France Backs Excluding Big Five From Balkan Watch Plan
In the United Nations Security Council France proposed excluding the five major powers and all interested nations from a proposed Balkan border watch. Alexandre Parodi suggested a neutral core of non permanent members possibly Sweden joining, replacing the Big Five in an 11 nation commission.
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Lake Success
France
UN Commission
Greece
Alexandre Parodi
United Nations Security Council
Parodi
Security Council
Sweden
Council
Australia
Brazil
Colombia
Syria
Poland
Belgium
United States
Russia
Balkan
Britain
United Nations
Balkans
Trucker Killed In Gasoline Truck Wreck Near Tul ia
A Lubbock driver, John Lemmond 49, died when his gasoline transport overturned near Tulia after hitting a bridge abutment. 4400 gallons spilled onto the highway. Morris Maley of Amarillo aided at the scene and Lemmonds body was sent to Tulsa for word from Lubbock.
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Tulia
Lubbock
John Lemmond
Here
Lemmond
Avenue F
Phillips
Allen Benton
Phillips 66
Hugh White
Tulsa
Morris Maley
Arthur
Amarillo
Secret U S Army Navy atomic testing hub near Albuquerque
The War and Navy departments announced a top secret joint project to train armed forces in atomic weapons use at Sandia base near Albuquerque New Mexico. Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves heads the program with Rear Adm. Parsons as deputy and aims to establish a Pacific proving ground sealed from foreign observers for routine experiments and tests of new weapons.
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Army
Navy
Albuquerque
Washington
War and Navy Departments
Leslie R. Groves
Manhattan
William
S. Parsons
Pacific
Army-Navy
Sandia
Robert M. Montague
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint Task Force 1
Bikini Atoll
Joint Commission
Owew Pacific Island
Federal Atomic Commission
Marianas
Marshalls
Carolines
Commission
Congress
United Nations
Glenn L Martin
Senate
Truman
United States
Public Still Falling For Oldest Rackets
Percy Wyly FBI official outlines common confidence games in Amarillo talk to Rotarians. Examples include a money making box fraud in Tyler, a gypsy fortune scam in Waxahachie, and the long running pocketbook racket. Wyly warns that victims often lack willpower to resist quick gains and urges vigilance. A separate Calcutta riot report notes six deaths after a village quarrel among boys.
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Percy Wyly
FBI
Dallas
Amarillo
Tyler
Waxahachie
Mr. Wyly
Frank Norfleet
Housing for Monte Alto teachers assured
The Monte Alto Texas school board promises to provide apartments for faculty members, ensuring housing is not a problem for the city system.
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Monte Alto
Tex
Monte Alto City
Board of Education
Indonesians Resist Dutch Drive on Jogjakarta and Semarang
Reuters report notes Cheribon fell to a Dutch tank attack, while Indonesian communiques claim they repelled a strong Dutch push toward Jogjakarta and advanced on Semarang. Modjokerto was seized as part of east central operations near Soerabaja, with Dutch withdrawal reported south of Semarang.
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Batavia
Java
Cheribon
Jogjakarta
Semarang
Modjokerto
Soerabaja
Malang
Toentang
Yeggs Hit Hub Store And Service Station In Amarillo
A skylight entry at Hub Clothiers on Polk and a break in at Phil lips 66 Service Station on Highway 66 were reported last night. Robbers entered the clothing store, failed to open an inner safe compartment, and took about $100 along with a large sack of silver missing from the inner area. At the service station, $24 was stolen from the cash register after a man and woman fled in a car with Illinois plates and a two wheel trailer. The thefts were discovered when the store opened this morning.
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Amarillo
Hub Clothiers
Polk
Phillips 66
Highway 66
C. A. Blender
Soney
California Lawmaker Proposes 10 Percent Manufacturers Tax
Representative Gearhart of California introduces a bill to replace revenue losses from a $9.7 billion income tax cut by imposing a 10 percent excise tax on manufacturers. The levy would apply to selling prices of fully processed goods, exempting food and shelter, and is expected to raise about $6.4 billion.
