Pauley Testifies on Grain Trades Amid Capitol Hearing
Pauley told the Senate Appropriations Committee he liquidated about 90 percent of his commodity holdings since September while serving as special assistant to the Army secretary. He said his deals were proper, with a record to be presented, and noted losses versus keeping the holdings would have been over $100,000. He kept 90,000 bushels of grain bought for employees.
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Army
Royall
Senate Appropriations Committee
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Williams
Delaware
Agriculture Department
House
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Truman
Anderson
Democratic National Committee
Sen
Ator Taft
Ohio
Army Department
Navy
Taft
Republican Policy Committee
Cincinnati
Republican Committee
Q Fever Outbreak Reported in Los Angeles
An outbreak of Q Fever in Los Angeles linked to dairy cattle handlers reports 116 cases with one death, the victim also had Hodgkin's Disease. Researchers from NIH and the State Health Department study transmission, noting prior outbreaks in Chicago stockyards and Amarillo in 1946 with two deaths at Amarillo.
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Los Angeles
Wilton L. Halverson
National Institute of Health
State Health Department
United States
Chicago Stockyards
Amarillo
Drivers Hold Ration Key Says Thompson
Col E O Thompson chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission told 225 Panhandle men that Texans can avoid gasoline rationing by using regular gasoline. He spoke at the Panhandle Plains regional meeting of the Natural Gasoline Association in the Herring Hotel. Thompson urged conservation and noted the Supreme Court upholding the commission’s authority to curb gas waste at Seeligson Field.
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Texas Railroad Commission
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Pampa
High Plains
J. D. Tompkins
Bureau of Federal Supply
Washington
Tompkins
United States
District of Columbia
Texas Railroad
Plains
Supreme Court of Texas
Seeligson
Desert chase ends for two federal prisoners
Two federal prisoners who escaped a Missouri medical center were captured in a desert near St. Johns Arizona after a three night pursuit by Apache and Navajo County officials and state patrol. One suspect, Maley, suffered exposure. a third man, McClellan, was apprehended earlier in Tennessee.
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Cumberland
Maley
Ellsbury
Missouri
Elsbury
A. C. Naegle
Kenneth Logan
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Close City
Tex
Grassland
McClellan
Charles Lee McIntosh
Jackson
Tenn
Edward Marion Harrison
Wichita
Kan
Frank Morcan
Aliar
N. Y. Post Corp
Marshall urges spiritual conquest to curb war propaganda
London dispatch reports Secretary of State Marshall calling for a supreme effort to silence war propaganda and win a spiritual conquest for peace. He told Pilgrims Society members that peace and understanding must be pursued as the world grows tired of war and fears a new conflict. He praised American public opinion aiding relief across the Atlantic.
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Marshall
Pilgrims Society
United States
Atlantic
Friendship Train Food For France To Reach Le Havre
Nearly 5,000 tons of Friendship train relief food donated by the American people are expected to arrive in Le Havre, France, Tuesday. The shipment underscores ongoing postwar aid efforts reaching western Europe.
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France
le Havre
Santa to Visit Community Tree Next Saturday Event
Hanson Post No. 54 of the American Legion hosts a community Christmas tree at Municipal Auditorium Saturday at 6 pm. Maynard Drake chairs packing of 2500 bags of fruit nuts and candy Thursday night at 6. Dixie Dice s Dancing Darlings perform. a Mount Zion Baptist Church tree for needy Negro children follows with J P Jefferson in charge.
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Municipal Auditorium
Maynard Drake
Ladies of the Legion Auxiliary
Charles Putman
L. A. Tipp
Buck Holman
Boots Jones
Seldon Simpson
Rhea Smith
B. F. Sheppard
John Pritckett
Schwellenbach Proposes Price Controls Amid Inflation Debate
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach outlined to Congress proposed price ceilings and rollbacks as Republicans debate an anti inflation bill. He sent the plan to the House Banking Committee and said a wage control bill would follow. He stressed ceilings only for essential commodities in short supply or with unreasonable price rises since June 1947, and not below the June 1–18, 1947 high unless costs fell.
