Veterans urged to aid Amarillo housing drive
Heads of veteran organizations urge 100 percent cooperation with the Mayor's Emergency Housing Committee to collect data on Amarillo housing needs. Legion and VFW leaders ask members to report needs via the “Need a Home?” form or the American Legion office. Forms mailed to 215 West Seventh will be compiled by Ed Timmons and forwarded to the National Housing Agency. The joint ghost housing survey by the Chamber of Commerce and Real Estate Board tracks unfinished houses and material needs, with results due at week’s end.
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Emergency Housing Committee
Amarillo
E. C. Nelson, Jr
Hanson Post
American Legion
Legion
Blackburn
Harold Vogel
John B. Golding
VFW
H. B. Todd
Amarilo
Todd
Ed Timmons
Mayor's Emergency Housing Committee
West Seventh
Tex
New Duties Braving Tharp Back Home From Army
Col Blucher S Tharp former Lost Battalion commander returns to West Texas Amarillo to lead the 54 county organized reserves district from Panhandle counties including Andrews Martin Howard and Mitchell in the Fourth Army area He takes the post as instructor at organized reserve headquarters. Maj W P Keleher moves to Allied Military Government school near Philadelphia awaiting overseas assignment.
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Fourth Army
San Antonio
Blucher S. Tharp
Java
Organized Reserve
Amarillo
Panhandle
West Texas
Andrews
Martin
Howard
Mitchell
Organized Reserves
W. P. Keleher
Allied Military Government
Philadelphia
Yugoslavia Rejects Trieste Compromise at Peace Talks
Yugoslav vice premier Edward Kardelj denounced the so called French line, opposing the plan to make Trieste an international territory under UN authority. He argued the solution abandons Yugoslavia and fails to compensate wartime losses, insisting on a just agreement with allies.
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Yugoslavia
Trieste
Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
United Nations Authority
U.N
Edward Kardelj
Marshal Tito
Italy
Istria
Kardelj
Purge of Industry Resumes as Officials Sentenced in Russia
Soviet prosecutors widen corruption crackdown across industry cases. Pravda reports multiple long terms for officials and bribe takers, including N. Ignatova in Moscow jailed ten years and a woman inspector eight. Also cited are transport officials tied to fake travel orders and ticket fraud.
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Moscow
WIP
Russia
Pravda
Communist Organ
N. Ignatova
I. Zakharov
Leningrad
Sidneko
Kherson
I. Suchevo
Kalinin
M. T.anakina
Krasnoyarsk
Siberia
Dry Weather Drives Ants Into Brownsville Homes
Brownsville residents report swarms of ants in sinks basins and tubs as the valley endures three months of dry rainless weather. Homes show ants attracted to any water or moisture sources during the drought.
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Brownsville
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity expect clear to cloudy skies this afternoon through Friday with continued hot temperatures. West Texas remains fair and warm, New Mexico shows partly cloudy to night and Friday with scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers mainly in mountains. Highs around 96 yesterday, 88 at noon today, lows near 67.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Skunks Break Free at Brownsville Express Office
Henry Barreda, an express company worker, recalls the incident when five skunks escaped from a broken cage during unloading at the Brownsville express office. The animals reportedly resisted capture with their chemical defense, likened to a scene from Pigs Is Pigs.
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Brownsville
Henry Barreda
Express Company
Barreda
Express
Somebody Has Been Sleeping In My Bed
J S Pitman reports a stranger slept in his bed last night while his Englewood son in law and family rested in a trailer in the yard. The intruder admitted he was drunk and unaware of his location. The Pitmans daughter Mrs G L Wilkenloh arrived with her husband and two children at five this morning.
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J. S. Pitman
West Eighth
Mr. Pitman
Englewood
Cal
Pitmans
G. L. Wilkenloh
Eleven Killed in Navy Bomber Crash at Camp Kearney
A four engine Navy bomber crashed on take off from Camp Kearney near San Diego killing eleven aboard. Rescue teams found the burning wreckage four miles west of the base but could not save any passengers or crew. Maj. Robert Ayres said the craft was en route to Dallas with a mixed group of service personnel.
