Bricker Amendment Faces Senate Clash In Debates
Washington dispatch reports a heated start to the Bricker Amendment fight as Senator Wiley and Bricker clash over a two thirds vote and presidential treaty powers. Eisenhower opposes the measure amid fierce Senate debate on defense policy taxes and labor issues signaling a broad constitutional confrontation ahead.
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Washington
Jatt
Senate
Alexander Wiley
Rwis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Bricker
Witey
John W., Bricker
Ohio
Eisenhower
Congress
Coast Guard battles blaze near oil tanks on pier
World news briefs report a Coast Guard crew purging suspected chemicals on a burning pier at Standard Oil Co in Richmond Beach Washington as a major fire endangers large oil tanks but comes under control. Molotov arrives in Berlin for talks and presses admission of Communist China to discussions. Illinois Supreme Court to hear William Heirens appeal for new trial in Degnan case and two women murders.
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Richmond Beach
Wash
R— Coast. Guard
Standard “Ou Co
Berlin
Vyacheslav. M. Molotov
China
Springfield
William G. Heirens
Ilinois Supreme Court
Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Baytown Edges Toward Warmer Weather After Cold Snap
Baytown began warming up Saturday after two of the coldest days this season with readings rising only to 3. Forecasters noted a break in the grip of the cold wave and predicted further warmth for Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Friday saw lows near 21 and a high of 37 with no precipitation in Baytown though other parts of Texas reported sleet and freezing rain elsewhere.
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Baytown
Childress
Prestiio
Marfa
Texas
Local events and city projects set for Saturday night and Monday meeting
Sun Spots LWO centers the Quack Shack and Yeon Canteen will open Saturday night. The Jaycees sponsor the Quack Shack opening at 7 pm and Teen Can at 7 30 pm in the School gym with Horace Mann Parents club backing at 7:30 pm. Dr A A Draeger head of Baytown Refinery R and D will speak at the City of Baytown department heads meeting Monday 9 am at City Hall. A city crew laid an eight inch water line across Goose Creek to improve fire protection and water pressure for Busch Terrace and Rio Vista. rest of line and fire plugs already installed.
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Quack Shack
Yeon
Jaycees
Horace Mann Parents Club
A. A. Draeger
Baytown
City of
Around Town Notes and Local Snippets
Tommy Seale finds kinship with Doctor Wayne McCleskey while Pvt John W Thomas enjoys a long leave from Fort Bliss at his parents home Mr and Mrs E A White. Eugene Tipton visits for a week and Carl Trenckmann fears lost customers from early Saturday calls.
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Tommy Seale
Wayne McCleskey
John W. Thomas
Fort Bliss
E. A. White
W. T. Jones Sr
W. A. Traylor
J. M. Meadows
Eugene Tipton
Paul Anderson
Allen Rice
Helen Read
Gene
Johnella Boynton
Commerce
Carl Trenckmann
Two US Army Divisions to Leave Korea for Home
Gen Maxwell Taylor announced that the 45th Infantry Division from Oklahoma and the 40th from California National Guard will be withdrawn from Korea. The 45th may depart between February 15 and March 15, with the 40th expected to follow later. Rotation rules mean some personnel will stay in Korea in other units.
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Seoul
Korea
Maxwell Taylor
U. S. Eighth Army
United States
Taylor
Oklahoma National Guard
California National Guard
Oklahoma
Washington
Eisenhower
40Th
45Th
National Guard
California
Camp Cooke
Calif
Camp Polk
Turncoat GI Prisoner Faces Court Martial
Cpl Edward S Dickenson a Korean War prisoner who changed sides faces possible Army court martial for allegedly cooperating with the enemy and seeking favorable treatment. He is held at Walter Reed Hospital after a brief return to the United States and a public reunion with his wife.
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Washington
Edward S. Dickenson
Reds
Cracker's Neck
Vaet
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Dickenson
Korea
Groom Balked At TV Wedding Faces Mental Exam
NEW YORK January 23 authorities sent Sigmund Welt for psychiatric evaluation after he balked at a televised wedding to Josephine Buono over honeymoon plans. Magistrate Mathew Fagin ordered the prospective groom to Kings County Hospital for a mental checkup amid a court review of the incident.
