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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1949
Page
1
Former zoology professor Dr. E. J. Lund said he will fight his dismissal from the University of Texas faculty. He declared the case a matter Texas should look into and vowed a fight to the finish.
In Houston Harold F. Stassen urged that federal aid to education be available only to Southern states and that the South needs a major national investment to lift its educational resources. He spoke at the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools urging reevaluation of federal funds for all districts. He forecast future funding levels may rise with local and state support.
Paris dispatch reports US Britain and France chiefs of staff coordinating a unified defense plan for the North Atlantic Pact nations from the Norwegian Arctic to the Aegean. General Handy to head European arms aid. Johnson says US forces in Germany ready. meeting awaits political approval.
Mrs. J. Anderson Fitzgerald wife of the University of Texas business administration dean died at home from a heart attack. Responding fire department inhalator and a doctor failed to revive her. Funeral arrangements are pending at Cook Funeral Home. She was born in 1892 in Wheelock Texas and raised in Hearne later attending Mary Hardin Baylor College Baylor Female College the University of Texas and University of Chicago. She married Dean Fitzgerald in 1946. Survivors include her husband a son Silas James Alexander and two daughters Mrs T. Thomas and Mrs A. M. Reynolds.
American delegates push for a new anti Communist World Federation of Trade Unions open to all free labor groups. AFL and CIO representatives urge inclusive invitations while excluding only communists, aiming to unite rival labor factions without becoming an exclusive club.
Austin posted 89 degrees on Monday the warmest late in November in city history. Other Texas locales such as Corpus Christi San Antonio and Dallas reported historic November highs while rainfall remained at a mere .01 inch for the month. The Weather Bureau forecast cooler temps midweek and warned the drought is stressing oats rye wheat and pasture lands across Central Texas.
Texarkana Texas November 28 Eddie Wright a 24 year old engineer was stabbed when a steel cabinet cover fell and struck a pencil in his breast pocket driving the pencil about two inches into his left side. He was expected to leave the hospital later Monday.
The State Department will file a strong protest to the Nationalist government over the shelling of the cargo ship Sir John Franklin near Shanghai at the Yangtse mouth. The vessel was hit 12 times in an hour long barrage but all aboard escaped injury. The incident marked a second attack in two weeks after the Flying Cloud.
Louis A. DeVinney, 42, of Fort Worth, died at Brackenridge Hospital after a self inflicted gun discharge while crossing a fence along Fredericksburg Highway seven miles south of Austin. A 13 year old girl, Joan Dykes, saw him along the roadside after 3:30 p.m. He had left the Allred farm home near 3:15 p.m. The gun lay beside him, one shot fired. DeVinney had been staying at the Austin Hotel. his body likely to be sent to Fort Worth for funeral services.
Blair Cherry leads three Texas seniors in the Blue Gray game on December 31 as head coach of the South squad. Maryland and Missouri accept Gator Bowl bids to round out major post season matchups. Williamson places Texas at 20th in final ratings with Lometa and Granger set for a top Centex clash Saturday.
Mayor Taylor proclaims December 7 as Democracy Beats Communism Day at the request of the American Legion. The nine state anniversary honors Pearl Harbor and urges Legion posts and members nationwide to back the movement for a close appraisal of democratic government advantages.
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that an engineering plan for an experimental breeder capable of producing atomic material has been completed. Dr. Lawrence Hefstad hailed it as a major peacetime step, with aims to power ships and generate electric power while breeding more material.
Austin will receive a new combined post office and federal building with 142000 square feet. The project totals 6.2 million dollars with construction to await congressional appropriation while site selection and planning proceed in coming weeks.
John Schumaker a self described former Communist testified at the Harry Bridges perjury trial in San Francisco. He said he delivered a Communist Party membership application to Sam Carey and that Bridges paid party dues to multiple secretaries. He testified Bridges solicited membership and attended party meetings with Schmidt. He identified Darcy as directing the 1934 general strike with Bridges present and claimed orders passed through him to Bridges.
An attorney for Helen Campbell told jurors she acted under compulsion from Representative J Parnell Thomas in the padding of his office pay roll during 1940 to 1945. He alleged Campbell tipped off the Justice Department and that her niece Myra Midkiff and maid Annette Minor were on Thomas payroll but did no work. Campbell plans to testify. The jury was selected for the Thomas case and his former secretary.
President Truman arrived in Key West Florida on a three hour flight from Washington to open a temporary White House at the naval submarine station. He bet his daughter Margaret the Boca Chica line would be 80 degrees. it was about 71.
Dallas district attorney announced the death penalty would be sought for Fred Felix Adair known as the Love Burglar. He is charged with rape and burglary after confessing then recanting, identified by at least five victims, with more than a dozen homes broken into last summer.
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