Threat Is Spreading Across States in Teachers Wage Demands
United Press reports teachers in eight states threatening strikes for higher pay as they seek a guaranteed minimum of 2400 a year and immediate financial aid. Notable actions include St Paul 1160 teachers striking over a 2400 minimum up to 5000 eventual scale, and 2400 pupils given a holiday. Buffalo and Cleveland districts report raises and guilds pressing for more funds while state legislatures may legislate next year.
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United Press
St. Paul
Minn
Chicago
City Board of Education
New Castle
Ind
Indiana
Buffalo
N. Y
Cleveland
Board of Education
Providence
Teachers Strike Spreads Across Cities With Wage Fights
R Li and other cities face teachers strikes as demand for higher wages grows. Many districts have granted raises, while Clarendon Texas voters narrowly defeated a tax increase for raises. On a Monday 16 of the town's 32 teachers quit, but local businessmen funded $3,000 and teachers returned to work with a $20 monthly retroactive raise.
Strikers Snubbed by Allis Chalmers Board Proposal
MILWAUKEE December 204 Allis Chalmers Manufacturing rejects CIO United Auto Workers vice president R J Thomas proposal to ask President Truman to appoint a fact finding board to settle the eight month strike. Thomas says workers would return to work and plant reopen pending board recommendations. Company says the plan simply seeks government bailouts from union leaders.
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Milwaukee
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company
R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Auto Workers Union International
Truman
Thomas
Allis Chalmers
W. G. van Cleaf
Company
Labor Reform Provisions Advocated by Smith
Smith outlines a program to curb unfair labor practices and extend arbitration rights. Proposals include compulsory arbitration, banning mass picketing, requiring union registration and financial filings, applying Petrillo Act provisions to all businesses, and prohibiting union membership discrimination. An earlier Chicago court ruling about radio workers is cited.
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Smith
Chicago
Smith outlines peacetime strike control plan in Congress
Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia unveils a peacetime strike control measure to ban closed shops and push compulsory arbitration. The plan would curb industry-wide bargaining, strip supervisory employees of bargaining rights, and centralize essential contracts under the National Labor Relations Act with the board as trial body. It restores employer speech rights and withholds Wagner Act protections from violators.
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Washington
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
Smith
Truman
White House
Congress
Senator Connally
Texas
Roosevelt
Ter
National Labor Relations Board
National Labor Relations) Board
Norris-LaGuardia
10000 Cards Daily Fail To Be Delivered
Amarillo post clerks discard about 10 000 Christmas cards daily that bear only 1 cent stamps addressed simply to Amarillo Texas or to street addresses in correct form. They cannot be forwarded or checked against the city directory. Postmaster DeGrassi predicts about 175 000 cards will be thrown away during the Christmas week.
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Amarillo
Texas
DeGrassi
Widow of Amarillo's First Mayor Passes At 85
The First Lady of Potter County Mrs W W Wetsel died at 8 AM in St Anthony's Hospital Amarillo aged 85 She long worked with White Kirk staff for a quarter century and her dining room hosted the first Potter County election site She arrived in 1882 from Mobeetie via New York Dodge City and a mule train to the Frying Pan Ranch near Amarillo
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Potter County
W. W. Wetsel
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Weisel
Mobeetie
Cobleskill
Schoharie County
MN. Y
New York
Dodge City
Kan
Dallas Sheriff Candidate Tangled in Gambling Syndicate Plot
A Dallas man, 37, and Chicagoan, 26, are jailed on conspiracy and bribery charges linked to a plan to fix gambling in Dallas County. Sheriff-elect Guthrie testified at a preliminary hearing that a syndicate offered him 40 000 to 45 000 monthly for protection and a monopoly on slot and pinball operations.
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Jones
Kansas State
Dallas
Guthrie
Justice of the Peace
W. L. Sterrett
Romeo Jack Natti
Maine
Chicago
Florida
Dallas County
Grand Jury
Butler
Naylor
Natti
Austin
Steve Guthrie
Ex-Convict Costello Named Boss of East Harlem Mafia
Frank Costello, ex-convict and New York underworld figure, named by Col. Garland H. Williams as head of a nationwide Black Hand like Mafia centered in East Harlem. Williams says the group links cities from New Orleans to Los Angeles and Idaho to Chicago, with leaders meeting in Florida to set policy. Bail decisions pending for six men tied to East Harlem drug rings, including Costello lieutenants Albero and Gagliano. Adonis and Moretti cited as New Jersey underworld heads.
