OPA revival looms as Truman expected to sign new law
The White House said a decision to sign the extender bill is likely after Senate approval 53 to 25 and House 210 to 142. Frank Hobgood, Amarillo rent control director, says offices are cleared and ready to revive rent controls with new authority. He notes evictions during the lapse may be disregarded and urges landlords to revert rents to old levels.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
White House
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Frank FE. Hobgood
Mr. Hobgood
Dalhart
Fort Worth
Rent Control Administration
Hobgood
Amarillo
Price Control Board Waits for New OPA Law Clarity
OPA workers in Amarillo linger in limbo awaiting the revived price control law. Even if Truman signs, duties may be unclear for days as district offices await orders. Most staff handle sugar applications while leather goods questions surface and rents rise 10 to 15 percent since June 30. Evictions remain rare. Sam Albright notes tenant satisfaction remains high.
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Price Control Board
Congress
Truman
Sam Albright
Amarillo Real Estate Board
Mr. Albright
Army Brass Recalled by Senate War Investigators
Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt was recalled for secret questioning after investigators learned he acted as a courier for Rep. May of Kentucky. He allegedly carried to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower a clemency plea for a munitions maker's son.
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Washington
Alden H. Waitt
Senate
Representative May
Kentucky
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Court martial probe links Garsson case to fuel for inquiry
Senate War Investigating Committee moved to probe Captain Garsson over disobeying orders as his father Murray Garsson’s Midwest Munitions firm draws scrutiny. Key actions include May’s plea for clemency, Ferguson pressing immediate Wyat t questioning, and Eisenhower's denial of recalling May’s plea. The Army to review officers tied to Garsson activities.
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Joseph Garsson
Murray Garsson
Midwest Munitions Combine
Senate War Investigating Committee
Wiatt
Eisenhower
Kentucky
Garsson
Ferguson
Michigan
Europe
Senate
Garssons
Army
Lloyd D. Parks
Bureau of Public Relations
War Department
May
Judge Advocate General's Office
Atomic Force Sounds Death Knell for Gallant Saratoga
On Bikini Lagoon the first underwater atomic blast of Operation Crossroads destroyed the Arkansas and sank the Saratoga as seven other ships were damaged or wrecked. The mushroom cloud and water jets stunned observers while Navy crews assessed the drifting targets and lingering radioactivity hours later.
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Bikini Lagoon
Arkansas
Saratoga
Amarillo
Nagasaki
Navy
New York
Nagato
Independence
Hughs
Fallon
Pensacola
Admiral Blandy
Amarillo landlords keep evictions restrained after rent control lapse
Potter County two justice courts report eviction suits heard in the month show no flood of forcible detainers as rumors suggested. Officials note that actual evictions this month remain limited despite rent control ending.
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Amarillo
Potter County
Justice of the Peace Courts
Other Candidates Center Attacks on Rainey and Jester
Communiques from the Texas campaign trail show no armistice before E Day. Grover Sellers berates the state Democratic executive committee and demands officials affirm or repudiate a New York paper’s claim that Rainey is backed by party machinery. He urges Dallas voters to judge current officials at precinct conventions.
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Rainey
Jester
Texas
Grover Sellers
Democratic Executive Committee
New York
Texas Democratic Party
Homer P. Rainey
Democratic State Executive Committee
Jerry Sadler
Beauford
Austin
Sadler
Hillsboro
W. J. Minton
Sherman
John Lee Smith
Sellers
Longview
Smith
Houston
Temple
Tyler
Lufkin
Texarkana
O'Daniel News
Steve Potter
Communist Party
Raiey
Water Expansion Bids Sought as Amarillo Struggles
City manager A. P. Hancock announced progress on Amarillo's major water expansion with bids requested for several thousand feet of pipe. Tanks remain underfilled as daily consumption nears 13 million gallons and a private well offer could boost supply. Mayor Joe Jenkins announced an eight site plan with 25 wells west of Amarillo and 36 and 42 inch mains to move water to the city.
