Strikes Threaten Auto Output Fall as Plants Idle
Detroit reports warn nearly half of auto production may be cut as strikes hit Ford Chrysler and Dodge plants. About 40 000 workers are idle with 200 000 more at risk, while Packard Hudson and General Motors face shutdowns or material shortages amid UAW tensions and wage disputes.
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Detroit
Ford
Dodge
Ward
Chrysler
Monroe
Michigan
Hudson Motor Company
CIO
United Auto
Packard
Generali Motors
Chrysler Corporation
Control Bill Ready For Truman Signing
Battery of mobilization powers including authority to issue priorities allocate scarce materials require property by condemnation and pay limited subsidies to stimulate production of raw non farm items. President also powers to draft war plans pay farm subsidies license firms under price ceilings and control commodity speculation.
Lee Drive Widening Debate Narrows To 48 Feet Plan
City and county officials met to settle Lee Drive widening funded from limited money. A compromise would widen to 48 feet with rolled curbs on school property and curb sections elsewhere to save cost and protect campus. Holland Page contract and right of way terms fuel tension, while speed is urged to begin construction.
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Chamber Highway Committee
Last Right
Ther Fe
Werd
Holland Page
Wilburn
Lee College
Ward
Missouri Pacific
West Main
H. S&s Berlin
Lee
Right of Ways
W. ©. Swain
Chamber
Highway Committee
R. B. Hemphill
Nelson Stiles
Murray Rogers
Henry Cathriner
John Kilgore
A. S. Gynum
Jaycees
C. D. Middleton
George Gentry
65 Scouts Will Make Court Of Honor Tomorrow
Sixty five Area Boy Scouts will receive awards at the East Harris District Court of Honor at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Baytwa Community House EVA Doize chairs the event. Second Class badges go to Kennedy Buttker Fielder Muller plus many others from several troops. First Class awards listed for several Scouts. Star and Life Awards to others. 175 Merit Badges to 28 Scouts. Gold Palm Award to F. C. Saxon.
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East Harris
Nickey Heimel
Westey Hicks
Phil la Fara
Mitchell Singleton
David Stanmp
Billy Woodall
Troop 334
Loyd Guidry
Bill Parrish
Guy Aiatthews
Frenkie Woods
Glen Hilgore
Maurice Cornelius
Robert Powers
James Strangmeier
Ralphs Saugaman
John Carter
Robert Dailey
Don Hims
Billy Hinkle
Gary Howell
J. D. Powell
Aubrey Sandefer
Robert Powel
Wayne Benton
Miller
Lee Casey
Joe W. Crumpler
James Church
Charles Daniels
John Fitzgerald
Rodney Harmon
Dan Hooks
Lee N. Joseph
Guy Matthews
Gordon Speer
Frank Ed Woods
Tommy Ivans
Roy Lucas
Bill Marshall
Ronnie Pruett
Bill Simeon
Three Wreck Victims Slightly Better Today
Three Houston teenagers injured when their car overturned at Lynchburg yesterday are somewhat better at Cedar hospital. The injured are Janet McCarty 17 Charles E Petty 18 and Gemma Turrin 16. Earl Richard Martin 18 was killed and will be buried in Houston today with funeral services at Earthman Funeral Home at 4 p.m.
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Houston
Lynchburg
Cedar
Janise McCarty
Charles E. Petty
Gemma Turrin
Earl Richard Martin
Earthman Funeral Home
Joe Borden and Feiler No Hit Masters of Baseball
Sports writer Christy Walsh recalls a heritage of no hitters in baseball history from Borden to Bob Feller. It notes Feller's rise from Van Meter Iowa to the Cleveland club and his three no hitties against White Sox Detroit and others, highlighting luck and skill in pitching mastery.
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Joe Totwile
Borden
Coccoran
Cy Young
Bob Feller
van Meter
Iowa
Cleveland
White Sox
Yankees
Detroit
Feiler
Rapid Robert
Pea Farm Dance Hall Burns Down
The Pea Farm Dance Hall known to patrons as the Pea Farm burned swiftly with flames reaching 20 feet high at the west end. Benny Leacry had leased andRun the hall for months while Smith lived nearby. Smith called the blaze the fastest he had seen and said entry was impossible into the waxed dance floor area. The building was not insured and about $500 in equipment including microphones loudspeakers and band stands were lost.
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Page One
Smith
Pea Farm
Benny Leacry
Goeck
Guard Seeks More Men for Summer Field Training
Colonel Robert M. Ives of the 343rd Infantry, 36th Division, announced a drive to recruit as many new soldiers as possible before summer camp at Camp Polk Louisiana starting August 19 for two weeks. The Baytown 143rd Infantry unit seeks specialists in communications, transportation, cooking and administration to boost team readiness and promotion prospects. Enlistment inquiries at 200 West Main weekdays 9 am to 3 pm. Minors require parental consent.
