France braces for anti Communist law amid strikes
In Marseille and Paris, the National Assembly passed a broad anti Communist bill seating prison terms for agitators and sent 100 gas and electric workers into military service to curb a nationwide strike. clashes in the chamber left several injured as hundreds of thousands idle across industries. premier Bidault justified urgent measures to safeguard vital services and arms shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lans
U P
National Assembly
Georges Bidault
Bidault
Industry and Commerce
Jean Louvel
France
Paris
U. S
Campaign Opens for Cerebral Palsy Clinic Fundraiser
Baytown Post Office hosts a month long drive led by Pilot Club and Baytown Crippled Child Society to fund a cerebral palsy clinic. Volunteers prepare 100 seal sheets for fundraising mailings. Murble Oil and Refining Co pledges support and city land use is offered for the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MMI
Baytown
Pilot Club
Tocoe
Olunteer
iMracilz Puderbaugh
Cerebral Palsy Vogue
Murble Oil and Refining Comy
La Porte to Build Radar Station Air Warning Center
La Porte wins approval to construct an air warning center on 84 acres at the municipal airport. The $250,000 facility will house the 158th Aircraft Control and Warning Group with about 330 personnel, two C-47 aircraft, and support units. Plans by Wyatt Hedrick will be bid this year with completion expected late in the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte
Municipal Air
Air Borce
Spencer Highway
158Th
Frank Persiey
Wyatt C. Hedrick
Incorporated
K. K. Black
E. R. Hoffman
Austin
Adjutant General’s Department
O. Stovall
W. D. Ruth
Black
W. H. Madale
Harold Pfeiffer
W.H. Baugh
la Porte National Bank
al Wadsworth
Hou-Port Aviation, Incorporated
Wisconsin Senator McCarthy charges UN official linked to Communists
March 3 report says Senator Joseph R. McCarthy testified that Dorothy Kenyon U.S. representative to the United Nations is listed in a Communist front registry. He said she served on the Commission on Status of Women and the Commission of the Eco, and was replaced by Mrs. Goldman after her term expired in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sethy
Wosian
Hisgion
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
United Nations
McCarthy
Dorothy Kenyonla
Commission On Status of Women
The
Eco
Miss Kenyon
Goldman
Town Social Notes At A Glance From Local Meet
Louise Wilkenson attends a Texas Hospital Association event in Galveston while others like Bill White and Elmer Gray join the social scene. Mrs Spence, Mrs Thomas H. Addison, and the Hig family share days of gatherings, lunches, and style shows as town residents mingle and comment on daily routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Wilkenson
Galen
Texas Hospital Associa
Bill White
New York
F.C
Elmer Gray
Elmer
Wess
Tommy Laughlin
Ruth
Alleman
Floyd-Hig
Tak- Janie
Kyle
al- Ehioys
Chester
Rogers
Dick Try
Fel Rocke
Houston
G- C
Saturday Dial Day Switch to Dial Telephones in Baytown
Baytown will switch to dial operation from 10 p m to midnight Saturday causing brief interruptions. W W Hunt district manager of Southwestern Associated Telephone Company announced the change and said all numbers will be updated in the new directory. A meal event at San Jacinto Inn will honor civic leaders and company officials as remodeling of main offices continues at 202 West Pearce with operations moved to 2917 Merket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
W. W Hunt
Southwestern Associated Telephone Company
Hurt
Hart
Hunt
San Jacinto Inn
Tale- Plone Company
Convatefon
Roy Autry
Southwestern
Bis
West
Pearce
Merket
Market
Louisiana
Old Baytown
Refinery Red Cross Drive Half Way Over
The Baytown Refinery reports midway progress in the Red Cross campaign. Chairman EB EL Busby says 60 percent of the quota of $2.50 per person is pledged with 15 of 55 departments reporting. Total refinery pledges approach $2000 and the drive may wrap up by Friday. Harris County drive reaches $60,000 of $367,609 goal. Leon Jarnorski says over $300,000 more needed in the month-long effort started March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Baytown
EB. EL Busby
Busby
Bushy
Brickmason
Sitaming
Harris County
Leon Jarnorski
State Hammers At Defense in Sander Trial
In Manchester New Hampshire March 6 the state pressed its cross examination of Dr Richard Ford head of the Harvard School of Legal Medicine asserting that the air injected into Abbie C Borreto’s arm could not have caused her death Instead the physician suggested cancer starvation or pneumonia were likely causes The court hears rebuttal witnesses and a jury may begin deliberations tomorrow
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sander
Air
Manchester
March &Ie
Hermann W. Sander
Abbie C. Borreto
Wiliam N. Phipney
Richard Ford
Harvard School of Legal Medicine
Ford
Serted
Phinney
Harold E Wescott
Chambers
Irs
Milton Helpern
New York City
Ralph E. Miller
Dartmouth College
Robert B. Biren
Hillsborough County
Helpern
Miller
Borreto
Houston Judge Under Fire Grand Jury To Hunt $190 Shortage
A Houston grand jury investigating Justice of the Peace Thomas L Decker will likely ask him to appear Friday over a $190 discrepancy between fines collected and funds turned in. Records show $16 in fines and costs from Armand Gracy Getrman on a December charge, but county officials claim $200 was paid. Patrolmen and officials note conflicting figures and possible misrecording. The probe has continued for a week and may extend to related cases and officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Berris
