Rain Delays Panhandle Wheat Harvest Start
Showers across Hale Floyd Swisher and Briscoe counties stall the Panhandle and South Plains wheat harvest. Farmers expect a drying sun to resume operations by Thursday or Friday with scattered showers likely again this afternoon.
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Hale
Floyd
Swisher
Briscoe
South Plains
Kidd
Hall County
Panhandle
Childress
Armstrong County
Clarendon
Memphis
GOP Denounces Truman for Act
Washington June 16 AP President Truman vetoed a four billion dollar tax reduction bill killing chances for an income tax cut this year. House votes to override, Senate unlikely. Truman said the bill offers dubious benefits and harms fiscal policy. Republican leaders blasted the veto and warned of politics in election year. The bill proposed 10.5 to 30 percent cuts, to begin July 1, but Truman argued against tax relief amid high debt and inflation and urged restraint until prices stabilize. He cited international obligations and urged maintaining revenue to reduce the public debt.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Knudson
Minnesota
House
Ways and Means
Knutson
Frank DC. Roosevelt
Tru
Des Moines Brewer flood crest hits small Iowa town
Floods reach a high crest as Des Moines Brewer floodwaters advance toward the Mississippi junction. Ottumwa, Cedar Rapids, Keosaqua report near record levels with extensive damage. Keosaqua and Ottumwa face major impacts. Red Cross and Salvation Army aid 10,000 homeless. Ottumwa alone exceeds $10 million in property damage. Keokuk reports rising Mississippi and Des Rivers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Eeeh
Norwood Teal
Stephone
Keosaqua
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Herschel Loveless
Keokuk
Mississippi
Des River
Striking AFL Workers Reject Conciliation Service Plan
St Louis transit strike continues as AFL bus and streetcar operators reject a U S Conciliation Service proposal to end the four day walkout leaving the city without mass transit. Youth urged by Malvern Marks to seize every opportunity for service in DeMolay conclave in Fort Worth with about 200 delegates and 80 Texas chapters noted.
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ST. Louis
AFL
Order of DeMolay
Khiva Temple
Malvern Marks
Marks
Fort Worth
Grand Council
Texas
United States
Orange
Johnny Eke- Lee
Weather summary for Amarillo and surrounding regions
A morning weather summary notes scattered afternoon clouds with fair conditions into tonight and Tuesday. In West Texas expect partly cloudy skies with isolated thundershowers in the Panhandle and from the South Plains to the Pecos Valley eastward this afternoon and tonight. New Mexico reports scattered thunderstorms later today and tonight with otherwise fair conditions through Tuesday. Highs around the mid 80s and lows near mid 50s, with trace precipitation reported.
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Plainview
Groom
Goodnight
H. C. Winburn
Panhandle
South Plains
Amarillo
Childress
Hereford
Lubbock
Miami
Pampa
Shamrock
Winburn
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Leon Perkins Wins News Tip Contest
Two tragedies and a crime earned prizes for News Tippers last week. Leon Perkins, 808 Moore, won first prize for reporting an explosion at Adrian that burned a filling station and cafe, killing a man. Second prize went to Sass of Parker Motor Co. for a wreck near McLean with three critically injured and one fatally harmed. third prize awarded to Arthur Nunn for a burglary at the Whiteees Grocery, 1200 East Tenth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian
Mclean
Leon Perkins
Moore
Sass
Parker Motor Co
Chevie NM
Arthur Nunn
Two Bushels Of Entries In Name Contest
Amarillo eyes a lively Name-for-Western-Week contest with a deadline tonight. The Range Riders president notes many letters but emphasizes a short vivid moniker to boost the week. Entries postmarked after midnight will be rejected, and the winner will be announced Wednesday.
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Amarillo
Amarillo’s
Clay Thornton
Art Hawks
Ben Andis
Beauford Jester
Malcolm Wyatt
Exchange Club
Ed Frye
Harlie Gordon
Ed Gillock
Howard Ferguson
Clarence Siemon
Bill Crowell
Shelby Cook
Bill Burns
Leo Brauer
Sherman Atwood
O. W. Wright
Claude Hipps
Willie Turner
Arlie Hudson
C. J. Humphrey
Jim Mecaskey
Glenn McDavid, Jr
Dick McSpad
Groundbreaking Held For Hermann Hospital Houston
Ground breaking ceremonies for the $3,500,000 Hermann Hospital at the Texas Medical Center were scheduled for this afternoon in Houston.
Truman nominates Ellis O Briggs envoy to Uruguay
President Truman nominated Ellis O Briggs of Maine to be ambassador to Uruguay. The 48 year old Watertown Massachusetts native succeeds Williamson Howell who died May 22 at his home in Bryan Texas.
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Washington
Truman
Ellis O. Briggs
Maine
Uruguay
Briggs
Watertown
Mass
Williamson Howell
Bryan
Tex
Austrian crops slump in harvest forecast
Vienna reports the agriculture ministry estimates this year’s grain harvest at 140000 tons, a sharp drop from prior expectations. The forecast highlights worsening yields and potential supply concerns for Austrian markets.
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Vienna
Ministry of Agriculture
Wallace to speak at Watergate amphitheater in DC
Federal Judge refused to bar Henry A Wallace from addressing the Watergate amphitheater here tonight. The decision followed a petition by Representative O K Cons ki and the American Anti Communist Association to halt the permit granted to Wallace by J A Krug’s Interior Department. Wallace plans to discuss peace and his 1948 presidential stance. the Southern Conference for Human Welfare sponsors the event, deemed Communist by the House Committee on Un American Activities. Attorney General Tom Clark defended free speech as a constitutional right.
