City backs span plan change to traffic relief
City officials meeting with Chamber of Commerce leaders reject widening the Congress Avenue Bridge as ineffective. They propose two small bridges funded by the same money and favor a low water bridge west of Congress with a later eastern crossing tied to the Interregional Highway project.
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Congress Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Harwell
Wesley Pearson
Chamber
Taylor Glass
Guston Morgan
Walter Seaholm
C. G. Levander
William Parker
Walter Guttman
City Plan Commission
Morgan
Congress Span
Austin
Glass
Congress
East Avenue
FDR's Grandson Weds in California
Curtis Dall Jr. and Robin Edwards wed at Episcopal Church of St. Augustine by-the-Sea in Santa Monica. Attendees included Elea nor Roosevelt and James Roosevelt. Elliott and Franklin Jr. unable to attend. Bride wore pink pastel organdy. ceremony lasted 20 minutes.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Curtis
Buzzie) Roosevelt
Robin Edwards
Episcopal Church of
St. Augustine by-the-Sea
Wallace N. Pierson
Eleanor Roosevelt
James Roosevelt
John A. Roosevelt
James Burton Edwards
Roosevelt
Russell Andes
Sally Sullivan
Curtis Dall Sr
San Antonio
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Elliott Roosevelt
Buzzie
Anna Eleanor
Sistie) Dall
White House
Fdr
Rescue Talks Called On Community Chest
Business leaders met at the Austin club to plan a 3 p.m. May 31 meeting in the City Council chamber to rally support for the Community Chest after missing its 1949 50 goal and to prevent its collapse. I W Stormy Davis announced the meeting with E H Perry chairing. Perry said the group seeks aid from Austin business people and will consider a merger of social planning and fund raising per a budget committee recommendation. Wayland Towner resigned as executive director to allow a younger leader and the chest will review its council relations before filling the post.
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Community Chest
Austin Club
City Council Chamber
Perry
Austin
Wayland Db
Towner
Davis
Chest Council
Minority's Report Condemns Action On Tideland Bill
Eight members of the House judiciary committee oppose a bill granting states ownership of submerged coastal lands three miles offshore with police powers to the continental shelf edge. They warn the measure would upend international law and criticize California tidelands leases as defying Supreme Court rulings, urging royalties and rentals be turned over to the U S Treasury.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Texas
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
California
Supreme Court
United States
US Treasury
Austin Slum Clearance Gets $558 250 Federal Aid
The Housing and Home Finance Agency approved a $558 250 grant for Austin to use under Title I of the National Housing Act of 1949. City council requested the reservation of funds for slum clearance work.
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US Housing and Home Finance Agency
Austin
Lyndon B. Johnson
Homer Thornberry
Home Agency
Home Finance Agency
Taylor Glass
Truman aims to report on Big Three talks May 31
President Truman arranged for Secretary of State Acheson to present to Congress and the nation on May 31 the decisions from the London Big Three conference. The public session may include questions, with some phases kept secret. The report covers NATO council actions and Western Germany’s move toward full member status.
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Washington
Truman
Dean Acheson
Congress
London
Acheson
Senate
Scott W. Lucas
Lucas
House
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
North Atlantic Council
Western Germany
Western Community of Nations
New York
Britannic
Mr. Truman
Library of Congress
Pants Heist, Lamp Post Rescue Highlight Page 2
A curious lad falls into a lamp post hole and is rescued with pants missing. In Kentucky a holdup gang robs 25 spectators of 50000 dollars and their pants. Also noted are a fish that drinks water and mysterious large footprints on Stanford's Hoover Library tower.
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Kentucky
Hoover Library
Stanford
Clear Skies and Warm temperatures Foreseen for Austin
The weather bureau forecasts clear skies and warmer conditions for Austin and Central Texas on Wednesday with a high around 90 degrees, two degrees above Tuesday's 88. No rain is expected.
