Stockhandlers in Chicago avert strike with wage deal
Stockhandlers at Chicago Union Stock reported for work after an 11th hour settlement averted a strike that would have halted 85 percent of livestock marketing. The CIO union Local 44 voted unanimously to accept a 6 cent hourly raise, with other locals still planning Friday walkouts in multiple cities. Conciliator Walsh prepared to meet with packinghouse officials and Big Four Packers to end the broader meat strike.
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Lescage
Chicago
CIO United Packinghouse
Frank Monaghan
Unon
South St.Paul
Minn
Fort Worth
Tex
Milwaukee
Wis
St Joseph
Fargo
Frank Walsh
Federal Mediation
Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy
Jester Grants 30-Day Stay in Gregg County Rape Case
Governor Beauford H. Jester ordered a 30 day stay of execution for John Amos Coleman sentenced to death for rape in Gregg County. The stay delays the scheduled June 18 electric chair death to June 18. President Truman and President Auriol discuss European Recovery Plan support as a decisive contribution to world peace.
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Jester
Greag County
Austin
Beauford H. Jester
John ‘Amos Coleman
Gregg County
Coleman
Washington
Vincent Auriol
France
Truman
Film and Show Listings at Paramount Rialto and Nearby Theaters
The page lists showtimes and lineup across Paramount Rialto and surrounding venues including adventures with Spencer Tracy Hepburn Burn Van Johnson Angela Lansbury. films such as Bury Me Dead and West of Dodge City. cartoons and Spanish segments. live acts by George Murphy Margaret O Brien and Laurel Hardy. nightly dances at Aviatrix with Ton Rom. Rainbow Gardens and Mexican Inn nightlife. hours begin 1:00 PM with multiple feature times noted.
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Paramount
Spencer
Tracy
Katherine Hep
Burn
van Johnson
Angela Lansbury
Stiverad
Willam Bishop
Gloria Henry
Cathy O'Donnel
Laurel @ Hardy
Squiri
Renth Avenue
Angel
George Murphy
Margaret O Brien
Maria
Rialto
Fernandes
0. S.s
Alan Lada
Geraldine Pitzserski
Dodze City
Charles Starrett
Earl Carroll Sar
Prang
Cigats
The
Rose
Rogers ‘Orchestra
Aviatrix
Carton Scales
Ochestra
Ton Rom
Queens Feted At Banquet Of Music Makers
Thelma Short and Billie Jo Holman crowned queens of Amarillo High School Orchestra at the first annual ban quet honoring graduating seniors. Toastmaster Tom Fotheringham, invocation by Jay Carver, musical numbers by local performers, with remarks from the conductor and school officials.
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Globe
Billie Jo Holman
Thelma Short
Queens of
Amarillo High School
Eer
Thelma
Virginia Short
Washington
Billie Jo
P. M. Holman
Route 1
Thomas Dinner House
Jewelry Stolen From Auto At Beville Home
About 300 in jewelry disappeared from the rear of A. M. Beville at 1225 Milam. Beville suspects the items were taken from his car while parked near the Resident Hotel at 1417 Harrison where he visited friends. Missing items include about 100 baby rings and Indian style bracelets necklaces earrings and rings.
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A. M. Beville
Milam
Beville
Harrison
Catholics Erect St. Francis Rectory Near Amarillo
Construction began on a nine room frame rectory at St. Francis parish to house Rev. Joseph Walter and clergy. The former rectory east of Amarillo on Highway 60 now serves as a convent for the Sisters of St Francis who teach at the St Francis School.
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St. Francis
Joseph Walter
St. Francis Parish
Amarillo
Sisters of St.Francis
Two Men Pass City Fireman Exam in Civil Service Test
Two men, AO Byrd of 205 Prospect and Carl W. Goldwater of 4410 East Nineteenth, passed the city fireman civil service exam yesterday. Goldwater, already temporarily with the fire department, now qualifies for permanent appointment per personnel director Clifford Davis.
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AO. Byrd
Prospect
Carl W. Goldwater
East
Goldwater
Clifford Davis
Bybee Trial Opens in Canyon for Auto Theft Case
Raymond R. Bybee, an Amarillo youth, faces a 47th District Court trial in Canyon. He is charged with stealing an automobile early last month in Canyon after giving his address at 1721 Lincoln.
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Bybee
Canyon
Raymond R. Bybee
Amarillo
47Th District Court
Lincoln
Stationed Priest Relocated to Amhedpur India
Rev John Holland Catholic chaplain once at Amarillo Army Air Field is now stationed in Amhedpur India during the war period.
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India
John Holland
Amarillo Army Air Field
Fortune in Stamps Hoarded by Hermit in Pittsburgh
Eight thousand pounds of stamps were moved from a four room death trap to the home of Gustave Pfeiffer a 74 year old North Side hermit He was removed last November and is now in a county home The collection weighs about 2 400 000 stamps experts hope a 25 000 master collection may emerge once sorted and valued by Fred Ott stamp expert
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Pittsburgh
North Side
Gustave Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
Fred Ott
Fowler Kansas seniors visit Amarillo after Carlsbad Caverns
Twenty six seniors from Fowler High School Kansas stopped in Amarillo for lunch on their trip home from Carlsbad Caverns. They planned to resume travel to Fowler after the brief stop.
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Kansas High School
Amarillo
Fowler
Kan
City
Carlsbad Caverns
Tombstone Honors Man and Wife in Prairie Cemetery
Fred V. Pargeter has a $1,300 tombstone with an inscription praising him as a good and honest citizen and a man among men. His wife, 79, plans a summer England trip if her health permits, while the couple awaits the grave marker in Lone Star cemetery near Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
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Prairie
Kan
Fred V. Pargeter
Lone Star Cemetery
England
Pargeter
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Terson
Scorpios
Elgin American
Fred W. Hinds
Royalty
Georgia Gap
South Georgia
Becaue
Fifteenth Avenue
Wolflin Avenue
John Halley
Ounty
Georgia Street
Ifteenth Avenue
Wolflin’ Avenue
Halley
Panhandle Water and Sewer Works Operators Association
Joe Cobb
An- Aarillo
Sea
Taylor Gomer Jone
MEL Furniture CO
Fire Department
Reverend Boatwright
Reid
Georgia
D. S. Ashby
Mgr
West Sth
B. F
Goodrich
Fillmore
Fype Cement & Supply Company
Lot d
LU CE
Charles Latham Sholes
Wisconsin
Sholes
George Muehlebach
Kansas City
Muehlebach
WES - Tex Beer Co
PTC AS
Whiteway
del Monte
Conten
Marvene
SUDS
Kraut Wert Een
Brer Rabbit
Les
NUCOA
Armour’s Bacon
Sunray Franks
Whiteway Food Stores
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