Beamed Biddy Bound To Bolster Broiler Bound Breast
A St. Louis report from July 23 details the chicken tomorrow project at Kiel Auditorium during the International Baby Chick Association convention. The chicken of tomorrow aims for 3.5 lb broilers in 12 weeks and 5 lb roasters in 14-15 weeks, with bets of $8,000 prize money and nationwide contests beginning in 1947 toward a 1948 national event.
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Harman W. Nichols
ST. Louis
U.P
International Baby Chick Association
Kiel Auditorium
Department of Agriculture
Prospective record crops raise bread and beer hopes
Washington reports record-smashing corn and wheat yields may yield whiter bread and larger loaves, and perhaps more beer once harvests are in. The bumper outlook also pressures officials to decide soon whether to resume government grain purchases for famine relief.
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Washington
Woman Fights Burglar on Stairs in Pittsburgh Home
Mrs. Anna Witmer aged 45 confronted a robber as she descended stairs in her Pittsburgh house. A single blow sent him backward, and she saw a pistol he dropped along with $20 from the kitchen before she collapsed.
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Pittsburgh
Anna Witmer
Foes Jeer in Final Debate Over OPA Price Controls
In Washington on July 23 AP reports House opponents pressed to block a revived price control plan for OPA. Representative Brown urged that restoring controls would cause shortages and black markets, while others sought to curb authority over rents. Debate stretched as leaders sought passage of a compromise bill amid Democratic jeers and House maneuvering.
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OPA
Washington
Representative Brown
Chamber
Ohio
Wolcott
Michigan
Senate House
Brown
House
Chester Bowles
Eyeglass Rebating Charged Across Optical Firms and Doctors
Federal suits under the Sherman Act charge wholesalers and eye doctors with fixing eyeglass prices via rebates. About half the total charge to patients allegedly returned to doctors, some up to 40000 yearly. Fifty-one doctors named as representatives. firms include Bausch & Lomb and American Optical. Officials claim industry wide practice and note doctors’ fees for fitting.
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Chicago
U.P
Clark
Bausch & Lomb
Rochester
N. Y
Rig
San Antonio
Atlas E. Jackson
Fort Worth
Tex
Speight Jenkins
Dallas
J. Crume
Amarillo
Frederick J. Crumley
Bernard B. Friedman
Corpus Des
Fred R. Landon
Wichita Alls
Roy Super
The
American Optical Co
Howard Ogle
Fred J. Crumley
Crume and Crumley
N. H. Hebert
Riggs Optical Co
Oliver Eakle
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Bombing at King David Hotel Faces Jerusalem Curfew
British police rounded up hundreds in Jerusalem's Jewish quarter after the King David Hotel blast. About 150 dead or missing, with 46 dead and 53 seriously injured reported. Wounded Jews found nearby suspected as perpetrators amid arms caches and shifting policy talks with London.
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Jerusalem
King David Hotel
King David
Old City
London
Palestine
Fault-Finding Fills the Air
The Associated Press notes a surge in public fault finding as citizens challenge officials and systems across communities. Debate intensifies over accountability and remedies amid widespread scrutiny of governance and service delivery.
Texas governors race turns to state woes and remedies
Texas candidates trade barbs on reform aims as Beauford Jester pledges urgent research into infantile paralysis and sleeping sickness while urging higher education funding. Homer Rainey laments lost state rights, and John Lee Smith accuses the party of inviting Negro voters. Jerry Sadler alleges Jester used state postage for private purposes amid a Hollywood gin rummy swindle probe.
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Texas
Beauford Jester
Austin
Jester
University of Texas
University ‘Board of Regents
Homer P. Rainey
Fort Worth
Democratic Party
John Lee Smith
Temple
Democratic
Eee
Dallas
Smith
CIO
Jerry Sadler
San Antonio
Coke Stevenson
George H. Sheppard
Sadler
Albert Cole for County Clerk Political Ad
In San Antonio Grover Sellers continued his critique of state party leaders. He said Alice Taylor, director of education and organization for the Democratic State Executive Committee, should resign if she will keep using her office to aid a gubernatorial candidate. See POLITICS Page 2.
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San Antonio
Grover Sellers
Alice Taylor
Democratic State Executive Committee
See Politics
Claims Navy Is Outmoded by Unified Air Force
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle urged a single unified air force at a New York press conference, saying future weapons will fly and that battleships and aircraft carriers are obsolete. He accused the Navy of propaganda causing public confusion and warned two air forces are unnecessary for effective defense. For offices: New metal wastebaskets. Russell Stationery Co. 611 Taylor.
