Five years for Alger Hiss on perjury counts
Alger Hiss, former Carnegie Endowment president and State Department adviser at Yalta, was sentenced to five years in prison on each of two perjury counts for lying about 1938 contact with a Communist spy ring. Sentences run concurrently. bail set at $10,000. appeal filed.
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New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Roosevelt
Yalta
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Henry W. Goddard
Hiss
Claude B. Cross
Goddard
Associated Press
Mrs. Alger Hiss
New York City
Harold Lloyd to be honored at Fort Worth shrine dance
Imperial Potentate Harold Lloyd, renowned film comedian, will be honored at a dance in Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum Fort Worth on February sponsored by shrine temples of Fort Worth Dallas and Wichita Falls.
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Harold Lloyd
Fort Worth
U.P
Imperial
Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum
Shrine Temples of
Dallas
Wichita Falls
Ea Anes Neaian Sessi Aa
Rally to Seek a High School in North Amarillo
A mass meeting set for 7:30 tonight at Fellowship Baptist Church Ninth and North Johnson aims to drum up support for a North Amarillo high school. Organizer D D Smith cites a 38 000 population and a board owned site bounded by North Twelfth to Fifteenth Avenues and Grant to Arthur Streets. T A Reville Jr will lead the open gathering to form a civic club and coordinate a campaign for a North Amarillo high school.
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North Amarillo
Fellowship Baptist
Smith
Amarillo
North Twelfth
North Fifteenth Avenues
Grant
Arthur Streets
T. A. Reville, Jr
North Pierce
Smithwick Faces Death Demand in Mason Killing Case
Belton Texas January 25 The state seeks the death penalty for Sam Smithwick 62 a former Jim Wells deputy charged with murdering radio newscaster W H Bill Mason The district attorney urged the maximum penalty citing cold and wanton killing The judge outlined three possible verdicts including murder with malice and death or life imprisonment or a nonmalicious murder with two to five years imprisonment
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Belton
Sam Smithwick
Smithwick
Jim Wells
W. H
Bill” Mason
Homer Dean, Jr
Alice
Dean
Texas
Wesley Dice
Mason
Smithwick testifies about deadly shooting in Alice
Smithwick testified yesterday that he shot Mason to death in Alice last July 29. He said Mason cursed him and grabbed the pistol Smithwick had seen. Dean argued that all public officials bear trust and cited officers with guns in society.
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Smithwick
Mason
Alice
Dean
Sam Smithwick
Stranger With Keen Insight Solves a Newsboy's Problems
In Amarillo a quiet cafe scene unfolds with a weary newsboy selling papers after a long day. A young couple, deep in conversation, observes the boy's fatigue as he pleads for a sale, highlighting a moment of urban hardship and human connection.
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Louis E. McClish
Blind man buys all papers for boy in need
A compassionate young man, who once was a paperboy and is now blind, buys all the newspapers for a boy to take home to his mother. A passerby notes the act as a couple leaves, and the man cannot read the papers himself.
Episcopal Leader Joseph F Newton Dies at 73
Philadelphia obituary reports Dr. Joseph Fort Newton prominent clergyman and author dies at 73. He was named one of America's top five ministers in a 1939 poll of 25,000 clergy and served as rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Luke. He passed away at his Merion home.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Fort Newton
America
Episcopal Church of St. Luke
Merion
89 000 Out As Peace Talks Fail
Eighty nine thousand CIO United Auto Workers across six states walked out at 10 am after 24 hours of talks ended in deadlock with Chrysler over pension and health benefits. Chrysler offered pensions but refused a trust fund, and faced a five year contract freeze except wages. Reuther condemned the company, while workers formed picket lines and soup kitchens opened as production halted at plants in Michigan and other states.
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CIO United Auto
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Chrysler
Sesson
Noel Fox
Michigan
Reuther
Herman L. Weckler
Delaware
Georgia
Indiana
California
Kansas
Banquet Speaker Ralph Carney To Forecast Future
Ralph Carney of Wichita will speak at the chamber of commerce banquet on leadership and mid century trends. He reviews 50 years of progress and projects the remainder of the century while Herb Budke presides. The Amarillo slogan contest winner will be announced. More than 400 guests expected, including 100 from out of town.
