Truman Starts Canada Visit After Missouri Stop
President Truman leaves for a three day state visit to Canada aboard a special train with Mrs Truman and daughter Margaret. He will meet Prime Minister Mackenzie King in Ottawa to discuss world hunger and gold prices. He recently returned from a Missouri trip visiting his ailing mother and warned aggressors against underestimating U S resolve. Two hitchhikers in New Orleans beat and robbed a Houston woman.
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Selected Stocks and Markets At A Glance
United Press reports stock listings with abbreviations for American Airlines AT&T Anaconda Chrysler and others. Markets were quiet with stocks and curbs lower, U S government bonds uneven, London and Chicago markets lower, silver steady, and grains mixed with wheat and corn futures down.
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Jester Faces Heavy Mail On Local Option Liquor Bill
Governor Beauford H. Jester reports unprecedented mail opposing the Texas liquor control measure. Citizens urge veto as the 50th Legislature allows local option elections in dry counties, and requests to veto the bill exceed all prior messages to his office.
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Fearful floods as rains threaten more devastation
Rising Mississippi floodwaters, swollen by Iowa inflows, threaten levees along an 180 mile Illinois Missouri shore. Five levees breached, towns scrambling with sandbags. Dozens drown nationwide. 10,000 homeless. millions in damages as cleanup begins in Ottumwa and other communities.
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Moslem League Accepts British Plan for Partition
New Delhi June 9 The Moslem League Council accepted with eight dissenters the British plan for partitioning India. Mohammed Ali Jinnah president of the League praised Mountbatten's plan while stressing he did not seek empire but to serve as a soldier of Pakistan amid cheers of Emperor of Pakistan from some attendees.
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Last Rites For J. M. Johansen Tuesday Afternoon
Ward was receiver in Mexia today of the death of J. M. Johansen Kaufrosa a native of Mexia and member of a pioneer Mexia family. He died at Baylor Hospital in Dallas at 11 45 p m Sunday night. He is survived by his wife one son Janes Martin and a brother Roy Johansen of Mexia. Funeral services set for the First Presbyterian Church in Mexia Tuesday at 2 20 p m Burial in Mexia City Cemetery Corley Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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Legion Meets Tonight In Mexia City Hall
Bob Fain, commander, announced the Nowlin Post of the American Legion would meet tonight at 7 30 p m in the Legion room of Mexia City Hall.
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Four Hurt As Milk Train Crashes With Sleeper Car
Four people were seriously injured and 14 others damaged when a milk train collided head on with a New York Massena sleeper at Eden Station on the New York Central Line near Potsdam New York.
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Former Mexia Girl Dies at Gonzales
Eight year old Audie Willie D. Little daughter of Mr and Mrs C A Little of Troup died in a Gonzales hospital early Monday She was born in Mexia August 28 1938 moved to Troup last June Survived by two brothers grandparents and great grandparents with services arranged by J Riddle and Company Tuesday at 4 00 p m at Prairie Grove Church Archduke Guilty
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Workers Walk Out at Briggs Detroit Plant Ahead of Strike
Workers began a partial walkout at Briggs Manufacturing in Detroit 48 hours before a national strike deadline. At the Conner plant in the trim department, some body shop workers joined the action, threatening possible plant closure. Briggs employs over 2,250 at the unit.
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Postponed Senate action on probe of Clark charges
Senate Judiciary Committee delayed for one week a resolution calling for a Senate investigation into charges that Attorney General Tom C. Clark hampered a probe of alleged Kansas City vote frauds. Senator James Kem said the charges were grave and merits thorough inquiry. Ferguson requested the delay for memorandum prep.
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Britain Seeks Soviet Explanation of Hungary Developments
London reports that Britain asked the Soviet Union for an explanation of political changes in Hungary. Minister of State McNeil said Sir Maurice Peterson, the British ambassador to Moscow, has been instructed to seek clarification from the Soviet government.
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House Appropriations Committee Slashes Federal Spending
The House Appropriations Committee cut 28 percent from several agencies in the new fiscal plan. It ordered a large return to the treasury from the War Damage Corporation and targeted administrative costs, while preserving full funding for two Pan American programs.
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Boy's Life at Stake In Missouri Trial
ST. JOSEPH MO June 9 Prosecuting and defense attorneys argued over whether a minister's adopted son heard a voice instructing him to commit murder The trial of Stuart B Allen 16 for the brutal slaying of John Frank 58 sexton of his father's church was to be decided by a jury The outcome could determine the boy's life
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Final Exercises Tuesday Night At Westminster College
Westminster Junior College holds commencement for its fiftieth class in the college auditorium on Tuesday evening June 10 at 8 15. Dr William Carrington Finch Southwestern University administrator and former Bible head will deliver the address and confer degrees. Dean W D Blunk will present the class and Dr Finch will award honors.
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Armour Named Assistant Secretary of State Succeed Braden
Norman Armour, veteran American diplomat, was nominated by President Truman to be assistant Secretary of State, succeeding Spruille Braden who resigned last week. The Army and Navy told the Senate that American oil concessions in foreign countries are essential to national defense in time of war.
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Miners Walk Out In Protest of Taft-Hartley Bill
More than 10,000 United Mine Workers in Southwestern Pennsylvania quit work in protest to pending Taft Hartley legislation. At least 15 mines were closed, with losses from 45,000 tons daily. U S Steel reported 4,000 men in four pits idle, others including Republic Steel Jones & Laughlin Steel and National Steel also affected. The stoppage targets steel mills ahead of potential coal stockpile needs.
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Russian Relations May Trigger Special Session of Congress
Washington leaders weigh a possible special session if U S relations with Russia worsen. They fear continued tension could require rapid action to back American foreign policy, with a decision expected soon.
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Father to undergo lie detector test in Ohio baby slaying
Harry Morton, father of one of two babies slain Friday night in City Hospital, will be taken to Cleveland for a lie detector test after his baby's funeral. Stark County Prosecutor W Bernard Rodgers said no new evidence exists and the test is routine.
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