Economic Big Stick Demanded for Russia
Washington report says Representative Colmer proposes a hard line policy to Russia urging no new loans to Communist governments, suspension of existing loans, and broader economic retaliation to secure terms under the Lend-Lease Act. Papers also outline U S views on Greece Turkey and Cyprus amid Balkan tensions and Soviet hostility.
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Colmer
Mississippi
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
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Lord Inverchapel
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National Phone Tieup Indicated
The National Federation of Telephone Workers reports a 5 to 1 ballot in favor of a nationwide strike with April 7 set as a deadline. A policy committee of 49 members will decide if and when to call a strike, potentially affecting 287,025 workers across 39 unions. Conciliation efforts span 30 cities as Labor Department officials strive to avert a walkout.
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Washington
National Federation of Telephone Workers
NFTW
Labor Department
Edgar L. Warren
Arab League backs Egypt call for independence at UN
The Arab League council approved a resolution endorsing Egypt's bid for independence and its plan to take the case to the United Nations.
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Cairo
Council of the Arab League
United Nations
Seattle man booked after fatal early morning shooting
A Seattle sheet metal worker was jailed on an open charge after he shot his wife Vera Wagner 41 and friend Robert R. Boinski 22 during a night long quarrel at a party. Both victims were reported near death at King County Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
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Seattle
Vera Wagner
Robert R. Boinski
King County Hospital
Shooting at Wagner Apartment Touches off Early Morning Arrest
John H. Wagner, 36, signed a statement admitting he fired his pistol at Boinski and his wife after an all night dispute in the Wagners' apartment. The incident occurred near 3 am after a tavern visit, Wagner was later arrested downtown. He had worked at Todd Shipyards since arriving five weeks ago from El Paso. Boinski, about a month known to Wagner, has a father believed to live in Johnson City NN.
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R. A. Schaefer
John H. Wagner
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Vera
Wagners
Wagner
Todd Shipyards
el Paso
Johnson City
Panhandle Jaycees Review Boom Year
Regions 1 and 2 Junior Chamber of Commerce delegates, 158 from 16 Panhandle and South Plains cities, met at the Herring Hotel for a round-table conference. John Mangrum praised doubled memberships and upcoming conventions in Fort Worth Los Angeles. Amarillo led in sponsoring Shamrock Wellington and Hart clubs. Mangrum planned a Plains tour visiting Borger Perryton Pampa and Shamrock to present a club charter.
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South Plains
Chamber of Commerce
Herring Hotel
Mangrum
Amarillo
Shamrock
Wellington
Hart
Fort Worth
Los Angeles
Texas
Arlie Hudson
L. J. Zachary
Pampa
Region One
Allis-Chalmers Strike Ends With No Contract In Sight
Milwaukee March 23 AP The 328 day Allis Chalmers strike ends as UAW CIO Local 248 votes three to one to return to work without a contract. Union president Robert Buse vows ongoing fight for a labor agreement while company president Walter Geist says the company will continue to oppose disruptive elements.
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Milwaukee
Allis Chalmers
Toda
UAW
CIO
Robert Buse
Buse
Walter Geist
Four Injured In Panhandle Car Wreck East Of St Francis
Four Amarillo youths were injured when the car left the highway eight miles east of St Francis and struck a telephone pole. They were treated at St. Anthony's Hospital by Boxwell Brothers ambulance. Pointer Kerr Weiss and Starkey suffered various injuries and were released after treatment.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
St. Francis
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Boxwell Brothers
Harry Pointer
West
Barbara Kerr
Tyler
Mary Joe Weiss
Hughes
E. J. Starkey
Pointer
Miss Kerr
Miss Weiss
Starkey
Lon Sellars Hospitalized For Nose Bleed Treatment
Lon Sellars, longtime Amarillo resident and veteran county commissioner, was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital yesterday for treatment of a serious nosebleed. His condition last night was favorable. His daughter, Mrs. Carl Hormann of Dallas, arrived to be with him and is staying at the Herring Hotel.
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Lon Sellars
Amarillo
Northwest Texas
Weather Agnes Amarillo and Vicinity Forecast
Clear to partly cloudy and cooler Monday and Tuesday across Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas sees cooler conditions in the Panhandle and South Plains, with fair weather Tuesday. New Mexico expected to be partly cloudy Monday with scattered showers and thunderstorms later in the day, cooler in the north portion. Highs mainly 50s to 60s north and 60s to 70s south. Sunrise 6 49 A M Sunset 7 02 P M.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
New Mexico
North
Rome
Hundreds Race Flood In Yellowstone Valley
Water from an ice clogged Yellowstone River floods a wide area in the lower Yellowstone Valley driving hundreds from homes and threatening farmland and small communities. An ice dam near Cartwright North Dakota formed last night, creating the crisis in northeastern Montana.
