Plane Crashes on Takeoff From LaGuardia
A United Airlines non stop flight to Cleveland crashed shortly after liftoff in stormy weather. 37 bodies recovered, one later died, pilot B R Baldwin among 10 survivors. Rescue crews faced flames and mud as responders treated burns and moved survivors.
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Cleveland
B. R. Baldwin
Jackson Heights
United Airlines
Baldwin
Academy
Robert Neff
Grand Central Parkway
Long Island
Aeronautics School
Aeronautics Academy
Truman's Mother Reported Just Fine In Sickroom
Grandview Missouri May 29 Dr Joseph W Greene reports Mrs Martha E Truman gravely ill for 13 days is now just fine and sat up for two hours this afternoon The President Truman made an emergency flight to see her May 17 and ended a 12 day vigil in Washington this morning
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Grandview
Martha E. Truman
Joseph W Greene
Washington
Prize Fish Does Two Way Stretch
Two 12 year old boys in Belvidere Illinois hooked a 10 inch bullhead simultaneously from opposite banks during a fishing contest. Clarence Countryman and Clark Wylde yanked their poles and the bullhead dangled. Sponsors awarded duplicate prizes as a coin flip decided Wride the winner who then sold the fish to a sportsman for a trophy.
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Belvidere
City Park
Clarence Countryman
Clark Wylde
Wride
Methodist War on Liquor Called by McMurry President
Dr. Harold G. Cooke of McMurry College urged the Northwest Texas Methodist Conference to wage a war on the liquor traffic, calling it a greater danger than the atomic bomb. The conference selected lay and clerical delegates for the church general and jurisdictional meetings and reported progress on Crusade for Christ funding.
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Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
Polk Street Methodist Church
O. P. Clark
Sweetwater
J. O. Haymes
Lubbock
J. B. McReynolds
Borger
T. M. Johnston
Clarendon
O. W. Carter
Abilene
E. D. Landreth
Amarillo
W. C. Hinds
Hamilton Wright
Methodist Church
Harold G. Cooke
McMurry College
Conference Board of Temperance
General Conference of the Church
Boston
Ray Nichols
Vernon
Jim M. Wilson
Floydada
Tom Ellzey
Perryton
R. B. Bryant
Stamford
J. O
A Haymes
Orion W. Carter
Cooke
J. H. Rutherford
Joe Salem
Sudan
O. P. Thrane
J. H. Crawford
Phillips
J. Edmund Kirby
C. C. Selecman
Selecman
Sam Hilburn
Dakota
Ashley D. Jameson
North Texas
Robert Long
Arkansas
George York
North Pacific
J. H. Hicks
Perkins School of Theology
SMU
Higgins Church
Old Northfield
Motley County
Old Soash
Big Spring
Amarillo High School honors 431 graduates at commencement
The Amarillo High School commencement in Municipal Auditorium named 431 graduates and honored student award recipients. Guyon Saunders, Jimmy Hale, and Frances Allman won top special awards. Nell Quattlebaum led as outstanding girl athlete and Mike Shreuber as best boy athlete.
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Guyon Saunders
Jimmy Hale
Frances Allman
Amarillo
Municipal Audideta
Lamb Science
Nell Quattlebaum
Mike Shreuber
Louie Hudson
Tom Fotheringham
Bettye Smith
Martha Ruth Green
Chas M. Rogers
Luliuil
Guyon
AHS
Student Congress
Guy C. Saunders
Hayden
Jimmy
Frances
W. M. Hale
Rosemont
Ray Allman
Parker
Barbara Brooks
Christine Moyer
Barbara
Texas
Amarillo College
Beaumont Stinnett
Christine
American Association of University Women
E. C. Ochsner
Ray Don Baker
Bey
Virginia Irwin
H. A. Appleby
Prin. R. B. Norman
Edmund Notestine
Stolen 1941 Ford Recovered in 21 Minutes in Amarillo
Amarillo police recovered a 1941 Ford club coupe owned by John C. Reeves of Porterville California. Reported stolen from the 800 block on Pierce, the vehicle was found near the Veterans Hospital at 9 41. Driver arrested by officers J D Foster and R G Bynum and held in the city jail.
