Foreign aid plan sparks Senate clash and French strikes
Senate debate over the 597 million dollar foreign aid bill tightens as opponents accuse Marshall of rushed approval and Knowland endorses exports sell off. In Paris 18 Communist led unions reject Schuman’s call to end strikes amid a nationwide stoppage with 1.5 million workers off the job.
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Washington
Joseph H. Ball
Minnesota
George C. Marshall
Ball
Senate
France
Italy
Austria
State Department
Congress
Wayne L. Morse
Oregon
Republican
Europe
George W. Malone
Nevada
Malone
William F. Knowland
California
Commodity Credit Corporation
Paris
Robert Schuman
Texas cattlemen blast federal slaughter plan handling
Robert Kleberg and Tom Armstrong of the King Ranch and Kenedy County condemned federal officials for what they called deliberate misdirection over the Mexico slaughter program to curb foot and mouth disease. They urged a properly administered effort and complained the announcement from Mexico City and Washington came without warning or input. Armstrong planned to return to his ranch and then Washington to press the association’s case.
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Austin
Texas
Mexico
Robert J. Kieberg
The
King Ranch
Tom Armstrong
Kenedy County
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Washington
Norris E. Dodd
Richard Kieberg
Armstrong
Dodd
Kleberg
Robert Kleberg
Mexico City
Department of Agriculture
Wash
President and Family Attend Thanksgiving Church Service
President Truman and family planned to attend special Thanksgiving church services at the first Baptist Church near the White House with Margaret. The day was set aside to remember those in need abroad and no other engagements were scheduled. A turkey dinner at the White House was planned for 7 p.m. with a few friends.
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Washington
Truman
Margaret
First Baptist Church
White House
Gas Supply Restored To Northeast Texas Areas
Gas service returned to 15 northeast Texas communities after crews bypassed a leak in a 10 inch main near Royse City. The gasket failure under a creek bed cut supply to large industrial users, and an emergency by pass line was built to restore service.
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Dallas
Texas
Royse City
Caddo Mills
France Ready to Accept Eastern German Frontiers
French sources report Foreign Minister Georges Bidault would accept at today's Big Four meeting the eastern frontiers of Germany as outlined at Potsdam. The plan toughens by transferring large eastern German areas to Poland and Russia under Polish and Russian administration, undoing German boundaries east of the Oder and Neisse.
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London
Georges Bidault
Germany
Potsdam
Poland
Oder
Neisse
East Prussia
Russia
Koenigsberg
France
Marshall
Ernest Bevin
Bidault
Great Britain
Sham Sorrow Gouges Undertaker for $15
Police in Atlanta arrest 57 year old J H Johnson on swindling charges after he visited a funeral director with a tale of his infant grandson’s death. He paid for a casket with a bad $15 check and attempted to cash another to buy items for his wife. No corpse was found and an inquiry followed. The suspect has a living grandson in Baltimore.
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Atlanta
J. H. Johnson
Johnson
Atlantic
Funeral Home
Ronnie Carter
Baltimore
Pantex Renamed Pan-Tech Farm for Peacetime Use
Texas Tech officials rename the Pantex Ordnance Plant site Pan-Tech Farm reflecting a shift from war to peace. W L Stangel reports 8500 acres host winter wheat research run jointly by Texas Tech and Texas A&M. Dry weather halted seeding planned this year, delaying wheat yields. cattle illness referenced on further page PAN-TECH Page 2.
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Texas Tech College
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Pan-Tech Farm
W. L. Stangel
Lubbock College
Texas Tech
Texas A&m College
W. M. Whyburn
Tech
War Assets Administration
Dean Stangel
Pan-Tech
Weather forecast headlines Amarillo and West Texas notes
The forecast shows cloudy to partly cloudy conditions for Amarillo and vicinity with fair conditions tonight and Friday. Temperatures not very warm this afternoon but warmer Friday. West Texas remains partly cloudy with little temperature change and freezing lows in the Panhandle tonight. New Mexico expects fair weather today and Friday with varying temperatures. Norcross matched Christmas papers tags ribbons Russell Stationery Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Norcross
Russell Stationery Co
Government Forces Claim Victory Over Chinese Reds
Government armies report a major base capture in Yenling Henan province, claiming a heavy blow to Red plans to link Gen Chen Keng forces in central and eastern Henan with Gen Chen Yi and Gen Liu Po-cheng units in northern Anhui.
