Vet training program faces graft charges and probes
The Veterans Administration released files detailing case histories linked to Gen Omar Bradley's allegations of petty graft and chiseling in the 27 million dollar monthly on the job training program. The records arrived from 62 regional offices as Justice Department and Wage Stabilization Board both opened inquiries. Bradley spoke before the Spanish War Veterans convention in Milwaukee and the investigations were underway.
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George FE. Repdy
Washington
Veterans Administration
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
Justice Department
Wage Stabilization Board
Milwaukee
GI Bill on-the-job training abuses flagged by veterans panel
Chairman John E Rankin warned of possible GI Bill reform. Veterans Administration officials admitted wide scale chiseling as veterans and employers audit on-the-job training subsidies. Instances included substandard wages, misclassified work, and tool purchases. avoidant pay gaps and miscertified apprenticeships surfaced nationwide.
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John E. Rankin
House Veterans Committee
Veterans’ Administration
UNRRA chief accuses Soviets over Austria drain
Geneva August 7 UNRRA Director General F H LaGuardia charged Russian authorities with draining Austrian products badly needed by Austrians and urged the UNRRA council to back him or expel him. He said the activity might violate Potsdam terms and should be settled by an appropriate international authority.
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Geneva
U.P
F. H. LaGuardia
UNRRA
LaGuardia
Austria
Mexican president-elect invited to Texas State Fair
Miguel Aleman, president elect of Mexico, has been invited to attend the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in October. The invitation was announced on August 7.
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Dallas
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
Texas
Rainey and Jester Launch Texas Governor Runoff Tour
Gubernatorial candidates Homer P. Rainey and Beauford Jester extend their Texas bid with separate stops. Rainey heads to Amarillo for a Park address, while Jester tours Northeast Texas after radio talks in San Antonio Dallas and adviser meetings. Campaign managers note no broadcast planned and family attendance expected.
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Homer Price Rainey
Amarillo
Ellwood Park
At & O
Kenneth Wheatley
Rainey
Dave Cheavens
Max Bf
Skelton
Associated Press
Beauford Jester
Homer P. Raine
Texas
Jester
San Antonio
Dallas
Austin
Waco
Nacogdoches
Athens
Texas Faces Record Heat as Polio Epidemics Spread
The Associated Press reports a heat wave grips Texas with 85 stations over 100 degrees including Seymour and Henrietta at 114. Dallas hits 106, other towns record 100–114, while a Pacific cool front nears. Separately polio epidemics surge in Mississippi Arkansas and other states with rising case counts and public health actions.
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Associated Press
Texas
Weather Bureau
Seymour
Henrietta
Pacific
Wyoming
Dallas
el Paso
Henritta
Quanah
Bridgeport
Childress
Graham
Wichita Falls
Dublin
Eastland
Haskell
Memphis
Sherman
Spur
Dilley
Eneinal
Fort Worth
Mission
Uvalde
Clarendon
Falfurrias
Abilene
Brownwood
Miami
Minneapolis
Pulaski County
Arkansas
Jones, Forrest
Lowndes
Mississippi
Ohio
South
West
Middlewest
New England
Middle Atlantic
Louisiana
Nebraska
Pulaska County
Little Rock
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Truman backed Axtell wins Missouri primary nomination
Enos Axtell, a 37 year old Navy lieutenant, captured the Democratic nomination in Missouri’s Fifth District with 4 201 votes over Jerome Walsh and others. Slaughter, a long time incumbent, was defeated in a wave that saw several Democrats and Republicans advance in primaries across Missouri and other states.
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Associated Press
Truman
Roger C. Slaughter
Missouri Congress
Missouri
Enos A. Axtell
Jerome Walsh
OPA
Axtell
Albert L. Reeves, Jr
The
Army Engineers
Slaughter
Virginia
West Virginia
Kansas
New Hampshire
Arkansas
Cio-Pac
Pendergast
Kansas City
House Rules Committee
Roosevelt
John J. O'Connor
New York
O'Connor
Congress
Charles M. Dale
U. S
Sherman Adams
Harry H. Woodring
Briggs
Senate
James P. Kenn
Representative Slaughter
Byrd
Martin A. Hutchinson
Richmond
Porter Hardy, Jr
Farmer
Ralph H. Daughton
Norfolk
Kilgore
J. Buhl Shahan
Texas patrol captains seek fix for reckless driving
Thirteen Texas highway patrol captains gathered in Austin to discuss methods to curb reckless and drunken driving that endangers 28 000 miles of road and 125 patrol cars limited to 100 miles travel per day.
