Farm Dream Reignites After Coat Hideaway Recovered
Amarillo couple Ervin and Mrs Beckworth renew plans for a Minnesota farm after $1,484 was recovered from a cook who had bought the overcoat containing $1,500 sewn inside. The Beckworths had lost the money en route to Wadens, Minnesota, and had returned home reporting the loss.
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News-Globe
Blanche Beckworth
Pierce
Cleo Cravens
Arthur
Becksworths
Wessuey
Ervin’ Beckworth
Minnesota
Beckworth
Mrs. Beckworth
Amarillo
Cleveland
Wadens
Minn
North Highway
Sid Harper
Beckworths
Lawmakers In Dead End Street Over FEPC Filibuster Standoff
The Senate remains in session with a southern filibuster blocking the permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission bill. Republicans push for longer hours while Democrats seek continuous sessions to break the stalemate. Oregon Senator Morse calls for 24 hour meetings as Chavez backs FEPC action.
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United States Senate
Fair Employment Practice Commission
Senate
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
FEPC
Morse
Army Bid for Volunteers Up
Senator Edwin C. Johnson urged the biggest advertising drive to recruit volunteers for the Army. He said the Army should rely on voluntary enlistments, reassess needs, and believed 950000 volunteers could be recruited by July 1 to meet a 1500000 personnel target. He noted the Navy uses volunteers well and warned against an enduring peacetime draft.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Johnson
War Department
Navy
Westinghouse strike costs reach 3.21 million weekly
Westinghouse Electric Corp says striking workers lose about 3.21 million dollars weekly, or 642000 dollars per working day. The notice mentions attendance at Amarillo sale events and a Russell Stationery Co. promo running January 71 through 26 at 611 Taylor.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Amarillo
Russell Stationery Co
Taylor
Russell
100th Birthday Celebrated in Clayton New Mexico
Charles Barron Bedliner marked his 100th birthday in Clayton New Mexico. He is described as the father of 12 children, grandfather of 71, great grandfather of 111, and great great-grandfather of 12, with the celebration held yesterday.
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Clayton, N. M
Charles Barron Bedliner
36th Yells To Censure Clark
Brownwood AP report on 36th Division veterans meeting at Memorial Auditorium adopting a resolution urging Congress to investigate the Rapido River crossings in Italy. The plan names Gen. Mark W. Clark, cites heavy casualties and alleged high command negligence, with mixed reactions from veterans and officers.
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Phinney
Claude V. Birkhead
Texas
Zerk Robertson
Abilene
Rapido
Robertson
Richard Wharton
Houston
Rapido River
Clark
Rome
Herbert McCombie
Boston
Mass
Italy
A. F. Fisher
Wichita Falls
Burke Brewster
Fort Worth
Congress
Miller Ainsworth
Luling
Bob McLemore
Dallas
Fred Armstrong
Marshall
Resolution calls Congress to probe Rapido River debacle
The 36th Division Association at Brownwood Texas argues Gen Mark W Clark ordered the Rapido crossing despite warnings. It cites 2900 casualties and requests a congressional investigation to reform a failing military system to spare future soldiers being sacrificed.
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Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Rapido
36Th Division
Rapido River
36Th Division Association
Brownwood
Tex
Congress of the United
Reds Choose Death Over Return to Angry Soviet
Ten Russians who fought for the Germans on the eastern front died by self inflicted wounds and two others slashed themselves in a Dachau prison barracks when American troops tried to force repatriation. Guards avoided firing, using tear gas as the men burned and linked arms. The 31 of 271 Ilyi Cos sacks in Vlassov’s command refused to board a train, then accepted transit under American escort.
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Bad Toelz
Germany
Dachau
Russia
U.S. Third Army
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S
Europe
Soviet Union
McNair
Army
Ilyi Cossacks
Andrei A. Vlassov
Baacks
Yet Injured Struck by Car Near River Road
Ernest Wright of Route 3 Box 250 was badly injured when his car was parked on the roadway and another vehicle clipped its edge and struck him as he fixed a flat tire about two and a half miles north of the city limits. Wright, a World War II veteran, was taken to the Veterans Hospital in a Griggs ambulance. his wife and child were unharmed.
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Ernest Wright
River Road
Wright
Veterans Hospital
Griggs
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The report notes Sunday partly cloudy with little temperature change, cold nights ahead. West Texas partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with colder conditions, New Mexico similar. Highs Sunday 45 to 55, yesterday temperatures averaged around 32 to 40 with a 40 maximum and 32 minimum. no significant precipitation reported.
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Amarillo
Texas
New Mexico
Olineh
Jack SoRelle
Fillmore
Strike Control Bill Near Approval By House Labor Panel
A majority of the House Labor Committee expects to approve a strike control bill next week likely Tuesday It would adopt the fact finding principle and may modify Truman recommendations Some members prefer anonymity while 10 of 18 anticipate passage to the floor The Landis plan with no subpoenas and no cooling off would be dropped for broader support and others pledge to back any compromise to obtain a floor vote
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Truman
Randolph
West Virgin
Congress
Landis
Indiiana
Hoffman
Michigan
Barden
North Carolina
Landis Pl
Kaiser Signs Coast Plant Contract Amid Steel Strike
Kaiser’s Fontana California plant, the largest on the Pacific coast, signs a contract granting an 18 1/2 cent hourly raise amid a nationwide steel workers strike involving CIO United Steel Workers. The walkout shuts 1,293 companies in 30 states and idle thousands as 850,000 workers strike.
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Associated Press
Massachuetts
California
CIO
United Steel
Henry J. Kaiser
West Coast
Kaiser
Steel Workers’ Union
Truman
Washington
Schwellenbach
General Electric
Westinghouse Electric
United Electrical Workers of the
Westinghouse Meat Industry
AFY
Paul
Chicago
Cio-Palm Equipment
International Harvester Company
Utah Metals
Idaho
U. S. Steel
Pacific Coast
Fontana
Cal
Detroit
Great Lakes Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Harrisburg
George Medrick
Reading
Medrick
Birdsboro Steel Co
American Chain & Cable Co
United States
Western Electric Employes Association
New York City
Western Electric Co
F. J. Hammel
Labo
Kearny
N. J
Western Electric
Pittsburgh Pate Glass Company
Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Company
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Daily
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Gene Worley
Panhandle
Office of Economic Stabilization
Worley
Olver & Wie_— Lumber Co
Carl Phinney
Cae
UO S Weather Bureau
United States Steel Corporation
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