Lipstick Slayer Still At Large In Chicago
Chicago reports the so called lipstick slayer who stabbed and shot Frances Brown a 33 year old stenographer left a lipstick message on her Pine Crest Hotel apartment wall. Police and state authorities have questioned many suspects over four days of investigation but no arrest has been made. A lab test indicated the warning message was written by a man.
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Chicago
Frances Brown
Miss Brown
Pine Crest Hotel
Police Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory
Arrivals on Both Coasts Stir Troop Carrier Schedule
Seventy nine troop carrying vessels are due at nine East and West Coast ports today, bringing over sixty two thousand servicemen. Ships arriving span New York Newport News Boston Portland Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco Seattle and Tacoma with vessels from Southampton Calcutta Le Havre Antwerp Mindanao Pearl Harbor Okinawa and more, reflecting broad postwar redeployments.
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Associated Press
New York
Queen Mary
Southampton
Marine Panther
Calcutta
J. W. McAndrew
Marseilles
Colby Victory
le Havre
Croatan
Saturnia
Bermuda
George McCrary
Henry Ward Beecher
Tabitha Brown
Samuel Ashe
Merseilles
Montclair Victory
Reverdy Johnson
F. J. Luckenbach
Brand Whitlock
Antwerp
George Bellows
Milford Victory
Portland
Gage
Manila
Los Angeles
Shamrock Bay
Pearl Harbor
Callaway
Canberra
Balboa
St. Louis
Russell Island
Yarmouth
Independence
Iwo Jima
White Marsh
Grant
Thistle
War Hawk
Valerian Rev
San Diego
LST
Hableton
San Francisco
Gen. Aultman
Mindanao
Calvert
Warwick
Tribesmen Surround Iranian Garrisons Near Tabriz and Ardabil
A high government source said rebellious tribesmen threaten immediate capture of the Azerbaijan province capital Tabriz and Ardabil. Provincial Governor Bayatt arrived in Teheran saying he was forced to leave Ta briz by local autonomy leaders. Iranian garrisons in both cities were surrounded demanding surrender.
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Teheran
Azerbaijan
Tabriz
Ardabil
Bayatt
Byatt
Movement For
More British Troops Arrive in Java to Restore Order
BATAVIA Java December 14 A British spokesman said two companies of the Third and Fourth Gurkha divisions and a battalion of the British Sixth Airborne Division arrived in Java to augment the forces restoring order. Dr Hubertus J Van Mook acting governor general rejected Indonesian calls to take the independence dispute to the United Nations.
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Batavia
Java
Hubertus J. van Mook
Dutch East Indies
United Nations Organization
Lost German gloves and free puppy offered
A reader reports lost gloves sent from Germany found by a woman who could not provide her address and offers a reward. Also a pretty puppy is to be given away with phone contact at 804 Georgia to arrange a viewing.
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Germany
Denar
Georgia
Lost kitten Tom in Washington area seeks owner
Dear Tack notice from Jean Gardner reports a dark gray half grown part Persian kitten named Tom missing from 2112 South Washington. A reward is offered for information leading to recovery. contact 2 3387.
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Tack
Washington
Tom
Jean Gardner
Kansas City and Chicago Livestock Markets Report
Kansas City area items report cattle salable 400 of 1 400 calves 150 of 300 with steady demand. hogs salable 1 000 total 5 000 at ceiling. sheep 1 500 similar steady with lambs 13 50 13 75 and ewes 6 50. Chicago market shows hogs 14 000 at 14 85 ceiling, cattle 2 300 with steers 18.00 and vealers down, sheep 10 500 with good and choice lambs 14 25 14 40 and natives around 12 50 13 75.
