26 Dec 1946
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
1
Chinese airline officials report 62 killed and 16 injured when three airliners crashed outside Shanghai after fog trapped them. A fourth plane with seven aboard is missing. American pilot Capt J Greenwood among the dead. other U S aviators injured. Rescue crews corrected earlier fatality counts.
Three aircraft bound for Shanghai from Chungking were lost when fog and rain halted night landings. Unable to turn back due to lack of facilities at their departure field, fuel ran out during blind attempts to land. Two CNAC planes and one CATIC plane were involved.
Thirteen passenger planes approach Shanghai as night falls but dense fog grounds many. One lands safely at Kiangnan military airfield while eight turn back to other fields. The three doomed planes stop briefly at Wuchang on the Yangtze, receive favorable weather reports, then proceed toward Shanghai.
A CRTC C-47 with eight passengers and three crew crashed after circling Kiangwan field. U S Army ground crews attempted radar contact as pilot T O Wing, an American born Chinese, attempted a landing but overshot the runway.
A Christmas Eve flight with 12 aboard is missing after dense fog halted aerial search near the Laguna Mountains 60 miles east of San Diego. Coast Guard planes will resume at dawn while deputies, ranchers, and forest rangers paused patrols. eight relatives kept vigil through the night amid slim survivor hopes.
A DC-3 sighting and a peasant's house explosion precede a string of crashes. Major injuries and several deaths follow as CNAC and OTC crews assist. In the Lunghwa area a CNAC C-47 with twenty nine aboard fails to land signals and crashes, thirty-one killed. other CNAC and OTC aircraft suffer fatalities and injuries amid poor visibility.
Friends of Senator Theodore Bilbo report he will vigorously defend against two charges. One claims his 1946 re election was invalid due to Mississippi primary restrictions on Black voters. The other alleges moral turpitude for accepting gratuities from war contractor interests. Senator Elmer Thomas disputes a valid case, predicting a potentially embarrassing Senate debate.
Ernie Adamson of the House Committee on un American Activities outlines a conspiracy to foment revolution through a general strike. The report targets foreign representatives at the UN and 17 Communist dominated labor unions, calling the Library of Congress a haven for aliens. Adamson warns of a fifth column and urges formal protest by the State Department. Excerpts cite UN affiliates attending Communist fronts and pushing one sided pro Soviet policy. Page 2 continuation.
Police report a holiday wave of robberies and burglaries in Amarillo totaling nearly 500 dollars in losses. An armed robbery yielded 154 dollars, a theft 157 dollars, and a burglary 27 dollars taken. A separate burglary involved merchandise worth 79 dollars missing. Lon D. Corks remained in county jail on theft charges with a 750 dollar bond. Police tracked two men who hijacked Doc's Liquor Store on Christmas Eve in the 400 block of North Fillmore. a 1941 Buick was stolen and recovered.
Mostly cloudy and mild this afternoon and tonight with a cooler Friday. Light rain chances begin late Friday or Saturday. West Texas partly to mostly cloudy with little temperature change, slight cooling by Friday. New Mexico: west with light rain in lower mountains and snow in higher elevations. High 64, low 42, noon 57. Reader's Digest ad copy promotes aging tips.
Two more men rescued from a drifting ice floe in the St Lawrence River bring to four the survivors saved from a Quebec Airways twin engine plane crash. The six remaining on the floe include one missing passenger and one rescued earlier by amphibian plane.
A United Press survey reports at least 266 people died nationwide during the Christmas period, with 193 from highway accidents. The National Safety Council warned the toll could reach 300, as future deaths from injuries are counted. The report details fatalities in states including California Indiana Pennsylvania Illinois Michigan Ohio and Georgia and notes fires and other accidents. At East St. Louis a man killed his two daughters and himself after a domestic dispute.
The United Nations Atomic Energy Commission subcommittee adopted a draft report today by 10 to 0, while delaying the Baruch plan on atomic control for further consideration tomorrow at Lake Success New York.
Amarillo merchants report record Christmas sales in 1946 with top days on Dec 21 Dec 23 and Dec 24 across 16 key apparel hardware jewelry and department stores. Shoppers heavy in male buyers but late in the day as toy stock ran low and big shipments boosted daily totals.
A 35 year old woman in a brown fur coat robbed United Bank & Trust Co. in St. Louis, taking about $582 from a teller after threatening with a blue steel pistol. About 40 customers were in the lobby when the holdup occurred. The bandit fled, described as tall and slender, and the teller, Robert S. Walden, 27, war veteran, said he was shaken but complied.
Two 15 year old runaways, Aaron Gore Jr and Keith Donald, face a hearing in Philadelphia on charges of fatally slaying Patrolman Henry J. after authorities say the officer tried to help them return to their families for Christmas. The youths, handcuffed together, were described as sons of a Army captain and an electrical engineer respectively.
In a Tuesday incident, Hicks 39, father of six, was killed while guiding youths toward a nearby station. Gore grabbed a policeman’s revolver after taking the officer’s gun and ordered a ransom for the youths. Hicks tried to disarm Gore, who fired twice as the officer pleaded for restraint. Donaldson was accused of clubbing the officer.
The NAM argues higher wages raise prices and cites production gains. It disputes CIO base years 1936 1939 for profits, noting wartime profit shifts and differing gains by industries. The NAM questions use of National City Bank data and warns wage gains come at others’ expense, urging frozen wages and boosted production.
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