Air Crew Survives B-29 Crash After Midair Fire
Twenty airmen escaped a flaming B-29 near Merkel Texas after engine fire forced an emergency parachute jump. Capt Alfonso Camerena was last to leave. One airborne survivor was later found dead in Mulberry canyon, as searchers scoured rugged terrain for the remaining crew.
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Alfonso Camerena
Stockton
Cal
Camrena
Sweetwater
U.P
Mulberry Canyon
Merkel
Here
Sweet Water
Sweetwater Hospital
Abilene
Don Lee Ellis
Paris
Tex
Plane Crash Near Merkel Kills Three Officers In Storm
A B 25 crash in a thunderstorm near Champaign left two colonels and five other soldiers dead. Col Raymond E ONeill 52 a Chanute Field veteran and Col George A Whatley 45 were among the dead. The 7 victims were en route from Cheyenne to Chanute Field when the crash occurred. Names of the other five victims were withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Champaign
Ill
Army
Raymond E. O'Neill
George A. Whatley
Chanute Field
O'Neill
Port Townsend
Wash
Whatley
Texas
Cheyenne
Wyo
Iran fears uprising as Kurdish tribesmen resist disarmament
Army garrisons at Maku Shahpur Khoi and Rizaiyeh in northwestern Iran were reinforced as observers warned of a Kurdish uprising against the government's order to disarm.
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Tehran
Maku
Shahpur
Khoi
Rizaiyeh
Iran
President Roxas Plane Missing in Mindanao Wilds
President Roxas announced the loss of the Lily Marlene, a four engine C-54, in northern Cotabato Mindanao. The aircraft was carrying 12 to 15 government officials and a crew of eight after taking off Sunday from Buayas airfield Cotabato bound for Bacolod Negros island.
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MAILA
Roxas
Lily Marlene
Otabato
Mindanao
Louis Mountbatten
Buayas
Cotabato
Bacolod
Negros Island
Congress Delivers Mixed Budget Moves In May Politic
House appropriations subcommittee trims over 450 million from Truman’s Agriculture request, shaping 1948 funding. Senate debates tax cuts from 10.5 to 30 percent, with July 1 start. Foreign relief bill passes House 288 to 86, Senate review pending. AT&T urges excise repeal to save 400 million annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
GOP
House Appropriations
Truman
Agriculture Department
House Republican
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Millikin
Colorado
White House
Conference Committee
Telephone Industry
Congress
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
House Ways and Means Committee
Labor Strikes Hit Ford Plants and Bus Lines
The Foremen’s Association of America orders 3700 Ford Rouge and Lincoln plant workers to walk out at seven thirty this morning. Picket lines will be for supervisory staff. CIO United Auto Workers not to strike. A union leader predicts Ford production may halt within ten days due to wage and recognition disputes. Concurrently AFL strikes hit Southern Trailways and Southern Bus lines across nine states, affecting about 65 thousand riders daily.
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Ford
Veupucu
Associated Press
United Press Dispatches
America
Ford Motor Company
Rouge
Lincoln
Michigan
Foremen's Assocition of America
Ford Works
Robert H. Keys
CIO
United Auto Workers
Henry Ford, II
AFL
Southern Bus Lines
Southern Trailways Bus Company
Southern Bus Company
Louisiana
Tennessee
Texas
Missouri
Kentucky
Illinois
Western Electric
Southwestern Greyhound Lines
Paul W. Tibbits
Reassure Truman Concert in Amarillo Planned
Margaret Truman is definitely planning to fulfill her Amarillo engagement at the Municipal Auditorium on May 28. Word received by Mrs. Howard Lynch of the Panhandle Concert Bureau says tickets are on sale at the Paramount building office and by mail with prices ranging from 1.20 for students to 3.60 for top seats.
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Margaret Truman
Amarillo
Howard Lynch
Panhandle
Miss Truman
Pittsburgh
Municipal Auditorium
Bureau
Paramount Building
Ninth Avenue
Mrs. Truman Given Chance For Recovery
GRANDVIEW Mo May 21 UP Brig Gen Wallace Graham White House physician reported a halt in the general decline of President Truman s four year old mother and said she had a chance to recover though her condition remained serious Every cell in her body is worn out and doctors noted the upward trend could reverse at any moment A Saunders oscillating bed will be set up at her bungalow to provide passive exercise to improve circulation The President visited his mother and helped with state papers before she slept Lumber for granaries Also oak flooring offered by John Maynard Lumber Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandview
Wallace Graham
White House
Truman
Graham
Mrs. Truman
Mysterious explosion injures two on Santa Fe train
A blast in a Jim Crow car between Davis and Ardmore injured Oscar Lett of Brady Texas and another man. The train continued to Fort Worth after the incident which prompted an FBI investigation.
