Truman vows strong US to back world peace at Inter-American talks
President Truman told the Inter-American Defense Conference in Quitandinha Brazil that the United States will remain strong to uphold the United Nations Charter while seeking peaceful settlement of disputes. He warned against misreading US restraint as passivity and noted Europe and Asia face continued foreign domination threats amid lagging postwar recovery. The closing session planned a 19-nation defense pact signing at Itamaraty Palace in Rio with a Missouri luncheon aboard the battleship for top delegates.
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Quitandinha
Brazil
Truman
United States
Inter-American Defense Conference
Europe
Asia
Americas
Rio de Janeiro
Itmaraty
Amarillo Chamber Plans Industrial Foundation Dinner
Virgil Patterson announces plans for an Amarillo Industrial Foundation at a chamber of commerce dinner Thursday Sept. 11 at the Amarillo Hotel. Hugo Loewenstern will preside as the industrial committee reviews foundations in the region and aims to housing for new industries.
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Patterson
Amarillo
The
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo School Board debates tax rates and budget
Amarillo trustees weighed revenue forecasts as taxes may be delayed for two months while schools open. Citizens pressed for lower rates amid rising valuations, warning against false economy in maintenance. The board approved small expenditures, new hires, and student transfer recommendations as Dr. Parcells and members spoke.
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Randall County
Organized Labor
Mr. Cooper
Dick Bivins
Cooper
Mary Tom Rasco
Amarillo
Horace Wilson
Fourteenth Avenue
Nancy Jane Warvey
William Paul Bradford
Mildred K. Prince
Betty Ann Bitting
San Jacinto
Marvy L. Cochran
Rogers
Dr. Parcells
Bivins
Stinnett
Herman Smith
Jinks Mode
Open Trial In Dope Case for Jose Garcia
Jose Garcia a former Amarillo dishwasher with a 20 year FBI record faces trial in 47th District Court on marijuana possession. He was a fugitive for about two years after June 1945 indictment and was arrested near Roaring Springs. Judge Bishop sustained one count of the defense motion to quash the habitual criminal charge. Trial expected to go to the jury by midafternoon.
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Jose Garcia
Amarillo
FBI
47Th District Court
Garcia
Roaring Springs
Harwood Beville
Henry S. Bishop
Australian Airmen and Long Search Ends in New Guinea
Royal Australian Air Force ends a two year 36000 square mile search for missing airmen in New Guinea. Squadron Leader Keith Rundle reports no survivors likely. Eight week survey of Dutch New Guinea found wreckage of six Australian planes one Dutch plane 13 US planes and 70 Japanese planes with confirmations that 40 US and Australian airmen were killed.
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Melbourne
New Guinea
Royal Australian Air Force
Keith Rundle
Rundle
Dutch New Guinea
Farlier
Buna
Moresby
Kadota
Sapec
Hollander Uses Chattanooga as Backdrop in Play
Amsterdam author Jef Heydendael wrote the play Starshower Tonight after being inspired by Chattanooga soldiers who liberated Maastricht. He sent a copy to Chattanooga’s Mayor Hugh Wasson and said he chose the town to push it into stage literature.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Holland
Maastricht
Jef Heydendael
Amsterdam
Hugh Wasson
Australian Working Population Rises in June to 3 279 000
Government statistician J F Nimmo reported to the Arbitration Court that Australia's working population in June reached 3 279 000, up from 3 048 600 in July 1939, with 30 000 temporarily unemployed and 298 000 sick. figures cited amid a 40 hour week dispute.
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Melbourne
Australia
J. F. Nimmo
Bureau of Census and Statistics
Arbitration Court
Nimmo
Berlin School Raid Finds Children in Black Market
Berlin police report that a high school raid uncovered a group of students involved in a black market selling cigarettes candies and other items. The juvenile division said the group held 1700 in cash obtained through illicit means and admitted their involvement.
