Britain and Russia push UN on Palestine armistice plan
The Security Council debated a four week pause as Britain urged UN mediation and Russia demanded a hard line. Britain warned of a possible arms embargo if mediation fails while the US kept embargo talks under review. Sir Alexander Cadogan outlined Britain’s steps including pulling British officers from the Arab Legion and reassessing aid to Trans-Jordan. In Jerusalem fighting widened as Arab forces reportedly entered the Hurva Synagogue under armored cover, with civilians trapped in rubble and King Abdullah hailed by supporters.
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Associated Press
Britain
United Nations
Palestine
Russia
Security Council
United States
Washington
Truman
Israel
Alexander Cadogan
Arab Legion
Abar Legion
Cadogan
Trans-Jordan
Egypt
Iraq
Jerusalem
Telviv
Old City
Hurva
Abdullah
Trans- Jordan
Amarillo Police Shift Targets Speeders on Evening Roads
Amarillo police will assign six motorcycle officers to a new 4 PM to midnight night traffic duty to crack down on speeding and reckless driving. A two-strike rule may lead to license revocation. no new officers are hired. The move, approved by city leaders, aims to curb junior street racing as school ends.
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Carlie Price
Amarillo
Captain Price
Sid Harper
Lawrence Hagg
Ira Stephenson
Bud Curtis
Dam Survey Funds Assured for Canadian River Project
Rep. Eugene Worley of Texas secured assurance that federal funds will be available after July 1 to finance a survey of building a reclamation dam on the Canadian River in Texas. House committee members confirmed two million dollars in the Interior Department appropriation is earmarked for general investigations including the dam site study. Worley canceled a trip to Amarillo to view the Freedom Train after obtaining the funding guarantee.
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Washington, DC
Eugene Worley
Texas
Interior Department
House of Representatives
Worley
House Appropriations Committee
Ben F. Jensen
Iowa
Appropriations
Albert Gore
Tennessee
Tions
Appropriations Committee
Jensen
Gore
West Texas
Amarillo
MacArthur Likely to Return Home in June
General Douglas MacArthur may travel to the United States in early June for the first time since before Pearl Harbor. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17 to 2 to invite his testimony on Far East aid, and President Truman voiced happiness at his homecoming.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Pearl Harbor
Far East
Senate Appropriations Committee
Truman
General MacArthur
Army
Royall
San Francisco
Gurney
South Dakota
Appropriations Committee
MacArthur
Senate
Philadelphia
Allen
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Congress
Jail for Killer Of Lover's Dad
A Rockford jury sentenced Marsh to 199 years for the slaying of Grant Muhrtein and Vernon Anderson. Marsh killed the two men in a Rockford home during a confrontation tied to his affair with Katherine Anderson. After the shootings Kit Anderson fled with Marsh before he surrendered following a 100 mile night drive.
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Rockford
Ill
Circuit Court
Marsh
Grant Muhrtein
Northport
Mich
Vernon Anderson
Katherine
Kit” Anderson
Anderson
Kit
Northern
Illinois
Toads
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas area
Partly cloudy and warmer Friday with scattered showers Friday night. Saturday remains partly cloudy with showers and minor temperature rise. West Texas sees similar trends with warmer Friday and Saturday. Panhandle and South Plains expect scattered showers Friday night and Saturday. New Mexico forecast shows partly cloudy skies and widely scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms with little temperature change. Highs near 70s to 80s, lows around 50s, traces of precipitation in 24 hours.
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OS Weathe
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
North
Tere
Scscee
Sowces
Daily News Index Rodeo Opens Tomorrow at Pampa
The page lists upcoming events and features across sections. Highlights include a rodeo opening in Pampa, Methodist Conference sidelights, education discussions, and various reports on politics, sports, culture, and local notices.
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Pampa
Babson
Amore
Brivis Porter
Johnson Flown To Mayo Clinic For Kidney Stone
Rep. Lyndon Johnson, amid his bid for the US Senate Democratic nomination, flew from Dallas to Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota for treatment of a kidney stone. Jacqueline Cochran piloted the two engine plane with a two man crew. Paul Bolton spoke in Johnsons stead in Wichita Falls.
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Dallas
Lyndon Johnson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Jacqueline Cochran
Johnson
Wichita Falls
Paul Bolton
Austin
Miss Cochran
Dies Signals Senate Run If Campaign Law Respected
Martin Dies declared in Lufkin that he would enter the US Senate race if current candidates honor campaign expenditure rules. He criticized spending levels, claimed sabotage of his KTRE broadcast, and urged debates with Coke Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson while denouncing what he called prevalent political dishonesty.
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Lufkin
Martin Dies
US Senate
Dies
KTRE
Martin Dies, Jr
Associated Press
Alge
Austin
House Un-American Activities Committee
Coke Stevenson
Lyndon Johnson
Stevenson
Johnson
George Peddy
Houston
Senate
Junction Coke Stevenson
Real live cowboy sought for Calgary widow’s stepfather
Ten year old Donald Robins of Calgary writes to the postmaster asking for letters from cowboys for his mother Peggy Robins whose husband died after a 60 foot fall. The Calgary Herald story notes Mrs Robins will marry rancher Jack Lee of Midway BC next month as responses come in from cowboys.
