Truman dares Congress to trim 71 billion budget
President Truman challenged Congress to cut his 71 billion budget at a Washington news conference. He praised the budget as good and tight, inviting legislators to try. He warned of past attempts to cut it while noting that excess spending has risen, calling the threat intolerable in an emergency. The same day the Army ordered striking railroad workers to report by Saturday or face dismissal and announced wage increases for yardmen and road service employees.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Wnll
Death of recluse Miss Inez Sweeney shocks rural readers
The lone resident of 304 Kentucky, Miss Inez D. Sweeney, 78, died as fire gutted her cluttered living room. Neighbors saw the one room piled with daily newspapers and trash. Officials estimate estate value above $60,000, with heir Bert McCullough handling affairs since 1929.
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Globe
Inez Sweeney
Inez D. Sweeney
Miss Sweeney
Kentucky
G. A
Bert” McCullough
J. D. Sweeney
James D. Sweeney
Comstock Park
Mich
Darlene
Paul Ingram
President Truman denounces RFC report as asinine
President Truman denounces a Senate subcommittee report as asinine for alleging that White House influence aided RFC loan applicants. He says the charge is an attempt to reflect personally on him and criticizes the report's treatment of Donald S. Dawson, an administrative assistant, after a lengthy RFC probe led by Senator J. William Fulbright.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Donald S. Dawson
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
The Weather Bureau reports considerable high cloudiness and warming this afternoon and tonight with a mild trend continuing, then a cold turn Friday night. Amarillo highs around 67 today and 68 tomorrow, lows near 33 both nights. a separate Amarillo note shows highs 59 and 62 with similar lows. West Texas remains clear to partly cloudy and warmer with a cold turn expected Friday. New Mexico is fair with warmer conditions in the east today and cooler northeast Friday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
News Tip Prize Winners Listed
Mrs. E. A. Collie is first prize winner for calling in on the Hickory Hollow Cafe fire. Second prize goes to Mrs. Robert Long for the St Anthony's Hospital boiler explosion tip. Ralph Sadler wins third prize for the well house fire story. Additional tipsters include Mrs. Roy Hooks and others.
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E. A. Collie
North Grand
Hickory Hollow Cafe
Robert Long
North Seminole
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Ralph Sadler
Mountain Drive
Roy Hooks
Brook
W. M. Clark
Rusk
L. J. Redus
Georgia
T. E. Keasler
North East Tenth
Jill Robbins
Travis
I. S. Boren
Underground bomb shelter planned for Santa Monica Hospital
A two story underground bomb shelter is planned for Santa Monica Hospital with operating rooms and an obstetrical department. The cost has not been estimated. Fir 2 inch lumber and ships up to 7.95 per hundred. Olver and Wiggins Lumber Co. 12 W. 6th.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Santa Monica Hospital
Fir
Olver & Wiggins Lbr. Co
Los Angeles County counts rise after Nevada atomic tests
Los Angeles radios are measurably hotter but not dangerously so following atomic blasts near Las Vegas. A survey shows background counts up 12 to 25 percent. Dr. C. C. Lauritsen of Caltech says normal counts would have to rise hundreds of times before radioactivity is dangerous.
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Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Nev
C. C. Lauritsen
California Institute of Technology
Yanks Shell Seoul and Seoul Front Advance Briefing
US tanks shelled Seoul ruins and howitzers pounded Chinese positions north of the Han River while South Korean troops seized a commanding height near the city. The Allied line pushed forward and the Eighth Army reported heavy enemy losses in the pocket south of the Han.
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Tokyo
Seoul
Han River
Eighth Army
Nine Die in Blast at Minnesota Mining Plant
A blast at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company plant in St Paul killed nine men and possibly more. Officials suspect gas furnace explosions in the basement as the cause while the six story building housed 60 workers at shift change.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
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