Widen Scope War Profits Quiz and Probe
Senate investigators will question Comptroller General Lindsay Warren about loopholes in contracting and profit recapture as they review the Garsson munitions case and related tax return requests. The panel plans to press Warren on contract termination practices and asks for GAO reports while weighing testimony from May and others.
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Senate
Lindsay Warren
Mead
D-M
Was
Warren
General Accounting Office
Garsson Munitions
Garsson Combine
Clark
New Yorker
Garsson Companies
Cumberland Lumber Company
May
D-Ky
Kentucky
Garsson Poutine
Britain Faces Major Crop Damage After Severe Storm
London reports severe crop damage from yesterday's torrential storm with rain and hail flattening thousands of acres of grain. This marks the worst destruction since 1927 and threatens agricultural yields nationwide.
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London
Britain
Girl on Fender Dies in Collision at Texarkana
Mary Eline Orr, 15, fatally injured when the car she rode on front fender collided with a pickup near Texarkana last night.
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Fender
Texarkana
Mary Eline Orr
Election Returns Broadcast By Local Station KARC
The Light will air the Toexar county Democratic primary results on Saturday night over Radio Station KARC. Roslfs will be broadcast for most of Bop my Mop om and Apk.
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Toexar County
Satur Fey Wight
KARC
Roslfs
Bop
Mop Om
Apk
Missing Wife Reunites with Oklahoma City Pastor
The Rev. John Paul Lambert and his wife, who vanished from their Kansas home last Sunday, were reunited at Oklahoma City airport and plan a long second honeymoon. Lambert arrived from Kansas City at 1:38 p.m. after his wife called him in fear of his sermon duties. The couple, marked by a note left by the wife at their church in Bonner Springs, Kansas, prompted stunned reactions from about 250 church members.
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Oklahoma City
John Paul Lambert
Kansas City
Ning
Bonner Springs
Kan
John Hubbel
Ropner Springs
British Accept Palestine Division Proposal
London announces British acceptance of a plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab provinces under a federal government. The proposal, formed by a British American cabinet committee, aims for a framework before the United Nations assembly in September. U S Secretary Byrnes in Washington confirmed the committee’s adoption of the partition plan.
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London
Foreign Office
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
U.S
Byrnes
Washington
Jewish Agency to Decide Palestine Plan In Paris Meeting
Jewish sources report that 10,000 Jews to Palestine could be the price for any Jewish acceptance of a British American cabinet committee partition plan. Jewish policy will be determined by the Jewish agency executive in Paris Monday.
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Paris
Palestine
Holy Land
Jewish Agency
Briton Declares Nazis Guilty at Nuremberg Trial
British prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross wrapped up an eight hour summation at Nuremberg naming all 22 defendants from Hermann Goering to Martin Bormann and declaring These are guilty men as the tribunal prepared to hear further summations from French and Russian prosecutors.
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Charles DuBost
Price Hike Lynching Report Sparks State Probe
Monroe Ga July 27 A Georgia bureau head said the massacre of four negroes near Monroe appears rehearsed and might have been planned since the first confinement of Roger Malcolm. The case draws FBI and state probe talk while local officials promise swift action amid white supremacist tensions.
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Monroe
Here
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
William Fi. Spence
Bureau
Roger Malcolm
Weera
Malculm
George Dorsey
Probe
Ten Jews Shot On Train Near Lublin
An authoritative Jewish source reports that ten Jews were abducted from a passenger train near Lublin by an outlaw band and shot to death. The incident is dated in the July report from Warsaw.
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Warsaw
Lublin
Dognapers At Work Again Reported Lost Pets
A black cocker spaniel puppy owned by L. L. Maine at 3402 West Houston Street and an English setter named Pal from 164 Argyle Avenue in Alamo Heights are reported missing. Owner Harry Burkhauter offers a reward. Baby breaks leg in Huntington incident where 18 month old William Terrence Murphy injures left leg after sipping juice from a watermelon.
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L. L. Maine
West
Houston Street
Pal
Argyle Avenue
Alamo Heights
Hary Burkhauter
Huntington
W. Va
William Terrence Murphy
President Gets Hospital Suite
The Army and Navy Register reports Walter Reed will remodel a wing into a presidential suite for Franklin D. Roosevelt. The plan includes bed room, living and reception rooms, two baths, offices, guards’ room, and solarium, at an estimated cost of 148 thousand dollars.
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Washington - Tuly
Army and Navy Register
Jon
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Truman
LYNCHING DESCRIBED BY FARMER AS MOB KILLS FOUR NEGROES
Roy Harrison, a prosperous farmer, told how a mob of about 20 armed men abducted four Black men and two women from a car. He described a leader resembling a retired businessman, 65, with a brown hat, as gunfire rang out and bullets struck the victims. Harrison sought help at a store, then sheriff, noting the atrocity as the first lynching in the South in a year.
