Amarillo Seeks Army Facility Use At English Field
Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce announces a city plan to file for joint use of Army facilities at English Field West of Avenue B. The application aims to include hangars, shops, warehouses, and concrete aprons, with training unaffected. The package goes to Brig Gen Robert Kauch for forwarding to the chief of engineers.
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English Field
Rex Baxter
Amarillo
Amarillo Army Air Field
Avenue “B
Baxter
Robert Kauch
Kauch
Avenue ‘B
Aviation Committee
A. P. Hancock
Joe Jenkins
Bob Epperson
Oscar Hargett
John Snider to Lead Amarillo Parade for Boys Ranch premiere
John Snider a veteran cowboy peace officer and longtime Amarillo resident will lead a world premiere parade for Boys Ranch. The march down Polk Street starts at 6 pm with assembly at Rock Island Depot at 4 30 pm. The event features a police escort color guard high school bands and local dignitaries.
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John Snider
Amarillo
Polk Street
Rock Island
Texas
Boys Ranch
Sam Houston
Range Riders
Elizabeth Nixson
Maverick Club
American Legion
Kids Incorporated
James Craig
Legionnaires
Mason King
Dorry Detton
Iran says Azerbaijan province blocks full troop withdrawal
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations says verification of Soviet troop withdrawal from Iran is blocked by the Azerbaijan province due to Soviet interference. He notes four northern provinces were evacuated as scheduled but Azerbaijan remains unverified. No Russian report had been received by the U N secretary general by morning.
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New York
United Nations Security Council
Hussein Ala
Azerbaijan
Iran
Trygve Lie
Ala
Red Army
Khorassan
Gorgan
Mazanderan
Gilan
Army fliers brace to search Crazy Mountains for missing transport
Army fliers prepared to search the Crazy Mountains for a transport plane missing since Sunday with six aboard on a Billings to Great Falls flight. A report of a blinking light on a mountain top near Geyser prompted an investigation and mobilization of search efforts.
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Livingston
Mont
Crazy Mountains
Billings
Great Falls
Army Airbase
Geyser
Here
Senate rejects move to force British loan debate
In Washington on May 7 the Senate rejected a motion to set debate on the controversial 3.75 billion dollar British loan and push for an early decision. The vote paused discussion as the session entered its fourth hour.
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Senate
Great Britain
Washington
Twin Premieres for Boys Ranch at Amarillo Theaters
Two world premieres of MGM's Boys Ranch will be shown simultaneously in Amarillo tomorrow night. 1,200 children invited as guests. local businessmen raised over 8000 dollars to fund a second showing and support Boys Ranch. Proceeds expected to reach 25000 to 30000 dollars.
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wVeagivel Muu
State Theater
Paramount
Amarillo
Real Boys Ranch
Ammarillo
Ted Taylor
Joe A. Jenkins
Dunn
Pinkey Vineyard
Ross Rogers
Ed Hardin
Cal Farley
Tires to color match auto paint with new compound
Akron Ohio May 7 report on a new compound by Dr Howard E Fritz of B F Goodrich Co could enable tires to match auto colors. The powdery silica nicknamed white carbon black or white soot results from ten years of research and promises white sidewalls and colored tires with color matching treads.
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Akron
Howard E. Fritz
B. F. Goodrich Co
Goodrich
Quiet Reigns In Reims On First Anniversary Of Nazi Surrender
On May 7 1945 the surrender room in the little red schoolhouse in Reims remains a shrine with maps charts and the surrender document. Casualties and POW counts are displayed while 60 000 German prisoners of war work in nearby depots and 22 000 are in Reims city.
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Reims
Gustav Jodl
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces
Menzier to Attend Amarillo Premiere of Boys Ranch
C C Menzier tireless worker in juvenile relations and superintendent of the Tennessee Industrial School will be in Amarillo for the premiere of Boys Ranch tomorrow night. He expects to arrive tomorrow morning and will speak to the Amarillo Rotary Club after visiting the ranch at Old Tascosa.
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Tennessee Industrial School
C. C. Menzier
Amarillo
Boys Ranch
Tascosa
Camille Kelly
Memphis
The
American Red Cross
Menzler
Old Tascosa
Rotary Club
Taxi Driver's Bluff Foils Three Stickup Men
R. D. Ellerd, a taxi driver, lured to the city dump grounds by three would be robbers, slugged but not knocked out. He then ordered them out, jumped back in the cab, and sped away to safety, leaving the trio embarrassed and empty handed. Ellerd claimed he could have shot if needed, though he did not have a gun.
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R. D. Ellerd
North Georgia
Ellerd
Victor adding machines and repairs offered
Russell Stationery Co advertises buff brick siding and slate shingles. A "Tastefully yours" dinner at Groma's is noted. See John Maynard Lumber Co at 800 W fifth for supplies.
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Victor
Russell Stationery Co
Gromas
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Globe-News Honors Amarillo Manufacturers Banquet
Amarillo manufacturers will be honored at a Globe-News banquet in the Amarillo Hotel on May 17. Speaker Bill Shepherd of Arkansas Power and Light will address the crowd on Patriots for Peace. The event features West Texas State College and Amarillo High School entertainment and will recognize local manufacturing firms while inviting new plants to the area.
