Starving Man Died as He Knelt in Prayer Room
In a Brooklyn cold-water flat, 77 year old Charles Edwards died in prayer while his sister Anna, 67, lay malnourished nearby. Neighbors recalled long poverty with bankbooks showing deposits totaling 67 thousand and bonds valued at 100 thousand. Authorities labeled the death natural, while a priest and police investigated a possible hidden fortune.
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Nathan Polowetzky
New York
Delia Edwards
Mary Bennett
Delia
Charlie
Anna Edwards
Kings County Hospital
Edwardses
Brooklyn
Strike spreads as London dock workers join walkout
London dock workers vote to join a national labor walkout amid a nine day trucker strike delaying food. About 1,200 to 1,400 attend a noon meeting, threatening 24,000 dock workers. Government and unions rush to negotiate as 2,000 soldiers and 800 vehicles move food to London retailers for 10 million people.
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London
England
Blacklegs
Greater
Texas Legislature Opens 50th Biennial Session
The 50th Texas legislature opened at noon with 300 bills prepared and as many as 2000 likely this session. Redistricting dominates priorities alongside teachers salaries prison reform and veterans legislation. Officials including Lt Gov Smith Gov Stevenson and Gov elect Jester attended as Reed was elected speaker and Ramsey pro tem.
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Austin
Texas
John Lee Smith
Senate
Claude Isbell
House
Rogers Kelley
Edinburg
W. O. Reed
Dallas
Sen
Ben Ramsey
San Augustine
Coke Stevenson
Wage hike demands filed with Southwestern Bell union
Demand for a weekly raise of 15 to 20 dollars was filed with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company by the Southwestern Telephone Workers Union. The union seeks union shop and dues check-off, improved vacations and pensions as part of NFTW’s wage program calling for a 12 dollar across the board increase and narrower wage differentials.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Southwestern Telephone Workers Union
Ion
National Federation of Telephone Workers
A. O. Thomas
Plainview
Amarillo
Fort Worth
of Nftw
Southwestern Bell Company
Tri State Fair Park to Erect Three New Buildings in 1947
Potter County commissioners vote to advertise for bids on a merchants building of 20 000 square feet and two 10 000 square foot structures for rabbit and poultry and industrial uses at the Tri State Fair Park. The auto building will expand to about 36 000 square feet. Agricultural exhibits likely in the enlarged auto building. Estimated cost over 100 000 dollars.
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Potter County
Tri-State Fair Park
Rabbit and Poultry
War tax policy and 1947 fair plans mingle with tax cuts debate
Wartime levies may be kept to reduce personal income taxes, with proposals to cut by 20 percent in 1947. Meanwhile liquor and other wartime rates are set to drop July 1, and aviation, labor law, and air crash concerns surface in Congress as fair dates and new Quonset-style buildings for the Tri-State Fair were finalized.
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Truman
Congress
Knutson
Ways and Means Committee
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Senate Commerce Committee
Civil Aeronautics Board
Brewster
Maine
Defiance by Lewis and UMW Faces Supreme Court Contempt Case
Attorney General Tom C. Clark argued before the Supreme Court that John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers defied a federal court order and mocked U.S. authority by refusing to rescind the strike. He said their actions amount to contempt that insults the United States itself. Welly Hopkins for the UMW spoke after Clark.
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Washington
Tom C. Clark
Supreme Court Today
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
United States
Clark
Lewis
Federal District Court
U. S. District Court
Welly Hopkins
UMW
Truman to Call Republicans for Periodic Conferences
President Truman plans quarterly bipartisan conferences with Republican leaders after a White House call. Representative Rayburn of Texas, former speaker and now Democratic House minority leader, said no date is set for the first meeting and the talks will be periodic rather than weekly.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Rayburn
Texas
House
American Officer Praises German Police Efficiency
Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon praised German police as honest and efficient and suggested they should be allowed to arrest anyone committing a crime, including American soldiers, in Bamberg Germany.
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Bamberg
Germany
Ernest N. Harmon
U. S
Seagull Crashes Into Plane Forcing Landing Injures Two
Santa Barbara report says Lynn W Bly and William Stratton of Los Angeles sustained minor cuts after a seagull struck their light airplane shattering the propeller and forcing an emergency landing in an open field.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Lynn W. Bly
William Stratton
Los Angeles
Churchill Wins Settlement in Libel Suit
Winston Churchill and Louis Adamic case ends out of court as Churchill settles with Adamic author of Dinner at the White House and Harper and Brothers, the publishers, according to Churchill’s lawyers.
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London
Winston Churchill
Louis Adamic
White House
Harper and Brothers
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
Partly cloudy and colder this afternoon and tonight. Wednesday remains partly cloudy with little temperature change. Panhandle and South Plains, Upper Pecos valley to eastward, see similar conditions. New Mexico expects snow flurries in the mountains this afternoon and tonight with fair weather elsewhere. Northeast and southeast sectors turn colder tonight. Highs reach 63, low 31, noon 42.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
New Mexico
Steve Canyon Entertains Amarillo Kids At Paramount
Pinehead forns Pen Artist to entertain Amarillo children in a morning show at the Paramount Theater featuring The Open Road with W C Fields. Charlie McCarthy and Steve Canyon join the program along with a Three Stooges short and a Popeye cartoon. Kids 16 or younger can gain entry by clipping a Steve Canyon strip from The Globe and presenting it at the box office.