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San Diego
Cal
Marine Auxiliary Air Station
Camp Kearney
Robert Ayres
Marine Public Information Officer
Dallas
Amarillo Water Use Nears Record Amid Irrigation Relaxation
Amarillo faces possible break of the 19,100,000 gallon daily record set July 22 as city water superintendent N V Moss notes rising usage. July set multiple records and today irrigation is allowed across the day to ease pressure after Tuesday night drops. Tomorrow and Saturday are watering holidays.
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Amarillo
N. V. Moss
City Water Department
Moss
Russell Staty, Co
Taylor
Plane Crash near Hereford Kills Pilot in Coyotes Chase
Authorities report one man killed and another seriously injured in a Hereford plane crash during a coyote chase. Bill Bowman, a farmer and pilot with 300 hours, died when his light plane lost control at low altitude. Eka Colliers, his injured companion, was flown to hospital.
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Hereford
WUP
Bill Bowman
Eka Colliers
Truman orders broad spending cuts across federal agencies
President Truman urged all government departments to substantially reduce expenditures for the fiscal year, naming the Army Navy and Maritime Commission. He directed war and navy secretaries to trim programs and defer lumber textiles procurement while limiting construction materials automobiles and office equipment to urgent needs through January 1947.
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Washington
Truman
Army, Navy and Maritime Commission
Secretaries of War and Navy
Maritime Commission
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chester W. Nimitz
Set County Convention in Courthouse Saturday Afternoon
The Democratic Party county convention will meet at the courthouse at 4 p m on Saturday afternoon. Delegates named at precinct conventions last Saturday will attend to consider resolutions and appoint delegates to the September state convention known as the governor's convention. There is talk one precinct may push a poll tax abolition resolution for possible state consideration.
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Democratic Party
Texas
Passenger Liner Rescues Troopship With Anti-Toxin
A west bound liner Brazil halted off Argentina to provide emergency diphtheria anti-toxin to the troop ship Colby Victory carrying 1,009 replacements for Germany. One death was reported and other patients showed similar symptoms, though officials at New York later said no additional cases.
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Boston
Brazil
Argentina
Colby Victory
Germany
New York
Truman names Keen Johnson Under Secretary of Labor
President Truman announced Keen Johnson former Kentucky governor as Undersecretary of Labor at a news conference. He also elevated Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton to Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs, following the signing of a bill creating the post.
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Washington
Keen Johnson
Kentucky
Truman
William L. Clayton
Clayton
Jackson's Return to Court Okay by Truman
President Truman said Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson will resume duties on the Supreme Court upon returning to the United States. Jackson, once chief U. S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, is due back in Washington tomorrow amid past disagreements with Justice Hugo Black and criticism of Black.
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Washington
Truman
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
United States
Jackson
U. S
Nuernburg
Hugo Black
Germany
Mr. Truman
Nuernberg
Black
Quezon Buried in Manila Two Years After Saranac Lake Death
Manuel Quezon was buried today in Cemetery Del Norte Manila marking two years since his death at Saranac Lake New York. Liberation forces were mounting the final offensive to free the islands from Japanese occupation.
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Manila
Manuel Quezon
Cemeterio del Norte
Saranac Lake
New York
Groundwork laid for Amarillo metal workers union drive
International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders plans to organize Amarillo metal trades workers beginning with Superior Manufacturing Co. election tomorrow. Joseph P. McCollum cites Panhandle reach and future locals. NRLB examiner John F. White to supervise the vote.
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Amarillo
Superior Manufacturing Co
National Labor Relations Board
Superior
Mr. McCollum
Panhandle
McCollum
Rowan
Lubbock
AFL
Ben Fisher
Dumas
Boiler Makers Union
John F. White
NRLB
Panhandle Metal Trades
Metal Trades Council
National War Labor Board
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Col. Blucher Tharp
Tharp
Hale
Reemanning
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes
U. S. Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
H. C. Winburn
M . Winburn
Weather Bureau
Reds
U.S. Weather Bureau
Navy
Thomas’ Dinner House
N. Fillmore
Quezon
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