GOP Plans Own Control Setup
The Senate Republican Policy Committee aims to work with House members on a GOP anti inflation program including voluntary allocation of scarce cost of living items. Taft said a joint meeting with Senate and House leaders will shape two or three measures for the special session. Interior officials forecast a White House appeal for voluntary cutbacks in pleasure driving and urged Congress to grant emergency powers to fix prices and ration gasoline and coal.
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Washington
Senate Republican Policy Committee
House
Taft
Ohio
Senate
White House
Interior Department
Robert E. Friedman
Department
Oil and Gas Division
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Oscar L. Chapman
Interior
Congress
Beville Rites Are Tomorrow
Finallites honoring Harwood Beville attorney newspaperman and Democratic stalwart will be at 10 30 tomorrow in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel Dr Neal D Cannon will officiate Body to Clarendon for burial In state at Clarendon Methodist Church tomorrow afternoon Beville 60 died Wednesday night after a heart attack Longtime Amarillo resident former Clarendon editor and publisher later Treasury War Department legal work Bagwell Beville firm partner Surviving widow three sons sister brother four grandchildren
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Harwood Beville
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Neal D. Cannon
Polk Street Methodist Church
Clarendon
Clarendon Methodist Church
Beville
W.W. L. Bagwell
Bagwell & Beville
Trial Hearings Detail Wilson Shooting at Sportsmen Club
Ambulance attendant Paul Boxwell testified about finding Glen W. Wilson wounded at the Sportsmen’s Club and described the layout of the room. Officers reported two poker hands, money, and a pistol on the table, with Alex F. Phillips charged with Wilson’s murder after an argument over a poker hand.
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Mustrial
Paul Boxwell
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Fame
East Third
Wilson
MacCarthy
Boxwell
Phillips
St. Anthony's Hospital
G. B. Ford
Ason
W. W. Helton
Helton
Alex F. Phillips
Bonham
Glen W. “Cotton
Sportsmen's Bar & Grill
Maryland
Miss Hush Contest Sparks National Guessing Game
The Miss Hush radio contest on KGNC attracts nationwide attention as clues point to Martha Graham. Dancers, phone calls, and a growing prize list fuel speculation that Graham may be Miss Hush amid a large fundraising drive for the March of Dimes.
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KGNC
Miss Hush
Martha Graham
United Press
Jay Breen
Martha
Breen
Arggeh
Ralph Edwards
Hollywood
Edward
Hawaii
Edwards
Miss Graham
Storage batteries and coverings for electric cables use lead
Storage batteries and coverings for electric cables account for about half of US lead consumption, highlighting the material's dependence in energy and infrastructure sectors.
New Officers For Civic Club Elevate Clayton Heare President
Members of the American Business Club at their noon lunch at the Mexican Inn elected Amarillo attorney Clayton Heare as club president for 1948 after his prior role as first vice president. Installation will occur in January at a banquet at the Amarillo Country Club.
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American Business Club
Clayton Heare
Amarillo
Heare
J. B. Brown
Amarillo Country Club
J. C. Lilly
Floyd Cooper
Harry Hoare
Guy Cox
Nard Cazzell
Rolla Cartwright
Board of Governors
J. R. Brown
Monte Rosenwald
John Crudgington
Ralph Dykeman
Berlin Vance
Hugh Sticksell
Don Smith
Sterling Kinney
Gene Jordan
Amarillo Bar to Elect Officers Saturday at Noon
The Amarillo Bar Association will meet at 12:15 at the Amarillo Hotel to elect officers for the coming year, President Clayton Heare said. After the vote the meeting will adjourn to honor Harwood Beville, the association secretary, who died Wednesday night from a heart attack.
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Amarillo Bar Association
Amarillo
Clayton Heare
Harwood Beville
Shamrock Oil declares quarterly dividend in Pittsburgh
The board of directors of Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp meeting in Pittsburgh December 5 declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share payable January 1 1948 on all common stock of record December 18 1947. A drive for 6500 dollars for the Salvation Army at Pampa opened recently with a kickoff breakfast.
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Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp
Pittsburgh
Salvation Army
Pampa
Cut Aid Funds in Half Would Slash Emergency Foreign Aid
Rep Bartel J Jonkman a Michigan Republican tells the House an amendment would cut 290 to 300 million dollars from the 590 million emergency foreign aid program. Senate already approved 597 million for France Italy Austria. House version cuts European aid by 67 million and adds 6 million for China. A House resolution orders full export data from Secretary Harriman on scarce commodities and unfilled foreign orders.
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Washington
U.P
Bartel J. Jonkman
Michigan
House
Senate
France
Italy
Austria
China
Secretary of Commerce
Harriman
Inter- State Commerce Committee
Market summary shows widespread stock price shifts and grain quotes
Markets detail Merrill Lynch listings for Baldwin Locomotive Bendix Bethlehem Steel and many names with varied percent changes. Chicago grain quotes for wheat oats and a Kansas City livestock report note prices, openings, highs and lows with cattle hogs and sheep activity and USDA figures.
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Curtiss Wright
Irs i
Gulf Petroleum
Illinois Central Ry
Interlake Iron Canee International Harvester
International Paper International Tel
Jones-Laughlin Steel
Mid Continent Petroleum
Montgomery Ward
Sone
Nash Kelvinator
National Biscuit
National Gypsum
National Can
NY Central Rye
North American Aviation
Northern Pacific Ry
Ohio Oil Wes
Packard Motors Ead
Pan American Airways
Paramount Pictures Niece Ae
Penney
Phelps-Dodge
Radio Corporation
OGG Tom
Standard Oil Ind
Standard Oil
Saneeatis
Studebaker
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf Sylph
United Aircraft
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Kansas City
Thomas Scoffs at Pink List
Washington December 5. Chairman J Parnell Thomas of the House Committee on Un American Activities dismissed the Attorney General’s list of about 80 subversive or suspect groups as utterly farcical. Clark defended the list as a tool for loyalty checks on federal workers while warning it is not complete or final.
