Braniff to add Amarillo Lubbock air service July 1
Air Amarillo and Lubbock will be connected directly for the first time under Braniff Airways. Six flights daily six northbound and southbound. The route expands service to Amarillo Lubbock and a wider area including Oklahoma City Wichita Falls Dallas Fort Worth Houston Corpus Christi and other points with connections.
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Amarillo
Lubbock
Braniff Airlines
Chamber of Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Board
Denver
Oklahoma City
Wichita Falls
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Tampico
Mexico City
San Antonio
Nuevo Laredo
Venezia Giulia Occupation Plan Signed by Allies and Yugoslavia
Allied and Yugoslav authorities signed a program implementing the Belgrade accord on Venezia Giulia. It covers boundary delineation, placement of Yugoslav troops under Allied command, use of Trieste and Pola ports, and other mutual administrative matters. Western Venezia Giulia to be occupied by Anglo American troops and the east by Yugoslav forces, held in trust pending peace conference settlement.
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Belgrade
Mediterranean
Trieste
Pola
Venezia Giulia
Italy's New Premier Is Installed
Rome reports Fer ruccio Parri, leader of the Actionist Party, installed as Italy's premier. He said he is an ordinary man not a politician and announced his minister slate with Socialists Liberals Communists and Labor Democrats each receiving posts. He succeeded Ivanoe Bonomi and objected to the title your excellency.
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Rome
Actionist
Ferruccio Parri
Actionists
Christian-Democrats
Committee of National Liberation
Ivanoe Bonomi
Leopold Plans to Return as New Cabinet Forms
BRUSSELS June 20 King Leopold refuses abdication demands and will return to Belgium once a new cabinet is formed. Anti royalists rally as Le Peuple intensifies the campaign by publishing an alleged March 7 1942 telegram to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy on Prince Amedeo’s death in a British POW camp.
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Brussels
Leopold
Belgium
le Peuple
Vittorio Emanuele
Italy
Amedeo
Duke
Aosia
Ethiopia
Eire Protests Over Slayings of Irish Priests in Manila
Premier Eamon de Valera told the Dail that Ireland protested to Tokyo regarding the reported killings of four Irish priests by Japanese forces in Manila.
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Eire
Tokyo
Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Dail
Parliament
Manila
Pink Cheeked Girl Bosses German Town
Ursula Meisterernst a 25 year old with a law PhD from Heidelberg is installed as mayor of Arnstadt near Weimar by American occupation authorities. The anti Nazi Democrat oversees a 30 000 population city with Capt Jack McGowan guiding administration. She plans to unify Germans and improve food supply while stating she has no party.
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Arnstadt
Germany
Weimar
Frau Ursula Meisterernst
Hidelberg University
Jack McGowan
Dallas
Kassel
England
Heidelberg
Ursula
Catholic Center Party
Battles and setbacks as Pacific war rages across Okinawa to Borneo
Associated Press dispatches describe Allied advances on Okinawa with Marines reaching Mabuni and pockets of Japanese resistance. reports of air and naval bombardments in the Bonin Islands and Balikpapan. Chinese and Japanese actions in China and Luzon. Australian forces nearing Seria and Jesselton while Japanese raids intensify on Omura and other targets.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
U. S
Miyako Island
Sakishima
Balikpapan
South Pacific
Borneo
Bonin Islands
Iwo Jima
Jaluit Island
Marshalls
Omura
Hoihong
Liichow
China
Chungking
Liuchow
U.S
Lieuchow
Eighth Marine
Tarawa
Mabuni
Adm
Minoru Ota
Mariana
Brunei Bay
Seria
Jesselton
Oil City
Burned Bodies Of Adolf and Eva Found After Death by Own Action
Berchtesgaden reports Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun killed themselves in an underground bunker near Berlin on April 30. Witness Eric Kempke says he moved Eva Braun’s body after the pair shot themselves and that Goebbels and his wife also died by suicide, with the bunker burned by gasoline thereafter.
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Berchtesgaden
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Berlin
Reichschancellery
Hitler
Eva
Red Army
Kempke
Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Eisenhower Returns to West Point for Veteran Homecoming
General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits the United States Military Academy at West Point to review cadets and detachments. He is greeted by Maj. Gen. Francis Wilby and attended by his son John Eisenhower. The 50 mile drive from New York City followed yesterday’s large reception.
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West Point
N. Y
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Military Academy
Washington Gate
Francis Wilby
Eisenhower
John Eisenhower
New York City
Amarillo Weather Summary Shows Scattered Tstorms
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with widely scattered thunderstorms late this afternoon. West Texas sees similar conditions with little temperature change. New Mexico reports clear nights and partly cloudy afternoons. Highs Thursday range 70 to 86 in mountains and 90 to 95 elsewhere. Overnight lows near 61 with 0.01 inch precipitation.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
UN Moves to Bar Axis Aligned Regimes Underpins Franco End
Spanish Republican leaders hailed a UN commission vote to exclude all governments placed in power with Axis support. Mexico’s anti Franco declaration drew loud acclaim as the United States backed the stance. Republicans plan a Paris mission to pressure for a Madrid republican government.