Grand Jury
Justice of the Peace
Thomas L Decker
Decker
Justice Decker
Precinct Two
Justice of Peace Court
Armand Gracy Getrman
Barry Washburnshaw
Carl S. Smith
De-Armin
Alrs. Smith
H.W. Smith
W. R. Thompson
DeArman
James E. Jones
San Antonio
Tompson
Smith
Justice Court
Glen Rose
A. C Winborn
Barkley Endorses Brotherhood and Unity Speech
Vice President Aiken W Barkley urged unity of thought and action to combat communism during a Houston testimonial dinner sponsored by the Houston Conference of Christians and Jews. About 850 guests paid 50 a plate at the Shamrock Hotel Emaralé Room as Barkley arrived from Washington for the event. His wife did not accompany him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Aiken W. Barkley
Barkley
Houston Conference of Christians and ‘Jews
George Shake
Dee, Simpson
Mose
Feld
Shamrock Hotel
oWashington
Valley Counts Five 1950 Polio Deaths
Edinburg reports its fifth poliomyelitis death of the year as the Rio Grande valley issues an urgent appeal for more nurses at the polio clinic. A one year old Waftaiio Canon of Wesico died in the clinic yesterday, the 23rd new case of the year. An 18 month old Edinburg girl was admitted as staff works to increase capacity while 12 hour shifts are deployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Waftaiio
Weslico
Wes
Clinie
Ben Hisenberg
Dust Storms Reach Gulf Texas Drought Looms
Dust from a two day windstorm in Texas drifted south toward the coast and into Louisiana as winds eased in the Panhandle. Dust cut visibility in several cities while ranchlands and wheat fields face ruin without rain. A Moore County prairie fire burned over 64,000 acres causing about 250,000 dollars in damage. Officials warn the 1950 wheat crop hinges on late month rainfall with vast acreage at risk. The Weather Bureau sees no rain in the next 48 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Austin
Cotulia
Laredo
Marfa
San Antonio
Galveston
Houston
Moore County
Panhandle
J.B. Waide
Dumas
Texas
H.B. Hawkins
Burrus Panhandle
Amarillo
Heckins
Weather Bureau
Et Delta
New Norther
Russia Denies Fuchs Passed Atomic Secrets
Moscow declares that Dr. Klaus Fuchs never dealt with Soviet agents and that Tass falsehoods claimed by British prosecutors are a fabrication. The denial follows London reports on the spy case and coincides with Voroshilov asserting the Soviet Union possesses its own atom bomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Tass
Reviews
London
Buckley.Shawcross
Tuches
Soviet Union
Voroshilov
Farmers Rally To Halt Dust Storms In Plains
Farmers in Texas and Oklahoma launched emergency soil conservation measures to avert a repeat of dust bowl conditions. Strong winds blew topsoil from a 2.4 million acre area, reducing visibility, with rainfall lacking and wind speeds up to 45 to 50 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Oklahoma
Louis P. Merrill
Soil Conservation Service
New Mexico
Colorado
Bansar
Merrill
Courtney A. Tidwell
Amarillo
Texas Panhandle
Kansas
South Plains
Panhandle
George W. Taylor
Childress
Watonge
Whiteington
7 Year Old Hero Saves Two From Fire
In Houston on March 8 seven year old Billie Mae Thompson a first grade pupil rescued her eighty month old sister and another child from a blazing home at 3270. She made two trips into the flames before firefighters arrived as the house and much of its furniture burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Roomer
Billie Mae Thompson
Httle
Billie Mae
Eisht
Baptist Orphanage Lands, Funds for Expansion
A Dallas report details Baptist institutions in Texas approving financing for a Dallas Round Rock Baptist orphanage and related campus building programs. Actions include raising indebtedness limits to 25 percent of current assets, advances to San Antonio Memorial Hospital, and a plan to fund expansion via a $600,000 drive with a $206,000 conditional grant from the Southern Baptist Convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Rock
Baptist Hospital
Dalles
Texas Baptist College
Marshall Tou
San Antonio “Memorial Hospital
The
Southern Baptist
Convention Tae
Hariingen
Loen
Tragic Northwest plane crash kills 15 in Minneapolis
In a fierce snowstorm a Northwest Airlines jet, Martin 202, struck a flagpole near Fort Snelling and crashed into a residential area four miles from Wold-Chamberlain Field. Fifteen died including two children, with 18 aboard. Firemen fought smouldering wreckage as mothers and neighbors mourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Wold— Chamberlain Ficks
Fort Snelling ‘Military Cemetery
Wate
Dan Snax
Ares ‘Ghout
Northwest
Car Owners Warned To Buy Licenses Early
Texas motorists were warned to buy license plates early as registration volumes reached what officials called the heaviest in history. The notice urged motorists outside their home counties to register in their residence counties where possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astin
Texas
AoWor
Istering
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Aster
Is. Puderbaugh
Rie Bulletin
Ound Town
Joelnel
Lewis
Piney Forks
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
International
Hinabor
Oli Miller
Michael’ .Shiprov
Torasr
United States
Sofia
Bulgaria
Britain
State Department
Shipkov
Donald ‘Heath
Bolgaris
Gulf
Drouth
Russia
Soviet
Baptist Orphanage
Church Board
Gebris
Tripedy
Frank Doughty
Tommy Doughty
Janet
John Leigston
Amy el
Cameron Jenkins
Guy Cade Jackson
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