Westminster College Braces for Fall Enrollment Boost
Farmlands and Midwest cities flood again as 17 000 flee Iowa Nebraska Missouri areas. State by state tally notes 1 500 000 acres under water and levee breaks endangering towns along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Army planes deliver blankets food and relief to Ottumwa Iowa and other evacuees amid rising flood waters.
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Chandlerville
Ilinois
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Chicago
Merger Proposed for Three Bus Companies in West
An application will be filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to merge three intercity bus firms in the National Trailways system. The Santa Fe Trail Transportation Company Continental Bus System Inc. and the Dixie Motor Coach Corpora will form Transcontinental Bus System Inc with Dallas Texas as headquarters.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
National Trailways Bus System
Santa Fe Trail Transportation Company
Continental Bus System, Inc
Dixie Motor Coach Corpora
Transcontinental Bus System, Inc
Dallas
Tex
Argentina Approves Bruce as U.S. Ambassador to Argentina
Argentina's foreign office announces James Bruce, 54, nominated as United States ambassador to Argentina succeeding George S. Messersmith. Bruce previously served as assistant military attaché to Italy and as representative at the peace conference in Montenegro and Albania in 1919.
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Argentina
Bruce
Buenos Aires
Foreign Office
James Bruce
United States
George S. Messersmith
Taly
Montenegro
Albania
Lifesaving and swimming classes planned at Mexia Pool
A meeting for organizing swimming and lifesaving classes will be held at the Mexia Swimming Pool on Monday morning June 18 at 9:00 a.m. Rose Marie Hinchliffe to teach beginners to swimmers and Billy Jack Steele to instruct Junior and Senior Lifesaving and offer advance swimming training. Admittance to the pool is the only charge.
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Mexia Swimming Pool
Rose Marie Hinchliffe
Billy Jack Steele
Jester Signs Bill To Keep Government Enemies Off Ballot
Gov Beauford H Jester signed a Texas law denying ballot placement to anyone advocating overthrow of the government by force violence or unconstitutional means The legislation was approved by the 50th legislature and observed in Austin June 14 by Jester and Flag Day observances.
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Jester
Austin
Tex
Beauford H. Jester
Texas
Secretary of State
Fifty Die As PCA Plane Crashes In Virginia Mountains
A Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-1 crashed atop the Blue Ridge near Leesburg Virginia killing all 30 aboard. The wreckage, found by PCA official James Franklin, showed a sudden explosion with the plane in normal flight and at 1600 feet altitude.
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Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Blue Ridge Mountains
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PCA
Franklin
Chicago
Washington
Martinsburg
W. Va
United Air Lines
la Guardia Field
N. Y
Eastern Air
Bainbridge
Pennsylvania
Sen
Ernest Lundeen
Minnesota
Virginia
GOP demand for larger voice in U S foreign policy
Senate leader Arthur H. Vandenberg urged immediate creation of a special bipartisan advisory council at the highest level to help shape U S foreign policy and the European recovery program. Secretary of State George C. Marshall faced the call as Congress weighs wartime aid and national budgeting.
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Washington
George c. Marshal
U. S
Europe
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
United States
J M Walker dies on 87th birthday in Bryan
J M Walker former land commissioner died of a heart attack in Bryan Texas on his 87th birthday. Associates had planned to visit him in Austin before his death and cancel those arrangements.
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Austin
Tex
J. M. Walker
Bryan
Walker
Truman Signs Treaties With Balkans Pressing Disregard for Will of People
President Truman ratified peace treaties with Hungary Romania and Bulgaria and praised Italy while criticizing the regimes in the Balkans as not truly representative. He said governments there disregarded popular will and oppressed citizens, delaying five years of war's end with the United States.
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Balkans
Washington
U. S
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Italy
United States
Landing rights refused at Budapest
Informed sources said June 14 that the Hungarian foreign office rejected a second United States request for temporary landing rights for U.S. commercial planes.
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Budapest
United States
To Install Sheppard President of Jaycees
Attorney John B. Sheppard of Gladewater Texas will be installed as president of the U S Junior Chamber of Commerce in Long Beach California. He was elected unanimously at the JCC convention, has two prior terms as vice president, and succeeds former federal judge Selden F Waldo of Gainesville Florida. He was the first unopposed presidential candidate in 15 years.
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Long Beach
Cal
John B. Sheppard
Gladewater
Tex
U. S
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sheppard
Rescue All Aboard New Orleans From Lena Sinking
June 14 report from Lykes Steamship Co. says all passengers and crewmen were rescued from the burning Swedish motorship Lena Brodin off Bermuda. The schooner Lena Brodin experienced a maritime emergency prompting a coordinated rescue effort.
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New Orleans
Lena
Bermuda
Lykes Steamship Co., Inc
County Engineer Details Boy Scout Road Work Timeline
Mexia Chamber of Commerce Road Committee was informed by County Engineer T H Ralph that work on the Heart of Texas Boy Scout Camp road will start next Monday. Delays from Bains Creek bridge repairs required transporting heavy equipment by truck. crews aim to have the road in good shape by July camp opening.
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T. H
Ralph
Limestone County
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
Heart of Texas
Bains Creek
Vacation Bible School Opens Monday at First Methodist
A Daily Vacation Bible School will begin at 9 am Monday June 16 at the First Methodist Church for children ages four to fifteen. The two week program runs daily from 9 to 11 am with experienced teachers in charge under director Mrs Elmer Carter.
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First Methodist Church
Elmer €. Carter
Poison Buttermilk Defendant Awaits Verdict
Dorothy June Stokes arrived at the Nacogdoches courthouse in a gay mood as a 12 man jury neared its verdict in the poisoning murder of 20 year old Doriene Garrett. The jury was locked in the room awaiting the decision after being sequestered at 3 10 p m yesterday.
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Nacodoches
Tex
Dorothy June Stokes
Doriene Garrett
Nacogdoches
Peace Meeting to Settle Transit Strike Adjourned
A four day key system transit strike peace meeting in Oakland adjourned with no further sessions scheduled until Monday. Attended were system officials union leaders and Federal Conciliator William Curtin. Unions previously indicated willingness to drop demands to $1.35 an hour from $1.56.
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Oakland
Calif
AFL
William Curtin
Nagy claims Reds expelled him over Truman Doctrine
Ferenc Nagy, en route to the United States, said communists ousted him as direct retaliation for the Truman doctrine. Speaking at Shannon before flying to New York, he blamed Soviet backed leaders for Hungary’s crisis and urged Western powers to aid southeastern Europe.
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Ferenc Nagy
United States
Nagy
Shannon
Eire
New York
TWA
Geneva
Switzerland
Hungary
Greece
Turkey
Truman to Send Congress Tax Bill Message Monday
White House said President Truman will send a message to Congress Monday on the Republican sponsored income tax reduction bill. Democratic sources expect a veto and note the measure would cut income levies from 10.3 to 36 percent beginning July 1.
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Truman
Congress
Washington
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Maritime Strike May Be Averted
Washington June 1 The prospect of a coast wide maritime strike eased as the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association CIO ordered 12 000 East and Gulf Coast members to refrain from strike action until further notice during contract talks. Samuel F Hogan advised Labor Secretary Lewis B Schwe llenbach of the stay in effect.
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Washington
Samuel F. Hogan
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
CIO
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Gulf Coast
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