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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1948
Page
11
Informants predict Britain and Eire will begin talks soon on a treaty linking the two states with a shared military and economic framework. Eire Prime Minister Costello’s bill to repeal the External Relations Act clears parliament, removing Eire from its former constitutional ties.
Representatives from Southern Prison Company San Antonio and Stanton Field city engineer examined the city jail this morning and reviewed plans to install a cell block in the space now used by the police detective and identification bureaus. Dreeke could not estimate costs and dismissed basement placement due to ventilation cleanliness and street level windows.
Henry Ford II and Roger Williams Straus received citations from the National Conference of Christians and Jews for contributions to brotherhood and understanding among men. Ford cited the fight against Communism as proof the world’s troubles stem from a lack of cooperation.
Emma Louise Wilson, convict of embezzling 2181 dollars from a Fort Worth bank, faces a suspended sentence if she repays. Donations to aid her return to Odessa to reunite with her four daughters reached 1033 dollars as she remains in a Fort Worth hospital before traveling home tonight.
Cpl. Jimmy Weakley son of Mr and Mrs O C Weakley of 1006 Mississippi arrived here after twenty years of service with the US Army in Germany. He was discharged Wednesday at Camp Kilmer NJ and traveled to Amarillo by plane. He served with the provost marshal's office at a US outpost in the Bavarian Alps in Germany.
Washington officials note department store sales fell in the first two weeks of November from a year earlier. Prices are higher and weather or other factors may influence the trend. The declines, 1 and 9 percent, follow years of rising postwar sales in Federal surveys.
Weather and price trends influenced Christmas shopping as merchants saw mixed demand. Unseasonable warmth in some areas and cold in others, with the nationwide sales decline spanning all 12 federal reserve districts. Officials speculate consumers may wait for late season discounts and last minute purchases amid plentiful inventories and marked down prices.
Patrolman Fred Woods reports a suspect at a police station wearing two pants sewn together at the cuffs. Between the layers were six tablespoons, canned food, clothes line, and an extension cord. The man claimed to shop at a chain grocery store. News-Globe Want Ads.
A 1942 Chevrolet owned by Mrs. C. Crabtree was stolen from the 900 block of North East Eighth and later found in Clinton Oklahoma. The car had been stored in a garage there since Oct. 26 after Amarillo police sought a search following reports of sightings in Oklahoma City.
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