Givens Attacks North Austin Negro Housing Plan
Dr. Everett H. Givens condemns the St. John’s Regular Baptist Association plan for a 300 acre Negro housing development in North Austin as ill timed and poorly located. He warns that rushing the project could worsen race tensions while noting possible negotiation with Crescent Industries and the Federal Housing Authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friday
Austin
Givens
St. John’s Regular Baptist Association
A. K. Black
St. John’s Association
Lombard
North Austin
City Council
Board of Education
Baker Parent-Teacher Association
R. W. Byram
Byram
Parker
St. John’s
L. L. Campbell
17Th and
Chicon
Anderson High School
Federal Housing Authority
Eyes of Texas on Steers For Crucial Brain Tussle
University of Texas Longhorns, six point favorites, meet undefeated Baylor Bears at Memorial Stadium in a pivotal SWC showdown. Baylor aims to snap a 24 season title drought and challenge SMU and Rice for the championship. 57,000 are expected for the 2 pm kickoff. Baylor has outscored foes 158 to 46 in six games while Texas has 215 points for and 44 against in seven games. The article notes three Texas losses by nine points, including a late Rice field goal and a SMU defeat. Continued on page 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Lee
University of Texas Longhorns
Baylor Bears
Memorial Stadium
Longhorns
Bears
Waco Collegians
SMU Mustangs
Rice Owls
Owls
Alice Archer
Oklahoma
Sooners
SMU
Mustangs
Steers
Texas Tech
Arkansas
Baylor
Big Three Ministers Plan Paris Talks Early Next Week
Secretary of State Acheson will fly to Paris to meet Bevin and Schuman for a swift conference on German unity and Western European defense under the Atlantic Treaty. The plan follows Bevin’s concern that the Western three may drift apart on the Western German state and allied strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Washington
Acheson
Bevin
Britain
Schuman
France
State Department
United States
Thief Joins Cab Driver In Quick Cash Swap
In Pecos on a Friday night a gunman robbed cab driver George Banta taking $21. The thief returned and got $8 more from a shirt pocket, totaling $29. Banta aided police in pursuing the van used in the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
George Banta
Oklahoma Firm In Hot Oil Suit
The Oklahoma City firm Denver Producing and Refining is accused in a 53rd District Court filing by Attorney General Price Danel of hot oil violations. The action covers wells in the Wasson Pool Gaines and Yoakum Counties from 1938 to 1946, including water wells reported as oil producers and inflated gas-oil ratios. The state seeks penalties up to 1000 dollars per day and was assisted by Willis E. Gresham and Durward M. Goolsby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver Producing and Refining Company
Oklahoma City
Price Danel
Petiion
53Rd District Court
Wasson Pool
Gaines
Yoakum Counties
Railroad Commission
Willis E. Gresham
Durward M. Goolsby
Fair and Mild Prediction For Football Game
The forecast calls for fair weather and mild temperatures for the Texas yppi football game on Saturday. Expect game time in the upper 70s with a high near 80 degrees and a Sunday morning low around 50 as a cool spell lingers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Britain Warns Chiang Against Air Blockade Tactics
London reports Britain warned Nationalist China against using air attacks to enforce a blockade of Communist held Chinese seaports. The protest came Friday as tensions over air power and control of coastal trade intensified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
London
China
Defense Chief Reports New Infantry Fire Power Shock Foes
Defense Secretary Johnson showcased a massive increase in Army fire power at Fort Benning Georgia as he and the military high command observed weapons demos. The event underscored a potential offset to Soviet manpower advantage with superior American explosive tonnage. Admiral Forrest P Sherman attended as new Navy chief and discussed naval aviation and Operation 23's termination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Benning
Defense
Johnson
Russia
Europe
Fort Benning
Forrest P. Sherman
Sherman
Navy
Francis Matthews
Louis Denfeld
Pentagon
Arleigh Burke
Naval Operations
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air Force
Fortee
Czechs Reject US Protest Note On Espionage Case
Prague announced it rejected a US protest over the ouster of two American attaches and the jailing of an Embassy employee on espionage charges. Samuel Meryn, a Czech-born American, is held awaiting trial. his wife Slavica won a visiting right, while talks remain limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Czech Foreign Ministry
James K. Penfield
US State Department
Washington
Samuel Meryn
Ees
Meryn'sugoslav
Slavica
Maryn
Punctual Patrolman Foils Holdup Man
In New Orleans a gas station hold up was foiled when Patrolman Bill Mellor arrived on time. The robber George Simpson Jr. 27 was arrested after the officer and a fellow cop intervened as the suspect demanded cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Roland Bratzel
Bill Mellor
Mellor
George Simpson Jr
Former Iran Premier Wounded by Gunman
Former Premier Abdul Hussien Hazhir, now a court minister, was shot Friday after a religious ceremony at Sepahsalar Mosque in Tehran. Police detained suspect Hussien Immani as martial law was imposed and Hazhir was treated at a hospital with non life threatening injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theran
Iran
Abdul Hussien Hazhir
Hazhir
Hussien Immani
Sepahsalar
Band Day Dads Day Set for Texas Stadium Parade
