Slender teen admits murder in Ohio plantings case
Oliver Terpenning Jr., 16, was arrested near Toledo and charged with murder in the flower-patch killings of four children on a farm nine miles northeast of Imlay City Michigan. He was turned over to Ohio authorities after a motorist gave him a ride south toward the Michigan line. Police said he admitted shooting the children about 3 PM Monday but offered no motive. Michigan troopers and Erie police transported him to East Lansing for questioning.
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Imlay City
Mich
Oliver Terpenning, Jr
Toledo
Ohio
Smith
Here
Carl Siem
Michigan
Erie
East Lansing
Barbara Smith
Seim
Terpenning
Port Huron
Detroit
Norman Dombrosky
Tragedy Ties Erie Youth to Michigan Murder Case
At East Lansing center officers said Terpenning confessed to Michigan authorities. The slain Smith children were found bullet murdered on Sugar Island near a gravel pit. A 22 caliber rifle bullet matched by the state lab tied the crime to the Terpenning farm. Ella Mae alerted authorities after discovering Barbara Barbara and the other two girls. The Smith boy and four siblings are children of 65 year old farmer Smith and Nellie.
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Seim
Dombrosky
Terpenning
Michigan
Office of
Justice
R. O. Stevens
Toledo
Smith
Ella Mae
Leslie Mathews
Lapeer County
East Lansing
Terpenning Farm
Sugar Island
Barbara
Almon Brandt
Stanley
Brandt
Nellie
Russell Staty Co
Albert Perkins
Kenneth Smith
Barbara Smith
Gladys
Janet
William
Amarillo Amarillo
Russia
U.P
Amarillo
Texas
NEA
Hane
Complacency Criticized Over Wheat Haul in Santa Fe
Kansas City executive vice president Walter R. Scott blasted Santa Fe President Fred Gurley for complacency as wheat harvest looms in the Southwest. He said seven lines had about 85 percent of their own cars, while Eastern roads reached 110 percent, urging pressure to raise car ownership to full capacity.
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Kansas City
Walter R. Scott
Kansas City Board of Trade
Santa Fe
Fred Gurley
Scott
Gurley
Coordinating Swift Handling of Wheat Carriers Across States
Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas opened a regional meeting with a call to coordinate efforts to move grain. Officials including Scott and Gov. Val Petersen of Nebraska urged better use of terminal storage and faster transport. Col. Ernest O. Thompson proposed Gulf Ports for export wheat and using Army air base hangars as temporary storage, as about 100 attendees discussed allocating more boxcars across the Southwest wheat belt amid a record crop and soaked soils.
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Scott
Val Petersen
Nebraska
Wheat Belt
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad
Gulf Ports
Thompson
Army Air Bases
Frank Carlson
Kansas
ICC
NFTW Ready for Showdown with CIO over Union Drive
President Beirne of the National Federation of Telephone Workers says his 150,000 member independence will counter CIO efforts to form a rival union. NFTW will kick off counter-drive in two weeks at Miami to build a national Communications Workers of America, aiming to unite before any affiliation.
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Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
National Federation of Telephone Workers
CIO
Beirne
NFTW
Miami
Union
Communications Workers of America
AFL
Mass hangings at Landsberg and Mauthausen detailed
US Army execution team carried out 22 deaths at Landsberg on day one of the Mauthausen mass sentence. Two Polish killers died by firing squad near the prison. overall toll rose to 24 with 27 more awaiting. reports describe prisoners' deaths, rope struggles, and posthumous coffin making by former inmates.
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Noose Landsberg
Germany
Mauthausen
Landsberg
Anton Kaufmann
Kaufmann
Kaufman
Dachau
Willy Bruening
Hoover urges separate peace to bypass Russia for world recovery
Former President Herbert Hoover urged the United States to pursue a separate peace with Japan and consider Germany if Russia does not change tactics. He told an appropriations subcommittee the world suffers from delays in restoring Germany, Japan, and Korea, urging relief funding of 725 million dollars and pending British contribution.
