Lawrencesburg Races Riot Trial for 25 Negro Defendants
In Lawrenceburg Tennessee 25 Black defendants charged with inciting a winter riot in Columbia are free on bonds while jurors await selection. Juror No 1 W E Staggs a 60 year old farmer has spent a month in jail awaiting the 13th juror. Over 500 veniremen have appeared for jury duty as boredom and restricted mail define the trial in the jail second floor. The case was moved from Columbia on venue grounds amid racial tensions.
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Lawrenceburg
Tenn
Columbia
W. E. Stages
Calaboose
Staggs
Stages
Eeey
Truman Objects But Letter Is Given to Press
Wallace proposed a sweeping overhaul of atomic energy control to disclose information and destroy bombs at a set time. He criticized current policy, urged talks with Russia, democracy in Eastern Europe, and internationalization of the Danube. The letter was released after a misstep, with President Truman disapproving its release abroad.
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Wallace
Commerce Department
White House
Russia
Madison Square Garden
New York
Byrnes
Europe
Danube River
Dardanelles
Moscow
Truman
Stalin
United States
Ross
Charles G. Ross
Navy Secretary Forrestal scrubs prepared address
Navy Secretary James Forrestal told the Navy Industrial Association at its annual dinner that he tore up his prepared speech after reflecting on recent atomic disturbances. He cited the Bikini Atoll tests and said lessons will influence ship design and tactics, unless atomic weapons are outlawed.
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New York
Navy
James Forrestal
Navy Industrial Association Tanght
Forrestal
W. H. P. Blandy
Bikini Atoll
Blandy
Bikini
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace
Madison Square Garden
Insane Plane Guard Plot To Kill Churchill Revealed
Winston Churchill narrowly escaped assassination during his June 1942 U S visit. Michael F Reilly, head of the White House Secret Service, says British authorities blocked an alternative takeoff from Balti more and a guard who muttered of killing Churchill was later deemed insane. The PM was not told he had been within one minute of death.
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New York
Winston Churchill
United States
Michael F. Reilly
White House
Secret Service
Roosevelt
Saturday Evening Post
Reilly
Churchill
Baltimore
John
Chandler
Alanreed Crash Ends Honeymoon Tragedy on foggy highway
A fog shrouded two mile stretch west of Alanreed caused a collision that critically injured three people during a cross country honeymoon trip. Three ambulances rushed the injured to Groom hospital from Shamrock McLean and Clarendon. Injured were Mr and Mrs Will Brown of Fresno Harry Brenner of Brooklyn and another passenger.
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Alanreed
Groom Hospital
Shamrock
McLean
Clarendon
Will Brown
Fresno
Cal
Harry Brenner
Brooklyn
Tragic Fog Accident Involving Bus and Car Hints at Wedding
A Greyhound bus traveling from Amarillo to Oklahoma City collided with a stalled Chevrolet near Shamrock after a car stopped on a foggy highway. Injuries included severe internal damage to Mr. Brown and serious facial lacerations to his bride Miss Cornelia Willis. Mr. Brenner sustained rib and lung injuries. The bus driver was L S Williams of Amarillo. about 20 passengers escaped injury.
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Oklahoma City
Amarillo
Brown
Brenner
Chevrolet
Shamrock
Mr. Brown
North Second
Fresno
Lindsey Construction Company
Sealevel
N. C
Cornelia Elizabeth Willis
L. S. Williams
Russian Apology Ends Berlin Custody Dispute
In Berlin a Russian and American skirmish over custody of a detained man and woman concluded peacefully. Col. K C Frank says the civilians resisted arrest, no shots were fired, and the Russians apologized after transferring the woman to Soviet authorities and detaining the man with American custody.
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Berlin
Col
K. C. Frank
U. S
Frank
Sviet Army
Greece notes growing fear of guerrilla civil war impact
Government reports warn of a spreading guerrilla civil war in Greece with leftist bands mining roads cutting telegraphs and attacking troops. An Allied observer links rising strikes in Thessaly to a broader plan to sever Athens Salonika links at Larissa Karditza and Trikkala and possible border movements from Yugoslavia and Albania.
