Seizure Probe Ties Boyle Associate to RFC Loan
Senate investigators follow a $565,000 RFC loan to American Lithofold Corp of St Louis amid alleged influence charges. Max Siskind and William Boyle Jr linked to payments and consulting at the firm, with James Finnegan and E Merl Young also named. Grand jury scrutiny in St Louis continues.
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Washington
Senate
St. Louis
McClellan
Arkansas
Post- Dispatch
Max Siskind
Boyle
Mer! Young
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
James P. Finnegan
Finnegan
Internal Revenue
Senate Expenditures Committee
American Lithofold Corp
Post-Dispatch
Blauner
Lithofola
Democratic Naional
Siskind
Hummingbirds Visited Amarillo Garden for a Day
In Amarillo the hunt for a hummingbird reward ends with Mrs. G. W. Brown spotting two black chin hummingbirds in her yard and telephoning the Globe News. A camera crew confirmed the birds at her home and experts identified them from National Geographic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle
Old Tack
G. W. Brown
Belleview
The
Globe News
Globe-News
Kerrick
L. C. Hansen
Borger
B. J. Brannan
Dimmitt
News-Globe
J. Howard Miller
Hummingbird
Five jailed after Polar Pantry theft in Dumas
Five suspects including Everett Snyder and Chester Sinclair were jailed in Moore County on $4000 bonds after $583.61 in cash and checks were stolen from Polar Pantry. Checks were burned and $7000 in cash remains repossessing in a bank. Police chased a car through Dalhart and Amarillo area, leading to arrests. Polar Pantry is owned by Lee Kuder.
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Ray Trent
News-Globe
Dumas
Moore County
John Easley
Everett Snyder
Robert Carnutte
Tulsa
Calvin Jones
Chester Sinclair
Loretta Benson
Borger
Roy Vance
Vance
Bill Jones
Grady Phillips
Asa Bowen
Easley
Dalhart
Stratford
Stinnett
Amarillo
Dick Stout
Ben Leavell
Jake Morse
Claude Roper
Elmer Burnett
Dallam
Snyder
Carnutte
Polar Pantry
Lee Kuder
Burglars Take Cash Hidden In Cafe Ice Box
In Long Beach California on July 28 burglars broke into the Hoffman cafe and took 358 dollars hidden in ice in the ice box. Police traced the loot to the cold stash.
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Long Beach
Cal
Hoffman
Mystery Watermelon Heist Spoiled by Car Clue
Witness describes two women paying for a watermelon but leaving with it in their car. He recalls a freezer room door closing and later notes a car number that proved a key clue to the theft. The scene unfolds in a store’s freezing department as officers investigate.
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Freezing Department
Mr. Vance
Vance
Truman warns of worldwide Communist danger at Detroit birthday event
President Truman told 60 000 at Detroit’s 250th anniversary that Communists are building for war worldwide and that free nations must have men and munitions ready for any emergency. He warned against downplaying Korea and urged strengthening production, arms, and resolve to deter Soviet moves along the Yugoslav border.
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Detroit
Truman
Free Nations
Korea
Charles E. Wilson
Edward Morgan
Mr. Truman
Wilson
Soviet Russia
America
Russia
Douglas MacArthur
Taft
Ohio
McCarthy
Wisconsin
MacArthur
Boston
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hungary
State Department
Voice of America
Free World
Pioneer clubwoman Mrs L A Wells dies at 73 in Amarillo
Amarillo mourns Mrs L A Wells 73 a longtime pioneer clubwoman and life member of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, who died last night at 7 15 at her home after a stroke. Survivors include her husband educator and real estate man L A Wells and children Mrs Erwin C Ochsner Joe L Wells, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements by N S Griggs & Sons.
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Amarillo
L. A. Wells
Texas Federation of Women's Club
Taylor
Erwin C. Ochsner
Avondale
Joe L. Wells
Fountain
Olin Burk
Perryton
N. S. Griggs & Sons Funeral Home
Amarillo Park
Truman accuses foes of lies and plotting against him
President Truman blasts foes for spreading lies as the House moves a price control bill allowing some rollbacks but prompting concern over future increases. Governors and political factions stir in Pennsylvania and Dewey’s Singapore visit as media satire and Cold War jabs frame the week.
Treasury acts to collect tax from Marshall women
The Treasury Department issued warrants for seizure of property to collect Social Security taxes from domestic workers in Marshall. Seizure and wage levies may follow for 18 women who refused to act as tax collectors, with individual notices to pay the first quarter tax and penalties.
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Treasury
Marshall
Longview
Armistead
Treasury Department
Snyder
Truman and DiSalle discuss new economic controls
President Truman and Price Director Michael V. DiSalle fly together to review Congress approved economic control changes. The compromise allows some price and rent increases and potential rollbacks, relaxes consumer credit controls, and faces House passage Monday with the existing wage price rent and defense production law expiring Tuesday.
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Washington
Truman
Michael V. DiSalle
Congress
White House
Senate
DiSalle
Office of Price Stabilization
Mr. Truman
Parisian on Route 66 Finds Hope in Amarillo Nightmare
French resistance veteran and film producer Monsieur LaPointe, stranded in Amarillo with broken funds and no car title, seeks help from bemused locals and distant sponsors. Failed transfers, language gaps, and a New Orleans consulate reply of patience trap him in a widening bind as he hops between hotel and garage.
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Fred Tripp
William Jean Raulot-LaPointe
Amarillo
Monsieur LaPointe
Paris
France
California
New York
Groom
Sam Boswell
Boswell
North Fillmore
New York Bank
Alexander Botts
Sam
New Orleans
Monsieur LaPoint
Monsier LaPointe
Texas
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RFC Loan
William M. Boyle, Jr
Democratic National Committee
Grand Jury
Siskind and Boyle
Littoford
R. J. Blauner
Amarillo Flower Garden
By Paul Timmons
Oklahoma Line
Clovis
Mule
Shoe
North Korea
38Th Parallel
North
South Korea
Dumas Polar Pantry
High Plains
Plainview
Lions International
Hilton Hotel
L. A. Wells ‘ Oe
TODAY
Robert P. Taft
Joseph Martin
Daily News Almanac
US Weather Bureau
West Texas
Sundance
New Mexico
Vest
Coast Guard Academy
Dobbin
New Bedford
Mass
el Nath
Gunn Bros
Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co
House
Fine
Pennsylvania
Senator Duff
Grundy
GOP
Duff
Thomas E. Dewey
Singapore
Lloods of
London
Radio Moscow
McCarran
Fletcher Knebel
Secretary of Treasury
Ellis Campbell, Jr
Dallas
North Texas
Campbell
United States
Gold Sox
Albuquerque Dukes
Buffalo Lake
Washington, DC
W. J. Raulot-Lapointe
Frankly
Frances
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