Capitol Pressures to Save OPA Amid Price Control Clash
Delegations from labor groups and housewives pressed lawmakers at Capitol Hill to extend the current price control law. A “Save OPA” rally was planned near the Washington Monument as conferees work to resolve four key disputed provisions including ceiling lifts on meat dairy and petroleum.
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OPA
Washington
Capitol 1
House
Washington Monument
Taylor
Idaho
Midwest
Wolcott
Senate
Rules Committee
Reds Winning Friends Among German People
Berlin reports Soviet Russia winning favor among German cultural elites by flattering vanity and satisfying needs with extra rations and material rewards. Russians avoid evicting artists, contrasting with American practices that mixed Nazis and others and pressured German talent.
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Reds
Hal Boyle
Berlin
Russia
America
Britain
Reich
Child Rescued After Six Day Wilds Search in Arkansas
Eight year old Katherine Van Alst of Kansas City was found five miles from the site of her disappearance in Devil's Den State Park after a six day search. She was hospitalized with insect bites but recovering well and reunited with her mother at the park cabin. Porter Chaddick, a war veteran and University of Arkansas student, first reached the child and reported her calm greeting.
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Payetteville
Ark
Katherine van Alst
Kansas City
Devil's den State Park
Falls Creek
Arkansas
Fayetteville
John van Alst
Park Cabin
Katherine
C. M
Gully
University of Arkansas
Porter Chaddick
Pine Bluff
Chaddick
Mao denounces U S forces in China as threat to peace
In a Yenan message Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung says U S Army and Navy forces in China threaten national peace and freedom and urge withdrawal. He accuses U S aid of favoring the Kuomintang and warns that large American garrisons fuel civil war prospects.
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Nanking
Mao Tse-Tu
U. S
China
Yenan
Mao
United States
Congress
U.S
Japan
News Tips Rewarded for Week's Troubles in Amarillo
Misfortunes turned into prizes as Amarillo area residents win $10 in News Tips for last week's misfortunes. First prize goes to Bill Ford for detailing an accident at North Filmore and North East Fourteenth that injured nine year old Mickey Haas. Second prize to Mrs. James Cook for her tip about Don Doughty’s leg injury from a rifle incident. Karen Kramer earns $2 for a tip about a taxicab collision with Burlington Zephyr No. 2 at Grand Avenue.
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Amarillo-area
Bill Ford
North Fillmore
North Filmore
North East
Mickey Etselle Haas
James E. Cook
Pleasant Valley
Don Doughty
Karen Kramer
Burlington Zephyr No. 2
Grand Avenue Crossing
Tail theft case leaves sheriff puzzled over value
In Okla at WeWoka a missing cow tail puzzled deputies. A suspect was held and offered payment to a Negro woman, but the amount sparked a twist. A bystander noted the cow can’t swat without its swisher while milking, and the woman replied the cow could not swat its back and might kick.
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Wewoka
Okla
U.P
John Sandlin
Lichfield Witnesses Refuse to Testify at Trials
Three prisoner witnesses balked at testifying at the Lichfield court martial proceedings as they accused guards in England of abusing them. William Pond of New York and others said justice isn’t served, noting light penalties for guards who beat them.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
Lichfield
U. S. Army
England
William Pond
New York
Pfc
Thomas E. Warren
Plainview
Tex
Jerusalem
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Irgun
Hagana
Tel Aviv
Jewish Agency
Ask To Carry Air Mail Demand Probe
The Institute of Air Transportation, a group of 76 non scheduled airlines, offered to carry U S mail for three cents an ounce and urged a Congressional probe into airmail and freight rates. Ads urged the President, Congress and the Civil Aeronautics Authority to permit these carriers to serve the public by carrying air mail at three cents per ounce and parcel post at substantially lower rates.
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New York
U.P
Institute of Air Transportation
U. S
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Authority
United States
Flood Fury Grips Town of Mellen Wis
The Bad River swelled by 24 hour rains broke through a dam, washing several houses from their foundations and isolating Mellen with a 2,000 population. About 35 homes flooded. residents were rescued and housed in city hall churches and friends homes. Roads in and out were cut off and bus and train service halted.
