Danish swimmer rescued during Olympic 400 meter heat
Greta Andersen collapsed in a preliminary 400 meter swim in London as Nancy Lees of Portland and Hungarian Szaatmarry saved her from drowning. She was held afloat until finish, treated for cramps, and expected to be out of the pool for several days.
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London
Denmark
Greta Anderson
Nancy Lees
Portland
Ore
Miss Lees
Szaatmarry
Miss Andersen
Robeson to Headline Wallace Rally at Dallas Convention
Herman Wright state Progressive Party chairman announced Paul Robeson will attend the Wallace Taylor supporters convention August 10 in Dallas. Wright praised Robeson as Old Man River performer Othello star and NAACP award winner who led a 3000 plus delegation to Washington to oppose Mundt Nixon. A large rally is planned at the Ice Arena in Dallas Fair Grounds Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
U.P
Herman Wright
Progressive Party
Paul Robeson
Wallace-Taylor
Dallas
Wright
Robeson
NAACP
Washington
Ice Arena
Dallas Fair Grounds Park
Pioneer Shamrock Woman Succumbs
Mrs. Rada Bowers longtime Shamrock resident dies after lengthy illness at her home. Funeral services set for 5 pm in Shamrock. Widow of Dave Bowers pioneer rancher falleth years ago. Survived by two daughters Mrs Harris and Mrs Taylor and two sons Lee and Marion Trimble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rada Bowers
Panhandle
Shamrock
Two Youths Charged With Stoning Cars
R. F. Armstrong reports his car windshield shattered by rocks thrown from the Buchanan Street underpass. Police have one teen in custody and seek to identify a second youth for formal charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Armstrong
Mirror
Buchanan Street
Rock Island Starfs Expansion Work on Yards at Fort Worth
Work began on a $200000 project to add five switching tracks in the Rock Island yard Fort Worth. The new tracks add 19000 feet of capacity and increase car handling by 350 cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island Starfs
Fort Worth
Rock Island
Man and Wife Slain at Mineral Wells Home
Sgt. Joseph G. Washman 25 and his wife were found shot to death in Mineral Wells. An inquest ruled murder and death by own action. The couple had two young sons visiting relatives in Fort Worth. Washman had filed for divorce the day before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineral Wells
Joseph G. Washman
J. R. Watkins
Washman
Fort Worth
Carswell Air Force Base
Man Who Treated FDR Dies From Overdose of Pills
Santa Barbara August 4 Coroner John D Ross reports the death of Prof Emery Siposs a physiotherapist who gave hydrotherapy to President Franklin D Roosevelt. The coroner says Siposs died Tuesday apparently from an overdose of sleeping tablets A Washington DC relative says the professor suffered a nervous breakdown a year ago and had been in hospitals intermittently
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Santa Barbara
Cal
John D. Ross
Emery Siposs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Siposs
Washington, DC
Ex-WAC Jill Stands Out in 130-Student Farm Course
Mrs. Cecil Bartow, a former WAC sergeant, is the only woman in Noble County's veteran farm training course with 130 male veterans. Her instructor, Kenneth Hicks, praises her as a strong student as the program resumes after wartime interruptions involving Sweden Germany Portugal Japan and Java.
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Perry
Okla
Cecil Bartow
Noble County
Bartow
WAC
Kenneth Hicks
Sweden
Germany
Portugal
Japan
Java
Study of 400 jungle plants begins at Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital launches a long range cancer plant study using 400 specimens collected by Arthur J. Burks from the Mundurucu jungle near the Amazon. Indian practices and possible salt free diet are noted as context for traditional remedies and drug derivations.
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United Press
New York
Memorial Hospital
Amagon Valley
Arthur J. Burks
Brazil
Ruth
Paradise
Burks
Amagon Swamp
Amazon
Stolen Car Suspects Booked On Grand Larceny
Detectives questioned a driver and passenger who ответed only by writing notes. One wrote We are deaf mates Please write your questions. Another answered Where's your registration with We stole the car. William H. Columbo 21 of the Bronx and John Degrazier 22 of Brooklyn were booked on grand larceny charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William H. Columbo
The
Bronx
John Degrazier
Brooklyn
Inflation Eases in Japan Amid War-Era Struggles
Tokyo reports inflation easing with prices far above prewar levels. Yen at 270 to 1 dollar, black market stalls rising, loan sharks charging high rates, bankruptcies increasing, luxury stores closing, and wage demands meeting resistance as Allied officials urge self-reliance.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
United States
Circus-Minded Grocer Unveils His Own Elephant
Lake City Iowa grocer Glenn J Jarmes achieves a boyhood dream by creating a traveling circus. He and his four sons perform across Iowa all summer with one ring three lions two bears monkeys ponies four clowns and sideshow attractions led by the elephant Jarmes says it is the only elephant in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake City
Ifa
U?i
Glenn J. Jarmes
Jarmes
Iowa
King Inspectes Camps As Norway Mobilizes
Os low Aug 5 Ein Haakon inspected military camps around Oslo in a mobilization exercise. The program stands as the most extensive maneuver by Norwegian armed forces since World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King
Oslo
Norway
Ein Haakon
Smallest South Bend hospital baby weighs over two pounds
Jeannette Inky Dzikowski born July 14 at South Bend Memorial Hospital weighed just over two pounds at 23 days old. She remains in an incubator and is fed via tube while described as normally hungry and active.