Austin hosts a two day event with Baylor fans arriving for a Band Day parade down Congress Avenue and a Dads Association meeting. 80 bands totaling 5422 musicians lead the morning procession as University fathers register at the Texas Union then attend meals meetings and a major program before the game at Memorial Stadium. Traffic officers plan careful crowd control and routes to minimize congestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
University of Texas
Baylor Bear
Austin Hotel
Congress Avenue
Third Street
Capitol Grounds
Austin Force
Warren W. Blackman
Central
South Texas
Austin High Maroons
Texas
Texas Union
Union Building
Memorial Stadium
Dads’ Association
George FE. Hart
Longhorn
Ching to Hold Talks With Coal Mine Owners Next Week
Federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching met with John L. Lewis for two hours and called Southern mine owners to Washington on Monday to press section by section talks aimed at ending the 47 day coal strike. Lewis declined to comment. US steel talks show little sign of settlement as Ford reports near full November production. Chrysler halts Dodge DeSoto and Chrysler output affecting about 35,000 workers. President Truman faces possible Taft Hartley court action amid congressional pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cyrus S. Ching
John L. Lewis
Southern
Ching
Lewis
Statler
Steel
Illinois
Indiana
Ilinois
Chicago
Philip Murray
CIO United Steelworkers
US Steel
CIO
Ford
Chrysler Corporation
Dodge
DeSoto
Chrysler
White House
Truman
Truman Silent on Steel and Coal Strikes After Minnesota Trip
President Truman returned to Washington from a bipartisan speech in Minnesota still silent on administration moves in the coal and steel strikes. While privately his aides indicated a Taft Hartley Act decision could come soon, he planned a White House staff meeting and a radio address to New York voters supporting Lehman and O'Dwyer for Senate and mayoral reelection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Minnesota
Union Station
St. Paul
Minn
Congress
White House
Voters of
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Senate
William O'Dwyer
CIO Ousts Commie in Convention Vote
In Cleveland the CIO ousted one admitted Communist from its executive board and refused seats to nine left wing leaders under a new non Communist amendment. Philip Murray and other right wing officers were reelected by acclamation as the CIO convention closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
CIO
Actinnan
Yuccumvncu
Philip Murray
Ben Gold
Fur and Leather Workers
Communist Party
Albert J. Fitzgerald
United Electrical Workers
Joseph A. Beirne
Communications Workers of America
Gold
Murray
Brother
Bridges
James B. Carey
UN panel urges Albania and Bulgaria to halt support to Greek guerrillas
The UN Assembly political committee urged Albania and Bulgaria to cease aiding Greek guerrillas fighting Greece and called on all Balkans states to cooperate with UNSCOR. The vote was 38 to 6 with Yugoslavia abstaining. Russia and Poland boycott UNSCOR. Extension of UNSCOR was approved for another year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Poland
General Assembly
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Tito
Stalin
Albania
Bulgaria
India
Israel
Unscor
Greece
Bulgeria
US tightens controls on strategic goods to block Russian exports
Washington reports new Commerce Department licenses required to ship a broad list of strategic items to any destination except Canada. The rule aims to prevent reexport to the Soviet bloc via China or other routes and allows pre shipment screening to block shipments deemed aiding Russia or its allies. The measure covers industrial items seen as aiding Russia's war potential and echoes prior bans since 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Russia
China
Commerce Department
Canada
Commerce Cement
Car Wreck Kills Fort Worth Man
A Fort Worth dental technician Benjamin David Platt 84 died en route to Blanco Hospital after a late model car overturned near Blanco on US Friday afternoon. Dr Bert C Ball 51 of Fort Worth, a passenger, was not seriously injured. State Patrolmen said they were returning from a coast fishing trip. the vehicle was a total loss and no other car was involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanco
Fort Worth
Benjamin David Platt
Blanco’s
C. C. Williams
E. J. Wimberley
Bert C. Ball
Williams
MP Freight Derailed At Switch Near Laredo
Missouri Pacific freight train derailed at Callaghan Switch about 25 miles north of Laredo on early Friday. No injuries reported. several cars off track and a wrecker crew en route to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Missouri Pacific
Callaghan Switch
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dr. Givens Raps
Everett H. Givens
City Board of Education
Crescent Industries
Russell Lombard
Bill Parker
City Plan
City Plan Commission
Eyes of Texas
South Carolina
Mississippi State
Texas A&m
TCU
Temple
Idaho
Rice
Vishinsky
Michael J. McDermott
Germany
Thief
University of California At Berkeley
Yukawa
Giauque
Defense Chief
Blackman
Sangle
Bethlehem
Canton
Columbus
Zanesville
Mount Vernon
Wooster
Ohio
Ford Motor Company
Lincoln
House
Taft- Hartley
Fred Hartley
R-Nj
Butler
R-Neb
Mundt
R-S.d
Gwinn
Commie
Harry Bridges
Abram Flaxer
United Public Workers
Donald Henderson
The
Food and Tobacco Workers
James E. Durkin
United Office and Professional Workers
Joseph Selly
American Communications Association
Morris Pizer
United Furniture Workers
Joseph Jurich
Fishermen's Union
John Clark
Hugh Bryson
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Latin America
Switch
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!