Run Off Candidates Outline Plans for Races
Four bitter battles shape for Aug. 24 as Texas runoffs loom after a tight primary. Gov. Coke Stevenson predicts Rainey will not gain more votes. Official tallies show Jester leads in governor race with Rainey, Shivers tops lieutenant governor, and Beauchamp edges Owens in criminal appeals. A London court links Neville Heath to a second murder after the Bournemouth killing of a movie extra.
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Associated Press
Texas Election Bureau
Beauford H. Jester
Homer P. Rainey
Allan Shivers
Boyce House
Agriculture Commission
J. E. McDonald
R. E. McDonald
Tom L. Beauchamp
Jesse Owens
Dallas Times-Herald
Grover Sellers
Jester
Sellers
Coke Stevenson
Rainey
Stevenson
Austin
Texas
Dallas
Marshall
Arthur B. Knickerbocker
Major Lentz
Knickerbocker
War Patterson
Senator Connally
Representative Patman
Election Bureau
Brinkley
Brown
Burks
Hutchinson
March
McNutt
Minto
Sadler
Shaw
Smith
Turner
Price Daniel
Pat Neff, Jr
House
Mills
Shivers
Walker
Winfree
Agriculture
Chambers
Hill
Supreme Court
Hubbard
Smedley
Baker
Beauchamp
Dickson
Owens
London
Doreen Marshal
Channel
Bournemouth
Britain
Neville George Clevely Heath
Witnesses Describe Sadistic Assault in Mrs Gardner Case
Dr. Keith Simpson testified Mrs Gardner was beaten and tortured before death with 17 welts and teeth marks. Morgan said Heath described the crime to Miss Symonds as if present at the scene, implying Heath himself staged the account and may be the killer.
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Keith Simpson
Morgan
Morgan recounts Gardner murder linked flight to Bournemouth
In a case tying the Gardner slaying to a Bournemouth visit, Morgan cites a blood stained riding switch found with Heath under arrest as a key clue. A man who dined with Miss Marshal on July 3 offered help, spurring police to question and identify him.
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Morgan
Gardner
Heath
Bournemouth
Marshall
Miss Marshal
Bus Crash Into River Kills Three Injures Forty Seven
Vernon dispatch reports a Continental Trailways bus left the road near Vernon and plunged 20 feet into the Pease River killing three and injuring 47. Driver James A. Napier said loss of control after sideswiping a tree caused the wreck en route from Amarillo to Wichita Falls.
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Vernon
Pease River
Here
James A. Napier
Wichita Falls
Continental Trailways
Fred Tripp
Wichita Daily Times
Cynthia Ann Clark
James R. Clark
Polk
Amarillo
Mary Wolfenberger
Saint Jo
Tex
M. M. Green
Broken Bow
Okla
Vernon Clinic
Napier
Bus Company
H. I. Allison
Waco
Albert Clark
Liberty Hills
Lucile Green
Houston
Aragut
Hondo
Charles Singleton
Roswell
Jesse Mann
W. M. Green
Green
H. H. Johns
Dallas
Everett Rowell
Marlow
E. E. Richardson
Tech
Loii Miller
Covington
Jesse R. Reed
C. L. Donnelly
Las Vegas
Stanley Madsen
Emmett
Idaho
J. Miles
Centerville
Utah
L. V. Henson
Corpus Christi
Mark E& Cullers
Bryson
Marcy L Scott
San Antonio
George A. Conjey
Tulsa
Clemie Warner
Pfc
Jack Galston Goodwell
E. H. Scott
Canyon
Charles Gibbs
Haskell
Golden A. Beene
Wilson
Emily Hahn and Boxer Take Daughter to England on Queen Mary
Major Charles Boxer of the British Army, his wife Emily Hahn and their daughter Carola traveled aboard the Queen Mary bound for Southampton. The English major, who married Hahn last November after a child was born in China, reports back for duty in England.
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New York
Emily Hahn
China
Charles Boxer
Carola
Southampton
Private Planes In Field Exhibit At Amarillo Air Field Birthday
Amarillo Army Air Field hosts an open house celebrating the Air Force 39th anniversary with a private planes exhibit. Local dealers display Stinson Voyager 150 Cessna 140 Ercoupe Aeronca Piper Cub Luscombe while Col. Joe Warner invites other private owners to show aircraft. The field gates open 10 AM to 7 PM and Army airplanes stage an afternoon air show with a GI flying program booth spotlighted.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Stinson
Ercoupe
Aeronca
Piper Cub
Luscombe
Joe Warner
Amarillo
De Gaulle Warns of World War III in New Speech
BAR LE DUC FRANCE July 29 General Charles de Gaulle speaks frankly about the danger of a third world war if Germany regains strength by allying with others. He portrays France as dwarfed between two powers and urges a swift British French alliance to anchor a Western European bloc for self preservation amid US and USSR future relations.
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Washington
Lindsay Warren
Senate War Investigating Committee
Bar-Le-Duc
France
Charles de Gaulle
Germany
de Gaulle
America
Russia
Housing Bill Is Left by Wayside
Washington July 29 Congress adjournment loomed as long range Truman housing plan stalled in House Banking Committee. Senate approved, but full public hearings blocked here. The measure would fund 1.5 million dwellings annually for ten years including 125000 public housing units amid broader postwar housing push.
