Court Upholds 10 Percent Rail Rate Increase in Northeast
The Supreme Court 7 to 2 upheld an Interstate Commerce Commission order raising rates by ten percent in the Northeast while cutting ten percent in the South and West. The decision, seen as aiding Southern industry, faces 25 days for rehearing. Justices Jackson and Frankfurter dissented over the official territory hike.
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Washington
South
Supreme Court
Potomac
Ohio Rivers
Mississippi
Virginia
Rocky Mountains
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
Douglas
ICC
Ohio
Sharp
Jackson
Frankfurter
Jead
Bob Hope 41 Strong to Aid Amarillo Boys Ranch
Bob Hope and 40 Pepsodent troupe members fly from Hollywood to Amarillo next Tuesday for two charity shows at the Paramount Theater and Municipal Auditorium. The event, supporting Boys Ranch water needs, includes Desi Arnez Vera Vague Jerry Colonna and others. NBC will feed the program via KGNC after a portable Dallas control booth is moved in. Tickets go on sale for both broadcasts with NBC set to provide network air time.
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Bob Hope & Co
Bob Hope
Hollywood
Amarillo
TWA
Jerry Colonna
Vera Vague
Desi Arnez
Wendell Niles
Dick Davis
NRC
Boys Ranch
Paramount Theater
Municipal Auditorium
NBC
Dallas
Paramount
KGNC
Hope
The
Pepsodent Company
Bob
Amarillo and Vicinity Weather Outlook Tuesday to Wednesday
The Weather Bureau reports fair skies with a warming trend through Tuesday and Wednesday. Expect higher temperatures in the Panhandle and South Plains with light precipitation totals recorded for the 24 hours ending at 4 PM.
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Weather Bureau
Amarillo
West Texas Fair
Panhandle
South Plains
Fans Told To Buy Tickets For Bob Hope Show
Bob Hope Jerry Colonna and Vera Vague with NBC staff perform May 20 at the Paramount Theater in Amarillo. Tickets cost 25 10 and 5 dollars with lower floor 10 dollars selling fastest. A portion funds Boys Ranch water system. Mail orders accepted through Thursday with checks to The News Globe. Proceeds from NBC broadcast and auditorium show go to the ranch after expenses.
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Bob Hope
Paramount Theater
Hope
Jerry Colonna
Vera Vague
NBC
Maxor Drug Store
Fisk
Anil
Boys Ranch
Municipal Auditorium
Paramount
News-Globe
Amarillo
Phillips Workers Vote Wednesday in Strike Settlement
Borger reports that Phillips Petroleum Company and Local 351 strike talks proceed with a special members meeting set for Wednesday night May 14 at 8. Balloting will occur after adjournment to decide on the company proposal. If accepted, eight to ten thousand could return to jobs amid a prolonged regional outage.
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Borger
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips
Strategy Committee
Phillips High School
International Union of Operating Engineers
State of Union Curtain at 8 15 in Amarillo theater
Single admission tickets for the Amarillo Little Theater production State of the Union are sold today and tomorrow at Southwestern Public Service Company from 11 to 5. The play runs at Municipal Auditorium tonight and Wednesday with curtain at 8 15. Mrs. J W Lee handles tickets. prices are 1 30 for adults and 60 cents for students. Season tickets honored at both performances.
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Amarillo Little Theater
State of the Union
Southwestern Public Service Company
Fifth and Polk
Municipal Auditorium
J. W. Lee
Tiger Woman Back in Cell After Escape
Winnie Ruth Judd known as the tiger woman was recaptured in an orange grove near Phoenix after a third escape from the State Hospital for the Insane. She criticized the hospital for denying her visit with her mother on Mother's Day and was placed in a cell once more.
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Tiger Woman
Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
State Hospital
Carrie B. McKinnell
Sheriff's Deputies
Hughes Plans Medical Crusade
Howard Hughes plans to spend about 125 million dollars to fund a medical research foundation with headquarters in Houston, his birthplace. Mrs. Clapper, writing in Look Magazine after interviewing Hughes at his Beverly Hills home, says he aims to establish laboratories and endow research inspired by his recovery after a July crash and hospital care.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Houston
Raymond Clapper
Look Magazine
Los Angeles
Union Rejects Last Offer to End Six-Week Telephone Strike
The Southwestern Telephone Workers Union rejected Southwestern Bell’s final offer aimed at ending a six week strike across five states. Union President D I McCone said the wage increases of 2 to 4 dollars a week do not match cost of living gains. Company executive George C Gephart said top rates would rise 4 dollars weekly, starting rates up 3 dollars except in smaller communities where 2 dollars increase. Negotiations resumed under federal conciliation after a four hour postponement.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
D. I. McCone
Federal Conciliation Service
George C. Gephart
Tag Company
Narcotic Ring Probe Pushed
Hutchinson and Sanford county sheriffs announce a potential tri state narcotic ring tied to forged prescriptions burglaries and doctor druggist purchases. Three suspects from the Ada Oklahoma area were arrested after a theft of a physician’s bag led to the seizure of narcotics. Amarillo detectives pursue links as a carton of 12 narcotic bottles was found in a getaway back seat.
