Flaming Hamonic burns at Point Edward killing and injuring many
The 360 foot Great Lakes liner Hamonic carrying 255 passengers was destroyed by fire at Point Edward near Sarnia. At least 150 people were treated for burns and injuries as panicked passengers and crew fled and some escaped by sliding down cables into the river.
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Sarnia
Ont
Great Lakes
Hamonic
Canada Steamship Lines
J. H. Aitchison
Point Edward
Sarnia General Hospital
Polymer Corp
First Aid Hospital
Lakes
Detroit
General Hospital
W. W. Walker
J. O. Green
Susan Green
Dr. Green
Chinese forces threaten key air base near Kweilin
Chinese troops drive toward Kweilin in Keangsi province probing to cut off retreat toward Hunan. Forward units storm the city outskirts as advances target three large air fields at the base abandoned by Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's group.
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Chungking
Kweilin
U. S
China
Keangsi
Hunan
Claire Chennault
Army units arrive in the United States from Europe at Hampton Roads
Transport arrivals report Army units landing in the U S today from Europe at Hampton Roads Va including the 3195th Engineer Base Depot 371st Ordnance Assembly Unit and Headquarters Company 4th Battalion and late tonight or tomorrow morning 770th Air Squadron 765th 766th 771th Bomb Squadrons 527th Service Group 946th 953rd Air Engineer Squadrons 154th Reconnaissance Squadron 18th Air Depot Group 90th Depot Repair Group 17th Medical Supply Platoon 520th Headquarters and Base Service Squadron and Test Veterinarians Detachment
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Associated Press
United States
Europe
Hampton Roads
3195Th Engineer Base Depot
770Th Air
18Th Air Depot
Belgian Chamber Blocks Leopold Return to Belgian Throne
The Belgian chamber of deputies voted 98 to six with 32 abstentions to bar King Leopold from reassuming the throne until parliamentary consent is given. The bill by Prime Minister Achille Van Acker moves to the Senate, as Leopold signals willingness for a plebiscite. The king remains in Bavaria while Catholic Party ministers resign from the government.
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Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Leopold
Achille van Acker
Senate
van Acker
Bavaria
Catholic Party
Weather summary for Amarillo and vicinity and West Texas
Partly cloudy today tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Slightly warmer Wednesday afternoon. New Mexico partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in mountains this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Highs 70s to 80s mountains and 90s to 100 elsewhere. Observed high 92 and low 71 in 24 hours with noon at 86.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Gifts and Greeting Cards for All Occasions
Russell Stationery Co offers gifts and greeting cards for all occasions. The shop promotes a wide selection of paper goods and accessories suited for holidays, personal events, and everyday use.
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Russell Stationery Co
Draws Starring Role In Her First Film
Dorothy Patrick, 21, launches film career with a leading role in Boys Ranch at Tascosa Amarillo. Canadian born former Powers model quickly rose from Little Theater to Hollywood, spotted by talent scouts after winning Lasky Gateway contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Jackson
Dorothy Patrick
Amarillo
Draws
Betty Gase
Tascosa
M-G-M
Patrick Krund
Miss Patrick
California
Hollywood
Eva Davis
Cheyney
Billy Grady
Tom Drake
Roy Rowland
James Craig Stull
Winnipeg
Canada
Mulvey Grammar School
Kelvin High School
New York
Jesse Lasky
Patrick
Powers Model Agency
Tank mounted gun damages ten cars on Boston-Chicago Limited
In Herkimer New York a protruding army tank turret mounted on a freight train damaged ten cars of the New York Central Boston to Chicago Limited. The revolving gun barrel punctured each car above the window though no passengers were hurt. It crippled the engine and delayed the 20th Century Limited and the Paul Revere. only the baggage car escaped damage.
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Herikimer
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
20Th Century Limited
Argument Of Years Ago Echoes In Congress On Peacetime Training Ban
Washington lawmakers debated a House resolution by Martin of Massachusetts urging a negotiated international ban on peacetime military training. Administration leaders rejected the plan as unworkable, while Republicans argued it was as practical as postwar San Francisco peace accords. Texas Rep Thomason warned the idea would not pass committee under current world conditions.
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Washington
Congress
House
Martin
Massachusetts
United States
San Francisco
Thomason
Texas
House Military Committee
U S Navy Bombards Tokyo Area In Date 1945 Mobilization
Admiral Nimitz announced the bombardment underway hours after reported carrier planes had crippled 374 Nipponese vessels and 129 locomotives in a weekend sweep over northern Japan. The Iowa led ships in a night attack on Hitachi copper mills and aircraft plants as Halsey’s Third Fleet stretched from Tokyo to the north.
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Nimitz
Japan
Iowa
Hitachi
Marget
Marianas
William E. (Bull) Halsey
Tokyo
Halsey
Muroran
Kakaishi
Adm
John S. McCain
Nippon
Mystery Submarine U-530 Case Shifts on Turnover Proposal
The mystery surrounding German submarine U-530 deepens as an Argentine investigating committee proposes turning the vessel its crew and all records over to the United States and Great Britain. Since the surrender last Tuesday rumors say the crew concealed key information and answered investigators evasively.
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United States
Great Britain
Forecasted U S Loan to Russia Could Reach One Billion
Washington July 17 Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T Crowley said it would be fair to assume the United States would loan Russia from seven hundred million to one billion dollars through the Export Import Bank during the next year.
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Washington
Leo T. Crowley
United States
Russia
Export-Import Bank
Snyder Is Given Nod
President Truman nominates John W. Snyder a 49 year old Arkansas and Missouri banker as assistant president of the home front and head of War Mobilization and Reconversion, succeeding Fred M. Vinson. Snyder previously federal loan administrator to whom he had named two and a half months earlier.
