Chinese Leader Blames U S for Civil Strife in China
Mao Tse-Tung charges United States with causing China's internal conflict and warns of war's spread. He says large American forces in China threaten peace and that U S troops should leave. The peace mission faces mob violence as delegates from Shanghai press for a halt to fighting.
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Nanking
China
United States
Yenan
Mao Tse-Tung
Communist Party
U.S
Mao
U. S
Marshall
Shanghai
Kuomintang
Government Party
Chiang Kai-shek
Chou En-lai
K. P. Chang
OConor Leads In Maryland
Maryland results show Gov. Herbert R. OConor with a 13000 vote lead over Sen. George L. Radcliffe for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination from more than a quarter of polling places. Lane leads Tawes by about 8000 for the Democratic governor nomination. McKeldin holds a similar GOP gubernatorial lead, while Markey tops the GOP Senate race by about no votes in a three way contest.
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Maryland
Herbert R. O’conor
eGorge L. Radcliffe
U. S
William Preston Lane, Jr
J. Millard Tawes
Theodore R. McKeldin
Baltimore
Lane
Herman L. Mills
D. John Markey
O’conor
Twister Hits Fort Frances Canada Injuring Ten Children
A 60 mile an hour twister struck Fort Frances Ontario injuring ten children of Dan Mainville. Eleven people were hospitalized as homes were blown down and trees uprooted across three blocks. International Falls Minnesota reported damage but not severe. No funnel cloud was seen.
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Fort Frances
Ont
Ontario
Winnipeg
Dan Mainville
International Falls
Rainy River
Minnesota
Windsor
Olin E. Groome Rites Set Today
Funeral services for Olin E. Groome a longtime Amarillo resident will be held at 4 PM at the First Presbyterian Church conducted by Dr. Francis W. Pritchard and Dr. R. Thomson Pallbearers Ed Browder Frank Robertson Curtis Richardson Charles Underwood David Brown and Ivor Davies Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Survivors include his wife and two brothers He died Saturday at Northwest Texas Hospital with a career at Russell Stationery Company and prior service with Santa Fe H V Robertson Company and the Home Owners Loan Association.
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Olin E. Broome
Amarillo
First Presbyterian Church
Francis W. Pritchard
R. Thomson
Ed Browder
Frank Robertson
Curtis Richardson
Charles Underwood
David Brown
Ivor Davies
Llano Cemetery
Broome
Russell Stationery Company
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo Graduate Ellen Chambers Earns BA at Texas Univ
Ellen Adele Chambers former Amarillo resident graduated from Texas University at commencement exercises. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree and is the daughter of Col and Mrs Henry E Chambers Jr now living in Dallas. Colonel Chambers served as post engineer at Amarillo Field for about three years.
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Ellen Adele Chambers
Amarillo
Texas University
Miss Chambers
Henry E. Chambers
Dallas
Colonel Chambers
Amarillo Field
Motorist Bites Traffic Officer in South Bend
A South Bend motorist attacked a traffic officer by biting the shin during a confrontation. The report notes a severe meat shortage in the city alongside the incident.
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South Bend
Strangers Rolling in Fleece Target Texas Vets
June 24 Austin U P reports warning Texans about veteran charity scams. Walter E. Long of the Austin Chamber of Commerce says con artists pose as uniformed workers or delivery men to steal money and goods from sympathetic veterans and their families. The pamphlet lists tricks including mailbox thefts, bogus magazine orders, fake soldiers home groups, and the drop the pigeon scheme.
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Austin
U.P
Walter E. Long
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Texas Chambers of Commerce
President Truman Reports Soviet Refusal on UNRRA Press Access
President Truman notified Congress that the Soviet Union alone among UNRRA aid recipients refused to grant satisfactory restrictions free reporting without censorship. He sent a memo detailing Soviet censorship rules to reporters and noted UN relief commissions will still provide some information to the public.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Russia
Rayburn
House
UNRRA
United States
Soviet Union
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
S.S. R
Byelorussian
Flood Devastates Northern Wisconsin Towns
Severe rains totaling over five inches whipped the White and Bad rivers flooding Mellen and Ashland and threatening Odanah. About 200 residents sought high ground as the waters rose. Arvid Maki, 35, from Oulu, was found dead in a wrecked car under a collapsed bridge between Port.
