Byrnes backs small nations at European Peace talks
Secretary Byrnes urged the 21 nations to welcome smaller powers in shaping the final four power treaty drafts. He pledged U.S. support for revisions by a two thirds vote and said the United States will not return to isolation or seek a peace of vengeance. Attlee and Spaak supported open sessions and press access while Kardelj was nominated vice chairman.
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Paris
Byrnes
United States
Rules Committee
Attlee
Four Power Council of Foreign Ministers
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
Soviet Union
Edward Kardelj
Yugoslavia
Britain
Romania
Hungary
Texarkana Aldermen Indicted in Bribery Case
Three Texarkana aldermen Albert McWilliams Harry L Everett and Lee Talley and property owner Mayor W N Harkness face bribery indictments D H Lee is indicted for giving a bribe. The council approved a street extension through Lees property in a 16000 land deal. Bond set at 1000 per indictment with McWilliams 5000. All indicted declined to comment.
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Texarkana
Tex
D. H. Lee
Albert McWilliams
Harry L. Everett
Lee Talley
W. N. Harkness
Lee
McWilliam
McWilliams
Harkness
Price Ceilings Take Elevator
Washington reports indicate higher price ceilings for canned vegetables breakfast cereals coffee and possibly bread and bakery items. OPA plans further garment price hikes perhaps 15 to 20 percent under the new price control law with cotton textiles up about 16 percent. Industry asked for 4 percent and the original proposal was about 14 percent. Subisidies on coffee likely not restored. Now open in new location Thomas Dinner House 516 N Fillmore.
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Washington
OPA
Highway Hearing Set for 24 Projects Across 28 Texas Counties
The State Highway Commission announces public hearings in Austin for tomorrow and Thursday on 24 highway projects spanning 28 Texas counties. Counties listed include Childress Collin Donley Hall Motley Swisher. Russell Stationery Co advertises tape dispensers at 611 Taylor with phone 2-1257.
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Austin
State Highway Commission
Texas
Childress
Collin
Donley
Hall
Motley
Swisher
Russell Stationery Co
Taylor
Rigid British Curfew Grips Tel Aviv in 22-Hour Lockdown
British troops imposed a 22 hour curfew on Tel Aviv residents and ordered a house to house search for Jewish underground suspects after the King David Hotel bombing. The city became a near ghost town as arrests were expected and communications were cut.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
King David Hotel
Jewish Agency
Palestine
Allen Cunningham
Record Production Rise Warns of Looming Labor Shortage
Civilian Production Administration chief John D Small reports a strong June postwar peak with gains in steel and coal and a forecast of a record volume of goods for 1946. He warns a serious labor shortage may limit output this year, urging rapid recruitment and overtime to meet demand. The report notes rising prices and productivity constraints as key factors shaping continued growth.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
John D. Small
Small
CPA
Detroit
OPA Sugar Rationing Chief Sees Shortage Easing
George Dice head of the OPA sugar division told Congress that the hit to sugar supply would ease soon. Testifying before the House Food Shortages Committee he said in about two weeks most households would have enough sugar to meet ration allowances.
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Washington
George Dice
OPA
Congress
House Committee On
Dice
Marines Search for Missing After Peiping Clash
Three hundred U S Marines with howitzers comb a cornfield near Peiping after a 100-man convoy is ambushed 35 miles southeast of the city. Four Marines are dead, 19 wounded, with other personnel unaccounted for as patrols and warplanes scour the area.
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Peiping
U. S
Tientsin
Coffee Insists Gitt Was for Campaign
Washington July 30 AP Representative Coffee of Washington testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee that a $2,500 check from a defense contractor was a campaign contribution. He denied any service agreement or hiring arrangement and said the payment was not reported as a gift on his 1941 tax returns.