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Washington
John W. Snyder
Arkansas
Missouri
Truman
Fred M. Vinson
Senate
Vinson
Treasury
Snyder
Snyders
Hercules Previewed World's Largest Flying Boat
Culver City California July 17 The Hercules a huge flying boat built at the Howard Hughes plant was first previewed. It is valued at over 20 million dollars weighs 425000 pounds with a 320 foot wingspan hull 220 feet long and 25 feet wide. Eight engines totaling 24000 horsepower fuel capacity 14000 gallons and sponsored by the U S Defense Plant Corporation. Construction began in 1943 and flight tests are not expected until next January.
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Culver City
Cal
Howard Hughes
U. S. Defense Plant Corporation
Highway Patrol Receives Unusual Wreck Call
Patrolmen Jack Miller and Hugh Shaw responded to a late night wreck near Adrian driving over 50 miles. At the scene a sailor from Illinois claimed his car tire blew out after buying a new tire in Amarillo, asking officers to verify the tire issue for a replacement. Dozens of household items featured in Thomsen's 2nd Anniversary Sale.
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Jack Miller
Hugh Shaw
Adrian
Illinois
Amarillo
Stalin Truman Confer Potsdam Start World Shaping Talks
Premier Stalin met President Truman at Potsdam with Molotov and Byrnes as rounds began for the Big Three conference. Churchill, secretive atmosphere, Berlin explosions in Russian zone as leaders planned discussions on occupation, administration, and postwar shipping.
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Stalin
Truman
Potsdam
Little White House
Churchill
Berlin
Mr. Truman
Feresti
Eisure
Roosevelt
Emory S. Land
U.S Maritime Commission
Germany
United States
Henry L. Stimson
Henry H. Arnold
U. S. Army Air Forces
Diplomats Attend Private Conference At White House
Dent and his guests gathered on the lawn by a lake to hear a 50 piece American band as conferences proceed in strict secrecy. A formal communique will close the talks, with President Truman said to favor earlier statements if progress warrants. Stalin and Churchill reportedly ignored protocol by personally paying respects to President Truman.
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Truman
Stalin
Churchill
President Truman
Senators Predict President Gets Police Powers
In Washington on July 17 1945 two Republican senators predicted Congress will authorize the President to exercise peace keeping police powers. Senators Vandenberg Michigan and Millikin Colorado said the foreign relations committee's report recommending ratification of the UN charter points to a solution of the authority issue for the American representative on the proposed World Security Council.
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Washington
Congress
World Security Council
United Nations
Vandenberg
Michigan
Millikin
Colorado
Forein Relations Committee
New York City Newspaper Strike Settled, Deliveries to Resume
New York July 17 Louis Waldman counsel for the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union announced the 17 day strike against New York City publishers had been settled and that trucks will be rolling within an hour.
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New York
Louis Waldman
Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union
New York City
Regal Co Real Estate and Loans Firm Notices
The E A Regal Company advertises real estate and loan services, outlining available property listings and financing options in a concise business notice. The ad emphasizes support for buyers and investors seeking mortgages and property purchases.
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E. A. Regal Co., Real Estate and Loans
Rail Cars to Army Pool Created for Defense Transport
Washington July 17 railway passenger coaches were pooled for armed services use. The Office of Defense Transportation said civilian space on trains would shrink as cars are withdrawn. The order covers all passenger baggage and express cars except Pullman sleeping cars and may direct their use by the services.
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Washington
Pall Railway
Office of Defense Transportation
Armed Services
ODT
Rainfall Sweeps Western Panhandle and Nearby Areas
Western and northwestern Panhandle regions received good rain yesterday per the Weather Bureau. Towns reporting amounts include Hereford 1.05 inches, Adrian 0.89, Dumas 0.35, Stratford 0.57, Dalhart 0.14, and Clayton, New Mexico 0.45. Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with highs near 93 today and 97 tomorrow.
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Panhandle
U. S. Weather Bureau
Hereford
Adrian
Dumas
Stratford
Dalhart
Clayton
N. M
Army to send 1000 doctors to treat war wounded in US
Paris reports the Army will send nearly 1,000 physicians back to the United States to care for wounded soldiers shipped abroad for treatment, coordinating medical care for war casualties.
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Paris
United States
Texas Enemy Alien Property to Be Sold at Auction
Alien property custodian James E. Markham said Texas firms owned by enemy aliens valued over 7 million dollars will go on the auction block soon. The bulk are wholesale cotton exporters in Dallas with others in Abilene Houston and Galveston plus oil firms around Houston. Sale date has not been decided.
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Washington
Texas
James E. Markham
Markham
Dallas
Abilene
Houston
Galveston
Premier Soong Returns to China After Moscow Talks
Premier T. V. Soong returned to Chungking from Moscow where he spent over two weeks conferring with Premier Stalin and other Soviet officials. He was accompanied home by Apollon Petrov, the Soviet ambassador to China, after meetings that began June 30.
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Chungking
Preemier
T. V. Soong
Moscow
Stalin
Soong
Apollon Petrov
China
Potter County Grand Jury Returns No Indictments
The Potter County grand jury recessed at noon without returning any indictments this morning after meeting since last Tuesday when they handed down 13 indictments earlier.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Neeley Greennill Lowndes Insurance Ad Portraits
Advertises Neeley Greennill Lowndes Insurance with Autry Studio portraits titled Photographs Live Forever. Located at 116 Forth Street, phone 2-1922.
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Neeley-Greennill-Lowndes, Insurance
Autry
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U.S
United Press
Hercules
Thomsen
A Polk
Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Molotov
James F. Byrnes
New Palace
Kaiser Wilhelm
Frederick the Great
Generalissimo
Services
Premier Soong
Thomas
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