Fortune Buried in Clerk's Back Yard
The Post Office Department announced that three inspectors uncovered 153000 dollars buried nine feet deep in a Jacksonville yard. The haul is part of 180000 dollars stolen by a former employee, described as the largest money theft in postal history. The money was found in tin cans and jars, sealed and enclosed in stove pipe. The thief, Joseph D. Marshall, died 20 months earlier.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Jacksonville
Fla
Post Office
James J. Doran
Doran
Joseph D. Marshall
West Bay
Federal Reserve Bank
Iran Soviet oil accord and troop evacuation plan
The official statement calls the document an agreement not a treaty and outlines an in principle accord to form a Soviet Iran joint oil company after elections and troop evacuations. It also details seven month timelines for oil company setup, seven month election conditions, and a 51 49 distribution proposal by Russia. The report notes related postal crime details and a Navy discharge.
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Iran
Red Army
Tehran
Russia
Ahmed Ghavami
Ivan Sadchikov
United Nations Security Council
Azerbaijan
Ahmed Ghavam
Bat Russia
Abilene Reporter-News Finds False Spare Tire Alarm
An Abilene reporter stopped on a highway after a tire blew out and discovered the spare was flat. A separate item from Bucharest reports no Soviet withdrawal from Romania despite earlier rumors.
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Abilene
Bucharest
Romania
Soviet Union softens Austria land demands in Vienna
In Vienna on April 5 a government spokesman said Soviet Russia has withdrawn most of its land claims in the Russian occupation zone and seeks only the 50,000 acre tract Germany used as a military exercise area. Austria is willing to loan the ground to the Red Army.
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Vienna
Russia
Austria
Red Army
Army Day Paraders Step Off Tomorrow in Amarillo
Army Day events will start at 11 AM with a parade formed at 10 AM before Amarillo High School. Unit participants include veterans groups, Boy Scouts, high school band, ROTC, Red Cross, and Amarillo Army Air Field. An open house at the air field from 2 to 6 PM features the B 29 Superfortress Tame, B 25 bomber, and field exhibits. USO gathering for veterans is at 9 PM in the Auditorium.
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Boy Scouts
Reserve Officers Training Corps
The
Red Cross
Amarillo Army Air Field
Polk
Third
Buchanan
Johnny Goodman
Uso
NJ Utility Strike Averted As State Seizes Gas Works
Gov. Walter F. Fudge ordered seizure and operation of nine Public Service Electric & Gas gas works to prevent a statewide utility strike affecting about four million residents. The move ensures uninterrupted gas for heating and cooking as unions agreed to cooperate. Separately, AFL Machinists and Yale and Towne Manufacturing settled a five month lock factory strike in Stanford Connecticut with ratification to be voted on.
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Associated Press
New Jersey
Public Service Electric & Gas Co
AFL Machinists Union
Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company
Stafford
Conn
Walter F. Fudge
AFL United Mine Workers
Detroit
Akron
CIO
International Harvester Company
Balmy Week End Forecast Promises Sunshine and Warmth
The forecast calls for a sunlit weekend with partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures. Lows near 53 tonight and highs around 88 tomorrow, with no rain expected.
Tomorrow School Board Trustees Election Opens Early
Election day details list polling hours from 8 a m to 7 p m for the Amarillo Independent District and Potter County districts 3 4 6 and River Road. Voting sites include the court house Sixteenth Street Fire Station Wolflin San Jacinto Horace Mann and Sanborn Schools with precinct assignments. Also note an ad line for top dollar paid for used cars by Jack SoRelie at 10th and Fillmore.
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Amarillo Independent District
Potter County
River Road
Sixteenth Street
Wolflin
San Jacinto
Horace Mann
Sanborn
Jack SoRelie
Fillmore
Starvation Inevitable Unless Wheat Producers Help Europe
Herbert Hoover told an emergency food conference that famine is inevitable in Europe unless America and other large wheat producers ship all available food. He warned that hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes after studying Europe’s needs.
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London
Herbert Hoover
Europe
America
Hoover
Truman Drafts Warning for Strong Armed Forces
President Truman urged maintaining powerful armed forces in a firm warning during the critical UN years. He travels to Chicago for a 20 minute address at Soldiers Field outlining policies to extend Selective Service, draft youth for a year of military training, and push Army Navy merger to create a unified national defense department with equal air force status.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Chicago
Soldiers Field
United States
Robert P. Patterson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Amarillo
Selective Service Authority
Army- Navy
Department of National Defense
Vet at 14 in Army Interpreter Role
A 14 year old from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania serves as a corporal with two years of U S Army experience. He stowed away with Yank invasion forces heading to Europe and was adopted by GIs. Shown in Basel Switzerland he works as an interpreter and speaks English French German Hungarian Polish and Ukrainian.
