Forrestal backs limited 66 Group Air Force budget plan
Secretary Forrestal told a Senate subcommittee that a balanced 66 group Air Force with a $3.481 billion increase would yield the best military return under a budget cap. He supported a total roughly $14.9 billion for the services but urged considering fiscal factors and overall balance among Air Force Army and Navy.
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Washington
Forrestal
United States
Secretary of Defense
Senate
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Addiona
Porrestal
Congress
Army
Navy
Trio Charged At Pampa With Armed Robbery
Three men from Detroit San Francisco and Brockton faces armed robbery charges in Pampa for Sunday’s Simmons Grocery heist. Bond set at 3000 each. Sheriff chase ended when Buick stopped and suspects were captured with little money and no weapons found. Federal agents investigate stolen Tulsa car and possible charges.
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Hutchinson County
Horace Simmons
Borger Road
W. R. Simmons
Horace
Pampa
Anderson
Panhandle
Borger
Gray
Carson County
Tulsa
Oklo
Amarillo
City Growing Finds Veteran Rail Official
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad is in better shape physically and financially since its reorganization a year ago, said B. W. Robbins in Amarillo. The Denver resident, father of H. E. Robbins, regional director of the Bureau of Reclama tion, visited with his son last week. He noted mining decline since he first came to Denver 60 years ago and predicts Amarillo will keep growing.
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Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
B. W. Robbins
Denver
H. E. Robbins
Bureau of Reclamaion
Amarillo
Robbins
American Smelting
Colorado
Nazi saboteurs landed in 1942 parole details emerge
The FBI traced eight Nazi saboteurs landed by submarine off Amagan sett Beach Long Island Ponte Vedra Beach Florida in June 1942. Burger and Dasch provided identities and links to the sabotage plot after arrest. Burger served time in Atlanta prison and Dasch in Leavenworth with federal and army handling following trial.
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Vuniinuly Rem
Red States
FBI
Burger and
Dasch
Amagan- ‘Sett Beach
Long Island
New York
Richard Quirin
Heinrich Harm Heinck
Ponte Vedra Beach
Florida
Herbert Hans ‘Abaupt
Edward John Kerling
Wer Ber Thiel
Herman Otto Neu- Abauer
Chicago
New York City
White House
Burger
Germany
Bremehaven
Justice Department
Army
Atlanta
Dashh
Leavenworth
Fort Worth Woman Describes Ongoing Convention Sessions
A Fort Worth woman outlines convention activities continuing from page one. The Society luncheon at the Herring Hotel opened at 1 p.m. with Mrs. RC Farrar of Dallas presiding. District secretaries prepared reports on last year’s activities and committees led brief future plans. Full report details to come Thursday.
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Fort Worth
Herring Hotel
RC. Farrar
Dallas
Christian Family Life
Glenn Squires
L. F. Carter
Mineral Wells
R. G. Storey
J. D. White
Wichita Falls
C. D. Carmichael
Hillsboro
Bessie Hart
Board of Trustees of
Lester B. Rickman
First Christian Church
Ed Slaugter
Weslaco
Dr. Snodgrass
Rail unions press talks to avert nationwide train strike
In Chicago on April 26 private talks between railroad management and three operating unions the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and the Switchmen's Union of North America continued as negotiators sought to resolve a wage dispute. Union leaders were instructed to set a strike date as soon after tomorrow as possible if no settlement is reached. The unions rejected a fact finding board recommendation for an 18 percent pay increase.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Switchmen's Union of North America
Nails Block Street to Armour Plant Strike
Nails blocked a street leading to the strikebound Armour and Co packing plant in Port Worth for the second time in a week. Police cleared the nails early this morning. About 1,000 workers crossed CIO United Packinghouse Workers lines daily to enter the plant while Armour officials say production is normal.
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Armour Plant
Port Worth
Armour & Co
Tme
CIO United Packinghouse
Armour
Launch Task Of Purifying Poison Creek
SWEENY Texas April 26 The mission to purify arsenic creek after more than 500 head of livestock died from poisoning continues with new chemicals arriving to precipitate the weed killer. Gulf Colorado & Sante Fe Railroad sets up a three man claims committee to process livestock loss claims. Cyrus Baytown an inspector for the railroad faces pollution charges filed by State Game Warden H T Mayne before Justice J L Main in Brazoria County. Alamo Refinery officials say creek cleanup will take at least 30 days.