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Dow-Jones
Merrill Lynch
Pierce
Inner & Beane
Stoc
NEW York Stock Exchange
Grae Fenner & Beane
Armour & Co Wee
At&if Tee
Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locossaveu Cores
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel
Borden Ee
Braniffee We
Briees Mfg
Budd - Burroughs Add
Chrysler Ee Eee Comm Investaces
Sinclair Oil
Ewne Eeeseess Sa
Cont Motors
Curtiss Wright
Deere & Co
Douglas Aircraft
General
General Electric
Motors Ee
Goodyear Tree
Harvester
Kennecott Copper
Lockheed
Glenn L. Martin
Gulf Oils
Montgomery Ward
Nash Kelgina
Nat Bisc
Nat Can Re
Y Shipbuilding Ee
Nor Am Avia
Ohio
Oja
Packard
Pan Amer Airways
Paramount
Penn RR
Phelpa-Dodge Co
Phillips i
Nor Pac
Olis
Cee
Rep Steel Radio Corp
St Jo Lead
Sears
Spiceal, Inc
Texas Cor
Kansas City
USDA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Courthouse Records Deeds and Divorces Listed
Deeds recorded for multiple pairs including A Mays to E F Jordan and J Dees lines, various lot transfers and fractions in Fairview, Roberts, Morningside, and Belmont Park. divorces listed: Oma Bowerman v A Bowerman and Alvin Morris v Helen Morris plus Frank Mitchell v Bedell Mitchell and Vera Mae Manley v Earl J Manley. District Court entries note additional divorce actions.
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Wapnanes
A. Mays
EF. E. Jordan
John Dees
L. Hand
W. A. Mays
John Dees, Jr
Ray C. Sawyer
Lota
Plemons
Dollar
Ira Wiggins
Farview Townnite
J. R
Charlies S. Honeycutt
Edwin L. Hart
Albert Mackey
Bertram V. Blackwell
G&s. Cheater
A. Chadwick
Grace M. Chadwick
Roberts
James Donnell
Ira Noblett
S. J. H Thomas D. Pitt
Remote Pacific Corner Sought for A-Bomb Test
The atomic bomb is expected to have its ocean test in a remote corner of the Pacific next spring. White House officials indicate President Truman urged the joint Army Navy test against warships, with preparations possibly taking up to five months.
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Washington
Pacific
White House
Truman
Billy De Sautell Returns After 18 Months Overseas
Billy De Sautell steamtfitter third class, son of Mrs J V De Sautell of 924 East Twenty seventh, has returned to the United States after 18 months in the Pacific theater. He arrived in Portland Oregon on Monday. He enlisted October 6 1943. His wife and young son Billy Jr live in Bridgeport Oklahoma.
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Billy de Sauteel
J. V. de Sautell
East Twenty-seventh
United States
Portland
Ore
Billy, Jr
Bridgeport
Okla
Perryton Hails Growth and Town Pride in Letters
A Perryton letter from Sue Hargrave touts rapid town growth and civic achievements. She notes a new post office, stadium, pool, park trees, a white elevator visible from 20 miles, and ongoing construction including a church and five Main Street buildings. She references local organizations and predicts 20 000 residents in five years.
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Tack
Malin
Spearman
Texas
Mr. Malin
Perryton
Wheat Center
Spearman-versus
Morgenthau
Panhandle
Kansas
Main Street
Chamber of Commerce
Ochiltree County Herald
Lions International
Rotary
Sorosis
City OF
Sue Hargrave
Seek Outlet for Cotton Made Available to Germany
Washington reports the United States weighs loaning or selling 2.5 million bales of surplus low grade cotton to Germany to aid its recovery and supply European clothing. Possible channels include the Export-Import Bank or CCC loans, UNRRA purchase, or a relief payment plan. No decision has been made.
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Washington
Germany
Europe
U. S. Export-Import Bank
Commodity Credit Corporation
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Electric torpedoes sank vast Japanese shipping in World War II
Westinghouse produced electrically propelled torpedoes with no wake. The 10 000th unit rolled out on Wolf Day at Sharon Pennsylvania. They sank 1,850,200 tons across 372 ships, from battleships to merchant vessels, first produced in 1943 with compact motors and corrosion protection via Parkerizing.
