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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1947
Page
4
Walters Oklahoma December 8 W A Bennett 18 fashioned a crude jail key and escaped his cell to burglarize five locations. He pled guilty in district court to five charges and received a total 20 year sentence Judge Floyd Jackson gave five years for the hardware store burglary and fifteen years for four additional break ins.
Years after a capture, officers found an abandoned cotton gin where Bennett hid loot. He walked into a trap and his haul included the loot that entangled his ties to a long list of victims and associates including his own lawyer Gordon Coker among many named locals.
A Moscow cartoon in Trud shows John Foster Dulles as a dove carrying a noose labeled for General De Gaulle, reflecting harsh views of U.S. aid to France. The image accompanies reports on U.S. anti Communist rhetoric by Dulles in Paris and De Gaulle talks.
Justice of the Peace J. B. Jolley ruled Earl Charlesworth 30 died by his own hand in a pickup near Kermitt. Charles E. Compton found him as he checked a routine oil well pump nearby.
A local notice highlights the final showings of Kiss of Death at the State Theater with praise from Walter Winchell. The review lauds strong characters and performances by Victor Mature and Richard Widmark, and mentions audience interest in seeing more of Widmark. The piece also lists a long roster of attendees and locals connected to the screening.
Dr Edwards promotes Olive Tablets as a gentle bowel aid selling through drugstores. The claim: tablets act on both upper and lower bowels to produce natural movements with no stripping. Offered at 16 cents and 304 units.
The freighter American Leader carried eight million pounds of food to Le Havre, marking the first Friendship Train shipment. Ludovic Chancel, French consul general, accepted the aid in New York and praised American donors and U S lines which provided free transport. The message on the ship read gifts of food from US to France.
US Ambassador Henry F Grady says it is important to keep India on the side in the world struggle and his Washington consultations will focus on implementing his ideas. He will return from India with reports that officials have warmed to US aid and seek American technical help, though no loan request has been made. India remains nonaligned with the US or USSR as war concerns rise.
Advices from Aosta report the peace treaty between Italy and France jeopardizes the 1,000 year old hospice at Val D'Osta by ceding the area to France, disrupting funds and supplies for snowbound wayfarers and monks recently descended from St Bernard.
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