13 Year Old Girl Testifies in San Antonio Surgeon Trial
Ann York, 13, testifies in La Grange district court about the ambush that killed her mother, father, brother, and grandmother on a May country road near New Braunfels. She identifies Dr Lloyd J Ross as the shooter, describing the sequence of events as the sole survivor. The courtroom heard the young witness calmly recount the violent scene as prosecutors press the case. The trial continues with additional testimony and evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Soxer
San Antonio
York
LA Grange
Tex
Bobby Sex
Ann York
Lloyd J. Ross
J. Lee Dittert
York Ranch
New Braunfels
Ann
Lloyd
Mother
Father
Ross
Dittert
Truman links food saving to freedom and policed economies
President Truman urged voluntary food saving to aid Europe while opposing price controls and rationing, calling them methods of a police state. He noted high commodity trading, said Clark is probing grain and fiber markets, and pledged possible changes to raise 100 million bushels for Europe.
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Washington
Truman
Europe
Clark
Citizens Food Committee
AFL elects Green as president at San Francisco meeting
William Green, aged seventy four, was reelected unanimously as president of the American Federation of Labor at a San Francisco convention session marked by the absence of John L. Lewis and United Mine Workers officers. In Houston, Gulf Oil Humble Oil and Pan American Production listed a 20 cent per barrel crude price rise following Phillips Petroleum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
William Green
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Houston
Gulf Oil Corporation
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Pan American Production Company
Phillips Petroleum Company
Cutter Bible Heads to Boston With 69 Crash Victims Aboard
The Coast Guard cutter Bible, bearing 69 rescued passengers from the Bermuda Sky Queen crash, headed for Boston from the mid Atlantic weather station after taking aboard a stricken seaman from the Duane. A breeches buoy transfer was used for the ill seaman who had appendicitis as a gale threatened delaying the 1,600 mile voyage to port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Coast Guard
Bible
Bermuda
Boston
Duane
Conley Pleads in Vain to Stop Child’s Return to Massachusetts
Massachusetts judge declares typical southern wife beating a factor as Mary Conley eludes FBI while she and a child depart from Amarillo toward Massachusetts. The case centers on Louis B. Conley and a long search for his daughter. Brockton judge grants Lucille A. Conley separate support amid marital dispute.
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Massachusetts
Amarillo
Mary Conley
Monroe
Louis B. Conley
Conley
English Field
FBI
Harry K. Stone
Brockton
Mass
Lucille A. Conley
Judge Stone
Amarillo man files divorce after desertion claim
In Amarillo I District Court a photographer named eb Conley seeks divorce claiming desertion. He allegedly beat his wife and mother-in-law with pliers and brass knuckles in a Brockton home before the child was taken by the father. Massachusetts police charged Mrs. Conley and her mother with brutality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conley
I District Court
Amarillo
Brockton
Massachusetts
Bertha R. LaCroix
US to Turn German Vessels Over to France
Undersecretary Robert Lovett said the United States will hand over 31 former German naval vessels and a floating dock to France. The ships are part of the American share from the Potsdam three-nation naval commission, which includes Russia Britain and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert Lovett
United States
Naval Commission
Russia
Britain
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding areas
Amarillo and vicinity receive fair weather this afternoon tonight and Friday with little temperature change. High 80 this afternoon, low 45 tonight, high 83 tomorrow. West Texas remains generally fair though warmer in the Big Bend and Pecos Valley eastward. New Mexico also fair with rising temperatures today and tonight, mountains dropping to 35 degrees. In the past 24 hours, high 78 and low 36 with noon at 73. Adds local ad: All Trees Loans Lanier Finance Co. phone 32 5545. Also advance skating classes Thursday night at Roller Palace 6th and Jefferson.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Big Bend
Pecos
New Mexico
Child survives fall from third story window in Talmage
Two year old Genelyn Cannon fell from a third story window at her parents' apartment on Fourteenth and Van Buren. She landed on soft grass and was uninjured beyond stiffness and soreness. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. William E. Cannon.
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Globe
Genelyn Cannon
Talmage
Fourteenth
van Buren
William E. Cannon
CIOs Star Speakers Highlight Truman Criticism At AFL
At the Boston CIO convention George Baldanzi and Michael Quill led applause for the idea of Wallace as an independent voice for peace and security. In San Francisco AFL leaders emerged as power brokers while New York saw the Maritime Union move to expel Communists and reshape leadership. John L. Lewis faced taft Hartley tensions as 300000 federal locals lose NLRB access.
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Associated Press
CIO
America
Truman
Henry Wallace
Boston
George Baldanzi
Textile Workers
Russia
Tru
Hitler
Michael Quill
Transport Workers Union
Quill
San Francisco
AFL
New York
National Maritime Union
Joseph Curran
Communist Party
George Meany
Plumbers
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters
John L. Lewis
Mine Workers
Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Record Cold Egg Stocks Hit New Seasonal High
The Agriculture Department said cold storage poultry stocks on Oct 1 reached 206 million pounds, up 23 million from a month earlier and 18 million above the prior same date record. The rise may fuel debate on a proposed one day per week poultry cutback as producers and grain dealers prepare for talks on saving grain for Europe. Returns to capital Mrs. Truman greeted by President as he met her train near Silver Spring.
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Associated Press
Agriculture Department
Europe
Washington
Truman
Independence
Silver Spring
Amarillo to Begin Water Works Digs for 2 Million Dollar Project
City officials plan a $2 million water system expansion with 24 new wells and a 36 inch main running southwest from the pump station to serve Amarillo for the next 25 to 50 years. Bid talks start soon for the pipeline, with 11 miles of line to be completed by spring and additional nine miles to follow as demand rises.
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Amarillo
Lawrence Hagg
Ira Stephenson
Bud Curtis
N. V. Moss
Marvin Nichols
Freese and Nichols
Fort Worth
Moss
Mr. Moss
Deatsmith
Joe Jenkins
Amarillo Improves Water System With New Wells and Pumps
The city expands water supply using 33 wells along a 30 inch line from Palo Duro Creek and adds two 15 million gallon pumping units at Bonham Street. Officials pushed plans to completion after 1946 shortages, noting the old line runs at capacity delivering 22 million gallons daily.
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Amarillo
Palo Duro Creek
City Lake
Moss
Bonham Street
Globe
Freese & Nichols
Palo Duro
McDonald Well
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Jack W. Sisemore
Harry McCleery
Lillian Fouty
Mike Marinoff
North Fillmore
Marinoff
St. Anthony's Hospital
Harry Lewis McCleery
Line Avenue Baptist Church
McCleery
Fay Miller
McClure
Ohio
Jackson
Mich
Taft
Congress
Henry A. Wallace
Wall Street
James F. Byrnes
Marshall
Albert C. Wedemeyer
China
Wedemeyer
Truman Als
Interior Krug
Bulletins
Cutter
Amarillo “Woods
Clay Thornton
Panhandle Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company
Veterans Hospital
All Trees Loans
Lanier Finance Co
Th and Jackson
Roller Palace
6Th and Jefferson
Happy Landing
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes—Insurance
Cal Brumley
Jeff Neely
Hagg
Curtis and Stephenson
Nichols
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Mastercraft
Russell's Staty. Co
Potter-Randall County Line
Rock Island RR
Paloduro
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