Britain-Warmer Film Accord Frees U S Productions
London reports a new Anglo-American film agreement allowing Britain to repeal the 75 per cent tax on foreign film profits. Harold Wilson and Eric Johnston announced measures to lift the U S embargo, with the pact to run four years from June 14 and review after two.
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London
Britain
Harold Wilson
Board of Trade
Commons
United States
Wilson
Eric Johnston
Motion Picture Association ‘of America
UN Shelves Czech Plea in Security Council Dispute
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie ruled the Czech complaint by Jan Papanek as non governmental and not on the Security Council agenda. The United States had been approached but no UN member showed readiness to sponsor the move to judge Russia or unseat Prime Minister Gottwald amid the February coup.
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Papanek
Russia
Security Council
Moscow
Kiement Gottwald
Trygve Lie
Lie
Council
Gottwald
Cuech
Explosion Kills Jewish Agency Leader in Jerusalem
An explosion in central Jerusalem destroyed a wing of the Jewish Agency near the King David Hotel. Eleven Jews were killed and about ninety injured, with officials blaming Arab forces and noting a stolen US consulate car used in the attack. Leib Yaffe, head of the Palestine Foundation Fund, was among the dead. a search for two missing American consulate cars and an Arab driver named Anton Daud followed.
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Verusalem
Maren 11
Jewish Agency
Jerualem
King Hotel
Leib Yaffe
Palestine Foundation Fund
Anton Daud
Daud
James Montgomery Flagg Father Dies in New York Hospital
James Montgomery Flagg father, a veteran of the blizzard of 1888 and longtime New York businessman, died yesterday in a New York hospital at over 90 years old. He walked from his Broadway to Worth Street office during the storm era, reflecting a life tied to the city.
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James Montgomery
Best
New York
Isha Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg
Fingk
Worth Street
Bist Street
Texas Students Start Draft the Movement
AUSTIN March 11 a group of 12 veterans at the University of Texas law school formed GI's for The movement to draft Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Democratic presidential nominee. The group held its first meeting yesterday with mid-law student Robert Doss stating this is not part of the civil rights revolt.
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Texas
Austin
University of Texas Law School
Dwight D. Enserhower
Robert Doss
Whitewright
Thursday Rites Friday for Marine Killed on Cruiser Boise
The article profiles Billy Sims born in Hall County and raised in Amarillo, who joined the US Marine Corps on December 7 1941 and served aboard the light cruiser USS Boise. It notes his training, honors for marksmanship, and his engagement near Guadalcanal where the Boise saw action.
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David Rasco
Billy Sims
Panhandle
Down
Hall County
Amarillo
Marine Corps
Pearl Harbor
Young Sims
Tucson
Ariz
Dewey Sims
San Diego
Sims
Boise
Golden Gate Bridge
Destiny
Southwest Pacific
United States
South Pacific
Solomons
Iis
Guadalcanal
Billy ‘Sims
Billy
Cape Esperance
Mike Moran
Iron Fike
Moran
Glove Lost in Taxi and World War II Deaths
Readers place lost and found notices for gloves and child care while parents work. A tribute recalls Billy Sims and 106 others killed in action aboard the Boise during the Solomon Islands campaign, with funeral details for Sims and a burial at Llano Cemetery in Amarillo.
Air Forces Reserve Meets Friday Night at 8 O'clock
Squadron members plan a meeting with Lt Col Hindert and Air Forces Reserve instructors at Tinker Field to supervise a training session. Richard Ischingon is sought in Potter County court records. contact numbers listed. Also notices about a lost cocker spaniel, child care ad, curtain washing, and a kitten needing a home appear in the same page.
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Neepers
Richard Ischingon
Air Forces Reserve
Tack
Richard C
Ischingen
Potter County
H. A. Hindert
Air Forces
Markets. Stock Averages and Midwest Livestock Declines
Market page shows Merrill Lynch stock averages with Industrials at 16721, mixed declines across rails and metals. Kansas City livestock reports cattle 200 head salable with steady to weaker feeder prices. hogs down about 1 dollar, sheep moderate activity with varying lamb prices. Chicago hogs and cattle ranges show softer prices overall amid thin demand and rediscovered outlets.
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Interlake
Harvester
Jones-Lavebtin
Lockheed
Martin
Montgomery ‘Ward Rath Kelvinator
Maree Emon
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Wendy’ Roeves
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Inez
Oolakian
Eteady
Czechoslovakia taps confidence vote as Masaryk funeral set
Prague March 11 Communist government wins unanimous parliamentary support for its program after seizing power two weeks ago. Premier Gottwald gains approval to push nationalization and land reform while Foreign Minister Masaryk, found dead near the foreign office, will be laid to rest Saturday beside his father, founder of the republic. President Benes remains in office.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Jan Masaryk
Klement Gottwald
Josef Berl
Gottwald
Ain Notike
Benes
Czechoslovak Republic
Negro Woman Traylor Faces Liquor Selling Charge in Potter Co
Gertrude Traylor, a Black woman living near Death Alley, stands trial in Potter County court for selling whiskey. Defender Billy Culwelt argues against the charges regarding a pint sold to a Texas Liquor Control Board agent on August 3 at 213 Jackson. Death Alley, formed by a now-destroyed set of buildings, remains noted in the record.