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Berlin
Bread-Using Smuggling Ring Shocks Berlin Report
Berlin dispatch says a British sentry in Heerlen near Juelich was struck by a loaf hurled by a catapult. Investigators found a Dutch man used a catapult to drop food parcels to a German collaborator along Neustrasse Heerl en but the aim failed, revealing the smuggling method.
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Berlin
Heerlen
Juelich
Neustrasse
Holiday Takes 39 in Texas
Texas and California tied for traffic fatalities over Labor Day weekend with 23 deaths each in highway and auto accidents. Texans suffered 39 total violent deaths including six drownings, three burnings, three gunfights, two plane crash deaths, one timber-planting collapse, and one wagon crush. Nationwide toll reached at least 421.
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Associated Press
Texas
California
National Safety Council
US Health Service Plans Fund For Out-Patient Clinics
The Public Health Service has three million dollars to assist states in setting up outpatient mental clinics for each 100000 people. Surgeon General Thomas Parrott says the goal is not immediately attainable due to staff shortages.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Thomas Parrot
Roving Dice Game Players Flee Into Poison Ivy
Parkway police rounded up 28 men in an outdoor dice game in Mamaroneck New York. Arrests followed after the players fled and hid face down in a field of poison ivy.
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Mamaroneck
Parkway
Three-year-old dies in garage refrigerator suffocation
In Colorado, a 3 year old boy Richard Stadler and his brother Bernard 4 shut themselves in an old refrigerator stored in a garage on their parents farm twelve miles southwest of Wiggins. The younger died from suffocation with the other boy surviving.
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Wiggins
Colo
Richard Stadler
Bernard
Here
Explosions Hit Tel Aviv Area Reported. Casualties Unclear
Two heavy blasts rocked northern Tel Aviv today in what sources say was an underground arms factory. A man was killed and one or more others were reported missing.
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Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
Old Chicago Hotel Reborn as Roosevelt College
The 59 year old Chicago Auditorium hotel and theater will become Roosevelt College in September, serving about 4 500 students. The building has hosted circuses vaudeville conventions and famous figures. Roosevelt College bought it for 800 000 dollars and will convert suites into classrooms while reopening the auditorium as a civic center.
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Chicago
Chicago Auditorium
Roosevelt College
Benjamin Harrison
Adelina Patti
Warren Harding
Mark Hanna
Hinky Dink
Kenna
Queen Marie
Marshal Joffre
Theodore Roosevelt
America and Britain keep troops in Greece dispute
Washington reports say the United States urges Britain to retain about 6,000 troops in Greece until American operations stabilize and the need for such a force ends. No date or agreement is in sight, and Britain plans a possible fall withdrawal to avoid destabilizing conditions.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Greece
Fatest
Couple Adopts Girls Then Two More Arrive
Mrs. Charles Spitler, 39, now has four daughters after adopting Joanne 12 Judy 8 and Anne Louise 14 months Charlene Kay nearly 1 month old. Charlene Kay’s birth preceded by life expectancy note about Australia at 65 years.
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Marysville
O WP
Charles Spitler
Joanne
Judy
Anne Louise
Charlene Kay
Spitler
Grant Hospital
David Sparks
Markets Closing Stock Averages and Kansas City Livestock
Markets and livestock notes from Kansas City and Chicago on Sept 2 show cattle trade mostly steady with grass cattle weak to 50c lower, diverse prices for steers, heifers, cows, and vealers. Hogs and sheep mixed with steady to higher quotes, futures and cash prices reported by USDA and Merrill Lynch figures.
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Kansas City
USDA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Bread stays fresher with Kew shortening
A Chicago meat processing firm mixed glycerine with lard to create a baking shortening it claims keeps bread fresh five to six days and makes 48 hour old bread taste freshly baked. Researchers note grocers reject 7 to 10 percent of bread for staleness and housewives discard 10 to 15 percent for the same reason.
