France and Gloves-Off Tactics End Strike Wave in France
Paris December 9 The Communist led CGT accepts government terms ending a month long strike that paralyzed the economy. Idle workers ordered to return tomorrow while the government grants a 1500 franc monthly cost of living indemnity and raises the minimum wage. The CGT claims victory on wage demands but loses on linking wages to prices and amnesty for strikers.
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France
Paris
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Robert Schuman
Tha Cribate
Chamber of Labor
Rome
Foreign Ministry
Soviet Repatriation Commission
Soviet Union
Berlin
What Am I Saying Lines What Am I Saying Lines
A short humorous note on lines and dates by Frank Morean. It suggests a good line is the shortest distance between two dates and that the most eloquent lines are displayed rather than spoken.
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Frank Morean
New York Post Corp
Gunman Takes 7000 Dollars in Terrell Night Raid
Sheriff Love Martin of Kaufman County reports a lone gunman robbed a private Terrell residence of about 7000 dollars expected to be savings for a truck driver Gordon Sanders and his wife. The money carried in a purse included three 500-dollar bills and various 100 20 and 10 bills. The attacker fled in a light colored coupe. no arrest or trace yet. The Sanders family, including a 13 year old girl and an infant, were at home when the intruder knocked and entered.
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Kaufman
Love Martin
Kaufman County
Terrell
Gordon Sanders
Sanders
Martin
Meat and Gas Ration Power Sought in Anti-Inflation Plan
The administration asks Congress for power to ration meat gas and other commodities as needed and to buy the wheat crop curtail steel and scarce items. Republicans call it too broad and plan substitute measures to extend export controls and promote voluntary price agreements. The proposal would allow the President to allocate materials including iron steel grains fats oils and fertilizer and extend controls through March 31 1950.
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Washington
Dec
Congress
Statby Authority
To & Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Harriman
Weather update for Amarillo and surrounding regions
Partly cloudy with a mix of cool to warm readings across Amarillo and West Texas. Expect lower temperatures in the Panhandle, with higher readings in the south, and scattered snow flurries in northern mountains of New Mexico.
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al Wainer
Amarillo
Chenege
West Texas
South Plains
Pecon Valley
New Mexico
Northart Mountains
Norn
Aiax
Pest
West
Texas West
Gulf Plaine
Three suspects linked to hot check spree in Amarillo
Victim No 7 led officers to two more suspects after a forged check run at multiple liquor stores began around 7 PM. The trio allegedly cashed 48 82 checks drawn on Amarlillo National Bank for Modern Motors and paid for whiskey with the same forged signature.
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Wayne Gentry
Liquor Mart No
Sixteenth
Monroe
Arkansas
Sheriff's Department
Amarillo National Bank
Modern Motors
Gentry
Five Children Rescued by Girl Baby-Sitter Heroic Save
Adele Haven a 14 year old high school Freshman used first aid training to rescue five children from a burning home in Libertyville NL. She saved Judy Kick 7 Barbara Kick 6 William 5 Donald 3 and Kenneth 9 months by carrying them to safety and protecting them with wet towels as flames and smoke filled the house.
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Libertyville
Adele Haven
Robert L. Kick
Judy Kick
Barbara
William
Donald
Kenneth
Marshall Plan Overhead Trimmed in Major Revision
Washington officials said the administration cut about 1.7 billion dollars from the Marshall Plan cost estimate, placing the four year program at 15.7 to 18.3 billion dollars. For the first 15 months beginning March 1, 1948, funds are reduced to about 7.25 billion dollars to begin aiding 16 European countries.
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Washington
Dec
Europe
Truman
Congress
Marshall
Inter-Departmental
United States
Texans Honor Railroader Robert Young In Austin Banquet
About 306 Texas political and business leaders gathered in Austin for a reception and banquet honoring Robert R. Young chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Notables included Gov Beauford Jester and railroad presidents D W Fraser P J Neff and W G Vollmer.
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Austin
Texas
Robert R
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Austin Statesman
House of Morgan
Wall Street
D. W. Fraser
M-K-T
P. J. Neff
Missouri Pacific Line
St. Louis
W G. Vollmer
Dallas
T&p
Warning on Black Market in Meat Rationing Sparks Fears
The American Meat Institute warned that restoring meat rationing would create super black markets. The item notes sensational controversy and mentions Louis Wolcott Peht and a Paramount Christmas display at Lucky's Dog House, 120 E. 7th.
