GOP Leaders Pinched Budget Motive in Housing Drive
Washington May 22 House Republican leaders framed the administration housing program as central to a new economy drive. Rep Taber assailed the plan as socialized housing while Republican Leader Martin urged a party unity meeting to shape policy. The bill faces a House rules hurdle butSenate approval earlier and cost estimates from 16 to 19 billion over four decades are cited.
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Washington
Representative Tabor
RNY
Martin
Massachusetts
House
GOP
Spence
D-Ky
House Banking Committee
Senate
House Rules Committee
Taber
Appropriations Committee
Truman
Sam Cook Retires to Farm Near Austin
Sam Cook, longtime Austin print-shop retiree living on Burleson Road, moved to a farm after selling his business. Since arriving in Austin in 1919, he started Aberdeen-Angus cattle in 1949 and recently took delivery on a bull from Watson Bros. Keillor Ranch in Travis County.
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Dave Shanks
Austin American Agricultural
Sam Buys
Sam Cook
Burleson Road
Route 1
del Valle
Sam
Austin
Cook
Travis County
Watson Bros. Keillor Ranch
Austin renters rally to defend rent controls
Austin tenants plan a 7 30 p m meeting at City Library Auditorium to organize a defense of rent controls. Organizer J A Devries calls for lawmakers and city officials to hear the tenants side and to press for continued controls amid a chronic housing shortage. John W Johnson Jr rent director will outline provisions of the new rent control law and eviction rules.
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Austin
J. A. Devries
West 16Th Street
City Library
Ninth and Guadalupe
Real Estate Board
Devries
Senate State Affairs Committee
John W. Johnson Jr
Hayworth Aly Khan Wedding Planned as Quiet Ceremony
ES France May 22 Rita Hayworth intends to wed Prince Aly Khan next Friday and keep the ceremony private at Chateau de l Horizon if Paris grants a special dispensation. Without it the marriage would be at Vallauris City Hall and could draw public spectacle similar to Rome riots.
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France
Rita Hayworth
Prince Aly Khan
Chateau de l’Horizon
Vallauris
Hollywood
Rome
Aly
Mediterranean
Cannes
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield Simpson
England
Elderly Man Killed In Traffic Accident
ARLINGTON May 22 An unidentified man about 65 was killed when struck by a car on Highway 80 two miles west of Arlington. Police sought to identify him Sunday. he wore khaki pants gray work shirt tan jacket a light green hat and high top shoes and weighed 150 pounds. He appeared to live in the Dallas Fort Worth area and had no luggage.
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Arlington
Highway 80
Here
State
A. B. Cribbs
Cribbs
Dallas-Fort Worth
Burglars Strike Two Austin Homes On East 19th Street
Police report two brazen burglaries in Austin within four blocks of each other on East 19th Street occurred after midnight Saturday. A single culprit is suspected as both entries were similar and two residents, W. C. Hartgrove at 2403 East 19th Street and Mrs. Augusta A White at 2001 East 19th Street, woke to intruder noises. Entry was gained by a cut screen and an open window while a scuffle occurred during one escape attempt.
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Austin
East 19Th Street
W. C. Hartgrove
Augusta A White
Two German War Criminals Escape From Landsberg Prison
In Frankfurt May 22 two German war criminals Alois Wiplinger and Werner Greuness escaped Landsberg Prison from a guarded work detail. Wiplinger serves life for Dachau operations and Greuness 20 years for Buchewald activities. Military units launched an intensive search.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Landsberg
Alois Wiplinger
Dachau
Werner Greuness
Buchewald
B B Gunners Continue Windshield Onslaughts
Windshield vandals struck Austin again with 12 windshields broken at Simmons Used Car Lot located at 12th and Lamar. The two day total rose to 24 as early morning damage at Derby Sales on 1020 Lamar added 10 and J. W. Johnson at 510 East Fifth Street reported two more.
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Simmons
12Th
Lamar Streets
Austin
Derby
Lamar
J. W. Johnson
East Fifth Street
Hemingways En Route To Home Near Havana
Author Ernest Hemingway and his wife arrived in Cristobal from Italy after completing a new novel. He declined to discuss the book and said they are en route to their home near Havana, Cuba.
Two U.S. Soldiers Pardoned by Czech President
Two American recruits Clarence R. Hill and George R. Jones were pardoned by President Gottwald in Prague. They had fled across the Czech border from Germany last December and were convicted of espionage in a secret March trial. Hill received 12 years and Jones 10. They were handed to the U.S. Army for trial on AWOL charges.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald
Clarence R. Hill
Jackson
Miss
George R. Jones
Owensboro
US Constabulary
Sixth Armored Regiment
Czech
Germany
Hill
Jones
US Army
Veteran Authority On Trademark Law Dies
P Edward Sidney Rogers aged 74 died Sunday in Greenwich Connecticut He was chairman of the board of Sterling Drug Incorporated and an authority on trademark law Known as the father of fair trade he served the government in many roles in trade marks copyrights and patents
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Greenwich
Conn
Edward Sidney Rogers
Sterling Drug, Incorporated
Rogers
Fair Trade
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Reubens
Austin Production Credit Association
Austin Pca Messenger
Joe Stewart
Dimmitt White
L. M. Dotson
G. W. Glenn
Ben Garza
Charles C. Cook
P. S. King
CCC
Temple
Temple Agriculture Experiment Station
Carl Frazier
Double Horn
Marble Falls
Rattler
Joe Henry Frazier
Carl
Joe
W. C. Stewart
Johnson City
Stewart
Delaine
L. East Produce Company
Rein Yolk
Wesley
Aay As
Guadalupe
Lavaca
Chrysler
Federal Bakery
Congress
B-B
Hemingways
Havana
Austin Orthopedic
Appliance Company
West
ABC
BEST
Roma Wine Co
Fresno, Calif
AIR Conditioning, Inc
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