Helena sinks after blasting destroyer in Solomons action
War reports from the South Pacific recount the US cruiser Helena blasting a Japanese destroyer in the Kula Gulf near Guadalcanal. The ship then sank after being hit, with about 600 survivors rescued despite heavy oil on the water.
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Allied
Australia
United States
Kula Gulf
Central
Solomons
Helena
South Pacific
Jackson
Guadalcanal
New Georgia Island
Munda
Kansas City Livestock Markets Report July 9 1949
Livestock prices mixed with hogs slightly down and cattle and sheep showing varied moves. Hogs were slow with most at 10 to 15 cents lower. top hogs 13.55 for 190 to 350 pound range. Cattle calved 200 head, three loads of fed steers 15 to 25 cents lower than yesterday, top steers 15.50 to 15.75, various cows and bulls priced, stocker feeders light. Sheep active with 1,500 head available, top lambs 15.25 to 15.15, Texas shorn yearlings at 12.75, slaughter prices to 7.25. Chicago market echoed softness in hogs, steers steady to weak, beef cows 10.50 to 12.00, lambs 14.00 to 15.35. Financial note: Liquidating fund offering 2.03.
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Kansas City
Ee Ae
Texas
Chicago
Loot haul tied to Fort Worth & Denver docks
Police list loot from a car load seized after a theft at Fort Worth and Denver and Rock Island freight docks. The pile includes 330 pairs of socks and 12 boxes of cake flour among 40 plus items valued by officers. a coworker of Reeder is jailed for questioning and the second suspect allegedly split five bundles of writing tablets.
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Fort Worth & Denver
Rock Island
Harper
Reeder
Japanese Fresh Attack Opens Seventh Year of War in China
Japanese troops launched a new assault against Chinese positions in the Taicheng Mountains as the war enters its seventh year. A high command communique noted heavy fighting near the Shansi Henan border after more than 10 000 invasion troops massed in the area. The anniversary fell on July 7 and Beijing officials view the operation as shaping a major base in the mountains. Oregon State University extension notes migration shifts with 1 000 migratory workers and others filling harvest ranks, including children and women.
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Chungking
Taicheng
High Command
Shansi
Henan
Salem, Ore
W. H. Baillie
Oregon State University Extension Service
Oregon
Mayor Jenkins Returns From Chicago With Shrine Delegation
Mayor Joe Jenkins arrived back from Chicago where he accompanied Khiva Temple delegates to a Mystic Shrine imperial council session. Delegates included T. W. Bill Straps, John McCarty, Fred Galle, and Rolla Cartwright. Red Cross handles more than 1,000 emergency messages daily between U S troops overseas and home folks.
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Joe Jenkins
Chicago
Khiva Temple
Imperial Council
Mystic Shrine
T. W
Bill” Gilstrap
John McCarty
Rabban
Fred Galle
Rolla Cartwright
U. S
The
Red Cross
WLB Clarifies Wace Rulings On Little Steel Formula
The War Labor Board reaffirmed adherence to the little steel formula while approving two divergent actions. It granted 12 1 2 cent per hour hikes to 3 000 lumber workers in Michigan and Wisconsin despite no entitlement under the formula. It reduced a proposed 4 20 a day rise for 4 000 New York printing compositors to 2 a day, citing potential disruption to industry wage structure.
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Washington
U.P
The
War Labor Board
Congress
Michigan
Wisconsin
Steeletaoishrdluetaoi Pu Pupu
WLB
New York
Jallopy Parade Set for August 12 in Amarillo
Amarillo civic leaders led by the Jaycees plan an August 12 parade down Polk Street featuring beauty queens bands and floats to bolster the war effort. The old car and scrap drive will reclaim parts for redistribution to organizations like the Red Cross or USO with committee heads named across business schools bands and civic groups.
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Amarillo
Polk Street
Red Cross
USO
Jaycee
Gordon Gill
Jim McKnight
Chester Park
Ross Rogers
John Fowlston
Lieutenant Rankin
Joe Jenkins
Jack Cunningham
Ed Hardin
Lawrence Hagg
Grady Hazlewood
American Legion
Range Riders
Khiva Temple of the Mystic Shrine
Pilot Club
Mavericks
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Chamber of Commerce
Clark Services At 11 Saturday
Graveside services for Ira G. Clark age 72, former Amarillo resident and longtime Santa Fe dispatcher, will be held 11 o clock Saturday morning. Dr Earl G Hamlett will officiate at Polk Street Methodist. Clark died Wednesday at his Hollister Oklahoma home. Survived by widow, two sons, three daughters. Body arrives tonight in Amarillo and will lie in state at Griggs chapel prior to services.
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Ira G. Clark
Amarillo
The
Santa Fe
Earl G. Hamlett
Polk Street
Clark
Hollister
Oklo
N. S. Griggs & Sons
Griggs
Plan To Wield Strike Club In Pennsylvania Coal Mines
A federal grand jury is ordered reconvened in Pittsburgh to consider invoking the Smith Connally anti strike act over wildcat coal mine strikes in western Pennsylvania. U S District Attorney Charles F Uhl asks to reconvene the May grand jury for July 14 to investigate matters of great importance to the United States. He notes the coal strikes have shut more than twenty mines leaving about 14 000 miners idle.
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Pittsburgh
Smith-Connally
Pennsylvania
U. S
Charles F Uh
F. P. Schoonmaker
United States
Uhl
Wage allowances cited for living-cost increases since 1941
Wages over the January 1941 level are allowable to offset cost of living rises since that date. The industry members of the WLB dissented from the lumber award and the labor members dissented from the printing award.
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WLB
Urges Higher Flour Prices in Wheat State Talk
Kansas Senator Reed urges colleagues to clear up the price situation for farmers before recess. He wants action influenced by the War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administration to raise flour ceilings and encourage additional wheat planting. He says farmers need pricing to plan next winter crop.
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Washington
Reed
Kansas
Michigan
Colorado
Minnesota
Texas
War Food Administration
Office of Price Administration
Congress
Redd
Gais
OPA
WFA
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Alan Jackson
American Picture Pool
Osmar White
White
Kolom
Bangara
New Georgia
Financial Industrial Fund
Dow-Jones
Fenner & Beane
Pierce,enner & Beane
Peer Pwenens
Amere
Armour & Co At& SF Aviation Corp
Sts
Baldwin Loco
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem
Vere
En Ae
Briggs Mfg
Budd
Chrysler
Ps4
Saines
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Int Harvester Ee
Glenn L. Martin Peeeeres
Mid Cent Pet
Southern Pacific
Wee
Wee Thy
Standard Oil
Calif
Ind Tee
Stand Oil
Neee
Studebaker
Swift & Co
Texas Co
Tex Gulf Sylph Ween
Tidewater
Union Carbide
United Aircraft Teres
U & Steel Teeterrene Aee
Wilson & Core Teetewese
White Motors
Ween
Woolworth Ae
Warner Bros
Central Park
Benny Goodman
Globe-News
New China
B. B. Williams
Frank Campbell
State Farm Insurance Companies
Globe News
Lydia E. Pinkham
First National Bank
U. S. Deposit Insurance Corporation
Oldest Bank
the Panhandle
J. M. Hyden
Doctor of Optometry
7Th St
MR. Farmer
Unkle Hank Sez
Taylor
Montg
WAR Stampsi
Montgomery UK
POLK
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