Government to Break Up Big Four Meat Packers
The United States filed a civil anti trust suit aimed at dividing Armour, Cudahy, Wilson and Company, and other defendants into 14 separate competing firms. The action seeks to end monopolistic control of meat production and distribution and alleges methods to suppress competition in buying livestock, setting prices, and terms of sale across the major packers.
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Washington
Armour Ang Owirt
Cudahy
Panies
Clark
Justic
Chio
Chicago
Big Four
Com‘and Company
Armour and
Com- Plaint
Pany
Cudahy Packing
Dany and Wilson and Company, Inc
Ander
Noth
Veling Com
Herbert A. Bergson
Bergson
Nho
Stevenson Loses Bid for US Senate Seat in Texas
Fort Worth reports former Gov. Coke Stevenson trailed Johnson by 87 votes in the official count as the Democratic convention ousted delegates pledging loyalty to the Truman Barker ticket. Judge Whitfield Davidson issued a restraining order delaying notification of Johnson as nominee. The filing, under a civil rights statute, targets precinct vote totals added after polls closed August 28. Johnson departed Fort Worth without official word on the ruling.
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Johnson
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Coke Stevenson
United Press
GLOBE _ Empire
Texas
Leeeson
Whitfield Davidson
Paul H. Brown
Stevenson
C. C. Renfro
Dallas
Davidson
Harrison County
Marshall
Renfro
Small
Jim
Wells County
Old Dems purge shocks Fort Worth convention
At a Dallas Fort Worth Democratic gathering the anti faction was ousted and figures like Jimmie Allred Sam Rayburn and Harry Seay rejoined the platform amid a harsh party loyalty clash. Legal moves overshadowed by certification timing and a federal civil rights question.
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Lewis Nordyr
Globe
Air Force to Reinforce Berlin Airlift with Four Engine Cargo Planes
The U S Air Force plans to deploy about four engine cargo planes to reinforce the Berlin airlift, routing via expanded facilities and drawing personnel from multiple regions. Gen Lucius Clay will set requirements as the operation proceeds. In Berlin, British and Russian authorities trade accusations amid continuing four power talks over the blockade, with Moscow signaling talks could resume soon.
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Air Force
Berlin
Lucius Clay
Far East
United States
Jommer
Nouxhoy
Kremlin
Moscow
Germany
Jean Ganeval
France
Kotikov
Plains Warned of Dust Bowl Days by Soil Experts
Soil conservation experts warn the Great Plains face new dust bow l dangers as Eastern Colorado and Texas plowed lands become erosion risks. They say prolonged dry cycles could threaten three million acres since 1942 1947 and that non resident farming may weaken conservation efforts.
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Dept
Great Plains
Colorado
Texas
Soci
Furtnermore
Lana
Espeland
Mis- Myers Motor Co—Chrysier-Plymouth
Electric Shock Kills Workman
A Sulphur Oklahoma iron worker Roy Robb 35 died after receiving high voltage electricity while working on a Plains Creamery garage at 1400 West Seventh Street Police and fire crews responded with first aid and an iron lung. Investigators noted a crane wing without insulation likely caused the shock as the crane lifted steel beams near the building. Robb was transported to Northwest Texas Hospital for treatment and revival efforts continued at the scene and in transit.
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Sulphur
Okla
West Seventh
Plains Creamery
Roy Robb
Robb
Northwest Texas Hospital
Blackburn Shaw
Bob Marshall
Mir. Robb
Seventh Avenue
South Sur
Marshall
Eskimo Girls Bet to Fly to Texas for $25,000 Prize
Three Eskimo women from Alaska travel by air to Texas to win a $25,000 bet by delivering them to Fort Worth before midnight. Pilot Lew Leach Jr. ferries Lena Welch Molly Blatchford and Alice Walker with chaperone Lorena Gray from the Arctic toward the prize.
