Ex-GI Brandishes Shotgun To Defy Eviction In Home
In New Orleans ex-GI John Collins brandished a shotgun and vowed to shoot anyone delivering eviction papers from his fire ruined home. He and his 72-year-old mother refuse to be moved, saying they would leave only for a two-bedroom house elsewhere in the city. The family, without electricity since the early fire, lived in dire conditions with limited comforts as neighbors aid their stay.
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New Orleans
John Collins
Collins
St. Lo
Removal of OPA Control is Demanded
A Texas plan proposes a month long shutdown of all oil wells if the OPA is not fully removed from the oil industry by June 1. Glenn H. McCarthy leads the push, urging continued crude supply to the Navy while excess stored oil is capped. He accuses the OPA of stalling and harming independent producers.
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Austin
UPD
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
OPA
Glenn H. McCarthy
Houston
U. S. Navy
McCarthy
Washington
Navy
War Shipping Board
Assistance Plan Seen Unfair to Southern Welfare Recipients
Oscar W. Powell told 200 welfare officials at a regional conference in Amarillo that old age and dependent child aid distributions favor wealthier eastern states. He cited Texas and Oklahoma as under benefited and called for changes in federal funding formulas. The remarks, made at a luncheon in the Amarillo Hotel Blue Room, were part of the seven state American Public Welfare Association meeting led by Texas host John H. Winters.
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Oscar W. Powell
Social Security Board
Washington, D. C
Amarillo
John H. Winters
Texas Department of Public Welfare
Texas
American Public Welfare Association
Arkansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Federal agents smash major used car black market racket
The U S government indicts 31 individuals in Michigan Kentucky Illinois and Missouri for conspiring to buy about 5000 used cars in Detroit at up to 600 over ceiling prices. Cars moved from Detroit through Cairo Michigan to Kentucky Texas Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee and Louisiana. The investigation spanned eight states over eight months with grand jury presentations led by Joseph C Murphy. Time of arraignments pending.
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Detroit
U.P
CPA
Michigan
Kentucky
Illinois
Missouri
Joseph C. Murphy
U. S
Lehr
OPA
Cairo
Murray
Texas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Tennessee
Louisiana
Woman Regains Hearing After Birth of Child
Mrs. Rolla D. Starbuck, age 24, who was deafened by infantile paralysis at age three, has begun to regain hearing six weeks after giving birth to a son named Rolla Toe. Her physician notes the birth as a direct factor in her partial recovery. She described hearing the first sound as the sweet music of her baby.
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Oklahoma City
Rolla D. Starbuck
Rolla Toe
Col Buhl Moore Dismissed as President of Court Martial
London April 19 Col Buhl Moore was dismissed as president of the court martial hearing the Lichfield brutality trial after he asked the prosecution to challenge him for bias or prejudice. The dismissal ended a long wrangle over the fairness of trials of guards and officers charged with mistreating GI prisoners at the Lichfield replacement depot.
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London
Buhl Moore
Lichfield
Moore
Easter Weather Upset For Parade Day
The forecast calls for partly cloudy and cooler conditions Sunday with no rain. The sun will break through occasionally, but it won’t be a beautiful day. conditions are comfortable for the Easter Parade.
Denison Welcomes Eisenhower Visit Parade and BBQ
Denison prepared for a major event as Gen Dwight D Eisenhower arrives to visit his birthplace for the first time in 54 years. A parade radio talk and a World War II veterans barbecue are planned tomorrow to mark the occasion in the city.
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Denison
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delores Thomas Bares Feet for Steeplejack Feat in Amarillo
Delores Thomas an 11 year old girl in Amarillo is claimed by sidewalk construction workers to be the youngest steeple jack in town and possibly the world. She helped her father in repairing a flagpole at Memorial Park Cemetery while her father climbed lower to top levels.
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Delores Thomas
Amarillo
Delores
McKinley School
Luther Lee Thomas
Dad
Tom Thomas
Memorial Park Cemetery
Thomas
Doughnut Man Drives Doughnut Dilemma to Sellout
In Thermopolis Wyoming Mike Savares, a former doughnut maker, wrestles with the wheat conservation program. He tried enlarging and shrinking the doughnut hole to cope, but both reduced dough yield. The result: he sold out his business to end the dilemma.