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Robert M. Ives
Houston
343Rd Infantry
Polk
Louisien
143Rd Infantry
West Main
Middleton studying six bond companies
Middleton seeks bids from six bond firms to study Baytown finances and manage bond issuance. Grown Brandenberger, Brown, and Galena Park ties cited. Some council members oppose outsourcing, while others warn about graft and argue for potentially better rates with a firm.
Heart Attack Claims C C Stepherson at Huntsville
C C Stepherson of Coady died yesterday from a heart attack after a 11:30 am onset. He was rushed by ambulance to a Baytown hospital and died there. Funeral arrangements are led by Paul A G Lee Funeral Home in Huntsville with burial planned in Huntsville. Survivors include his wife Minnie, six daughters, two sons, twenty grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Garl Oden Stepherson
Coady
Huntsville
Huntsville Funeral Home
Stepherson
Baytown
Paul A. Lee
Pail AG. Lee Funeral Home
Minnie Stepherson
Coach
Katie Goldston
Hereford
Annie Mae Adamson
Korarlie Sitton
Jewel Acker
Sally Smith
Fort Smith
Arkansas
Minnie Frances Mathis
Houston
Johnny
Woodie Lee Stepherson
Stork Delivers Seven Pound Seven Ounce Baby
A child weighing seven pounds and seven ounces was born to Mr. and Mrs. H G Petty at Baytown Hospital. Parents listed at 209 Miriam Jacobs and Mrs. R B Jacobs of 420 West Lobit also welcomed sons in separate Baytown area births yesterday or today at local hospitals. Additional newborns include a Pearce son at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pearce of 1500 Willow, a Chance son to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Chance of Cedar Bayou Road at San Jacinto Memorial, and a son born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allston at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. A Santano boy arrived at Baytown Hospital at 6:45 am today weighing seven pounds seven ounces.
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Pearce Ason
San Facinto Memorial Hospital
Robert Pearce
Willow
Chance
Leonard Chance
Cedar Bayou Road
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Allston
Robert Allston
Parking Meter Errors Makes City 90 Cents
The Baytown meters for the week July 20 to 26 collected $778.68 from 26,035 coins across three areas. Mid-Baytown led with $601.28, West Baytown $244.53, and South Baytown $32.27. Nine dimes were among the coins but will not work in meters. A stray note mentions the migratory bird likely the goshawk traveling about 1000 miles between the Yukon and Argentina.
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Three Baytown
C.D. Middleton
Middleton
Mid-Baytown
West Baytown
South Baytown
Sick List at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Visiting hours listed for San Jacinto Memorial include 10 to 1 am, 2 to 4 pm, and 7 to ? pm. The list names Mrs Louis Padar, Mrs R B Jacobs, Mrs Roy Prigmore, Herman E Bishop Jr, and many others with addresses across Houston, Jacinto City, Seabrook, Cedar Bayou, Baytown, Crosby, and Galveston area.
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San Jacinto Memorial
Louis Padar
East James
R. B. Jacobs
West Lobit
Roy Prigmore
Michigan
Herman E. Bishop Jr
Granville Jody—Seabrook
Jim Breeding
West Nazro
Richard Worth
Lakewood Drive
Robert Pearce
Willow
Charles B. Petty
Houston
Jan McCarty
Jacinto City
Gemma Turrin
Alice McLean
le Port
Leonard Chance
Cedar Bayou
James Singleton
Robert Allston
Lester Holmes
Roger Whitley
Baytown
Duane Pira—Crosby
James W Boyd
Herbart Kitzman
Cedar Bayou Road
Grocers Ticketed for Houston Food Fair and Convention
The third annual Houston Food Fair, merged with the 24th Texas Retail Grocers Association convention, will run August 5 to 7 at the Shamrock Hotel. A wagon of groceries will be given away. Tickets are distributed free by Gulf Coast independent grocers.
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Houston
Houston Retail Grocers Association
Texas Retail Grocers Association
Shamrock Hotel
Gulf Coast
Mexico and US Sign Pact Stabilizing Peso
Mexico and the United States signed an agreement to stabilize the peso through 1953. The US stabilization fund will buy up to 50,000,000 pesos (about 5.87 million dollars) within two years to maintain the peso at 8.65 per dollar. The pact continues arrangements in place since 1941.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Treasury Ministry
Crime war grips States at 1948 pace, FBI report
A terse 1948 era summary notes crime surged nationwide roughly every 48.7 seconds, with FBI data attributed to Jenzth and a New York system referenced, reflecting a tense national security climate.
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Accor FBI
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Ray Milland
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William Lumdigan
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