Crook of the Year steals three room home in 1946 crime roundup
A NEA Service chronicle profiles the year’s top thefts with a San Fernando Valley trespasser stealing a three room house and other odd crimes across North America. The list includes a schoolhouse loss in Quesnel, a road grader near Vancouver, a 7 ton bulldozer in Chicopee and a piano theft in Boston.
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San Fernando Valley
Quesnel
B. C
Vancouver
Wash
Chicopee
Mass
Boston
San Bernardino
Cal
Washington, D. C
Newark
N. J
Chicago
Atlantic City
Richmond
Two Die in Gun Battle Near Fulton Arkansas
A gun battle near Fulton Arkansas left two men dead one white and one negro and seriously wounded Arkansas State Policeman Max Tackett. Chief Deputy Sheriff Tillmen Johnson had arrested the suspects in a stolen truck and exchanged fire with them. Johnson shot the white man and then killed the black assailant who fought with an ice pick. Tackett was found seriously wounded in the police car.
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Texarkana
U.P
Fulton
Ark
Arkansas
Hot Springs
Amory
Miss
Max Tackett
Building Permits Total $272,260 for December
The three week December permits total $272,260 with $82,685 issued last week. The largest single permit was to J B Coe Lumber Co for a $25,000 warehouse on Johnson Street. A $23,000 apartment at 1611 Vier was approved for Jack T Hicks. Thirty six residential permits over $3,000 have been issued this month.
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Jack T. Hicks
Vier
J. B. Coe Lumber Co
Johnson
Positions Open in Local Health Units and State Health Dept
Competitive examinations for public health sanitation positions are open to Amarillo residents. The tests include a writing portion and evaluation of training and experience. Veterans preference applies to honorable veterans with passing scores. Deadline: midnight January 18. Sanitarian pay is $160 monthly and $210 for the next step. Application blanks available in Austin.
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State Department of Health
Amarillo
Russell E. Shrader
Shrader
Mr. Shrader
Austin
Rex Theater Free Show for Children
Amarillo children will be guests at the Rex Theater tomorrow morning at 10 for the annual Christmas Gift Show. It is the third free Christmas Eve show the theater has staged for local kids with a two hour program of five cartoons and two comedies, announced by Rex manager Robert Sparks. A separate note mentions Henry Huss of Meaford Ontario drilling a hole through an ordinary pin without damage.
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Amarillo
Rex Theater
San Jacinto Theater
Robert Sparks
The
Rex
Henry Huss
Meaford
Ontario
Worldwide Observance Of Knights Templar Christmas Rite
Amarillo Knights Templar Commandery No 48 plans an 11 o'clock Wednesday morning gathering at the Masonic Temple for traditional Christmas rites. E M Benesch, program chairman, urges full dress uniforms and notes Knights worldwide observe the rites at the same instant, with Philippine meetings at 2 am and Hawaiian sessions at 6 am.
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Amarillo
Mr. Benesch
Philippine Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Japs Herded Chinese Women Into Wire Enclosed Brothels
Dutch intelligence officer Capt. J N Heybrook testified before the war crimes tribunal that Chinese and Indonesian women were confined in barbed wire brothels by the Japanese navy in the Netherlands East Indies. He said only the garrison commander could permit leaving and that escape was deterred by threats to families.
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Tokyo
Netherlands East Indies
J. N. Heybrook
Heybrook
Lower Prices Forecast by Government Economists
Government economists predict price declines soon with women’s clothing potentially cut up to 50 percent after Christmas. Men may see only minor drops in sports shirts. Some stores already running pre Christmas clearance sales. A general price decrease is expected within six months as consumer demand remains subdued.
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Washington
U.P
Theodore G. Maynard
Office of Temporary Controls
Maynard
Rent Control Office Closing for Holidays
Amarillo rent control director Frank E Hobgood announced the office will close at noon tomorrow and stay shut Wednesday for the Christmas holiday. It will reopen Thursday the official said.
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Frank E. Hobgood
Amarillo
First Application of Blue Star Ointment for Itching
Agonizing itching from eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples scabies or toe itch is claimed to be relieved on one application. Repeat as needed as nature helps heal with money back if the first application fails to satisfy. Try it today.
Grandson of Amarilloans to Appear on NBC Program
Charles R. Richardson III a 13 year old Amarillo native will be heard on the Telephone Hour over KGNC at 8 tonight as a member of the Apollo Choir. He was chosen over six Dallas youths for the choir and is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles R Richardson Jr of Dallas. More than half the world's fresh water lies within Canada.
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Amarillo
KGNC
Charles R. Richardson III
Charles R. Richardson
Kentucky
Apollo Choir
Dallas
Charles R. Richardson, Jr
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Nashville
Chattanooga
Pottsville
Khoury Bros
West
Gesson's
24Th and Polk
16Th
Coree Siti
Johnson-Price CO
Fillmore
Bretane Gas
Phan
Cal Farley
Constructioneer
Xylophones
Scooters
Tykes
Winstop Duzzitt
NBC
Canada
Freeman
Globe-News
J. H. Wright Distributing Co
AP Ea OL
Nist
Aia
Polk
Amariilo
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