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Mfallen
Wis
Ashland Coast Guard
Friends
Mellen
Haltea
Panhandle Pioneer Mrs. Mel Armstrong Dies at 65
Mary Mel Armstrong 65 a Panhandle pioneer died at her River Road home north of Amarillo. Born in Pulaski Tennessee in 1881 she came to the Panhandle with her parents in 1889 and spent most of her life on ranches including Tascosa LIT and VV11 Ranch. Her husband Mel Armstrong early served as Sheriff of Tascosa and they raised three children. Funeral services are set for N S Griggs and Sons Chapel with cremation in Albuquerque.
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Panhandle
Mel Armstrong
River Road
Amarillo
C. L. Mitchell
Giles
Tennessee
Montana
Armstrong
Pulaski
Cowboy
Texas
Tascosa
Steve Price
Canadian River Valley
Mrs. Armstrong
N. S. Griggs and Sons
E. B. Fincher
Albuquerque
First U. S. Army Dependents Arrive in Japan
In Yokohama on June 24 the first U S Army dependents arrived, consisting of 183 wives 128 children and one mother. They were greeted with a riotous welcome at the dock by military officials and local residents.
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U. S
Japan
Yokohama
U. S. Army
Girl survives seven hour duel with icy Lake Michigan
Patsy Smith an 18 year old shipbuilder's daughter fought Lake Michigan waves for seven and a half hours after her sloop the Half Moon capsized in a squall near Green Bay. She towed Mary Loomis part way to shore before exhaustion forced her to let go. The deaths included Leather B. Smith 60 Alvin Washburn Howard Hunt and Mary Loomis.
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Howard Hunt
Mary Loomis
Lake Michigan
Green Bay
Miss Smith
Miss Loomis
Smith
Leather D. Smith Shipbuilding Company
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Widows Face Odds in Remarriage by Age Group
Washington June 24 The American Remarriage Table shows remarrying odds decline with age. Ages 16 to 20 about 12 in 100 remarry within six years. 21 to 25 about 8 in 100. 26 to 30 six in 100. 31 to 35 about four in 100. 36 to 40 two in 100. 40 to 45 slightly under two in 100. 45 to 50 one in 100. 50 plus very small with 71 to 75 about three in 100.
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Washington
Casualty Actorial Society
Big Four Reject Austrian Claim In South Tyrol Dispute
The Big Four foreign ministers failed to resolve Austrian demands in South Tyrol and clashed over Franco Italian frontier redrawings. Talks opened in Luxembourg as Bidault arrived late, with a Friday deadline for five peace treaties. The ministers plan two days of sessions to shape Europe’s future and potential East West alignments.
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Paris
U.P
Italy
Pastorial
South Tyrol
Brigue
Luxembourg
Georges Bidault
France
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Finland
Europe
Russia
Pepper accuses Bevin of seeking U S bloodshed
Senator Claude Pepper charges British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin wants the United States to spill American blood to aid Britain's imperial aims in the Middle East. He says Britons desire U S and Soviet clash and that Britain and Russia are in age old imperial struggles, with the U S siding with Britain too often.
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Chicago
Claude Pepper
Florida
Ernest Bevin
United States
Middle East
Pepper
American Jewish Congress
U. S
Russia
Britain
Europe
Missing Baker Hotel youth linked to deadly blast in Dallas
A Black hotel worker remains missing after a blast at the Baker Hotel in Dallas that killed eight and injured 41. Fire officials search debris on the third floor basement tier as the man’s mother seeks news.
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Dallas
Jume 24
Baker Hotel
B. C. Hilton
Letha Campbell
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas Today
Partly cloudy and warmer this afternoon and Tuesday with fair tonight. West Texas shows partly cloudy skies this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with scattered thundershowers from Pecos Valley eastward. New Mexico forecasts fair tonight and Tuesday with cooler conditions northern areas. Highs Tuesday 80 to 90 degrees. Previous 24 hours ended 6:30 A.M.: high 74 low 66 noon 904.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
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Dupont de Nemours Chemical Trust
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Moscow
mid-Pacific
United States Navy
Nevada
Independence
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W. H. Blanchard
Army
Navy
William E. Kepner
Adm
William H. P. Brandy
Pacific
Bernard Baruch
United Nations
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Peretti
Russell Stationery Co
Blanche Parker
Amarillo Army Air Field
Jack Teeter
North West Fourteenth
L. W. Mowry
East Eleventh
Pat Bourassa
Western
M. Cc. Pittman
West Fifteenth
Cc. T. Kline, Jr
Pierce
D. Frost
Front
Lawrence Youngblood
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Gordon Creamer
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