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New York
Mathew Fagin
Sigmund Welt
Kings County Hospital
Welt
Josephine Buono
Brooklyn
Princeson
N. J
Princeton
New Jersey
West
Florida
California
Jersey
West Sala
Buono
Josephine
Ex Clown Plans Dimes Show In Baytown
Clinton Floyd Kecher, once a Barnum clown named Bobo, offers three benefit shows for the March of Dimes at Riverview Inn near Four Corners on Crosby Lynchburg Road. He trains dogs for law officers and dreams of a bull frog troupe, saying he does not profit from the event.
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Baytown
Clinton Floyd Kecher
P. T. Barnum
Barnum
Bobo
Kocher
Riverview Inn
Four Corners
Crosby - Lynchburg Road
Hutchinson
Kan
Boy Scouts
Kansas
Roy Montgomery
Paul Anderson
Court Martial No Surprise Says Ex-PW
In Tokyo on January 23 Cpl Glaudw Batchelor said the Army’s decision to court martial Cpl Edward Dickenson did not surprise him. Batchelor, from Kermit Texas, recounted Dickenson’s fear and his own late return from the pro Communist compound after the Come Home program ended. Army HQ in Tokyo said no plans to prosecute Batchelor.
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Cpl
Claude J. Batchelor
Kerutit
Tox
Dickenson
Tokyo
Glaudw Batchelor
Acmy
Miartial
Edward Dickenson
Horh
Batchelor
Army
Bachelor
Credit Union Picks Pfennig For President In Humble
Pfennig to head Humble Employes Federal Credit Union for the coming year after a meeting at Baytown Community House attended by about 40 members. New officers include E. H. Oliver vice president John W. Sylvester treasurer T J Pruck assistant treasurer and John T Henderson clerk. Also approved a 4 percent dividend based on 1953 earnings for stockholders. The credit union has about 3 000 members with Pfennig and several others re-elected to seats. new directors Henderson Knox and BarSalou Jr join the board. Weldon H. Williams re elected to the credit committee and G Sarver named to the supervisory committee.
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R. S. Pfennig
Employes Federal Credit Union
Pfennig
Baytown
E. H. Oliver
John W. Sylvester
T. J. Pruck
John T. Henderson
Credit Union
Sylvester
R. W. Pipkin
W. F. White
J. C. Alspaugh
E. H. Busby
J. S. Keating
Henderson
A. R. Knox
J. B. Barsalou Jr
Weldon H. Williams
G. #. Sarver
Market owner police nab burglar in store
Nationalists welcome PWs as big heroes in Formosa while seven U.S. transport planes bring 145 sick and wounded former Red Chinese POWs from Korea to Taipeh. Crowds cheer as prisoners arrive. 38 litter cases and 14 tuberculosis cases aboard. Remaining 14,000 freed soldiers to be moved to Formosa on American LSTs. Arrival signals heightened anti-Mao sentiment and impending U.S. troop movements.
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Taipeh
Formosa
U. S
Korea
Chiang Kai-Shek
Aland-Bastion
Chen
Cheng
China
Chiang
Little Honey Suspect in Isle Moor Cafe Shooting
Fragmented report describes a figure nicknamed Little Honey involved in a shooting at Isle Moor Cafe on Old Man Street around 8 90 pm. Police later link other incidents to the same suspect in Oak Addition and at Mabel's Place, with conflicting accounts and no arrest at press time.
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Little Honey
Polies
Isle Moor
Old Man
Herbie Greeman
Gt Fioiin Palmer
Mosella Hunt
Oak Addition
Roberta Allows Singer
Roberto
Mabel
Main
Honey
Acey Johnson
Jett
Miners reject Texas plea to bolt union in El Paso
In El Paso on January 23, two Mine Mill and Smelter Workers locals declined Texas Attorney General Jon Ben Sheppard’s urge to leave the Mine-Mill international. Local leaders questioned the AG’s union records and wage history while noting a local vote to sever ties.
