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09 Jun 1949
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Mexia Daily News in Mexia, Texas
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
1
Congress Armed Forces Group Votes Higher Wages for American Troops
The House Armed Services Committee moved to raise pay for 1.626 million military personnel, proposing a 307 million dollar annual measure to be debated next week. Senate and House panels discussed labor, civil rights, defense, and foreign aid as leaders push security and budget goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress Armed Forces Group
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Car Vinson
Senate
John L. Lewis
House
Truman
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Louis Johnson
Gordon Gray
Army
Atomic
William F. Knowland
Cal
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Carl Vinson
Paul G. Hoffman
Senate Appropriations Committee
Freeport Troopers Nab Evading Convict Near Morning
Freeport police capture Charney Evans, an escaped Black convict, near her early today after he slipped from Clemens farm in Brazmia County yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Charney Evan
Evans
Clemens Farm
Brazmia County
Oil magnate Wents dies in Ponca City landmark
In Ponca City Oklahoma United Press reports the death of oil magnate W H Wentz 74 a prominent national figure connected to Oklahoma oil interests. The obituary notes his residence and the Arcade as theivenue associated with the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponca City
Okla
Wis
Oklahoma
Texas Highway Department Schedule Letting For Roads
The Texas Highway Department will hold a road letting on June 21 and 22. Project values total 331,088 dollars and involve Austin area work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas Highway Department
Swine Pool Closed for Repairs
City pool in Austiz closes for repairs with a notice stating repairs will be conducted by Maiosim. Riker, of Austiz, and officials advise residents to seek alternative swimming arrangements during the closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maiosim
Riker
Austiz
Mexia Guardsmen Train at North Camp Hood
Mexia National Guardsmen are in field training at North Camp Hood with Lt. Leslie Matthews and Sgt. Lasseter attending administration and other schools. Training began Tuesday at 7:00 after blood tests and relocation. The unit, under Captain Otto Brotherton, left Mexia last Sunday and will return June 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexia
North Camp Hood
Mexia National
Leslie L. Matthews
Lasseter
Sgt
Otto L. Brotherton
Vishinsky shifts stance on Berlin blockade talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky agrees to instruct the Soviet commander in Berlin to seek a Monday decision with Western commanders on blockade issues. Western experts coordinate efforts as hope for a broad accord fades. Berlin railway strikers clash with Soviet officers over food access at the Reichsbahn building in the American sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vishinsky
Berlin
Paris
France
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
U. S
Council
Hope
Russia
Dean Acheson
Robert Schuman
Frank L. Howley
Reichsbahn
AFL Chief Links Lewis With Taft Against Labor Strategy
San Francisco dispatch reports AFL President William Green accusing John L. Lewis of aligning with Senator Taft to oppose repeal of the Taft Hartley act. Lewis orders a weeklong stop work for 500000 coal miners, warning current production threatens stability and must be halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
AFL
William Green
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Washington
Lewis
Grass Expert Here Preparing Contest Items for Fiesta
Grass specialist Simon Wolff of the Soil Conservation Service mounted and labeled over 50 plant specimens at Mexia High School for the Fiesta grass judging contest. Frank Connell, chairman, says teams of three from Future Farmers clubs 4 H clubs and veteran agriculture classes will enter to learn native grasses and support the soil exhibit program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexia High School
Simon Wolff
Soil Conservation Service
Fort Worth
Wolff
Frank Connell
Connell
Kosse Tests Kaolin Sand For New Business Push
Four carloads of kaolin sand shipped to Houston for quality tests as Kosse explores a potential commercial kaolin project. University of Texas ceramic department reports the sand is of very high grade and likely to be produced regularly in the future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KOSSE
Spi
Houston
Ceramic Department
University of Texas
Government Employes Named as Spies in Hiss Trial
Whittaker Chambers testifies in the Alger Hiss perjury case naming Henry Julian Wadleigh William Ward Pigman Harry Dexter White Alger Hiss and Vincent Reno as government employees who supplied him with Soviet information and implying there are more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Courice Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Chambers
Henry Julian Wadleigh
William Ward Pigman
Harry Dexter White
Vincent Reno
Nebraska Twister Hits Belvidere Killing Three
A tornado tore through Belvidere Neb killing three people and injuring five, leveling the main street and leaving the town in ruins as residents assessed the damage after a warm summer evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belvidere, Neb
Lad Admits Icebox Killing of Three Young Playmates
In Walnut Ridge Arkansas a nine year old boy admitted to authorities that he shut three playmates in an icebox during a hide and seek game and left them to suffocate when the door would not open. The victims were James Delbert Chastian two Joyce Ann Chastain nine and Shirley Ramsey six. Officials say the tragedy appeared accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walnut Ridge
Ark
James
Buddy” Chessier
James Delbert Chastian
Joyce Ann Chastain
Shirley Ramsey
Bi Stone Men Appointed to East Texas Chamber Committees
Ralph Jones of Mexia and C E Childs of Fairfield named Bi Stone leaders on East Texas Chamber of Commerce committees for the coming year. Jones joins the community development committee while Childs serves on the agriculture committee. Appointments made by Henry M Bell of Tyler, ETCC president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Jones
Mexia
C. E. Childs
Fairfield
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Jones
Childs
Henry M. Bell
Tyler
Chinese Diplomat Proposes Defense Plan for Nation
Dr Kan Chieh Hou, representing Chinese President Li Tsung Jen, presented a secret plan for defending western China to the State Department. He seeks a White House meeting with President Truman to discuss aid, but gave no specifics on the assistance requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nets
China
State Department
Kan-Chieh-Hou
Li Tsung-Jen
Kan
White House
Truman
United States to join major allied air naval maneuvers
The United States will join Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the largest peacetime international air and naval maneuvers in history in the English Channel later this month. American B-29s will participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
English Channel
Bevin Accuses Reds Of Preparing War And Peace
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the British Labor party conference in Blackpool that Russia talks peace while preparing for war. He cited the Soviet army as the world’s largest and urged firm action to end its dominance. Bevin, at the Big Four talks in Paris, hinted at possible informal accords to ease East West tension and hoped for a troop withdrawal from Austria soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Ernest Bevin
Russia
British Labor Party
Blackpool
Eng
Bevin
Big Four
Council of Foreign Inisters
Paris
Austis
Embezzler Awaits Return to Home Bourne
Andrew C. Straley a 42 year old Ohio undertaker waited in jail for a deputy sheriff to return him to face charges of embezzling eighty nine thousand dollars. He is accused of diverting funds held in trust for Martin Licking a 53 year old World War II veteran.
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