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Chicago
LaGuardia Not Doing Well Post Operation
Former New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia remains under doctor care after recent surgery. Dr. George Baehr said he has not recovered enough to resume his radio broadcasts.
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New York
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
George Baehr
LaGuardia
Nazi Butchers Convicted by British Court at Hamburg
Eighteen Germans including fifteen high ranking SS officers were convicted by a British military court in Hamburg for murders of fifty RAF men recaptured after a mass break from a POW camp. The defendants faced charges of war law violations and killings stemming from the Sagan escape attempt in March 1944.
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Hamburg
RAF
Sagan
Silesia
Bevers sisters long tied to Pantex and Amarillo bottling
Lola Lorene Bevers and her sister Three Crownsister both worked at Pantex Ordnance Plant before later employment in Amarillo Coca Cola Bottling Co. The Bevers family history ties from Lakeview near Memphis to Hedley and Amarillo. Bernice Hills recalls their arrival six years ago and their housing changes. Funeral plans are not announced.
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Stubblefield
Old Post Office Drug
Lola Lorene Bevers
Amarillo
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Bernice Hills
Bevers
Pantex
Ordnance Works
Lincoln
Hills
Louisiana
Hayden
Lakeview
Memphis
J. C. Bevers
Hedley
Central Fire Station
Oollock
Morris and Henley
Jack Williams
Wilson Frazier
Louis M.buster Brazier
J. V. Brown
J. E. Dunn
Poland Sets Spud Records Across Europe
Poland rapidly outstrips Russia and Germany as a major potato producer. The Economic Daily notes Poland will likely export significant quantities to the United Kingdom Denmark Austria Switzerland and other nations.
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Warsaw
Poland
Russia
Germany
Europe
Journal Economic Daily
United Kingdom
Denmark
Austria
Switzerland
Inmates Demand Police Over Noise At Cambridge Jail
Inmates at East Cambridge jail asked the warden to call police early today as noisy youths outside kept them awake. The incident was reported from Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Cambridge
Mass
East Cambridge
54 Beauties Compete For Miss America Title in 1947 Parade
Atlantic City opened the five day Miss America contest with a parade along the boardwalk featuring 54 contestants from 41 states Canada and 12 cities. The event aims to trim to 15 finalists by Saturday night with the winner earning a 5000 scholarship plus contracts and the runners up sharing 20000 in scholarships.
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Atlantic City
States
Canada
Man Found Dead at North Tyler Address
Mark McCord a cafe cook was found dead early this afternoon at 218 A North Tyler Justice of the Peace Charley Carder said death was from natural causes and likely occurred Sunday
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Mark McCord
North
Tyler
Charley Carder
Australian Rice Crop Scheduled for Export
The Rice Association of Australia estimates a 55 250 ton harvest with about 8 000 tons for local use and at least 47 000 tons to be exported to Malaya and other British Pacific possessions. Secretary D Taylor notes an average yield of 92 bushels per acre.
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Sydney
Australia
The
Rice Association of Australia
D. Taylor
Rice Association
Malaya
Pacific
Taylor
United States Blames Soviet Obstruction in German Unification Talks
Washington reports that the United States blames the Soviet Union for the two year stalemate over Germany's economic unification. A note to Moscow rejects Soviet claims about the London three power conference on boosting German industrial output and emphasizes Berlin Potsdam provisions. The note notes the US burden in occupying Germany due to Soviet inaction and cites talks held in London August 22 to 27 without Russia.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Russia
Germany
Moscow
London
Britain
France
Europe
Threepower
Bonds Rush Grips Amarillo as Veterans Redeem Bonds
In Amarillo long lines formed as 16,000 financial institutions began redeeming bonds for 8.9 million veterans. Total bonds held amount to 1.863 billion dollars in compensation for furloughs veterans did not receive while in uniform. Dallas bankers compared the rush to panic era financial strain.
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Amarillo
Dallas
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