UN Security Council blocks five nations from membership
The United Nations Security Council vetoed Austria and four former enemy states, barring their UN membership for at least a year. Russia used its veto to block Italy and Austria, while Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria were also rejected amid East West tensions. Yemen and Pakistan were the only likely admittees as the General Assembly set to convene.
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Lake Success
United Nations Security Council
Austria
Europe
United Nations
Security Council
Italy
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
United States
Britain
Greece
Herschel V. Johnson
General Assembly
Gromyko
Russia
Johnson
Axis
World Organization
Pace
Yemen
Pakistan
Protests over Dairen and German industry plans flare
The United States protested the Soviet occupation of Dairen and urged a return to Chinese administration under the 1945 treaty. Moscow opposed a proposed US British French conference to raise German industry, arguing it would undermine Potsdam terms. The UN Security Council vetoes and a Library of Congress summary highlight worsening US Soviet relations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Moscow
United States
Dairen
Russia
Japan
Nanking
China
H. Merrell Benninghoff
Germany
Geremany
Europe
Britain
Great Britain
France
London
United Nations Security Council
Italy
Austria
Library of Congress
Mays Challenges Amarillo Tax Valuation Methods
Amarillo real estate owner W A Mays attacked the Ehrenberg survey used for city school tax equalization hearings now in day four. He called the 1941 and 1947 figures inconsistent and urged a resurvey, while board members offered to have Ehrenborg reevaluate the Polk Street property if requested.
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Mays
Polk
George Ehrenberg Co
Dallas
Polk Street
L. G. Mills
Equalization Board
W. A. Mays Brands
Ehrenberg
Amarillo
Ehrenborg
Erik Ehrenborg
Turmoil in Jullundur as Sikhs pillage and Muslims flee
Rampaging Sikhs attacked Jullundur in Punjab with arson and swordplay against Muslims who crowded the city center and two nights of mass displacement followed. Police, all of them Sikhs or Hindus, failed to intervene, hindering Northwest Frontier forces trying to remove remaining Muslims before nightfall.
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Jullundar
India
Punjab
Northwest Frontier Force
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas regions
Partly cloudy across Amarillo area with widely scattered late thunder showers today and Friday. West Texas and New Mexico show similar partly cloudy conditions with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Temperatures reach a high of 94, low 67, and noon 84. Local ads list sanitone care and school supplies from Dowie & Co and Russell Stationery Co with contact numbers and addresses.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Weatherman Predicts Dreuth-Breaking Showers This August
Weather bureau observers forecast light thundershowers for late today and tomorrow as the August dry spell ends. Expect widely scattered showers with mild temperatures and highs near 92 degrees.
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Weather Bureau
Airport deal hinges on title transfer at Amarillo field
Mayor Lawrence Hagg and Acting City Manager N. V. Moss inspected Amarillo Army Air Field property acquired from the War Assets Administration. City seeks clear title to over two million dollars in assets as legal approval from the WAA and Attorney General Tom Clark stands between progress and settlement. A trade agreement with the WAA was finalized yesterday afternoon.
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Lawrence Hagg
N. V. Moss
Amarillo Army Air Field
War Assets Administration
English Field
WAA
Atty
Tom Clark
Death of Senator Theodore Bilbo Ends Tumultuous Career
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi died at Foundation Hospital New Orleans at 1 05 PM after a lengthening battle with cancer and a pulmonary embolism. The ailing Democrat had undergone operations to remove a blood clot and to restore part of his jaw and was attended by his son Colonel Theodore G Bilbo Jr and his daughter Mrs Jesse Smith as his life ebbed. Doctor Alton Ochsner had treated him for cancer at Touro Infirmary earlier in the year.
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New Orleans
Theodore G. Bilbo
Mississippi
Foundation Hospital
Bilbo
Alton Ochsner
Touro Infirmary
Col
Theodore G. Bilbo, Jr
Jesse Smith
Soviet Policy Report Warns of World Revolution Threat
Library of Congress experts told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Soviet policy aims at a global transformation and the worldwide spread of communism. They warned that sharing atomic secrets with Russia could create two Carthages, not one Rome, and urged U.S. leadership to avert Soviet aggression.
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John L. Steele
Washington
Library of Congress
Russia
Senate Foreign Relaions Committee
Carthages
Rome
Library
Legislative Reference Service
W. Averell Hartman
Moscow
Europe
Senate
Tom Connally
Texas
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Dean Atcheson
War dead found in Japan mine grave
OSKA Japan Aug 21 a 24th Infantry Division patrol located the common grave of 99 prisoners of war buried in a nearby mine during the war. American Dutch and British prisoners worked there.
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Oska
Japan
24Th Infantry Division
Jews Face Return to Germany From Mediterranean Ships
The 4400 Jewish refugees aboard three British ships off Marseille face a British ultimatum to disembark by tomorrow or be transported to Germany. They had sought entry to Palestine and refused to land in France, with discussions stirring fear of a new spark for terrorism in the Holy Land.
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Prxitain
France
Germany
Marseille
Palestine
Exodus
Bergen - Belsen
International Refugee Organization
Hamburg
Jewish Agency
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Haifa
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Trans- Jordan
Poland
Julius Katz-Suchy
Roller Palace
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W. A. Mays
Ae Ene
Dowie & Co
Russell Stationery CO
Wallace Heath
West 6Th St
Weatherman
Ross White
Carroll Frye
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See
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Thomas Alva Edison
Harkness Pavilion Hospital
John Maynard
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