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EL Paso
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (Inc
Texas
Jon Ben Shepperd
International Union
Shepperd
The
International
Mms8w
Mine-Mih
Jose S. Cordero
Gonzalo R. Rodriguez
el Paso Cement
Interna
E S Lyne Rites Set for La Porte Man at 2:50 pm
Funeral services are set for Eugene S Lyne 59 of La Porte at St John s Episcopal Church with Rev Cobhatt Stain officiating. Burial will follow at Seabrook Cemetery. Lyne died of a heart attack Friday morning while driving on South Broadway Street. Survived by widow Patline Lyne of La Porte, daughter Mrs J K Inglehart of Navasota, son M S B S Lyne Jr in the U S Marine Corps, three brothers and two sisters including WL Lyne Vampion Mex Jon A Lyne Robert Lyne Garl Bellamy and Henry S Moore).
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Lyne
la Porte
St. John's Episcopal Church
Cobhatt
Seabrook Cemetery
Art Simpson
South Broadway Street
Patline Lyne
J. K. Inglehart
Navasota
M-Sat. B.S. Lyne, Jr
U. S. Marine Corps
WL. Lyne
Vampion
Mex
Jon A. Lyne
Robert Lyne
Houston
Garl Bellamy
Henry 8. Moore
Dies Lands Own Record
Washington January 23 UP Martin Dies of Texas said the House Un American Activities committee investigated and exposed 95 percent of the Communists in the United States while he headed it. He recalled leading fascists and warned that current anti communism could create dangerous conditions by repeating past methods.
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Washington
Martin Dies
Td Tex
House Un-Americal Activities Committee
United States
Dies
Drew Pears
Congressional
Fagaist
Willan Dudley Pellay
George Deatheridae
Fritz Kuhn
James Wheeler Hill
Widow Too Busy To Claim 1946 Highway Bond Debt
Mrs Edith R Phillips, widow of Frank Phillips head of Washburn Wire Co, refuses to cash $27 647 50 in Allegheny County highway bonds due 1946. She says she is too occupied settling her late husband’s multi million dollar estate and with government affairs. County officials urged action since 1948 to close the account. The Providence sighting notes she lives in a fashionable hotel suite while Pittsburgh and other places await settlement.
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Providence
R. J
Pittsburgh
Edith R. Phillips
Allegheny County
Phillips
James W. Knox
Ex-convict admits to multiple thefts in Baytown burglaries
Charles Tooke, 83, an African American ex convict, confessed to ransacking offices cafes and groceries around Baytown since Christmas Eve including Glenn's Market and three other stores. He said he lived at 1243 Cherry and had served time for burglary, released in September.
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Shout's
A.m
Earl
Glenn
Glenn's Market
Christman
H. 1. McKee
Charles Toohe
Baytown
Cleve Dickeng
Frank, Yeager
Broweries
Mcitce
Rebel Inn
Tooke
Cherry
Glean's
McKee
Our Home No Target Range Says Woman
The Endertt family near McKinney Road reports a 22 cal bullet crashed through a south window, tore a hole in a venetian blind, and landed in the living room. A. Fawerl narrowly escaped the bullet while reading a newspaper. Mrs Endertt says they fear another shot could hurt someone.
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Endertt
McKinney Road
M. Endertt
Basketball Tourney Finals Tonight at Lee and Ler High gyms
Texas City faces winner of Woodland Acres or South Homa ton in the Invitation Junior High tournament semifinals at Ler High gym at 2 p m Saturday. Galena Park meets the Conroe Baytown Junior High B winner at 2 15 p m. Final rounds start 7 20 p m with consolation at 6 30 p m. both games on Lee High School court. Earlier Saturday Texas City beat Horace Mann 40 25 and Galena Park defeated Baytown Junior High 51 42.
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Woodland Acres
South Homaton
Baytown Junior High
Horace Mann
Ler High
Gam
Galena Park
Conroe-Baytown
Consol
Ation
Lee High School
Galetia Park
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