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Port Worth
Santa Fe
Davis
W . Okla
Oscar Lett
Brady, Tex
W. C. Brown
Brown
Ardmore
Okla
Lett
Fort Worth
Lem Thomas
Santa Fe Railroad
FBI
George Williams
Cleveland
Tex
Hope Benefit Nets About Fifteen Thousand for Boys Ranch
Two Bob Hope NBC telethons in Amarillo drew over twenty one thousand dollars, with roughly fifteen thousand directed to fund a thirty five thousand dollar water system for Boys Ranch. Cal Farley noted expenses near five thousand five hundred, including a twelve hundred dollar link from Chicago.
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Bob Hope
NBC
Boys Ranch
Cal Farley
Mr. Farley
Amarillo
Chicago
Paramount Theater
Municipal Auditorium
Marine Grill
West Tenth Avenue
Farley
Williams-Boyce Agency
J. L. Bivins
Chansler Weymouth
C. E. Robinson
Tom Wingate
Bob Lindsay
Borger
Ralph Dykeman
John H. Vaughan
Oliver Bivins
Tom Craig
Harold Dunn
Polly Parrott
B. M. Puckett
Pinkey Vineyard
Lyle Blanton
Hereford
Lindy Motoring on 20th Anniversary of Famous Flight
May 21 1927 marks the 20th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's solo New York to Paris flight. The famed aviator, nicknamed Lucky Lindy, landed at Le Bourget Field ending the first nonstop transatlantic voyage. He did not plan any observance, traveling with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Arizona.
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Lindy Motoring
New York
Amarillo
Air Mail
le Bourget Field
Paris
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lucky Lindy
Lindbergh
Arizona
Anne Morrow
Phillips Plants Humming After End Of Strike
Borger area workers return to jobs as Phillips Petroleum ends a 20 day strike by operating engineers Local 351. 943 vote acceptance, 148 dissent. Plants and refineries ramp up over days, with carbon black and gas plants resuming first. Contract includes two year maintenance of membership, 5 cent hourly raise and $20 monthly supplement until April 30 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borger
Tri-City
Borger-Phillips- Bonavista
Phillips Petroleum Company
Operating Engineers Union Local 351
Phillips
Goodrich Rubber
Bonavista
Phillips Company
Burger
Akron
Ohio
Labor Slump in April Signals Soft Economy
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports April declines in industrial employment and weak construction results, marking the first factory job drop since the 1946 reconversion law. Commissioner Ewan Clague cautions against a feared recession while noting the economy may plateau for a year or two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Ewan Clague
Clague
Woodward Tornado Toll Rises to 101
The Woodward Oklahoma tornado toll climbs to 101 after the death of 76 year old Mrs. Lottie Mae Tharp in an Alva hospital. She was injured when her home was damaged by the tornado and then burned.
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Woodward
Okla
Alva
Lottie Mae Tharp
Brief Respite From Soaking Foretold By Weatherman
The weatherman predicts no rain today and tomorrow with showers returning Friday in the Panhandle. May brought a moisture spike yesterday with 0.6 inches after 6:30 am. Temperatures rise to a high of 77 this afternoon and 86 tomorrow, after a cold 45 last night, the chilliest May mark in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Winburn
Panhandle
Oil men seek public opening session of industry meeting
The American Petroleum Institute Mid-Century chapter opens to the public tomorrow at the Herring Hotel with about 400 members present. Don Emery of Phillips Petroleum and Don Gilman of Western Oil & Gas lead talks on federal power cognizance and the industry’s public relations program.
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American Petroleum Institute
Herring Hotel
Lawrence Hagg
H. S. Kelly
Don Emery
Phillips Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
Don E. Gilman
Western Oil & Gas Association
Los Angeles
R. B. LeFever
Henry Schafer
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co
Hugoton
Kanfield
Don T. MacRoberts
United Gas Pipe Line Co
Shreveport
Monroe
Ira Williamson
J. M. Huber Corp
Borger
Priday
Atlanta Editor Is Charged With Libel Against Norris
Ralph McGill editor of the Atlanta Constitution faces a libel charge filed in Fort Worth county court by W E Myers assistant district attorney. The complaint alleges McGill published a malicious statement about Rev J Frank Norris pastor of First Baptist Church on May 13 in an article titled One Southerner s Viewpoint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Ralph McGill
Atlanta (Ga
Constitution
J. Frank Norris
First Baptist Church
W. E. Myers
McGill
Eisenhower to Attend New Mexico American Legion Convention
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will attend the New Mexico American Legion convention in Gallup from June 26 to 28, as announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallup
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Mexico
American Legion
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
Fair conditions expected this afternoon tonight and Thursday with rising temperatures. West Texas and New Mexico forecast similar. Panhandle warmer later. Highs near 64 today, 70 by noon, low around 45 with .06 inches of precipitation.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Appeals Court Can't Imagine Use Of Feet in Kicking and Stomping
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled an indictment accusing Buster Northern of murdering a 70 year old woman near Dallas by kicking and stomping was insufficient for not naming the weapon. Judge Krueger dissented, noting the act used the foot, while the majority said the instrument was not stated. Northern had a death verdict later dismissed.
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Appeals Court
Austin
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Buster Northern
Dallas
Harry N. Graves
Charles Krueger
Chickasha
Okla
Northern
Graves
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