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Ashland
Wis
Wisconsin
Mellen
Odanah
Arvid Maki
Oulu
Maki
Unknown Soldier to Receive WWII Companion at Arlington
President Truman signed a bill directing the Secretary of War to place beside the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery a World War II unknown serviceman. The selection will be from unidentified dead who perished in overseas combat.
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Washington
Truman
Arlington National Cemetery
Youthful Killer Facing Death Sentence Seeks New Trial
Defense lawyers filed a motion in Dallas for a new trial of Buster Skeets Northern who was sentenced to death for the March 27 murder of 69 year old Mrs. W. H. McHenry of McAlester Oklahoma. They argue unqualified witnesses testified about Northern's sanity and contend he was not 17 at the time of the crime and should have been treated as a juvenile. A birth certificate offered at trial showed he was 17. The victim died after a brutal beating and robbery following a ride given to Northern.
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Dallas
Buster (Skeets) Northern
W. H. McHenry
McAlester
Okla
Northern
McHenry
Turf Publisher Shot On Chicago’s South Side
James M. Ragen Sr a turf publisher and head of Midwest News Service was shot while driving in Chicago on the south side. He had reported threats linked to gang activity and had eluded gunmen in April while neighbors and police warned of mob pressure on turf information providers.
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Chicago
James M. Ragen, Sr
Racing News
Ragen
Midwest News Service
Michael Reese
Cook County
Atty
Wilbert Crowley
Old Capone
Harry
Red) Richmond
Lucey Urges Religious Truth at U of T Graduation
Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio addressed the University of Texas graduates urging that democracy depends on religious truth. He spoke at the bacalaureate service in front of the main building and criticized secular bias in education while warning against irreligion in public colleges.
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Austin
Robert E. Lucey
San Antonio
University of Texas
Lucey
Engineer Dies at Throttle of T P Sunshine Special
ABILENE June 24 U P Engineer R Manion 53 of the Texas & Pacific Lines Sunshine Special died at the throttle before reaching a hospital. Fireman Tom K Rupard said Manion complained of ill health and slumped forward as the train neared Trent at about 50 miles per hour. Rupard piloted the train into Trent after moving the engineer's body to the cab floor.
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Abilene
U.P
R. Manion
Texas & Pacific Lines
Sweetwater
Tom K. Rupard
Rupard
Trent
Hoover says world famine relief is met substantially
Herbert Hoover told the President's famine emergency committee that relief feeding is going well. Davis cites 4.719 million tons shipped by June 20, with up to 5.723 million by June 30 if ships are available, and a 6 million ton goal for grains by early July.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
President's
Chester Davis
Davis
United States
Hoover
Mackenzie King
Canada
Ottawa
OPA
Germany
Rodeo Closes XIT Reunion in Dalhart Texas
The tenth annual XIT Ranch cowpunchers reunion ended with a rodeo in Dalhart. Almost 100 former cowboys attended from as far as El Paso Montana and South Dakota. A parade of horses stretched nearly a mile and plans for a larger turnout next year were announced.
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Lewis T. Nordyke
Dalhart
XIT Ranch
Khiva Patrol Drum and Bugle Corps
Amarillo
Shriner
XIT
el Paso
Montana
South Dakota
Buffalo Springs
Texas Capitol
Bob Beverley
Lovington
N. M
Beverley
Livestock Commission
Panhandle
Grocers Attack Truman and CP A Over Inflation and Policies
The National Association of Retail Grocers, meeting in Chicago, denounces President Truman and the CPA in resolutions. Delegates criticize the Case labor Disputes Bill veto, claim OPA bias in sugar rationing, and warn that inflation is worsening with rising wholesale prices since February.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Truman
CPA
OPA
Troop Carriers Sail In As U S Ports Receives Reinforcements
Four troop carrying ships are due today at East and West Coast ports with over 5 300 men, including New York entries Victory from Le Havre 1505 Maritime Victory 1363 Chanute Victory 1061 and Storm King at San Francisco 1385 Navy and Marine personnel. Yesterday arrivals included Gustavus Adolphus Victory 1421 Wheaton Victory 77 Santa Paula 319 war brides and Carlton Victory 12 General Butner 3578 Navy 810 Marines 563 Army and Stetson Victory 631 Army plus Eldorado amphibious flagship 185 Navy and Marine personnel.
