Death toll rises in Cline case with two more women dies
San Francisco police broadened the Alfred Cline probe to include the deaths of two Fort Collins women in 1925 and an 18 year old girl and two men among ten suspicious deaths linked to the ex convict. Attendants in a Macon mortuary identified a man ordering cremation under Alma Willa Carter.
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Alfred Leonard Cline
Dallas
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Colo
Cline
Bessie Hannah Lentz Cline
Annabelle O'Laughlin
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Alma Willa Carter
Alice W. Carpenter
Bloomington
Ind
Chicago
Portland
Krebs
Isabelle van Natta
Sailors Clash With Angry Brazilians in Sao Paulo Riots
American sailors were ordered to stay aboard the USS Little Rock at Santos after clashes with about 350 Brazilians in Sao Paulo over alleged insults to women. Six Brazilians and several sailors were injured as fire hoses were used to separate crowds. sailors traveled home under police guard as the ship continued its goodwill tour of South America.
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Brazil
U. S
Little Rock
Santos
Sao Paulo
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USS
South America
Government Ownership of Coal Mines Sought in Britain
London report says the Labour government introduced legislation to place Britain's coal mining industry under public ownership and control. Emanuel Shinwell, minister of fuel and power, presented the bill amid cheers for the program’s aims and it received a formal first reading.
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London
Britain
Lost Airman Search Continues in Snowy Wyoming
In Rawlins Wyoming on December 19 a search for the sixth man who parachuted from a crippled B 25 bomber over snow covered south central Wyoming continued in below zero weather. The five others found alive yesterday said he left them at about noon to reach the Plane. Lt Roy L West the pilot crash landed the plane and went to Sinclair to report the accident.
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Wyo
Wyoming
Roy L. West
West
Sinclair
Gilbert Garza Discharged at March Field
Sgt. Gilbert A. Garza discharged at the March Field separation center. He home in Los Angeles and was stationed at Amarillo Field for three and a half years.
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Gilbert A. Garza
March Field
Sergeant Garza
Los Angeles
Amarillo Field
Strikeoffers hard line in GM wage dispute
The union sticks to a 30 percent hike demand, rejecting a 124 percent offer without proof of GM’s inability to pay. UAW CIO officials led by R J Thomas and Walter P Reuther warned at Washington hearings, with GM representatives C F Wilson and Harry W Anderson present. The era notes that in 1940 six million farms, half lacked mechanical power.
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Washington
General Motors
C. EF. Wilson
Harry W. Anderson
R. J
United States
Markets Kansas City Livestock Report December
Kansas City lists cattle salable 4 000 and total 4 500 with cows strong. calves 500 salable. steers and yearlings quoted around 15.50 to 17.00 depending on grade. stockers and feeders mostly steady to weak. Sheep salable 8 000 with higher asking prices. lambs above 14.35. Chicago hogs and cattle show ceilings and top prices for steers to 18.00 and cows to 15.90 with sheep 9 000 at 14 40.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Point of Order Asks If Congress Is In Order
In a heated session the Pearl Harbor inquiry nears its five week mark with talk of an extended hearing. Representative Woodruff demands order while Miss Sumner challenges the pace and quality of debate on the United Nations.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Alben Barkley
Senate House
United States
Barkley
Ferguson
Michigan Republican
Hold Out for Housing Plan
Washington reports bitter industry criticism of the new housing program met with a cautious federal reply. OPA says price increases to spur production have been granted in several cases with more adjustments on the way. Industry leaders fault an unrealistically strict price policy while noting a new regulation earmarks about 50 percent of building supplies for homes under ten thousand dollars.
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Washington
OPA
John D. Small
Truman
Whitlock
H. R. Northup
National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
War Labor Board
Deserts Baby Given to Her In Houston
New Orleans police investigated how a Houston woman obtained a seven month old baby she claimed was given to her. Elizabeth Williams is held on desertion charges after abandoning the child in a downtown bar and says she handed the baby to a bar patron to hold. She recalls being given the baby in Houston and names a Mrs Irene Koester of Waco as the mother, with a birth date of May 15.
