Failure to Stop and AId 39 Year Old Man Charged
A 39 year old Austin man Thomas Dryden Ellis of 619 East 53rd Street faces a failure to stop and render aid charge after a Monday night hit and run that injured Frank J. McLorton 54 of the Austin Hotel at Seventh and San Antonio. McLorton was treated at Brackenridge Hospital for a sprained back and listed as in good condition. Another pedestrian S L Baugh 46 7 Red River was struck near his home after disembarking a city bus at 46th and Red River. Baugh was treated at Brackenridge Hospital and listed as fair. Lt H W Heiling said Ellis confessed to police after an arrest Monday night. The case follows a second hit and run in Austin in as many days.
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Austin
H. W. Heiling
Thomas Dryden Ellis
East 53Rd Street
Travis Blakeslee
Frank J. McLorton
San Antonio
McLorten
Brackenridge Hospital
Lt. Heiling
Ellis
Heiling
S. L. Baugh
Red River
46Th
Baugh
Janice Proves New Thing in Baby-Sitters
Northwest Airlines officials reported on Tuesday that Janice Richmond a 15 year old from Minneapolis Minnesota was en route home from Fairbanks Alaska after delivering her two year old charge Sharon Lee Falk to her parents Sergeant and Mrs Ray L Falk. Janice left Minneapolis Sunday and had time for only a quick look at the territory before a hairpin turn and heading for home. The baby had been visiting relatives in Minneapolis until her parents could find adequate housing in Alaska.
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Seattle
Northwest Air Lines
Janice Richmond
Minneapolis
Minn
Fairbanks
Alaska
Sharon Lee Falk
Ray L. Falk
Janice
14 000 Forest Fires in US National Forests
The article notes about 14 000 fires occur annually in the United States national forests, highlighting the scale of wildfire activity across public woodland areas.
Western rail rate plans approved by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the Western Traffic Association rate making practices serving about 112 railroads west of the Mississippi, ruling the information exchange and rate conferring beneficial to the shipping public despite Justice Department objections under the Bulwinkle Act. The decision marks the ICC’s first use of the act passed over President Truman’s veto.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Railroads
Justice Department
Commission
Western Traffic Association
Mississippi River
ICC
Truman
Department
Quarrel in Pay Line Sparks Fatal Fight in Hollywood
In Hollywood on Monday 61 year old William Holmes died after a quarrel over who would be first to pay a gas bill. Albert Becker 47 a Columbia Movie Studio employee is jailed on suspicion of manslaughter. Becker rushed the gas company office pushed past Holmes who responded by shoving Becker. Becker struck Holmes fracturing his skull and leaving him unconscious.
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Hollywood
William Holmes
Albert Becker
Columbia Movie Studio
Becker
Holmes
Mother of 12 Released From Tennessee Jail
Estelle Carter Taylor, freed from prison after two years of a three year term for contractural larceny, plans a Texas visit to see her 12 children in Houston. She hopes to obtain a full pardon, create a girls’ shelter, and complete her autobiography in Nashville.
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Nashvile
Tenn
Estelle Carter Taylor
Texas
Taylor
Houston
Nashville
Truman Unveils Taft Hartley Repeal Promise at AFL Meeting
President Truman reaffirmed the push to repeal Taft Hartley stressing it remains unfinished business with a 1951 repeal likely if Democrats win key elections. Labor Secretary Tobin warned a new drive could hinge on recent race results in New York New Jersey and San Francisco. Green urged unions to resolve disputes internally avoiding injunctions while AFL backs Fair Deal programs and proclaims solidarity across labor groups.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Truman
American Federation of Labor
Maurice Tobin
Tobin
New York
New Jersey
San Francisco
Congress
Pres. Truman
AFL
CIO
Great-Grandson of Davy Crockett Dies in Texas
Robert Bell Crockett, 79, great-grandson of Davy Crockett, died in a Houston hospital from heart ailment complications. A Granbury native, he lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico as an engineer. Survived by wife Mary O. Crockett of Houston, son Preston Robert Crockett, and daughter Maralee Shanks of Waco. funeral set for Wednesday afternoon.
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Houston
Robert Bell Crockett
David Crockett
Granbury
Crockett
Texas
Oklahoma
Mexico
Mary O. Crockett
Preston Robert Crockett
Maralee Shanks
Waco
Two New Polio Victims In Hospital at Houston
Two new polio cases reported in Houston on Tuesday involve a 39-year-old Masont Park housewife and a 10-year-old girl from Algoa near Galveston. Both are confined to the city county hospital.
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Houston
Galveston County
City County Hospital
Mason Park
Algoa
Galveston
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Optometrist
AEE S
Philip Morris
Philip Morr
West Rails
Tennessee
Ment
William Green
Britain
Green
American Guild of Variety Artists
American Federation of Musicians
The
Actors Union
Musicians Union
Davy Crockett
Zale
America
St. Less Joseph
Willie Kocurek
Willie
San Jacinto
Keel Co
Ema Lal
Scooter
Dial
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