Timetable of Redeployment Arrives Troops at East Coast Ports
Approximately 19 000 American servicemen are due today at two east coast ports aboard 14 troop transports. West coast ports will see 11 500 troops disembark from 22 vessels. Ships include General Squier Lacrosse Victory Webster Victory Texarkana Victory Sheepshead Bay Victory Laconia Victory with multiple battalions and support units.
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Associated Press
Leas
New York
General Squier
Karachi
India
Lacrosse Victory
le Havre
Field Artiller
Webster Victory
Marseilles
263Rd Infantry Regiment
Ordnance Base
263Rd Infantry
Texarkana
Sheepshead Bay
Antwerp
Laconia Victory
Youths to Serve Life Sentences in Oklahoma
Three youths from Austin who hitchhiked a ride and killed the man who gave it to them were to begin life terms today at McAlester State Penitentiary. Ernest England 15 was convicted of murder, Oma Dixon Claunch Jr. 14 and Billy Slussler 17 pleaded guilty. The victim was McGraw F. Streckenfinger of Pittsburg Kansas who had given rides near Denison.
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Atoka
Okla
U.P
Oklahoma
McAlester
Austin
McGraw FE
Streckenfinger
Pittsburg
Kan
Denison
Ernest England
Oma Dixon Claunch, Jr
Billy Slussler
Senate panel asks Truman for new order on volunteering info
A Senate House committee voted 5 to 3 to ask President Truman to issue a new executive order allowing any government official to volunteer information about the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The move comes after Republicans blocked a proposal letting members inspect records in the inquiry.
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Washington
Senate House
Truman
Pearl Harbor
FBI Reports 1945 Crime Jump Across All Offenses
The FBI announced that criminal offenses rose 103 percent in the first nine months of 1945 versus 1944, with September up 158 percent. Murder and non negligent manslaughter rose 78 percent, burglary 154, robbery 17.5, aggravated assault 88, larceny 84, and auto theft 14.2.
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Washington
FBI
Hunters Bring Five Teals And Two Mallards Near Happy
On a morning out of Amarillo two local hunters George Turner and Tom Thomas returned before 10 with five teals and two mallards shot five miles west of Happy. Luther Lee Thomas, student at Price College and son of Tom Thomas, joined the trip.
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Amarillo
George Turner
Tom Thomas
Happy
Luther Lee Thomas
Price College
Allies seal Japanese legation in Stockholm
Representatives of the American British Russian and Chinese legations sealed the Japanese legation in Stockholm in line with General MacArthur's order closing diplomatic outposts. An Allied official said papers were burned after the outpost was emptied. Athens reports a new Greek cabinet under Panayotis Kanellopoulos taking over government.
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Stockholm
MacArthur
Athens
Panayotis Kanellopoulos
Aggies Meet Allen Academy In Junior College Title Clash
Arlington game features North Texas Aggies opposing Allen Academy for the unofficial Texas junior college football championship tonight.
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Arlington
North Texas Aggies
Allen Academy
Veteran seeks lost discharge papers near Seventh and Harrison
A discharged veteran reports losing his discharge papers at the corner of Seventh and Harrison Streets. The note indicates the item is needed and described as heavy. Continues on page 7.
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Seventh
Harrison Streets
Amarillo Boy Writes Of the Japanese
A brief war correspondence from Elmer Anthony De Shazo, quartermaster second class in Wakayama, Japan, describes mine clearance work in the area, Japanese daily life, bartering for souvenirs, and weather turmoil including typhoons near Leyte and Okinawa. He mentions his mother Mrs. Dott Lindberg of 1315 East Ninth Street, Amarillo, and hopes to return home to reunite with family.
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Tack
Japan
Leyte
Okinawa
Dott Lindberg
East Ninth Street
Amarillo
Texas
Elmer Anthony DE Shazo
United States Coast Guard
Wakayama
Frank Sinatra appeals for end to Gary high strike
In Gary Indiana Frank Sinatra crooned and urged Froebel High School students to resume classes after a strike over alleged racial bias. He led pledges to democratic ideals and criticized outsiders driving the action while backing Principal R A Nuzum amid accusations of favoritism toward Black students.
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Gary
Ind
Frank Sinatra
Froebel High School
Memorial Auditorium
Foebel High
R. A. Nuzum
Sinatra
Anselm
University of Texas Winter Registration Rises
Unofficial reports show about 8,500 students enrolled for the winter semester at the University of Texas, up from 7,425 a year ago. About 1,000 registrants are ex servicemen with 687 Navy trainees enrolled.
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Austin
University of Texas
Navy
Merger debated as Halsey and Nimitz shift views
William F. Halsey, initially endorsing merger if Navy integrity remains intact, now calls for a separate navy department while supporting a single wartime command. Admiral Nimitz, departing from 1944 stance, advocates an independent navy and favors unity of command during war.
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William F. Halsey
Halsey
Navy
Navy Department
Nimitz
Armed Forces
Cairo Riots Target Jews As Demands To UN Outlined
In Cairo mobs confronted foreign lookalikes and forced questions about Jewish identity. Army and police blocked Mousky Bazaar entries while Jewish shops faced stoning. Arab leaders met at YMHA to press four UN demands including release of Palestine Arab leaders and disarmament of Zionist forces.
