Argentine Cabinet Resigns as Peron Coup Turmoil Mounts
Argentina faced a political crisis as President Farrell’s cabinet quit under military and civilian pressure. General Avalos remained in post while Lima announced Peron’s arrest and a civilian cabinet idea emerged amid protests and calls to place power with the supreme court.
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Buenos Aires
Edelmiro Farrell
Army
Navy
Fenengo Lima
Juan Peron
Peron
Eduardo Avalos
Lima
Campo de Mayo
War Ministry
Avalos
Farrell
Food and medical relief shuttled to ravaged Okinawa
Fifty B 29 Superfortresses began ferrying food and medicine to Okinawa after a typhoon of 150 mph winds. The storm beached 122 ships and sank five others, with hundreds of American personnel killed or injured. Over 150 000 troops sailors and nurses isolated. General Stilwell reported tents shattered bar racks wrecked and hospitals heavily damaged.
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Manila
Okinawa
Joseph W. Stilwell
Typhoon Rips Okinawa As Flights Deliver Aid To Stricken
Immediate air transfer of about 1250 hospital patients was urged with all nonpermanent service personnel to be removed. Five hundred nurses fled huts torn from their sites while typhoon wreckage cut communications. The 20th Air Force dispatched 50 B 29s delivering 284 tons of food for 115000 meals, with 333000 more planned. reports of dead and missing sailors mounted as bodies washed ashore.
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Manila
Guam
Bolo Field
Okinawa
Navy
Truman Administration Defends DAR Hall Decision
President and Mrs. Truman condemned race discrimination after the DAR refused Hazel Scott admission to Constitution Hall in Washington. Hazel Scott, wife of Rep. Adam Powell, protested and urged Mrs. Truman to skip a DAR tea. The President said he could not override DAR policy, while Mrs. Truman said her tea acceptance was prior to the controversy and not a stance on merits.
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Washington
Truman
DAR
Constitution Hall
Hazel Scott
Adam C. Powell
New York
Truman Boyeott
Daughters of the American Revolution
Powell
Mrs. Truman
Bess W. Truman
Sulgrave Club
Senate Finance Chair Questions Tax Cut Bill
Senator Walter P. George of the Finance Committee questioned the House passed 5.35 billion tax cut plan. He supported business and individual relief but warned against eliminating federal tax liability for 12 million taxpayers. He urged repeal of the corporate excess profits tax starting Jan. 1 and said Senate hearings will be open and span about three days.
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Washington
Walter FP. George
Senate Finance Committee
House
George
Senate Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Antistrike Legislation Favored Amid Postwar Disputes
Congress and leaders of both parties express support for new anti strike laws as 152000 workers idle nationwide. Sessions to end coal and dock strikes stall with government considering rationing while NLRB board certifies CSU IATSE set decorators as bargaining agent.
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Washington
John Lewis
United Mine Workers
Schwellenbach
AFL Ioneshoremen
New York
Hollywood
National Labor Relations Board
NLRP
AL Painter
AFL International Alliance
AFL
IATSE
CSU
Big Day in Dallas as Nimitz Receives Historic Welcome
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives in Dallas at 11 05 am from Washington to a grand welcome. Governor Coke Stevenson and other dignitaries greet him at the Hall of State where a bronze statue niche is set aside for the living hero. A luncheon follows and a parade of 10 000 is planned with Army and Navy aircraft overhead.
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Dallas
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Ocean Area
Washington
Coke Stevenson
Nimitz
Hall of State
Fair Park
Stevenson
Texas
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The forecast covers Amarillo and vicinity with fair conditions today tonight and Saturday and little temperature change. West Texas area remains fair this afternoon and tonight with Saturday partly cloudy and similar temperatures. New Mexico sees partly cloudy days with widely scattered mountain showers and minimal temperature shifts. Tonight lows reach near 45 to 55 degrees and Saturday highs 70 to 80.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Japan taps constitutional expert for imperial circle
Tokyo reports Dr Soichhi Sasaki, Kyoto University professor and authority on the constitution, named advisor to Marquis Koicho Kido as Japan seeks more freedom under MacArthur orders. Japan also seeks oil imports and offers 46 000 bales of silk as payment amid fuel shortages and typhoon disruptions.
