Coal leaders clash as miners return to part time work
John L. Lewis orders 66,000 miners to resume three day weekly shifts while others halt work in ongoing strikes. About 1,000 of Wyoming's 4,000 coal diggers stay off. Senate Republicans offer a Taft-Hartley resolution urging Truman to use powers to restore full coal output. measure sent to labor committee for study.
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John L. Lewis
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Congress
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Ferguson
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Wiley
Wisconsin
Donnell
Missouri
Jenner
Indiana
Martin
Pennsylvania
House
White House
Senate Labor Committee
Lewis
Son Steals Father's Wife in Polish Immigrant Family Dissolution
In Cleveland, 58 year old Theodore Borkowski testifies his son Chester, 38, whom he brought from Poland as a displaced person, stole his wife's affections. Theodore wins an uncontested divorce from Josephine Borkowski, 44, on extreme cruelty grounds after a fight when the son embraced the stepmother at a party. The son was arrested and ordered to leave the home.
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Cleveland
Poland
Theodore Borkowski
Josephine Borkowski
Chester
Borkowski
Bride's Mother Denies Son-in-Law Is Colored
Lowell Massachusetts January 11 1950 report that Martha Braun a 21 year old model spurned a rich marriage prospect to elope with Billy Daniels a Negro nightclub singer. Mrs Carl Braun Sr affirmed Daniels is not colored as she knows him claiming French Spanish and possible Indian blood while records show him billed as Negro. Daniels and Braun married in Weehawken New Jersey and honeymoon aboard the SS Italia for South America.
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Mass
Martha Braun
Billy Daniels
Carl Braun
Mrs. Braun
Daniels
New York
Joseph Mairabelli
Weehawken
Braun
South America
Semple School
Martha
Police Chief Slain as Hijacker Fires at Red Rooster Cafe
In Mendon Massachusetts a gun battle at the Red Rooster Cafe left Police Chief Matthew Mantoni and 22 year old Katherine Brady dead. Two suspects and two others were wounded after hijacker Harold Ward held six people captive for hours. Ward, who seized about $100, faced murder charges as police closed in.
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Mendon
Mass
Matthew Mantoni
Red Rooster
Katherine Brady
Harold Ward
Lawrence Griffin
Miss Brady
Josephine Pitasi
Ward
Aubrey Hensel
Hensel
Griffin
Henry Brown
Miss Pitasi
Otis de Vol
Amarillo YMCA elects Allen Early Jr as new president
Allen Early Jr. was elected head of the Amarillo YMCA at a January board meeting held at the Herring Hotel, succeeding H O Willborn who steps down after three years. The board re-elected Kenneth Grenewald as vice president, Tol Ware as treasurer, and L S Cotter as secretary. Virgil Patterson joins the board, replacing H Grady Wilson who resigned.
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Early
H. O. Willborn
Kenneth Grenewald
Tol Ware
L. S. Cotter
Virgil Patterson
H. Grady Wilson
YMCA
ARROW MAY TRY TO MAKE SHANGHAI
The Flying Arrow faces a Nationalist blockade as Captain Jones plans to slip out of range of the minelayer Wuling and outrun blockading ships toward Shanghai. US destroyers stand by and an escort sailor Ensign W P McGowan serves on the Stickell amid tensions and international law limits.
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Flying Arrow
Shanghai
A. P. Pattison Company
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Brooklyn Heights
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Tsingtao
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Stickell
Washington
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Ishrandtsen
New York City
Amarillo
W. P. McGowan
Ladie L. LaRue
East Eighth
Ensign McGowan
Navy
Pennsylvania
Judge Denies Gift to John Kerr Pupils for Soda Pop
In Winchester Virginia Judge Elliott Marshall ruled the bequest from Charles B Henry to the John Kerr School first graders cannot be placed in a perpetual trust. The roughly $100000 estate income of about $4000 yearly was not a charitable trust. Relatives Agnes and Jesse Roberts and Bessie Linger contested the will.
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Winchester
John Kerr School
Elliott Marshall
Charles B. Henry
Agnes Roberts
Jesse Warren Roberts
Washington
Bessie S. Linger
Baltimore
Henry
John Kerr
Marshall
Elk City oil fire draws glow 125 miles away in Hubbard No 1
In Elk City Oklahoma a massive blaze at Shell Hubbard No 1 oil well in the Elk City field shoots flames nearly 200 feet high. Kinley and Adair of Kinley oil well fire fighters head from Houston to assist. Reflections of the blaze are seen on clouds 25,000 feet high near Amarillo, with officials noting the well may be plugged after containment.
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Elk City
Okla
Shell Q Oil Co
S. Hubbard
Kinley
Houston
Shell
Oil Company
Mary Sudik
Oklahoma City
Herman Awes
Hellmerick-Payne Drilling Co
Amarillo
K. R. Jenkins
US Weather Bureau
Jenkins
Ivan Layton
Mercy death trial set in Manchester for Sander
The mercy death murder trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander, 41, will open in superior court in Manchester on February 20. Early reports indicate the case centers on alleged mercy killing practices.
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Manchester
Hermann N. Sander
Parents Charged After Tot Starves to Death
New York January 11 AP A young couple 29 held on homicide charges over the starvation death of their 3 year old son Guy weighing 14 pounds at death. Authorities say Guy and daughter Vincenza 5 were neglected while two other children were well treated. The parents admitted neglect and were booked after a social worker rescue but the boy died.
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New York
Guy Scielzo
Mary
Guy
Vincenza
Blizzard Hits Pacific Coast and Midwest Cold Snap
An intense Pacific coast storm blanketed Washington Oregon northern California and Nevada with snow rain and hail and disrupted Highway 99 as power lines failed in nine north coastal California towns. The system moved into the Rockies with subzero readings across the upper Midwest and floods easing in Indiana and Illinois after heavy rainfall. Hundreds were made homeless by floods on Wabash White Embarrass and other streams.
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Pacific Coast
Rockies
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Central States
Midwest
Los Angeles
Reno
Nev
Lakeview
Ore
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Hoosier flood forces evacuation. house burned
In Shoals Indiana the White River floodwaters neared David Street's home prompting evacuation of his family and belongings. Before the move finished the house was destroyed by fire blamed on faulty wiring.
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Shoals
Ind
White River
David Street
Street
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Cloudy skies with rising temperatures through today tonight and Thursday. Occasional sprinkles this afternoon. colder Thursday night. Today’s high 54 low 35. tomorrow high 60. The 24 hour period ended at 6:30 this morning recorded 49 and 24. Partly to mostly cloudy in West Texas and New Mexico with scattered showers today and tonight. cooler Thursday in the west.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
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