Unanimous Senate Move Toward United Nations Charter
Washington July 12 leaders expressed optimism as the Senate ready to approve the United Nations Charter. Democratic leaders Barkley and Hill reported no anticipated negative votes while the Foreign Relations Committee pressed on with testimony from CIO chief Philip Murray and others. A committee vote on the charter was seen as likely Saturday or Monday.
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Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Kentucky
Hill
Alabama
Philip Murray
CIO
Connally
Texas
Norman Thomas
Tax Cut Approved to Speed Corporate Reconversion
The Senate finance committee backed legislation to ease excess profits tax and speed refunds, boosting corporations’ cash by about 5.5 billion dollars. A provision lets a reorganized railroad use unused excess profits credits or losses of its predecessor, pending absent-member vote.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
George
Georgia
Colin F. Stamm
Joint Committee On Taxation
Imogene Stevens Bonded and Freed in Slaying Case
Mrs Imogene Stevens Texas born wife of Paratroop Maj G Raisey Stevens was liberated from Fairfield County jail after posting 15000 bond for manslaughter in the June 24 shooting of a young sailor at New Canaan. Her husband flew back from Europe on leave to await developments.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Imogene Stevens
Texas
G. Raisey Stevens
Fairfield County
New Canaan
Albert Kovacs
Truman Heads to Berlin Under British Naval Escort
President Truman speeds from the North Atlantic toward a rendezvous with British warships to escort him on the final sea leg of his Berlin trip. He will meet Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin next week and continues talks with Byrnes Leahy and other advisers before flying to Berlin.
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Augusta
Truman
Atlantic
Berlin
British Isles
Churchill
Stalin
Byrnes
Adm
William D. Leahy
Mr. Truman
Treasury Questions Elliott On Income Tax Returns
Treasury representatives questioned Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt over his income tax returns and loan transactions connected to his Texas radio chain. The House Ways and Means Committee sought details on a 200000 loan from John Hartford of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and Hartford’s claimed bad debt deduction. The Treasury said it had not approved a 227000 bad debt item in Hartford 1942 tax return.
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Washington
Treasury
Elliott Roosevelt
Texas
House
Ways and Means Committee
The
Roosevelt
John Hartford
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
Hartford
Soviet Pattern Wins Out in Government of Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports the Inter-Allied Command confirms Soviet regulations stay in force until further notice as American and British officials take over 12 of 20 boroughs. US and British authorities begin basic administration while Soviet authorities maintain schools and party activity in their zones.
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Berlin
Inter-Allied Kommandator
Red Army
U. S
Idth
In Nippon Reports Bitter Criticism of Mikado Rule
Associated Press war report notes rising Japanese discontent as Allied invasions near both ends of the empire. Tokyo signals that both assaults would unfold, while internal criticism grows toward the Mikado's government.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Mikado
Tokyo
Allied air and naval strikes target Japanese bases across Asia
The Domei News Agency reports 210 British carrier planes bombed Sabang Island as part of a plan to land on Car Nicobar and strike Singapore. Mainichi predicts renewed carrier raids from Task Force 38 against Tokyo, while Allied air power aims to neutralize southern Japan bases and support invasions.
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Domei
Sabang
Indian Ocean
Sumatra
Car Nicobar
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Pacific
Japan
Tokyo
Mainichi
John S. McCain
Okinawa
Krushu Island
Shanghai
Food Relief to End for Civilians in Western Europe August 31
U S Army will stop supplying food to civilians in liberated Europe on August 31 saving millions for taxpayers. Local purchase and distribution by liberated governments expected to rise. Russia to receive continued lend lease meat shipments in July August and September with 25 million pounds of toshenka.
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Washington
U.S. Army
Europe
United States
Russia
U. S
Balkans
United National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Norway
UNRRA
Italy
Foreign Economic Administration
Labor Leader Joseph Chiefley Elected Australia Prime Minister
Joseph Benedict Chiefley was elected leader of the Federal Labor Party and will be sworn in as Australia’s 16th prime minister. He won on the first ballot after a brief 15 minute vote, succeeding the late John Curtin. The leadership contest had briefly been postponed for five weeks.
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Canberra
Joseph Benedict Chiefley
Federal
Labor Party
John Curtin
Australia
Drouth Breaks as General Rainfall Douses West Texas
Heavy rain spread across the region with Panhandle towns leading totals. Amarillo recorded 1.35 inches for the week after last night’s showers and Claude Spearman Shamrock also had heavy rain Tuesday. Temperatures around 90 are forecast with more moisture expected in West Texas.
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Drouth
Panhandle
Globe News
U. S. Weather Bureau
Dashami
Adrian
Hereford
Claude
Spearman
Shamrock
West Texas
H. C. Winburn
War veteran bus driver keeps cool amid July Portland heat
Acclimated Portland passengers sweltered as heaters on a city bus driven by a discharged veteran were found on full steam. The driver explained he just returned from a long stay in the South Pacific and felt cooler than in the tropics.
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Portland
Ore
South Pacific
Tropics
Taft Attacks Bretton Woods Bank Plan
Senator Taft denounces the proposed international bank under Bretton Woods as profligate lending and asks that Senate action be postponed. He notes the plan includes an $8.8 billion fund to stabilize currencies and a £9.1 billion bank to back loans for reconstruction and development.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
International Bank
Bretton Woods
Senate
Barkley
United Nations
International Fund
Eisenhower Returns to Europe to Dissolve Supreme Command
General Eisenhower arrived back in Europe and began the final steps to dissolve his supreme command. Allied forces will revert to national control as Eisenhower moves to command the American forces and join the Interallied Council for defeated Germany.
