President Truman Clash Over Jackson Public Dispute
President Truman said he tried to stop Justice Jackson from releasing a caustic statement against Justice Black. Jackson sent an advance copy and disclosed it at a Nuernberg news conference and to Congress committees. Truman noted his disapproval but expects no resignations and offered no further action.
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Washington
Truman
Supreme Court
Jackson
Justice Black
Black
White House
Nuernberg
Judiciary Committees
Congress
OPA
Chester Bowles
Truman Mum on Plans For Handling OPA Bill
President Truman avoided pledges on veto plans as Congress debates continuing OPA. Bowles and OPA chief Porter reportedly may resign if the agency remains weakened. Steelman named reconversion director while retaining White House labor advisor duties.
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Truman
Socn
OPA
White House
Capitol
Bowles
Paul Porter
Porter
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate House Conference Committee
First Patients At Polio Center Opened in Plainview
Two patients receive treatment at the West Texas Center for Poliomyelitis. Bobby Ross, 2, Amarillo, and Jimmy Green, 18, Hereford, are the first admissions. Ross arrived Tuesday after Amarillo care. Green arrived Saturday after Friday illness. Both show paralysis with improving responses to Kenney treatment under Dr. Ben Boynton. Elizabeth Nigh leads hot pack work. National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis approved the center.
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Plainview
West Texas Center For
Bobby Ross
Amarillo
Jimmy Green
Hereford
Ross
Green
Kenney
Elizabeth Nigh
Lawrenceville
Diplomatic Tug of War Starts All Over Again in Paris
Paris June 14 diplomats gather as Bevin Byrnes and Molotov join Bidault to resume talks on peace treaties. US sources say no exchanges with Moscow since last month. Byrnes hopeful but prepared to take case to UN if Russia remains firm. US presses for Trieste to Italy and opened Balkans trade with war reparation based on payability. seeks 25-year pact with allies and troop evacuations from Austria.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Conference
United States
Russia
Ernest Bevin
U. S
James F. Byrnes
V. M. Molotov
Georges Bidault
Byrnes
Washington
Moscow
Austria
United Nations Assembly
Trieste
Italy
Balkans
Britain
France
Masked Klan Abduction Beats Georgia Miner, AFL Alleges
The AFL said four masked men claiming Klan ties abducted Willie Dudley at the Gordon plant, beat him with a rubber hose, and warned him to resign from the United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers union. Dudley identified at least one assailant. sheriff blamed anti union locals.
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Washington
AFL
Willie Dudley
Georgia
William Green
Dudley
United Cement,Lime & Gympsum Workers Interna
P. W. Martin Clay Company
Gordon
Green
George Googe
AFL Southern Organization
Ellis Arnall
Martin
Felix C. Jones
Jones
James G. Upshaw
Twiggs County
Wilkinson County
Klux Klan
Atlanta
W. E. Hambrick
Twiggs Cowunty
Hambrick
Durley
George L. Googe
Senate backs Bikini atomic tests despite protests
The Senate approved by voice vote a Navy plan to use a large fleet for Bikini atoll atom bomb tests in the Pacific next month. The decision comes amid debate over limits on fighting ships and amid support for Bernard Baruch's international atomic controls.
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Washington
Senate
Navy
Bikini
Pacific
House
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
New York
Bernard M. Baruch
McMahon
Connecti
End of Maritime Strike as CMU Seals Major Wage Pact
Washington reports a late night settlement ending a nation wide shipping strike after the CMU and allied unions won wide wage gains. Seamen get a 40 hour week with $17.50 monthly rise and Sunday overtime. radiomen and engineers gain overtime terms. longshoremen receive 22 cent hourly increase retroactive to last Oct 1. Retroactive pay and arbitration terms were settled with operators.
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Bridges
Curran
CMU
America
War Labor Board
Committee For Maritime Unity
Maritime
Inten
Plains Scourge Tamed by Texan Turned Alabama Pasture
K. G. Baker, a 55 year old Texan, reorganized Alabama black belt pastures by pairing clover and Dallis grass with Johnson grass. His rotation yields 11 months of pasture yearly with Caley peas as fall forage. He promotes two thirds clover Dallis and one third Johnson Caley systems.
