Truman, Congress Differ over Fair Employment Practices Act
President Truman clashed with Congress as southern Democrats refused to back a permanent fair employment practices committee. House Rules Chairman Sabath sought a vote, while Rep. Cox and Rep. Colmer predicted the bill would stay bottled up in committee. The FEPC would prohibit employment discrimination by race color or creed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Chairman Sabath
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Rep
Colmer
Mississippi
House
Senate Labor Committees
FEPC
Lavoptik Eye Relief Promises Soothing Comfort
Advert says Lavoptik relieves burning and soreness from overwork dust or wind with a money back guarantee after 30 years of success. Thousands praise it and it is available at all druggists.
Meat market holdup confession in Worcester
Mrs. Petronella Bascinskas confessed to police that when a youthful holdup man could not open the cash register she helped him and even made him take 16 pennies after he stole $50 from her meat market in Worcester Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester. Mass
U.P
Petronella Bascinskas
Transport Plane Lost Over Africa With 18 Wacs
An Army transport plane carrying 18 Women Army Corps and a three-member crew has been missing since May 30 on a 766 mile flight from Accra in the Gold Coast to Roberts Field Liberia. The missing airwomen and next of kin include Pfc Ruth E Warlick and Pfc Wilma E Liles with listed addresses in Texas.
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Washington
U.P
Africa
War Department
Accra
Gold Coast
British West Africa
Roberts Field
Liberia
Ruth E. Warlick
John A. Warlick
Goldthwaite
Tex
Wilma E. Liles
Clotilde L. Fryman
E. 10Th St
Dallas, Tex
Allied Control in Germany Prolongs Berlin HQ Move
Allied Control Council delays Berlin headquarters as rubble clearance and office space issues push operations to Potsdam. The United States keeps Frankfurt as a key hub for communications and American forces in the southwestern zone, while France seeks Cologne for security.
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Cologne
Germany
United States
Frankfurt
Allied Control Council
Berlin
Reich
Control Council
Potsdam
France
SHAEF
Markets Hit by Mixed Signals Across Stocks and Grains
Wall Street edges lower as industrials slip while many blue chips hold. Grain prices show modest swings with Chicago futures mixed across wheat corn and oats amid light trading in Chicago hogs cattle and livestock markets.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce Voane Beane
NEW York Stock Exchange
Pierce Fenner & Beaneay
At&sf
Aviation Corp
Ceeber
Baldwin Seseneavee
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Arene
Braniff
Briggs Mfg
Budd
Boroughs
Chrysler
Comm Invest
Cont Motors
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
General Motors
Gillette Razor
Goodyear Tenea
Int Harvester
Pore Steetnes Seccess
Tel Soessoes
Kennecott Copper Piedeess
Lockheed Ae
Montgomery Ward
Eau
Nash Kelvinator
Ryenbanes
Nor Am Aviation
Ohio Oil
Ceseeoens aOhewe
Packard Jitenss
Oee
Pan Amer Airways
Av Papemoube Cccceiscess
Cote
Phillips Shgven
Shell Union Oil
Socony Vacuum
Sou Pac
Stand Brands
Stand Oil Ind
Stand Oil
Studebaker
Spiegel, Inc
Texas Corp
Tex Gulf Sylph
Tidewater
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
U .S Rubber
Wilson & Co
Chicago
Westock
New York City Wins First 1900 Subway Construction Contract
New York City awarded its first contract for subway construction in 1900 marking the start of rapid transit development. The award signals momentum for the new underground line and related civil works.
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New York City
Sergeant Marlatt’s Army Service Begins in October 1942
The text notes Marlatt entered the Army in October 1942 after six months overseas service and lists his prior employment at the Pantex Ordnance Plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Marlatt
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Russians advance prompt mass civilian exodus toward Rhine
German civilians anticipated Soviet occupation of central Germany including Leipzig and fled westward in large numbers. Reports say the 15th Army could move to other duties in the Pacific while Seventh Army may stay intact under chief occupation forces. Kassel was viewed as the western boundary of Russian control by many fleeing families.
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Charles de Gaulle
Cologne
Cologne-Aachen
Ardennes
France
Belgium
Germany
Yalta
Foreign Office
Vienna
Paris
Austria
Leonard T. Gerow
Rhineland
Seventh Army
Bavaria
15Th Army
Fifteenth Army
Pacific
Leipzig
Rhine
Kassel
Courthouse Record Summary of Deeds and Divorces
A list of warranty deeds transferring parcels in multiple additions and streets, followed by mentions of district court divorce actions between Griffiths and Griffs and Ford cases, plus several marriage licenses issued to couples including Baker Sullivan Cook Graves and Dunker.
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Henry M. Beverley
Frank Floyd
Mirror
Dean Burriss
Kenneth Coats
Country Club
Ben Golding
Sam Dalton
University
Thomas D. MecCrady
Loyd Warren
Holland Adda
R. A Masany
A. L. Wise
Plemons
H Hureett
Helen Burgess
Morningside Seale Company
Mattie CG
Haregrove
Ridgemere Adda Seale Co
Sid T. Brown
Ridgemere Seale Co
Fred W. Meek
Weldon Carper
Ridgemere
Clifford McMurtry
B. L. Howard
John Dees
Willie Mack Griffith
Bertha Imogene Griffith
Georgia Quest Ford
M. Ford
George Melvin Baker
Geneva Rebecca Sullivan
Ray M. Cook
Dorothy Grace Graves
Clifford C. Rihm
Alice Jeanne Dunker
Edgar Pearl
Fear Milles
Oscar Davis
Louise Baker
William Lesley Kitchens
Martha Frances Madlin
Edward D. Connin
Mary Louise Decker
Tom D. S Bloodhurst
Evelyn D Landes
Clarence W. Camp
Teral Brown
Marlatt Promoted to Staff Sergeant at Italian Air Base
Jack E. Marlatt son of Mr and Mrs A Marlatt 3413 West Tenth was promoted to staff sergeant at an air force supply base in Italy He serves as chief clerk of the inspection section of the air supply division the central control point for air force supplies in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations He has been overseas since November 1944 and wears the European African Middle East campaign ribbon the Good Conduct ribbon and one overseas chevron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Marlatt
West Tenth
Jack E. Marlatt
Air Force
Italy
Air Supply Division
Mediterranean
Marlatt
County Jail Population Dwindles to Only 28
The county jail reached its smallest number of the year with 28 inmates confined. Of that total, 21 were county residents.
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Congress
Sabath
Rep. Cox
Georgia
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling CO
Amarillo
Buthker’s
Taylor
Buthkods Hower
Pke
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Han
Oas
Eeme LL Lm
Board OF Insurance Commissioners
State OF Texas
Austin
Texas
Transcontinental Insurance Company
New York
George B. Butler
Strange
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
WFA
Kansas Fed
Financial Industrial Fund
Courthouse Records
Plains Plumbing CO
Fillmore
P&t
Crowe-Gulde Cement CO
N. Tyler St
Boston
Detroit
TWA
Park & Tilford
Eperience
Golden Peacock Co., Inc
Dept
Paris, Tenn
Golden Peacock
Tilford Reserve
Polk
Beery
Ctaar
Iailas Ls
Atwards
Amy
Taylor- Amarillo
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