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Washington
Gearhart
California
Mrs Carl Hare Fractures Leg During Montana Trip
Mrs Carl Hare of Amarillo suffered a leg fracture while climbing a mountain during a fishing trip in Montana. She and her husband left West Yellowstone for Cody for X ray examination after a local doctor set the fracture in a cast. The Honeys and Fullingims also departed as they began their homeward journey.
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West Yellowstone
Mont
Carl Hare
Amarillo
Cody
Wye
Truman weighs world trade body for grain under recovery plan
President Truman at a Washington news conference discussed a possible world trade organization to buy grain for distribution under the Marshall Plan. He offered few details, noting no domestic wheat and corn controls are planned and that grains should be sent to port cities for shipment abroad. He also declined to comment on Forrestal heading unified services or Mead leading the Democratic National Committee.
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Washington
Truman
World Trade Organization
Anderson
Congress
Navy
James Forrestal
Unified
Armed Services
James M Mead
New York
Robert E. Hannegan
Dooley to Be Sworn In as U S Judge Aug 1
Amarillo attorney Joe Dooley will take the oath as federal judge of the Northern District of Texas at 11 AM August 1 in the Amarillo post office courthouse. Judge James C. Wilson will administer the oath. Lawyers and friends from Dallas Fort Worth Abilene San Angelo Lubbock Wichita Falls and Amarillo will attend. President Truman recently confirmed the appointment.
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Joe Dooley
Amarillo
District of Texas
James C. Wilson
Fort Worth
Dooley
Dallas
Abilene
San Angelo
Lubbock
Wichita Palls
Truman
Senate
Weather forecast for Amarillo and region
The amarillo and vicinity area is clear to partly cloudy with scattered light thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Temperatures rise slowly. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers, mainly this afternoon and tonight into Friday. New Mexico cloudy tonight and Friday morning with scattered showers and storms in northern mountains. warmer in the northeast this afternoon. Highs around 79 to 80, lows near 59, precipitation about 0.12 inch.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Showers Dampen Panhandle After Mild July Day
Old Man Weather gave Amarillo a cool July with a 79 degree maximum, its mildest reading for July 20 30 since 1928. A 12 inch rain at English Field fed widespread showers, with totals across towns reaching up to 1.27 inches at Muleshoe. Temperatures rise to 85 today and 91 tomorrow as showers pass.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
English Field
Panhandle
Adrian
Muleshoe 1
Childress
Hereford
Lubbock
Memphis
Plainview
New Mexico
Tucumcari
Clovis
Des Moines
Beaver
Okla
Elk City
Oklahoma Panhandle
Soviet Voices Favor Of Italian Treaty
Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza told the constituent assembly that telegrams showed Soviet Russia desires to ratify the peace treaty. Bevin urged Italy to speed ratification as Rome weighs entry into the United Nations by August 10.
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Rome
Carlo Sforza
Constituent Assembly
Russia
Ernest Bevin
Italy
Sforza
United Nations
Bohlen Confirmed as Counselor to State Department
Charlies E Bohlen is confirmed by the Senate to serve as the new counselor to the State Department replacing Benjamin Cohen. The appointment aligns with ongoing postwar groundwork and State Department leadership.
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Washington
Charlies E. Bohlen
Senate
State Department
Benjamin Cohen
Grandmother's Faith Helps Battle For Infant Life
In El Paso a 15 month old, Frankie Solano, lies critically ill after swallowing a rock that lodged in his lung. His grandmother Mrs. Josefina Lucero prayed beside him as Dr. Frank Schuster prepared a bronchoscopy, though the child was too weak for the procedure. The parents reside in Albuquerque.
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EL Paso
Josefina Lucero
Red Cross
Frankie Solano
Albuquerque
Frankie
Frank Schuster
Josephine Solano
Santa Fe
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Harold Taylor
Harrison
Calcutta
Kharagpur
E. A. Regal Co. Insurance
John Maynard Lbr
Soemedang
Kadipaten
Yeggs
Edward R
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Cleveland
Ohio
Montana
Bohlen
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