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Themopolis
Wyo
Mike Savares
Thermopolis
Mike
Poisoned German POWs Suspected After Arsenic Bread Scare
At Stalag 13 near Nuernberg about 1 900 German prisoners were poisoned by arsenic in bread, with 700 reported seriously ill and no deaths yet. U S Army investigators probe how the bread was contaminated as counter intelligence teams coordinate with the theater provost marshal. In Tokyo Premier Kijuro Shidehara rejects a four party committee demand for his cabinet to resign to allow democratic government.
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Frankfurt
Nuernberg
U. S. Army
Stalag 13
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Tokyo
U.P
Kijuro Shidehara
Shidehara
Capture of Changchun Reported by Communist Broadcast
The Yenan based broadcast announced Changchun, capital of Manchuria, was freed from Japanese and puppet forces after Communist led troops entered to restore order. Russians withdrew Sunday night and an AP team, including Tom Masterson, were sent to report the events with several American journalists missing.
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Associated Press
Yenan
Changchun
Manchuria
San Francisco
China News Agency
Communist
Democratic Joint Army
Tom Masterson
Masterson
Maj
Robert B. Rigg
Chicago
Jack Pond
Portland
Ore
Two Allied Soldiers Killed in Java Clashes
April 19 in Batavia report two Allied soldiers were killed and 15 wounded as Indonesian extremists attacked British and Dutch positions across Java near Bandung.
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Batavia
Bandung
Java
Animal Woman Home Robber Captured in Forest Hideout
A 20 year old red haired woman Joan E Baker described as an animal woman is held on burglary charges after police caught her in a forest hideout south of Seattle. She had looted jewelry and household goods worth over 3000 dollars and kept a gun at her side during the arrest.
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Seattle
Joan E. Baker
King County
Harlan S. Callahan
Pickets in Street Fight Over Plant Dispute in New York
About 100 AFL and CIO pickets clashed before the Brook Brothers Electrical plant at 751 Broadway in New York as a jurisdiction fight between AFL and CIO locals led to a free-for-all. One CIO member, Herman Levine, 31, from the Bronx, was injured and hospitalized. Police detained two others. Across the nation, walkouts pushed unemployment to 664,000 workers with strikes at mines, mills, and manufacturing plants in multiple states.
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United Press
AFL
CIO
Astor Place
Broadway
New York
Herman Levine
Bronx
We Ase
Tanerama
Columbus Hospital
Brook Brothers Electrical Company
Nation
Ohio
Minnesota
Indiana
Butte
Mont
Anaconda Copper Co
CIO Electrical
Hoover Co
Canton
Ohio Match Co
Wadsworth
Barberton
AFL Matchmakers Council
William Bros. Boiler and Manufacturing Co
Minneapolis
Bendix Aviation Corp
South Bend
Ind
Australian UN Inquiry Plan Faces Soviet Veto
The Australian proposal for a formal UN investigation into the Franco regime in Spain appeared likely to pass, barring a Soviet veto. Delegates noted broad support with only Russia opposing, while Andrei Gromyko awaited instructions from Moscow as the council recess continued.
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New York
A.P
United Nations
Spain
Russia
Frinco
Andrei A. Gromyko
Mine Explosion Kills 12 as Agents Probe Cause
Federal Bureau of Mines agents investigated an explosion at the Great Valley Anthracite Corp. mine in McCoy Pennsylvania that killed 12 miners. Forty six others were rescued to safety after the blast, which is believed to have been caused by a gas pocket.
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Mccoy
Federal Bureau of Mines
Great Valley Anthracite Corp
Weather Summary Amarillo Vicinity And New Mexico
Weather notes describe increasing high clouds in Amarillo area this afternoon with partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. New Mexico shows partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thunderstorms in mountain areas this afternoon and again Saturday afternoon, with warm temperatures and cooler Sunday. West Texas mainly cloudy with little temperature change. yesterday’s high 85, low 49, noon 78. Top prices paid for used cars. Jack Sorelle, 29th and Fillmore.
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Amarillo
New Mexico
West
Texas
Ree and Co Real Estate and Spans
Ree and Co. announces real estate and spans, detailing listings and services offered by the firm. The brief notes property opportunities and related offerings for potential buyers and investors in the local market.
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EK. A. Ree& Co
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J. J. Collins
Fallon
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SRA
Tyro
Jack
Colorado
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Hannegan
D'Yun
Redmanning
Shatter Car
Black Market
John C. Lehr
Office of Price Administration
Paducah
Benton
Col. Buhl Moore
Eisenhower
McCormick
Russell Stationery Company
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
United Mine Workers Union
Cleveland
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Shelly Oils
Tiny Fogle
Polk St
CO . Weather Bureau
Jack SoRelle
Fillmore
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