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Pinehead
Amarillo
W. C. Fields
Paramount Theater
Charlie McCarthy
Steve Canyon
Globe and Interstate Theaters
Jack King
Interstate
Three Stooges
Milton Caniff
Globe
Paramount
Steve
Former Camp Bowie Owners Win First Step To Recover
In Brownwood on January 14, Col. Henry Hutchings Dallas Army division engineer announced the plan to outlease the 118000 acre Camp Bowie area has been abandoned. He said the War Assets Administration area will be transferred for disposal expeditiously to local interests. Local residents and former landowners had opposed outsiders gaining control of the land.
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Brownwood
U.P
Camp Bowie
Henry Hutchings
Army Division
Dallas
Hutchings
War Assets Administration
Big Four ministers meet on early peace talks
Deputies of the Big Four foreign ministers opened a preliminary discussion in London for peace settlements with Germany and Austria, laying groundwork for the Moscow conference in March.
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London
Germany
Austria
Moscow
Abilene Army Air Field Declared Surplus Property
Abilene Texas Army Air Field was declared surplus as of January 13 with exceptions for facilities retained for the use of the organized ground reserve, an announcement stated from Washington.
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Abilene Field
Washington
Abilene
Tex
Army Air Field
Organized Ground Reserve
Butter price drop expected in Amarillo markets
Amarillo housewives may see a butter price decrease tomorrow as Borden Co and Plains Creamery post 4 cent cuts from 80 cents a pound. Company officials say national markets have declined, but local prices reflect true value amid shifting supply and demand dynamics and varying retail practices.
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Amarillo
Borden Co
Plains Creamery
W. E. Gallemore
The
Gallemore
A. F. Madison
Furr Food
Chicago Central
Chicago
Loren Young
Whiteway
Panhandle
Wilson & Co
T. E. Major
Amarillo Muni Water Chief Ray Edinburg Dies at 50
Ray Edinburg long time municipal water department superintendent died at 2 55 am in Underwood Clinic at age 50 after a months long illness. He came to Amarillo 30 years ago and served as electrical and maintenance head for the city water system and later for the Amarillo Independent School District. He is survived by his wife Jesie a daughter two sisters four brothers and two grandchildren. Funeral services set for 3 30 pm tomorrow at Boxwell Brothers Chapel with burial in Slane Cemetery.
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Amarillo
Ray Edinburg
Underwood
Edinburg
Old City Water and Light Company
Amarillo Independent
Marque
Adams
Security Benefit Association
Boxwell Brothers
FE. B. Fincher
Southern Presbyterian Church
Slane Cemetery
Mr. Waddill
Ed Bagot
J. C. Bemis
Walter Glavier
Pete Exposito
Lee Ramsey
Jesfie Edinburg
Fred Exposito
Lucy Ritchey
Lorenzo
Cla Evans
Comanche
S. P. Edinburg
Fort Worth
S. D. Edinburg
Martin Edinburg
Gustine
Russell Edinburg
McAdoo
Truman to Brief Congress on UN Activities and Atomic Power
Authoritative sources say President Truman will submit within two weeks a full report to Congress on American operations in the United Nations. The document will likely stress atomic energy control and may accompany the report with a letter.
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Truman
Congress
New York
United Nations
Act Would Boost Pay Of Tutors
Sen. Pat McCarran announced a bill to raise salaries for about one million elementary and high school teachers by an average of 16 percent. The measure would authorize up to 600 million dollars in federal aid during the 1948 fiscal year to boost pay for teachers earning less than 4,000 dollars annually, with staged increases and no aid for higher earners.
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Washington
U.P
Pat McCarran
Nevada
McCarran
Five Slain and Six Wounded in Etla Town Attack
Unconfirmed reports from Etla Oaxaca indicate five people killed and six wounded when armed men in a truck clashed with a crowd. The assailants ordered the mayor to close a small grocery and then fired into the gathered crowd after the refusal.
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Oaxaca
Mexico
U.P
Etla
Cold Mass Drops Panhandle Temperatures
A cold air mass caused Panhandle temperatures to fall 18 to 20 degrees from yesterday’s highs. North wind shifted to the southeast easing chill as highs reach about 45 degrees this afternoon and lows near 22 tomorrow. The five day outlook allows for normal temperatures through Thursday with Friday and Saturday turning colder and bringing heavy precipitation, Amarillo weather chief H. C. Winburn said.
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Panhandle
H. C. Winburn
Amarillo
Philippine Agencies To Aid Towns In Lava Path
Legaspi Philippines Jan 14 U P Mayan volcano erupted yesterday and President Manuel Roxas ordered government agencies to stand by in case lava streams reach villages near the mountain base. Huge rocks were hurled into the air and a smoke column rose five thousand feet above the peak.
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Legaspi
Philippines
Manuel Roxas
Amarillo Writer Blasted by UNRRA Chief in Moscow
UNRRA chief Paul White accused Amarillo writer Jack Fischer of violating a verbal agreement and embarrassing the mission by resigning and planning a tell all book. White said Fischer overstated access in Russia and had ill health, while Fischer’s book due in March faces sharp criticism and a White Plains residence.
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Amarillo
UNRRA
Moscow
Paul White
Ukraine
Jack Fischer
United States
White
Fischer
J. S. Fischer
Monroe
Harper's Magazine
Russia
Mr. White
White Plains
N. Y
Lee Fischer
Hutchinson County
Borger
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