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Eisenhower
Europe
Supreme Command
Paris
Germany
County Equalization Board Schedules Two Day Session
The County Equalization Board will meet next Tuesday and Wednesday in the county courtroom from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to discuss tax changes with interested parties. The panel includes County Judge E. O. Northcutt and Commissioners George Killian Jack Swann Ray Daniels and Lon Sellars. Notices were mailed to persons with changed assessments from renditions filed. Frank Hoyt, tax assessor and collector, said today.
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Board of Equalization
E. O. Northcutt
George Killian
Jack Swann
Ray Daniels
Lon Sellars
Frank Hoyt
Barbara Hutton Seeks Divorce From Cary Grant
Barbara Hutton sues Cary Grant for divorce in Hollywood alleging grievous mental distress. Attorney Jerry Geisler filed the complaint naming Grant as the source of marital suffering for the heiress described as one of the world’s wealthiest women.
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Barbara Hutton
Cary Grant
Hollywood
Jerry Geisler
Handsome Grant
Polish Army Chiefs Denounce Allied Warsaw Recognition
Lt. Gen. Wladyslaw Anders in London and Maj. Gen. Klemens Rudnicki in Germany issue orders denouncing Allied recognition of the Warsaw provisional government. Anders calls it a heavy blow and says world powers trample Poland’s constitution while urging troops to resist calls for a hurried return home.
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London
Wladyslaw Anders
Warsaw
Anders
Klemens Rudnicki
Germany
Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz
Italy
Poland
Troops On Way To France Redeployment Timetable
United States Army divisions underway with multiple units scheduled for Le Havre and Reims. 4th and 12th Infantry enter U S, 44th and 81st on sea lanes, 5th cleared Le Havre, 2nd to depart, 13th Armored and 20th Armored load and embark, 28th advance units cleared Le Havre, 30th Infantry partly in Le Havre, 35th slated for Reims next week, 45th with indeterminate date.
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Paris
4Th Infantry
United States
44Th Infantry
81Th Infantry
5Th Infantry
le Havre
2Nd Infantry
13Th Armored
20Th Armored
28Th Infantry
Camp Pittsburgh
Itn
Reims
30Th Infantry
Camp Oklahoma City
35Th Infantry
45Th Infantry
87Th Infantry
Fifth Infantry
Second Infantry
Former Professor Barred From University Campus
An order restraining Dr. John Leo Abernathy from campus and teaching duties was signed by Judge Roy C. Archer. The order remains in effect pending a July 20 hearing on an injunction requested by the attorney general for the University of Texas. Abernathy, employed in 1940, had his contract terminated June 20, and allegedly refused to leave.
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Austin
John Leo Abernathy
Roy C. Archer
126Th District Court
University of Texas
T.S. Painter
Abernathy
Painter
Board of Regents
Renewal of Direct Steamer Traffic Opens Between Mexico and Europe
Vera Cruz reports the start of renewed direct steamship service linking Mexico and Europe. The Swedish vessel Tunaholm arrived with a 4000 ton cargo of paper pulp and telephone materials.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Europe
Tunaholm
Vinson to Form Committee to Boost Postwar Construction
Fred M. Vinson plans a new inter government committee to bolster the nearly dormant construction industry. The group will work from Vinson’s Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion to aid materials pricing and easing federal controls as construction aims to rise from 4 billion to about 15 billion dollars annually postwar. Lumber shortages may extend this lag for months.
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Washington
Fred M. Vinson
Inter-Governmental Agency
Vinson
Poliomyelitis Cases Reported in Texas Week
Texas recorded 21 new poliomyelitis cases in the week ended July 6, about half the prior week's total. Yearly total through June 7 reached 312, marking a sharp rise over the same period last year and an increase over 1943. Asphalt slate shingles and roofing. See John Maynard Lbr. Co., 809 W. 5th.
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Austin
Texas
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Lid's Off in January
Washington says new passenger cars may be ration free by January as materials rise. WPB foresees enough supplies to lift quotas. doctors police and war workers get priority until then. Backlog of five to eight million cars may keep buyers waiting two to three years.
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Washington
U.P
War Production Board
Henry P. Nelson
WPB
Britain Honors Zhukov at Berlin Ceremony
Marshal Georgi Zhukov receives Britain's Grand Commander of the Bath from Field Marshal Montgomery in a Berlin ceremony before the Brandenburg Gate. The event marks a high honor presented by the British on July 12.
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Berlin
Georgi K. Zukov
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy this afternoon through Friday with warmer temperatures. West Texas may see scattered thundershowers from Pecos Valley westward this afternoon. Panhandle and South Plains could have showers tonight with more on Friday. New Mexico also partly cloudy with widely scattered showers and little temperature change. Highs Friday range 75 to 85 in mountains and 85 to 95 elsewhere.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Real Estate and Loans Firms Mentioned with Noisy Ad Copy
Friden calculators feature in an ad listing for E. A. Regal Co real estate and loans and Russell Stationery Co. The fragment suggests a commercial ad page highlighting calculator products and office supplies.
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E. A. Regal Co. Real Estate and Loans
Friden
Russell Stationery Co
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Haihong
Indo-China
U. S. Liuchow
Kweilin
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