Housing Future Is Threatened by Lack Of City Cooperation
Amarillo faces a stalled housing program as data collection lags. Ed Timmons says only 500 forms received, while 2,000 homes are needed, urging timely responses to the Emergency Housing Committee questionnaire. Cooperation is essential to direct material allocation and avoid ghost housing.
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Thomas Thompson
Amarillo
Ed Timmons
Timmons
Civilian Production Administration
Federal Housing Authority
Emergency Housing Committee
West Seventh
Dallas
Washington
Lubbock
Chamber of Commerce
Aleen Salmon
Texas Panhandle Home Builders Association
Houston
Fred Buchek
San Antonio Home Builders Association
Federal Housing Agency
Water shortage hits Amarillo as city pumps strain
Amarillo faced widespread water outages last night when demand overwhelmed the city pump station at Eighth and Bonham. Residents from South Amarillo to Country Club area reported zero pressure at times while irrigation limits were under review by city officials. A new well adding about 1,000,000 gallons per day was brought online to bolster supply.
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Amarillo
Eighth
Bonham
N. V. Moss
City Water Department
South Amarillo
San Jacinto
Country Club
Country Club Terrace
Moss
Polk Street
Mr. Moss
A. P. Hancock
OPA Increases Farm Machinery Retail Ceilings
The OPA authorized an average six percent rise in retail ceilings for farm machinery and replacement parts effective immediately. The move restores peacetime profit margins for dealers under the revival act while keeping the 10 percent increase for manufacturers and wholesalers intact.
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OPA
Washington
Cardinal Schuster Warns Black Marketeers in Rome
Archbishop Alfredo Cardinal Schuster of Milan proclaims in Rome that black marketeers will be denied Catholic sacraments, signaling strict church discipline amid illicit trade concerns.
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Rome
Alfredo Cardinal Schuster
Miland
Blind war veteran given path to home and business by Chicago jeweler
Ralph Kahn of Chicago pledged to fund a Houston veteran named Joe Sanders after a landlady ordered him to move due to blindness from a European war injury. Sanders, 36, sought a small home with a back porch. Kahn promised merchandise, sales equipment, stationery, and stamps to start a cabinet making business.
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New York
Ralph Kahn
Chicago
Houston
Joe Sanders
Kahn
United Press Dispatch
Sanders
Europe
Pearl
Molotov Pushes Two-Thirds Voting at Paris Peace Conference
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov urged a two-thirds voting rule to prevent the United States from being in the minority. He warned simple majorities could pit Western powers against Eastern Europe and favored a Yugoslav proposal. Byrnes said the US backs four-power draft treaties but would accept revisions if two-thirds disagree.
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Paris
V. M. Molotov
Europe
Molotov
U. S
State Byrnes
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Woman seeks unlicensed marriage after drinking alarm
In Houston a middle aged woman told the marriage license clerk she feared she had married after drinking on March 9. A check found she had not wed on that date.
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Houston
Three Marines Killed and Twelve Wounded in China Ambush
Peiping Marine garrison confirms three U S Marines dead and 12 wounded in Sunday ambush of a truck convoy near Peiping. Four Marines wounded seriously and eight slightly. High tensions persist as Chinese forces engage Allied units.
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U. S
Peiping
Peiping Marine
Butter From Coal and It Keeps For Months Without Refrigeration
In occupied Germany a factory Imhausen and Company in Essen Ruhr area produced synthetic butter from coal. Manager Dr Karl Heinz Imhausen said it could yield 600 tons monthly at lower cost than natural butter. The product remained unmelted without ice and kept months, using coal to coke to gas to paraffin, with diacetyl added for butter odor.
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James Devlin Witten
Germany
Imhausen and Company
Ruhr
Karl Heinz Imhausen
Imhauser
Republicans and Democrats Forecast House Control Shifts
Washington July 31 The GOP's Clarence J. Brown predicts a 25 to 50 seat House gain and several Senate seats. Democratic chair Patrick R. Drewry disagrees, saying Democrats will keep a safe working majority in the House. Drewry notes no clear trend against Democrats.