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Sharon
U.P
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Westinghouse Transformer Division
Navy
Westinghouse
Massachusetts Death Toll in King Philip's War 1675
In Massachusetts in 1675 one man in every 16 of military age was killed in King Philip's War.
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Massachusetts
Holiday Extension Sought by UT Students
More than half of the University of Texas student body petitions for a continuous Christmas holiday from December 23 to January 1. Classes would end December 22 at 1 PM and resume December 28 at 8 AM. Navy regulations govern the change and Navy department approval may be required.
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T. S. Painter
Navy Department
British Approves Bretton Wood Pact Linked Loan
The House of Commons ratified the Bretton Wood monetary stabilization pact in a voice vote, meeting a condition for the United States to grant Britain a 4.4 billion dollar loan. The measure passed on its third reading 345 to 98 and moved to the House of Lords.
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London
House of Commons
Bretton Wood
United States
Britain
House of Lords
Commons
Hawaii attack inquiry hearings face slow pace and friction
Republican members on the Pearl Harbor investigation committee scowl at lengthy questions from Sen Homer Ferguson and Reps Frank Keefe and Bertrand Gearhart. Sen Owen Brewster has been absent due to his father’s death while Mitchell voices doubt about completing the inquiry by January and questions the defense lapses at Pearl Harbor. The staff includes Gerhard Fesell Jule Hanneford and John Masten.
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Homer Ferguson
Michigan
Frank B. Keefe
Wisconsin
Bertrand W. Gearhart
California
Owen Brewster
Maine
Mitchell
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Gerhard A. Fesell
Jule M. Hanneford
John E. Masten
Influenza Epidemic Grows Across Texas in December
Texas reports 7 332 influenza cases for the week ending December with a seven year median of 1 128. Dr George W Cox notes tenfold underreporting and lists Brewster Cooke Grayson Ward Midland Taylor Tom Green Webb counties as highest incidences with counts ranging from 109 to 370 cases.
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Austin
Texas
George W. Cox
Cox
State Department of Health
Brewster
Cooke
Grayson
Wale
Midland
Taylor
Tom Green
Webb
Arrival of 36th Division Delayed at Hampton Roads
The 36th Division from Europe faces delays returning to Norfolk and Newport News with Brig. Gen. Robert I. Stack and staff aboard the Admiral Capps. Other units sail separately. the Altoona Victory and Frederick Sykes are set to dock in New York and Hampton Roads respectively.
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New York
Admiral Capps
Texas
Europe
Newport News
Norfolk
Capps
Robert I. Stack
Frederick Sykes
Hampton Roads
Naples cave dwellers highlight postwar homeless crisis
In Naples the cave communities near the Yomero Summits house hundreds of families with four to six children each. UNRRA and Knights of Malta plan prefab shelters to disinfect, treat, and relocate displaced residents while addressing disease and squalor.
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Naples
U.P
New York
Yomero
UNRRA
Knights of Malta
Portiere
ABC To Give Sport Awards At Horace Mann Meeting
American Business Club members will honor a club sweetheart Bonnie Clark and hostess Joan Hiatt at 6 30 PM in the Horace Mann School cafeteria. Awards will go to boys football league winning and second place teams with miniature gold and silver footballs for members. Guests include Amarillo officials and Recreation Program Council members.
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American Business Club
Horace Mann School
Bonnie Clark
Joan Hiatt
Miss Clark
Tohoka
Miss Hiatt
Amarillo
Ross Larsen
General Tire Waco plant ends two day slowdown with wage pact
General Tire and Rubber Company workers and management at the Waco plant reached a contract agreement after a two day slowdown. United Rubber Workers Union CIO and plant officials signed the wage and condition terms. Plant manager Joseph F. Sloate hailed the result as a "happy relationship" for the company and workers.
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WACO
Der
General Tire and Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers’ Union
CIO
General
Joseph F. Sloate
Warden warns against shooting near city lake preserve
Game warden Jim Maggard reports attempts to shoot a snow white wild fowl on city lake 20 miles southwest of Amarillo. He warns the area is a state game preserve where no firearms may be in possession and notes berets and white swans are protected by state and federal law.