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Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
House Committee On Un-American Activities Today
Clark
Thomas
Committee On UN- American Activities
Communist Party
Bund
Ku Klux Klan
Columbians
American Youth Congress
American Youth For Democracy
Civil Rights Congress
Refugee Committee
Hollywood Writers Mobilization For Defense
Justice Department
Truman
Abraham Lincoln
Chicago
George Washington Carver
New York City
Jefferson School of Social Science
Ohio School of Social Sciences
Philadelphia
Samuel Adams
Boston
School of Jewish Studies
Seattle Labor School
Seattle
Tom Paine
Westchester
Walt Whitman School of Social Science
Newark
Miss Swarthout Seeks Cold Christmas in Fort Worth
The singer Miss Swarthout comments on Fort Worth weather and dust storms, notes her tour route toward San Antonio and Connecticut, and mentions a Christmas birthday and a wedding anniversary. She plans concerts with tickets via Panhandle Concert Bureau. doors open 7 p.m. at the auditorium.
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Fort Worth
Panhandle
East Ninth
Indictment of 10 Hollywood writers and directors
A federal grand jury indicted ten Hollywood writers and directors for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer if they were or had ever been Communists. Indictees include Maltz Trumbo Ornitz Lawson Lardner Biberman Scott Cole Bessie and Dmytryk. Conviction risks a year in prison and a $1000 fine. The action stems from House Un American Activities hearings on alleged Communist influence in film.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Albert Maltz
Dalton Trumbo
Samuel Ornitz
John Howard Lawson
Ring Lardner, Jr
Herbert Biberman
Man
Robert Adrian Scott
Lester Cole
Alvah Bessie
Edward Dmytryk
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Communist Party
Robert Taylor Quail Hunt Ends in Panhandle
Movie star Robert Taylor left Amarillo noon after four days of quail shooting at the Big Bull ranch near Canadian. The party bagged limits of the small birds and departed in Taylor's plane.
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Robert Taylor
Hollywood
Big Bull Ranch
Canadian
Taylor
Amarillo
The Women Folk presented by Amarillo High dramatics class
The Women Folk a play was presented this morning by the second period dramatics class in the Amarillo High School auditorium directed by Mrs N N Whitworth head of the high school speech department. Bill Creamer played the author Mary Ann Harris is the secretary he marries De Lores Young the fiancee his family picks for him Loretta Merrick the mother Jean Hale the little sister Jane Wheeler the older sister and WilLina Clark Aunt Julia
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Amarillo High School
N. N. Whitworth
Bill Creamer
Mary Ann Harris
de Lores Young
Loretta Merrick
Jean Hale
Jane Wheeler
Willina Clark
Julia
Davis Wins Land in Wyoming Veteran Drawing
Marys C. Davis, Amarillo, one of 67 winners in a public drawing for 6 850 acres of homestead land in the Riverton Reclamation Project Wyoming. Gov. Lester C. Hunt conducted the drawing for veterans of World War II with entries submitted months earlier.
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Amarillo
Marys C. Davis
North East
Fighth
Wyoming
Bureau of Reclamation
Riverton Reclamation Project
Riverton
Wyo
Lester C. Hunt
Panhandle
Thomas H. Coleman
Plainview Man Held on Coast
Riley Scott Cochran a 32 year old Plainview Texas man was booked on drunken driving and carrying a concealed weapon in Madera California. Officers said he claimed warrants from Louisiana Nevada and Federal authorities and swore he worked a Nevada City mine after arriving in California.
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Madera
Cal
Riley Scott Cochran
Plainview
Tex
Federal
Lousiana
Nevada
Cochran
W. C. Dickson
H. B. Walker
George Terry
New Orleans
Louisiana
New York
California
Terry
Nevada City
Oklahoma
Reno
Marshall urges concrete German peace terms at ministers council
Secretary of State Marshall told the Foreign Ministers Council to drop generalities and seek each delegation's real aims for Germany peace terms. He rejected Molotov's push for a central German government and warned that a divided Germany would be a sham. He opened the discussion on Germany's economic future with a 1,000 word statement.
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London
Marshall
Foreign Ministers Council
Germany
Molotov
Sandie Fans to Get Free Ride to Field
Sandie football fans traveling to Wichita Falls for Saturday's game will receive complimentary transportation. Melvin Sisk of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce and R. B. Norman outlined arrangements, with courtesy cars ready at the Kemp Hotel at 1 30, and special transport for the Sandie band after the train arrives.
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Sandie
Wichita Falls
R. B. Norman
Melvin Sisk
Man Caught Rifling Mail Truck
Police held a man for postal investigation after he was found rifling an airmail delivery truck behind the post office at about 430 this morning. J W Brown the delivery driver stopped him until officers arrived. The vehicle owner is J E McAvoy Jr of Polk Street.
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Postal Authority
J. W. Brown
Brown
J. E. McAvoy, Jr
Polk
McAvoy
Gangster Is Answer to Theater Question Marks
Hundreds of large question marks covered the State Theater as shoppers guessed the meaning of Kiss of Death. A Tommy Udo cutout on the marquee portrays the killer in a psychopathic role. the show opens this afternoon at regular prices.
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State Theater
Tommy Udo
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