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Tokyo
Japan
MacArthur
Honshu
Soichhi Sasaki
Kyoto Imperial University
Marquis Koicho Kido
The
Mikado
United States
Dostler Convicted Of War Crime Execution Order
General Anton Dostler, the first German general tried in western Europe for war crimes, is found guilty by an American tribunal and sentenced to death for ordering the execution of 15 U S soldiers at La Spezia on March 25, 1944. He claimed he acted under a blanket Hitler order and consultation with superiors.
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Rome
Anton Dostler
Europe
U. S
Italy
Dostler
la Spezia
Adolf Hitler
Disorders in Messina Province prompt large police reinforcements
The Italian news agency Ansa reported serious disturbances in Messina Province Sicily. Large reinforcements of carabinieri were sent to the area from Palermo and Catania.
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Rome
Ansa
Messina
Sicily
Palermo
Catania
Mexican Doctor Denies Mass Murder Charge in Nuevo Laredo
Gustavo Leal Morales, a Monterrey physician, appeared in Nuevo Laredo denying he led a gang of smugglers and killers linked to the Rio Grande killings. Federal judge Lomeli will determine innocence as 26 co-defendants face questioning after a mass slayings probe in Cameron and Hidalgo counties.
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United States
Mexico
Dr. Morales
Nuevo Laredo
Federal
Lomeli
Emilio Villalobos
Monterrey
Rio Grande
Brownsville
Cameron
Hidalgo
Nazi Woman Denies Setting Dog on Belsen Prisoners
Juana Borman a 52 year old Oswiecim camp attendant testified at the Oswiecim and Belsen guards trial denying she used a dog against inmates. She admitted having a dog while at Oswiecim but said it was not used on prisoners.
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Lueneburg
U.P
Juana Borman
Oswiecim
Borman
Belsen
U.S. CIO Delegation Meets Soviet Trade Union Leaders
An 11 member delegation from the United States arrived in Moscow and met Soviet trade union leaders to map a program for their visit. The group arrived late yesterday and held talks today to outline planned engagements and objectives.
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Moscow
CIO
United States
Japan seeks aid trip to northern Korea denied
Tokyo reports that its request to send a representative into Russian-occupied northern Korea to verify reports of shortages among 1,000 Japanese there this winter has been refused by authorities. The foreign office announced the denial today.
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Tokyo
Japan
Korea
Japanese Domei News Agency Votes to Dissolve
Tokyo reports 124 member newspapers of the Domei News Agency vote unanimously to dissolve the agency, the country’s sole news service. The agency will operate until a new service is formed.
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Domei News Agency
Japan
Tokyo
Amarillo Army Air Field Likely to Be Declared Surplus
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce heard a letter from Brig. Gen. Morrissey that current plans do not call for permanent retention of the Amarillo Field, though a permanent installa tion could still be possible. No immediate field cessation or status announcement is indicated, Roswell NM may be kept as a permanent base. Runway apron work valued around 500000 will be let soon. Directors noted reports from the West Texas Chamber meeting in Borver.
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Amarillo Army Air Field
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
W. J. Morrissey
Washington
Roswell
N. M
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Borver
Taxi Drivers Warned Over Traffic Violations
Amarlo city officials issued a warning to reckless taxicab drivers and sent a letter to Sid Harper requesting names of all violators. The names will go to the city commission with a recommendation to revoke licenses immediately based on reports from city traffic officers and resident complaints.
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Sid Harper
Commission For
A. P. Hancock
Amarillo
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Hortensio Quijano
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Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance
Du.s Weather Bureau
Fifth Army Air Force
TWINS
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Marvin Patrick Quinn
RKO
Joan Fontaine
Maynard Lor. Co
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Meli
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Lynchburg
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