Maceos Accused of Illicit Gains From Galveston Empire
Texas Legislature crime investigation shows about three million dollars in 1950 profits from illegitimate enterprises run by the Maceo combine on Galveston Island. Audit notes earnings may account for most of the income, tied to Balinese Room operations and other controlled enterprises amid a two-ton file of records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Galveston Island
Maceo “Combine
Texas Legislature Crime Investigation Committee
Sam Maceo
The
Crime Cons
Fred V. Meridith
Maceo and Company
Meridith
C. H. Cayness
Maceo Enterprises
Maceo Associates
Sam “Books” Serio
Combine
R. N. Cox
Senate
House
Ten Die As U S Air Force C 82 Crash Near New Boston
A U S Air Force C 82 Flying Boxcar crashed in a storm near New Boston Texas on Sunday killing ten military personnel. The weekend toll in Texas also includes 35 deaths from various crashes drownings electrocutions and a series of auto collisions across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Boston
Texarkana
Texas
Kilgore
Billy Joe Baldwin
Roy H. Bailey
Dimmitt
U.S. 26
May Livestock Receipts Fall at Fort Worth Stockyards
May receipts at the Fort Worth stockyards declined from 1950 levels with 34,068 cattle 10,618 calves and 130,088 sheep versus 55,252 cattle 15,236 calves and 366,832 sheep a year earlier. Commission men expect a heavy July run as freezes and drought delayed pasture growth pushing ranchers to hold stock for fattening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Commission
Negro Women Open Adult Study Course Tomorrow Evening
Negro women in the community are invited to adult study courses held Tuesday and Friday evenings this month at the Dunbar Homemaking Cottage. No enrollment fee. Hours 8 to 10 p m. Topics include selecting materials and colors, furniture care, and group recreation. A session will be held tomorrow night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunbar
Willie E. McBay
Rain Fails Heat Wave as Mexia Sees Light Rain
Mexia reports 0.77 inch of rain from Saturday night to 7:30 this morning cooling temperatures from 70 in the afternoon to 59 at night. Across North and South Texas, five inch rain totals caused minor floods, with San Antonio evacuating about 40 families. Continuous showers and cool air followed a cold front, while Dallas and other cities logged four to six inch totals and roads flooded. Radar tower damage occurred at Dallas Naval Air Station as gusts reached 85 mph.
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Mexia
Josie Newman
United Press
Miss Newman
South Texas
San Antonio
Texas
West
East Texas
Corpus Christi
Austin
Victoria
Lufkin
Brownsville
Bryan
Bonham
Trinity River
Dallas
State Highway Department
Terrell
Greenville
Sabine River
Hunt County
McKinney
Burleson
Midlothian
Farmersville
Dallas Naval Air Station
Dallas Weather Bureau
Dallas-Fort Worth
Red River
Weather Bureau
Limestone Negroes Attend 4-H Camp At Prairie View
Five Limestone county youths attended the State 4-H Club conservation camp May 27 to 30 at Prairie View College. Lacy Hawkins James Colmar Joe Lewis Phillips Dorothy Dell Moore Thedlee Beacham represented the district. Moore earned selection for the Pine Bluff Arkansas region meeting for outstanding poultry work.
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Limestone County
Prairie View College
Limestone
Lacy, Hawkins
James Colmar
Mexia
Joe Lewis Phillips
Dorothy Dell Moore
Groesbeck
Thedlee Beacham
Mount Calm
Miss Moore
Pine Bluff
Ark
Beacham
Florenc Johnson
Johnson
J. W. Booker
Texas Farm Prices Fall Off Slightly First Since October
Texas farm prices declined for May as the U S Department of Agriculture reported a one and a half percent drop from the prior month’s peak. Minor gains in corn barley grain sorghums sweet potatoes cowpeas turkeys and eggs were offset by lower prices for meat animals wheat oats cottonseed potatoes and hay. Meat prices led the decline while the all crops index rose two points though the livestock index fell eighteen points. The all commodities index stood at 393 percent of the 1910 14 average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
U. S
Tony
USDA
Police Trial Scandal Sees Ex Officer Die at Brooklyn Courthouse
Former patrolman Charles Panarella, 44, collapsing through a sixth floor window five minutes before his trial in Brooklyn, part of a larger gambling scandal involving 20 current and former officers. He had retired from the force in October amid corruption inquiries.
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New York
Charles Panarella
Brooklyn
Bolick
Ated
Girl Scout Camp Postponed By Weather At Fort Parker
Wet weather forces postponement of the Girl Scout day camp planned to open at Fort Parker State Park tomorrow morning. Mrs. Roy Cooper says troops leaders will be contacted for further information.
