Oil Operators Score First Round Victory
Oil operators in 15 fields won a round in a legal battle to block shutdown orders by the Railroad Commission. Judge Betts granted temporary injunctions in 98th District Court after hearings in the Heyser field case and related suits. The move stalls enforcement while merits are argued, with trial set for 9 AM tomorrow.
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Austin
Dec
Railroad Commission
Charles O. Betts
98Th District Court
Commission
Betts
Sterling Oil and Refining Company
Heyser
J. Harris Gardner
Ernest O. Thompson
Fagan Dickson
Dickson
Nelson Jones
William “Bill” Murray
Texas
Murray
Thompson
Olin Culberson
Band of raiders hits two Michigan plants in dawn assault
About 300 intruders attacked Shakespeare Companies plants in Kalamazoo, overturning vehicles, burning a milk truck, and beating workers. Police tied the incident to possible Communist influence and launched a statewide hunt with Governor Sigler ordering a one man grand jury inquiry to start soon. Seven were injured, none seriously.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Kim Sigler
Donald 8. Leonard
Sigler
Howard Hoyt
World’s Largest Bus Exhibit and Local Club Meetings in Amarillo
Today in Amarillo an all day event features the world’s largest bus on display at Seventh and Polk until 6 PM. Other activities include the Sleeping Dogs play at Amarillo College Auditorium for students only, and noon meetings of San Jacinto Kiwanis Youth Center Lions Rotary and Optimists at various venues. Evening events include the Knife and Fork Club dinner at Crystal Ballroom and a Western Dance at the YWCA sponsored by Joliet Club.
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Seventh and Polk
Amarillo College
San Jacinto
Kiwanis Club
Carolina
South Amarillo
Herring Hotel
Crystal Ballroom
Joliet Club
YWCA
Kitty Eats Santa's Letter No 7 and the Barn Mystery
Santa writes of a barn full of prizes and discovers a mother cat with three newborn kittens in the hay. He pets the cat and notes Blitzen’s young reindeer may join next year. The farmer elf feeds milk as the reindeer prepare for Christmas Eve.
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Mrs. Kitty
Blitzen
Stokes Proposes Family Court Idea For Juvenile Cases
Justice W N Stokes suggested creating a trial examiner in Potter County to handle divorce adoption support and delinquency cases with investigations reported to district judges. State Senator Grady Hazlewood discussed drafting a court creation bill for January.
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Lewis Nordyke
W. N. Stokes
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Grady Hazlewood
Civil Appeals Court
Texas
Stokes
Potter County
Conley’s Attorney Moves to Quash Charges in Boston Hearing
Louis Bob Conley, facing federal and Massachusetts state charges, has an attorney in Amarillo, George McCarthy, who filed a motion to quash. Conley must be in Boston for a hearing on December 6. The case traces back to Conley’s 1943 marriage in Brockton to Lucille LaCroix and their daughter Lynette, born in 1945, amid a long sequence of family troubles.
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Louis Bob Conley
George McCarthy
Amarillo
Conley
Massachusetts
Boston
McCarthy
Lucille LaCroix
Lynette
Daily News Index scattered items across pages
A noisy table of contents lists multiple briefs and features including Madame Chiang Kai-shek visit recall Eisenhower story Tulsa war victim rites Portales youths honors Hereford school contract and more across pages 2 3 6 8 9 10 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 24 for various news features society sports editorials and classifieds.
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Henry
New York
Meyers Motor Co Weather Bureau Report
A weather report references the U S Weather Bureau and Meyers Motor Co noting local conditions and forecast details. The item emphasizes cooperation between the bureau and the business for public weather advisories.
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Meyers Motor Co
Stocking Without a Bottom What Am I Saying
Court notes from Los Angeles reveal a rising divorce rate as couples court after marriage. The piece humorously contrasts postmarital courting with those who court but do not wed ending up in court.
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Frank Morcan
Los Angeles
NY Post Corp
Eer
Reds Create Fist Fight in West Berlin
In western Berlin during a rally, Communist hecklers sparked a brawl as Social Democrats urged a vote against Communism. Police cleared the hall amid no arrests, while eastern Berlin saw Communists entrench themselves in city hall and a power struggle with the elected council.
