Civil Service Plan Okayed by Amarillo Voters
Amarillo citizens approved placing the city fire and police departments under a state civil service system. Unofficial returns show 810 in favor and 211 against from 1,021 ballots cast. The measure shifts control from the city commission to a special civil service commission.
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Amarillo
Sixteenth Street
Wolflin School
San Jacinto School
City Commission
Special Civil Service Commission
Post Office Chief Reports Red Ink on Christmas Packages
Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson told a House subcommittee the Post Office loses about 4815 million on package carrying this year and 74 million on circular mail. Lawyer Nathan Boone Williams, a longtime observer, recalls early postal history and contrasts past profits with present deficits.
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Jesse Donaldson
House Post Office
Donaldson
Congress
Sation
Nathan Boone Williams
Williams
American Post Office
Seacoast
Paul Revere
Post Office Department
Murdock Free On 4000 Bond In Texas Killing
Sheriff says Richard Murdock a 49 year old city night watchman was released on $4 000 bond after being charged with murder without malice in the Sunday shooting death of James David Mullican 19 of Amarillo Mullican died after a car ride around the community Christmas tree with five companions. Murdock was indicted by a grand jury yesterday.
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Grand Saline
Clyde Elliott
Richard Murdock
James David Mullican
Amarillo
Murdock
Mullican
US Pushes Reich Merger Amid Allied Talks
London dispatch reports Secretary Marshall and French Foreign Minister Bidault opening exploratory talks on merging Western Germany into a single occupation zone. German leaders discuss creating a Western German state with Frankfurt as capital as Molotov heads to Moscow.
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London
Marshall
Bidault
Western
Germany
Frankfurt
Molotov
Moscow
Stalin
Politburo
Council of Foreign Ministers
Russia
Europe
Washington
United States
Ruhr
Rhineland
Britain
Saar
Newsmen
France
West
Six Die As Corsair Clashes With Bomber Over Norfolk
Six naval airmen were killed when a Corsair fighter attached to the carrier Coral Sea collided with the right wing of a patrol bomber from Amphibious Group Three over Norfolk Naval Air Station. The Corsair pilot died in the fire. One bomber crewman survived with minor injuries. five bodies recovered, one crewman unaccounted for.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Naval Air Station
Naval
Coral Sea
Amphibious Group Three
Seer Vanishes With $20,000 in Wichita Falls
A 50 year old Henrietta real estate owner filed theft by false pretext charges against a fortune teller in Wichita County Court. Annie Schucht said she gave $20,000 to be blessed for investment growth. the teller disappeared with the money around mid October after a brief absence. The case was presented by District Attorney Elmer Parish.
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Wichita Falls
Justice Court
Henrietta
Dist. Atty. Elmer Parish
Annie Schucht
Wichita County Court House
Parish
Boy’s Porter Ambitions Bother Railroads Cops
Clyde Thompson, a 68 year old Wilmington Del. man, dreams of becoming a Pullman porter. Police Patrolmen Sudmeier and Foertschbeck have detained him after two unlicensed train rides within two weeks. He says he wants the job because porters wear brass buttons and he enjoys traveling to go places.
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Baltimore
Clyde Thompson
Wilmington
Del
William Sudmeier
John Foertschbeck
Federal Land Bank of Omaha Announces 18 Percent Dividend
The Federal Land Bank of Omaha announced a special 18 per cent dividend on its capital stock. The notice was issued from Omaha on December 16.
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Omaha
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Man Charged With Theft Of 3 Suits Rifle Coat
John Yaun about 20 was charged in 47th District Court with felony theft for taking three suits a .22 calibre rifle and an overcoat from Ivan Grayson at 307 Roberts. Grayson says Yaun and his 19-year-old wife appeared to need shelter Monday night. Yaun had been living at the Phil-Ken Hotel 21344 Taylor.
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John Yaun
47Th District Court
Ivan Grayson
Roberts
Yaun
Grayson
Phil-Ken
Taylor
Congress Clears Decks for Probe of Speculation
A House probe into commodity market speculation moves forward as the Republican Steering Committee approves a seven member panel. Secretary Anderson proposes disclosure of trader names if Congress legalizes publication, and Senator Bridges presses for a list from the Commodity Exchange Authority.
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Congress
Washington
Anderson
Martin
Massachusetts
House Republican Steering Committee
House Committee
Senator Bridges
New Hampshire
Senate Appropriations Committee
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Edwin W. Pauley
Pauley
Army Royals
Bridges
Stassen
Agriculture Department
Commodity Exchange Administration
Truman
House
August H. Andresen
Andresen
Death by own action halts trial as Hurley pleads guilty
John Hurley a 44 year old Chicago man pleaded guilty from his hospital bed to violating the federal stolen property act. The trial was halted after he took poison during a court recess. He implicated swindling widow Barbara Kichler of nine thousand dollars and cried for his family to visit before death.
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ST. Paul
Minn
John Hurley
Chicago
Dennis F. Donovan
Hurley
Barbara Kichler
Dennis
Linus J. Hammond
Don Morgan
Federal
Santa Hopes For New Desk At North Pole
A playful Santa letter describes Christmas Eve stocking rituals and gifts from Mother Claus and elves. Santa hints at needing a special desk after receiving many letters, and wonders if elves at the toyshop are plotting a surprise desk and bed.
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North Pole
Mother Claus
Santa Claus Land
Carpenter Elves
Democrats Fight To Restore 88 Million In Foreign Aid
House Democrats launched an eleventh hour bid to restore 88 million dollars cut from a 597 million foreign aid program for France Italy Austria and China. The Appropriations Committee trimmed allocations and urged a wary plan for joint US Britain zones while delays loom on a compromise bill awaiting Truman’s signature.