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Globe
R. Earl O'Keefe
Amarillo
Ralph Carney
Wichita
Kan
Chamber of Commerce
Walter Shaller Named for 18th District Census Boss
Walter S. Shaller, Amarillo attorney, widely rumored as 18th District census supervisor, awaits formal approval from the acting census director. Rep. Gene Worley recommended him, with office in the Federal Building Amarillo to open soon. Shaller will supervise, earning 4600 dollars yearly, with assistant George H. McCleskey Sr. from Clarendon, who is already attending a census school in Fort Worth.
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Walter S. Shaller
Shaller
Bureau of Census
Gene Worley
Phillip Houser
Mr. Worley
West Eleventh
Amarillo
George H. McCleskey
Clarendon
McCleskey
Worley
Bascom N. Timmons
Washington
The
Globe
Fort Worth
Federal Building
Amarillo Businessman Charged In Fatal Traffic Death
John Edward Hill 62 of 1900 Harrison, president of Hillson Investment Company, was charged with second degree negligent homicide after the weekend death of R. O. Barrett in Jefferson Iowa. Hill was to be arraigned this afternoon. no arrest reported, charge filed by State Highway Patrol.
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Amarillo
John Edward Hill
Harrison
Hillson Investment Company
R. O. Barrett
Jefferson
Iowa
O. M. Calhoun
State Highway Patrol
Italian justice minister Giuseppe Grassi dies in Rome
Giuseppe Grassi , who served as minister of justice in the Italian cabinet that resigned two weeks earlier, died in Rome on January 25. His death marks the end of a controversial tenure in which the government faced major upheaval.
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Rome
Giuseppe Grassi
Bergman Stromboli Preview Divides Hollywood Crowd
Hollywood reports a preview of Ingrid Bergman's Stromboli drew tepid reaction from about 600 fans expecting Hopalong Cassidy. Theatre manager Palmer Waslin cited Italian elements and unfavorable preview cards while RKO and studio sources noted mixed impressions of Bergman’s new screen persona and artistry.
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Hollywood
U.P
Hopalong Cassidy
Ingrid Bergman
Bergman
Cassidy
Stromboli
Palmer Waslin
Long Beach
Cal
RKO
Saratoga
Ingrid
Colder Tonight With Light Snow Forecast Across Panhandle
Weather forecast shows continued cold, with occasional light snow possible tonight. In the 10:30 to 11:30 period this morning temperatures rose from 28 to 52 degrees, but forecaster H. C. Winburn notes a stronger cold snap returning soon. Panhandle lows ranged from 9 to 16 degrees in Dalhart, Gage, and Guymon while Idaho and New Mexico lows influence unsettled conditions through Friday.
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Amarillo
H. C. Winburn
Amarillo Air Terminal
Panhandle
South Plains
Dalhart
Gage
Guymon
Oklahoma
Garden City
Kan
New Mexico
Winburn
Idaho
Texas
Tri-State
Acheson Approves Fund for Formosa Aid
Secretary of State Acheson reportedly approves a 28 million dollar economic aid package for the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. Senator Connally told the Foreign Relations Committee that Acheson agreed during a committee meeting yesterday.
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Acheson
Fund For
Formosa
Washington
Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Amarillo Weather Outlook From US Weather Bureau
Weather summary for Amarillo and vicinity notes windy mild conditions this afternoon, colder tonight with light snow, and Thursday partly cloudy and cold. Panhandle areas face freezing rain or snow with continued cold. New Mexico areas show scattered snow flurries and colder west and north portions through Thursday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
Upper South Plains
New Mexico
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Mrs. Martin A. Row
League of Women Voters
League of Women Voters of Texas
Martin A. Row
Irene Sweeney
Washington, DC
National League of Women Voters
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