President Truman orders fact finding on GM strike and Windsor talks
President Truman names a fact finding board to probe the General Motors strike and to oversee talks as Ford of Canada rejects the CIO UAW offer for Windsor plant demands. The panel includes Judge Walter P. Stacy Milton Eisenhower and Lloyd K. Garrison. Ford and the UAW begin wage discussions in Detroit as CIO steelworkers invite renewed talks amid layoffs.
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United Press
Truman
General Motors
Ford of
Canada
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Windsor
Ont
Congress
Walter P. Stacy
Labor-Management Conference
Lloyd K. Garrison
War Labor Board
Milton Eisenhower
Kansas State College
Detroit
UAW
Philip Murray
Murray
United Steel Workers
CSO
Lieutenant Meyer Receives Anti Sub Duty Citation
After four years in the Navy as a torpedo bomber pilot Lt Buddy Meyer is home with his wife at 927 Bowie. He earned four battle stars and the Air Medal for anti submarine warfare while serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Buddy Meyer
E. B. Meyer
Bowie
Meyer
M. H. Leeb
Cleveland, C
Northwestern University
Palm Beach
Fla
U. S. Naval
U. S. Naval Service
Markets Dow Jones Stocks and Kansas City Livestock Report
Markets report shows Dow Jones averages at 1 P. M. with 30 industrials and rails mixed. Kansas City livestock prices steady to higher with cattle, hogs, and sheep trading active and values strong for good beef steers and vealers. Chicago hogs and overall live stock activity also noted as very active and steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
British Thunderbolts Bomb Strafe Indonesians
Oysters grow on mangrove roots exposed at low tide in regions where they attach themselves. The passage mentions British Thunderbolts bombing and strafing Indonesians, though details are fragmentary.
Cattle Market Mixed as Receipts Reach 12 000 at Amarillo
Amended trading shows cattle. Salable cattle 12,000 with high end fed steers fully steady to $17.50 18.00. Heifers largely steady with two loads of 950 lb choice at $18.00. Vealers scarce at $15.50. Lambs and lamb prices mixed with bids around $14.00 for best pelts and ewes above $5.75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
USDA
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Montana
Kansas
Extermination Through Work Ordered by Himmler
Evidence at a war crimes trial reveals Himmler ordered SS to work inmates to death in concentration camps. Goering favored slave laborers supplying their own food and resources. Documents show millions were forced to work under brutal conditions in arms factories since September 1942.
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Mernberg
U.P
Heinrich Himmler
Hermann Goering
Reich
Himmler
Housing price controls eyed to curb postwar surge
The government seeks legislation to authorize ceiling prices on old and new housing. The measure, before the House Banking and Currency Committee, aims to prevent further price spikes. Credit agencies will curb unsafe lending while OPA enforces local ceilings on construction materials. Snyder outlined six goals including boosting supply, tightening price controls, deterring speculation, and informing the public on home values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Banking and Currency Committee
Snyder
Truman
OPA
Newspapermen Visit in Waco
WACO December 12 press tour of southwestern newspapermen studying reconversion arrived from Amarillo and planned to inspect the General Tire and Rubber Company plant. The 500 employee facility faced a labor slowdown as production dropped from 12-15 tires daily to two or three amid a wage dispute with the United Rubber Workers Union CIO. The group was to depart for San Antonio and the lower Rio Grande Valley later today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco
Amarillo
General Tire and Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers Union
CIO
San Antonio
Rio Grande Valley
Fordham University weighs coach for 1946 football return
Fordham University officials explored hiring a football coach as they plan to resume the sport in 1946 on an informal basis. A spokesman indicated that no big name mentor would be signed.
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New York
U.P
Fordham University
Marshall testimony ties 1941 warning to Pearl Harbor attack
Gen George C Marshall testified before the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee that in August 1941 he believed the United States would be drawn into war with Japan if trends continued. He cited Army board reports alleging and denying early evidence of Japan’s war plans four days before Pearl Harbor and discussed Philippine and Hawaiian defenses and Japan’s moves in Indochina.