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City Lake
Amarilo
Jim Maggard
War Department to release over 400 million in civilian goods
The War Department announced to senators that more than 400 million dollars of scarce civilian goods would be released immediately. A list valued at about 203.7 million dollars was submitted with another 200 million dollars in release, aiming to ease civilian shortages per assurances from Under Secretary Royall and Gen Hodges.
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Washington
War Department
War Investigating Committee
Kenneth C. Royall
Courtney HH. Hodges
Byrnes Arrives in Moscow and Bevin Stops in Berlin
U S Secretary of State James Byrnes arrived in Moscow to meet the British and Russian foreign secretaries. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin landed in Berlin for an overnight stop on his way from London to Moscow and was greeted by Sir William Strang. Bevin resumes his trip tomorrow.
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Moscow
U. S
James F. Byrnes
Britain
Russia
Ernest Bevin
Berlin
London
William Strang
Field Marshal Montgomery
Bevin
Snow storm crosses Midwest to New England region
A major snow storm swept east from the upper Mississippi Valley toward New England after heavy Midwest totals. Erie reported seven inches, Cleveland six inches, with freezing rain in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Washington DC, while Pueblo Colorado endured seven degrees below zero as the front moved east.
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Nebraska
Kansas
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
North Atlantic States
New England
Midwest
Erie
Penn
Cleveland
Virginia
Carolinas
Washington, D. C
Georgia
Pueblo
Colo
Three Trains In A Pileup Near Gallup New Mexico
Three trains were halted on the Santa Fe mainline after a wreck 45 miles west of Gallup New Mexico. One track remained open and all services ran hours behind schedule due to extreme cold. Ten people were hospitalized in Gallup for injuries from yesterday’s crash involving the Grand Canyon Limited and a troop train near the Arizona border. Emma Dalby of Wilmington Delaware was placed under oxygen for pneumonia from exposure.
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Gallup
N. M
Santa Fe
Winslow
Ariz
Grand Canyon Limited
Arizona
Emma Dalby
Wilmington
Del
Reunion Ends in Death for Parents and Soldier Son
Tyler Texas reports Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Bendy of Colmnesweil killed in an automobile collision after seeing their son Sgt. Ray M. Bendy for the first time in two years. The son was injured while John Pittman and seven others in the other car were hurt.
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Tyler
R. R. Bendy
Colmnesweil
Texas
Ray M. Bendy
Camp Fanning
John Pittman
Bendy
No Livestock Warnings Issued in Amarillo Area
The Missouri Valley section notes no livestock warnings in Amarillo or the Panhandle as temperature changes won’t be drastic enough to cause severe damage. Warnings are issued only if temperatures drop sharply from warm to cold.
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Missouri Valley
Amarillo
The
Panhandle
Marshall to Leave Tomorrow for China Mission
General of the Army George C. Marshall is expected to depart by plane tomorrow for a special diplomatic assignment in China weather permitting. The new ambassador to Chungking called at the White House today and Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said he had a 15 minute farewell consultation with President Truman.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
China
Chungking
White House
Charles G. Ross
Truman
Expectation of Tonight Delivery Prompts Anticipation
A brief remark signals confidence that a key event or delivery will occur tonight, with the speaker expressing personal anticipation and implying closeness to a anticipated result or arrival.
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FE. M. Culwell
Kitten
Courthouse Records
Billy de Sautell
Reich
U.S
W. C. Allison
Cal Farley
Winstop Duzzitt
Fillmore
Queens OF Civic Club
ABC
Waco Tire
Byrnes
Chaldrens
Spertussine
Marshall
Theat
Qakt
Merry Christmas
Amarillo Hotel
G. S. Pryor
Waldo E. Houghton
Optometrist
Oliver-Eakle
Pryor
Plains
L.gosterou
Barbara Lee Boss
Mr. and
Mrs. Hershel
A. Boss
4Th Street
Amarillo, Texas
Mr. Boss
Creamery
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