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Washington
House
Senate
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Patrick R. Drewry
Virginia
Drewry
Democratic Congressional Committee
Senate OKs 2.4 Billion Servicemen Terminal Pay Bill
The Senate approved a 2.4 billion dollar servicemen's terminal pay bill by voice vote, sending it toward the White House. About 15 million former service members would share the payments in lieu of wartime furloughs, with House action still needed.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House of Representatives
Armed Services
When Loot Isn't Loot Sleuths Start Digging
Detectives Michelson and Trevie respond to a call about suspicious digging in a vacant lot. They uncover cans filled with toys candy and balloons and return them to the site. Two boys claim a treasure hunt was interrupted as prizes are missing. The detectives rebury the prizes at night.
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Minneapolis
Mike Michelson
Donald Trevie
Check Is Blackmail Says Coffee's Aide Olson Testifies
Olson told the Senate War Investigating Committee that Anderson threatened to publicize a $2,500 check he gave Olson in 1941. Coffee testified the check funded 1938 campaign expenses and was not a campaign contribution, while Olson argued it aimed to ruin his mayoral bid.
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Olson
Anderson
Coffee
Fort Lewis
Wash
Senate War Investigating Committee
Harry P. Cain
High Justice Department
Washington
James P. McGranery
Justice Dept finds clean bill of health for congressman
McGranery was tied to Coffee's claim that a justice department probe of a $2 500 check cleared Washington congressman and his former secretary Paul A Olson of any wrongdoing.
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McGranery
Coffee
Justice Department
Washington
Paul A. Olson
Mitchell accuses officials of traitorous conduct over Garsson firms
Senia Hugh B Mitchell, Washington Democrat, charges government officials including some in uniform with approaching traitorous conduct to obtain favors for Garsson munitions firms under Senate inquiry. He cites improper war profiteering on 78 million dollars in contracts and calls for punitive action by military departments.
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Washington
Hugh B. Mitchell
Washington Democrat
Garsson
Senate
Mitchell
War Investigating Committee
Garsson Combine
E.A. Regal Co
Cautions Buyers By CPA Chief On Price Hikes And Shortages
John D. Small warned that higher prices from the CPA revival act will not flood markets with new goods. Civilian production in June neared peak levels, closely tracking December 1941, with a July estimate tentative and manpower shortages feared as a production limit in year end.
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Washington
CPA
John D. Small
Small
CPR
Dock Foremen Endorse Temporary Work Recess in LA-LB Harbor Tie-up
About 300 dock and ship foremen voted for a work recess after a meeting in Los Angeles. The action could halt shipping in the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors until another meeting is held tonight.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
Diphtheria Strikes Troopship Colby Victory Aboard
A soldier died and others aboard the troop transport Colby Victory en route to England show diphtheria like symptoms. Diphtheria antitoxin and toxoid are being airlifted to the 500 to 600 mile offshore vessel as the Coast Guard relays mercy planes. Autopsy underway. definitive diagnosis pending.
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New York
U.2
England
Newfoundland
Coast Guard
Army Post
Plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab provinces
London reports that Anglo American experts propose splitting Palestine into four zones with a Jewish province to decide Jewish immigration numbers and a District of Jerusalem and Begeb. Implementation hinges on U S cooperation and Truman's input via a visiting expert delegation.
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London
Palestine
Europe
Holy Land
United States
Herbert Morrison
Dominions
Lord Addison
House of Commons
Lords
Truman
U. S
Washington
Joint Commission
Jerusalem
Begeb
Comfortable temperatures forecast for tonight and tomorrow
Weather forecast predicts comfortable temperatures with a low under 66 degrees tonight and a high two degrees below yesterday's 100 degrees. The morning low was 64 degrees as the heat subsides for a brief relief period.
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas region
Weather briefing notes scattered clouds and hot highs for Amarillo and vicinity this afternoon and Thursday. Tonight to Thursday morning cooler and clear with comfortable temperatures. West Texas partly cloudy through Thursday with isolated showers and thundershowers mainly in mountains New Mexico cooler north late Thursday. Also contains local business lines.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
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National Housing Agency
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John C. Erhardt
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EE Aussers
Ana
Leason
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Bolivia
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance
Army
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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