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Austin
Central
Texas
Weather Bureau
Philadelphian Harry Gold Arrested in Atom Spy Case
Harry Gold a 39 year old Swiss born American hospital researcher was arrested in Philadelphia on charges of dealing atomic bomb secrets to Russia as part of the Klaus Fuchs case. He admitted contacts with Fuchs and faced a bail set at 100000 with hearings slated for June 12.
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Philadelphia
Harry Gold
FBI
Russia
Klaus E. J. Fuchs
J. Edgar Hoover
Gold
Fuchs
James P. McGranery
Moyamensing
Atlantic
McGranery
London
Hoover
John Doe
Soviet
United States
Soviet Union
New York
East Side
Brooklyn
Bronx
Manhattan
Queens
Santa Fe
N. M
Switzerland
Golodnitsky
Drexel Institute
University of Pennesylvania
Columbia University
New York City
Xavier University
Cincinnati
Washington
Joint
Congressional Atomic One Committee
Brien McMahon Conn
Prague Orders US Diplomatic Staff Reduced
Czechoslovakia ordered half of the American diplomatic staff in Prague and Bratislava to leave within two weeks. The note to the U S Embassy demanded reductions to 12 of 24 Americans and seven Czech employees, with a possible closing of the Bratislava consulate. The move follows a prior U S reduction and closes Czech consulates in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
United States
Bratislava
Czeech
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Ellis O. Briggs
James K. Penfield
Deadline set for 1950 census in Austin area
District Supervisor John P. Manning announced June 1 as the final deadline to close enumeration district books for the 1950 census in the Austin area. He urged uncounted residents to contact the census office and noted that once a district book is closed no new names can be added. Manning stressed counting people who live here most of the year rather than those counted in their home towns.
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John P. Manning
Austin
Manning
Congress Approves 16 of Truman Reorganization Plans
Senate action blocks vetoes on most of President Truman's proposed government reforms. Sixteen of twentyone plans become law at midnight, expanding Labor Department agencies, moving the Maritime Commission, and centralizing duties under top officials. Four plans await July action, including a war planning czar and restructured Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Mr. Truman
We Wemerce Department
General Services Administration
House
Labor Department
Maritime Commission
Commerce Department
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Agriculture Department
Treasury Department
Congress
W. Stuart Symington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commerce, Justice, Interior, Commerce and Labor Departments
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Power Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission
Civil Aeronautics Board
Bureau of Employes Compensation
GSA
House Approves 930 Million For Military Program
The House approved a 930 million military construction programata including an atomic powered submarine and three other underwater crafts. A separate 580 million is set for public works at military and naval sites domestically and abroad. The measure also reduces housing authorizations and shifts some items to the Senate plan.
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Washington
House
Senate
Vinson
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Russia
United States
Wherry
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Fort Hood
UAW GM Strike Settlement Nets Five Year Pact
Detroit May 23 General Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers signed a five year contract in a secret bargaining session. The agreement includes a four cent hourly wage boost each year, 100 dollar monthly pensions, a modified union shop, and cost of living wage adjustments. About 265000 GM workers in 100 plants gain pensions and benefits, with tool and die workers receiving extra five cents per hour.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter Reuther
Harry Anderson
Bureau of Labor Statistica
T. A. Johnstone
Sere
Uaw-Cio
Phil Murray
Chrysler Corp
Reuther
Chrysler
General Motors
Ford
Chrysty
Corsicana Voters OK 300000 Sewer Bonds
Corsicana voters authorized the issuance of 300000 in sewer revenue bonds to fund sewer main extensions and improvements to the disposal plant.
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Corsicana
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House Rules Committee
United Nations
Trygve Lie
William F. Knowland
R-Califf
Knowland
Lie
Munich
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Couyst
Centex Hanwasteer
Treeee
Radio Freee
Reuben
Reenter Eee 4 Society Local
Asher Eewe
Roo Eee
Philadelphian
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