La Guardia Warns Congress Stop Monkeying With OPA
UNRRA Chief Fiorello La Guardia urged Congress to stop meddling with OPA as Senate hearings probe the food situation and bread shortage. Chester Bowles backed price control and discussed bread rationing options with Agriculture officials noting mills bakers and stores deserve equitable shares while consumer rationing is not yet justified.
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Washington
UNRRA
Fiorello la Guardia
Congress
OPA
Chester Bowles
Senate
Small Business Committee
Bowles
Agriculture Department
Senate Banking Committee
House
Richard A Ford Dies in Amarillo at 54
Richard A. Ford of Amarillo died at 9 02 yesterday in North West Texas Hospital at age 54. He was general manager of the Canadian River Gas Company and longtime Amarillo resident born in Wise County on April 26 1892. He had worked at Russell Cockrell Stationery and Santa Fe before helping organize the Amarillo Oil Company which merged with Canadian River Gas, where he rose to general manager. He was a member of Polk Street Methodist Church Rotary International and Khiva Shrine. Survivors include his wife Verda Ford and daughter Virginia of Amarillo, six brothers and a nephew. The body lies in state at N S Griggs & Sons pending arrangements.
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Richard A. Ford
Amarillo
Northwest Texas
Mr. Ford
Canadian River Gas Company
Western
Wise County
Russell Cockrell Stationery Company
Santa Fe
Albert R. Jones
Mrs. Mittie Lee Duncan Rites Scheduled
Funeral services for Mrs. Mittie Lee Duncan 56 will be held Sunday at 2 PM in Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Rev J Dewey Horton will officiate. She died Thursday in a Can yon hospital after seven years residence there. Surviving: two sons George L Duncan and Frank W Duncan Amarillo a daughter Opal L Duncan Newark NJ four brothers and a sister. Burial in Shamrock cemetery beside her husband W J Duncan.
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Mittie Lee Duncan
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home
J. Dewey Horton
Pierce Street Baptist Church
Duncan
Canyon
George L Duncan
Frank W. Duncan
Amarillo
Opal UL. Duncan
Newark
N. J
Shamrock Cemetery
Ee W. J. Duncan
John B Kerr Rites Held in Amarillo
Services honoring John B. Kerr, 86, held at Polk Street Methodist Church with Pastor Neal D. Cannon and other clergy. He died Thursday in San Antonio after living in Amarillo since 1889. survivors include three sons, a daughter, four brothers, six grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Burial in Llano Cemetery under Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
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John B. Kerr
Polk Street Methodist Church
Neal D. Cannon
Earl G. Hamlett
R. Thomson
First Presbyterian Church
John Armstrong
Carl Hill
E. E. Adams
D. S. Watkins
Henry
Mr. Kerr
San Antonio
Amarillo
Herman Kerr
Horace Kerr
F. F. Kerr
San Diego
Cal
Ruth McSwain
Llano Cemetery
Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Home
Kelvinator Plants Reopen Detroit Recall 16,000 Workers
Kelvinator Corporation announced a June 10 recall of 16,000 employees in its Michigan and Wisconsin plants after closures on May 24 due to rail and coal strikes.
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Kelvinator
Detroit
U.P
Nash- Kelvinator Corporation
Michigan
Wisconsin
Pair Charged In Burglary At Butler Field Dress Rooms
Florencio Rael and Alfonso Fajar das both 17 were charged with burglary after entry to Butler Field dress rooms about 6:30 pm Thursday. Six other youths are said to be juveniles and will not face district court charges. Adrian James also faced a separate car charge with a $750 bond.
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Florencio Rael
Alfonso Fajardas
J. D. Cazzell
Butler Field
Adrian James
West Eighth
Court of Justice of the Peace
Charley Carder
James
E. E. Maki
North West Fourth
Dixie Dice Troupe Closes 46 Revue
The Dixie Dice Troupe from Amarillo closed its ninth annual revue last night in the high school auditorium after more than 100 youngsters participated. The first performance began Thursday night and there will be no more revues until next year unless someone talks Dixie into it.
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Dixie Dice
Amarillo
Dixie
UN Economic Council faces union voice clash in New York
United Nations Economic and Social Council members debated a French proposal to grant the World Federation of Trade Unions a larger role. The plan drew strong opposition from the United States and Great Britain, while backing came from Russia Czechoslovakia Ukraine Belgium and Peru.
