Pi Beta Phi Settlement School Sale and Tea Set
The Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club will host a Settlement School Sale and tea Wednesday from 3 to 6 p m at the shelter house 2300 San Antonio. Proceeds aid the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School for Gatlinburg Tennessee mountain children with student made crafts and community wares. Mrs Fred Sharp directs the sale with hosts Mesdames Schuyler Mills Jack Revell Horace Roberdeau Fred Scott Otis Gary Webb Walker and Melvin Martindale inviting alumnae and guests.
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Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club
Shepter House
San Antonio
Alumnee c
Pi Beta Phi
Gatlinburg
Tenn
Fred Sharp
Mesdames Schuyler Mills
Jack Revell
Horace Roberdeau
Fred Scott
Otis Gary
Webb Walker
Melvin Martindale
Birthday Dance for Local Marines at Austin Hotel
About 200 local Marines reserve members will celebrate the 173rd anniversary of the Marine Corps with a dance in the Maximilian Room at the Austin Hotel. Mayor Tom Miller and Austin's A Company 15th Infantry Battalion will attend. The event features a two-by-three foot cake, a 18 inch high cake, and a 200 pound weight. Joe Dacy will MC, with Harry Johnson's orchestra and Annette Duval Dance Studio providing entertainment. Thirty minutes of the party will be broadcast on KVET at 9 30 p.m. Reservists view the new 75000 Marine Armory as a timely gift.
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Maximilian
Austin
Tom Miller
15Th Infantry Battalion
Joe Dacy
Harry Johnson
Annette Duval
KVET
Marine
A Quarter Medicine For One Dollar
An old advertisement promotes Mertox as a quick remedy for rheumatism and related ailments. It claims to tone bowels, relieve gas and indigestion, aid kidney and bladder troubles, reduce night urination, fight dizziness, and build red blood. The tonic targets the whole family, contains no narcotics, and supposedly saves about $4 per quart when mixed with water.
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Mertex
Texas
Democracy Threats Outlined by Lochner at Hogg Auditorium
Pulitzer winner Louis P. Lochner warned Tuesday night that Germany remains a western threat if democracy fails, urging continued Allied oversight and peacetime reconstruction. He noted Germany’s shattered economy and the need to rebuild industry while preventing a Soviet-dominated future. The speech, sponsored by the Texas Union Forum, highlighted postwar de-Nazification and Europe’s path toward unity.
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Germany
Russia
Louis P. Lochner
Hogg Auditorium
Soviet Union
Lochner
Iowa
Indiana
United States
Texas Union Forum
Ray Greene
Daily Texan University
Associated Press
Berlin
Dulles Initiates 10 Minute Limit On UN Debate
Secretary of State Dulles imposes a ten minute cap on remarks in United Nations debates. The move aims to streamline discussions and accelerate proceedings amid stalled diplomacy.
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Dulles
UN Committee Approves Four Power Greek Resolution Provisions
The UN committee adjourned after approving major parts of a four power resolution on Greece. It plans further votes on Wednesday including UNSCOR reports and a Spaak proposal to return Greek children. Debates over Albania Bulgaria Yugoslavia and aid to guerrillas continued.
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Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Greece
UN Spec
Unscor
Alabama
Bebler
Spaak
Poland
Ralph Bunche
UN Palestine
Security Council
Palestine
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Assembly
Russia
Trygve Lie
Berlin
Obituary notices and funeral services from Texas communities
Obituaries list Mrs G B Kelley Mrs Caroline Ebner Fuchs William H Coor Alec A Reed Mrs Anna Elizabeth Walker George R Blackwell Jr Otto Lochte with funeral details burial sites and surviving relatives across Cedar Vale Burton Austin Bastrop Fredericksburg and LaBahia. Funeral times at Weed Corley Schaetter and local cemeteries are noted along with birth years and family connections.
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George R. Blackwell JR
George R. Blackwell
Stacey Lane
R. C. Burk
Austin
Willie Blackwell
Bastrop
Oakwood Cemetery
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Payments End After 8 Years
In Holyoke Massachusetts a hospital charwoman testified she paid Basil Keighley forty two year old woman paid fifty dollars a month for eight years to keep him from publicizing an alleged indiscretion from 1940. Keighley pleaded guilty to larceny and extortion and was held on eight thousand dollar bail for the superior court.
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Holyoke
Mass
Basil Keighley
Lillian Smith
Keighley
British Sailors To Split Prizes
British sailors from admirals to ordinary seamen will share a 4 million pound prize fund. The admiralty announced it is ready to begin distributing the cash earned from enemy vessels captured during the war.
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London
Admiralty
Weather Holds Up British Woman Flier
Unfavorable weather keeps Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait, a 24 year old British aviator, grounded at Shemya in the Aleutians for two days awaiting a scheduled round the world takeoff.