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Borger
Hutchinson
Sanford
Hugh Anderson
Ada
Okla
Anderson
Amarillo
All but Soviet press barred from Austrian peace talks
An Allied commission session on the Austrian peace treaty in Vienna barred all reporters except two Tass journalists. A US delegate protested and the meeting was closed to newsmen after Eugen Kissilev claimed the Russians were part of the delegation.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Allied Commission
Tass
Joseph Dodge
Dodge
Kanin
Novorodsky
Eugen Kissilev
Water Rescue Erupts as Youth Survives Dam Break Drift
In Welborn Kansas on May 12 Glenn Masterson, 11, fell into a 9 foot deep pond on his father's farm. 20 local volunteer firefighters opened the dam, drained the pond with crowbars and rails, and rescued the boy who walked out saying, You looking for me.
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Welborn
Kan
Glenn Masterson
Glenn
Two Youths Killed in Crash Near Perryton
In fog late Sunday night a 1946 Chevrolet sedan carrying eight youths collided with a Blue Bonnet Creamery milk truck 23 miles southeast of Perryton. Two teens died Raymond Walker 17 Booker and Carold Trosper 16 Perryton area. Six others injured including two in critical condition and several hospitalized. Funeral arrangements set for Walker and Trosper with survivors listed.
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Perryton
Here
Raymond DuWayne Walker
Booker
Carold Milford Trosper
Walker
Trosper
Mavine Road
A Averrmanette
Buell Holmes
Duane Trosper
Lynette Garmes
Max Clark
Carl Schroeder
Bill Lance
Blue Bonnet Creamery
Si Harrell
C. R. Harrell
C. R
Harrell
Canadian
Boxwell Brothers
Maxine Reed
Lance
Perryton Baptist Church
Ochiltree
Box
Albert R. Walker
Creed Walker
R. H. Francis
Booker Methodist Church
Booker Cemetery
Kenneth Trosper
Duane
Dwight
Oakland
Cal
Rhea Jean
R. A. Custer
Elmwood
Okla
Ara Trosper
Panhandle Pioneer recalls Panhandle history and groom
84 year old George M Black of Groom recalls Wheeler County’s 1879 organization and early Panhandle days. He tells of Mobeetie’s frontier era, Fort Elliott connections, and his English immigrant upbringing under foster father John Corcoran.
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Panhandle
Wheeler County
Wheeler
High Plains
Texas
Mobeetie
Mr. Black
John Knott
Dallas News
Black
Roberts County
Groom
John Corcoran
Army
Old Fort Elliott
Corcoran
Dodge City
Kaw
London
England
America
Mr. Corocoran
Prison Board Chief Proposes Legislators Run Prisons
Texas Prison Board Chairman Riley Wyatt suggested discharging three prison farm managers and letting three members of the House Investigating Committee take the jobs. He urged a special meeting after the committee report on alleged unsanitary and brutal conditions.
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Houston
Texas Prison Board Today
Critical House
Riley Wyatt
Wyatt
Waco
House
John Easton
Darrington Farm
Retrieve Farm
Joe Hinds
Wynn Farm
Ewing Stanley
W. Albert Lee
Sen
Jimmie Phillips
Angleton
Captain Easton
J. E. Wheat
Woodville
Texas
Wheat
Easton
Labor Bill Veto Looms As Senate Votes Soon
Senator Hatch predicts President Truman may veto the labor disputes bill though he will vote for it in hopes of acceptable conference terms. Senator Wagner blasts the measure as untimely and politically driven while urging a veto. The Senate set debate to end with a final vote tomorrow morning CST on amendments and a Taft substitute.
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Washington
Hatch
New Mexico
Truman
Senate
House
United States
Wagner
New York
Congress
Taft
Ohio
Reunifican Policy Committee
Labor Committee
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Romania Denies Red Flour Grab
Romania denies reports cited by the American press that it delivered 400 carloads of white flour milled from American wheat to Soviet Russia. The State Department said the claim of a delivery was unconfirmed and under investigation, while noting U.S. famine aid to Romania. Also, the State Department announced daily news broadcasts to Greece beginning May 13.
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Bucharest
Romania
Soviet
Russia
Associated Press
Washington
US State Department
Department
United States
State Department
Tornado wrecks farm buildings east of Dalhart
A tornado along a 20 mile strip south and east of Dalhart damaged farm outbuildings windmills and homes after heavy weekend rain. No fatalities occurred. Cars washing machines and tools were blown away. Residents suffered bruises and property losses with hail and tumbleweeds noted.
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Dalhart
C. H. Hudson, Sr
Dalhart Air Base
Roy Leavitt
Leavitts
Star actress returns to Hollywood between exams at Stephens
Columbia Missouri May 12 Jean Arthur the film star who paused formal study at Stephens College left for Hollywood two weeks before finals. She shared dormitory life with students at the president’s home later stayed in a hotel and then lodged with a local family before departure. J H Saint now equipped for heavy duty paint spray work Phs 7623 or 6262
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Columbia
Jean Arthur
Stephens College
Miss Arthur
Hollywood
Kansas City
James M. Wood
J.H. Saint
Bank Charter Extended to 1953 by House Panel
The House Banking Committee approved Senate passed legislation to extend the Export-Import Bank life from June 30, 1948 to June 30, 1953. Immediate delivery on Addresserette Russell State Co., 611 Taylor, Ph. 2-1257.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Russell State Co
Taylor
Jamaican Boss Exits Amid Firing Uproar
In Kingston on May 12, Jamaican leader Bustamante escaped a crowd of unemployed demonstrators as he left the mayor’s office. He drew two pistols, fired one shot into the ground, and drove off in his car while shouting for the crowd to keep back.
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Kingston
Jamaica
William Alexander Bustamante
Bustamante
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