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Washington
James M. Proctor
Henry A. Wallace
Watergate
American Anti-Communist Association
O’konski
Wisconsin
J. A. Krug
Wallace
Krug
Lincoln Memorial
Justice Proctor
Congress
Truman
Southern Conference For Human Welfare
House Committee On unAmerican
Southern Conference
Proctor
Franklin T. Miles
anti-Communist Association
Miles
Tom Clark
Department
Department of Justice
Clark
British plan to consult Russia on Marshall aid
London reports indicate Britain will approach Russia to discuss a European rehabilitation program advocated by Marshall. Bevin will visit Paris for talks with Bidault while Moscow radio denounces the Marshall plan as dollar pressure and interference in others’ affairs.
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London
Russia
George C. Marshall
Europe
Moscow
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Paris
Georges Bidault
Communist Party of Zan Pravda
Fort Worth Stockyards Set Volume Record for Year
Fort Worth stockyards posted the year’s largest cattle and calf run as 8,596 cattle and 2,404 calves were unloaded from 991 trucks by mid-morning, with USDA forecasting about 9,000 cattle and 3,000 calves and early indications of an exceedance. The prior peak dated to last October after OPA controls ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Jue
USDA
High Court Refuses Curley Case Review
The Supreme Court refused the second time to review Mayor James M. Curley of Boston on mail fraud convictions. The decision clears the way for renewed Justice Department action to jail the 72 year old mayor for six to eighteen months. Curley was reportedly ill in a Scituate hospital with hypertension induced by arteriosclerosis. The case centered on Engineers Group Inc claiming to obtain war contracts, with the government alleging about $60,000 was realized falsely. He also faced a $1,000 fine.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James M. Curley
Boston
Justice Department
Curlye
Scituate
Mass
Engineers Group, Inc
Curley
Train Hits Cow in Corrientes, 20 Dead in Argentina
A railroad disaster in Corrientes Province Argentina left at least 20 dead and 46 seriously injured when a train struck a cow on the tracks last night. The wreck involved the locomotive and three passenger cars. Local authorities report extensive damage and ongoing rescue efforts.
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Buenos Aires
Corrientes
Bates Thornton of Detroit Visits Father Tex Thornton
Bates Thornton of Detroit visits his father Tex Thornton the Amarillo explosives expert for two days. The younger Thornton works as an assistant to Henry Ford II at Ford Motor Company and served as a colonel in the wartime office of General Hap Arnold in Washington. Mrs. Thornton accompanies him from New York.
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Bates Thornton
Detroit
Tex Thornton
Mr. Thornton
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Company
Hap Arnold
Washington
Pilot Blamed as Capital Airlines Crash Claims 50
Washington officials report Capital Airlines craft descended through overcast while attempting to land near Washington. Civil Aeronautics Board chairman Landis says pilot may have miscalculated position during approach from 1 060 feet. Sixty persons were aboard. 50 died near Virginia West Virginia line in the Friday night crash.
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Washington
Landis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Capital Airlines
Airways
Virginia-West Virginia
Washington Airport
Cab
Sam C Arnett Buys Bell Ranch Asset In New Mexico
In Lubbock June 16 Sam C Arnett Sr president of Citizens National Bank purchased 125 sections of land and 1 200 head of cattle from the Bell ranch near Tucumcari New Mexico for 700 000 cash The sale also involved 12 000 head of stock sold last fall for 1 000 000 Arnett plans to operate the ranch at least temporarily and to lease his Clabberhill ranch in Andrews County to the University The Bell property spans from 10 miles from Tucumcari to Conchas Dam and includes 1000 irrigated acres for diversified crops
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Lubbock
Southwest
Sam C. Arnett, Sr
Citizens National Bank
Bell Ranch
Tucumcari
Arnett
Tebe Foster
Clabberhill
Andrews County
University of Texas
Conchas Dam
Sitdown Paralyzes Shipping Across U S Ports
About 80 thousand seamen staged sitdowns on American flag ships in major ports, idling roughly 200 thousand workers and halting most U S shipping. CIO NMU claims it is a lockout by owners. negotiations over 20 percent raises and a 40 hour week stalled since contracts expired.
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New York
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
CIO
Curran
Gulf Coast
Pacific Coast
Pacific American Shipowners Association
San Francisco
CIO Union of
Great Lakes
AFL
NMU
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Globe
Charlie Pryor
Will Rogers Highway
Frye
Hipps
Gop
Senate
John Maynard Lbr
National Simplex
Russell Stationery
Blackburn-Shaw Life Insurance Co
East Tenth
R. B. Brown
North Lincoln
Donald Honey
Harrison
Clare Robertson
William Bell
Buchanan
Richard Gower
Grand
Bessie Biggs
William A. Goetz
Lincoln
J. E. Parker
North Kaneobe
Virginia Bates
West Thirteenth
A. R. Horner
Spring
Harvey Hill
Taylor
Minnie Christy
Lois Ownby
Eakens Hotel
John E. Pedden
van Buren
C. B. Clegg
W. E Hachey
Houston
Ronnie Alton
Peirmont
Athur Warne Pirie
Delbert Dalby
The
Range Riders
Name Committee
Reds
Williams-Boyce Agency
High Court
Father
Jeffers
Bell Land
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