Greed and Fraud Charged in Texas Shipbuilding Firm
Senate committee report accuses San Jacinto Shipbuilding of rapacity and negligence in wartime concrete barge program. It cites unsuitable site, poor planning, delays, and high costs with multiple barges only partly completed. The findings reference MacEvoy Savannah and Cockburn San Jacinto site deals and call for Justice action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
San Jacinto Shipbuilding Corporation
Houston
Texas
Truman Committee
Senate
MacEvoy Shipbuilding Corporation
Savannah
San Jacinto Corporation
M. H. McCloskey, III
Houston Shipbuilding Concern
Department of Justice
Houston Ship Channel
San Jacinto Bay
H. C. Cockburn
Ship Channel
Henry K. Johnson
San Jacinto
Defense Plant Corporation
Pur
San Jacinto Shipbuilders
Cockburn
McCloskey
Japan's Atrocities Shine Spotlight on Unconditional Surrender
DeWitt MacKenzie denounces Japanese war crimes including airmen executions and Nanking atrocities. He links Allied insistence on unconditional surrender to ending barbarism and contrasts today’s conduct with Richtofen’s chivalry. Also notes Pratt on Russian views of Marxism and Communist party size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Nippon
Roosevelt
Avila Camacho
Richtofen
Inter-Allied Information Committee
United Nations
London
Bocie
Los Angeles
Cal
U.P
Russia
Donal A. Pratt
University of California
Communist Party
Carl Marx
Lenin
Stalin
Marx
Radio Schedules for KGN and 1440 Ke Stations
A detailed listing of Thursday to Friday broadcasting lineups across NBC MBS Blue and other networks. Programs include The Aldrich Family, Howdy Soldier, Victory Tunes, The Sky Pilot, market updates, news reviews, and various music and talk shows with times from early morning to late evening. Multiple stations noted with power levels and call signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KGN
Fred Waring
Victory Tunes
NBC
H. V. Kaltenborn
Aldrich Family
Howdy
Bob Burns
Moore-Durante-Cugat
Wes Izzard
Ali Oe
Richard Harkness
Sky
Shine
Symphoniec
Food For Freedom
Lew White
the O'Neills
Asl
Vic and Sade
David Harum
Battle of Wits
Winstop Duzzit
The
Guiding Light
James L. Gordon
Milt Herth
Evelyn Boyd
Society
Ma Perkins
Pepper Young's
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Young Widder Brown
Portia
Life
Bill
Farrell
Uncle Sam
Amarillo Field
K Ranchers
Kfda Tanke
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Mbs
Johnson
Bondwagon
Raymond Gram
Chuck Foster
Wings To Victory
Texas Wranglers
Hotel Sherman Orchestra
Victory
Daily War Journal
Blue
Central Baptist Church
Texas
Jim Robertson
Club of the Air
the Baby Institute
Gene and
Glenn
Sardi's
Hank Lawson
Knights
Jack Little
Byrnes Seeks Civilian Supply Control Split From WPB
Economics stabilization director James F. Byrnes leads a backstage push to remove civilian supplies from the War Production Board. The Senate committee backed a bill to create a separate agency with army and navy like power to secure civilian needs, challenging WPB chairman Donald Nelson and prompting questions about Nelson’s status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James F. Byrnes
War Production Board
Byrnes
Senate
WPB
Donald Nelson
Senate Banking Committee
Army
Navy
Maloney
Telephone Workers to Vote on Strike in Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande Valley telephone workers plan a mass meeting on April 28 to decide on a strike for higher wages. Frank M. Sexton, division chairman, says a walkout could halt service since about 90 percent of operators, office and plant workers are union members. The piece notes Hawaii became a third reservation in 1909 to deter Japanese poachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlingen
Rio Grande Valley
Frank M. Sexton
Southwest Telephone Workers Union
Sexton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Texas Shipbuilding
Maritime Commission
James Doolittle
Shangri-La
Yokosuka Naval Base
Nature
Dean
Doan
Marie Earle
Herbert Drug
Prescription
Amarillo
Spicer
By Dewitt MacKenzie
China
Nanking
Hongkong
Pearl Harbor
Monterrey
Mexico
Eden
House of Commons
Associated Press
Baron von Richtofen
Germany
France
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Texas Technological College and Personnel Department of
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
O. A. ST. Clair
Mayo Dental Laboratory
Morton Downey
Raymond Paige
KFDA
Blue Network
Amarillo Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Kelly-Springfield
Kelly
Kelly Tire Service
Canberra
Savo Island
South Pacific
Fore River
Bethlehem Steel Company
Quincy
Mass
Nelson
Johnny Long
Vicki Vwikee
John Josey
Bing Crosby
Palmer House Concert Orchestra
Cedric Foster
Auction Commission
TSN
Your Hollywood News
You
West Amarillo
the Ranch
News
Jack Armstrong
Taylor ST
Hawaiian Islands
ESA
Amarillo—Dumas
Phillips 66
Ten al
State Farm
Mutual Automobile Insurance CO
United States
Panama
Iceland
Coca-Cola Company
Amarillo Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Lincoln Street
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