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Newspaper
Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1948
Page
1
Mrs. Bernice Claxton obtained a divorce claiming her husband forced her to unscrew lightbulbs to save wear on switches. The article notes the judge’s remark and mentions broader tax roll increases and property reassessments affecting city and school rolls amid new construction and annexations.
In Austin Texas on July 9 R W Calvert certified Truman and Barkley as Texas Democratic nominees defying Dixiecrats who called the act illegal and threatened court action The dispute drew leaders from both sides with Beauford Jester described as governor and a looming Sept 14 convention in Fort Worth as the legal turning point
Clifton Cheshire, a 24 year old Houstonian and 82nd Airborne veteran, fell 21 000 feet before opening his parachute at Conroe Air Field. He survived the near miss just above the treetops after the canopy fouled in trees, surpassing the previous record by 6000 feet.
Police report seven burglaries over Saturday and Sunday nights. Items stolen include cash totaling about $125 plus more than $250 in property, a $3 in change and a cured ham from Piggly Wiggly 1500 Polk, a tool chest worth $250 from a construction site, and coins from several shops. Other break ins included Eads Hide & Wool office, Curley’s Bar, Quick Lunch Cafe, and a home on Bellevue.
Five year old Juanita Simons was hit by Ernest L Causey 25 near Stinnett while crossing North Fillmore with her mother and grandparents. She was unconscious at St Anthonys Hospital under an oxygen tent. arrival noted about 12 35 PM.
Two reunited sisters Mrs. Robert L. Johnson and Mrs. Willie Reeves learned they share a King family roots from Vernon to Amarillo and Borger. The discovery arose after a Sunday News Globe story, revealing adoptions by different families since 1926 and prompting plans to trace the five King children including Marian Ray and Marjorie Mae.
The Aeronautics Board will hold a hearing here on August 17 to consider Pioneer Airlines request to add a Pecos stop. Pioneer seeks CAB permission to make two daily stops at Pecos on flights between Laredo and El Paso in Texas.
US military governor Lt S F Turner and Civil Affairs official Meyers were ambushed by two armed Russian soldiers near Bad Kissingen in the Soviet zone while on an inspection trip. A German chauffeur escaped to the US zone and alerted authorities as Turner and Meyers disappeared.
Partly cloudy conditions prevail across Amarillo and West Texas with scattered thundershowers and little temperature change. A Tokyo dispatch mentions moving planes to Germany and incomplete details on C-54 transports, while a fragment references greeting cards and a store name.
Diplomats from the United States Britain and France met in the Kremlin with Foreign Minister Molotov for more than three hours in a third Berlin talks session this week. The group planned further discussions at the British embassy as advisory staffs watched.
An American ambassador arrived in a long black car bearing a large flag and joked with an aide as it passed through Kremlin gates. He reentered the Kremlin alone while Chataigneaux remained outside, shaping a tense scene.
In Dallas and Texas towns, Mrs. R. D. Vaughn a 71 year old grandmother leads a boycott of meat against butchers shops for one week to lower meat prices. Packers ranchers and housewives watch to see if the campaign reduces costs.
Elizabeth Bentley testifies that Perlo led one group passing secrets to the Reds and says numerous similar steps were likely. Perlo refuses to answer on constitutional grounds. Mundt plans subpoenas for Russian teachers linked to UN delegation. Bentley, 40, a former Communist spy, claims the Bentley and Chambers charges are sensational.
New York police, aided by the Soviet consulate, asked New Jersey authorities to produce Russian born schoolteacher Michael Ivanovitch Samarin and his family detained at Farm Rova near Cassville. NJ State Police found no trace of Samarin. The case involves HUAC interest and possible repatriation concerns.
J Bennett Morrow age 46, choir leader at Rosen Heights Church of Christ, was arrested on murder charges in the death of his wife Wyema Morrow, 44. He claimed she threatened to kill him and then take her own life two days earlier, and he had carried the pistol in the car for two years. Morrow was released on a $5,000 bond by the Tarrant County sheriff.
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