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Athens
Salonika
Thessaly
Larissa
Karditza
Trikkala
Greece
Balkans
Demetrius Partsalides
EAM
National Liberation Front
Free Hills
Britain
Macedonia
Dey
Revolt Quelled at Caracas Barracks in Venezuela
Four people were killed and at least two wounded when government forces crushed a short lived uprising by non commissioned officers at the Ambrosio Plaza calvary barracks on the edge of Caracas. Commandante Enrique Rincon Caicano led the suppression and entry to the barracks after defying a machinegun to gain access. The revolt appeared to lack broad support and an army spokesman called it of no importance as a search for missing revolters and weapons continued in the mountains.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Ambrosio Plaza Calvary
Enrique Rincon Caicano
Texas Weather Forecast Cites Mild Weekend Ahead
The Associated Press reports a cold wave shifts toward Texas with a mild weekend in prospect. The Weather Bureau says conditions won’t be severe but a temperate spell will reach Texas in two to three days after gathering strength from Montana snow.
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Associated Press
Texas
U. S
Triplets Aren't Three of a Kind
Mrs. Benjamin O. Spurlock, 37, gave birth to triplets in New Orleans area. One boy was born in an ambulance en route from Algiers to a ferry crossing the Mississippi River. The other two arrived after admission to a hospital on the east bank. The Mississippi marks the eastern western boundary in the tale.
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New Orleans
Benjamin O. Spurlock
Trieste Free Zone debate splits as Bebler attacks powers
Paris dispatch notes Ales Bebler accusing Western negotiators of power politics in Trieste boundaries while subcommittees advance on suffrage for women and a one house legislature for the zone. Bulgarian and other commissions push treaties with language on Russian troop withdrawal and demilitarization.
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Paris
Ales Bebler
Free Zone
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Military Commission
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Australia
International Court of Human Rights
Free Zone of
Bebler
Polio Victim Father Seeks Truman Aid For Son
J R Sanchez of 411 A Carolina sent a telegram to President Truman requesting admission for his 5 year old son Joe R Sanchez Jr to the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation center at Warm Springs Georgia. The boy is in an iron lung at Northwest Texas Hospital and paralyzed due to polio. The family moved from Roswell New Mexico to Amarillo days before the illness and Sanchez is employed by Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
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J. R. Sanchez
Carolina
National Infantile Paralysis Foundation Center
Warm Springs
Joe R. Sanchez, Jr
Northwest Texas Hospital
Blind Man Guilty In Sooner Slaying
The jury found Guthrie guilty of murder with no recommendation. Judge Babcock set September 26 for sentencing and kept the $10,000 bond. Guthrie claimed Mrs. Hinds attacked him and that he fired into the floor to frighten her. the state said he shot after provoking a quarrel at her Guthrie home last March 21.
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Babcock
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Fire Struck Hiroshima and Survivors’ Courage
The Daily News reprints John Hersey’s account of Hiroshima to reveal the weapon’s devastating power. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto helps a wounded woman and child to a makeshift hospital as smoke and dust fill the city. He later returns toward the glowing ruins seeking loved ones, while others unearth survivors beneath rubble.
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Hirosh
John Hersey
Adano
The
Daily News
Orker
Lucas Predicts Democrats Hold Senate After Elections
Senator Lucas of Illinois says it is a 40 to 1 shot the Senate remains Democratic after fall elections. Lucas chairs the Socratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and speaks from Washington.
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Lucas
Washington
Illinois
Senate
Socratic
Wallace Speech Prompts Full Soviet Coverage
Moscow papers printed Henry A. Wallace's New York address with no commentary. Izvestia published about 1500 words detailing the foreign affairs speech delivered last Thursday.
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Wallace
Moscow
Henry A. Wallace
New York
Izvestia
Thunderjet records set in speed tests at Muroc
The Army reports Republic XP-84 Thunderjet unofficially 619 mph and officially 611 mph at Muroc. Captain Martin L. Smith, 26, from Wright Field, piloted the jet over a 3 km course at low altitude. The official 611 mph marks an American record with the 617 mph leg noted.
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Muroc
Cal
Army
International
Martin L. Smith
Wright Field
Weather Amarillo and Vicinity Forecast Update
Partly cloudy to cloudy Wednesday and Thursday with scattered showers and cooler conditions. West Texas expects similar skies with showers mainly Wednesday and along the Pecos River area Thursday, cooler in Panhandle and South Plains and El Paso region Wednesday and east of Pecos Thursday. Temperatures yesterday ranged from 66 to 75, with a high near 75 and trace precipitation in 24 hours. Extended outlook through Sept 21 shows near normal temps, cooler midweek, warming by Friday and Saturday, with light to moderate showers on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos River
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
Texas
Gulf Plains
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New Yorker
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Koi
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Mr. Tanimoto
Mr. Matsuo
Hatsuyo Nakamura
Myeko
Bob Conley
Fillmore
Russell Stationery Co
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