Senate Increases Wage-Hour Minimum to Seventy-Five Cents
The Senate approved raising the Wage-Hour Act minimum from 40 to 75 cents an hour. The bill heads to a conference with the House to resolve differences. Senator Pepper notes about 1.5 million of 22 million covered workers earn less than 75 cents and cites $365 million annual wage-cost impact.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Pepper
D-Fla
House
Ellender
D-La
Audit Panel Shrinks State Education Staff
The joint legislative audit committee abolished the first assistant state superintendent and 18 deputy superintendents along with a supervisor and 10 other employees from Woods department, while some officials found new posts or moved to colleges and other institutions. Several deputies were reassigned or replaced as the Gilmer-Aikin reforms shift rural aid and education governance.
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Austin American Capitol
L. A. Woods
Joint Legislative Audit Committee
T. M. Trimble
Woods
J. C. McAdams
Marshall
General Education Board
J. F. Gibson
Tyler
Sulphur Springs
Harry W. Rice
Fort Worth
Texas Wesleyan College
Roy R. Kay
Stephenville
Baylor University
Corpus Christi
Stanley Clayton
Medina
Pearsall
Education
H. Boulter
Lubbock
Morris H. Jons
Amarilo
Clive Pierce
Abilene
C. C. Cook
Graham
Gill D McKay
Greenville
Alvin Welch
Mount Pleasant
J. Joe Humphress
San Angelo
P. V. Patrick
Lometa
P. L. Chisholm
Palestine
R. A. Shaw
Nacogdoches
W. T. Lofland
Austin
J. W. Brannen
Goose Creek
E. C. Deering
Beaumont
J. H. Bankston
Victoria
J. L. Beard
Gilmer-Aikin
Beard
Irving Schools
Dallas County
Council To OKeh Bond Issue Plan
The City Council will adopt an ordinance to issue 7.15 million dollars in revenue bonds for electric plant improvements water plant expansion and sewer plant enlargement The bonds dated Oct 1 mature in 10 years carry interest up to 3 percent and may be redeemed after Oct 1 1955 with a 2 percent premium The ordinance and bid basis will be sent to 300 banks bond buyers and financial institutions for the September 8 sale.
Austin Beats Pueblo In 15 Innings In National VFW Clash
Austin outlasted Pueblo 1-0 in 15 innings to win a national VFW tournament game. Other results include New York Giants defeating Pittsburgh 12-4, Chicago beating Washington 4-2, and Pancho Gonzales advancing in the national tennis tournament with a win over Straight Clark. Willie Turnesa won two matches defending his US amateur golf title at Rochester.
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Austin
Pueblo
Calif
Wichita
Kan
Toledo
Ohio
Bill Allen
University of Texas
New York
Giants
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Washington
Pancho Gonzales
Straight Clark
Willie Turnesa
Rochester
N. Y
Vaughan Denies Campaign Money as Payoff in Senate Probe
Senate investigators hear Major General Harry Vaughan admit campaign money from a pardon seeker but deny it was a payoff. FBI inquiry into Vaughan clarified as previously reported. McCarthy press questions focus on bribe rumors and Costello ties. Vaughan also retracts support for John Maragon for Greece mission amid cross-examination.
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Washington
Harry Vaughan
McCarthy
Rwis
FBI
Vaughan
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
William H. Neblett
Robert Gould
Cincinnati
Gould
Federal
Costello
William Helis
Helis
New Orleans
John Maragon
Maragon
Greece
White House
Squall blacks out part of Capital City in Texas storm
A freak squall with 50 mph winds blacked out northwest Austin for two and a half hours. Fifteen transformers blew, a 4,000 volt line was knocked out, and 30 electricians repaired the damage. Temperatures dropped from 93 to 81 as showers and a cold front moved in, with heavy storms reported across East and West Texas.
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Capital City
Austin
Weather Bureau
Texas
San Angelo
Sweetwater
Abilene
Henderson
Marshall
Brownsville
Harold Robinson
19Th
34Th Streets
Guadalupe
Lamar
12 Street
King
Brady Slaying Suspect Found To Be Only 17
Brady case shifts as Sandra Peterson, initially claimed 23, is proven a 17 year old juvenile. Birth certificate confirms age. murder trial postponed until 1949 when she turns 18. Coleman and San Angelo officials react to the revelation amid grand jury proceedings. Loretta Mozingo, 15, also detained. case involves Lewis Patterson’s death near Brady.
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Brady
Sharpely
Sandra Peterson
Texas
Ralph Logan
San Angelo
R. P. Haun
Coleman
Haun
35Th District Court
Sandra
Evans J. Adkins
Vanard Young
Lewis Patterson
Patterson
Loretta Fae Mozingo
Austin
Brownwood
Sophia Anargeros
Somerville, Mass
Sicilian Bandit Giuliano Warns of War in Open Letter
Salvatore Giuliano self styled Robin Hood issues 15 day ultimatum to Italian authorities in Palermo demanding an end to the police hunt and calls himself the Savior of Sicily. He threatens a real war if his terms are not met.
