Indian Congress Accepts British Plan For Federated Union
The All- India Congress Party accepted a long- range British plan for an independent federated union of India but rejected an interim government. Maulana Azad announced the decision after a two hour Congress working committee meeting.
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New Delhi
All-India Congress Party
Union of India
Congress Working Committee
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Lord Wavell
Congress Party
India
Moslem League
League
Water supply remains adequate for Amarillo demand
Amarillo's water supply is adequate after two new wells were connected last week. City water superintendent N. V. Moss said the wells add about one million gallons each, lifting capacity to about 19 million gallons, with usage at 18 million this year and another well planned before late Summer peak demand.
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Amarillo
N. V. Moss
Butter Price Typo Sparks Immediate Market Stir
In Richmond on June 25 a typographical error in a local newspaper listed butter at 1.50 a pound, sending prices soaring from 55 cents. OPA officials corrected the boner and warned that price decontrol could unleash similar effects. John J. Howard, chair of the price control board, said the slip showed which side the consumer’s bread was buttered on.
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Richmond
OPA
John J. Howard
Love Field Dallas Declared Surplus by War Department
The War Department informed Senator Connally the Love Field in Dallas Texas is declared surplus effective today. The field was recently deemed excess to Army Air Force needs.
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Love Field
Dallas
War Department
Washington
Senator Connally
Democrat
Texas
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The text reports a cooler day today with a warming trend by Wednesday afternoon. It notes partly cloudy conditions across West Texas and the Panhandle, with fair skies in New Mexico and little temperature change. Highs are forecast around 80 to 100 degrees regionally, with a record of 97 at noon and a low of 63 cents for the measured period.
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Amarillo
Meat shortage hits eastern packing plants and miners
Scattered packing plants and several major centers halt operations amid dwindling meat supplies and pending price control clarifications. Nebraska independents shuttered after exhausting quotas while bread and meat shortages worsened in coal regions as the draft schedule moves toward a July August holiday.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Slaughterers
Pennsylvania Meat Packers and Retailers Association
Chester Bowles
Morrell Packing Co
Big Topeka
Kan
Ottumwa
Iowa
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Paul
Denver
Des Moines
Chicago
Nebraska
Navy Stagehands Prepare for Atomic Test at Bikini
Aboard the USS Apalachi an en route to Bikini Island 34 000 sailors in 140 ships will leave Bikini Lagoon starting June 30 to reach safety before the July 1 hydrogen bomb detonation. The plan sets strict distances 10 miles from the blast and uses staged groups to clear the lagoon while monitoring tides and weather.
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Frank H. Bartholomew
Bikini
U.P
Bikini Lagoon
Fitzhugh Lee
Bikini Atoll
Scions Fight UN Deadlock Over Atomic Control
United States lawmakers clash with Soviet insistence on veto power as Pravda accuses Washington of seeking world rule. Senators Russell Johnson and Huffman warn a Russian veto could trigger a new arms race and stalled negotiations.
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Washington
United Nations
Congress
Russia
Pravda
Senate
Special Atomic Committee
Russell
Gia
Georgia
U. N
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Johnson
Communist Party
United States
St Il
Ten Year Old Girl Dies of Leukemia Flown From Georgia
Aronette Rubin aged 10 died of leukemia in Los Angeles ten days after being flown from Atlanta to receive atomic bombardment treatment for the blood disease. She was accompanied by her father Ralph L Rubin an Atlanta grocer.
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Georgia
Los Angeles
Aronette Rubin
Atlanta
Aronette
Ralph L. Rubin
Staten Island Ferry Fire Threatens Ferry Terminal
A fast spreading blaze raged through a St George ferry house near New York Harbor, setting two nearby oil barges alight and spreading to the Baltimore and Ohio freight yards. Fire departments from Staten Island and Manhattan battled four alarms as passengers fled the burning terminal and several people were believed trapped.
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New York
Staten Island
New York Harbor
Baltimore and Ohio
Ferry House
Louis Wasserman
Wasserman
St. George
New York Bay
Manhattan
Holland Tunnel
Jersey City
Jersey
Bayonne
Bayonne Bridge
Reds Reject U S Protest Over Romania News Freedom
Acting Secretary Acheson said the Soviet Union rejected a U S protest about suppression of news freedom in Romania and forced Reuben Markham of the Christian Science Monitor to leave the country. He noted the protest had been lodged in Moscow and Bucharest a month earlier and was denied.
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Washington
Acheson
Russia
United States
Romania
Reuben Markham
Christian Science Monitor
Markham
Moscow
Bucharest
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kremlin
Stalin
Truman
Atlee
Southern Gentlemen Debank Hat Trend In New York Saloon Row
New York reporters note a hat shortage among Broadway hostesses as Southern visitors influence New York men to go hatless. Workers at nightlife venues report fewer patrons and slimmer tips while describing a rising trend of bare heads and hat concealment.
Dog Honors Memory Of Master
Sonny the 14 year old German police dog has walked the Globe-News paper route for two years in Amarillo honoring his late master LaDon Hobgood who was killed in a 1944 plane crash. The dog greeted LaDon’s family and followed the route from Third to Sixth between Prospect and Fairmont, staying with the Hobgood home and later bonding with LaDon’s siblings and their family.
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Globe
Sonny
Globe News
LaDon Hobgood
LaDon
Dan Palmer
Virginia
Lewis Palmer
Dan
Roberta Underwood
George Palmer
Carolina
W. E. Hobgood
Globe-News
Prospect
Fairmont
Texhoma
la- Don
la Don
Birch Hollow
Amarillo
Mr. Hobgood
Billye
Hobgoods
Red Cross
Here Are New Draft Provisions
Washington June 25 Major provisions of the selective service bill passed by the House and sent to the Senate extend the draft to March 31 1947 bar reinduction for those with overseas service or six months in the United States after Sept 6 1940 ban inductions of fathers set Army strength 1500600 on July 1 1946 and 1070000 on July 1 1947 authorize discharge of inductees after 18 months service raise pay 50 percent for the lowest grades and 10 percent for the highest officers. The Senate House compromise separated the pay increase from the draft extension bill.
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House
Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson
Army
R. Ewing Thomason
Texas
Eisenhower
Navy
Patterson
Senate
Washington
United States
OPA Bill Faces Presidential Signoff In Key House Vote
Representative Spence of Kentucky predicted President Truman will sign the compromise OPA bill after a Senate House conference. The measure preserves meat butter cigarettes and gasoline controls for a year while stripping many powers, with a showdown vote slated before midafternoon.
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Washington
Spence
Kentucky
House Banking Committee
Truman
Senate House
House
OPA
Senate
Chester Bowles
Bank Teller Refuses Robber. Elk City Bank Starves Off Heist
In Elk City Kansas the First National Bank was robbed by a pale faced young man who pointed a medium pistol at teller Maud Osburn 59 a widow and long time employee. She stood firm shouting at him to leave and claims she saved upwards of one thousand dollars as the robber wilted and fled.
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Elk City
Kan
Maud Osburn Tceday
First National Bank of
Strimple Family Returns From Denver Vacation
Mr and Mrs Wayne Strimple and their son Larry of 1315 Taylor have returned from a week long vacation in Denver Colorado.
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Denver
Wayne Strimple
Larry
Taylor
Cola
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