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George C. Marshall
United States
Japan
Marshall
Pearl Harbor
Army
Washington
Frank B. Keefe
Wisconsin
Keefe
Russia
England
Germany
State Department
Cordell Hull
Philippine
Hawaii
Oahu
Pan
Pacific
Princess Elizabeth Rumbaing in London Night Club
Princess Elizabeth, 19, seen out with no parental supervision in Mayfair, dancing the rhumba at a London night club until early morning while the king and queen stayed home. This was her second outing in two weeks as she prepares to be queen one day.
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London
U.P
Elizabeth
Britain
Life Insurance Agents Plan Christmas Dance
A Christmas dinner dance for Panhandle life insurance agents and their wives will be held at 7 o'clock tomorrow night at Thomas Dinner House on the Panhandle Highway.
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Panhandle Life Insurance
Thomas
Panhandle Highway
Real estate transfers and a divorce case listed in district court
A sequence of property transfers shows multiple parties buying or selling lots across Ridge mere Glenwood Forest Hill Adda and other blocks, including Beverley Hatcher Harrison McDougal and Moore. The District Court lists Mabel Beamer suing Eugene L. Beamer for divorce.
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Henry M. Beverley
Hatcher
Ridgemere
W. H. Sparks
Cecil M. Hunter
O. W. Harrison
James C. McDougal
Glenwood Adda
James CC. McDougal
Silvana Garcia
Glenwood
J. H Parish
J. H. Parish
Holland
Lathelle Harris
Edith Moore
Forest Hill
Adda
R H Venable
Clarence A. Willmering
G&s. Miles Realty Co
Oscar G. Holman, Jr
Bivins
Wm. D. Bartlett
Lewis Broom
Plemons
Lucy Armstrong
Jack T. Hicks
Roberts Place
Martha D. S. Houghton
Ervina Ferguson
S. J. Fredow
Bailey
Lee Holcomb
S. J
Gladys H. Hardin
Joyce Holbert
Johnnie D. Dollard
Johnson Lee McCaleb
Pleasant Valley FE
H McCullough
R. W. Baskett
G&s. District Court
Mabel Beamer
Eugene L. Beamer
Kentucky radio man John Ballard visits Amarillo
John Ballard, a Kentucky radio man and former Amarillo resident, spends a week here as a sales representative for the Nunn stations owned by J. Lindsey Nunn and son Gilmore. He previously worked at The Globe News and KGNC and now lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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John Ballard
Kentucky
Amarillo
Mr. Ballard
Nunn
J. Lindsey Nunn
Gilmore
KFDA
the Globe News
KGNC
Ballards
Lexington
Farben Knew of Nazi War Plans in 1938, Senate testimony says
Senatorial hearing quoted Col Bernard Bernstein stating I G Farben knew of Nazi war aims as early as June 1938 and aided their promotion. He urged that Farben must be destroyed to prevent future German aggression. The report also noted over 20 percent of U S urban dwellings lacked private baths in 1940.
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Say Farben
Washington
I. G. Farben
Bernard Bernstein
Germany
Farben
U.S
Paste on First Application Blue Star Ointment Ad
Itching from eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples scabies or toe itch is claimed cured on one application of Blue Star Ointment. Repeat as needed as it helps heal. Money back if first use fails to satisfy. Try it today.
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D. B. Grieg
Ford of Canada
Mrs
Chicago
NEW York Stock Exchange
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Am Radiator New Ewe
Am Smelt
Bethlehem Steel Aad
Borden Sweevee Ee
Braniff Free
Wwe
Cont Motors
Curtiss Wright
Shell Union Oil Steee Ween
Socony Vacuum Thee
Stand Brands
Teee
Stand Oil Inc
Studebaker
Spiewal Inc
Batavia
Java
Henry C. Clausen
Myron C. Cramer
Cramer
Great Britain
Philippines
Tan Ree
Chiropractor
Fillmore
Rumbas
Life Insurance
Hunsley’s House OF Color
Glen L. Casey
Waldo E. Houghton
Optometrist
Oliver-Eakle
Zale
Polk
Santa
The
Troy
Tyler
E Harrison
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