Texas college building amendment passes in Texas vote
The Texas election board counts 102531 for and 97318 against the constitutional amendment to fund a 60 million dollar state college building program. Rep. Preston Smith vows to challenge the measure in court while claiming it is vulnerable on several points. Winners of special congressional races in the 16th and 9th districts are Ken Regan and Clark W. Thompson.
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Austin
Texas
State Election Board
Preston Smith
Lubbock
University of Texas and
Texas A&m College
Federate Pension Fund
A&m
Smith
Beauford H. Jester
Price Daniel
Paul Brown
United States Supreme Court
Rain Making Efforts Scatter Moisture Over Panhandle Skies
In Carson County near Borger and White Deer a rain making mission by two planes produced a brief shower. A 50 pound dry ice payload was released into a tall cloud while observers documented rainfall. Weathermen predicted the system would fade by afternoon as temperatures rose toward the 90s.
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David Rasco
Panhandle
Carson County
Borger
White Deer
Globe-News
AT-6
Stinson
Shelby Kruser
Trade Wind Airport
Clifford Holt
Globe
Reverend Cook Sues Glenwood Baptist Church For Access
Rev. E F Cook files suit in 108th District Court against church members led by Gilbert Jackson alleging a Apr 15 meeting ousted him as pastor. He claims all church locks were changed preventing entry and seeks restoration of original locks or keys and an injunction allowing him to continue services.
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E. F. Cook
Glenwood Baptist Church
108Th District Court
C. B. Reeder
Gilbert Jackson
Hughes
Jackson
Reverend Cook
Cook
Greece to Seek International Panel on Amnesty After Uprising
Athens reports the new coalition government will invite an international commission to oversee an unconditional general amnesty for guerrillas who surrendered. Premier Themistoles Sophoulis says if the rebellion ends, all prisoners will be granted amnesty. otherwise detainees will be reconsidered without ideological bias.
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Athens
Themistoles Sophoulis
Sophoulis
Medford Youth Dies in Scrimmage Pileup
Everett news reports Frank L. Servido Jr., 20, of Medford, fatally injured in a sandlot football practice scrimmage. Hospital authorities said death was due to an internal hemorrhage.
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Everett
Mass
Frank L. Servido, Jr
Medford
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast covers Amarillo and vicinity with continued warmth. Highs around 91 today, 92 tomorrow, Lows near 63. West Texas expected fair with scattered thunder in places west of Pecos. New Mexico partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms Tuesday. Precipitation trace. 24 hour high 92, low 66 and noon 85. Roller Palace skate event Tuesday night.
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H. C. Winburn
Polk Street
Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Panhandle
Adrian
Dimmitt
Muleshoe
Roswell
Tucumcari
Clovis
West Texas
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
British Army Forcibly Returns Exodus 1947 Jews From Ocean Vigour
British troops landed 1206 Jews from the Ocean Vigour at Poppenendorf Germany after clubbing and shoving resisting passengers to disembark. Witnesses described beatings for those resisting and loud protests of Hitlerism amid the staged evacuation under a loudspeaker playlist.
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Hamburg
Germany
Palestine
Poppendorf
Ocean
Britain
France
London
News Tip Prize Winners At The Globe And News
The Globe and News awards first prize five dollars to Tommy Tosh for an early report on last week’s Buffalo Lake drowning. Bonnie Joyce Burnett wins three dollars for a notable Amarrillo tip about a boy finding his own lost money. Mrs J A Watson receives two dollars for information on a boy shot incident.
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Buffalo Lake
Tommy Tosh
Globe and News
Aldredge
Amarillo
Bonnie Joyce Burnett
Madison
J. A. Watson
Kentucky
H. L. Mauldin
East Eighth
Hazel Husted
North
Lincoln
Frances Wilson
Tennessee
Barbara Jean Turner
West
Glen Hatfield, Jr
Billy Ray Orr
Jean Pulton
Harrison
Glenn Baskett
Jack Grimes
North Harrison
Dale Fowlkes
Bill Berry
Taylor
Safe Crackers Use Buttermilk To Wash Fingerprints Away
Houston burglars dripping buttermilk over two safes after breaking into the W. L. Rose store. They took about 1,550 dollars in cash including 1000 in silver and 100 in postage stamps. The 63-year-old owner reported the attempt to erase fingerprints.
