Withdrawal Order Halts MacArthur Speech on Formosa
AP report notes President orders withdrawal as tides of battle shift in Korea. Red Korean forces push back right wing along a 120 mile Allied defense line from the Naktong River toward Pohang, with skirmishes reported near Uihung and Taegu as pilots describe unfolded activity along the Sea of Japan coast.
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MacArthur
Formosa
Tokyo
Korea
Naktong River
Pohang
Sea of Japan
Taegu
Uihung
Hal Boyle
Pusan
United Nations
Whench
South Korea
Boyle
US Fifth Air Force
Waegwan
Masan Port
Walton H. Walker
Eighth Army
Walker
Air Force
Kigye
Pohang-Angang
Nam River
Masan
Truman
Warren Austin
United States
Knowland
California
Republican
Ross
Japan
VFW
Pacific
Seventh
White House
US News and World Report
Matthews
State Department
Department
Packard Walkout Settled By U P and CIO Pact
United Auto Workers and Packard Motors reached a contract ending a threatened nationwide walkout. Eight thousand Packard workers will vote on terms after pensions of 125 dollars monthly and four cent hourly raises for five years. Production to resume on 1951 models amid broader auto wage increases. Government mediators in Washington planned railroad talks as Army seizes control to prevent service disruptions.
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United Press
Packard Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
Farm Equipment Workers’ Union
International Harvester
Packard
Chrysler Corporation
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Order of Railway Conductors
Washington
Truman
Bus shooting trial opens pick 4 jurors
Four jurors were chosen midday in the murder trial of Mrs. Epsy Adams 50. The state plans no death penalty for Adams who staged a bus shooting June 24 at Third and Fillmore. She is tried for the fatal shooting of Madeline Cone 46 with husband’s friend Otho wounded. a charge of assault with intent to murder is tied to that case. Defense will seek suspended sentence and questions jurors about self defense.
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Epsy Adams
Third
Fillmore
Adams
Madeline Thomas Cone
Adam
Otho
Carl Edwards
Hayden Weaver
Mrs Lon Rankin Wins News Tip First Prize
Mrs. Lon Rankin of 3620 North East Fifteenth wins first prize in the News Tip contest for promptly reporting barber price increases in Amarillo. Second prize goes to Jack Pittman of 804 Lamar for reporting a murder and suicide at 313 North East Ninth. Third prize honors Max Kephart of Black burn Shaugh Funeral Home for a tip on a three car collision on North East Eighth.
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Lon Rankin
North East Fifteenth
Max Kephart
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
North East Eighth
Norma Lee Ludden
Buchanan
Joe Meacham
Lincolnn
Jeanette Clark
Charlene Weiszbrod
East Tenth
James Day
North East
Jesse Freciado
Houston
Virginia Giles
North Grant
Five Amarillo Burglaries Net About $645 In Loss
Burglars hit five places in Amarillo yesterday and last night stealing cash and checks totaling about 645 dollars. Offices in the Amarillo Building district suffered multiple break-ins with about 400 dollars taken from cash drawers and a safedrawer at Dr Walter Van Sweringen 209 Amarillo Building. 370 50 missing from that vault. The Younger dentist office 206 Amarillo Building yielded 2 50. Cedar Puckett 208 Amarillo Building saw no theft. Mrs Emory Stoop home at 714 North Williams lost about 300 in cash and checks. Bob Fuller car lot office at 306 Pierce had 45 stolen after a broken front glass and pried money drawer. Desks scattered and tools left in disorder across offices. Police note no obvious doors forced. likely lock picking Sunday afternoon.
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Amarillo
Walter van Sweringen
Amarillo Building
Jack Younger
L. H. “Cedar” Puckett
Emory Stoop
Amarillo Ceramic Arts Shop
North Williams
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook Averages Says Warm Day Ahead
The Weather Bureau reports fair conditions for Amarillo and vicinity this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with warmer today and cooler Tuesday. Highs near 85 today and 80 tomorrow with lows around 63 and 61. Panhandle agricultural outlook remains favorable with intermittent storms across West Texas and New Mexico showers and storms scattered. temperatures steady with a warmer northeast today and colder extreme northeast by late Tuesday.
