Miners Note Kind Messages Amid Illinois Mine Disaster
In Centralia Illinois state mine inspector Driscoll Scanlan announced that at least 14 of 111 miners who died in the No 5 mine blast wrote notes to their families. Notes indicated long diesels in the gas filled tunnels with one chalked on slate signed Ned Jackson. Governor Green ordered mine closures and a survey of safety compliance while a fact finding panel and a senatorial committee begin investigations.
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Centralia
Driscoll A. Scanlan
Centralia Coal Company
No. 5
Scanlan
Ray Bucine
Chub
Mather
Dwight H. Green
Ilinois
Former Santa Fe President Dies in California
Edward J. Engel aged 72 retired president and director of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway died in Pasadena California. Born July 28 1874 in Havana Cuba he joined the Santa Fe in 1899 rising to executive vice president and board member until his retirement in 1944. Funeral plans pending interment in California. Interlude recalls Amarillo banquet with Santa Fe president.
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Los Angeles
Edward J. Engel
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Pasadena
Cal
Havana
Republic
Business College
Sandusky
Santa Fe Railway
Engel
Mr. Engel
Amarillo
Fred G. Gurley
The
Santa Fe
City Candidates On Air Tonight In Local Election Race
City candidates discuss the mayoral contest in four KGNC and KFDA broadcasts starting at 6 45 p m with polling opening at 8 a m tomorrow at eight sites Potter County Courthouse Central Fire Station and multiple schools Absentee ballots total 232 with 217 votes cast two years ago The mayoral slate includes Charley Crowe Lawrence Hagy and Chisel Benton Others vie for two commissioner seats with eight contenders total and a final list of thirteen names on the ballot
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KGNC
Charley Crowe
Potter County Courthouse
Central Fire Station
Horace Mann School
Sanborn School
Wilson School
Sixteenth Street Fire Station
Wolflin School
San Jacinto School
Katheryne Burwell
Charlie Crowe
KFDA
Riley Strickland
Mr. Crowe
Lawrence Hagy
Chisel Benton
Ira Stephenson
Quarantine Closes Stock Show Rodeo Stock
Cattle sheep and swine from the Southwestern Livestock Show were set for slaughter under a Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission quarantine. Rodeo stock, Brahmas steers and calves used in riding bulldogging and roping were also quarantined, with officials to clarify Monday. Legislators criticized the move, while Weymouth endorsed rapid action to curb border stock movements.
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EL Paso
A. J. Lewis
Lubbock
Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission
State Livestock Board
Verne Elliott
T. O. Booth
Commission
Roy Lowenthal
Lewis
Texas House Appropriations Committee
West Texas
Woodrow W. Bean
Bean
Fort Worth
Fort Hancock
Las Cruces
Weymouth
Chansler Weymouth
Amarillo
Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Romberg Interview Reveals Composer on Tour and Film Plans
In a candid talk Sigmund Romberg discusses a 16 week concert itinerary with 117 stops ending May 26 in New York. He reveals two Universal film projects Sunny River with Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda and Up In Central Park with Deanna Durbin. He also checks scores with his trumpet section and jokes about sponsor’s free cigarettes as he paces his dressing room.
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AL Devlen
Sigmund Romberg
New York
Universal
Sunny River
Don Ameche
Carmen Miranda
Central Park
Deanna Durbin
Romberg
Wartime Controls End At Midnight As Draft And Mining Wax
Most wartime controls expire at midnight as the draft act ends and the Solid Fuels Administration shuts down. Sugar rationing and key allocation powers are extended, while rent ceilings and a majority of emergency rules expire or shift to housing authorities. Congress and the White House race to finalize extensions before the deadline.
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Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
Congress
Senate
House
Selective Service
Office of Selective Service
Capitol Hill
White House
Agriculture Department
OPA
Manila
CPA
Truman
Flames Ravage Haifa Port Amid Jewish Immigrant Rescue
Explosions and fires hit Haifa port as British troops load nearly 1 600 visa less Jewish immigrants from a distressed ship onto Cyprus bound transports. A nearby refinery area burns after blasts while a prior rescue off Palestine saved 750 of 1 550 aboard the Moledeth schooner.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Consolidated Refineries
Shell Oil Company
Shell Company
Consolidated
Palestine
San Felipe
Mediterranean
Marshall Dulles Stassen Relax at Moscow Ballet
Secretary of State Marshall attended a Moscow ballet at noon seeking relaxation after last week’s conferences. He watched Tschaikowsky’s Nutcracker Suite with John Foster Dulles, a member of the American delegation, and Harold E. Stassen, candidate for the 1948 Republican nomination.