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Panhandle
Johnson Grass
Alabama
K. G. Baker
Quitaque
Mr. Baker
Amarillo
J. C. Baker
Fountain
B. E. Foster
Harrison
T. J. Page
Jackson
Dallas
Alabama Black Belt
Marion Junction
Ala
King Cotton
Black Lands
White Lands
Baker
Black Belt
United States
Beauty's Photo Close at Death
A former Marine, Donald J. Rasmussen of Chicago, was found dead in his car with a .45 pistol and a large photo of Miss Joyce Schmidt. A coroner's jury ruled death by self inflicted wound while temporarily insane. Rasmussen had fallen in love with Schmidt after seeing her picture. she declined his proposals as she wished to finish college.
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Chicago
Donald J. Rasmussen
Joyce Schmidt
Joyce
Schmidt
Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Summary
Partly cloudy weather with little temperature change expected Saturday and Saturday night for Amarillo and West Texas. Temperatures show daytime highs around the mid 80s to 90s with overnight lows near the mid 50s. sunrise at 5 32 A M and sunset at 8 02 P M.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Temere
Jury Clears Authorities in Columbia Racial Disturbance
A federal grand jury found no evidence of civil rights violations in the Columbia Tennessee disturbances that left two Black victims dead and several wounded. The report criticizes Communist press and pamphleteers for inflaming tensions and highlights swift state action that halted a possible race war.
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Nashville, Tenn
Columbia, Tenn
Atty
Tom Clark
Columbia
Federal
State Highway Patrol
Tennessee State Guard
Jim McCord
Nashville
Return of non volunteer enlisted fathers ordered by War Department
The War Department announced a turn from overseas for non volunteer enlisted fathers and men with 21 months or more service. Commanders in the United States are authorized to discharge surplus non-volunteer enlisted men with over 21 months service. Most fathers are expected back by Aug 31. About 133,000 men are affected across Pacific areas interior zone European Theater and other overseas theaters. Pvt George E Balls of Dumas is aboard the Noumea due in San Francisco today.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Congress
United States
Pacific
Zone of the Interior
San Francisco
George E. Balls of
Dumas
Noumea
Fire Devours Hereford Elevator In Grain Mill Blaze
Hereford grain mill owned by Alton Fraser caught fire shortly before 11 last night and burned out of control by midnight. Firefighters from Amarillo Friona Canyon and Hereford Prisoner of War Camp assisted Hereford volunteers as flames spread through the four story milling plant and its 105 foot elevator. Damage was estimated around 100000 dollars with hot spots in the number two elevator and collapsing sheet metal walls.
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Hereford
Fraser Milling Company
Alton Fraser
Fraser
Government Eyes Wheat Movement in Texas and Oklahoma
Agents and accountants of the U S Department of Agriculture Production and Marketing Administration are checking wheat movements in Texas and Oklahoma for violations of set aside regulations. Tom W Dawsey, officer in charge of the Dallas area, said officials are reviewing elevator and harvester records and explaining the wheat set aside order WFO 144 to producers.
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Dallas
United States Department of Agriculture
Production and Marketing Administration
Texas
Oklahoma
Tom W. Dawsey
Bridges' Men Quit Anyway
Morris Watson, spokesman for Harry Bridges' CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Unions, said members would stop work at midnight despite a Washington settlement. Meetings set for 8 p.m. Saturday to discuss ratification, with about 22,000 West Coast dock workers affected by the stoppage.
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San Francisco
Morris Watson
Harry Bridges
CIO International Longshoremen
Washington
Watson
U S Offers to Dismantle Nuclear Bomb Stockpile for Peace Pact
The United States proposed to destroy its atomic bomb stockpile and share knowledge for peaceful use if the world creates safeguards. Baruch urged an international atomic authority with teeth and an end to veto power, with penalties for violators, while a U N commission session debated the plan.
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New York
United States
Baruch
U. S
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