Soviets Block Plan for Peace Conference Cleared
The four power talks in Paris faced deadlock over Italy and Trieste as Molotov pressed that all treaties with Axis satellites must precede a European peace conference. Byrnes urged a set date for a 21 nation gathering while disagreements persisted on reparations and assets in the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dynan
Associated Press
Paris
Russia
Foreign Ministers Council
United States
Great Britain
France
V. M. Molotov
Trieste
Italy
Yugoslavia
James F. Byrnes
Molotov
Byrnes
United Nations
Balkan
Balkans
Texas hit by bitter cold wave across the state
The Associated Press reports a sharp cold snap as temperatures dipped near freezing in many areas with more cold, cloudy, and cooler weather forecast for Sunday. Thunderstorms, hail, and strong winds accompanied the front from Sulphur Springs to Dallas and Fort Worth, causing damage at Laredo Army Air Field and record May 11 lows in Wichita Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
U. S. Weather Bureau
Gulf
Weather Bureau
A. M. Hamrick
Sulphur Springs
Dallas
Fort Worth
Haif
Laredo
Laredo Army Air Field
Pampa
Amarillo
Wichita
Louisiana
Brownsville
Burrwood
Ambassador Bulova Watch Ad at King's Jewelry
King's Jewelry at 1020 Broadway displays a 21 J. Bulova Ambassador watch priced at 62.50 in an advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bulova
King’s Jewelry
Adv
State Politics Warming Up For 1946 Governor Race
Attorney General Grover Sellers tours the state on the 1946 governor race circuit with stops in Johnson City Fredericksburg Junction Ozona Fort Stockton Kent Van Horn Sierra Blanca El Paso Ysleta Marfa Alpine Sanderson Langtry Del Rio Rock Springs Kerrville. The race features Stevenson Allred and O Danial still in play as party plans set June 10 to certify ballots due July 27 with filings by June 3. The party convention September 10 will name the new leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Cheavens
Associated Press
Grover Sellers
Johnson City
Fredericksburg
Junction
Ozona
Fort Stockton
Kent
van Horn
Sierra Blanca
el Paso
Ysleta
Marfa
Alpine
Sanderson
Langtry
del Rio
Rock Springs
Kerrville
Coke R. Stevenson
James V. Allred
W. Lee O'Daniel
Stevenson
Allred
Belden
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Austin
Homer P. Rainey
Texas
Former Lubbock Man Dies In Accident
L B Wright of 1502 Avenue N learned Saturday that his brother Corley C Wright 51 was killed in a machinery accident at Carizozo New Mexico at 1 PM He was formerly of Lubbock and worked for a construction company on road projects The body will be sent to Lubbock by Sanders Funeral Home with funeral arrangements to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Wright
Avenue N
Corley C. Wright
Carizozo
N. M
Lubbock
Sanders Funeral Home
Phantom killer hunt grips Texarkana as youths prowl
Texarkana officers warn against amateur sleuths as youths trail suspects and stage decoy setups to trap the phantom killer believed responsible for five deaths. Lawmen seek to raise rewards to 10 000 dollars as fears rise over dangerous chase methods and a high school athlete is briefly chased after a tire shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Finexarkana
Texarkana
M. T. Gonzaullas
Jack Runnels
W. H. Pressley
Bowie County
Tex
W. E. Davis
Miller County
Ark
Gonzaullas
Kilgore
Lufkin
Corsicana
Oklahoma
W. H. Presley
Bowie
Miller
W. A. McAllister
Secretary calls for 10 percent drop in fall pig crop
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson urged farmers to reduce next fall’s pig crop by 10 percent to balance limited grain supplies and aid famine areas abroad. Bowles warned the meat pinch will be felt next winter and spring while pork supplies rise briefly then fall as grain prices rise to export more grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ovid A. Martin
United Press
Washington
Anderson
Chester Bowles
Texas Poll to Be Weekly Feature in Avalanche Journal
Beginning next Sunday May 19 the Avalanche Journal will publish the Texas Poll as a regular weekly feature. The poll surveys public opinion across Texas with interviews and tabulations, supported by major Texas newspapers including the Dallas News and Houston Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avalanche-Journal
Texas
Dallas News
Austin American
Galveston News
Houston Post
San Antonio Light
Amarillo Globe-News
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Abilene
San Angelo
Waco
Wichita Falls
Quiet Mother's Day Observance Planned Across Lubbock Area
Lubbock and the South Plains observe Mother's Day with church services across the region. Local churches including First Christian Broadway Church of Christ St. John's Methodist First Methodist First Baptist Cumberland Presbyterian First Presbyterian Locust Street chapel Foursquare and Tabernacle Baptist announce services and honors. Methodist Men's club will host a noon luncheon honoring mothers. Texas cities San Angelo Galveston Hillsboro Dallas also plan observances. Hillsboro marks the day at Mrs. Ella S. Watson home named 1946 Texas Mother of the Year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
South Plains
The
First Christian
Broadway Church of Christ
St. John’s Methodist
First Methodist
First Bap
Truman calls education key to stopping atomic threat
President Truman urged worldwide study of human relations to defuse the atomic bomb, delivering the Fordham University anniversary address to 10,000 fans. He said tolerance and understanding, taught through education, are the defense against nuclear war and urged veterans and youth to prepare for the atomic age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Associated Press
EW York
Truman
Fordham University
Kansas City
Fordham
Roosevelt
America
Monkeys Roam Lower Manhattan In Wide Escape
About 100 pet shop monkeys fled and caused chaos across Manhattan. They entered a firehouse and a tavern, disturbed office workers, and prompted captures in a firehouse, St Pauls Chapel cemetery, a grocer shop, and a laundry bag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Lower Manhattan
St. Paul’s Chapel
Miners Prolong Strike Likely If Necessary
The CIO International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers executive board voted to extend the strike of about 30 000 members if needed. They authorized broadening the action where it aids other unions now on strike and denounced the McFarland bill on metals premiums. A march on Washington would be organized by the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
CIO International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Phelps Dodge Corp
Kennecott Copper Corp
American Smelting and Refining Co
U. S
Wreckage Sighted From Air in Montana Plane Missing
In Great Falls Montana a search plane reported sighting wreckage of an Army C-45 missing with six aboard since Sunday. Maj Charles H Lowell and Capt Amos Little said the wreckage lay about 8000 feet up the northwest slope of Lebo peak in the Crazy Mountains, with no signs of survivors.