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Amarillo
John C. Reeves
Porterville
Cal
Pierce
Veterans Hospital
J. D. Foster
R. G. Bynum
Three Injured In Collision At Highways 60 And 66
Three people were hurt in a crash at the junction of Highways 60 and 66 last night. L A Dermid and his wife both 49 suffered head and minor lacerations. Frank Willis Broman 24 may have internal injuries and fractures. Broman, from San Diego, drove a 1946 Chevrolet into a stopped car. Dermids from Oklahoma City were riding with Broman. occupants of the other car were uninjured. Mrs. Nancy Crow 80, a longtime Martin County resident, perished in a Stanton area house fire early today.
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St. Anthony’s Hospital
Boxwell Brothers
L. A. Dermid
San Diego
Cal
Broman
Oklahoma City
Big Spring
Nancy Crow
Martin County
Stanton
House Group Lays Shears to Military Budget
The House Appropriations Committee cut 8.3 percent from the Army budget, trimming the request to 5.24 billion for the year starting July 1. Personnel losses include 20,100 officers and 74,631 civilians, while airplane procurement funds drop from 400 million to 360 million. the panel preserves 280 million in new contract authority and cancels 1.1 billion unspent prior-year funds, despite warnings of “real danger” from Eisenhower and Patterson.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
House
War Department
Ike
Patterson
Eisenhower
Wholesale food prices dip 0.5 percent in week
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.5 percent drop in wholesale food prices for the week ended last Saturday, bringing levels to roughly late April but 44.4 percent higher than the corresponding week in 1946.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Nazi V-2 Test Goes AWOL Near Juarez and El Paso
A modified German V-2 rocket fired at White Sands proved ground exploded three and a half miles south of Juarez and El Paso. No injuries were reported though the blast damaged a small plane. officials cited unexhausted fuel and a gyroscope failure for the off course flight.
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el Paso
Juarez
White Sands
N. M
Proving Ground
Rio Grande
Jaurez
Harold R. Turner
England
Tepeyac Cemetery
Buena Vista
Biggs Field
Army Airport
Here
Turner
White Lanes
Alamogordo
Hungary Reds Oust Premier
A Hungarian informant said Premier Ferenc Nagy resigned from Switzerland where he was vacationing, amid claims by the minority Communist Party and anti Communist Hungarians that a coup began a communist police state. Imre Oltvanyi was seen as Nagy successor while actions moved to nationalize banks and tighten control.
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Budapest
Ferenc Nagy
Switzerland
Nagy
Communist Party
Hungary
Imre Oltvanyi
Oltvanyi
National Bank
Erno Mihailfyi
Bela Kovacs
Kovac
United States
Locarno
Higgins Determination Sparks Higgins Rebuilding Stand
Higgins town rises from tornado ruins with new roofs and a gleaming grain elevator. Red Cross worker calls it a bootstrap proposition as residents plant graves and press on with reconstruction despite the disaster.
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Higgins
Thomas Thompson
Santa Fe
Claire Starr
St. Louis
The
Red Cross
Senate approves voluntary 15 percent rent increases
The Senate authorized voluntary rent hikes up to 15 percent for leases through 1948 in exchange for tenant consent. It also backed removing rent ceilings in about 38 areas monthly, with 620 areas now under control. The moves precede a broader extension debate with a Jan 1948 deadline contemplated. Hawkes of New Jersey defended the plan as non coercive and allowing tenant landlord negotiations.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Hawkes
New Jersey
Senator McCarthy
Wisconsin
House
Hawkes
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Charles H. Hyde
Higgins Red Cross
Hyde
Charlie
Sherman
U.P
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Allmon
Pantex Village
Army Technical Village
Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo Sunday News-Globe
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