Hibokhibok Volcano Eruption Ends After 84 Dead
The Hibokhibok eruption subsided on Sunday after three days of ash and fiery boulders devastating Camiguin Island. Deaths range from 65 to 84 with 19 missing. evacuation of over 30,000 residents was halted as authorities assess the scorched landscape and hospitals report critically ill patients.
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Hibokhibok
Camiguin Island
Philippines Red Cross
Camiguin
Mindanao
Bohol
Philippines
Excess Profits Tax Action Aims at Swift Bill Passage
Washington report notes a conference committee pledge to advance a retroactive excess profits tax bill totaling about 4.5 billion dollars. The plan envisions Oct 1 or July 1, 1950 effective dates, with wage tax withholdings rising to 18 percent and corporate rates climbing to 45 percent for half of 1950. The move could hasten final passage before or after the November elections.
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Congress
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Connally
D-Texas
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Cadet and Instructor Die in San Antonio Plane Crash
A Randolph Air Force Base instructor and a French aviation cadet were killed when their T6 trainer crashed while circling for a landing at Zuehl Auxiliary Field, about 15 miles west of San Antonio. A witness said the plane appeared to go out of control several hundred feet above ground as it fell. Names of the victims were not released.
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San Antonio
Randolph Air Force Base
Zuehl
Here
J. B. Gonzales
San Antoniio
Randolph
France
Motorcycle Collide Kills Two Near Marshall on Highway 60
Sept 17 report says W. T Kruse and Jackie Calhoun Butler, both of Greggton, were killed when their motorcycle hit a car driven by Otto Adams as he pulled onto Highway 60 ten miles east of Marshall. Butler, 27, headed Standard Tool and Engineering Greggton. Kruse was a student. Adams escaped injury.
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Marshall
W. T Kruse
Jackie Calhoun Butler
Greggton
Butler
Standard Tool and Engineering Company
Kruse
Otto Adams
Harrison County
Adams
Typhoon Word Origins Traced to Arabic Tufan
The National Geographic Society notes a possible linguistic ancestor for typhoon in the Arabic word tufan meaning tempest. The explanation links maritime Asia and the storm’s naming history to classical language roots.
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The
National Geographic Society
Mrs F Overcomes Long Term Sciatica To Return To Work
A 62 year old woman crippled by six months of Sciatica quits her job but soon returns to work after treatment and recovers completely.
Bahamas' Governor Sir George Sanford Dies at 57
Sir George Ritchie Sanford, governor of the Bahamas, died of a heart attack at 57. Found by Lady Sanford in his Nassau home, he had served since February after a long Colonial Service career beginning in 1915 in East Africa. Funeral plans were announced for Christ Church Cathedral.
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Bahamas
George Ritchie Sanford
British Colonial Service
Lady Sanford
Florida
Colonial Service
East African Protectorate
East Africa High Commission
Christ Church Cathedral
Spence Burton
St. Matthews Church Yard
Sir George
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield Simpson
US Lifts Export Limits on Mexican Cotton Stored in Brownsville
Deputy customs chief Hugh T. Wood said Washington lifted export restrictions on about 200000 bales of Mexican cotton held in Brownsville warehouses. The move allows export until further notice, after a week of US licensing controls aimed at keeping cotton from unfriendly nations.
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Brownsville
Hugh T. Wood
US Customs
Wood
Washington
Jolson Sings For Korea Gladdens Troops
US Eighth Army reports Al Jolson the 62 years young entertained troops in Korea on Sunday. He met Lt Gen Walton H. Walker and planned three shows for the day with further visits to Air Force units and the 25th Division.
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Eighth Army
Korea
al Jolson
Jolson
Walton H. Walker
Walker
Air Force
25Th Division
First Corps
Japan
Hughes Tool Company Employees Vote Strike
The Independent Metal Workers Union representing about 4,000 Hughes Tool Company workers voted Sunday to strike unless a 15 cent hourly wage increase is granted. Union president T. B. Everitt said a National Labor Relations Board supervisor will set the strike vote, while company officials were unavailable for comment. Everitt called the offered 8 cent raise inadequate.