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Washington
Garsson
Representative Coffee
Congress
Senate
House-Senate
War Department
Treasury
Mead
Garsson Combine
Combine
General Accounting Office
George W. Parker
Howard Aircraft Corporation
Forrest W. Smith
Schwitger- Cummings Company
Indianapolis
Ind
Ordnance Department
G. I. Calvert
Sheffield Steel Corporation
Houston
Truman
House Banking Committee
Senate Banking Committee
Roy S. Thompson
New Orleans
Daniel W. Bell
George H. Mead
Dayton
House
Barkley
Kentucky
Spence
Rayburn
War Plant Use Gets A. and M. Study
President Gibb Gilchrist of Texas A and M College arrived in Washington to discuss the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant at McGregor Texas as a farm experiment center. Representative Poage said the two would seek action at War Assets Administration with plans to acquire 18 000 acres and buildings for a nominal credit to taxpayers.
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Washington
Gibb Gilchrist
Texas A. & M. College
McGregor
Texas
Poage
Gilchrist
War Assets Administration
Fort Worth Man James Evades Police On Highways
Amarillo police captured 21 year old Frank James, sought by Fort Worth officers for armed robbery. After disarming two cops near Azle, he hijacked a Wichita Falls car and sped northwest toward Electra. He is believed to be wandering toward Oklahoma with highways sealed by local and state authorities.
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Frank James
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Electra
Wichita Falls
Oklahoma
James
Arillo
Dodson
Waco
OPA Boosts Retail Ceiling on Men Shirts and Pajamas
The OPA authorizes an 11 percent general increase in retail ceiling prices for men shirts shorts and pajamas and offers up to an additional 10 percent for dress and boys shirts in lower price brackets. Maximums include about 1.84 for dress shirts and 1.04 1.35 for various boys shirts. The rises reflect higher costs for cotton textiles and labor through June 30 with more increases likely under the revival price control law.
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Washington
OPA
Taylor Named On Meat Group
PAWHUSKA Okla July 29 H M Mundy president of the Joint Livestock Committee of America named three men to confer with the governments decontrol on meat industry policies Jay Taylor Amarillo Tex William W Yunglass Sioux City Ia and William Farr Greeley Colo were chosen The committee 136 livestock organizations opposes reinstitution of controls and Taylor said he would seek an audience with the decontrol board at the earliest convenience until the board is operating the group will wait and continue its opposition to reestablishing controls
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Pawhuska
Okla
H. H. Mundy
Joint Livestock Committee of America
Munday
Chicago
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Tex
William W. Yunglass
Sioux City
William Farr
Greeley
Colo
Taylor
Mundy
Mr. Taylor
Moisture Is Sample Only In Amarillo Weather
Dark clouds lingered over Amarillo as 96 degree heat persisted with only a trace of rain. Weathermen at English Field warned conditions were not right for measurable precipitation. a brief shower did little to relieve the drought.
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Amarillo
Toaf
English Field
Tuberculosis Rate Climbs in American Occupation Zone
Frankfurt reports a 120 percent rise in tuberculosis cases over five months, with new cases increasing from 17 to 37 per 10 000 and mortality from 9 53 to 2 090 per 10 000. Lt. Col. James R. Pappas, public health officer, cites the figures for the military government.
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Frankfurt
Germany
James R. Pappas
Australian Demand First Jolt on Road to Peace
In Paris the European peace conference opened with Australian external affairs minister Herbert Evatt demanding that small nations have a strong voice in drafting peace terms. He urged that the 21 invited governments share final decision power, signaling potential governance rules for the conference and the postwar treaties with former Axis satellites.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
Luxembourg Palace
Australia
Herbert Vv. Evatt
Big Four
Evatt
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
Versailles
Russia
Luxembourg
Senate cuts air mail postage to 6 cents an ounce
In Washington on July 29 the Senate voted to reduce air mail postage from 8 to 6 cents per ounce. The bill returns to the House which had earlier approved a 5-cent rate.
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Senate
Washington
House
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity heats up
Partly cloudy and hot through Tuesday and Tuesday night in West Texas and New Mexico. Temperatures mostly range 90 to 100 degrees with scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms mainly in mountain areas. Sunrise at 5 55 AM and sunset at 7 51 PM. Precipitation for 24 hours ending at 4 PM shows trace amounts.
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Weathereather Bureau
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Woo
Tan
Amarillo budgets face public hearing on Monday night
Amarillo Independent School District and Amarillo College will hold public hearings next Monday at 7 30 PM in the high school superintendents office. The board approved budgets with a two cent college tax rate hike and salaries raised for Charles M Rogers and George Waddill.
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Amarillo Independent School District
Amarillo College
George Waddill
Serene Wre Wheany Vem
Nine Injured in Dallas Warehouse and Shop Fire
A pair of spectacular fires in Dallas caused about 300000 in damage and injured nine people none seriously. The Strickland Transportation warehouse fire destroyed ten trucks and half a million pounds of cargo while a nearby brick shopping-center blaze gutted seven stores. Fire officials called it the biggest of its kind in five years. Investigators considered a cigarette as a possible cause amid reports of butane tank explosions.
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Dallas
Strickland Transportation Company
B. C. Hilton
Amarillo
Trickland Company
Wichita Falls
Houston
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Little Rock
Shreveport
Memphis
Oklahoma City
Hilton
Louis R. Strickland
Senate Doubles Regular Army Officer Strength
The Senate approved by unanimous consent a bill to raise Regular Army officer strength from 25,000 to 50,000. The measure now goes back to the House for action on Senate amendments.
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Senate
Washington
House
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