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Houston
W. L. Rose
Rose
American flier freed as London leaflet plot tied to group
Reginald Gilbert, 24, released from custody after cooperation with police in a case tied to an alleged plot to bomb London with Stern gang leaflets. An American rabbi Baruch Korff and eight others were held for further inquiry, with Korff's secretary Judith Rosenberger also seized. Gilbert remains under protection awaiting departure from France.
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Paris
Reginald Gilbert
London
Gilbert
France
Baruch Korff
American Political Action Committee For Palestine
Korff
Judith Rosenberger
Truman, Tired, Starts Home On Battleship Missouri
President Truman, fatigued after his Brazil trip, rests aboard the 55 000 ton battleship Missouri as it sails through warm South Atlantic waters en route to the United States. He left Rio de Janeiro after a gala sendoff and expects to reach Washington on September 20, 1945.
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Missouri
U.P
Truman
Brazil
Atlantic
United States
Rio de Janeiro
South America
Washington
Beggar Licensing Reported in Chinese Province
Chinese refugees claim Shangtung province authorities began licensed begging. Beggars assigned to villages must wear name badges and a turtle emblem.
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Tsingatao
Shangtung Province
Ringling Brothers Circus in Amarillo Sets Sellout Day
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey arrived in Amarillo from Trinidad with four trains. Both matinee and night shows sold out before 1 pm, leaving few general admission tickets. John Ringling North joined the show, and former Amarillo carrier James Copeland works as exchange ticket agent at the main entrance ahead of an 8:15 pm performance.
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Ringling Brothers
Amarillo
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Trinidad
Colo
Tri-State Fair Park
John Ringling North
Big Top
Panhandle
James Copeland
Globe-News
Sandie
Ninth Army
Tex
Dolly Jahn
Copeland
Robbers Torture Couple For Hidden Cash In Cleveland
In Cleveland, three masked gunmen attacked Robert Henry Green and his wife Elizabeth, torturing them to force disclosure of a $15,000 stash. Green, recovering from abdominal surgery, and Elizabeth were burned with cigarettes and kicked in the abdomen before the thieves fled in Green’s car, later recovered by police.
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Cleveland
U.P
Robert Henry Green
Elizabeth
Green
Cision
Fred Clarke
Sadie Stockman
Midland Woman Charged With Husband Slaying
Midland Mrs Mahotah Muldrow 40 is charged with murder after the fatal shooting of her husband Robert Mulgrew III 42 president of Kargl Aerial Surveys on the lawn in front of his home about 9 50 last night a .380 automatic pistol was found in her car and she was released on 5000 bond set by County Judge Clifford C Keith
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Midland
Mahotah Muldrow
Robert Mulgrew, III
Kargl Aerial Surveys Company
Muldrow
Clifford C. Keith
Swope Receives Medal for Merit For War Services
Herbert Bayard Swope, famed journalist, awarded the Medal for Merit, the highest civilian military honor. Swope, chair of Overseas News Agency, formerly served on the US delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Autograph party to honor Laula Grace Erdman and author Russell Taty.
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Swope
Washington
Herbert Bayard Swope
Board of
Overseas News Agency
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Laula Grace Erdman
the Locust
Russell
Raiding Sergeant Hits Jackpot With Slot Machine Raid
In San Francisco on September 8 Police Sgt. Marion Overstreet demonstrates a slot machine taken in a raid. He inserts a nickel, pulls the handle, and hits the jackpot.
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San Francisco
Marion Overstreet
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New Delhi
India
Pakistan
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