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A fragmentary record lists prices such as 1895 1375 1295 1150 linked to the code 61195 in an unspecified context. No clear event or entities are identifiable to situate the figures as a complete news item.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1949
Page
3
A fragmentary record lists prices such as 1895 1375 1295 1150 linked to the code 61195 in an unspecified context. No clear event or entities are identifiable to situate the figures as a complete news item.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith argues that after the U S return of hostages and Chiang Kai-shek's government retreat to Formosa the United States faces growing pressure to abandon its hands off stance toward China. She notes past aid to Nationalists yielded little and urges policy alignment with evolving recognition debates amid business and English pressures.
Vehicle listings include 1949 Dodge 4-Ton pickup and 1948 Dodge 114-Ton, 1948 International Panel, 1947-46 Dodge and GMC models, 1942 Dodge 112-Ton, 1941 Dodge 1 5-Ton Power Wagon, plus tractors like 1947 KBS-11 and 1946 K5. Also advertised are 1948 WB-22 White truck with 33 foot trailer, and other wrecking yard notes from American Auto Wrecking with various sedans. Trade and sale offers appear alongside service ads and parts.
A columnist argues against recognizing Communist China while noting pressures to refuse recognition and even potentially seize Formosa. The piece discusses international law, economic interests, and the likelihood of eventual recognition in 1950 amid Cold War tensions.
New York dispatch reports 70 year old Mrs. Margaret Long and her 72 year old deaf mute husband William faced a gas leak in their third floor Astoria apartment. She escaped via the fire escape but fell to her death in the concrete areaway below as neighbors alerted police who shut off the gas jet and woke Long.
Nocona December 19 A 97 year old widow Mrs Fanny Lucinda Richardson was burned to death when her clothing ignited near a gas stove at her home. Neighbors alerted the fire department as smoke rose from the house and she was found in a dying condition. the furnishings and house were not burned.
Fort Worth 84 year old Mrs J C McKean told the Stop the Music radio quiz in New York last night she knew old tunes but not Mule Train missing a chance at $10 000 in prizes by failing to identify the tune as the preliminary call.
Severe drought in South Africa caused a village spring in Peddie to dry for the first time in over a century since Fort Peddie was established, ending a 100 year drought-free record.
In New York a 26-year-old daughter adopted by Charles and his wife is accused of taking $7,749 from her foster father's bank account and losing most of it on horse racing. She faces a forgery charge, was arraigned in court, and held on $1,000 bail after police say she admitted the theft for "a whirl at the ponies" in Florida.
In San Francisco on December 19, the perjury trial of Harry Bridges enters its sixth week as defense cross examines ex Communist Paul Crouch who testified Bridges was a top party official. Crouch said Bridges was twice elected to the Communist central committee under the alias Rossi in 1936 and 1938. Bridges, leader of the CIO International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, faces charges that his 1945 naturalization testimony denying Communist ties was false. Bridges was born in Australia.
On a Humble road bridge near Houston a three vehicle collision claimed the life of 21 year old Donna trucker William Robert Tomme after his rig struck a trailing trailer truck and a parked panel truck. Hitchhiker Ernest Hand was bruised while trailer driver John A. Byers sustained minor injuries.
David Guion, famed for his arrangement of Home on the Range, returned to Texas for the first time since the war. He lives in Pennsylvania and will spend several weeks with his sister Miss Neil Guion in Dallas.
In Paris a man fatally shot his sweetheart then killed himself by a gunshot to the head. He fell, drove away in his car, wrecked it in a ravine, and died at the sight of two gendarmes, according to the report.
A British military court in Hamburg convicted former Field Marshal Erich von Manstein of nine charges related to Nazi atrocities in Poland and Russia. He received 18 years imprisonment after declining mercy and awaiting clemency proceedings.
President Truman ends a Florida gulf dip before returning to Washington to survey the legislative outlook. He plans a Jan 4 or 5 joint session address, plus budget and economic messages. Decisions await on wartime excise tax repeal and new corporate profit taxes to offset a deficit. He will visit Independence, Missouri for Christmas with family.
General MacArthur will push to repatriate Japanese prisoners held by the Soviet Union. A four power Japan meeting is set for Wednesday to discuss release. Moscow claims only 10,000 remain while Soviet officials classify many as war criminals. figures from other sources estimate up to 316,000 Nipponese still in Russian camps.
Dublin in Eire reports a fleet of 1,000 taxis expanding urban transport. no tax on authors is mentioned beyond the stated policy change.
OLDLAND England December 19 Weary Charles Cryer has sold his two racing heifers Rosie and Daisy as is and where is The three year old shorthorn sisters lurk in a 25 acre field They ran like Gazelles whenever he entered the field Cryer offered 14 reward for their capture Fifteen men and four dogs chased them for days Finally he sold them for 85 under market price to dealer Albert Lovell Lovell plans to give them time to calm before another chance at capture
ROME GA December 19 The deep South s first mass civil rights trial ended with a mistrial as the jury could not reach a verdict. The case targeted Dade County Sheriff John W Lynch and three deputies along with six private citizens who faced a two count indictment for conspiring to arrest seven Negroes and surrender them to a Ku Klux Klan mob for whipping near Hooker Georgia.
A. J. Coulston returns from 18 months in Japan with the First Calvary Division and visits his sister at 323 West Ninth after discharge as staff sergeant. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Merchant of Haskell spend Christmas holidays with their son and daughter-in-law at 3001 Tyler. Mr. and Mrs. Love plan a two month England vacation next year after marrying three years ago.
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