Weather Notes Dust Storms and Winding May Outlook
A weather column laments a dry spell with late arriving wind and forecasts possible rain by weekend. It discusses dust storms warnings from Vance Johnson and the Great Plains soil history, urging cautious farming practices and noting renewed theater safety concerns and local anecdotes.
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Tack
Vance Johnson
News-Globe
Reader's Digest
Southwest
Nature
Agriculture Department
Great Plains
Soil Conservation Service
Johnson
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
U. S. Forest and Soil Conservation Services
Amarillo
Texas
Mr. Johnson
Dust Bowl
Combine
Chicago
New York
Atlantic
Mr. Tack
The
Weather Bureau
Browder Says He Met Molotov After Paris Big Four
Earl Browder, former American Communist leader, says he has met Foreign Minister Molotov since the Paris Big Four conference. He reports being received as an old trusted friend of the Soviet Union while declaring he is out of politics and not a member of any party.
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Moscow
U.P
Earl Browder
V. M. Molotov
Paris
Soviet Union
Browder
Swank Moskva
MacArthur Drops Japanese Princes From Public Payroll
General Douglas MacArthur ordered the Japanese imperial princes removed from the public payroll and subjected their wealth to taxation. An Allied directive stripped 14 royal related families of special privileges and immunities and banned use of imperial household servants.
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Tokyo
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Hirohito
Light Monoplane Crashes Into Cayuga Church Roof
A light monoplane crashed into the roof of Judson Baptist Church at Cayuga near Palestine injuring two fliers lightly. A group of church pupils outside the building during a coronation ceremony escaped harm. The pilots were James Langston about 21 and Charles Ruth about 19, both Cayuga residents, and the plane was nearly wrecked.
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Palestine
Judson Baptist Church
Cayuga
James Langston
Charles Ruth
Defendant given eight year sentence after eight minute deliberation
In Lexington Kentucky a murder trial ended with the judge setting eight minutes for each closing argument and eight minutes for jury deliberation. The verdict followed and the sentence was eight years as the defendant faced the case.
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Lexington
U.P
Neck Vertebrae Variation Across Birds and Giraffes
The text notes swans possess 25 neck vertebrae, swelled well over the typical seven found in most animals, while giraffes have fewer. It lists greese with 19 and ducks around 16, and even hummingbirds at 14, highlighting wide variation in avian neck counts.
Skeleton and Rifle Found During Montrose Construction
In Montrose California workers unearthed a human skeleton and a decayed flintlock rifle during recent grading. Townspeople attributed the find to Ute burial practices, noting the hills were once used as graves by the tribe, now long forgotten.
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Montrose
Cal
Bad Boy Book Returned After 31 Years
The Newton Public Library recovered The Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich arriving by mail after 31 years. The overdue loan would have accrued a 226 dollar potential fine at two cents per day.
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Newton
Mass
U.P
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Bank Failures Rise Dramatically in 1929 1930
In 1929 the United States saw 551 bank failures and the number surged to 1345 in 1930, signaling escalating financial distress during the early Great Depression period.
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United States
DAR Wins Round in White Artists Only Conflict
Atlantic City May 23 The Daughters of the American Revolution cheered as Mrs E C Denny Vann of Leonia New Jersey announced the withdrawal of a resolution to delete a white artists only clause in Constitution Hall rental contracts. Delegates had earlier blocked her speak. A special committee will study the contracts.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Daughters of the American Revolution
E. C. Denny Vann
Leonia
Constitution Hall
DAR
Continental Congress
Vann
Julius Y. Talmadge
Athens
The
Vinton E. Sisson
Chicago
Congress
Polly Wyckoff
New Jersey
Shift in Winds Sends Rain Northward
A weather note says winds shift away from predicted showers, diverting rain clouds to the north. Forecasters warned of today’s showers, but the changing breeze reduced precipitation in the forecast region.
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Dame Nature
Kansas
Police arrest 208 pickets before Public Works Station
In Rochester New York police arrested 208 pickets massed before the main shop of the Public Works Department amid a week-old labor dispute between city officials and union affiliated employees. The mass demonstration was dispersed as authorities moved to restore order.
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Rochester
N. Y
U.P
Public Works
Britons Stay Put at Bushire Radio Station
The Mos cow radio reported the Iranian Minister of Posts and Telegraph confirmed British troops have not evacuated a wartime radio station near Bushire on the Persian Gulf as of May 23.
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London
Moscow Radio
Chairmen Called Presumptuous Over Navy Merger Talk
Democratic leaders Sen Hill and Rep Sparkman condemned Navy merger guidance from Walsh and Vinson as presumptuous. They argued Walsh and Vinson urged Forrestal to ignore President Truman on Army Navy unification and warned Congress will not pass a merger bill this year while affirming hopes for unification legislation.
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Washington
House
Senate
Naval Committee
Forrestal
Hill
Sparkman
Alabama
Walsh
Massachusetts
Vinson
Georgia
Truman
Congress
Robert Patterson
Allies Agree To Let Swiss Keep German Gold
Washington May 23 French officials voiced sharp dissatisfaction over an Allied accord that allows neutral Switzerland to retain about 88 million dollars in German gold. France joined the agreement with the United States and Britain but said they consented only for inter Allied harmony and a swift settlement by American and British negotiators.
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Washington
Switzerland
France
United States
Britain
Fenton Held on Desertion Charges in Potter County
C C Fenton age 34 was jailed on desertion charges after deputies arrested him last night. His wife Mrs Lillian Fenton of 510 North Lake filed the complaint this morning and the case is now in Potter County jail.
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C. C. Fenton
Potter County
Lillian Fenton
North Lake
Nimitz Details U S Unrestricted Submarine Air War Against Japan
Admiral Chester Nimitz testified before the war crimes tribunal that the United States waged unrestricted submarine and air warfare against Japan throughout World War II. He said U S forces sank enemy merchant vessels without warning in the Pacific in response to German claims.
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Mernberg
U.S
Chester Nimitz
War Crimes Tribunal
United States
Japan
Nimitz
Pacific
Grand
Erich Raeder
Raeder
Rebuild Trade Urged by Banker at Texas Meeting
GALVESTON May 23 Frank C Rathje president of the American Bankers Association urged rebuilding of foreign trade as vital to the country's progress at the Texas Bankers Association final session He cited restoration of consumer goods production and maintenance of purchasing power as other priorities Virgil Patterson president of the First National Bank Amarillo spoke on bank investments and noted consumer loans despite current rates
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Galveston
Frank C. Rathje
Chicago
American Bankers’ Association
Texas Bankers’ Association
Rathje
Virgil Patterson
First National Bank
Amarillo
Patterson urges bankers to exhaust local loan outlets first
Patterson advised bankers to prioritize utilizing local loan outlets before seeking bonds on the open market, stressing prudence in financing and investment strategy.
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Patterson
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