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Cairo
Mousky Bazaar
Young Men's Moslem Association
United Nations
Palestine
250000 From Texas Are Out
More than 250 000 Texas war veterans have been discharged to date. Lt. Col. Paul L. Wakefield, chief of the veterans division, says Texas accounts for about 10 percent of all U S discharges. He spoke in Dallas during a training conference with Dallas board members, noting Texas voluntary enlistments exceeded War Department quotas. About 750 000 Texas men and women have served.
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Texas
Paul L. Wakefield
Veterans Division
State Selective Headquarters
Dallas
State Selective Service Headquarters
Wakefield
War Department
Armed Forces
Two Escapees Admit Hotel and Tourist Court Robberies
Fort Worth, Nov 2. Two escapees Jess Hill and Leonard Stokes admitted robbing a downtown hotel on Wednesday night and a tourist court two weeks earlier. They kicked Sheriff Dusty Rhodes during the hotel holdup and both men said they escaped from Retrieve Prison Farm on Oct 3. Items seized included billfolds a watch two guns and $332 in cash. The sheriff was hospitalized for X rays after being struck with a blackjack and kicked under the arm.
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Fort Worth
Tarrant County
Dusty Rhodes
Jess Hill
Leonard Stokes
Hill
Stokes
Retrieve
Harris County
Rhodes
Dairy Exports to Europe Surpass All Previous Quarters
The agriculture department announced that liberated Europe will receive greatly increased U S dairy shipments in the last quarter of 1945. France including French North Africa Belgium the Netherlands and the UNRRA have been allocated more than 450 million tons of dairy products, about four times the previous quarter. Despite the boost in exports more butter cheese evaporated milk and dried milk will be available for U S civilians.
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Washington
Europe
Agriculture Department
France
French North Africa
Belgium
Netherlands
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Department
U. S
Premier Says King Leopold Was Friend to Hitler
Premier Van Acker released a report claiming King Leopold met Hitler at Berchtesgaden on November 19, 1940 and was on cordial terms with the fuehrer after Belgium's conquest. Leopold denied the report as inaccurate. the account was attributed to Hitler's stenographer Paul Schmidt.
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Leopold
Hitler
Brussels
van Acker
Berchtesgaden
Fuehrer
Belgium
Paul Schmidt
Solution in China Key to World Peace
Dr. Henry H. Hart of the University of California tells the Knife and Fork club in Amarillo that the Chinese crisis could determine world peace. He describes China as a testing ground like the 1936 Spanish Civil War and outlines his extensive international study and WWII service. He will speak at 8:15 p.m. at the Amarillo Country Club and is touring Texas after visits to Cheyenne and Wichita Falls.
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China
America
Henry H. Hart
University of California
Hart
Amarillo
Knife and Fork Club
Amarillo Country Club
San Francisco
Java
French Indo-China
Africa
Europe
Japan
Nazis Praise Russian Treatment in Moscow Jail Visit
Adm. Erich Raeder and Hans Fritzsche told fellow prisoners in Nuernberg jail that their three months in Russian custody were comfortable. Raeder said the Russians fed him well and cared for his health, and even allowed his wife to stay with him in Moscow. Fritzsche added he had no complaints.
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Nuernberg
Germany
Erich Raeder
Hans Fritzsche
Raeder
Moscow
Fritzsche
Strike brewing among Southwest Greyhound drivers
Tulsa dispatch reports a pending strike by drivers and maintenance men of the Southwest Greyhound Bus Co. that could tie up about 900 buses across seven Southwestern states starting at midnight Saturday night.
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Tulsa
Okla
Southwest Greyhound Bus Co
Childs Toy Train Scattered By Atomic Bomb Remark
Four year old Don Foster son of Leonard and Mrs Foster of 321 East Twenty fourth Street spilled his toy train when he tripped. He told his mother the wreck was what the atomic bomb did to his train in a calm, curious tone.
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Don Foster
Leonard Foster
East Twenty-fourth
Labor unrest spans nation as strikes widen across industries
Strikes in New England Maine New Hampshire Connecticut widen with over 16000 CIO workers involved in textile disputes. West Coast negotiations stall for CIO and AFL M machinists affecting about 200 plants. Greyhound walkouts continue, with threats to expand westward. AFLCTU orders five hour work stoppage in doubt. Western Union Detroit and Hartford workers vote to proceed and push for a nationwide strike vote. Andrew Higgins in New Orleans shuts plants, pledges sellout and exit blaming local leaders for labor turmoil.
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New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
CIO
Af’l
San Francisco
Greyhound
Chicago
Western Union
Detroit
Hartford
Telegraphers Union
New Orleans
Andrew Higgins
Higgins
Weather Near Normal Now May Warm Up Tomorrow
The forecast says conditions are normal today with a rise in temperatures tomorrow. This morning 38 degrees at 7 30, will fall to 36 tonight. Tonight will be fair and tomorrow partly cloudy.
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Weather Bureau
Labor Conflict Looms as Amarillo Telegraph Workers Face Impact
More than 100 telegraph workers in Amarillo are affected as labor talks near a national conference. Washington notes optimism that the labor-management conference will foster industrial peace, with delegates pledging good faith bargaining ahead of the sessions.
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Amarillo
Washington
Labor and Management
Truman
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