American CBS Reporter Polk Found Dead in Salonika Bay
Yanks scribe and CBS Middle East chief Polk, 34, was found shot and bound in Salonika Bay after attempting to reach rebel Markos Visiadas in central Greece. He planned an undercover interview, left Athens a week earlier, and leaves a wife Mrs Rhea Polk and family in Utah California and Missouri. Police hunt suspected Communists amid a possible international incident and Polk had been nominated for a Nieman fellowship.
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Greece
Salo- Polk
Markos Visiades
Polk
Salonika Bay
Markos
Niki
Victory) Boulevard
CBS
Rhea Polk
Athens
United States
Middle East
Salo‘nika
Dard
Grammos
Walde M. Condon
Salt Lake City
US Information Service
Ned
Vafiades
Adelaide Polk
Beverly Hills
Cal
William Fuller
Fort Worth
James Lawrence
St. Louis
William Polk
Harvard University
Panhandle grain meeting opens in Amarillo with Uhlmann talk
Richard F. Uhlmann of Chicago, noted grain authority and president of the Chicago Board of Trade, will headline the opening sessions of the 32nd Panhandle Feed and Grain Association convention at Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel. Joe Coffee will call the meeting to order, with Rev T Edgar Neal giving the invocation and Mayor Lawrence Hagg welcoming guests. The program includes talks on wheat varieties by Keats E. Soder and Frederic T. Dines, followed by a banquet at Amarillo Country Club.
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Panhandle Feed & Pat Nl
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Grain Veaiers Association
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Herring Hotel
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Chicago Board of Trade
Uhlmann Grain Co
United States
Cornell University
Uhlmann
Jackson Bros. & Co
Lafayette
Ind
New York
New Orleans
Washington
Joe Coffee
Coffee-Davis Grain Co
Keats E. Soder
Oklahoma Wheat Improvement Association
Frederic T. Dines
Tex-Okan Flour Mills
Amarillo Country Club
Air Raiders Kill 10 in Tel Aviv in Early War
The Haganah said 10 people were killed in two days of air raids on Tel Aviv with one raiding plane downed and up to three others possibly shot down. Attacks also hit Tiberias and Acre, while Arab forces besieged northern Palestine towns and coastal settlements as shelling and air attacks intensified.
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Associated Press
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Army of Israel
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Tiberias
Sea of Galilee
Israel
Malikya
Acre
Palestine
Damascus
Amman
Majdal
Gaza
Palestine Coastal Plain
Samakh
Masada
Sarajuban
Nugeib
Galilee
Arab Legion
Kfar Etzion
Naureen
Baysun
Rifodina
Sacara
Weizmann Ill. Israel’s Leadership Faces Transition
Chaim Weizmann, a pivotal figure in Zionist history and a former World Zionist Organization president, is reported to be under medical care in New York as speculation grows over his role in future Israeli leadership. Reports note his influence in securing support for Palestine’s statehood and his wartime services to Britain.
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New York
Tel Aviv
Palestine
World Zionist Organization
League of Nations Mandate For Palestine
Jewish Authority For Palestine
Great Britain
Reds Challenge Wallace Merits As Peacemaker
Pravda questioned Henry A. Wallace's right to judge between the United States and Russia but praised him as a realist whose suggestions to Stalin aid Soviet American relations. It quotes Stalin on possible wartime and peacetime collaboration and says Russian American differences can be settled at a council table.
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Pravda
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Russia
Stalin
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Izvestia
Wallace
A. Leontier
Witc
New York
Madison Square Garden
Walter Bedell Smith
V. M. Molotov
Amarillo High School choir eyes New York stage
Lions International convention in Madison Square Garden could host a 50 voice Amarillo High School a Cap pella Choir if $10,000 is raised. District 2 T 1 unofficial fund progress shows $1,470.38 raised. supporters mail contributions to the News Globe chaired by Roy Cloninger and Leo Southern.
