Flood Crest Clash Threatens Major Midwest Disaster
The Missouri and Mississippi rivers raced toward a confluence near Alton Illinois raising fears of a major flood if their crests meet. Mississippi expected to reach 35 feet near Friday while Missouri crest lags behind. Thousands homeless across Missouri Illinois and Iowa with at least seventeen dead. Levees near Glasgow Booneville and central Missouri threatened as 1 100 000 acres flood. Streetcars and buses were halted in Oakland due to a bay area strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Mississippi
St. Louis
Harry F. Wahlgren
U.S. Weather Bureau
Missouri City
Wahlgren
Alton
Ill
Glasgow
Booneville
Midwest
Clarksville
Markets at a Glance Stocks Edge Higher Amid Mixed Trading
Selected stocks list shows gains in several issues led by AT T and Gen Elec while others like Lose Star Gas slip. Bonds rise and curb and Chicago markets report higher activity. US government securities did not trade. Commodities mixed with silver unchanged and grains futures varied across wheat corn oats and barley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Chicago
New York
Russia backs global atomic inspection program
Andrei Gromyko, outlining an eight point Russian plan for atomic control, urged that an international control commission be granted broad powers to inspect world atomic facilities and oversee peaceful research. He spoke at a UN atomic energy commission meeting in Lake Success on June 11, signaling concessions but leaving gaps with the U.S. on controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Success
Andrei Gromyko
Russia
International Control Commission
Gromyko
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Services Thursday For Mrs. Stanford Of Pt Enterprise
Mrs. Kate Stanford died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Will Kurzee in Point Enterprise. Born in Alabama on April 28, 1859 she moved to Texas as a young girl. Survived by one daughter, a foster son, nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 4:00 p.m. at Point Enterprise Church with interment in Point Enterprise Cemetery. Corley Funeral Home in charge. Pallbearers are Loyd Kerzee Wayne Kerzee Amos Holt Robert Holt Bill Strickland and Reuben Gunn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Stanford
Will Kurzee
Point Enterprise
Fred Janeway
Blackmon
Corley Funeral Home
Stanford
Loyd Kerzee
Wayne Kerzee
Amos Holt
Robert Holt
Bill Strickland
Reuben Gunn
Postpone Firing of V-2 Rocket at White Sands Proving Ground
At White Sands Proving Ground in El Paso on June 11, Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner announced indefinite postponement of the scheduled V-2 rocket firing. The delay aims to install and test new safety devices after the May 29 incident near Juarez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL. Paso
White Sands Proving Ground
Harold R. Turner
Juarez
Turner
Marihuana Seizure Ties Smuggling Ring Arrests
El Paso police report 64 pounds of marihuana seized in El Paso and three suspects from Juarez arrested as part of an international smuggling ring investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Tex
Fi Paso
Juarez
Truman Seeks Canada Support in World Plan Speech
In Ottawa Truman addressed the Canadian Parliament calling for Canadian backing of the Truman Doctrine. He praised wartime cooperation with Canada and pledged continued U S aid for world recovery as Prime Minister King endorsed closer U S Canada ties to keep world peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Canada
Ottawa
House of Commons
W. L. McKenzie King
United States
Royal Mounted Police
Mr. Truman
Mr. King
Robert Borden
Valley Forge engine room blast injures 14 at Navy base
A high pressure steam line burst in the Valley Forge engine room at the Philadelphia Naval Base injures 14 crew, one in critical condition. The incident occurred today as the carrier was undergoing tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Naval Base
Methodist Hospital to Begin Construction in 1948
Houston Texas June 11 The Texas Methodist Conference announced plans to start building a new 3 060 000 Methodist hospital in the Texas Medical Center in 1948. College Station Texas June 11 Contestants in the annual Texas A and M College state wide model airplane contest slated for June 22 are expected to exceed 150.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Tex
Texas Methodist Conference
Methodist
Texas Medical Center
College Station
State to Aid Farm to Market Road Construction
State Highway Engineer D C Greer announced that the State Highway Department will provide engineering and one fourth of construction costs for farm to market roads in counties that furnish right of way and pay three fourths of the cost. The state will maintain the roads after completion with a maximum of 100000 dollars per county per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
D. C. Greer
State Highway Department
Greer
Committee Says FPHA Failing Miserably Report
The House Appropriations Committee released a report accusing the Federal Public Housing Authority of failing miserably in managing tax payer funded housing. It criticizes a socialistic wartime housing disposal program and claims FHA ignored its duty to World War II veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Federal Public Housing Authority
FHA
Westminster Junior College honors fourteen at commencement
Westminster Junior College Tehuacana held commencement for fourteen graduates in the college auditorium. Dr. William C. Finch Southwestern University administrative assistant delivered the address on The Essentials of Living. Betsy Richardson and John Karner Willis received honors. Summer session begins Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Junior College
Tehuacana
College
William C. Finch
Southwestern University
Finch
Westminster
W. D. Blunk
Betsy Richardson
Mexia
John Karner Willis
Tehua
United States Protests Russian Hungary Coup
The United States sends a formal note to Soviet commander Lt General Sviridov protesting the communist coup in Hungary. The note, delivered by General Weems, hints at UN involvement and seeks a U S Soviet British led investigation. Russia had previously rejected such inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Russia