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Chicago
American Meat Institute
Louis-Wolcott
Paramount Today
Lucky
Rabbit dies after two crashes into Christmas window
A rabbit in Tallahassee on Monroe Street leaped at a sparkling store window twice and died from the impact. Police Officer R L Blakey witnessed the scene as the rabbit wandered the brightly lit area on December 9.
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Tallahassee
Fla
R. L. Blakey
Monroe Street
Longview Oil Millionaire Rogers Lacy Dies at 64
Rogers Lacy, 64, Longview oil millionaire, died at his home about 4 45 this afternoon after suffering a heart attack two months earlier. He had been treated at Baylor Hospital in Dallas and returned to Longview two weeks ago. He is survived by family in Longview.
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Rogers Lacy
Longview
Lacy
Baylor
Santa's Letter Skippy Elf Injures Ankle At North Pole
Santa describes Skippy the elf slipping on a red striped skipping rope and spraining his ankle while at the hospital. The elf doctor expects a quick recovery after a couple of bed days, and Mother Claus and Santa prepare a gift basket to lift Skippy's spirits.
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North Pole
Littl Skippy Elf
Skippy
Medicelf
Mother Claus
Love
House Votes to Spur Truman on Foreign Aid Prices
The House approved a $590 million stop gap foreign aid bill and added a rule directing President Truman to curb the impact of aid on U S prices and supplies. Amendments seek to limit imports when cheaper abroad and prevent price rises while maintaining relief goals for France Italy Austria and China.
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House
Truman
Washington
Dec
A - House
France
Italy
Austria
China
Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
H. Carl Anderson
Minnesota
Dirksen
Illinois
Abernethy
Mississippi
Andersen
Hoeven
Iowa
Agriculture Committee
Rich
Pennsylvania
America
Dersen
Kenney foresees more efficient weapons than the atom bomb
Gen George C Kenney warned in Detroit that if another war occurs weapons more efficient than the atom bomb could be used. Speaking to the Michigan Post of the Army Ordnance Association he referenced Bikini tests and a theoretical attack on Detroit.
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Detroit
George C. Kenney
Strategic Air Command
Michigan
Army Ordnance Association
Bikini
Nuclear era asks rethink on Air Force armament
A defense discussion flags obsolete Air Force bombs and weapons for a projected jet fleet. Speaker Kenney warns modern high speed bombs require new aerodynamics, higher muzzle velocity, and faster rates of fire to hit faster targets.
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Kenney
Air Force
Creey
Bulgarian Premier Georgi Dimitrov Resigns
Premier Georgi Dimitrov submits his resignation and that of his government to the Bulgarian Parliament. Istanbul reports hinted at a southern Slav federation involving Yugoslavia with Tito as head of state and Dimitrov leading a new Communist International. The move comes as Bulgaria approved a sweeping new constitution praised by President Vasil Kolarov as highly democratic.
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SOFTA
Bulgaria
Georgi Dimitrov
Sofia
Dimitrov
Istanbul
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Communist International Information Bureau
Cominform
Vasil Kolarov
Trade Talks End as Moscow Expels Repatriation Units
Paris reports Russia and France expelled each other repatriation commissions and Moscow cut off trade talks. Moscow warned that the mutual assistance pact could be terminated. The move followed a camp raid and mass strikes linked to the broader Franco Soviet dispute amid shifts toward Britain and the United States.
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Paris
Russia
France
Moscow
Charles de Gaulle
Ussr
Camp Beauregard
Soviet Patriotic Union
Prance
Filatov
Sorokin
Beauregard
Union of
Allance
London
Forest Ministers Council
Bidault
Britain
United States
British aid on Palestine escalates border clashes
British troops with shoot to kill orders moved into the Tel Aviv Jaffa border area amid 10 days of Palestine warfare. Curfew and house arrest affect 20,000 Jews and Arabs while police patrols and guard lines are established to quell violence that has killed 112 and injured about 600.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Jaffa
Palestine
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
No Man’s Land
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