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Great Falls
Mont
Crazy Mountains
Montana
Charles H. Lowell
Carmel
Calif
Amos Little
Army
Lebo Peak
Smelter Workers End Walkout Early Today
Waterbury Connecticut May 12 4 U S conciliator Walter Maggiolo announced settlement of the 97 day labor dispute between the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers CIO and the American Brass company Ending nine days of negotiations the agreement ends a strike of about 10 000 workers at company plants in Waterbury Ansonia and Torrington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury
Conn
U. S
Walter Maggiolo
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
CIO
American Brass Company
Maggiolo
Ansonia
Torrington
Sabotage Claimed In AFL Southern Drive Broadcast
AFL President William Green's speech was cut off live as three wires were snipped in the city auditorium basement. NBC and Southern Bell officials say the failure was deliberate, with Googe calling it sabotage and McManus confirming the wires were cut. Green attacked CIO as communist and urged southern industry to cooperate or face union pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Hall
Associated Press
Sheville
N. C
AFL
William Green
AFL Southern
George L. Googe
American Federation of Labor
John Hurley
NBC
City Auditorium
Green
T. C. McManus
Asheville
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Hurley
McManus
CIO
The
Lubbock Taxicab Driver Hijacked by Armed Robber
Lubbock taxicab driver E. G. Abbott was hijacked about 9 30 p m Saturday by an armed man who forced him to drive roughly 10 miles south of Lubbock then fled on foot after shots were fired. Abbott was told to keep walking and the suspect fled with about 30 to 40 dollars, his billfold and watch. Police and Texas Highway Patrol hunted a white man described as the attacker, with the taxi found abandoned near the Plainview cutoff north of Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott
Lubbock
Texas Highway Patrol
Plainview
Lubbock- Plainview
Slaton Highway
Spain Faces New Charge In UN Spain Inquiry
The United Nations subcommittee examining Franco Spain will receive documents soon alleging Falange subversive activity in Latin America. Mexican informants will submit evidence of Falangist operations, while Republican exile leaders plan a memorandum and the U.S. State Department prepares a comprehensive report expected midweek. Dr Jose Giral travels to New York with evidence for the subcommittee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Harrelson
Associated Press
New York
United Nations
Latin America
Mexico
Falange
Latin American
Western
U. S. State Department
U.N
Spain
U. S
Francisco Franco
State Department
Paris
Jose Giral
Actress Louise Albritton to Wed New York Man
Louise Albritton, 25, motion picture actress, and Charles C. Collingwood, 28, radio commentator of Washington, D. C., obtained a marriage license and plan to marry Monday at the Little Church Around the Corner. Miss Albritton lives in Wichita Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Louise Albritton
Charles C. Collingwood
Washington, D. C
Miss Albritton
Wichita Falls
Freight Bans Lifted as Government Sets Coal Rationing
The government ordered the railroad freight embargo lifted Monday while keeping control measures on soft coal output during the strike truce. Utilities and railroads get first priority for coal, with factories later, as officials describe a cooperative mood in talks between John L. Lewis and mine owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marold W. Ward
Associated Press
Ashington
John L. Lewis
Edward F. McGrady
Truman
Lewis
Solid Fuels Administration
Civil Production Administration
Woman's life judged harder than men's in Gallup poll
A nationwide Gallup poll completed before Mother's Day found 54 percent say a woman's life is harder, 24 percent say a man's is harder, and 22 percent have no opinion. Among women 61 percent favor the woman’s tougher lot, while 47 percent of men say the woman’s life is harder and 30 percent favor the man’s.
West Texas and New Mexico Weather Outlook This Weekend
Partly cloudy and warmer in Panhandle and South Plains Sunday and Monday. New Mexico expects partly cloudy skies with scattered showers in the north, cooler in the northwest on Sunday, highs 55 to 65 north.
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South Plains
Pashan- Gle
Texas
Paahandie
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
OM Anne
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