City Hall Plans Aided by Trade
City government Tuesday acquired property at Colorado and West Ninth Streets in a trade with Austin attorney John Aycock and Mutual Savings Institution. The deal gives a full block behind City Hall for expansion, bridges city jail and police space to the expanded building, and awaits formal council approval.
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Guston Morgan
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Memorial Day Holiday Death Toll Soars Across Nation
An Associated Press tally shows 504 deaths in the four day Memorial holiday period, including 290 highway fatalities and 36 in Texas. The National Safety Council cites risky driving and indifference as key factors. States across the U S report varying counts of traffic drownings and miscellaneous mishaps during the period.
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Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
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Navy to install turbo prop engines on carrier planes
The Navy is fitting 5,500 horsepower turbo prop engines from General Motors Allison Division into two carrier attack planes, one approved to carry atomic bombs. The engines also power a 60 ton Navy seaplane testbed in San Diego. The system uses twin turbines with tailpipe thrust and can run one turbine in flight for efficiency.
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Lost San Saba Mine lure and Memorial Day grave tale
Tales of a Lost San Saba Mine with a rumored $14 million in silver and gold lure treasure seekers to a Goldthwaite mountain. A Memorial Day tribute honors a graveyard boy killed beside a Dakota railroad track as Old 107 conducts an annual wreath ceremony. A Vancouver sunbathers vs Doukhor protests and Livergnano’s battered town scene are noted.
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Rioting Flares in Helmstedt as Red Youths Attacked
In Helmstedt Germany on Tuesday night thousands of anti Red residents clashed with FDJ youths. The blue shirted FDJ members were beaten and later evacuated by buses and trains as streets were blocked and tensions remained high near the British zone border. An unknown number of West Zone youths were expected to arrive to respond to the rally and violence.
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Weather Outlook for Austin Turns Hot and Steamy
The US Weather Bureau forecasts hot sunny afternoons and moderate nights for Austin and Central Texas today and tomorrow. No storms or showers are expected in the area as temperatures reached a 93 degree peak by 5 p.m. Tuesday, the warmest so far this year.
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Donaldson Hints New Postal Cuts Amid Budget Fight
Postmaster General Donaldson warned of further drastic mail service cuts unless Congress restores part of the Post Office funding. House action trimmed over 200 million from the Post Office budget, prompting Maybank to label the cuts too drastic and urge alternative deficit solutions.
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Rep. William Lemke Dies After Collapse in Fargo Hotel
North Dakota congressman and 1936 Union Party presidential candidate William Lemke, 71, collapsed in a Fargo hotel Tuesday night and died en route to the hospital. He served in Congress since 1933 with a two year break.
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Smuts Develops Pneumonia Aged Field Marshal In Hospital
Johannesburg reports Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts aged 80 has developed pneumonia. An official bulletin Tuesday night says he is responding to treatment and his condition is satisfactory. The elder statesman and war hero remains under care in South Africa.
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South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
US Soldiers Damaged in Tokyo Communist Rally Violence
Four US soldiers observing a Tokyo rally were struck and stoned as Japanese Communist demonstrators clashed with police. Eight protesters were arrested after separate melees near Imperial Plaza and Hibaya Park, with additional arrests following a marching column confrontation.
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Bees Attack Homes In Austin Bee Invasion Tops Two Residences
Two Austin homes faced strong bee incursions Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Alvah McGlain reported a large swarm in her bathroom at 1910 San Antonio Street while Mrs. Claude Wild described a swarm occupying a room of a birdhouse at 2803 Wooldridge Drive. A deputy deployed a smoke method to clear McGlain’s bathroom. bees remained in Wild’s birdhouse room.
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San Antonio Street
Claude C. Wild
Wooldridge Drive
Mother of Flag Day Dies in New York
Emma Laura B Prisk 75 known as mother of National Flag Day died of heart disease at her Manhattan home Tuesday. She lobbied Congress to establish June 14 as a national holiday. Surviving are her husband Enos L Blue and a daughter Emma Smith of New York.
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Laura B. Prisk
Manhattan
Enos L. Blue
Congress
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Emma Smith
37 Years Your Partner in Good Times and Bad
The Austin American begins its 37th year of publication as Austin grows from 30,000 to over 150,000. Founded May 31, 1914 with editor H. H. Sevier and business manager A. G. Smoot, it merged with The Statesman on December 1, 1924. They moved from Nadle Annex to a new building in 1936.
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Memorials mark resolve to curb communism and seek peace
Washington memorials honor war dead as leaders warn that fighting another war would be intolerable. General Marshall urges three new peace steps: UN solidarity, aid for the poor, and spiritual renewal. Stassen in Carbondale calls for a three point offensive against communism with tighter defenses and Asia outreach.
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Italian Reds join in Memorial Day Tribute to Yanks
In a wartime era memorial across Europe, Communist mayors of Anzio and Nettuno joined Americans and European peers in services honoring U S war dead. General Keyes urged unity against ideologies opposing liberty while Randolfo Pacciardi called graves our brothers. In London, American officials paid respects at Westminster Abbey and St Margarets Church as wartime scars remained.
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Acheson to address joint session on Cold War unity
Secretary of State Dean Acheson plans to speak to a rare joint session of Congress on Wednesday to argue that lasting peace rests on continued Western Allied military and economic cooperation rather than a bold peace bid to Russia. He will review London talks and the 12 nation pact council, urging united Western defense and closer teamwork.
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Czechs Charge Western Plot Against Czech Regime
Prague authorities accuse 19 Western officials and correspondents of planning to overthrow the Czech Communist government. Among those named are former ambassadors Laur ence A. Steinhardt, Sir John Pierson Dixon, and Maurice De Jean, with 13 Czechoslovak defendants to be tried.
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Storm Floods Hit Gladewater and Spurs Texas Coast
Severe weather from Port Arthur to New Orleans produced violent winds, hail and flooding. Port Arthur suburbs lost roofs and windows while New Orleans saw mooring lines broken and electrical outages. A fatality occurred near Greenville from a live wire. Flood concerns rose around Gladewater as Sabine River readings climbed.
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