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NEA
Sabert Sewet
Pittsburgh
U. S. Army
Europe
Basle
Switzerland
Executors of FDR Estate Must File 1945 NY Tax Return
New York tax authorities ruled executors of Franklin D Roosevelt must file a 1945 state personal income tax return. The state cited considerable doubt about military exemption for the late president who died April 12 1945 while serving in the armed forces.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Weather Update Amarillo and West Texas Region
Partly cloudy conditions continue this afternoon through Saturday with warmer temperatures. Southwest winds 25 to 35 mph may cause light blowing dust. high 73, low 50, noon 80 in the preceding 24 hours ending 6:30 AM. Gordon Creamer, Realtor, Phone 6834.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Doctor Petoit condemned in Bluebeard killings
Dr. Marcel Petoit was sentenced to death after a three week trial in Paris for more than twenty murders linked to a Bluebeard style unit within his Rue Le Sueur residence. He proclaimed to his brother I must be avenged as the verdict was announced in the Palais de Justice.
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Paris
Marcel Petoit
le Sueur
Maurice
Palais de Justice
Navy Plane Crashes Near Albuquerque En Route to Kansas
A twin engined R4 Naval Air Transport crashed about ten miles southeast of Albuquerque while en route from Oakland to Olathe Kansas. The aircraft was to stop at Amarillo. no casualty information available immediately.
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Oakland
Cal
Naval Air Transport
Olathe
Kan
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Navy
Extension of OPA debated as subsidies eyed for cut
Washington April 5 AP House Banking Committee backed a year long extension of price controls as President Truman urged. A Republican bid to limit OPA to nine months failed 13 to 9 while a six month ban on retailers passing higher costs was rejected 5 to 6. Vote favored phasing out the 2 billion dollar annual subsidy by June 30 1947 with a 25 percent annual reduction starting July 1. Subsumed were proposals to let prices reflect production costs and profits and to curb subsidies 25 percent every 45 days. OPA warned elimination would lift food prices eight percent and overall living costs 3 to 5 percent.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Truman
OPA
House
Senate
Wolcott
Michigan Republican
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Alber S. Goss
National Grange
Monroney
Oklahoma Democrat
MacArthur Criticizes Critics and Urges UN War Ban
In Tokyo on April 5 Gen. Douglas MacArthur rebuked critics of the occupation policy and urged the UN to outlaw war as the proposed Japanese constitution does. He told Allied Council members from Russia Britain and China that criticism, while some well meant, often stems from ignorance or sabotage. He praised the constitutional renunciation of war and warned that universal adoption by UN members is essential to lasting peace.
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Tokyo
U.2
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Russia
Britain
China
Allied Council For Japan
Japan
MacArthur
United Nations Organization
Kuzma Derevyanko
Phillips Petroleum Hikes Oil Price to $1.35 per Barrel
Frank Phillips chairman and K S Adams president of Phillips Petroleum Co announce a proposed price increase to 1.35 per barrel for 40 gravity Panhandle crude oil, effective April 1, 1946, pending Office of Price Administration approval. The rise from 1.32 matches similar Mid Continent crude pricing if approved.
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Frank Phillips
K. S. Adams
The
Phillips Petroleum Co
Phillips
Panhandle
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Mid-Continent
Senate approves Norris E. Dodd for Undersecretary of Agriculture
The Senate Agriculture Committee, in a unanimous vote, backed Norris E. Dodd of Portland Oregon for the post of Undersecretary of Agriculture. The record notes affiliations with E A Regal Co real estate and loans and Neely Greenhill Lowndes insurance.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Norris E. Dodd
Portland
Ore
E. A. Regal Co., Real Estate and Loans
Texas Pilot Saves 27 On Fire-Impacted Army Plane
A Texas civilian pilot Q N Sowell of Houston guided a four engined Army transport after a propeller detached 400 miles at sea injuring 27 aboard. He reduced speed to 100 mph, kept near the water, used a second engine to curb vibration, then landed safely with nine Army fighters and Coast Guard crews aiding. Passengers included Chinese ambassador Yu Tsune chi and consul Lou ch ingan. the flight was from Honolulu to San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Texas
Q. N. Sowell
Houston
Sowell
Coast Guard
SOS
Jack Stott
Kansas City
Italy
Yu Tsune-chi
Lou Chi-ngan
Honolulu
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U. S
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Margaret
Burch
Nathaniel E. Burch
North Marrs
Terminal Island
Pantex
Gordon Creamer
Marcel Petiot
New Mexico
Russell Stationery Co
John Maynard Lbr. Co
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