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South Bend
Ind
South Bend Memorial Hospital
Jeannette Dzikowski
Casimer Dzikowski
Closing Stock Averages Report Narrow Declines
Merrill Lynch computed closing stock averages show 30 Industrials at 182.92 down 0.14, 20 Railroads at 61.19 down 0.25, Utilities at 34.83 down 0.02, with sales volume 880,000.
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Merrill Lynch
Pierce We 4
Beane
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Stock Quotation Smashup from New York Markets
The Amarillo Merrill Lynch desk reports closing quotations across a wide list of stocks including Kennecott, Allied Stores, American Motors, General Electric, Union Carbide, and US Steel with varied percent changes. The compilation also covers New York and Kansas City livestock prices, with cattle and hog directions, plus a Champaign note citing calorie concerns as overweight causes.
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New York
Amarillo
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
KC Southern
Alaska Juneau
Kennecott
Allegheny Crp
Laclede Gas
Allegheny Sud
Lambert Co
Allied Stores
Lehigh Portid
Allis Chalmers
Libby McN&l
Amer Airlines
Locer Cable&r
Amer Car&éFdy
Long Bell Lba
Amer Chainéc
Amer Locomot
Ack Trucks
Amer Powerdel
Acme
Armour & Co
Natl
Biscuit
Assoc
Arch Top&sf
Avco Mfg
Natl Dairy Pr
Baldwin Loco
N&t
Dept
Baltimore
Barnsdal
Otl
Bendix Aviata
Rewport
Ndu
Best Foods
NY Cent RR
Bethlehem
North Amer
Blaw-Knox
North Nat Gas
Bliss Co
North Pac RR
Boeing Airpin
Ohio Oil
Bohn Alumnin
Oliver Corps Borden Co
Packard Met Borg Warner
Pan Am Airw
Braniff Airway
Panhand
P&r
Bridgeport
Paramount Pc
Briges Mfg
A . Prices &Strat
Bucyrus Erie
Pepsi Colaouad Co
Phelps Dodge Burroughs Ad
Philco Corp
Butler Bros
Phillips Petrol
Calif Packing
Pittsby&Bolt Canada Dry
Plymouth Oil Canadian
Uac
Pure Oil Carrier Corp
Poor & Co
Poor & Co 11I Case Co 43% Pullman Caterpillar Tr 561, Radio Xe Celotex Corp
Reo Motors Checker
Republic Avia Chesap & Ohio
Republic Steel Chicago Corp
Reynold Tobb CM
St Paul
Richfield Oil
Chio Ri&pac
St Regis Papr Chrysler
Safeway Store
CIT Pinancial
Columbia Carb
Servel Inc
Commer Cred
Shamrk O&g
Commer
Sply
Sharon Steel
Commer &South
Shell Union Oil
Consol Edison
Ummons Co
Consol Vultee
Gencair Ae
Continent Oil
Fen Ke Crane Co
Southern
Crucible Steel
Spiegel Inc
Curtiss Wright
Square D
Curtiss
Brands
Deer & Co
Gaspid del & Hudson
Stand
Oil
Califo Distillers Corp
Ind
Doehler Jarvis
Oil NJ
Dome Mines
Stand Stlipe
Douglas Aircr
Stewart Warn
Dupont
Swift & Co
Eagle Picher
Stone & Webst
Eastern Airlin
Studebaker
Eaton Mfe
Sunray Oil
Pw&l
Symington
Erie Railroad
Texas Co
Farsworth Tv
Tex Gulf
Firth Carpet
Tex Pac C&o
General Elect
Transc & WA
General Foods
20Th Cent Fox
General Motor
Union Bag&p
General Tirer
Union C&c
Gillette Safety
Union, Pacific
United Aircrft
US Rubber
Great Nrr
US. Steel
Great W Sugar
United Wallop
Greyhound Co
Walworth, Co
Grumman Air
Warner Bros
Gulf Oil
Warren Retro
Homestake M
West Indies Sea
Hood-Hershey
Western Auto
Houston
Internat
T&t
Purdue student sets speed record with model plane in Indiana
Charles Springer of Purdue University shattered the national speed record for class D miniature gas model airplanes by flying at 133.28 miles per hour in Fort Wayne Indiana. The prior mark stood at 132.48.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Purdue University
Charles Springer
Plumbing Code Debate Delays Cities Plans and Prices
In Dallas and Texas, appliance dealers and plumbers argue over new plumbing code rules for connecting devices to sewers. City officials study built in traps and vents while traders seek a compromise. Separate meat price fears rise as housewives face higher costs amid nationwide meat declines.