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Amarillo
Globe-News
Bill Shepherd
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Patriots For Peace
U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Committee of International Economic Rehabilitation
International Chamber of Commerce
Pine Bluff
West Texas State College
Amarillo High School
Hunger Striking IRA Prisoner Lapses Into Coma
Belfast May 7 David Fleming an Irish Republican Army prisoner collapsed into a coma on the 48th day of his hunger strike protesting treatment of IRA detainees by Northern Ireland's government. In Dublin fellow striker Sean McCaughy reached day 19 of his fast and refused water and food.
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Belfast
U.P
David Fleming
Irish Republican Army
Freedom
Fleming
Northern Ireland
Dublin
Sean McCaughy
Eire
De Gaulle declines invitation to French Victory celebration
Paris May 7 General Charles De Gaulle refused an invitation by the French government to join the May 12 Victory celebration.
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Paris
U.P
Charles de Gaulle
Move to Avert Pilots' Strike
The government submitted an undisclosed proposal to John L. Lewis and the nation s soft coal operators to settle the 37 day old mine strike. A separate 60 day delay was sought as President Truman named a fact finding board in the AFL Airlines Pilots Association wage dispute. One man died in a Kentucky coal mine gun fight as Progresive Mine Workers continued digging.
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John L. Lewis
Truman
AFL
Airline Pilots Association
Kentucky
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Paul W. Puller
TWA
APL Pilots Association
Harlan
International Harvester Company
Benham
Progressive
J. B. Galbreath
Car Hits Porch In Early Morning Crash In Arthur
Mr and Mrs E F Wallace 1907 Arthur were asleep when a 1936 Dodge pickup jumped the curb and crashed onto their front porch at about 1 am Penny Impala driven by Urpola left the street after misjudging a jog in Arthur at Nineteenth. The impact shattered a post knocked a tree and awoke the household.
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E. F. Wallace
Arthur
North West Fifth
Mr. Wallace
Light Rain Marginal Totals Across Panhandle and Plains
Amarillo recorded a light shower early with .14 inch at English Field and a trace in town. Clarendon led with .29 inch, Panhandle totals included .16 at, .12 Claude, .13 Dimmitt, .01 Pampa, .02 Shamrock. Temperatures easing from 82 to around 70 with partly cloudy skies.
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Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Bureau
English Field
Panhandle
Clarendon
Claude
Dimmitt
Pampa
Shamrock
Colorado
Dutch Nazi Leader Mussert Executed
Anton Mussert leader of the Dutch Nazi Party was executed by firing squad near The Hague after his final plea for mercy was rejected by Queen Wilhelmina. He faced the wind swept dunes where many Dutch were shot and refused a blindfold before dying.
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Amsterdam
Anton Mussert
Hague
Mussert
Wilhelmina
Romanian Territory Restored by Council
Paris May 7 The foreign ministers council agreed to grant Romania its 1938 boundaries with Hungary and Bulgaria but split on Danube navigation and Black Sea access. The decision returns Transylvania and Dobrudja to Romania, undoing the Vienna wartime settlement.
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Paris
Foreign Ministers Council
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Transylvania
Vienna
Dobrudja
Silk Stockings Return to Some Stores Next Week
Silk stockings will return to some stores next week at $3 to $5 per pair. Earl Constantine, president of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers, told the Senate Banking Committee the price will be considered terribly expensive.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Banking Committee
Earl Constantine
New York
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Arrest Made in Alleged Attack on Girl Near Louisiana
Police arrested a man this afternoon in connection with an alleged attack on a 6 year old girl yesterday after noon. The suspect was located after two women and a man surprised the man in a cowshed behind a North Louisiana home where he had taken the girl and a boy. Neither child was harmed.
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Louisiana
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast
Partly cloudy and cooler today and tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy with little temperature change. West Texas mainly partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Wednesday. Cooler except in the Panhandle and South Plains tonight. High 82, low 45 in the last 24 hours. noon reading 59.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Texarkana Sees Sixth Slaying In Six Weeks
Mutilated male body found on Kansas City Southern tracks near Texarkana shifts fear as coroner labels death unknown. Police search ties to a string of killings including Virgil Starks and his wife, plus Polly Ann Moore, Richard Griffin, Paul Martin, and Betty Jo Booker cases in Miller and Bowie counties.
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Texarkana
Ark
Frank G. Engler
Little River County
Caru
Gari Ulli Mcopadden
Kansas
Engler
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Virgil Starks
Starks
Ing
Miller County
Polly Ann Moore
Richard Griffin
Paul Martin
Betty Jo Booker
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Bega! Co
Harold Dunn
C. Menzler
Globe
AFL Airlines Pilots Association
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Trans-World Airline
U. S Weather Bureau
Neely-Greenhlill-Lownder
Insurai
Miss Moore
Griffin
Matin
Miss Booker
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