Silent Night and Some Holiness On Bethlehem Street
Sergeant Caldwell of the Black Watch guards a Bethlehem street barricade on Christmas Eve. Two prisoners, an Italian and a German, are kept at gunpoint as night deepens and a lorry with pickup orders creaks toward the town. Caldwell muses on the season while awaiting transport and recalls a prior eight hour battle with rebels.
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Black Watch
Sandy Caldwell
Caldwell
Old
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Mystery surrounds death of Pampa woman
Immediate work ordered to replace high school ceilings in Amarillo High School after a ceiling fell from a second floor room. The building committee authorized removal and reinforcement of ceilings to prevent future collapses following a near tragedy that could have killed or seriously injured students. Water saturated ceilings from burst pipes during a historic freeze prompted the action.
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Pampa
Amarillo High School
Board of Trustees
R. B. Norman
Farmer Tells Of Slaying Christmas Tree Thief
An 84 year old farmer William Case described the Christmas tree slaying of William Rousseau 37 and wounding of his wife 29 after they attempted to take a tree from Case farm The couple were tied to a car and Rousseau was shot Mrs Rousseau was hospitalized with critical injuries and a blood transfusion donor Sheriff Finegan stated Case lamented tree thefts claiming he never refused to give trees away.
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Elyria
William Rousseau
William Case
Case
Finegan
Man Arrest Warrant Deferred In Rising Truck Shooting
A man said he fired on two intruders at 2:30 AM after they dragged a tree into a road and fled. Deputies found Case asleep and Prosecutor Howard Butler is undecided on charges, noting possible justifiable homicide. In nearby Rousseau home, two children, Geral dine 11 and Sarah 8, waited for parents as grandmother Mrs. Sarah Dahm 69 spoke of possible non return.
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Case
Howard Butler
Rousseau
Grafton
Geraldine
Sarah
Sarah Dahm
Papa
Mama
Fair Weekend Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
The Amarillo area and vicinity expect fair skies on Saturday and Sunday. West Texas west of the 100th meridian also looks fair on Saturday, with New Mexico forecast to be fair on Saturday and Sunday. Temperature readings from yesterday show daytime highs near the mid forties and overnight lows in the upper twenties to thirties, with notable hourly values listed.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Spinelli Seeks Death After Wife Murder Arrest
William Spinelli, 59, arraigned on murder charges for killing his wife with an axe and burning her dismembered body in a home incinerator. Jailed without bail, his preliminary hearing is set for Dec 30. He cried out in custody, I want to die.
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Los Angeles
William Spinelli
Even Break for Railroads Asked
Roosevelt's special committee told the president that railroads need an even government break amid competition. It urged centralizing regulation under the Interstate Commerce Commission and a new agency to oversee all transport forms, with a separate federal court for financial reorganizations and ICC consolidation powers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Independent Transportation Board
ICC
Roosevelt poised to address Congress amid German row
Washington reports the White House may frame Mr. Roosevelt’s January speech to Congress in sterner terms over Nazi persecution. The State Department rejected Germany’s demand for an apology for Ickes remarks, signaling a global alert to U.S. moral stance and foreign policy.
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Washington
Berlin
Ickes
Roosevelt
Congress
State Department
Germany
Welles
White House
United States
Army bomber crash claims four lives near Uniontown
A twin engine Army B 18 bomber crashed in a field southeast of Uniontown Alabama during a rain storm killing four people. Major Warren A Maxwell of Maxwell Field identified two victims as James Dennis Underhill and Lieut John H Hydle amid uncertain numbers of aboard.
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Uniontown
Ala
Warren A. Maxwell
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Hensley Field
Dallas
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Maxwell
James Dennis Underhill
John H. Hydle
Highland Falls
N. Y
Underhill
Frank Glass
Hopkins Named Secretary of Commerce in Roosevelt Cabinet
President Roosevelt promotes Harry L. Hopkins a longtime New Deal critic to secretary of commerce amid questions of recovery policy and possible Senate opposition. F. C. Harrington named administrator of the Works Progress Administration, replacing Hopkins. Aubrey Williams may resign his post as deputy before Youth Administration duties.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Roosevelt
F. C. Harrington
Works Progress Administration
Hopkins
Harrington
Aubrey Williams
National Youth Administration
WPA
Congress
Congressional
Senate
Nomi
Retail Trade Reaches Top Levels for Pre-Christmas Week
Dun and Bradstreet reports that national retail trade rose to its best level of the year amid holiday buying. Merchants note higher average sales and this week’s stronger demand for better merchandise. Ray Pinkney of Amarillo re elected president of the Tri State Fair Association for the coming year. The association favors a small admission charge at the 1939 fair to boost revenue and support a loan to cover a $2000 deficit. A Chamber of Commerce committee suggested the gate fee as part of the fair’s future program.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Ray” Pinkney
Amarillo
Tri-State Fair Association
Pinkney
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Tom Cotten
Paul Edquist
Chamber of Commerce
The
Fair Association
John Boyce
Cotten
Death of dog Nuggie saddens Mrs. Mickey McCormick
In Tascosa a frail 82 year old, living alone since her husband’s 1908 death, mourns her dog Nuggie. She recalls how the sick dog died after a night in a warm box, a loss she equates with loneliness during Christmas. The story notes her long life in Tascosa and a journey from Baton Rouge to the West.
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Lewis Nordyke
Tascosa
Mickey McCormick
Casa Romero
Boothill
Nuggie
Mrs. McCormick
Baton Rouge
St. Louis
Dodge City
Port Sumner
Mobeetie
West
Maximum Sentences Given Would-Be Spy
Karl Allen Drummond a 21-year-old former Wichita worker was sentenced to two years in federal prison for attempting to sell American aircraft secrets to Japan. Judge Leon R Yankwich said he betrayed loyalty to the country after being convicted in a one day trial of taking photographs and blueprints of new army and navy planes from Douglas Aircraft. Government agents said he tried to sell the information to Japanese representatives.
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Los Angeles
Karl Allen Drummond
Japan
Leon R. Yankwich
Wichita, Kan
Army
White Deer Tragedy Spurs Autopsy Inquest
In rural White Deer a 22 year old woman, Mrs. Shirley Richards, was found dead in a farmhouse bedroom four and a half miles northeast. Biggs Rusk, 49, a truck driver, was found unconscious nearby and rushed to Pampa hospital in serious condition. An autopsy and inquest were ordered by Sheriff T. B. Harris and District Attorney W. L. MacConnell as investigators probe possible chemical analysis in the laboratory for clues.
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White Deer
Pampa
Shirley Richards
Here
Biggs Rusk
Rusk
Ree
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