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Houston
Independent Metal Workers Union
Hughes Tool Company
T. B. Everitt
National Labor Relations Board
Everitt
French Carrier Dixmude to Load Planes in San Francisco
The French carrier Dixmude, 8200 tons, will dock at Alameda Naval Air Station Monday for three to four days to load aircraft for Indo China. The Navy did not specify aircraft types but noted previous aid shipments included Hellcats and Hell Divers.
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San Francisco Bay
Navy
Alameda Naval Air Station
Acheson Seeks UN Defenses Against Aggression
Secretary of State Acheson plans three proposals for the United Nations General Assembly to counter Communist aggression. He would earmark forces under UN direction, reform UN rules for rapid action, and create a flying observer team to report start of conflicts neutrally.
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New York
Dean Acheson
United Nations General Assembly
Free World
North Atlantic Council
General Assembly
Acheson
Security Council
Assembly
United Nations
Washington
Korea
Russia
Council
United States
India
Atlantic Council
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Germany
France
Local Obituaries Chronicle Multiple Tragedies In Austin Area
Obituaries from Travis and Williamson counties honor Dora Thomas Jones 62 Ben Jones Austin Bascom H Caldwell 74 Webberville Lodge pallbearers list Evelyn Adelaide Stelfox 93 J H Stelfox California and Austin relations Frank Orsag Joe Zapalac Fannie Montgomery Wiley Kauffman 72 Liberty Hill six daughters four sons Mary Vogler 77 Georgetown Emma Green 75 and other residents. Services at Weed-Corley Memorial Park Capital Memorial Oakwood Walburg and Georgetown cemeteries with local funeral homes supervising.
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Bascom H. Caldwell
Tarrytown Methodist Church
Ted Richardson
Edmund Heinsohn
Austin Memorial Park
Weed-Corley Funeral Home
Webberville Lodge No
Larry Crooke
Tom F. Caldwell
Ed McClimmons
Robert A. Sherman
F. I. Poole
Austin
E. M. Grimes
Taylor
Evelyn Adelaide Stelfox
Hal Dieson
J. H. Stelfox
California
Ted Dieson
Allen Truitt Mobley
Bobby Leach
Oakwood Cemetery
Willie-Donnelly
Georgetown
Wiley Eugene Kauffman
Liberty Hill
Liberty Hill Cemetery
Milton Pogue
Davis Funeral Home
Fred Rousaseau
James Morgan
Don Ross
O. O. Speed
H. M. Means
Mary Vogler
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Walburg
E. H. Engel
Milton Bulgerin
Paul Lehman
Alfred Miller
Henry Richter
Ervin Vogler
Ben Vogler
Martin Vogler
Emma Green
Williamson County
Paul Stevens
Oxley
Ark
Paul Isby
Ray Southworth
Corbit Graham
Marble Falls
Dowin Stepp
Burnet
Mile Keener
Alvin
Dee Gren
Leonius Green
Truman Green
Drowning of Oklahoma man in Dallas gravel pit
Charles Ray age 21 from McAlester Oklahoma drowned in a gravel pit south of Dallas while attempting to swim to a small island. He was employed by Pryor Products Company.
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Dallas
Charles Ray
McAlester
Okla
Here
Pryor Products Company
MacArthur Ships Desks To Show Surety of Victory
At Inchon on Sept 15 General MacArthur projects bold success in the amphibious assault. A landing ship carries furniture for his office and quarters presumably in Seoul, signaling strong confidence among American and South Korean troops and staff.
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Inchon
Seoul
Korea
Manchuria
North Korea
Japan
Pusan
New Electronic Discovery for Deaf Revealed
Chicago will publish details of a new electronic hearing restoration method promoted by Sam Posen of Beltone. He claims this invention can recover hearing even in severe loss without in-ear devices and offers a free booklet by mail to interested readers.
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Chicago, Ill
United States
Sam Posen
Beltone Hearing Aid Company
Chi
Cago
Posen
West
19Th Street
Beltone Building
Chicago
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