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New York
U.P
Frank Costello
East Harlem
Garland H. Williams
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Costello
Manhattan
Louisiana
Huey Long
Williams
Sicily
Mafia
New Orleans
Kansas City
Chicago
Detroit
Buffalo
Tampa
Las Vegas
Nev
Los Angeles
Central Park West
Italy
Sevarina
Court of Appeals
Ing
Florida
Brooklyn
New Jersey
California
General Sessions
Francis L. Valente
Charles Albero
Joseph Gagliano
Willie Moretti
Joe Adonis
Adonis
William O'Dwyer
Dims Dream Of A White Christmas Forecast
Amarillo weather chief H C Winburn says no white Christmas sought in the long range five day forecast. Mild, dry conditions expected with rising temperatures through Saturday to Wednesday. Highs near 52 today and 55 tomorrow with lows around 29 nights.
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H. C. Winburn
Amarillo
India to defer vote on Nehru republic declaration
New Delhi December 20 members of India's constituent assembly agreed to defer until January a vote on Jawaharlal Nehru's resolution declaring India a sovereign, independent republic.
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India
New Delhi
Pandi Jawaharlal Nehru
Republic
Mid-Air Collision Over Aberdeen Narrowly Avoids Disaster
Two luxury airliners, Eastern Airlines and Universal Airlines, collided at 2 000 feet over Aberdeen Maryland. Both crews escaped with minimal injuries and 85 aboard survived due to a quick action by Eastern co-pilot R J Brown. The crash damaged hydraulic systems and caused extensive fuselage damage. Civil Aeronautics Administration opened an investigation.
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Washington
Aberdeen
Eastern Airlines
Universal Airlines
Eastern
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Philips Field
Joseph Kuhn
Miami
Fla
R. J. Brown
Brown
Kuhn
Universal
Henry Norris
Cambridge
Mass
Norris
Molotov Leaves London for Moscow by Soviet Plane
Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov departed London early today after an overnight stay and flew to Moscow via Berlin aboard a Soviet aircraft. The dispatch notes his brief visit and return.
Stalin 67 Tomorrow
Tomorrow marks Joseph Stalin’s 67th birthday with no sign of Moscow celebrations. Informants say he is on vacation and in good health, while Molotov may arrive in Moscow on the day. The Allied Control Council in Berlin sent a congratulatory telegram signed by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney.
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Associated Press
Stalin
Moscow
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
New York
England
Berlin
Allied Control Council For
Germany
Joseph T. MacNarney
United States
Thompson Named Chairman of Railroad Commission
Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo was elected chairman of the Railroad Commission for two years. The nomination came from Commissioner and Gov elect Beaufort Jester with Present Chairman Olin Culberson seconding the motion.
Safe Driving War Warmed By Patrolmen In Panhandle
Captain Polk Ivy of the Texas Highway Patrol announces a Christmas safety drive with traffic tickets as “presents” to deter accidents. He says patrols will operate with no definite hours through Christmas and beyond, urging early departures and careful driving to reduce Panhandle fatalities and injuries.
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Polk Ivy
State Highway Patrol
Captain Ivy
Panhandle
Ivy
Texas Department of Public Safety
Texas
Chicago Democrats Favor Martin Kennelly for Mayor
Chicago Democrats and four term Mayor Edward J. Kelly back Martin H. Kennelly a 59 year old business civic leader to succeed the city’s 70 year old chief. Kennelly said he hadn’t decided on running but was expected to accept today.
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Chicago
Martin H. Kennelly
Edward J. Kelly
Kennelly
Weather Sketches Clear Skies Across Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast shows clear skies and warmer spells this afternoon tonight and Saturday for Amarillo and vicinity and west Texas with little change in temperatures. Panhandle and South Plains expect lows 24 to 28 degrees while other areas range 28 to 32 and Del Rio Eagle Pass near 35. New Mexico remains fair with modest warming noted and highs around 42 with a low near 26 and noon at 46.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
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