Rasco Goes to Korea as Globe-News War Correspondent
Rasco, Globe-News regional director, is accredited as a war correspondent and will depart Friday morning for San Francisco then Tokyo aboard a Pan American Clipper. He will report from Korea for six months, with dispatches augmenting service news and contacting Amarillo correspondents.
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Korea
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Globe-News
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Central Pacific
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Tanks Arrive in Antwerp for Belgian Army Aid
Thirteen Sherman tanks were unloaded from the freighter American Councillor today in Antwerp for delivery to the Belgian army. They mark the first tanks to arrive under the Atlantic Pact military assistance program.
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Mason on trial for wife's slaying at Little Inn Cafe
The Mason murder trial entered day two with witness testimony about the couple's quarrel and plans to sell a .22 rifle. Witnesses, including Mrs. Smith, placed Mason at the cafe during the day and near the shooting, while police recovered the weapon and a hunting knife. The autopsy indicated a fatal orange heart wound.
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E. T
Dusty” Miller
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Mason
Miller
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King
Asst. Dist. Atty
Dean Dunlap
Texans Ordered Into Army Induction This October
The Amarillo Selective Board must supply 30 young men for induction here on October 13. State Selective Service headquarters issued a call to 137 local draft boards for 2,500 Texans to be inducted during the first two weeks of October. Inductions proceed in Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, Texarkana and Shreveport. Brig. Gen. Paul L. Wakefield said a November call for about 3,500 is expected soon.
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Perryton
Abilene
Corpus Christi
Dallas
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Texarkana
Shreveport
Paul L. Wakefield
Selective Service
Texas
City probes Amarillo telephone company rate request
City officials led by City Manager J C Lilly and Mayor Gene Klein seek ten year financial data from Western Bell Telephone Company of Tyler Texas. They request balance sheets depreciation schedules and earnings analyses for 1940 through 1949 plus breakdowns of local phone lines and long lines investments to assess the requested rate increase.
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J. C. Lilly
Gene Klein
Loren W. Young
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City Commission of the
City of
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North Korean push intensifies along Taegu front in Korea
Allied forces under heavy pressure as North Korean forces launch dawn assault along the Kumhwa region toward Taegu. US units including the 25th and 24th Divisions regain ground after mid day counterattacks while Marines and Second Division troops battle near Yongsan. Casualties rise with 7,200 estimated killed or wounded in the Taegu area in a week.
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Chapman Denies Communist Ties in Senate Hearing
Secretary of the Interior Chapman told the Senate Interior Committee he has no Communist connections and challenged Senator Schoeppel to repeat the charges outside the Senate. President Truman predicted swift rebuttal as attacks were called vicious and unfounded, amid Alaska statehood scrutiny.
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Truman
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Alaska
Rogers Denies Machine Ties In Texas Campaign
Walter Rogers of Pampa, Democratic nominee for Congress in Texas 13th District, declares he is a free man unaffiliated with any political machine. He emphasizes running as an independent Democrat, funded by himself and district supporters, grounded in Jeffersonian Democracy, with no ties to machines or pressure groups.
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Texas
Marines Cheer as Truman Eats His Words in Person
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reportedly told senators that 12 000 dangerous Communists could be arrested if war with Russia occurred and that agents need funds to monitor them The figures include many native born Americans Truman visited the Marine Corps League and apologized for earlier remarks about the Marines receiving a standing ovation and a humorous crowd reaction
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Russia
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President Truman to address homefront controls Saturday
President Truman will speak Saturday night to outline homefront controls in the current emergency. He refused to confirm price controls and said no plan exists for a single stabilization agency. He emphasized civilian administration and denied any military dictatorship.
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Truman
Congress
W. Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
Declare Army Tests Too Rough
Three New Jersey congressmen faced the Army mental test and, though they passed, argued the standard is too high. Representatives Rodino Addonizio and Howell said the draft still filters out mentally unfit, physically weaker, and married men, and they will report findings to the House Armed Services Committee. President Truman signed a bill authorizing a 14 million dollar airport for Washington.
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New Jersey
Rodino and
Addonizio
Howell
Pennington
Radine
House Armed Services Committee
Washington
Truman
Amarillo Weather Summary From US Weather Bureau
The Amarillo area will see fair conditions today tonight and Friday with temperatures rising into the mid eighties. Overnight temperatures fall to the upper fifties and lower sixties with little change expected. Panhandle outlook calls for favorable weather moderate temperatures and clear to cloudy skies across West Texas with a chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms.
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