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Washington
House Democrats
House Appropriations Committee
Cannon
Missouri
Rep
Mahon
Texas
Europe
Marshall
Truman
France
Italy
Austria
Appropriations Committee
China
House
Taber
New York
Germany
Japan
Korea
Britain
United States
Mee's Pal Cleared in Havana Slaying Case
Charles Jackson of River Forest Illinois was acquitted as the Patricia Schmidt murder trial neared its end. Schmidt admitted firing the fatal shot that killed John Lester Mee of Chicago aboard Mee's yacht in Havana Harbor. The prosecutor sought manslaughter, while the defense urged acquittal for Jackson.
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Havana
Cuba
Charles Jackson
River Forest
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Patricia (Sauira) Schmidt
Jackson
Felipe Gonzalez Larrain
Mee
Jose Manuel Fuentes
Miss Schmidt
Patricia
Gonzalez Larrain
Jewish War Vets Plan Spares Christians on Christmas Day
Dallas plan adopted by 14 Texas posts aims to let Jewish volunteers replace Christian workers on Christmas Day. More than 1000 Jewish volunteers have offered to take the place of Christians scheduled to work, state commander Charles F. Mayer said.
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Dallas
Charles F. Mayer
Twelve Feared Dead In Fiery B-29 Crash
A B 29 from Davis Monthan Field crashed on takeoff near Tucson during a long distance navigational training flight to Jamaica. At least 12 men are believed killed with eight survivors seen by a patrolman. The plane, from the 49th Bomb Squadron, disappeared in flames after two explosions.
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Tucson
Ariz
Davis Monthan Field
D. D. Burke
Walter Sheets
Arizona Highway Patrol
Varnum Field
Jamaica
British West Indies
Blind Peddler Kills Housekeeper in North Philadelphia
William Heithamer a 37 year old blind peddler shot his housekeeper Anna Austin 47 in his North Philadelphia apartment then walked four blocks in the rain with a cane to report the crime. Heithamer said the shooting was due to a sudden impulse as authorities charged him with homicide.
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Charles Beckman
William Heithamer
Broad Street
Beckman
Neithamer
Anna Austin
St. Joseph’s Hospital
North Philadelphia
Wheat crop in New South Wales destroyed by rain and rust
Department of Agriculture experts estimate 20 million bushels of the New South Wales wheat crop were destroyed by rain and rust. The snippet also mentions Puller brushes for gifts and FHA loans for repair from Olver & Wiggins Lumber Co.
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Sydney
Department of Agriculture
New South Wales
Olver _& Wiggins Lbr. Co
Santa Visits Dying Scranton Boy In Ambulance Tour
Ronnie Hill, 99 year old coal miner's son with progressive muscular dystrophy, was wheeled through Scranton toylands in an ambulance with a siren blaring. Stores and local officials arranged the festive visit, including a baseball gift from Eddie Doherty. Ronnie delightedly exclaimed I had a swell time as he returned home with his family.
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Scranton
Ronnie Hill
Ronnie
George E. Clark
Scranton Times
Lou Gehrig
New York Yankees
I. R. Samuel
Times
Santa Claus
Eddie Doherty
Scranton Red Sox
Boston Red Sox
Doherty
Boston
Francis Hill
Capital Blast Injures Eight in Washington Building
An explosion tore through the Empire Building in downtown Washington injuring at least eight. Firefighters suspect gas accumulation caused the blast as ambulances rush victims from Ninth Street and New York Avenue NW toward area hospitals. Collapse fears rose as rescues continued and residents were evacuated.
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Capital
Washington
Empire Building
Mt. Verenon Apartments
Ninth Street
New York Avenue
Capitol
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
LaFavers Stock Is Still Falling
The 5 year old Kenny LaFavers son of Mr and Mrs W G LaFavers fell scaling a fence in the yard. He landed with a bloody nose and eyelid impaled on chicken wire but escaped serious injury wearing a gauze turban. He has prior incidents including bicycle fall and a grocery store fire scare.
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Kenneth
LaFavers
Lady Luck
W. G
East Fifth
Kenny
Blackburn, Sr. in St. Anthony's Hospital Recovering
Amarillo funeral director E M Blackburn Sr has pneumonia at St Anthony's Hospital since last Friday. He is allowed brief periods out of an oxygen tent after returning from a month in Baylor Hospital Dallas before the emergency admission.
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E. M. Blackburn, Sr
Amarillo
St. Anthony's Hospital
Mr. Blackburn
Dallas
Baylor
Taft proposes watered down inflation curb test in Senate
The Senate moves to consider Taft's modified anti inflation bill as a stop gap before Christmas. The measure promotes voluntary industry wide agreements to curb costs with limited executive powers and omits a gold reserve requirement. Senate amendments restore wartime grain use limits and remove livestock marketing provisions. Taft doubts House action before adjournment. Tobey pushes a separate consumer credit controls bill.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Ohio
Voruay
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Senate Banking Committee
GOP
High Command
Tait
Congress
Truman
Representative Walcott
Michigan
House Banking Committee
Tobey
New Hampshire
What Am I Saying Alcohol Morcean Note
A short humorous paragraph by Frank Morcean on alcohol making dignity disappear as one feels sophisticated but cannot spell it. The piece is attributed to a 1947 edition of a newspaper column.
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Frank Morcean
Post Corp
Army chief defends reserves against snubbing charges
Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, Army information chief, denied accusations by the Reserve Officers Association that the Regular Army neglects the Reserve in building a postwar defense. He said the department recognizes reserves’ role and has an existing program with hundreds of officers working to advance it within authorized appropriations.
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Washington
Manton S. Eddy
Army Information
Army
Reserve Officers Association
FE. A. Evans
Association
Regular Army
Evans
Eddy
Department of the Army
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