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Calgary
Alta
Donald Robins
Donald
Little Robins
Rodney
Barry
Raymond
Deanne
Mummy
Daddy
Calgary Herald
Peggy Robins
England
Midway
Jack Lee
State Park Board Tour at Palo Duro and Evening Events
Today in Amarillo features a Palo Duro State Park Board meeting and park tour. Noon sees the American Business Club gathering at Old Tascosa Herring Hotel with members and guests. The Khiva Shrine Circus performs at 2 15 PM and again at 8 15 PM at Municipal Auditorium. At 8 PM the Veterans of Foreign Wars meet at the VFW Hall. Price College holds its commencement at 8 30 PM in the college auditorium.
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State Park Board
Palo Duro State Park
American Business Club
Khiva Shrine
Municipal Auditorium
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Price College
College Auditorium
Game Commission Officials Arrive for Amarillo Tour
Howard Dodgen and Dr. W. E. Watt of the State Game Fish Oyster Commission arrived in Amarillo as guests of Gene Howe. Dodgen said the pair, touring the area, are exploring the region and plan to visit various sites.
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Howard Dodgen
W. E. Watt
State Game, Fish & Oyster Commission
Austin
Amarillo
Gene Howe
Mr. Dodgen
Dr. Watt
Burglars Target Fine Jewelry In Local Break-In
Mr. and Mrs. Don Wood reported a home invasion at 1700 Hayden Avenue. Thieves chose only high value pieces, leaving less valuable items. a white gold diamond ring, a 11 diamond ring, and a 19-diamond cluster pin disappeared. Mrs. Dusty Miller’s pin was involved. entry likely forced with ice tongs before 3 PM.
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Don H. Wood
Hayden
Dusty Miller
Wallace Interrupts Campaign To Testify On Mundt Bill
Henry Wallace interrupted his Presidential bid to fly to Washington DC and testify against the Mundt Nixon bill at a Senate hearing on Saturday. He planned to address audiences in Pocotello and Phoenix after a speech in Coeur d Alene and said he would resume campaigning in Denver next week.
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Coeur. D'Alene
Ida
Henry Wallace
Washington, DC
Senate
Pocatello
Phoenix
Denver
South Africans Turn Out Premier Smuts Defeated in Election
Prime Minister Jan Smuts lost reelection to Standerton, with 224 votes, as United Party trails in early returns. Nationalists and Afrikaners close in, while Malan's party pushes for removal of non European communal representation and resegregation.
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Union of South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
Retanian Bhat
Aimiuulictu Uwllipil
Smuts
Standerton
United Party
Union Party
Daniel F. Malan
Nationalists
Labor Party
Afrikaners
Washington
Senate
Union Defense Forces
Malan
South Africa
Nationalist
Great Britain
Plane Bank Good As an Operation
A Seminole boy swallowed a wheel from a toy train and it lodged in his throat. Dr. Andrew S. Tomb flew the boy by private plane to a specialist at Big Spring where the wheel dislodged during the landing, making the operation unnecessary.
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Seminole
Jack F. Jones
Andrew S. Tomb
Big Spring
What Am I Saying BONDS
By Frank MorGa. When a man gives his word to another man it’s his bond. When he gives his word to a woman it’s his bondage. The bonds of matrimony are worthless unless the interest in the is kept up.
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Frank MorGa
NY Post Corp
Freedom Train Opens in Amarillo Crowds Tour Shrine
Seven thousand eight hundred eighty four Panhandle residents joined the Freedom Train tour from Hereford to Amarillo. The Spirit of 1776 berthed at Fort Worth and Denver station as visitors lined up from 4 am, with 17,884 guests aboard by closing. Local officials and Jaycees hosted ceremonies featuring Mayor Hagg, Walker O’Brien, and Bones Hooks, followed by music from Amarillo College Band and the High School choir.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Denver
Hereford
E. L. Smith
North Fillmore
Jim Harmon
van Buren
Mr. Harmon
Texline
Colorado and Southern Railway
Trinidad
Colo
Colletta Diller
Coletta
C T. Davis
Junior
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo Jaycees
Lawrence Hagg
Gene Worley
Worley
Washington
Walker O’brien
O’brien
Bones Hooks
Hooks
Robinson County
Texas
Amarillo College
Park Officials Here for Survey of Palo Duro Park
Amarillo hosts state park inspectors with J. W. Ash as chair and a full board including T. E. Ashford Maude Wendelle Mayes and others. They discuss a $750000 appropriation for park improvements and will tour the Palo Duro Lodge and facilities before the state meeting.
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Amarillo
Palo Duro State Park
Herring Hotel
Mexia
J. D. Sandefer, Jr
Breckenridge
H. G. Webster
Sherman
Webster
Dallas
Jester
Park
Park Lodge
Park Board
C. E. Beasley
Canyon
Hereford
L. S. Johnston
Bert Ellison
Court extends injunction against strike violence in three states
Judge Co V Pardue of the 99th District Court at Lubbock extended a temporary injunction restraining striking bus drivers from Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma from forcing or threatening actions against company buses. The order keeps orderly picketing allowed while prohibiting force or obscene conduct, with 20 days for the drivers to prepare for trial on the merits. Local No 1022 of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen seeks a permanent injunction and testimony continued.
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Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Co. V. Pardue
99Th District Court
Lubbock
Pardue
Brotherhood of Raileroad
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Ford
Joan Knabe
Gail Albracht
Mary Frances Pittner
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Helen Diller
Gerald Diller
William Pittner
Tony Broman
Geraldine Knabe
Marcella Diller
Katherine Broman
Ronald Kershen
Billy Paetzold
M. Nellie
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Nicodema
Frank Knabe
Marvin Diller
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Northwest Texas Hospital
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