Campaign chiefs predict smaller Texas vote in November
Four major party chiefs forecast Texas general election turnout near 1.1 million, below 1944 totals of 1,150,331. Estimates range from 1.0 to 1.25 million, with leaders noting strenuous campaigns and absence of Franklin D Roosevelt as a major draw. Comptroller cites 2,250,333 eligible voters based on poll taxes and exemptions.
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Dave Cheavens
Austin
Wright Morrow
Henry Zweifel
Republican Executive Committee
Wallace
Thurmond
Dewey
Truman
Robert W. Milner, Jr
States Rights Party
Herman Wright
John C. Calhoun
Democratic Executive Committee
Calhoun
Wright
Milner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stopover Turns Permanent for Virginia Man in Fort Worth
Jack Ferguson, traveling by train from Virginia to Denver in 1900, stopped in Fort Worth and liked the city so well he decided to stay. He has remained there ever since.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Jack Ferguson
Virginia
Denver
Navy converts Norton Sound into sea going rocket testing lab
The Navy unveiled a sea going rocket laboratory on the converted seaplane tender Norton Sound which can launch 14 ton V-2 missiles as well as the AeroBee rocket and balloons for cosmic ray research. The ship, not a combat vessel, sails from Norfolk toward the Pacific test range to support Army and Air Force use and expand testing options beyond vertical firings at White Sands New Mexico.
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Washington
Navy
Norton Sound
Norfolk
Army
Air Force
White Sands
New Mexico
Texan seeks arrest protection in federal case
U S Judge Charles Wyzanski Jr has taken under advisement a petition by Louis B Conley 27 of Amarillo to shield him from arrest by Massachusetts authorities Conley was ordered to return to Boston to face federal charges of unlawful flight for leaving Massachusetts last year with his two year old daughter Lynette who had been living in Brockton at his mother in law’s home The police say he took the child to Amarillo Texas authorities request his return.
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Boston
Charles Wyzanski, Jr
Louis B. Conley
Amarillo
Massachusetts
Conley
Texas
Lynette
Brockton
Conference To Standardize U S British Canadian Machinery
Washington hosts a nut and bolt conference to standardize screw threads among the United States Britain and Canada. The Natural Bureau of Standards will lead a three nation meeting with engineers using plain talk to resolve long standing threading differences.
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U. S
Harman W. Nichols
United Press
Washington
Britain
America
West
Natural Bureau of Standards
Canada
United States
Bureau of Standards
Congress
Bureau
Morton Negro To Face Trial In Shooting Case
Trial for Morton grocer I G Golden, charged with shooting Pete Russell, was set for 10 am Monday before Judge Dan Blair in Cochran County. Russell was shot once in the head from close range. Golden waived a special venire. A separate report notes a petit jury will hear six civil cases in Lubbock County.
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I. G. Golden
Morton
Dan Blair
Cochran County
Golden
Pete Russell
Russell
Lloyd Croslin
G. V. Pardue
99Th District
Lubbock County
Goodwin
E. Powell McWhirter
Aron Gustafson
Johnson and
Charlie Hoover
G. K. Horton
Bernie C. Edwards
J. Bryan Edwards
E. Holland Edwards
East Powell
Lubbock Man Avalane Howle 60 Dies After Short Illness
Avalane R. L. Howle, 60, of 1901 Thirtieth, who ran an automotive supply business in Lubbock for 19 years, died at 6 p.m. Saturday in West Texas hospital after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. He came from Little Rock, Arkansas in 1925 and retired in 1944 when he sold his auto service store. Survivors include his widow, a daughter Mrs. Nelson G. Terry of Lubbock, two brothers Walter and Elmer Howle of Clovis, NM, two sisters Mrs. Charles Melton and Mrs. William White of Albuquerque, NM, his mother Mrs. Walter Howle, Sr., of Albuquerque, and two grandchildren.
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R. L. Howle
West Texas Hospital
Sanders Funeral Home
Howle
Little Rock
Ark
Nelson G. Terry
Lubbock
Walter
Elmer Howle
Archeology class to highlight findings at Austin meeting
A Tech archeology class led by Dr. W C Holden will report on findings from Fingerprint Caves near O Donnell at the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society meeting in Austin. The caves reveal a prehistoric culture previously linked to the Big Bend area. Ernest Wallace serves as secretary treasurer of the society.
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Texas Technological College
O'Donnell
Austin
Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society
W. C. Holden
Department of Anthropology
Tech
Big Bend
Twe
Texas Smu
Ernest Wallace
Holden
Society
Europe
South America
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Mall
Meguiar
Economca
Dunlap Appliance Store
Ounlaps, Lubbock, Texas
C.od
Morton Negro
G. W. Pardue
99Th District Court
Charles William Short
Denton
Lester O. White
Sixteenth
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William Johnson
Lubbock Tailoring Company
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Pardue
Blair
AOE
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Wylie Brug
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Sidney Claiborne
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