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Hoover
Russia
Washington
Herbert Hoover
United States
Germany
Japan
Korea
John Taber
House
Appropriations Committee
Appropriations
Europe
Asia
Truman
Soviet abolishes death penalty to show no war threat
Moscow reports credit the presidium of the supreme Soviet with abolishing the death sentence as proof that Russia sees no danger of another world war. The decree replaces capital punishment with 25 years hard labor for national security crimes, framing the move as a peace measure amid alleged provocations by foreign elements.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Presidium
Andrei Y Vishinsky
Communist Party
Pravada
Thomas
Russell
Brewster
Soviet Union
Trud
Russia
Fire destroys landmark of Pioneer Days in Potter County
The old half way house, a 45 to 50 year old two story frame home on highway 66 west of Bushland, burned after a upstairs fire likely from wiring. Mr. and Mrs. James Walton, longtime residents at 704 Mississippi, recalled tourists stopping there between Vega and Amarillo for water and lunch. The property once owned by Lindsay Nunn also saw a prior barn and horses burn years earlier. The R C Sampsons had been living there in recent years.
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Panhandle
Potter County
Bushland
Amarillo
Vega
James Walton
Mississippi
Rep J P Fant of Jefferson Dies in House Collapse
Austin reports Rep J P Fant of Jefferson Marion County collapsed on the House floor and died shortly after from heart disease. He was rushed to Seton Hospital and pronounced dead. Fant was the fourth legislature member to die this session as Sen Fred Mauritz, Sen W Lacy Stewart, and Rep Harry L Atkinson had previously died.
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W. Lacy Stewart
Houston
Rep
Harry L. Atkinson
Beeville
Weather Update for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy today and tonight with a few scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Mild temperatures continue into Wednesday. Highest 86 degrees in the last 24 hours ending 6 30 AM, low 29. Today noon 80 degrees.
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Amarillo
School Bids Turned Down for Combined Negro School
The school board rejected the lowest bid for a combined Negro school at Eighth and North Hughes as bids exceeded estimates by about 100000. The project budget is 275000 for building and 27500 for equipment with plans to cut costs. Revised plans may be submitted in 2 to 3 weeks. Construction is expected to take 10 to 12 months, delaying opening until the 1948 fall term.
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Eighth and
North Hughes
George M. Waddill
President's Mother Holding Her Own in Grandview
President Truman said his mother Martha E. Truman, age 94, was holding her own after a bad night but fairly good overall. Press Secretary Ross quoted Truman at 9:45 AM CST noting she was sleeping comfortably and the situation was about the same as yesterday after days of little improvement.
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Grandview
Truman
Martha E. Truman
Death Takes Leader of Carlson's Raiders
Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson, 51, famed commander of Carlson's Raiders, died in a Portland hospital after a heart attack. A World War I artillery captain turned Marine, he led daring Pacific campaigns at Makin, Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan before retiring to Brightwood, Oregon. He died 11 hours after admission to Emmanuel Hospital following a brief illness. Learn to skate Tuesday night at Roller Palace.
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Portland
Ore
Evans F. Carlson
Carlson's
Raiders
Emmanuel Hospital
Sydney
Marine Corps
Nicaragua
Makin Island
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Saipan
Traffic Lanes To Be Painted on Streets in Amarillo
Amarillo will mark traffic lanes on principal streets within days. Surveys start tomorrow. Polk Street first with center and two auxiliary lines creating four lanes and crosswalks at intersections. Metered parking near banks will be replaced by a 10 minute zone to speed turnover.
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Amarillo
Ecitw
Danas
Carlie Price
Polk Street
Price
Amarillo National Bank
First National Bank
American National Bank
Polk
Tyler
Taylor
English Field
Business holds at high level as April output slips
Washington reports April business remained strong but growth halted. Prices rose except food which fell 0.8% from mid-March to mid-April. Clothing and fuel plus miscellaneous goods rose. Overall cost of living 19% above April 1946. Unemployment edged up slightly. Durable goods sell better while non durable shipments decline. Radios production fell as reconversion slowed. Federal Reserve notes investment leveling off and forecast slower growth in new plant and equipment. Profits above 1944 levels, recession would hurt them.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
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Brightwood
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