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Stanton Field
Harvey Corn
Jim Watkins
Palo Duro Association of Master Plumbers
Field
Dallas
Texas
Dallas Independent Retail Grocers Association
Thomas J Lambert Held On Burglary Charges
Thomas J Lambert, recently discharged from the New Mexico State Penitentiary, is held in Potter County jail on burglary charges. He was indicted two years ago for the burglary of the W Holmes Smith residence in Canyon and was wanted in New Mexico on burglary charges at the time. Deputies brought him from Randall County for safekeeping as he awaits 47th District Court trial in Canyon.
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Thomas J. Lambert
New Mexico State Penitentiary
Potter County
Lambert
W. Holmes Smith
Canyon
New Mexico
Randall County Sheriff's Deputies
47Th District
Amarillo Community Chest Faces Public Will on Continuation
A pledge from Chest leaders cites public apathy after only 222 votes from about 15 000 contributors and calls on the city commission the chambers of commerce to determine whether Amarillo citizens want the Chest kept active and funds directed to chosen agencies or the Chest be discontinued and agencies seek funds independently.
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Amarillo
City Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Chest
Chest Board of Directors
Chambers of Commerce
Kalamazoo Butcher Gives Free Aspirin With Meat Purchases
Merle Nichols a Kalamazoo butcher is giving away one aspirin tablet free with each meat purchase to help customers cope with high meat prices. Nichols says the promotion aims to ease headaches caused by rising costs. The local dealer notes the plan is simple and lasts for the current period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo, Mich
Merle Nichols
Kalamazoo
Nichols
Polio immunization claim shocks Asheville doctors
In Asheville a former Navy doctor claims a controlled diet can immunize a person within 24 hours from polio. Dr. Benjamin Sandler says eliminating sugars and starches from the diet wards off infantile paralysis, based on experiments over a decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Navy
Benjamin P. Sandler
Sandler
Oteen Veterans Hospital
North Carolina
Spy hearings open as Hiss case leads questions
The House committee questions Alger Hiss as Rep Rankin urges subpoenas for Henry A Wallace while McDowell notes Communist infiltration in several agencies. The discussion mentions German heavy water projects and atomic pile concepts as context.
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Norway
McDowell
State Department
Treasury
War Production Board
OSS
House Committee
John D. Rankin
Mississippi
Federal housing programs expand low income and veterans housing
The document outlines housing measures including aid for equity and mortgage financing and cooperative ownership for veterans. It also creates a Special one billion dollar yield insurance program to be run by FHA to attract large investors into rental housing for moderate income families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans’ Cooperatives
FHA
Remodeling Permit Granted for Three Sisters Store
The Three Sisters Store received a $12,000 remodeling permit for alterations to the 60 by 140 foot Polk storefront. The article notes erosion concerns linked to a local farmer and his authority to minimize impact.
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Three Sisters
Rmit
Polk
What Price Uproar Boy Lowly Match Mother and A Dog
Pasadena report describes nine year old Darryl Nelson lighting a chemical experiment can that exploded. His pants burned and his mother Mrs Norman Nelson was bitten on the leg by a neighbor’s excited dog during the rescue. Both received first aid at Pasadena emergency hospital. The dog had no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Cal
Darryl Nelson
Darryl
Norman Nelson
Pasadena Emergency Hospital
Anthony Brothers Sentenced in Federal Narcotics Case
Henry and Sam Anthony of Elk City Oklahoma pleaded guilty in federal court to forging narcotics records and were sentenced to two years. Deputy U S Marshal W F Lampe transferred the brothers to a federal prison after sheriff deputies arrested them at Spearman. Both had prior narcotic convictions.
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Henry
Sam Anthony
W. F. Lampe
Elk City
Okla
Spearman Ao
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Kansas City
USDA
Financial Industrial Fund
Champaign
Ill
Herriet Barto
University of Illinois
Amer Le&Trac
Kaiser Fraser
Amer Maracab
Kingston Prod Ark Natl
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Lone Star Gas
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BeliHess
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Ning
Hud
Pwr
Cessna Aircrft
Northrop Airc
Cities Service
Cosden Petrol
Pantepec Oil Ryan ConsOil
Crown Drug
Solar Aircraft
Stelling Ne Electric B&s
Utah
Idaho
Humble
Wright Hager
Texas Housewives
Otis Bryant
Grocers Association
R. D. Vaughn
Thomas Lambert
Berlin
Moscow
Russia
Frank Roberts
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Smith
Fay Kohler
Stalin
Truman
United Nations
Britain
Lueneberg
Hamburg
Leipzig
Partment
Hiss
Carnegie Endowment For Peace
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
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