Pay Suits To Reduce Tax Total
Treasury allows back wage claims under portal-to-portal suits to be deducted from taxes for the years involved. The ruling boosts potential refunds due to prior excess profits tax, with 85 percent levy on 1936–39 earnings and 40 percent regular corporate tax through 1945. Treasury Secretary Snyder announced amid hearings on limits to back pay suits.
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Senate Judiciary
Navy
W. John Kenney
William Chapman Foster
Portal
Foster
War Department
Kenney
Eisenhower Released From Hospital After Illness
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff, was discharged from Walter Reed Hospital after a stomach disorder. Aides said he felt fine and had been rushed in yesterday with an attack of acute indigestion.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Judge grants prison term to girl who asked for it
In Dallas a 23 year old Houston woman convicted of auto theft chose a three year sentence over probation to match her companion Milton Powell. She told the court she did not want to work to support him while he serves his time and the judge approved the request.
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Chevrolet Leads as Lowest Priced Small Car
Chevrolet remains the lowest priced model in the small car field according to a comparison with Pisins Chevrolet Co. data before the decision.
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Chevrolet Co
Plains Chevrolet Co
Waco Senator Pushes Inquiry Into Texas Clemency System
Senator Kyle Vick of Waco introduced a resolution calling for a full and searching investigation of Texas pardons and paroles. The inquiry would be by the Senate general investigating committee within 20 days, or a special committee if not undertaken. The move follows criticism of the clemency process amid reports convicts can gain freedom for $1,000.
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Kyle Vick
Waco
Senate
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Vick
Poll Taxes Near Off Year Record Hit 3818
Tax Collector Frank Hoyt said today that poll tax sales rose to 3 818 with 287 sales this morning. Off year receipts average far below the five thousand mark and seven and one half days remain before the January 31 deadline.
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Parole Granted for Fort Worth Kindergarten Robbery Figure
The Texas State Pardon Board released a six month parole for Grady Lee Huffman a former Fort Worth kindergarten robbery gang member. He faced concurrent 25 year sentences totaling 425 years and was released after ten years and ten months served. Huffman had escaped prison three times with the latest escape 18 months prior.
Judge Boyce Resigns Civil Appeals Court
The Seventh Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo announces the resignation of associate justice William Q. Boyce effective Feb 1. Born 1903 in Amarillo, Boyce, a UT Austin law graduate, served in the Army including Doolittle’s unit, and was appointed to the bench in 1945. He plans to join Underwood Johnson s Dooley Wilson Heare in Amarillo.
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Boyce
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Clayton Heare
Court of Appeals
Coke Stevenson
Italy
Tom Garrard
Tohoka
United States
William Boyce
Thompson Oath Still On Record
Georgia chaos over oath dispute as senate ties 27 to 27 to keep M. E. Thompson's oath as acting governor on record. President Pro Tem Dean allows the journal to remain, while Talmadge allies consider a Supreme Court test within 20 days.
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Herman
Supreme Court
Eugene Cook
West Coast Radios Flash Description Of Girl's Abductor
Alice Devine a 17 year old high school student escaped after 26 hours in a Sacramento tourist cabin eluding a well dressed abductor identified as William Giles or E W Stiles. police issued an all point alert. the suspect fled a bar where ransom was to be paid and the girl aided detectives in a trap leading to her safe return.
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Sacramento
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New York City
American Weekly
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Woman Bank Clerk Charged In Black Market Arrested
U S Attorney Everett Grantham says Trudy Edwards former Hobbs New Mexico bank clerk has been captured in Columbia Tennessee. She was sought in a sugar rationing case tied to A M Bartlett Hobbs bottling owner and falsified sugar records. The probe involves over a million pounds of sugar.
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N. M
U. S
Everett Grantham
Trudy Edwards
Hobbs, N. M
Columbia
Hobbs
Range Riders Ladies Buffeted by Mob at Capitol Reception
About 50 Amarillo women in long dresses attended a reception for the new governor and lieutenant governor but found the Capitol crowded with 75 thousand invited guests. With doors blocked they toured the university square dance hall and later ate dinner in a freight-yard dining car as crowds surged. Ed Caskey and his wife reportedly entered the Capitol but could not exit until near midnight. The event ended with most groups returning to the train promptly.
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The
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AmariHo
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Amarillo
Ed Caskey
Katy
Texas
Inaugural Riders to Receive City Welcome in Amarillo
Globe staff writer Lewis Nordyke reports the Will Rogers Range Riders train arriving in Amarillo for a royal welcome after their publicity during Austin inauguration ceremonies. Rex Baxter of the chamber of commerce urged a greeting despite limited planning. Train due around 6 15 this evening per Fort Worth and Denver dispatchers.
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Lewis Nordyke
Globe
Will Rogers
Austin
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Denver
Formal Attire Riders Visit Austin Amid Cold Reception
T E Baker notes locals hard to enter venues while Range Riders draw a large turnout but no reception committee. The trip costs the group over ten thousand dollars, marking an unprecedented event in Texas as the Amarillo delegation and nearly two hundred people with a hundred horses travel to Austin in a tense reception.
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T. E. Baker
Austin
Texas
Amarillo
Axis Sally Is Jugged Second Time
Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally was rearrested in Frankfurt on Justice Department orders. She had been released last month after Berlin arrest in 1945 for treasonable Nazi propaganda. U.S. Army officials and Justice Department will decide on prosecution pending Boston treason trial outcomes.
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Ohio
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Douglas Chandier
Gunman Steals $28,000 From Bank Attendant in Los Angeles
Police hunted a gunman who entered a bank vault area and robbed a girl attendant with a note reading heroes die young. He took $28,000 found in a drawer and walked away, leaving the scene untouched amid the investigation.
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Capone Improves but Still Not Out of Danger
Capone shows improvement after a stroke at his Florida estate. Dr Kenneth Phillips, who has treated him since 1940, said Capone slept well and is much improved yet remains at risk as full recovery in stroke cases cannot be predicted for two or three days.
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Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
Clear skies and rising temperatures this afternoon and tonight. Thursday increases in cloudiness and slight warmth. West Texas fair and warmer this afternoon and tonight with partly cloudy Thursday. New Mexico fair this afternoon tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures. High 48, low 28, noon 47.
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West Texas
New Mexico
Bones Found in Cave Sent to Laboratory
Two boys discovered a skull and bone fragments in a Blanco Canyon cave near Floydada. Texas Ranger Raymond Waters arranged for the remains to be sent to the Department of Public Safety laboratory in Austin for examination. Local deputies and Plainview and Floydada officials helped with the dig and initial assessment. Archaeologists and a physician suggested Indian burials or remains of a young person, noting a bead near the site and brown tooth staining.
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Austin
Texas
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Department of Public Safety
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Kenneth Kirkpatrick
Petersburg
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Plainview
Caprock
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Panhandle
Frank Parks
Charles Parks
Cupid's Dart Ends Plane Search in China
A U S Army transport plane missing since Saturday landed forcibly 100 miles north of Canton. Thirteen Americans aboard were believed safe in Lienpingtung village after transmission of a love message from Warrant Officer Harry Fair to his fiancé in Shanghai. Aircraft from four nations had searched the Canton Shanghai area.
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Lienpingtung
Cupid
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Los Angeles
Cal
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Oriental Communications
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Durocher and Laraine wed amid California divorce dispute
Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher and actress Laraine Day married in El Paso after a California judge warned them not to live together. The ceremony followed Day’s divorce from Ray Hendricks and sparked legal questions about validity in California. The couple then fled toward Juarez, with the union clouded by ongoing divorce issues.
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