Tornado Fund Grows With Regional Contributions
The Globe-News Tornado Fund tops $110000 as mail from the Panhandle eastern New Mexico and Texas flows in. Follett residents in Lipscomb County contribute over 1300 dollars while Abernathy sends a 1051.10 dollar check. The Chamber of Commerce coordinates the drive.
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Globe-News
Panhandle
New Mexico
Texas
Tornado Committee
Hemphill
Lipscomb
Follett
Lipscomb County
Chamber of Commerce
R R. Struve
E. B. Lindsey
Abernathy
Amarillo
Camacian and
Higgins
Texas City disaster: fire and explosions devastate port area
A sequence of blasts aboard the freighter High Flyer and a later explosion on another ship ignited vast fires in Texas City. Mills, docks, and refineries burned as rescue workers toiled. hundreds injured, thousands displaced, and a major Monsanto plant reduced to wreckage.
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High Flyer
Grand Camp
Monsanto Chemical Company
United States
Monsanto
Grandcamp
Texas City
Monsanto Chemical
No Damage From Frost per Weather Bureau Report
The Weather Bureau reports no damage from frost as ice and cold snap eased. No significant impact on budding fruit. temperatures near 58 at noon with warmer conditions and no moisture expected today and tomorrow. Cold region forecasts show 15 degree readings in parts of New Mexico with generally fair weather elsewhere.
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Weather Bureau
Texas
New Mexico
Schwellenbach Delays Move in Telephone Strike
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and top conciliators will wait 24 hours before acting again in the nationwide telephone strike now in its eleventh day. They will assess developments from the company and union as both sides remained aloof from arbitration plans over demands and local issues.
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Washington
Schwellenbach
Emc
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bellem
Schwellench
British Laborites Thank Henry Wallace for Speech
A letter signed by 111 Members of Parliament and over 100 Labourites thanked Henry A. Wallace for his visit boosting Anglo American understanding and world peace. Wallace received the tribute before leaving for a European speaking tour promoting The Century of the Common Man and Unity of the World for Peace.
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London
Henry A. Wallace
Gay
Wallace
Scandinavia
Goering Aide Milch Sentenced by U.S. War Crimes Tribunal
Former Luftwaffe marshal Erhard Milch, chief aide to Hermann Goering, was sentenced to life imprisonment today by an American war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg. The ruling marks the latest in postwar accountability for senior Nazi officials.
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Goprring
Nuernberg
Ffeld
Erhard Milch
Hermann Goering
Amarillo Area Weather Brief Warms Through Friday
The Amarillo area observes clear skies and rising temperatures with highs near 73 this afternoon and 79 Friday. Lows dip to 41 tonight, yesterday’s high 43 and the city’s low 32. Noon reading 58. West Texas and New Mexico expect clear to partly cloudy skies and warming conditions through tonight and Friday with warmer readings in northern and eastern sections.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Materials Moving To Stricken Area
War Assets Administration acts in Higgins and Glazier tornado zone with Col. Carl E. Wallace directing. Immediate deliveries include 127 housing units from a CCC camp near Dumas, a water pump and pipe from San Angelo, an ambulance, two bulldozers and a winch crane truck from Camp Howze, a fire truck from Vernon, light poles and wire from Dumas, and a water tower from Camp Bowie. Red Cross begins moving staples and stapling machines.
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War Assets Administration
Higgins and Glazier
Carl E. Wallace
Fort Worth
Association
WAA
Wallace
CCC
Dumas
San Angelo
Camp Howze
Vernon
Camp Bowie
Red Cross
Red Cross to place housing units in storm area
Red Cross will position houses in the worst hit zones across Lipscomb Hemphill in Texas and Ellis Oklahoma to aid storm victims. A contractor will relocate a water tower to Higgins while John J. Grennan of New York assists with rehabilitation work and cost sharing.
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Dumas
Red Cross
Lipscomb
Hemphill
Texas
Ellis County
Oklahoma
Higgins
John J. Grennan
New York
Red Cross aids rebuilding after disaster in area
Nurse Ella Gimmstead, national disaster nursing director, has been in the area two days and leaves for Texas City. The Red Cross plans a registration booth in Higgins for all disaster losses. Texas State Public Welfare case workers assist Red Cross to organize voluntary loss registrations as work proceeds.
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Ella Gimmstead
Red Cross Disaster Nursing
Texas City
Red Cross
Higgins
Texas State Department of Public Welfare
Garage Becomes a Morgue in Texas City Blast
Guards with bayonets seal a windowless McGar garage as 150 embalmers identify and prepare victims for burial. Ambulances roll in with bodies from Monsanto and City Terminal refineries, while survivors search for loved ones at the garage, city hall, and the high school gym.
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Texas City
McGar
McGar’s
Monsanto
Bradley K. Parker
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Atlanta
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