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New Orleans
U.P
Houston
Elizabeth Williams
Irene Koester
Waco
Koester
Hoblitzelle Grant For Medical College
The Hoblitzelle Foundation announced a 125000 grant to the Southwestern Medical Foundation to buy a 62 acre site for the permanent location of Southwestern Medical College. The gift follows a 100000 Braniff Foundation donation for a research laboratory and memorializes Mrs Esther Thomas Hoblitzelle, wife of Karl Hoblitzelle.
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Dallas
U.2
Hoblitzelle Foundation
Southwestern Medical Foundation
Southwestern Medical College
Braniff Foundation
Esther Thomas Hoblitzelle
Karl Hoblitzelle
The
Hoblitzelle
Truman Defends Civilian Control and Air Power Parity
President Truman argues against concentrating military power in one leader and urges civilian head of this department under Constitution. He supports Navy land-based fixes, keeps Marine Corps under the Navy, and promotes combining departments to improve plans budgets and coordination. He asserts air power parity with land and sea forces.
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United States
Congress
Truman
Marine Corps
Navy
Srengthen
Local Real Estate Transfers and Court Notices
Warranty deeds record transfers from J. B. Archer to Harvey Cawood Rim mer and others for multiple lots in Industrial City and Wolflin Place, with several other deeds to E A Ferguson and Glenwood properties. District Court lists divorces for Lightenberger and Brown, and Vivian Brown, plus marriages for Parker Shaw, Harris Rorehbeck, Willis Clark, Cagle Harris, Kizer Denney, Medart Crawford, Campbell Gorman, and Fitzgerald Newsom in a color line.
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Harvey Cawood Rimmer
Erwin C. Ochsner
E. A. Riner
C. C. Ter
G. C. Odom
N. V. Moas
C. C. Park
John F. Ross
Mrs. Arles B Wright
Wolflin Place
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EE. A. Ferguson
Lakeview
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Otis E. Heler
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Harold Lightenberger
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Dwight B. Parker
Mary C. Shaw
Carroll A. Harris
Levona Belle Rorehbeck
Archie R. Willis
Rosemary Clark Clayborn E. Cagle
Myrtle S. Harris
Charles R. Dixon
Matha Marie Orn Lee T. Kizer
Rozella May Denney
Charles H. Medart
Jennie Lazelie Crawford
Charles
Wainwright To Testify at Homma War Crimes Trial
Manila reports Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright will testify by deposition at the war crimes trial of Lt. Gen. Masa Haru Homma. Prosecutor Lt. Col. Frank E. Meek says the deposition is a key document for the commission beginning Jan. 3. Homma, once a conqueror at Corregidor, denies responsibility for the Bataan Death March and related deaths.
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Manila
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Masa Haru Homma
Wainwright
Military Commission
Homma
Bataan
Frank E. Meek
Basilio J. Valdes
Philippines
Homma arraigned amid familiar faces in Manila court
The scene in Manila courtroom for General Homma's arraignment drew many familiar faces from the Yamashita prosecution and defense. Meek noted Homma left the Philippines on August 15, 1942 in disgrace after Botàn and Corregidor defense delays disrupted Japan's southward push. The general never again held an important command.
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Homma
Yamashita Prosecution and Defense
Manila
Meek
Phillippines
Wainright
Bataan
Corregidor
Japan
US veterans urged to settle in Australia
Canberra on December 19 reports Australian Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell urged United States veterans who served in the Southwest Pacific to settle in Australia. He spoke as officials noted potential settlement pathways and associated policies.
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Canberra
Southwest Pacific
Arthur Calwell
San Diego Man Visits Mother and Grandfather Over Holidays
Don Brown of San Diego arrived yesterday to spend the holidays with his mother Mrs. Anna V. Brown at 1615 B Van Buren and with his grandfather R. E. Brown at 1622 Hayden.
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Don Brown
San Diego
Cal
Anna V. Brown
van Buren
R. E. Brown
Hayden
Mexico Allows Public Meetings After Ban Eased
Messersmith said his trip to the foreign ministry was not to lodge a protest and he had no such intention. The article notes the ban was imposed over a year ago for reactionary tendencies and recent permission was granted to hold public meetings.
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Messersmith
Foreign Ministry
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