
Rep. Vale
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