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Fort Parker State
Roy Cooper
Allies Ready For Ceasefire If Reds Agree
Washington reports unaffiliated diplomatic informants say the United Nations powers including the United States Britain and others abroad are prepared to end the Korean War along the 38th parallel if the Communists guarantee negotiations on all Korean problems. A joint peace push is under active consideration in Washington and allied capitals with a cease fire demilitarized zone and phased non Korean force withdrawals as core terms.
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Washington, D. C
United Nations
United States
Britain
Korea
Washington
38Th Parallel
Paris
France
Russia
Europe
Great Britain
Tehran
Anglo-Iranian Oil, Company
America
Iran
U. S
Henry F. Grady
Truman
Phone Strike Talks Near Walkout With Contract Talks
St Louis report says CIO communications workers and Southwestern Bell resume talks to avert a strike when the midnight hours arrive. Unionists claim widespread sentiment is no contract no work and warn they may withhold labor tomorrow. Wages offered range from 3 to 6 dollars weekly while the union seeks 4 to 9 plus town and job reclassifications. District would affect 12 000 workers across six states.
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ST. Louis
CIO Communications
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Southwestern Bell
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklaoe
Arkansas
Il- At Pe
UN Army Drives Into Red Chinese Fortress In Korea
UN infantry push into the mountains guarding the Chinese Red Army fortifications in Korea amid heavy fire. Allied gains reach up to three miles as Reds shell from bunkers and trenches. US fliers remain missing after two planes were downed in what officials call a tragic error. Chinese prisoners quote claims of wholesale slaughter of attacking Reds and battalion disintegration under massive Allied artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
United Nations
Red Army
Iron Triangle
Korea
Donna F
Gand
Puiting Ih United
U. S
Mrs Ed Wright Injured In Wreck Near Buffalo
Mrs Ed Wright of Point Enterprise suffered a deep forehead cut back injuries and leg cuts when a pickup left Highway 75 five miles south of Buffalo Sunday afternoon. Her husband and his 11 year old grandson Preston Wright were not seriously hurt. Mr Wright had a shoulder injury and bruises while Preston had several scratches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Wright
Point Enterprise
Fairfield
Buffalo
Work Progressing Rapidly on Mexia's New Negro School
Construction of Mexia's eastside Negro school advances with frame structure similar to Ross Avenue and Dunbar High. Oscar Robinson supervises with Mexia school board committee members Clint Reed Ivan Thorne and Ralph Jones overseeing. Completion aimed for next fall opening.
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Sigro
Mexia
Douglas School
New Douglas
Oscar Robinson
Ross Avenue
Dunbar
Robinson
Mexia School Board
Clint Reed
Ivan Thorne
Ralph Jones
Tehuacana Private Treated for Wounds in Korea
Tehuacana Pvt. George L. Walker is treated at Fort Bliss hospital in El Paso for arm wounds received April 30 during combat in Korea with the US Army 3rd Infantry Division. He is 24, son of Mrs. Ethel Hogan, enlisted June 3, 1945, discharged January 3, 1947, re enlisted in June 1. He has been awarded the Ko ti meal Predera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George L. Walker
Tehuacana
Fort Biss Hospital
el Paso
Korea
3Rd ‘Infantry
Pvt
Walker
Ethel Hogan
Moving Pittarés Unearthed by Murray Cox Show
Rip McKenzie will present Moving pitaries with Murray Cox directing the showcase. The fragment hints at a quirky, surreal performance with a Mexican setting implied by the wording.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittarés
Uther
Murray Cox
Rip McKenzie
Fragmentary political remark on government defense
The text presents a fragmented quotation discussing policy battles within the U S government. It mentions Republicans divided over actions deemed necessary to preserve or protect government functions and stability.
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Maceos
Flaming Death
U.S
Monte G. McBarger
Marshall
Gary Andrew
Raymond Richardson
Longview
J. R. Whiteside
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Saginaw
Tararut County
John Gregory
Hammond
Houston
Doyle Vernon Gibson
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo
Huch Bentley Graham
Sheppard Air Force Base
Boyd B. Hammond
Bijou Hills
S. D
Wichita Falls
Jimmie C. Howard
Brooke Army Hospital
High Point
N. C
James Monroe Bailey
Houston News
Galena Park
Charles Volz
Apolino Garcia
Burnett
Clear Creek
David L. Messenger
Denison
Oklahoma
James Luther Landman
J. B. Murrow
Sherman
Ft. Worth
East Berlin Berlin
Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
Acheson, and
Sena
Sec. of
of ‘State
Dean Acheson
U. S. Senate
Gen. MacArthur
Far East
Acheson
Sen
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
Atomic Energy Commission
Prairie View
van Fleet
North Korea
New Negro School
Sao
Lee
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