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Reds
West Berlin
Berlin
Neukolm
Two Prisoners Escape From Curry County Jail
In Clovis two federal inmates William Wheeler and Harry Livingston overpowered jailer J H Joiner and his wife then escaped with a 16 year old companion. Wheeler and Livingston fled after seizing keys as Harold Blandin was being returned from a phone call. Deputies pursued but the trio escaped through a basement steel door. All three were held on federal car theft charges.
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Clovis
Tri-State
Curry County
William Lyle Wheeler
Harry Alvin Livingston
Schenectady
J. H. Jeiner
Harold William Blandin
Melrose
Jeiner
Blandin
Joiner
Wheeler
Livingston
Bill Collins
Val Baumgart
Baumgart
Madame Chiang Kai-shek Arrives in Capital for Backing Plea
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Washington for urgent backing from the United States as Nationalists seek firmer aid against the Communists. Ambassador Wellington Koo urged action in New York claiming Asia faces peril of falling to the iron curtain and China to Nanking.
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Chiang Kai-shek
China
Leesburg
George C. Marshall
Madame Chiang
Marshall
Mrs. Marshall
Washington
Wellington Koo
Nanking
Koo
New York
All Asia
United States
Freedom’s Crusade
China Institute
Arnd
Incomplete Phrase From Battered OCR Fragment
The text fragment appears disjointed and lacks clear news context or identifiable entities to summarize into a meaningful item.
Lecture and Dinner Schedule Across Cities
The notice lists events in multiple locations including Canyon Wilson Lecture by Dr DeWitt Jones at Administration Auditorium at 10 00 AM. Plainview Inter-church dinner at 7 15 PM at First Church. Boise play False ts Junior high at 7 30 PM.
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Canyon
Wilson
DeWitt Jones
Plainview
Boise
Thugs Robbing Pair Caught After Wichita Falls Heist
Wichita Falls police captured two men, Joe K Kennedy, 25, Amarillo, and David H Cook, 20, Kansas City, Mo, after a grocery store robbery. They used the same method as the One-O-One Liquor Store raid, tied manager and customer with binder twine, and fled in a stolen station wagon. They face two armed robbery charges and one car theft charge.
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Wichita Falls
Fillmore
Joe K. Kennedy
Amarillo
David
Cook
Kansas City
Western Motor Company
Buchanan
Kennedy
Clemency Denied for Alcatraz Riot Convicts
President Truman denies clemency to Miran E Thompson and Sam Richard Shockley for role in the May 1946 Alcatraz riot. They face execution in San Quentin’s gas chamber for killing guard William Miller. Thompson and Shockley held long prior sentences for murder and kidnapping robbery. Clarence Carnes also received a life term. he did not appeal. Three convicts and two guards were killed in the riot.
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San Francisco
Truman
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
Tom Clark
Frank Hennessy
Miran E. Thompson
Sam Richard Shockley
Thompson
Melvin Belli
Shockley
San Quentin
William A. Miller
Island Prison
Amarillo
Tex
Muskogee
Okla
Clarence Carnes
Oklahoma
Carnes
US Stealing Russian Children Charged by Soviet Paper
The Literary Gazette accuses US military authorities in Germany of taking Soviet children to the United States. It cites Valentina Kaverzin and claims hundreds of children are in American-occupied Germany and being given to German families for Germanization. It says authorities hinder reunification efforts and parental searches.
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Moscow
Literary Gazette
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Valentina Kaverzin
Amer
Literary
West Blasts Red Tactics Amid Berlin Crisis
Western powers rejected binding Soviet measures and warned of counter steps in the Berlin crisis. A UN Security Council neutrals committee was set for a 30 day solution, while China reported heavy fighting near Nanking and Suchow. In Palestine, Syria warned Israel’s UN bid could spark reconsideration, and Beirut reported clashes with casualties. Britain moved to extend conscription to 18 months.
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Associated Press
Paris
Berlin
Juan Bramuglia
Argentina
UN Security Council
China
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Leesburg, Va
Firma
High Plains
Ican-Occupied Zone
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Suchow
Palestine
Paris el Khouri
Syria
Israel
Peace Organization
Jamil Mardam Bey
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Lebanon
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