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Gertrude Traylor
Death Alley
Potter County
Billy Culwelt
Texas Liquor Control Board
Jackson
van Buren Street
van Buren-Jackson Alley
Second
Third Avenues
Tex Ritter Troupe Delayed By Icy Roads In Amarillo
Tex Ritter and His Western Revue are delayed due to icy southern roads. The four day engagement at the State Theater was scheduled to begin today but the troupe did not arrive in Amarillo by noon. They left Abilene after the final show last night and are expected before the first program this afternoon. Their famous horse White Flash is part of the act.
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Tex Ritter
State Theater
Amarillo
White Flash
Eft
Abilene
Four New Syphilis Cases Revealed in Amarillo
City health officials reported four new cases of primary and secondary syphilis in Amarillo last month. Two new cases were found in January. The report to City Manager N V Moss also noted 12 gonorrhea cases in January. All syphilis patients received rapid treatment cures.
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City Health Department
Amarillo
N. V. Moss
Smelter Bus Route May Shift Next Sunday If Weather Clears
City transportation director Lefty Fowler said the Smelter Bus could change next Sunday if weather permits workmen to paint bus stop signs. The current route runs on West Sixth and would be rerouted via West Third into downtown, looping through Polk, Fifth, and Jefferson.
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Lefty Fowler
City Transportation
West Sixth
Amarillo
West Third
Polk
Fifth
Jefferson
Blizzard Rescues Six Men From 18-Foot Snow Drifts
GREAT BEND Kansas March 11 UP The Air Force flew a helicopter to rescue six men marooned in a Kansas oil field after horses and bulldozers failed to break through 18 foot drifts. Temperatures dipped below zero as rescue went under way. The group had been cut off by a blizzard two days earlier. Col Eugene H Snavely ordered the mission from Marshall Air Force Base Fort Riley. Helicopter was piloted by Capt Walter M Coble. Stranded men include Dan H Cook Crown Oil Company field superintendent Emmett Aldridge Wichita geologist Ed Dering driller and three unnamed oil field workers.
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Great Bend
Kan
Air Force
Kansas
Eugene H. Snavely
Marshall Air Force Base
Fort Riley
Walter M. Coble
San Antonio
Tex
Dan H. Cook
Crown Oil Company
Emmett ‘Aldridge
Wichita, Kan
Ed Dering
Weather Update Shows Rail and Road Disruptions Across Panhandle
Weather continues to affect transportation as rail troubles delay train orders and buses resume to Denver while some routes remain severed to Liberal and Oklahoma City. Highway crews clear major routes, rotary plows rush to Booker, and by-pass circuits reroute calls as Panhandle towns report subzero temperatures and improving sun.
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Greyhound
Continental
Denver
Oklahoma City
Panhandle
Liberal
Kan
Oklahoma
Texas State Highway Department
Texas Panhandle
Booker
W. B. Amacker
Amar- Mo
American Automobile Club
Guymon
Okla
Wichita
Braniff
TWA
Pioneer
United States
Perryton
Spearman
Stratford
Dalhart
Canadian
Dumas
South Texas
Associated Press
Barbara Stanwyck Nightie Spark Creates Pajama Debate
Movie producer Hal Wallis angles a scene with Barbara Stanwyck in a sheer nightgown prompting rival claims by Allen Balton that pajamas should get equal time. Edith Head dismisses pajamas as unflattering on adults, praising nighties as more feminine while noting adults’ tastes. Elsewhere, cold snap woes root through Texas and the Midwest with power, travel, and school disruptions as heavy snow and record lows disrupt the region.
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uusWuud
Mare Pe
Hal Wallis
Barbara Stanwyck
Allen Balton
Balton
Miss Stanwyck
Barton
Wallis
Edith Head
Miss Head
Patie Abe Inlananeliaio
Charlotte Teague Funeral Tomorrow
Funeral services for Charlotte Anita Teague aged 9 will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. Burial follows at Liano Cemetery. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs David W Teague of 911 North Marrs and died yesterday in Amarillo. Survived by parents, a sister, three brothers and two grandparents. The Teague family has lived in Amarillo since 1940 after moving from South Texas. Mr Teague is a carpenter. Also note: there were 319 active combatant vessels in the US Navy as of January 1, 1947.
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Howard Bland
T. D. Hamilton
Cooper
Boxwell Brothers Chapel
A. E. Wilson
Buchanan Street Baptist Church
Emma Tomlin
Charles Harris
Amarillo
Dewey Sims
Tucson
Llano
Panhandle
Charlotte Anita Teague
Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel
Liano
David’ W. Teague
North Marrs
Amarillo Jathic Ial
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Waynoka
Panhandle Servi Ia
War Department
Ita Diapansion
Stich
W. D. Sexton
Valiant
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Seagee Z
Twest 1300
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Esprito Santos
New Hebrides Islands
Billy , Sims
North
Roosevelt
Wight
Sandy
Margaret McMillen
West Eighteenth
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Cleveland
Wyoming
C. L. Wagner
News-Globe
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Ced
Sinancl Gidating
Blizzard Maroons
Barbara
Angels
Federal
United Press
Missouri
Goodland
Oklahoma Panhandle
Tulsa
Salin Kan
Yews-Globe
Don Orlando
Calvert
Newbold Ave
New York, N.Y
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Calvert Distillers Corp
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Charlotte Teague
United States Navy
Blackburn
Shaw
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