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Gitt
Washington
Coffee
Wash
Renarrington
Senate War Investigating Committee
Eivind Anderson
Taco
Conma, Wash
Anderson
Paul
War Department
Olson
Tacoma
Republican National Committee
Ferguson
Michigan
Nimitz Calls 1947 Funds Inadequate for Fleet Modernization
Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz told an Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion board that 1947 funds are insufficient for modernization to exploit atomic and Bikini-test lessons. He said aircraft procurement will cover only half the needed volume and current standards risk national security.
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Washington
U.P. Fleet
Chester Nimitz
Naval Operations
Nimitz
Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Board
Negroes charge Bilbo Talmadge at Justice Dept
A negro delegation demanded charges of incitement to murder against Sen. Theodore Bilbo and Gov-Elect Eugene Talmadge. They urged federal action to identify and prosecute white men who lynched four black people near Monroe Georgia last week.
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Washington
Justice Department
Sen
Theodore Bilbo
Mississippi
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Bilbo
Talmadge
Monroe
Vega Bull Sets Auction Record at Amarillo Sale
A Milking Shorthorn bull weighing about 1995 pounds sold for 269 and 13.50 per cwt setting a new gross price record at Amarillo Livestock Auction Co. The bull, owned by Claude Morris of Vega, had been in Morris's possession for over eight years after an initial purchase of 1100.
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Amarillo Livestock Auction Co
Claude Morris
Vega
Morris
Voters Leave Polls at San Antonio Queues Saturday
Election officials say at least 6,000 San Antonio voters left polling places without voting rather than wait in long lines Saturday.
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San Antonio
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and Southwest Region
Weather Bureau reports clear conditions early Wednesday then scattered afternoon clouds and hot temperatures across Amarillo and West Texas. New Mexico shows partly cloudy skies with isolated mountain thunderstorms, highs 90 to 100, with extended period through Aug 3 forecasting above normal temperatures and little precipitation.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Soviet Officers Freed in Berlin After Unauthorized Trip
Capt Harold Cobin of New York City and Lt. George Wyatt of Oklahoma City were released by Russian authorities in Berlin after vanishing July 4 during an unauthorized trip into the Soviet occupation zone. General Keating said no prisoner exchange occurred, contrasting with a separate case involving a warrant officer and wife freed in exchange for Russians. Mrs Cobin planned a victory party after learning Harold would return, noting they had not seen each other in two and a half years.
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Berlin
Harold Cobin
New York City
George Wyatt
Oklahoma City
Walter A. Keating
U. S. Army
Mary Cobin
Harold
Heirens confession session ends with memory lapses
In Chicago on July 30, 17 year old University of Chicago student William Heirens halted a planned confession to the Suzanne Degnan kidnap murder and two other killings. State's Attorney Tuohy announced murder charges would proceed while Heirens, citing a severe headache, answered "I don't remember" to questions and was granted a continuance to August 14.
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Chicago
William Heirens
University of Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
William J. Tuohy
Degnan
Frances Brown
Josephine Ross
Tuohy
Heirens
Brown
John Coghlan
Settles Reno Dice Debt Ends Merrill's 141000 Dollar Payout
Dallas July 30 Fred Merrill Texas rancher who won 188500 in a 12 hour dice game in Reno Frontier Club July 10-11 today received final payment of 141375 from F L Dub McClanahan Dallas oil man and club owner The check was brought to Dallas by a silent partner of the club Internal Revenue Collector Herbert E Arnold noted the tax on 141375 would be about 83000 Merrill said his last bet was 30600 on Little Joe a four on the hard points and he made it
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Dallas
Fred Merrill
Reno
Frontier Club
F. L
Dub) McClanahan
Herbert E. Arnold
Internal Revenue
Merrill
Little Joe
Dallas Builders Approve Pay Hike for Construction Workers
Six thousand Dallas craftsmen will receive hourly increases of 12 1/2 to 25 cents. A joint committee of employers and Dallas building trades council representatives ratified the raise after agreement on new wage rates.
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Dallas
Dallas Building Trades Council
AFL
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