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Mont
Yellowstone
Yellowstone Valley
Richland County
Dale Mavity
Cartwright
N. D
Montana
Soviet Reich Republic Plan Seen as Bid for Red Control
British and American observers view Moscow's proposal for a centralized German government as a move to gain German support and place the Communist Party to run Germany. Debates roll on among four powers as ministers pursue German resolution with lent-lease, Austrian, and Hungarian issues also in play.
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Russia
Communist Party
Molotov
Mark W. Clark
Marshall
Weimar Republic
Germany
Socialist Unity Party
Condition of Mel Armstrong Favorable After Operation
Mel Armstrong a Panhandle peace officer and cattleman received a major operation Saturday morning at Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital. His attending physician reported the post operative condition was very good and better than anticipated. Armstrong resides at 2604 Fillmore.
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Mel Armstrong
Panhandle
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
Armstrong
Fillmore
Kidnap Killing Suspect Held in Chicago Case
Theresa Jenkins an 18 year old from the Illinois Training School for Girls surrendered to police after allegedly fatally beating nurse Mrs. Ida Swanson Isaacson 63 and abducting an infant. State's Attorney Seidel filed a murder charge. Jenkins said she fled after the nurse berated her and after the infant was left in a basement. She was paroled in 1946 after earlier delinquency commitments.
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Theresa Jenkins
Ilinois Training School For
Harry B. Dean
Ida Swanson Isaacson
Isaacson
Geneva. Ill
Dean
Miss Jenkins
Senator W Lacy Stewart Dies On Cruise
Sen W Lacy Stewart of Houston died suddenly after a heart attack near La Porte while on a weekend cruise. Funeral services will be tomorrow at 10 in the First Methodist Church with honorary pallbearers from the Senate Harris County Bar Association and Arabia Temple Shrine. He authored a major education bill for negroes in Texas now law. Surviving are his widow Maribelle Hamblen Stewart a son and his parents and siblings.
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W. Lacy Stewart
la Porte
Galveston Bay
First Methodist Church
Senate
Texas
Jester
Maribelle Hamblen Stewart
W. Lacy Stewart, Jr
J. R. Stewart
Edgewood
Martin Malone
Wills Point
James Stewart
Coy Stewart
Troy Fort Takes Calf-Tying Crown at Level land Rodeo
Troy Fort of Lovington New Mexico won the open calf-tying event at the Levelland Rodeo Arena finishing 12 calves in 225.8 seconds while Toots Mansfield of Rankin Texas posted 234.6 seconds. Lonnie Thomas of Levelland won big-steer roping against Cotton Lee of Clovis New Mexico as about 10 000 spectators watched.
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Levelland
Troy Fort
Lovington
N. M
Toots Mansfield
Rankin, Tex
Levelland Rodeo Arena
Fort
Mansfield
Lonnie Thomas
Cotton Lee
Clovis
N. M. W. J. Robertson
Levelland Rodeo Association
Wyoming flood threat floods Yellowstone corridor
Rescue crews evacuate hundreds along a 25 to 30 mile stretch of the Yellowstone from Fort Buford North Dakota to Sidney Montana as ice jams and rising waters inundate farms and communities. An Army engineer corps team aids boats and volunteers moving people to high ground while livestock and crops are lost. No deaths or injuries reported by noon. The flood continues to rise as ice blocks merge and break apart downstream toward the Missouri.
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Yellowstone
Fort Buford
N. C
Missouri River
Sidney
Mont
Mavity
Army Engineer Corps
Cartwright
William Strizner
Fairview
Strianer
Missouri
Building Talks Still Indefinite
Rumors of a federal housing authorities meeting with Amarillo building tradesmen circulated without confirmation. Bill Williams from Lubbock and Louis Tate from Fort Worth arrived in Amarillo, while R. A. Ramsey urged a meeting. If no agreement is reached this week, construction may stall and cause layoffs. two transit-mixed cement firms have already suspended operations.
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Federal
Amarillo
Bill Williams
Lubbock
Louis Tate
Office of Labor Relations
Fort Worth
R. A. Ramsey
Associated General Contractors
Allied Industries
Yanks Shoot Russian in Berlin
The U S Army provost marshalls office reports American guards at a railway station wounded a Russian soldier in the hip after he disregarded their challenge. The wounded man was turned over to Soviet authorities as a joint investigation begins.
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U. S. Army Provost Marshalls Office
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