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Associated Press
New York
Williams Victory
le Havre
Maritime Victory
Chanute Victory
Bremen
San Francisco
Storm King
Pearl Harbor
Yesteray
Gustavus Adolphus Victory
Wheaton Victory
Santa Paula
Carlton Victory
Hong Kong
General Butner
Shanghai
Army
Seattle
Stetson Victory
Yokohama
San Diego
Eldorado
Veteran Actor William S Hart Rites Planned in California
William S Hart dies after a stroke at California Lutheran Hospital. Funeral rites set for Wednesday at Forest Lawn Glendale with Rudy Vallee singing The Last Roundup and A Long Long Trail. Body cremated. ashes to Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn. Survived by son William S Hart Jr and sister Frances Bierck. former wife Winifred Westover. Hart born December 6 1864 in Newburgh New York. Age given as 81 83 or 75 by records.
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Los Angeles
William S. Hart
Church of the Recessional
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
California Lutheran Hospital
Rudy Vallee
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
N. Y
William S. Hart, Jr
Frances V. Bierck
Westport
Conn
Winifred Westover
Post Mortem on Siamese King Gives No Hint of Foul Play
Bangkok reports that X rays confirm the fatal bullet entered the king Ananda Mahidol's head from the front after his death by gunshot at the palace on June 9. A 23 man medical mission investigation found no conclusions on accident self inflicted or murder.
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Bangkok
Ananda Mahidol
Moist Heat Soothes Boil and Soothe Ailments
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Munich pact signers could have halted Hitler in 1938
Baron Constantin von Neurath told the international tribunal that Britain and France failed to stop Hitler after Czechoslovakia’s invasion. He said the Munich signatories offered only paper protests and could have recalled ambassadors to prevent further aggression. He also testified reoccupation of the Rhineland as a symbolic move by a single division.
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Mernberg
Baron Constantin von Neurath
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
International Military Tribunal
Oto
France
Britain
Fuehrer
von Neurath
Neville Chamberlain
Edouard Deladier
Axis
Emil Hacha
Munich
Himmler
Rhineland
Germany
Kilgore Pushes Bill for National Science Foundation
Senator Kilgore of West Virginia announced plans to push a bill creating a national science foundation to Senate passage. The agency would promote scientific research and education, coordinate government science activities, and finance basic research in medicine, defense, and core sciences. A joint statement from leading science and education groups urged support, arguing private funding is inadequate for future needs while affirming safeguards for scientific freedom.
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Washington
Kilgore
West Virginia
Senate
National Science Foundation
America
James B. Conant
American Association For the Advancement of Science
George F. Zook
American Council On Education
Thomas P. Cooper
Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities
Isaiah Bowman
Vannevar Bush
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Truman
Boris Bakhmeteff
Arthur A. Hauck
National Association of State Universities
Willard A. Givens
National Education Association
Harlow Shapley
Scientific Research Society of America
Foundation
Military Affairs Committee
Meat Hungry New Yorkers Line Up At Palisades Stands
Crowds gathered at Palisades Park hot dog and roast beef stands on Sunday as vendors ran out of stock by mid afternoon. A woman carrying a valise attempted to buy 50 hot dogs, prompting owners to cite a meat shortage and a one item per customer limit.
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New York
U.P
Palisades Park
That Sweet Tooth Takes Clout From Price Increase
Retail sugar prices rose one fifth of a cent per pound today while refiners face a ten thousandth of a cent ceiling uptick. The OPA said the hikes compensate refiners for lower earnings and higher labor costs.
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Washington
OPA
Hobbs Bill Sees Green Light in Congress
Representative Hobbs of Alabama says he is confident President Truman will sign his bill to subject labor unions to the 1934 Anti Racketeering Act. The AFL urges a veto, citing danger to peaceful strikes and broad court interpretations that could target union officials.
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Washington
Hobbs
Alabama
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Senate
Ross
AFL
William Green
Green
Two Lives Lost In Seattle Quake
The June quake in the Pacific Northwest caused two deaths. Daniel Fidler, 50, of Vancouver Island drowned when a cliff collapsed into the sea. Robert Annal survived. Jacob Kingston, 69, died in Seattle after seeing buildings sway as he walked to church. Geologists report intensity No 5 and epicenter offshore Vancouver Island.
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Seattle
Pacific Northwest
Daniel Fidler
Vancouver
B. C
Vancouver Island
Robert Annal
Jacob L. Kingston
British Columbia
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Billy’) Mitchell
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