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Austin
Texas Highway Patrol
Unclad man jumps into clothes and boards oncoming train
In New Hope Pennsylvania a partially dressed man leaps from a passing car at the platform seconds before a Philadelphia bound train arrives. He quickly bolts on a shirt pants and coat and runs to catch the train as cheering passengers watch.
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New Hope
Reading Company
Governor Recommends Commutation of Noxon Death Sentence
Governor Tobin asked the executive council to commute attorney John F. Noxon Jr.'s death sentence for the murder of his infant son to life imprisonment. Noxon from Pittsfield faces execution by electric chair later this month.
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Boston
U.P
Maurice J. Tobin
Executive Council
Atty
John F. Noxon, Jr
Pittsfield
Noxon
Weather roundup for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
The forecast calls for clear nights and mornings in Amarillo with scattered afternoon cloudiness and hot conditions slowly cooling by Friday. West Texas remains partly cloudy and hot through tonight and Thursday, while New Mexico sees similar partly cloudy skies with widely scattered thundershowers and little temperature change.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Soviet Press Delayed in Printing Byrnes Charge
The Tass News Agency report notes belated publication of Byrnes speech details and highlights rules adopted to allow minority views in commissions. Evatt withdraws a proposal to liberalize voting on treaty commissions. Paris session welcomes former Axis satellites to present cases to the 21 powers. Byrnes suggests Italy Romania Bulgaria Hungary Finland to send representatives to plenary session.
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Tass
Rules Commission
Molotov
Byrnes
London
Paris
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Peace Conference Rules Commission
Secretariat
James F. Byrnes
Italy
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Stork Sets Birth Record in Amarillo Last Month
Health department clerks report Amarillo welcomed 198 babies in the latest month, a record high after 196 in June of last year. Total births this year reach 1,002 with 10 deaths last month. January through July birth counts are listed, with no sex breakdown available yet. Also noted is Thomas' Dinner House relocation to 516 N Fillmore.
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Amarillo
Missouri Winner Once Lived Here
James P. Kem, who won the Republican senatorial nomination in Missouri, practiced law in Amarillo for a little over a year after arriving in 1926 from Casper, Wyoming. He then returned to Missouri, opened an office in Kansas City, and is a native of Macon, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri and Harvard Law School, being a classmate of Sen. Robert Taft.
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James P. Kem
Missouri
Amarillo
P. F. Sapp
Amarilo
Kem
Casper
Wyo
Kansas City
Macon
University of Missouri
Harvard Law School
Sapp
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Mexican authorities reveal plot against future president
Gen Jiminez Delgado reports an alleged plot to kill President-elect Miguel Aleman and senator-elect Col Carlos Serrano. Mario Lasso, ex consul in Chicago and relative of opponent Ezequiel Padilla, is detained along with wife Flora Dancy. Case referred to public prosecutor to seek evidence. two hand grenades seized.
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Mexico City
Miguel Aleman
Carlos Y. Serrano
Jiminez Delgado
Federal District
Raulo Cardenas
Mario Lasso
Chicago
Ezequiel Padilla
Aleman
Delgado
Lasso
Flora Dancy
U. S
Attorney General's Office
There’s Many a Slip Between Cloak and Dagger in Munich
U S Third Army reports an identification error by two agents on the same case in Munich. James Caywood of Henrietta Oklahoma and Gerald Bernman a Dutch counter intelligence corps agent mistook each other for the suspect. They exchanged fire and ran a street gun duel until Caywood was wounded.
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Frankfurt
U. S. Third Army
James Caywood
Henrietta
Oklo
Criminal Investigation Division
Gerald Bernman
Counter-Intelligence Corps
Munich
Caywood
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