Snowfall Touches Amarillo As Panhandle Receives Snow
A tongue of snow clouds brought snow to Amarillo and parts of the Panhandle with 0.7 inch measured at English Field. Moisture content 0.67 inches. Skies to clear, with milder afternoon temps and a low of 24 tonight. Reports note snow also at Lubbock Plainview Quitaque and Pampa while Clovis Tucumcari Clayton show no snow.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
United States Weather Bureau
English Field
Fort Worth
Denver
Lubbock
Turkey
Plainview
Quitaque
Texline
Childress
Pampa
Santa Fe Railroad
Texaco
Dumas
Clovis
Tucumcari
Clayton
N. M
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Alpine-Del Rio
Abilene
South Texas
Southeastern
Rainall
Dairymen Spurn 26-Cent Offer Amid Phone Strike Fears
A Western Electric strike looms as workers reject a 26 cent offer. William D. Barry of Local 69 says a submitted proposal could halt the walkout, but details remain undisclosed. Government officials warn of a possible nationwide telephone paralysis within 24 hours as 389,000 idle workers grow. Picket lines will form around 775 exchanges coast to coast with union members pledging respect for the lines.
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New York
Jn. 10
Western Electric Equipment Workers
William D. Barry
The
Association of Communications Equipment Workers
United Press
National Federation of Telephone Workers Union
CIO
U. S. Steel Corporation
AFL
General Motors
Truman
CIO Auto
UAW
Detroit
Washington
Washington Telephone Traffic Union
Western Electric
Telephone strikes loom in Texas as unions prepare to picket
Southwest Bell workers plan heavy curtailment of phone service starting Friday as the Southwestern Telephone Workers Union seeks action against major exchanges. Company officials vow to maintain essential service while noting no dispute with STWU.
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Texas
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Association of Communications Equipment Workers Union
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Clyde L. Stewart
Southwestern Bell
Dallas
Bell
STWU
Stewart
Ray Hackney
Western Electric
Telephone Workers Organization
See Telephones
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy this afternoon with little temperature change. Fair tonight and Friday, slightly colder tonight. West Texas sees cloudy skies with occasional rain this afternoon and early night, snow mixed with rain in Panhandle, then partly cloudy and colder late tonight and Friday. Temperatures vary by region with lows from 15 to 28 and a 0.07 inch precipitation total.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
French and American Soldiers Clash in Marseille Bar Scene
French Press Agency reports 80 French and American soldiers fought with knives and fists in Marseille last night after a group of American soldiers attacked a civilian outside a cafe. Several Frenchmen were wounded before police intervened. it is unclear if any Americans were injured.
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Paris
Marseille
Senate Acts in GI Fuss Delays Demobilization Policy
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson was named chair of a special Senate military subcommittee to examine demobilization amid GI protests. He urged Eisenhower and Royall testify soon as Congress seeks military policy guidance while Stars and Stripes faces censure warnings in Honolulu and Tokyo reports.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Elbert Thomas
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Briggs
Missouri
Revercomb
West Virginia
Johnson
Eisenhower
Kenneth C. Royall
Congress
Army
Honolulu
Stars and Stripes
Pacific
Robert C. Richardson
Mid-Pacific
Richardson
Tokyo
Attlee Urges UN as Overriding World Policy Force
Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the United Nations inaugural session that the UN should be the dominant factor in world foreign policy. He warned the atom bomb danger and stressed feeding, clothed, and housed people as essential to peace, urging a world governed by justice and moral law. Edouard Zuleta Angel called the first assembly to order as 51 nations pledged to avert future wars.
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U.P
Clement R. Attlee
United Nations Organization
Attlee
Edouard Zuleta Angel
Colombia
United Nations
U S Ambassador Opposes Funds to Poland Under Current Conditions
U S Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane told Poland’s Provisional Government he would oppose granting any American funds while conditions in Poland persist. He said the 1931 Polish American commercial treaty had been violated and allowed free entry for American business.
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Warsaw
U. S
Arthur Bliss Lane
United States
Poland
Lane
Temple Hospital Slated To Close
The War Department announced 14 more Army general hospitals three hospital annexes and four convalescent facilities will close by March 31. Hospitals will be offered to the Veterans Administration or, if declined, turned to surplus property for disposal. Included is McCloskey Hospital in Temple Texas.
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Washington
War Department
Army General Hospitals
Veterans’ Administration
Surplus Property Administration
McCloskey
Temple
Texas
Floor Collapse Traps Seven or Eight in Storage Warehouse
In Little Falls, New York, January 10, seven or eight occupants were believed trapped when a floor collapsed under heavy bales of waste and jute. Fire department and police rescue squads began efforts. no additional details were available.
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Little Falls
N. Y
U.P
Kaiser Auto Will Be Light Six From Kaiser Frazer
Kaiser Frazer Corp announces a full sized light weight six passenger Kaiser sedan with 117 inch wheelbase 85 horsepower six cylinder front wheel drive and a single unit body and chassis. The car is expected to cost around $1 000 though exact price is not yet released.
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Detroit
Kaiser- Frazer Corp
Kaiser
Trolley Crash in Denver Kills One Injures Several
Police said one person is believed dead and at least four injured after a streetcar jumped the track at an East Denver loop and struck a wooden waiting room.
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Denver
New Suspect Is Arrested In Degnan Case
Chicago police arrest Frank Holland age 46 a dishwasher after he fled when halted near the Degnan kidnap slay murder scene. A newspaper picture of Suzanne Degnan was found in his room. Investigators seek two janitor suspects before 4 pm as state investigators weigh indictments.
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Chicago
U.P
Frank Holland
Suzanne Degnan
Holland
William J. Tuohy
Degnan
Margaret P. Perry
Hanrahan
Desere Smet
Edgewater Beach
Suzanne
Smet
Hector Verburgh
Verburgh
Mary
Verburghs
Veteran Robbed and Kicked From Cab After Cafe Meeting
A veteran recounts a stick-up in a cab followed by being pushed out after meeting a woman in a cafe. The assailants, a stick-up man and a cab driver, took his cane and left him on the street. He described the encounter and his injuries.
Beais mont road cab robbery ends with couple fleeing
Neighbors recalled meeting the woman at a restaurant and riding a cab that drove about 10 miles on Beais mont road. A man from under the front seat demanded money and the cane, with both men armed, as the woman laughed and walked away, leaving Neighbors stranded.
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Beaismont Road
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