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Portland
Ore
Texas
Fort Worth
Lew Leach, Jr
Dallas
Boise
Ida
Arctic Circle
Leach
L. L. Horne
Ollman
Lena B. Welch
Kivilena
Alaska
Molly Blatchford
Golovin
Alice Walker
White Mountain
Lorena Gray
Kotzebue
World Series Set to Start October Six in Cincinnati
bulletin reports the 1948 World Series will open October six in Cincinnati after the National League pennant winner is determined. Also noted, troops will load cargo on the West Coast as shipyard labor constraints persist, while a powerful typhoon with 120 mph winds threatens southern Honshu Shikoku and Kyushu as it moves northward.
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Cincinnati
Washington
Royall
Stavedores
Japan
Tokyo
Honshu
Shikoku
Kyushu
Two Jima Island
Amarillo Jaycee Elects New President At Hotel Meeting
Charles Woodburn was elected president of the Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce in an early Wednesday vote by directors at the Herring Hotel. He succeeds Jim Brown who resigned to take a paid job with the organization. Darrell Grundy was named a nom inee.
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Charles Woodburn
Amarillo
Two Years Early on Her Arrival at School
Rita Parrish aged four left home at the Hayden block to walk to Wolflin School. Teachers at the school could not learn her name. She left school and began home, half way there her mother found her. The total distance to school and halfway back was about 32 blocks or roughly three miles.
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Rita Parrish
Thurmond Parrish
Hayden
Wolflin School
35 US Soldiers Die in Wreck of Japanese Train
Seventeen killed and many injured when a fast Mokpo to Seoul train collided with a halted troop train near a tunnel. 35 American soldiers died, 120 injured including 80 U.S. troops. Rescue crews worked overnight, and identities were being confirmed as officials notified relatives.
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Seoul
Pusan
Fusan
Mokpo
Charles McCafferty
Chicago
McCafferty
Amarillo Area Weather Outlook
The report notes fair and mild conditions in the Amarillo and vicinity this afternoon tonight and Thursday. It also mentions partly cloudy skies across West Texas with warmer temperatures in the Panhandle and South Plains. A 24 hour high of 85 and low of 51 are recorded with a brief burglary ad from Williams Boyce Agency.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Williams Boyce Agency
Federal Court Jury Includes 3 Negroes
Three Negroes were serving on a federal court jury this morning marking the first time in memory that a man of that race sat on such a panel. The case involves Public Service Company of Texas with jurors including Gabriel Carthen Ernest Phegan Ellis Nicholson and others from Lipscomb, Amarillo, Gruver and Follett. The suit seeks damages from Coy Pendergraft for a gas line explosion and fire caused by a road grader on June 6 1946.
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Public Service Company of Texas
Gabriel Carthen
van Buren
Ellis Nicholson
Column Moves Up a Day in Globe News Features
A Wednesday edition moves a business column to align as a regular Sunday feature with briefs appearing on page 20. An item notes Jet Blast kills pilot Frankfurt reports an F-80 Shooting Star exploded in flight near Purs tenfeldbruck Bavarian airbase.
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Globe News
Frankfurt
Purstenfeldbruck
Bavaria
Air Force Headquarters
Wallace helps GOP in Senate bid by backing third party candidates
A United Press survey shows Henry A Wallace backed congressional hopefuls to split the Democratic left wing vote. The third party group running in several states could assist Republicans in preserving Senate control and may affect House gains, with Wallaceites aiming to push a conservative administration in Washington.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Senate
United Press
Uura Party
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers of America
CIO
Wall
Congress
Minnesota
Newlace
York
Missouri
Cook
Town
New Hampshire
Rieve
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Cali
Third Carolina
Connecticut
North Dakota
United
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Nordyke
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Jester
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Harry Trumat
Benin
Imam
Brandenburg Gate
Alexander Kotikov
Provocateurs
Bernn Poncg Sno
Frank Howley
E. C. Herbert
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Electric Shock
Workman
Fraftamen —“Russell
Fillmore
Maine
PROTO
Margaret Chase Smith
Seattle
Horne
Kalispell
Mont
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Jaycee President
Mavnara Lor. Co
Feneral Court
Lipscomb Coun
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