Berliners Stand Firm Against Communist Hecklers
West Berlin Social Democrats fought off Communist hecklers at a campaign rally as Ernst Reuter denounced the Reds and urged voters to repudiate the party on election day. Guards were deployed amid clashes with Soviet backed groups in the city’s split governance.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Social Democratic Party
Ernst Reuter
Abun Z
Reuter
Social Unity Party
SED
East Berlin
Madame Chiang Encounters Marshall in Washington
Madame Chiang Kai-shek met with Secretary of State George Marshall at Walter Reed Hospital for about four hours and emerged saying she was encouraged. She seeks stepped up U S aid for the Nationalist government in the Chinese Civil War, with President Truman noting an interview may be arranged.
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Washington
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
Marshall
Walter Reed Hospital
China
Chiang
General Marshall
Mme. Chiang
United States
Truman
Weather Update Colder Sunday Forecast
Colder conditions expected Sunday with a drop in temperatures after a milder yesterday around noon.
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Ours
Tax Study Sought After Abolition Of State Property Tax
Governor Beauford H. Jester said a thorough tax study is needed after abolishing the 30 cent state property tax by constitutional amendment. He will urge the Legislature to appoint a tax study committee with broad membership to review the tax structure and replacement revenue.
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Austin
Beauford H. Jester
byer_ Motor Cohrysler-Plyt
Santa Claus letter outlines Sugar Plum elf birthday party
Santa explains in a North Pole note that Sugar Plum turns five tomorrow and elves will bake elf sized sugar cookies, celebrate with cookies cocoa and a toy shop party. Mother Claus plans gifts a pair of tiny silver bells for slippers made by the cobbler elf.
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North Pole
Mother Claus
Sugar Plum Elf
Sugar Plum
What Am I Saying NOSES by Frank Morean
A humorous column riffing on noses and pay through the nose with a Jimmy Durante nod. The piece jokes that a nose should be seen and not heard and offers two tips to avoid a red nose: avoid sun shine and avoid moonshine.
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Frank Morean
Jimmy Durante
NY Post Corporation
Thousands Attend Amarillo Christmas Carols Display
More than 5000 people gathered in downtown Amarillo to hear 700 youth voices usher in the Christmas season with carols. Eleven student choirs performed at Polk Street intersections while crowds studied festive windows and toy displays.
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Polk Street
Amarillo
Julia Dean Evans
Sixth and
Polk
Wes Carr
KVAI
Inset
Third and
Vaughn Resigns as Potter County Chief Deputy
J C Dick Vaughn chief deputy sheriff resigns effective December 15 to join Graham Hoeme Plow Company sales. Vaughn, Amarillo resident, began as night jailer January 1 1933 and rose through the ranks. Sheriff Bill Adams calls him loyal and valuable and notes his work on hot check cases and forgers.
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J. C
Dick” Vaughn
Bill Adams
Vaughn
Graham-Hoeme Plow Company
Amarillo
Potter County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff’s Department
Sheriff's Department
Dick Vaughn
Adams
Amusing Keyboard Virtuoso Kapell Delights Amarillo Audience
The pint sized man with heavy black hair William Kapell gave a rare keyboard recital at Municipal Auditorium in Amarillo last night. Born in America and trained there he stands as a leading example of American musical education. His technique and precision wowed the crowd despite his youth.
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Municipal Auditorium
William Kapell
Kapell
Recita Kapell Leads Amarlo Philharmonic Recital
Recital by pianist William Kapell featured works by Scarlatti Bach Liszt Chopin Mozart and Schubert with encores including a Chopin prelude and Bach Jesus Joy of Man's Desiring. About 1200 in attendance praised precise diction and rapid fingering though warmth in Chopin numbers was noted as lacking. The concert was the fourth of ten in the season with Leonard Warren to follow January 21.
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Chopin
Liszt
Kapell
Mr. Kapell
Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestral Association
Leonard Warren
Notable Evening Events In Amarillo Downtown
An Amarillo brief notes a Christ campaign kickoff downtown and a Day event sponsored by a local center. Details mention a 8:00 PM YWCA festival at 501 Lincoln and a prament selection led by Howard R. Dill.
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P Center
Arolina
Ywca Pestival
YWCA
Lincoln
Howard R. Dill
Amrillo College
Spy Probe Flares Up Over Whitaker Chambers Documents
The House Un-American Activities Committee reported it has microfilmed copies of documents it says prove a broad espionage network within the State Department. Mundt said the materials were passed to Whittaker Chambers by a member of the Communist underground and then relayed to Soviet agents, marking a major breakthrough in a decade-long investigation.
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Mme. Chiang
Connally
Texas
White House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
House UN - American Activities Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Red
Viuis
Mundt
South Dakota
Chambers
State Department
United States
Communist Underground
Communist
America
Goldwasser
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Cleveland
Georgia
Communists Reposition Near Huai River Front
China war report says Communist columns along the Huai river swing north to block a government push from Suchow. The Suchow garrison moves south, assembling about 250,000 troops in three units, while government forces hold a large field near the Huai as Chen Yi redirects six columns toward the advancing southward army group.
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Nanking
Huai River
Suchow
Huai
Nankinging
Seven Boys Escape Mexia School Inmate Search
Dallas police issued a pickup broadcast for seven boys who escaped last night from the state industrial school for boys at Mexia.
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Dallas
U.P
State Industrial School
Mexia
Child Survives 22 Hours in Bitter Cold
Two year old Skippy Ray Randle wandered from home in a nightshirt and endured 22 hours in a wooded area near Mt. Pleasant Texas. Bloodhounds scouts and 1,000 men aided the search. he was found unconscious, treated with oxygen, and expected to recover.
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MT. Pleasant
Tex
Skippy Ray Randle
Texas
Skippy Ray
Avalog Uli
Joe Randle
Here
Manuel Blalock
Talco
Blalock
White Flag A' Flutterin MATADOR
Mrs. Arthur M. Tanner fled to Matador to buy No Hunting signs as quail hunters on the Tanner Farm north of town blasted windows, damaged a house, shot at milk buckets, and forced workers to take cover while surrounding the family.
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Matador
Arthur M. Tanner
Tanner Farm
Here
Tanner
Rana Ne Eee
Talmadge Pledges Guard Protection in Lynching Case
Gov. Herman Talmadge said he would call out the National Guard to protect Amy James Mallard, widow of a murdered Black man, from lynching as she refuses to return to Toombs County to swear out warrants. Georgia’s investigation plan and GBI rules were reviewed with Joseph M. Goldwasser, who represents Mallard as she seeks justice.
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Georgia
Herman Talmadge
National Guard
Joseph M. Goldwasser
Cleveland
Ohio
Amy James Mallard
Toombs County
Goldwasser
Ences Mallard
Mallard
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Louis Pippin
Madelyn Robinson
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