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Weather
Shemya
Alaska
Richard Morrow-Tait
Aleutians
US officers decline Russians 31st anniversary party
In Frankfurt on November 9, US Army officers disclosed they were ordered to reject invitations to the Soviet military mission party for the 31st anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Col. David Fowler said he was invited but advised to send regrets. Others declined to be named, citing official orders.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Russia
David Fowler
US Army
European Command
Women Expect Good Breaks From Demos
In dia Edwards, director of the women's division of the Democratic National Committee, predicted that women would get a pretty good break in Truman's reshuffle. She said at a news conference that at least three women could join the administration in roles just below cabinet rank, with a list of candidates to propose for consideration.
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Washington
India Edwards
Democratic National Committee
September gains in service and wholesale sales rise
The Commerce Department reports September sales of service and limited-function wholesalers at 6.301 billion dollars, up 200 million from August in line with normal seasonal patterns. Inventories rose to 6.502 billion, up 66 million from August, with machinery metals dealers and apparel trades showing declines of 2 to 4 percent.
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Washington
Commerce Department
New Rupture Truss Promises Easy Support
A Kansas City advertisement touts a discreet rupture truss that avoids belts and springs. The device claims comfort and ease, offering a 30 day trial and a $3.50 truss gift upon reporting results. Address Physician's Appliance Company, 188 Koch Bldg, 2006 Main, Kansas City Missouri.
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Koch
Main
Kansas City
Missouri
Officers Doubt Phantom Notes
In 1946 a shot killed Starks at his rural Texarkana home. Freeman and Tennison placed at Tennison's home the night of the shooting, while Tennison confessed to the act. Texas Public Safety Director Homer Garrison said prints may not match the phantom but Tennison remains a suspect. investigators have not closed the case.
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Texarkana
Freeman
Tennison
Starks
Austin
Homer Garrison
Texas Department of Public Safety
Garrison
Funeral services held for Lucille Frerich Taylor
Lucille Frerich Taylor aged 29 died recently and funeral rites were conducted at Golstrap Funeral Home and St. Mary's Catholic Church. Officials Rev Stephen Brown and Rev J J Polansky presided with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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Fuchs
LaBahia
Lucille Frerichs Taylor
Golstrap Funeral Home
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Lucille Frerich
Stephen Brown
J. J. Polansky
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Cookie Cutting Tips for Slice Cookies
A cook advises using a thin sharp knife to slice refrigerator cookies. Cut with a light sawing motion and avoid pressing hard to maintain the roll’s shape.
Three More Rabid Dogs Found in Austin Area
Three dogs tested positive for rabies in Austin, raising the two week total to six. The first was on 709 Cumming Street, the second near Lake Austin, and the third at 1121 12 Gunter Street. City health officer Dr. Ben M. Primer urged vaccination as rabies remains prevalent since mid July.
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State Health Department
Cumming
Lake Austin
Gunter Street
Ben M. Primer
Austin
US Steel Output Hits New Peak
New York report shows October domestic steel production at 7,973,416 net tons, surpassing wartime March 1944 peak by over 147,000 tons. Through ten months, output reached 72,960,936 tons, about 2.7 million tons above 1947 levels and within 3 percent of 1944’s all time high.
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New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
Chinese scramble for small houses in Peiping
Peiping Chinese wealth focuses on smaller homes as prices for compact dwellings rise beyond those for mansions. The shift appears aimed at unloading large houses amid urban housing pressures and investment trends.
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Peiping
China
Reverend E Bruce Banks Conducted Funeral
Carty Sr. 79, was held at the First Christian Church Tuesday with the Rev. E Bruce Banks officiating. Burial followed in Taylor City Cemetery.
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W. B. Pryatel
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Havels
Texas State Optical
Congress
Hill
Japan
Italy
Mussolini
Austria
Caroline Fuchs
Caroline Ebner Fuchs
Fayette
Washington Counties
Washington County
Round Top
Fayette County
Wilhelm Fuchs
Burton
Fred Dallmeyer
E. W. Story
Ewald J. Fuchs
W. L. Fuchs
William H. Cook
William H. Coor
Cook Funeral Home
W. B. Fitzgerald
Alec A. Reed
Alex A. Reed
Weed-Corley
Live Oak Cemetery
Anna E. Walker
Anna Elizabeth Walker
Clarence Easton
Otto Lochte
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Lockie
Meusebach Creek
Schaetter
Er Creek
O. Lindenberg
Holy Ghost Lutheran Church
Chester Lochte
Erwin Rusenberger
Chester Bonn
Alfred
Emil
New Orleans
Gain
Arthur J. McCarty SR. Taylor
Arthur John Mc
Dr. Pierce
Colorado
T.H. Davis
Frank Linden
W. S. Birdwell. JR
Martin Blomquist
Austin's
Thurlow
B. Weed
Jack Corley
Lavaco Ct
Eldon Powell
Florist
Dependable Service
Guadalupe
Lavaca
Wilke Funeral Home
Mutual
Mutual Savings Institution
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