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San Francisco
U.P
Francisco Franco
United Nations
Truman
Olympia
Wash
Spain
United Nations Conference Commission
New World Organization
Antonio Sbert
Felix Gordon Ordas
Mexico
Franco
United States
James C. Dunn
State Department
Committee of Spanish Liberation
Paris
Madrid
Polish factions hold amicable talks on Warsaw provisional government
In Moscow three Polish factions met with added personnel to discuss possible reorganization of the Warsaw provisional government. New arrivals include Wladislaw Kiernik of the Peasant Party and Anton Kolodzei of the Seaman's Union.
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Moscow
Warsaw
Wladislaw Kiernik
Poland
Anton Kolodzei
Seaman’s Union
London
Death Penalty For Poles Ruled Out By Russia
Soviet prosecutors on trial in Moscow urged prison terms for four Polish Home Army leaders while excluding the death penalty. Gen Asansiev said some defendants would be imprisoned, not executed, despite arguing crimes warranted the supreme penalty.
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Moscow
Asansiev
Red Army
Leopold Okulicki
Moscow Radio
Germany
Okulicki
Jankowski
Adam Bien
Council of Ministers
Stanislaw Jasikewicz
Russia
Ukraine
Evgeni Chernowsky
Polish Democratic Union
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk
London
Polish Home Army
Must Pay To Vote Must Pay To Vote
Gov Coke R Stevenson vetoed a bill by the 49th Legislature granting Armed forces the right to vote in 1945 and 1946 without poll tax payment. Sen Jesse Martin proposed signing and asking the attorney general to seek Supreme Court validation, noting a 1919 1920 similar act for soldiers whose validity was never challenged.
Scattered Thunder Showers Hit Panhandle Regions
The weatherman said thundershowers arrived 24 hours early with upper air changes over the Canadian River. Expect widely scattered showers this afternoon and partly cloudy skies Thursday. Pampa reported .73 inches, slowing wheat harvest. other towns tallied Spearman .50 Panhandle .13 Dumas .07 Follet .05 Amarillo .01 as the shower belt centered along the river.
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Canadian
Pampa
Spearman
Panhandle
Dumas
Former Liberal Leader Lord Crewe Dies at 87
London report says Lord Crewe died last night at 87 after resigning as Liberal Party leader in the House of Commons in December. He served as Secretary for India and War, President of the Board of Education, Privy Seal and as ambassador to France.
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London
Lord Crewe
Liberal Party
House of Commons
India
Board of Education, Ltd
France
Houston Crutch Slayer Sentenced Five Years in Penitentiary
Judge Langston G. King sentenced Tommy Matkins the one legged pencil peddler to five years in the penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to the crutch slaying of Lawrence Lavendusky on April 11 in Houston.
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Houston
Langston G. King
Tommy Matkins
Matkins
Lawrence Lavendusky
U S General Killed on Okinawa and Admiral Dies
War Department reports Brig. Gen. Claudius M. Easley of Waco Texas killed on Okinawa while Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. died Monday from a shell burst. Rear Adm. Forrest B. Royal, aged 52, died Monday of natural causes.
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Associated Press
Okinawa
War Department
Navy
Claudius M. Easley
Waco
Texas
96Th Infantry Division
Generl
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
10Th Army
Forrest B. Royal
Pacific
Borneo
Production Strikes Hit War Efforts Across Industry
The Army moved to run the Diamond Alkali plant at Painesville as strikes ripple nationwide. Union workers, the CIO and UMWA, protest contractor use while Goodyear and others face back to work orders. War labor officials clash with unions as several plants halt production and transportation slows.
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Diamond Alkali Company
Painesville
Truman
Robert P. Patterson
United Mine Workers of America
Chicago
International Harvester Company
WLB
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
United Rubber Workers, Cio
Akron Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Goodyear
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Creighton
Fort City
Pennsylvania
Qohio
National War Labor Board
United Steelworkers
CIO
American Rolling Mill Company
Ashland
American Federation of Labor Unions
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Time
Life
Transport Workers Union
New York
Marine and Shipbuilding
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Hoboken
N. J
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Allied Headquarters
Philippines
Cagayan Valley
Shizuoka
Fukuoka
Aircraft
Kyushu Island
Toyohashi
Armament and
Domei
Haihong Peninsula
Luzon Island
Cayayan River
Naguibian
William C. Chase
38Th
Markina
Lemuel C. Shepherd
Sixth Marine Division
Adolf
By Jack Fleischer
Academy
Tufts
Ike
Omar Bradley
Howitzer
Morpheus
U0 S
E A Reeal Co. Real Estate and Loans
Joan Prouty
R. E. Underwood
Hughes
Kenny Institute
Minneapolis
Parker Prouty
World Organization
War Labor Board
McCormick Works
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