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New York
United Nations Economic and Social Council
World Federation of Trade Unions
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Ukraine
Belgium
Peru
Debated Council on WFTU Role and NGO Access
The council's arrangements committee will redraft recommendations after three hours of debate. Delegates Hauck Feeney and.Kiman urged expanding WFTU access, while critics warned of broader demands. Mimi the cat features in a neighborhood dog tale attached to Armand Doche of 1026 Travis.
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Council
WFTU
Henri Hauck
Nikolai J. Feeney
Sidney Kiman
London
General Assembly
Senator Connally
Texas
Assembly
American Federation of Labor
CIO
U. S
John G. Winant
AFL
Philip J. Noel-Baker
United Kingdom
Mrs Clara Hughes Dies in Amarillo at 73
Mrs Clara Hughes 73 died yesterday in Northwest Texas Hospital. A resident of Amarillo for 20 years her home is 501 Alabama. She belonged to San Jacinto Methodist Church and the Eastern Star Bonita Chapter and was a charter member of the Royal Neighbors of Checotah Oklahoma. Survived by husband A D Hughes two daughters Oma Blattenburg Amarillo and Mrs Tom Morris Odessa a granddaughter Oma Clare Morris a sister Frances Noetner Se Jacobs Ill and a brother Max Rinert Flora Ill. Body at N S Griggs & Sons pending arrangements.
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Clara Hughes
Northwest Texas
Amarillo
Alabama
William B. Smith Dies From Self-Inflicted Wounds at Higgins
William B. Smith 62, a painter and carpenter, died of bullet wounds at 1 45 PM in front of his Higgins apartment behind the Higgins Hotel. An inquest led by Justice of the Peace R E Stoker found the shooting witnessed by Bud Walker who said Smith fired twice while seated. Smith had been despondent over heart trouble for weeks. Surviving are a daughter Mrs Joseph Johnson Evansville Ind a son Billy Frank Smith Evansville and two sisters Mrs Jim Bailey Higgins and Mrs Pearl Hobgood Bisbee Ariz. Funeral arrangements pending arrival of relatives.
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Smith
Joseph Johnson
Evansville
Ind
Billy Frank Smith
Jim Bailey
Higgins
Pearl Hobgood
Bisbee
Ariz
Surplus Sale Slated Monday at Childress Army Field
Sixth in a series of surplus Army property sales begins Monday at Childress Army Air Field. Lt. Charles P. Carley announces display through next Friday with 8 am to 4 pm viewing. Bidding opens June 17 with highest bid winning. naval personnel eligible, War Department and Army employees barred.
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Childress Army Air Field
Charles P. Carlley
War Department
Army
Retirement Near For Rosendahl
The Navy Bureau of Personnel announced Rear Adm. Charles E. Rosendahl, chief of the Naval Air Ship and Experimental Command at Lakehurst New Jersey, is before the retirement board for examination with orders to home. He was navigator of the Shenandoah when it crashed near Ava Ohio in 1925 killing 14 of 43 crew.
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Washington
Navy Bureau of Personnel
Charles E. Rosendahl
Rosendahl
Naval Air Ship and Experimental Command
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Retiring Board
Ava
King George Bestows Honor on Gen McNarney at Buckingh am Palace
London June 7 Gen Joseph T. McNarney commander of U S troops in the European Theater was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Bath by King George at Buckingham Palace British subjects invested with ProB are entitled to be called a Yr.
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London
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S
Bath
King George
Buckingham Palace
Navy Plans First Space Rocket Flight From White Sands
The Navy will launch a 100 mile high rocket from White Sands Proving Ground Las Cruces New Mexico on June 27. A tiny robot laboratory in the nose will transmit data back as scientists track the six minute flight and study cosmic rays high altitude radiation and solar rays. Subsequent weekly flights may reach higher into space and carry seeds for radiation effect tests.
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Washington
Navy
Bureau of Research and Inventions
White Sands Proving Ground
Las Cruces
N. M
Earth
N. J. Bowen
Army Ordnance Engineers
Army
Germany
Harvard University
Fire Loss 75000 Damages Draper-Ross Produce Co
An explosion at 12:45 spread flames through a Draper-Ross Produce Co building, though the concrete structure held. Firefighters battled burning timbers and flying debris as inventories including tomatoes oranges lettuce and other produce were destroyed. The firm plans to move operations to rail side and Sides Fruit Co until a new location is found.