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Moscow
Marshall
Tschaikowsky
John Foster Dulles
Harold E. Stassen
Krug Shuns Lewis Fight Over Centralia Blast
Secretary Krug promises a swift Congress report on coal mine safety and says he will avoid any press controversy over the Centralia disaster. He cites ongoing investigations by a Senate committee, an Illinois governor board, and the Bureau of Mines as he prepares a general safety update.
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Washington
Krug
Congress
Centralia
John L. Lewis
Ill
Lewis
Senate
Illinois
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Guy Cordon
Senate Committee
Torney
Clark
John F. Sonnett
Sonnett
Federal
Bureau _ of
The
Coal Mines Administration
Formosa Riots Reported Atrocity Toll By Powell
John W. Powell of China Weekly Review asserts Chinese troops in Formosa committed extreme atrocities during riots that began Feb 28. He estimates up to 5,000 Formosans killed and thousands imprisoned, citing his travels and interviews in Formosa and Nanking. He describes a terror regime, shop seizures, and muting of private trade under Gov. Chen Yi.
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Shanghai
John W. Powell
China Weekly Review
Formosa
Powell
J. B. Powell
China
Nanking
Chinese Central News Agency
Chen Yi
Conditions on Red Front May Decide Fate of Germany
Moscow reports show visiting delegations see little chance for a major German settlement at the Moscow foreign ministers conference unless Russia’s economic condition supports economic unity of Germany. The ministers must decide the core issue tomorrow.
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Germany
Moscow
Soviet Union
Russia
Western Allies face hard line on German reparations with Soviet insistence
The article reports Molotov demanding 10 billion dollars in reparations over 20 years plus production-based claims, while the United States signals a possible compromise on that point. Britain fears extra outlays under Bevin, and France faces Soviet defeats of its proposals to halt German emigration and shift heavy industries abroad as part of a broader German settlement.
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U.S
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Germany
United States
Uss.r
Ernest Bevin
France
Hitchhiker Confesses Slaying of Denver Salesman Near Raton
FBI: Edward Carson Jones, 26, of Texas, signed a statement admitting he killed Jesse V. Larson, 31, a Denver paper salesman, after giving him a ride. Larson’s body was found in a culvert near a New Mexico sideroad. authorities say two shots to the head and chest, plus grazing bullets, ended the victim.
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T. A. Griffith
Larson
FBI
Edward Carson Jones
Jones
Phone Peace Talks End in Stalemate Ahead of Strike
NEW YORK March 30 Union leader Moran reports a stalemate after a joint session between telephone union and industry representatives and a federal conciliator. Talks toward averting a strike stalled with a walkout planned for the morning of April 7. The hour and a half meeting was recessed pending further conciliation service action.
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New York
John J. Moran
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Union of Telephone Workers
U. S. Conciliation Service
William Margolis
Moran
Death of C. L. Sullivan Noted Amarillo Pioneer
C L Sullivan 71 died last night at Methodist Hospital Fort Worth admitted March 20 after a stroke. He came to Amarillo in 1900, lived near the city, later Hereford grocer 1901 1935, Perryton grain elevator manager, retired to a Glen Rio ranch. Survived by wife Nannie two sons Glen and Bruce and brother Lee. Funeral pending, body to be brought by N S Griggs & Sons.
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Cc. L. Sullivan
Amarillo
Methodist Hospital
Fort Worth
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Sullivan
Hereford
Perryton
Polk
Bruce Sullivan
Lee Sullivan
Wichita Palls
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity forecast partly cloudy for Monday and Tuesday with a cooler Monday and little temperature change Tuesday. West Texas expects partly cloudy conditions Monday, cooler Panhandle and South Plains, and continued mild by Tuesday. New Mexico shows partly cloudy Monday with modest temperature changes. highs 55 to 65 in the north and 65 to 75 in the south.
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Werther
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
DR Gnerges
Hekla Eruption Lit Up Iceland With Ash Clouds
Dense ash and fumes reaching six to seven miles high poured from Mount Hekla, plunging a southern Iceland region into darkness. The 4,764 foot volcano erupted for the first time since 1845, scattering glowing boulders and prompting evacuation plans for nearby farms while geologists expect months of activity ahead. A dust rain from the eruption also fell over Copenhagen.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Mount Hekla
Hekla
Copenhagen
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Dr. T. Help
Elna
Dickie
Robert H. Medill
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Medill
Cordon
Oregon
Dworshak
Idaho
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
E. J. Engel
Wiliam and
Kenneth Engel
San Marino
California
Russell Stationery Co
Taylor
Daily News
Globe
Dulles
Stassen
Moscow Ballet
Senator Cordon
Senate Public Lands
Byrnes
James Byrnes
George C. Marshall
Florida
Raton
Olver & Wiggins Lbr. Co
6Th St
C. L. Sullivan
Dilan
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