Veterans Gain Job Preference in December Federal Posts
The Civil Service records show 2 948 veterans placed in federal jobs in December across Texas Louisiana and Mississippi up 1007 from November 1945. Most were World War I veterans with 20 520 for all of 1945 up from 10 770 in 1944. future hiring depends on federal agency expansion and re conversion.
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U. S Civil Service
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
H. M. Timmons
Civil Service
Definitions and puzzle wind around a long list of bags
A reader puzzle presents clues and incomplete phrases centered on the word bag and its meanings. It includes a long riddle of definitions from purses to boats and animals, plus a note on five Great Lakes sister ships about an eighth of a mile long.
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Great Lakes
Osa Massen Sneeze Stop Fur Coat in Film Scene
In The Gentleman Misbehaves Osa Massen wore a chinchilla coat but sneezed due to fur allergies. Wardrobe swapped to imitation fur and later the real chinchilla was used again before the scene wrapped. Director George Sherman called cut as Massen pinched her nose to ward off sneezing. The Washington Monument stands 555 feet tall.
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Osa Massen
Osa
Miss Massen
Chinchilla
George Sherman
Living Costs Cheat Children in Spain Report
DeWitt MacKenzie describes Spain's wage level from a dollar to $1.35 daily and rationing prices. He notes widespread use of olive oil, reliance on bread and soup, and that families push children into work to survive. Foreign observers say hunger is not universal among workers.
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Madrid
Spain
Mexico
Nazis Worked Slaves to Death Exposed by War Crimes Court
MERNBERG Jan 18 Up French prosecution in a war crimes court described Nazi slave labor policy as extermination by work. Prosecutor Jacques Bernard Herzog cited a 1942 Goebbels meeting where labor to death was urged to exterminate groups including Jews Gypsies Poles Czechs and others.
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Mernberg
War Crimes Court
Jacques Bernard Herzog
Joseph Goebbels
Herzog
Return of Castor Oil to Kyoto Japan
The 41st Division returned two thousand gallons of castor oil and 747 bugles to Japanese authorities, items disliked by GIs. Explosives, submarines, aircraft, guns and tanks were destroyed rather than returned. Lt. Col. Irwin T. Shaw oversaw transfer of 690,000 pounds of beans and 1,266,300 pounds of fish and meat along with tobacco, rice, cereal and tea to civilians.
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Kyoto
Japan
Irwin T. Shaw
Des Moines
Graziano Slugfest on KFDA Tonight
New York middleweight Rocky Graziano clashes with George Sonny Horne of Long Island at Madison Square Garden in a scheduled ten round bout. Graziano seeks his fifth KO at the Garden while Horne brings speed and boxing skill to a likely blistering display on Gillette Cavalcade of Sports on ABC and KFDA at 9 p.m.
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New York
Rocky Graziano
George
Sonny” Horne
Long Island
Madison Square Garden
Cauliflower Garden
Rocky
Horne
Graziano
Gillette
American Broadcasting Co
KFDA
Boy Scout Officials Inspect Camp Site
Llano Estacado Council of Boy Scouts officials, re elected at the annual meeting, toured the camp site near Happy Glen crossing twelve miles south of Amarillo. Engineer planners from New York are expected to map development as donations fund buildings. Lew Fields was re elected president with a slate of officers including Virgil Paterson and Bob J. Johnson, while S E Brown was succeeded as second vice president. The meeting was held in Cathedral Hall.
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Llano Estacado
Philmont
Cimarron
N. M
Boy Scout
New York
Lew Fields
R. H. Waite
Dalhart
S. E. Brown
Virgil P. Patterson
Engineer Dies In Train Crash At Royse City
ROYSE CITY Jan 18 A Katy railroad collision killed H M Powers 52 a Missouri Kansas Texas engineer from Denison instantly two freight locomotives wrecked head on six crew members injured at least two named EF Scott and R P Fike both Denison rushed to hospital cause of crash unknown traffic disrupted Katy officials called it first major wreck in over a year and first head on collision in longer time
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Royse City
H. M. Powers
Denison
Katy
EF. Scott
R. P. Fike
Powers
Fred Hammack
W. T. Rutherford
B. G. Ard
W. D. Patton
Scott
Fike
Ceiling Price Ten Cows
A Johannesburg native was fined $40 after admitting profiteering from his daughter by accepting 20 head of cattle from her prospective husband when only 10 were due. The case notes admission of guilt and the amount paid as penalty.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Word Game Answer List and Titanic Ice Patrol note
Solution list shows word family items from handbag to sabotage. The Titanic sinking reference notes 1913 loss and the origin of the International Ice Patrol creating an ice safety record for world shipping.
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Coast Guard
International
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Hubert
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Licker
Hazlewood &G Hazlewood
Oliver Eakle Ridg
Grady Hazlewood
John Hazlewood
Mhane Buchad
Ol’ Vernon Sez
Oriental Cleaners
Vernon Hancock
Scissor Jack
Cal Farley
Fth
Fillmore
Winstop Duzzitt
Washington Monument
Panhandle
Monroe
Amarillo
A. W. McKee
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press World Traveler
By Angelo
Chicago Sun Syntecem
Jerry Jackson
Barge
Badger
Barrage
Amarillo Printing Company
Phoenix
Los Angeles
San Francisco
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