Markets from Amarillo exchanges and quotes
The 1 o'clock New York stock quotations are relayed by the Amarillo offices. Entries include Beane 3 PM, Merrill Eyneh, Lockheed, Mack Trucks, and various metals and industrials with percentages and prices. Names appear garbled, but the piece lists several firms and percent figures for quick reference.
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New York
Amatillo
Merrill Eyneh
Pierce
Sebiah Portia
Lockheed Aire
Chiang Kai-shek Faces Decisive Clash as Reds Press North
Associated Press analysis notes Chiang Kai-shek's forces are outnumbered about two to one by Chinese Communists aided by Russia. The piece considers possible outcomes including a fall of Nanking, a divided China, and the danger of a Communist coalition government. Chiang reportedly intends to fight on, with retreat possible to Canton if beaten.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Chiang Kai-shek
Nanking
China
America
Llse
Chiang
Reds
Jin Nanking
Canton
Huge plant rebuilt in Hungary hires 800 workers
Reconstructed after 70 per cent war damage, a large electric machinery factory in Hungary is now the biggest of its kind in Eastern Europe and will employ 800 workers. Miners at Abercynon colliery near Pontypridd set a five day record of 7 237 tons, 1 037 above target, the highest since July 1943. Paris waiters protest 1948 American tourist French speech limits use of GI slang.
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Hungary
Europe
Abercynon
Pontypridd
Wales
Paris
Texan oilman dodges fines as car is towed again
Wesley West, Houston oilman, kept paying $5 parking fines after parking in a bus zone. A wrecker towed his car amid a police intervention, then returned it. West suspected a prank. Police offered another chance, car reappeared with a new $5 ticket.
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Acuston
Honaire
Wesley West
West
Houston
Struck Plants Under Guard After Kalamazoo Raid
Kalamazoo Michigan police backed by sheriffs and state officers patrolled Shakespeare plants after a dawn raid by about 300 men. Authorities investigate the raid seen as possibly Communist tied, while the CIO United Steel Workers strike for seniority and probation changes continues. Governor Sigler orders grand jury inquiry as union accuses the company of importing strike breakers.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Shakespeare Companies
Grand Jury
Ate
Donald S. Leonard
Howard Hoyt
Pau
Kim Sigler
Sigler
CIO
United Steel Workers
Glenn E. Sigman
International
Back Wages Demand Ties To Monterrey Strike
Back wage claims totaling about 400000 were involved as the Monterrey steel mill strike stretched for months. The steel company had already lost over 6 million dollars plus contractor and industry losses. Presidential intervention was viewed as the sole remedy amid wide impact on the mining and related sectors. A separate note: Sunray's new 84000 sewer system was recently completed with an expanding water system nearing completion.
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Monter- Fey
Struck Steel Company
Mexco
Principa
Monterrey
Sunray
Boxcars Jump Track Flatten Empty House
A Reading railroad freight train jackknifed today and left two cars off track on Noble Street. The cars formed a crude V wedge that struck an unoccupied three story house, causing three walls to cave in from first floor to roof and exposing interior floors. Four residents nearby awakened in alarm. two were hurt and two suffered shock while fleeing.
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Else EC
Reading Railroad
Noble Street
Berlin dispute delays Western liaison officers in city hall
British officer Lt. Col. Whiteford balked at a German demand to inspect files and pictures of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Berlin city hall as Soviet zone tensions flare. American and French liaison officers paused packing as U S Britain and France ordered closures to avoid recognizing the eastern Berlin Communist rump government.
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Berlin
King George
Queen Elizabeth
H. P. Whiteford
Friedrich Ebert
Ebert
Whiteford
United States
Britain
France
Dentist Seeks 276000 in Texas City Blast Suit
Dr. James L. Rout of Texas City files a 276000 damage suit in Galveston district court alleging inability to resume his dental practice after the October 18 gas explosion near Texas City. The Houston attorney represents Rout from the hospital in Galveston. Defendants include Republic Refining Company Pan American Production Company Pan American Pipe Line Company Monsanto Chemical Company and Stone Oil Company. The blast killed seven and injured many as gas accumulated on the gateway exploded while cars waited for a train. Rout's reported monthly income was 1000.
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Ausolu
Texas City
Fred Parks
Houston
Galveston
James L. Rout
Republic Refisting Company
Stone Oil ‘Company
Pan American Production ‘Company
Pan American Pipe Line Company
Monsanto Chemical Company
Texas Wheat Expert McFadden Honored for Disease Resistant Wheat
Edgar S. McFadden of College Station, described as the Burbank of the wheat field, received the American Agricultural Editors Association award in Chicago for distinguished service to American agriculture. He co directs as an agronomist with the USDA and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and developed Hope wheat and rust resistant oats, plus Austin wheat grown on over a million Texas acres.