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New York
U.P
James H. Doolittle
Gany
Doolittle
Tokyo
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Navy
Army
Strategic Air Force
Russell Stationery Co
Taylor
Amarillo Considers Emergency Water Ordinance
Amarillo faces a water crisis with demand at a record 19.1 million gallons from yesterday to today. City officials consider an emergency ordinance to criminalize wasteful use if voluntary conservation fails, aiming to protect fire-fighting needs and source supplies while noting limited pumping capacity.
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Amarillo
City Commission
N. V. Moss
City Water Department
Joe Jenkins
Dallas
Fort Worth
Santa Fe
N. M
Eighth
Bonham
Moss
Jenkins
A. P. Hancock
Hane
Two Bank Bandits Shot Dead After Rural Bank Heist
Osceola Missouri sheriff Logan Perry and Deputy J E Kinkaid killed two bank robbers fifteen minutes after robbing Humansville bank. The pair, identified as Bill Frizzell and Phillip J Cronin from Essex Massachusetts, exchanged gunfire near a farm road south of Osceola. Loot estimated at around one thousand dollars. authorities consider possible link to New Palestine bank robbery with fifteen thousand dollars taken.
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Osceola
Missouri
Humansville
Logan Perry
J. E. Kinkaid
Perry
Kinkaid
Here
Connecticut
Bill Frizzell
Phillip J. Cronin
Essex
Mass
Humansville Bank
Indianapolis
Indiana
New
Palestine Bank
Palestine
Army Officers Face Discipline in Garsson Munitions Case
Senate War Investigating Committee demanded discipline for high ranking Army officers linked to the Garsson munitions matter. Travel orders show six officers rode at government expense to New York for Natalia Garsson's daughter's wedding while on official duty. Jean Bates testified the Garssons pressed her to testify evasively. she refused. Brig. Gen. Paul X. English was among the named officers.
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Washington
Mead
Senate War Investigating Committee
War Department
Garsson
New York
Natalia Garsson
Garsson Brothers
Henry and
Murray
Jean Bates
Munitions Makers
Henry Garsson
Joseph Freeman
Garssons
Hazy
Sooners To The Polls Runoff Primary In Oklahoma
About 400000 Oklahoma voters were expected to cast ballots in a runoff primary to name a Democratic governor nominee and six congressional nominees. The governor’s race centers on Roy J. Turner, Oklahoma City oilman, versus Dixie Gilmer, Tulsa attorney, with Kerr not seeking re election.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Oklahoma
Congress
Robert S. Kerr
Roy J. Turner
Dixie Gilmer
Tulsa
Turner
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Fair conditions prevail across Amarillo and vicinity with southwest winds up to 30 mph this afternoon. Warm, continued moderate temperatures with a risk of widely scattered storms Wednesday. West Texas expected to be partly cloudy and warmer, with scattered thundershowers and cooler in the Panhandle and El Paso areas. New Mexico shows scattered showers over mountains this afternoon and evening, otherwise fair with little temperature change and highs 85 to 95.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
New Mexico
Absentee Ballot Deadline Tonight
Absentee voting is nearing 650 by midnight as residents away for Elections Saturday prepare to cast ballots. By noon today 550 had voted at the county Clerk Hubert Cole's office. deputies will work this afternoon and tonight. Voters should bring poll tax receipts but affidavits may be signed if receipts are lost.
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Hubert Cole
China on brink of civil war amid peace efforts
Shanghai July 23 reports say Gen George C Marshall’s bid for peace in China may fail as Chiang Kai-shek yields to reactionaries and plans a full scale offensive against the Communists. Observers note Chiang’s isolation at Kuling, a possible prelude to a final peace offer that the Communists cannot accept.
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Kuling
Chiang
Marshall
Kuomintang
Nanking
Shanghai-Nanking
Houston Man Fined $100 for Beating Little Dog to Death
In Houston on July 23, steelworker Paul H Hood was fined $100 in justice court after witnesses say he beat a cocker spaniel to death when the dog balked at crossing the street. Hood said the dog bit his ankle and he would appeal.
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Moviel
Beverly Hills
Charles H. Anderson
Anderson
Sam Goldwyn
Goldwyn
Filmland
Los Angeles
Beverly Is
Houston
Little Dog
U.P
Paul H. Hood
Hood
Justice of Peace Court
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Heavener
Oklo
Naomi Carey
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Z. A. Regal Co., Real Estate and Loans
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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