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Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
City Commission
Hancock
N. V. Moss
City Water Department
Moss
Pantex
Joe Jenkins
Mountain Spa Death Shocks New Mexico Resort
In Las Vegas area El Porvenir resort, Percy Ralph Perry of San Angelo, 42, was shot in the chest while seated with Mrs. Frank Reichline. Perry died 20 minutes later. District Attorney Armijo opened an inquest. no charges filed yet. Perry, a discharged Army major, was visiting with Reichline when her estranged husband arrived and a confrontation preceded the shooting.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Percy Ralph Perry
San Angelo
el Porvenir
Jose E. Armijo
Perry
Frank W. Keichline
Armijo
el Provenir
Texas liquor sales barred before 8 PM on primary day
Bert Ford of the Liquor Control Board reminded Texans that the Texas liquor control act prohibits sale of alcoholic beverages before 8 o'clock Saturday night July 27, the date of the first general primary election.
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Austin
Texas Liquor Control Act
Bert Ford
The
Liquor Control Board
High Octane Model T Breaks Fence at Local Gas Mart
A Ford Model T parked at Lewis Gas Mart on Fillmore Street rolled away without a driver. It crashed through a vacant lot into a fence. the lower rails broke while the top rail stopped the car. Station attendants offered no explanation, calling it one of those things.
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Lewis Gas Mart
Fillmore Street
Canyon Highway
Mysterious Rockets Stir Sweden as Censorship Sways Reports
Swedish army censored details of mysterious rockets streaking over Scandinavia causing jitters and rumors of wartime scale. Sightings described as fire bullets and giant flying torpedoes moving south from the north, with tests suspected in Baltic regions.
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Stockholm
Scandinavia
Sweden
Baltic
Norrland
Helsinki
Finland
Boy Hero Saves Brother From Wheel Rim Crash
Max Rowland 11 leaped in front of a flying tire rim to shield his younger brother Rex during a collision at Fourth and Buchanan. He sustained a stomach and shoulder bruises and a dislocated right knee and is hospitalized in Northwest Texas. Driver George Fort faced county court for driving while intoxicated after the 3:10 p.m. crash.
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Max Rowland
Northwest
Texas
W. L. Rowland
Buchanan
Max
Rex
Fourth
Gene Autry
L. A. Compton
Johnson
George O. Fort
North Mirror
Fort
Compton
Heirens Charged in Degnan Slaying and Related Case
Chicago report says a Cook County grand jury returned a true bill charging 17 year old William Heirens, a University of Chicago student, with murdering Suzanne Degnan. The girl was kidnapped and slain January 7. her dismembered body found near the Degnan home. The same hearing connected to Frances Brown, 33, found in her hotel December 10, 1945, with a threatening scrawl on the wall.
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Chicago
William Heirens
University of Chicago
Suzanne Degnan
OPA
Cook County Grand Jury
Suzanne
Degnan
Heirens
Frances Brown
Miss Brown
Election Meeting for Democratic Primary Judges
Presiding judges will meet in the county courtroom at 8 o'clock tonight to discuss final arrangements for the Democratic primary. Election laws and procedures will be reviewed and party officials will provide final instructions. Finch and Beville urged clerks to attend and bring supplies and ballot boxes for Saturday morning polls. Details, a polling-place map, and precinct boundaries will be published in The Globe and News on Friday.
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E. F. Finch
Finch
Harwood Beville
Globe and News
Amarillo Area Weather and Local Notices
The U. S. Weather Bureau reports Mostly fair conditions for Amarillo and vicinity with warm temperatures and southerly winds. West Texas and New Mexico show fair skies with scattered thunderstorms in mountains. little temperature change. Also notes a new Thomas Dinner House location and various local business and political notices including County Clerk race and surplus property pencil sharpeners at Russell Stationery.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Thomas’ Dinner House
N. Fillmore
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San Francisco
Dallas
Mountain Spa
Readere’s Digest
Philip Wylie
Cal Brumley
U. S. Weather Bureau
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