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Evenn Station
Texas
Burbank
Edgar S. McFadden
American Agricultural Editors Association
Chicago
College Station
McFadden
US Department of Agriculture
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Austin
Reader's Digest
Texas Chemurgic Council
American Society of Agronomy
Toy plane mimics bird flapping under Wright Field engineer
Adam J. Stolzenberger, civilian engineer at Wright Field, says he built about 250 models and now has a rubber powered ornithopter that flies. He aims to commercialize it and envisions a man carrying version. scientists see ornithopters as a potential private aviation breakthrough. He heads the dynamic model unit at Wright Field’s laboratory engineering division.
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Wright Field
Adam J. Stolzenberger
Big Air Force Base
Stolzenberger
Stolnenberger
Wright Field Laboratory Engineering Division
Israel Entry Plea Hangs Fire in UN PARI
Israel seeks immediate UN membership but the US and Britain clash in the Security Council. The issue is referred to a membership committee without a formal vote. Britain calls the Israeli application premature as the Palestine question remains unsettled.
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Israel
Council
United Nations
United States
Britain
Alexander Cadogan
Palestine
Haggerton Case Involves Indictments After Auto Theft Ring
Grand jury and police traced a moving car incident to a theft ring led by the Haggerton brothers. Four Amarillo youths admitted about twenty thefts on Sept 18, linking the brothers to several cases. The Haggertons were indicted on Sept 20 and returned from California to face trial.
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Haggerton
Grand
Grand Jury
Amarillo
Haggerton Brothers
Haggertons
California
Jester Rules Out Special Session on Gilmer Aikin Report
Gov. Beauford Jester announces no special session of the Legislature as the Gilmer Aikin Committee report on Texas education goes to the upcoming regular session. He praises the committee of 18 as capable and urges parents and teachers to study the recommendations for school system reforms.
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Gilmer-Aikin
Austin
Texas
Beauford Hi
L. A. Woods
Gilmer-Atkin
Legislate
Woods
Gilmer-Aiken
State Board of Education
Communists claim Suchow fell as forces push toward Nanking
The article notes a Communist broadcast claiming Suchow fell and reports three government army groups retreating toward Nanking. It mentions Suchow 211 miles northwest of Nanking, with units moving south to aid Nationalist forces under attack in Suhsien and Pengpu, and the Suchow garrison blocked about 25 miles south.
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China
Suchow
Nanking
Rnns
Suhsien
Pengpu
City audit flags poor ledger control on consumer deposits
The audit notes the general ledger shows 67 787 in consumer deposits to secure accounts receivable with city funds. It reports missing subsidiary ledger details not reconciled with the control account and calls for a correct deposit total and an adequate accounting system. The water department audit cites nearly seven and one half million dollars in deposits.
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Vaughan
Water Department
Post Office Department Targeted in Reorganization Talks
Republican Rep. Clarence J. Brown of Ohio hinted at upcoming changes in the Post Office Department as a focus of the bipartisan executive reorganization commission. Brown spoke at the 53rd annual Congress of American Industry, while NAM attendees heard Secretary Sawyer suggest a forthcoming anti inflation program details. Former President Hoover leads the commission.
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New York
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Republican
Post Office Department
Brown
Congress of American Industry
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Commerce Sawyer
Sawyer
Washington
Truman
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Government Organization Commission
Con
Swindling Charge Returns Man to Potter County Jail
Harold Farris alias Richard Owens held in Potter County jail after being returned from Lansing Kansas to face swindling by worthless check charges. He allegedly defrauded R. L. Curtis of 995 dollars with a worthless auto payment check dated December 9 1946.
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Harold Farris
Richard Owens
Potter County
Lansing
Kan
Farris
O. W. Moore
R. L. Curtis
South Seen as New Corn Belt
An Agricultural Department expert warned Midwestern corn growers to protect soil or risk the South overtaking the nation’s corn production. Robert M. Salter of the Bureau of Plant Industry cited longer growing seasons and greater rainfall in the South, urging modernized practices and soil conservation.
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Chicago
Agriculture Department
South
Robert M. Salter
Bureau of Plant Industry
The
Agricultural Research Administration
American Seed Trade Association
Midwest
Salter
French cabinet approves Chartres airfield move to spare cathedral
Paris reports the cabinet plans relocating the Chartres airfield away from the cathedral to protect it in case of hostilities. The project is projected to cost 61 million dollars.
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Paris
Chartres
Scandinavia Warned on Military Bloc by Moscow Paper
The government newspaper Investia warned Scandinavian countries against plans for a Scandinavian military bloc. It called the move an American device to draw them into the Western Union, saying it would invite aggression against the Soviet Union and citing history’s lessons on small nations' disasters when joining expansionist powers.
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Scandinavia
Moscow
Investia
Miss Jo Ann Sneathen Crowned Guest at Tulia Football Banquet
Miss Jo Ann Sneathen was crowned guest of honor at Tulia High School football celebration with players and staff in attendance. The event highlighted the team’s season and community support.
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Jo Ann Sneathen
Tulia
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