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Bill Satterwhite
Ong
Santa Fe
Faye Carter
Taylor
Golden Ames
Buchanan
Central
Sixteenth Street
North Side
San Jacinto
Lincoln
Nueces
Eighth and
Williams
Sherman County farmers seek change to wheat sale rule
Sherman County Farm Bureau leader R. C. Buckles presided at a mass meeting in Stratford at 10 am urging revision of the government program requiring farmers to sell half their delivered wheat to elevators. They seek option to sell on current market and wait for future prices until March 31, 1947 and to use normal channels or a method like the emergency wheat program.
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Stratford
Sherman County
R. C. Buckles
Sherman County Farm Bureau
China Braces for 15 Day Manchuria Truce
Nanking reports a 15 day armistice in Manchuria as negotiators seek peace between National troops and Communist forces. Chiang Kai-shek ordered a cease fire amid fears of civil war while Chou Enlai and aides travel to Yenan to confer with leaders, using General Marshall’s plane.
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Nanking
China
Manchuria
Manchurian
Terce Wrens
Chiang Kai-shek
Chou En-lai
Lu Ting-yi
Yenan
Marshall
Chou
Ina
Texas A&M board cited in Sweatt v UT entry dispute
Atty Gen Grover Sellers filed in 126th District Court an answer for University of Texas officials in the Sweatt mandamus suit to force UT to enroll Héman Marian Sweatt as a law student. The defense argues improper suit, cites Texas A&M act mandating black legal training, and assigns remedy against the board, not UT officials. Judge Roy C Archer set June 17 hearing.
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Austin
Grover Sellers
126Th District Court
University of Texas
Héman Marian Sweatt
Houston
E& Law
Sweatt
Prairie View University
Texas A. & M. Board of Directors
State of
Texas
Roy C. Archer
GI brutality trial blocked witnesses charge frame up
Seventeen American soldiers in Bad Nauheim refuse to testify at the trial of Lt Leonard W. Ennis charged with mistreating inmates at Lichfield detention camp. The mass protest halted the prosecution, forcing adjournment and shifting focus as Cubage’s trial likewise faced halted testimony and altered scheduling. Col Martin G. White ordered a delay until Monday while defense changes were arranged.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
U. S
Pfc
Peter Claim
Uniontown
Lichfield
Leonard W. Ennis
Peekskill, N. Y
Eng
Granville Cubage
Oklahoma City
Ennis
Cubage
Martin G. White
Tyler
Tex
Amarillo and Hereford Attend Clovis Pioneer Day Parade
Amarillo and Hereford delegations totaling 321 joined Clovis for the fifth Pioneer Day and Rodeo Show. A Santa Fe special carried bands from Amarillo Hereford Roswell and Clovis. The parade featured four bands 250 participants and floats from Beta Sigma Phi Kiwanis Southern Union Gas. United States Senator Carl Hatch attended the rodeo with 75 contestants from five states drawing 6000 spectators.
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Amarillo
Hereford
New Mexico
Panhandle
Clovis
Santa Fe
Jerry Briscoe
Sunshine City
Tom Hart
Mason King
Roswell
Carroll McMath
Jessie Anne Buckner
Main Street
Beta Sigma Phi
Fannie Herron
Kiwanis Club
Southern Union Gas Company
Clovis Army Air Field
Wayne Evans
Hereford Chamber of Commerce
Len Snyder
H. A. Close
E. B. Posey
Buck Owens
Russell Hunter
Ike Crosthwait
Wallie Mc
In the Flesh at CloVis Pioneer Day Parade
A Clo vis News-Journal observer at the Pioneer Day parade asks if a cowboy’s spats are real leather. A nearby cattleman answers that both the spats and the skin on his face are genuine.
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Clovis
Clovis News-Journal
Gems theft case touches European theater court martial
Four service members on terminal leave face possible court martial in the European Theater for larceny of jewels buried beneath a castle in Fall 1944. Princess Sophie had asked about the gems in January and attempted to claim them in April. The War Department led a nationwide manhunt, with the Army pursuing charges without FBI involvement.
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Miller
WAC
Hesse
Queen Victoria
England
Sophie
Germany
United States
War Department
Army
FBI
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Armand Doche
Travis
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