Pro-US Quirino Leads but Foes Plan Court Test
President Elpidio Quirino led the Philippines elect layout with about 730k votes over Jose P. Laurel amid a high turnout surpassing 4 million. Laurel allies protest voting in five provinces and plan to seek Supreme Court action to halt certification. Casualties from Tuesday’s voting reported at 26 dead with injuries noted. Moro supporters in Mindanao alleged killings.
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Quirino
Manila
Elpidio Quirino
United States
Philippines
Republic
Jose P. Laurel
Jose Avelino
Laurel
Luzon
Mindanao
GOPers at Odds On Vote's Effect
Republicans clash over toll of New York setback and 1948 defeat as Harold Stassen calls for rebuilding the party while Dewey cautions that Dulles losses were a setback not a shift in national policy. Stassen urges reorganizing policies and bonds with volunteers to counter the Truman era.
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Associated Press
New York State
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
National Press Club
Washington
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dulles
Herbert H. Lehman
Dewey
Albany
N. Y
Stassen
Congress
Truman
Brooklyn
San Francisco
Lewis Ends Strike and US Steel Talks Open Bargaining
John L. Lewis ordered 380,000 soft coal miners to resume work through Nov 30 amid hopeful signs for industry. Steel firms, including Youngstown Sheet, Bethlehem, Jones and Laughlin, and Republic, sign wage and pension deals as US Steel seeks a bargaining session. About 500,000 steel workers idle, coal output to rise, and warning of a renewed strike if no agreement by Nov 30. Some regions begin cleanup and resumption, while fuel shortages and welfare fund contributions loom.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
CIO
United Steelworkers’ Union
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem
Jones and Laughlin
Republic
Interstate Commerce Commission
Randall Clay and Billy Pyle Named Co captains
Randall Clay and Billy Pyle are named co captains for the Texas TCU game this Saturday. Southwestern schedules a homecoming clash with Texas A I this Saturday. Light practices planned for Austins Maroons Thursday. Lockhart to play Yoakum Thursday not Friday. Longhorn Club planning new branches. Austin B team hosts San Antonio Tech Thursday night.
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Randall Clay
Billy Pyle
Texas Tcu
Southwestern
Texas A&i
Austin
Maroons
Lockhart
Yoakum
Longhorn
San Antonio Tech
Parole Denied for Life Term Convict Grandstaff
Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously refused to recommend freedom for Frank Grandstaff 47 a life term inmate and noted composer. He had traveled to Texas for a cantata presentation and planned Christmas visit to Indiana. He remains imprisoned under the Habitual Criminal Law after nine years and prior stints in five prisons.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frank Grandstaff
Indiana
Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles
Big Spring
Texas
Grandstaff
Decatur
Ind
Gordon Browning
Tennessee
Travis County Poll Tax Payments Resumed Under Heffington
Travis County Tax Collector Steve Heffington began taking poll tax payments after a constitutional amendment abolishing the tax failed. Voters favored the tax change in Travis County but not statewide. The public may pay $1.75 per person, with exemptions for seniors and certain disabilities, and forms will be mimeographed for distribution.
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Travis
New
Travis County
Steve Heffington
Heffington
Actress, Hubby Will Try Again
Hollywood story reports Bette Davis and her artist husband William Grant Sherry renewing vows in a trial reconciliation. Davis had filed divorce papers earlier and agreed to postpone further action to attempt to solve marital issues, with a psychos analysis condition noted.
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Hollywood
Bette Davis
William Grant Sherry
Miss Davis
Troops Called In To Halt Colombia President Ouster
President Mariano Ospina Perez declared a state of siege in Colombia and dissolved Congress. A curfew and ban on public meetings were imposed as troops entered Bogota. The upheaval followed a bitter liberal conservative election dispute with reports of clashes in Guaca.
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Colombia
Bogota
Mariano Ospina Perez
National Congress
Perez
Jose Vicente Davila Tello
Arthur V. Hyde, Taylor's First City Manager Dies
Arthur V. Hyde, 67, Taylor's first city manager, died Wednesday in an Austin hospital. Born at Rice's Crossing, he lived in Taylor 65 years and served from 1914 to the early 1930s. Surviving: sister Miss Grace Hyde and three brothers, Horace, Carroll, and Tommie Hyde. Funeral services pending.
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Taylor
Arthur V. Hyde
Austin
Hyde
Rice's Crossing
Here
Grace Hyde
Horace Hyde
Carroll Hyde
Tommie Hyde
Houston
Condra Funeral Home
Stork News on Train Delivers Baby Girl
A mother in labor flagged the Sunset Limited near Buckeye Arizona. Brakeman G A Falk served as midwife on board and delivered a six pound six ounce girl in a chair car. Both mother Mrs Ben Duncan and baby were later taken to St Monica's hospital in Phoenix in good condition.
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Buckeye
Ariz
Southern Pacific
Here
Ben Duncan
G. A. Falk
Tucson
Phoenix
St. Monica's Hospital
Shivers Plans Session After January Election
Governor Allan Shivers said a special Texas Legislature session will be called in January after the election results, to finance eleemosynary operations and building programs. He emphasized tax plans and surveys of mental hospitals as guiding factors for the session.