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Nanking
China
Henan
Yenling
Kaifeng
Red
Chen Keng
Chen Yi
Liu Pocheng
Anhwei
Mrs. Lamarre Plans Suit Over Alleged Affair in Dayton
Mr. and Mrs. Bleriot H. Lamarre and their dog Luckey host reporters in Dayton Ohio as Mrs. Lamarre threatens a slander suit against Maj. Gen. Bennett Meyers who testified to Senate investigators that a clandestine affair with her inspired him to form the Dayton firm with her husband as president.
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Bleriot H. Lamarre
Luckey
Dayton
Ohio
Jury Frees Attacker Despite Guilty Plea
In Chicago a jury acquitted George Rapp despite his confession and guilty plea to bludgeoning his wife Esther and slashing her throat. Judge Ward lamented the verdict as the seven women and five men deliberated one hour and 50 minutes. The attacker claimed insanity at the time and remains free.
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Chicago
George Rapp
Esther
Criminal Court
Harold G. Ward
Rapp
Martin E. Ward
French Recruit German Prisoners for Foreign Legion
War office reports German soldiers are being recruited in the occupied zone for the French Foreign Legion. Moscow Pravda claim of 50,000 enlistments denied. the legion has four regiments and about 15,000 men. In Capetown, the Earlham Victory rescues 38 crewmen from the President Reitz as it breaks up on rocks in fog. In Washington, GOP rift over Carroll Reese grows with Vermont Senator Aiken calling for his resignation.
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Paris
War Office
French Foreign Legion
Moscow
Pravda
Foreign Legion
Capetown
U.P
Earlham Victory
President Reitz
Port Elizabeth
Washington
Carroll Reese
Republican National Committee
George Aiken
Vermont
Reese
Ex-Army Pilots Complete 1275-Mile Leg Of Global Flight
George Truman and Clifford Evans reached United States soil after a 13 hour leg from Lethbridge Alberta. The two ex Army pilots, aged 39 and 27, flew Cub Cruisers in their round the world journey. They greeted reporters with humor asking where the barbers are.
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van Nuys
Cal
United States
Shaggy
George Truman
Los Angeles
Clifford Evans
Washington, DC
Barbers
Lethbridge
Alberta
Cold Front Drops Temperatures Amid Sneak Attack
A fast-moving cold front from Montana hit Amarillo early today bringing lower temperatures and cloudy skies. Weatherman Walter Watts says the effect will be brief with clearing skies by tonight. highs near 52 this afternoon and around 58 tomorrow, with tonight’s low near 30.
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Montana
Amarillo
Walter Watts
Nervy bank robber fails as teller’s calm stare stops hold up
FBI searched for a young gunman after he attempted to rob the Commercial and Industrial Bank in Memphis. He handed a note demanding 4000 dollars in tens twenties and fifties and fled when teller Mollie Miller kept direct eye contact. A second, more polite note was found a few blocks away dated November 26.
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Memphis
Tenn
FBI
Mollie Miller
Denton
Tex
Commercial and Industrial Bank
Mrs. Miller
City Dazes As Holiday Observed
Amarillo endures a quiet Thanksgiving with downtown deserted as workers stay home. Festivities include a 8 pm YMCA dance by Dudes and Jones and a 8:30 pm Youth Center program with movie and games for teens. Church services held citywide with union services at First Christian Church. Main afternoon attraction was Amarillo Sandies vs Plainview Bulldogs in Plainview.
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Amarillo
YMCA
Municipal Auditorium
Dudes and Jones
Ymca Ywca
San Jacinto
Trinity Lutheran Church
Amarillo Bible Church
First Assembly of God Church
North East Eighth
North Pierce
First Christian Church
Neal D. Cannon
Polk Street Methodist Church
Hardy
Amarillo Sandies
Plainview Bulldogs
Plainview
Dane Arrested in Smuggling of Scientists to Argentina
Copenhagen reports the arrest of German Mine Clearing Service chief St Guenther Toipfke in a probe of smuggling German scientists to Argentina. Six other Germans were held, with about 150 believed smuggled into Denmark and sent out to Sweden Argentina and other nations.
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Dane
Argentina
Copenhagen
Denmark
KGNC Transmitter Change Shifts Frequency and Power
KGNC completed a frequency and power change moving from 1410 to 710 kilocycles. The station switched at 12:36 PM, east transmitter discontinued, then reintroduced from a new transmitter 27 miles northeast of Amarillo in Carson County. Daytime power rose from 5,000 to 19,008 watts.
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KGNC
Amarillo
Carson County
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