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Labor
Schwellenbach
Congress
House
House Banking Committee
Wolcott
Michigan
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
United States
Big Four Talks Near Collapse In London
In London Bevin and Marshall clashed with Molotov during a harsh session of the Big Four foreign ministers conference. Molotov accused the western powers of profiting from Germany and sought to portray Allied occupancy as a strategic division. The exchange marked the lowest point in postwar talks.
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France
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FHA funds hike approved by House Banking Committee
Dec 12 the House Banking Committee approved an increase of 750 million dollars in the authorization for the Federal Housing Administration to insure mortgages on new homes. The Senate banking group has voted a 1 billion dollars increase.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
House Banking Committee
Senate Banking Group
Truman Signals Four Year Europe Aid Plan
President Truman wants Congress to guarantee Western Europe's recovery aid for four years, rejecting year to year funding. Alf M. Landon said Truman authorized the four year commitment totaling 15.7 to 18.3 billion dollars. Congress to receive the plan after talks with leaders. Senate House conferees agree on 500 million in stopgap aid and a 150 million RFC advance to Europe pending final legislation.
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Kansas
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France
Italy
Austria
China
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Joint Conference Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Aliar: A Man Who Blurs Fact and Fancy
A skeptical view challenges Aliar's claims as unreliable, asserting that his factual accuracy fails repeatedly and urging readers to doubt his sensational stories. The piece frames Aliar as evasive about truth versus fabrication.
Freedom Too Dear to Felons
PARCHMAN Miss Dec 12 A. L. Melott penitentiary registrar reports inmates granted Christmas leave have returned early citing the cost of life outside the prison as the reason. Several cases occurred last year and this year with only two or three days used of a 10-day period.
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State Penitentiary
Santa's Letter Dolls Packed For Good Girls
Santa Claus writes from the North Pole about packing a large batch of dolls for good girls. Mother Claus and elves rush to prepare many varieties including cuddly and walking dolls, with the grandmother elves supervising to sleep the dolls before packaging.
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Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas region
The Weather Bureau forecasts fair and cold conditions in Amarillo and vicinity for Saturday and Sunday. West Texas will be mostly cloudy with continued cold, occasional rain and snow flurries. New Mexico expects partly cloudy skies with light snow flurries in mountains and little temperature change. Temperatures will range from 30s to 40s in the north and 40s to 50s elsewhere. Extended outlook through December 17: below normal temperatures with no major daily change and precipitation from moderate to locally heavy showers expected Monday and Tuesday.
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US Weather Bureau
Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Rae
Gulf Plains
Split With AFL Climaxes Clash Over Red Oath
Washington December 12 John L. Lewis led 600000 United Mine Workers out of the AFL for the second time over refusal to sign a non Communist affidavit. The split follows AFL actions to comply with the Taft Hartley Act and restructured leadership to keep access to the NLRB. Adams announced Kennedy as vice president and Owens as secretary treasurer.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
AFL
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William Green
Green
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Federation
John O'Leary
Pittsburgh
John Owens
Ohio
Adams
UMW
CIO
Third Victim Of Fire Dies
SHAMROCK Texas December 12 Mrs Betty Brittain Anderson 16 died in Wheeler Hospital after burns from a blaze that destroyed her parents home near Kelton Just hours earlier two brothers Billy Darrel Brittain 5 and Danny Ray Brittain 3 also perished in the flames Their mother suffered burns and whispered that Betty was cleaning clothes when the explosion occurred The father was away at a nearby farm and Charles Brittain 13 was at school Bodies of the two boys were recovered by the Shamrock Volunteer Fire Department.
Cattle Raisers Press Truman on Foot and Mouth Cure
A delegation led by Chansler Weymouth of Amarillo urged President Truman to renew eradication efforts for foot and mouth disease in Mexico. Weymouth said the President was well informed and supportive, citing his own cattle losses in 1929. The group pressed slaughter and burial of all infected cattle inside the affected area, while Armstrong and Kleeberg criticized the Mexican program.
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Truman
Chansler Weymouth
Amarillo
White House
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Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Missouri
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Mexico
Thomas R. Armstrong
Armstrong, Tex
Robert J. Kleeberg, Jr
Kingsville
Tex
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