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Allan Shivers
Shivers
Beauford
M. Anderson Cancer Research
State University
Southwest Medical College
University of Texas At Dallas
Bolton Wins State Board Seat Amid Large Travis County Vote
Travis County voters favored nine of ten amendments and heavily backed Paul Bolton for the State Board, with 4,545 of 5,210 votes in the county. Weafer and Womack trailed, while rural fire districts and court term amendments led statewide support. County totals show 6,600 ballots across 61 of 66 precincts with remaining rural boxes awaited.
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Travis County
Paul Bolton
State Board of Education
Bolton
Eugene ©. Weafer
Caldwell
Burleson County
P. E. Womack
Austin
Civil Service
Burla
Austin School Board
Eugene Clyde Weafer
P. FE. Womack
Texas Voters Reject Annual Sessions and Jury Reforms
Texas voters decisively defeated proposals to increase lawmakers pay and require annual sessions. They also rejected women jurors and kept the poll tax. Counts from the special election show seven of ten amendments defeated, with lunacy trials and other measures failing or unclear, while several district races remained undecided late Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Texas
John Crosthwait
Dallas
Texas Election Bureau
Bureau
Texas Justice Harvey Undergoing Three Day Mayo Clinic Exam
Associate Justice R Hicks Harvey of the Texas Supreme Court began the first phase of a three day examination at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He recently underwent a major operation at a Texarkana hospital.
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Rochester, Minn
R. Hicks Harvey
Supreme Court of Texas
Mayo Clinic
Justice Harvey
Texarkana
Nokes Apparent Winner in Race For Senate Seat
Late returns show George Nokes of Corsicana leading Phil Willis 6411 to 5265 for the Sixth District state senate. James Sewell wins Nokes’s 58th District House seat with 1308 over Roark Montgomery 1223. Harold M. LaFont leads in the 120th District race with 1999 to 1160 for Tom Deen and 1121 for Joe Jennings.
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George Nokes
Corsicana
James E. Taylor
Texas Election Bureau
Nokes
Phil Willis
Kaufman
Taylor
James Sewell
University of Texas
House of Representatives
Roark Montgomer
Billy Ragan
Kenneth Douglas
Harold M. LaFont
Plainview
LaFont
Tom W. Deen
Floydada
Joe Jennings
Warmer Weather Expected Across the Plains
A tropical air mass lifted temperatures across the state with Wednesday reaching 82 degrees the warmest in a month. By Thursday and Friday highs were forecast to climb further into the upper 70s and 80s amid high humidity and unseasonably warm conditions. Local highs included Alice at 86 and Dalhart low at 41.
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Weather Bureau
Weatherman
Alice
Dalhart
Three Opposing Unions Challenge WCTU Leadership
Dissension brews within the Women's Christian Temperance Union as three rival unions back Corpus Christi candidates for state president and corresponding secretary at the Texas WCTU convention in Austin. The revolt seeks new leadership while Mrs. Watts and Mrs. Jensen defend the status quo.
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Johnnie Cresens
Women's Christian Temperance Union
WCTU
Austin
Wctu- Ers
Corpus Christi
Claude de van Watts
Thomas C. Jensen
Watts
Jensen
Frances C. Willard
Revolutionary Movement
C. E. Carter
Iota Sigma
Virginia D. Peck
Third Union
Capital Heights
Fort Worth
Dallas
San Antonio
Rebel Party
William Roscoe
J. W. Walker
Temperance
Nueces County
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Eulogio Rodriguez
Nacionalista Party
Commission On Elections
Liberal Party of
Occidental Negros
Senate
Quirino Laurel
Avelino
House
Republican Party
America
Alfred E. Driscoll
New Jersey
Brewster
Republican Campaign Committee
Lehman
Harold Stassen
US Steel
Loupiea
Hubby
Guaca
Stork
Raymond Brooks
Capitol Correspondent
The
Austin American
J. Blake Timmons
Amarillo
Clifton Davis
McKinney
Grad Hazlewood
Stewart Harris
Board of Education
Leon Coker
Naples
A. D. Moore
Beaumont
Thomas B. Ramey
Tyler
J. F. Kimball
Jack Hawkins
Groesbeck
Emerson Stone
Jacksonville
Jackson Binion
Leslie Huff
Waco
Cecil A. Morgan
R. B. Anderson
Vernon
Neal B. Marriott
Herman Rosch
el Paso
E. J. Woodward
Sweetwater
A. R. Bivins
W. §. Jackson
Ramey
Huff
Woodward
Paul Matthews
Greenville
Roby G. Baker
Sherman
Joe A. Wessendorff
Richmond
George Duncan
Alvin
Paul G. Greenwood
Harlingen
Lewis H. Moore
McAllen
E. H. Boulter
Lubbock
J. M. Rankin
Balls
George Morgan
San Angelo
John T. Rowntree
Lampasas
Gordon Griffin
Brownwood
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