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Syory
Roy Harrison
Malcolm
Harrison
Warrison
Dorsey
North Africa
Australia
South
Hit by Car on Scooter Dies in Local Accident
Daryl Abel, two-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Earl Abel, died from injuries received Friday after being struck by a car while riding a two wheel scooter from his home driveway at 245 Retama Street. The driver was Mary Jane Bagwell, 15, of 259 Retama Street. Chief of Police Albert Earl of Alamo Heights transported the injured child to P and S hospital.
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Daryl] Abel
Earl Abel
P. and
Retama Street
Mary Jane Bagwell
W. H. Bagwell
Albert Earl
Alamo Heights
Weekend Weather Forecast With Highs Near 98
Partly cloudy Saturday afternoon and night with Sunday clearing. Highs near 98 Saturday and Friday 99. Low around 74 Sunday and about 73 Saturday. Extended outlook notes 98 high for Saturday and night temperatures around 74.
Poison Kills Tot in Fairfield Case
Mrs. Lillie B Winters 41 year old widow held without bond in Fairfield on murder charge over arsenic death of her grandson Donald Eugene Martin aged 3. State’s Attorney Virgil Mills says stomach showed 41 grains of arsenic. Exhumed body of Winters’ brother Clinton Clark contained 5.1 grains. Other family deaths under investigation. Authorities plan lie detector test in Indianapolis.
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Fairfield, I
INS
Lillie B. Winters
Wayrel County
Fairfield
Donald Eugene Martin
Mills
Clark
Reds Deny Barring Yanks in Soviet Reply
London dispatch reports the Soviet Union calling President Truman’s claim of denying travel rights to American visitors a “sufficiently convincing denial.” Moscow argues Americans were welcomed for education and cultural exchanges, saying facts prove U.S. science and culture reps had full access to Soviet institutions.
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London
Swsy
Moscow
Truman
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Troman
Texas Primary Votes Seen Near Million Mark
A Texas Democratic primary turnout could approach 1.8 million as voters cast ballots on Saturday to nominate hundreds of officials. County conventions were held with Harry L. Stay warning of possible Republican crossovers. Regulars who opposed the Roosevelt Truman ticket faced a strong anticipated black vote in the state party process.
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Harry L. Stay
Democratic Executive Committee
Texas
Beatings at Lichfield Camp Tells of Routine Abuse
A former guard testified at the court martial of Capt. Joseph A. Robertson that beatings of U S soldiers at Lichfield England detention camp were routine under officers orders to beat repeaters to the damned floor. Thomas E. Warren of Plainview Texas, 23, described his own participation and noted other beatings, some leading to acquittal at his trial.
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Bad Waurisum
U. S
Lichfield- England
Thomas E. Warren
Plainview
Texas
Joseph A. Robertson
Toledo
Ohio
Lichfield
Aged Man Struck by Locomotive in Monterey Street Collision
An elderly man identified as Donancio Himojosa of 178 El Paso Street was admitted to Robert B. Green hospital after walking into the side of a Missouri Pacific locomotive on Monterey Street. He suffered cuts and bruises but his condition was described as not serious.
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Roosevelt
Navy
Bethesda
Wallace Graham
Secret Service
Jonemy
Imany
Robert B. Green Hospital
Missouri Pacific
Monterey Street
Donancio Himojosa
el. Paso Street
Sun Spots Disrupt Radio for Third Day
New York dated July 27 reports atmospheric radio disruptions for the third consecutive day due to a sun spot curtain. Telegraph and shortwave services experienced interference across major networks and transmissions were delayed or reduced in scope.
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New York
Estimates of Bexar primary voters and races
Bexar county voters began polling at 7 a m Saturday to nominate Democrats for state district county and province offices and elect a state senator while Republicans chose a county chairman. About 125 Democratic candidates faced voters as polls closed at 7 p m with many offices unopposed. Independent Veterans rally urged turnout and a sweeping ticket victory amid last speeches at the courthouse and municipal auditorium.
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Bexar County
U. S. Supreme Court
Yeere
Democratic Party
Javed
State Senate
J. Franklin Spears
Independent Veterans
A. AE Municipal Auditorium
Thei
Two Fires Blamed On Short Circuits Injure No One
Two houses damaged Friday night within half an hour due to short circuits. No injuries reported. Mrs. Sylvia Negi home at 316 Marshall Street sustained about 40,000 dollars in damage while R. Wilson at 1515 Sacramento Street faced losses near 4,500 dollars.
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Sylvia Negi
Marshall Street
R. Wilson
Sacramento Street
No Gas in City Due To Utility Strike
Milwaukee July 27. MILWaunies housewives cooked without gas today as a wage strike by C. I. O. workers against the Milwaukee Gas and Light Co. entered its second day, halting gas service citywide and forcing meals prepared without gas.
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Washington
OPA
Congress
Milwaunies
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Gas and Light Soc
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