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Amarillo
San Francisco
Lions Clubs
New York City
News-Globe
Roy Cloninger
Red Trap Lures GI From Moscow Post
The American Embassy reports a soldier, Sgt. James H. Molin of Boulder, was enticed from his Moscow post by a woman in a Soviet agent plot. Officials compare the method to the Bel Bucar case and note Soviet authorities are being contacted for details.
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Washington
Moscow
United States
State Department
James H. Molin
Boulder
Annabel Bucar
Denly
Miss Bucar
Sergant McMillin
Galina Dunaeva Biconish
John Biconish
Big News-Globe Show Opens With Jackpot Appliance Prize
Visitors can register at 1 PM Tuesday when the News-Globe Better Living Appliance Show starts at the Nat on Georgia between Sixth and Seventh. One entrant, not a show participant or related, 18 or older, will win 18 appliances worth 3338.20 dollars, all to one person. Ralph Edwards of Truth or Consequences may attend. Exhibitors will offer other prizes as well.
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Big News-Globe Better Living
Georgia
Ralph Edwards
The
News-Globe
Bates Proposes Family Quarters Plan for Army Officers
Washington May 16 AP Representative Bates of Massachusetts proposed a plan to grant Army officers the same family housing as enlisted men. The measure, tied to a 207,930,350 Army construction bill, aims to win House passage this week by addressing housing costs and improving bases from Newfoundland to Hawaii.
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Hawaii
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Services Committee
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Army Construction
Alaska
Air Force
Rapid City
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South Dakota
Jail Easy for Jesse James
Atlanta May 15 Jesse James alias J J Roberts Jr walked out of the city jail after facing charges of stealing 60 cars and selling them for about 100000 detectives said he admitted to taking cars in South Georgia and selling them through Atlanta dealers. He allegedly used a red van to haul cars and altered motor numbers and tags. Roberts is 40 and the father of a 17 month old son.
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Atlanta
Jesse James
Jesse
J. J. Roberts, Jr
M. L. Bohler
Bohler
Roberts
Georgia
L. H. Sattersfield
George Barrett
Dentist Takes Own Life In Welsh Chair Tragedy
A coroner's jury ruled that Arnold G. Marks 35 killed himself in a Welsh dental chair by sealing his mouth with plaster and using gas from his anesthetic apparatus. He had suffered from a chronic skin disease and was worried about it.
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Amlwch
Wales
Arnold G. Marks
Marks
Experts To Study All Angles Before Verdict On New School
University of Texas firemen and educators will survey Amarillo high school needs. Dean T. H. Shelby and Dr. B F Pittenger arrived from Austin to examine facilities for about a month and plan to finish by tomorrow. A public meeting tonight will hear arguments on adding another high school.
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Frederick Tripp
University of Texas
Amarillo
T. H. Shelby
UT Extension School
B. F. Pittenger
Austin
Shelby
Pittenger
Trate
University Interscholastic League
Amarillo Events and High School Space Study Update
Today in Amarillo events include convention sessions at the Herring Hotel and an evening banquet at the Country Club. A Youth Leader Conference opens at Seventh Day Adventist Church with public invited, followed by Kiwanis and a school board meeting. Amarillo College presents The Hasty Hert. Educators discuss high school needs amid growth, budgets, and space, noting enrollment around 2000 and teacher pupil ratios.
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Pley
Amarillo College
College Auditorum
High Plains
Weather Bulletin For Amarillo And Vicinity
Partly cloudy conditions continue into Monday and Tuesday with evening thundershowers. Warm temperatures expected Monday with no change Tuesday. Panhandle sees scattered thundershowers early evenings. no significant precipitation today. Sunrise 5 42 AM, Sunset 7 45 PM. Max yesterday 85, Min 47.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
What Am I Saying Politics Columns
Frank Morean critiques political campaigns noting promises made by candidates. He warns voters that after elections many politicians revert to ordinary behavior and fail to keep lofty pledges as public opinion shifts. The piece reflects postwar political cynicism.
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Pilot Corpt
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