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Palermo
Sicily
INS
Salvatore Giuliano
Robin Hood
Giuliano
War scare subsides as Yugoslavia holds firm on UN talks
Belgrade Aug 31 Yugoslavia remains calm amid war scare chatter abroad. The Borba editorial accused Russia of forcing Yugoslavia into an unequal position and Tito may take the case to the UN Security Council. British and American officials voiced no confirmation of troop moves or a UN case.
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BELC
Yugoslavia
Yugooslavia
Russia
Borba
Marshal Tito
Ministry of Information
Balkans
Marshal ‘ Ito
United Nations Security Council
Tito
Eastern
Europe
Moscow
UN Security Council
Belgrade
Foreign Office
London
Yugslavia
West Berlin
Yugoslav
US Returns Red Pilot to Russia
A Soviet air force officer Lieutenant Anatole Barsov who deserted last year and sought to fight for the United States was handed back to Soviet authorities in Vienna. Barsov and his navigator Piotr Pirogov flew a bomber from Western Ukraine and landed near a US air base last Oct. 9. They were brought to the US in February, with the United States citing freedom of choice and honesty of information as reasons for the return. Pirogov said the Soviet embassy pressurized them with threats and bribes to go back.
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Vienna
United States
Anatole Barsov
State Department
Barsov
Piotr Pirogov
Ukraine
New York
Pirogov
Washington
Russia
A Decade of Blood and Ruin 10 Years After World War II
Ten years after Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland began World War II, the article recalls the war’s scale including 22,060,000 military and civilian deaths and $1.12 trillion in costs, notes Allied advances, and marks V-E Day on May 8, 1945 and Japan’s surrender on September 2.
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Associated Press
Germany
Poland
Marco Polo Bridge
Peipjing
Europe
Japan
Tokyo
Acheson Details Red Move Bluff and Tito Feud
Secretary of State Acheson said reports of Russian moves against Yugoslavia are a war of nerves aimed at Tito. He criticized Moscow’s detention of two American students in the Soviet zone of Germany and said Austria faces impossible treaty burdens. He noted President Truman urged India and Pakistan to accept UN peace terms on Kashmir.
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Britain
Yugoslavia
Security Council
Russia
Charles Peake
Ales Bebler
Washington
Acheson
Soviet Bloc
Marshal Tito
United States
Tito
Cominform
Germany
Moscow
Austria
Truman
India
Pakistan
United Nations Commission
Kashmir
Indonesia
Peter Sellers
Radnor
Warren Oelsner
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Korea
John Myun
White House
Food Plant Workers End Week-Old Strike
Sherman August 31. Workers at Mrs. Tucker's Foods returned to jobs without a contract after a week on strike. They are Oil Workers Union CIO members. Labor talks stalled over seniority rights in promotion as negotiations resume.
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Sherman
Mrs. Tucker’s Foods
Oil Workers Union, Cio
Communism Foes to Join UT Staff for 1949 50
Internationally known educators Dr. Arthur Prudden Coleman and Dr. Eduard Taborsky will join the University of Texas as visiting lecturers for Slavonic languages and government. Coleman resigned from Columbia over a Poland grant dispute and Taborsky returns after exile from Czechoslovakia. both bring extensive academic and wartime service records.
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University of Texas
Arthur Prudden Coleman
Columbia University
Poland
Eduard Taborsky
Coleman
Taborsky
University of Stockholm
Sweden
Seymour, Conn
Wesleyan
War Department General Staff
Columbia
Dr. Taborsky
Charles University
Czech Ministry For Foreign Affairs
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Germany, Dr. Taborsky
Great Britain
Eduard Benes
Cabaniss Furniture Expands by Purchasing Gage Firm
Cabaniss Furniture Company announced the purchase of neighboring Gage Furniture Company at 200 East Sixth Street. The stock and lease were acquired and both stores will operate under the Cabaniss name after remodeling. Cabaniss has operated in Austin since 1923 and incorporated in 1947 with Brown Furniture.
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Cabaniss Furniture Company
Gage Furniture Company
East Sixth Street
Gage Company
Bert. L. Cabaniss
Cabaniss Firm
Cabaniss
Gage
Austin
Atlantic Pact Ministers Move Toward Defense Council
Washington signals creation of North Atlantic Defense Council with first General Council session set for September 17 in Washington. Ministers aim to form a unified defense strategy and allocate over 1 billion dollars in American arms aid to Western Europe amid Moscow tensions as Korea pleads for rapid U.S. military aid.
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Washington
State Department
North Atlantic Defense Council
United States
Canada
Department
General Council
Hawaii Growth Boosts Case for Statehood Bid
Census Bureau estimates Hawaii’s population rose 26 percent since 1940, adding 109000 people to reach 533000 as of July 1 1948. The gain places Hawaii above eight states in 1940 population, strengthening arguments for statehood.
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Washington
Hawaii
Census Bureau
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