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Sweeny
Tex
Gulf, Colorado
Little Linville
Cyrus
Baytown
H. T. Mayne
Aggleton
Justice of the Peace
J. L. Main
Brazoria
Alamo
Markets Close As Stocks Swing In Uneven Session
Merrill Lynch closing averages show mixed results amid broad activity. Industrials and utilities drift, while rail and steel groups post varied losses with volume light. Chicago grain and livestock markets offer little decisive direction as observers note ongoing volatility.
Packers and Strikers Meet In Washington Talks
Washington April 1 The government mediator Cyrus Ching of the Federal Mediation Service took charge to broker talks between Armour amp Co and the CIO United Packinghouse Workers in their first face to face session in over a week. The company had ended wage talks nine days ago and offered nine cents an hour raise, while the union pressed for 29 cents.
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Washington
Aprizon
Cyrus Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Armour & Co
CIO United Packinghouse
Striking Cudahy Office Workers Return to Jobs
In Kansas City Kansas on April 26 the entire strikebound Cudahy packing plant staff resumed work after violence last Friday between CIO strikers and police. Police Capt Eli Dahlin said the workers promised to be good and that no trouble is expected.
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Cudahy
Kansas City
Kan
CIO
Eli Dahlin
Police
Served With Santa Fe Here Served With Santa Fe Here
W H Rochester a former chief engineer for the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway died in Galveston after several weeks illness. He was Santa Fe district engineer with headquarters here from August 1987 to June 1943, oversaw Tallway construction in this district. Surviving are his wife, a daughter Evelyn Rochester of Galveston, and brother J L Rochester of Greenville SC. Funeral services held in Galveston. Interment in San Antonio tomorrow morning.
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W. H. Rochester
Galveston
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Rochester
Santa Fe Railway
Evelyn Rochester
J. L. Rochester
Greenville
San Antonio
Communists Stir in Japan After Education Protest
US forces jailed about 800 people following weekend violence in Osaka and other cities. Nearly 8 000 Koreans and American Black soldiers helped quell disturbances. Seven Japanese Communists were among those detained, with arrests linked to a protest over teaching Japanese as a standard language in Korean schools. No American casualties reported. At least 38 Koreans and Japanese injured. Japanese officials and US military police reported smooth cooperation.
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Vaya
Apes
Osaka
Eighth Army
Tokyo
Car Collisions and Injuries Reported Across City Streets
Police report several weekend accidents. Cyrus was injured around 11 PM Saturday in a collision at 4000 Hayden with a parked car owned by Brent Flenniken. Mrs. Williams, a passenger in Isaac C. Williams Jr.’s car, was treated at St Anthony's after a 9:15 PM crash. Virgil I. Lightfoot was near East Thirteenth and Grand avenues when struck by an unidentified truck driver around 1:15 PM Saturday.
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Howard
Jack
Boxwell Brothers
Cyrus
Hayden
Brent Flenniken
Williams
St Anthony's Hospital
Isaac C. Williams, Jr
Hill
Virgil I. Lightfoot
East Thirteenth
Grand Avenue
East Seventeenth
Anderson
North East Eighth
Garfield
Chiang Losing Grip on Chinese Army Officers
Foreign observers in Shanghai on April 26 said Gen Li Tsung jen may fail to gain the vice presidency and lose backing from the military. They argued Chiang Kai-shek no longer holds firm control over the powerful officer clique.
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Chiang
Shanghai
Li Tsung-jen
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Banquet honoring Admiral Riggs opens ticket sales in Amarillo
Tickets priced at two dollars apiece go on sale at the chamber of commerce amid a city wide tribute to Admiral Riggs. A banquet in the Crystal Ballroom at the Herring Hotel will seat 300, with Mrs. Riggs and the admiral expected to attend. Public commissioning ceremonies at the Naval Reserve Center follow at 1 15 p.m. in Amarillo.
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Bill Lansing
Herring Hotel
Lansing
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
A.F. Madison
Lawrence Hagg
Ralph Riggs
Crystal Ballroom
Madsen
Amarillo High School
US Naval Academy
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