US weddings decline in September as licenses fall
Government statistics show 57 195 marriage licenses issued in September in 72 cities with populations over 100 000, the 22nd straight year over year decline. The figure marks a 6.5 percent drop from a year earlier and a 10.9 percent fall from September 1946, with Birmingham and Indianapolis hit hardest.
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The
Public Health Service
the Health Service
Birmingham
Ala
Indianapolis
Ind
Last Day Movie Listings Across Austin Theatres
A condensed schedule of final showings at Paramount through Texas Austin and surrounding drive ins including Red Skelton in A Southern Yankee Jeanne Iliam Holden in Peeay and John Wayne Westerns Red River and Red River at several venues with multiple start times.
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Take Your Choice
Paramount
Red Skelton
Brain Donlevy
South Austin
Red River
John Wayne
Montopolis
Mao Tse-Tung Emerges as Central World Figure in 1948
Mao Tse-Tung commands a 3 million strong Communist army and leads a growing political bloc that could shape a coalition government in China. He balances Moscow and Washington, moving toward a potential Soviet satellite role while building a third force in global politics that attracts major powers. He may redefine world power by leveraging China’s wartime outcomes and the threat of a lasting peace between rival blocs.
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China
Mao Tse- Tung
Chinese Communist Party
Russia
America
Moscow
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tito
Senate probes to study inter service power fights
A Senate Armed Services Committee plan targets Army Navy Air Force clashes over strategic bombing and unification flaws. Expenditures panel expands probe into defense spending waste with bipartisan calls for a top to bottom inquiry in January.
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Navy
Air Force
Congress
George D. Aiken
Expenditures Committee
Herbert R. O’conor
Dmd
Senate
Hoover Commission
Harley Kilgore
D-W. Va
Armed
Falling Window Fatal To North Carolina Lad
An Oxford, North Carolina, boy, 13-year-old George Wallace Inscoe Jr., died after a window sash collapsed while he stood with his head inside a window. Reports say he fell from a barrel, dying of a broken neck. Police Chief J L Cash stated the sash caused the fatal injury.
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Oxford
N. C
George Wallace Inscoe Jr
George
Georges
J. L. Cash
Battle of Saipan: Marine Army Rivalry Exposed
Long secret Marine Corps records reveal that General Marshall warned of worsening Army Marine tensions during the Saipan battle. The papers detail disputes over General Howling Mad Smith’s removal and Lieutenant General Richardson’s role in the inquiry, plus interservice friction highlighted by Admiral King and Navy leaders.
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Marine Corps
George C. Marshall
Army
Saipan
Marshall
Terial
Ralph Smith
Holland M
Howling Mad) Smith
Robert C. Richardson
Central Pacific
Hawaii
Howling Mad Smith
Ernest J. King
Naval
Navy
King
Richardson
Holland M. Smith
Richmond K. Turner
Joint Expeditionary Force
Raymond A. Spruance
Fifth Fleet
Marine
Judee Taylor Injured in Car Wreck Here
William M. Taylor associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court was hospitalized after a two car collision at 12th and Rio Grande Street. Judee Taylor 72 of 1705 Enfield Road treated for injured ribs and to remain at Brackenridge Hospital several days. The crash involved two cars on West 12th Avenue with Tally B. Taylor 38 of 901 West Avenue driving the other vehicle. Taylor escaped injury. Both cars suffered heavy damage.
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Texas Supreme Court
12Th
Rio Grande Street
Judee Taylor
Enfield Road
Brackenridge Hospital
West 12Th
Judge Taylor
Tally B. Taylor
West Avenue
Taylor
Nationwide Hunt For Slayer Of Child
A nationwide search was ordered for a Cincinnati man suspected in the death of two year old Joseph Edward Nichols whose battered body was found in a dresser drawer in a St. Louis hotel room. The boy’s mother Betty Nichols identified the body at the city morgue and said that the man left Huntington with the child ten days earlier after agreeing to care for the boy while she visited her husband at a veterans hospital.
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ST. Louis
Cincinnati
Joseph Edward Nichols
City
Betty Nichols
Huntington
W. Va
Freight Train Derailed Near Independence Causing Heavy Damage
A Gulf, Mobile and Ohio freight train derailed near Independence on Sunday, derailing 32 of 73 cars. Damages are estimated in the several hundred thousand dollars with no injuries reported.
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Independence
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio
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