Hungary
V. P. Sviridov
George H. Weems
Sviridov
Tri-Power Control Commission
United Nations
Don
Austrian Leaders Clash Over Democratic Risk Amid Talks
Vienna reports say Socialist speaker Ernst Koreff warned Austria narrowly escaped Hungary’s fate as talks between Chancellor Figl and Communist Ernst Fischer were labeled an ambush against democracy. Bevin urged rapid disclosure of facts to allow Britons and Europeans to assess potential totalitarian revival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Ernst Koreff
National Assembly
Assembly
Austria
Hungary
Koreff
Leopold Figl
Ernst Fischer
Garsson Admits Subcontract to Andrew May’s Son
Henry M Garsson head of a large wartime munitions combine admitted giving a subcontract to Robert May son of former Congressman Andre J May a few days after a New York wedding party where May was a guest Garsson said he did not know if May was in New York the day of the subcontract The elder May attended the Garsson daughter’s wedding party at the Hotel Pierre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry M. Garsson
Andrewij
May
Robert
New York
Garsson
Robert May
Murray Garsson
Pierre Henry Garsson
Young May
President Auriol Rejects Rail Labor Conference Request
President Vincent Auriol rejected a federation of railroad workers request for a special conference to resolve the nationwide rail strike. He said accepting would substitute him for the government, which is responsible before the national assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Vincent Aurio
Federation of Railroad Workers
National Assembly
Auriol
Federa
Housing Expediter Abolished as House Passes Funding Cut
The House approved legislation to supply 36,097,580 dollars to government owned corporations and to abolish the Housing Expediter, dissolving the office after June 30. The bill now moves to the Senate for action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
China protests to Moscow over Sinkiang border clash
The report states China sent a stiff protest to Moscow after Outer Mongolian forces attacked Peitashan in Sinkiang on June 5 in retaliation for a prior Chinese capture of eight Mongolians and a horse. The Chinese ambassador to Moscow was asked to convey that China views the invasion with deep concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
Sinkiang
Russia
China
Moscow
Peitashan
Chitai
Stocks Rise Near One Billion on Tax Bill Signals
New York June 11 Stocks climbed almost a billion dollars as Sen George of Georgia urged President Truman to sign the tax bill. Despite his private belief that the president would veto, traders welcomed any move toward lower tax rates and a possible veto was seen as a blow to business and taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eighth Avenue
Madison Square Garden
CIO
Philip Murray
Sen. George
Truman
George
Wall Street
Braniff Chart Shows Pilot Aid with City Tabs
Braniff Airways displays an hourly status chart for 30 city routes. The wall lists pilot check in points and includes radio ranges landing towers instrument systems runways field wear weather facilities and fuel and radio systems mapped to each city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braniff
Texans Seek Funds for Rivers and Harbors Projects
A Texas delegation urged a House Appropriations Subcommittee to approve river and harbor development funds in Texas. About 30 witnesses testified before the subcommittee on War Department civil functions appropriations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Texas
War Department
Hungary weighs choice between meddling imperialists and free nations
Jozsef Revai, Communist Party whip in the National Assembly, urged Hungary to choose between meddling imperialists and nations that respect sovereignty as acting foreign minister Erno Mihalysi submitted a bill for ratifying the Hungarian peace treaty. Diplomatic sources expect British representations to Russia as well. The United States denounced Bulgarian arrests and charged Soviet officials with violating Yalta terms, framing the Soviet-backed ouster of Hungary as coercion and intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Jozsef Revai
Communist Party
National Assembly
Hungary
Evai
Erno Mihalysi
Assembly
Russia
Britain
Sviridov
Weems
Sheriff Testifies in Buttermilk Case Confession Claimed
Nacogdoches County Sheriff Hagen Parmely testified that Mrs Dorothy Stokes confessed on May 13 after long questioning that she killed Doriene Garrett with strychnine in the so called poison buttermilk case. He said she refused to give full details claiming it’s a long story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nacogdoches
Hagen Parmely
Nacogdoches County
Dorothy Stokes
Doriene Garrett
Senator Ives Calls Discrimination an American Dilemma
Sen. Irving M. Ives of New York denounces discriminatory employment practices as an American dilemma and testifies at Senate labor hearings on a bill to outlaw race religion color and national origin employment discrimination. Support exists in GOP and northern Democrats but Southern Democrats oppose passage this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Murray
Washington
Irving M. Ives
N. Y
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oakland
Cal
Eaff Shore
San Francisco Bay
AT & T
Anaconda
Braniff Airlines
Chrysler
Comw & Son
Curtiss Wright
Gen Elec
Gen Met
Phillips Pet
Pure Oil
Stand Oil NJ
Tex Corp
US Steel
Curtis Humble Oil
Lose Star Gas
Jess
Chicago Sun Syndicate
George J. Schoeneman
Newport
R. 1
Internal Revenue
Revenue Burea
Mrs. Stanford
Pt. Enterprise
Mariahuana
Chillicothe
Grand River
N.Y
Los. Angeles
AFL Central Labor Council
Council
W. J. Bassett
AFL
Aiden
FPHA
Future Plans
Bulgaria
Balkans
London
Pakenham
House of Lords
Ernest Bevin
Commons Today
Ate Mece Bevin
Foreign Office
Maurice Peterson
Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Mr. Petkov
Dimitrov
Petkov
Andrew May
Braniff Airways
Ask Texas Waterway Funds
Nikola Petkov
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!