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Amarillo
Morris
Panhandle
West Texas
New Mexico
Critical condition of crash victim in Texan incident
Andrew M. Reid of Pittsburg Texas remained in critical condition at Amarillo Veterans Hospital after a tractor collision near Lelia Lake. A truck driven by E L Billingsley Hollis Oklahoma struck the tractor then collided with a Dallas car driven by James W Martin. Martin and another Dallas occupant Mrs L L Hotchkess were hospitalized with injuries.
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Andrew M. Reid
Pittsburg
Tex
Lelia Lake
Amarillo Veterans Hospital
Reid
Goodnight
Vernon
Guy Wright
Clarendon
E. L. Billingsley
Hollis
Oklo
James W. Martin
Dallas
Martin
L. L. Hotchkess
Clarendon Hospital
MacArthur Says Formosa Is Key To Pacific Defense
General MacArthur argues Formosa anchors a natural Pacific defense line from the Aleutians to the Philippines. He warns that holding Formosa prevents a war of conquest and that losing it would threaten U S bases, sea lanes, and air superiority across the Western Pacific.
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Chicago
MacArthur
Formosa
United States
Seventh Fleet
Formosa Strait
United Nations
Korea
Pacific
Vladivostock
Singapore
Pacific Basin
Pacific Ocean
E & MacArthur
Asiatic
Aleutians
Marianas
Asia
Yellow Sea
Strait of Malacca
Philippines
Okinawa
Truman
Amarillo Air Field Reactivation Ties to Korea War Spread
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce leaders report the Amarillo Army Air Field will not be reactivated while fighting remains localized in Korea. High ranking Air Force officers told R Earl O’Keefe that only if war spreads would urgent steps be needed, with no current training facilities available elsewhere. O’Keefe and colleagues met Gen Robert Smith in Washington, seeking a supportive voice should national reactivation occur.
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Korea
Amarillo Army Air Field
R. Earl O'Keefe
Amarillo
Washington
O'Keefe
Robert Smith
Pioneer Air Lines
Stuart Symington
National Resources Security Board
Smith
O’keefe
Joe Stalin
Texas selective service calls 196 for September draft
Panhandle South Plains boards to furnish 196 men for Texas September induction quota of 2513. Lubbock leads with 46. Amarillo 30 on September 29. Inductions run September 18 to 22, with remaining draftees through September 30. Local quotas include Muleshoe 13, Hereford 11, Childress 17, Dalhart 11, Plainview 22, Pampa 17, Borger 20, Lubbock 46, Perryton 9.
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Panhandle-South Plains
Selective Service Boards
Selective Service
Austin
Lubbock
United Press
Amarillo
Texas
Muleshoe
Hereford
Childress
Dalhart
Plainview
Pampa
Borger
Perryton
White Holds Lead Over McDonald in Texas Agriculture Race
AP reports Wichita Falls native Sohn C. T White maintained a solid lead for Texas agriculture commissioner as noon counts showed White ahead by 7,011 votes. White had 345,924 to McDonald’s 338,913 with about 20,000 votes still uncounted, mainly in Duval King and Borden counties.
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Associated Press
Sohn C. T White
Wichita Falls
Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Texas Election Bureau
White
Election Bureau
Bob Johnson
Duval
King
Borden
Texas
J. E. McDonald
King and Borden Counties
Duval County
George Parr
Thieves Take Lunchbox After Hold Up
Marcos Platos told police yesterday three men held him up in Van Nuys California. They searched him and found 65 cents then grabbed his lunchbox and ate the contents before fleeing.
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van Nuys
Cal
Marcos Platos
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Dmaay
US Weather Bereau Report
The
Globe
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