Hess admits full responsibility in Nuremberg trial
Rudolf Hess told the international military tribunal he accepted full responsibility for all he had done and wished to continue on trial. He said he feigned memory loss for tactical reasons. The court adjourned without ruling on his mental fitness amid conflicting medical reports.
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Nuernberg
Rudolf Hess
International Military Tribunal Today
Hess
No. 2
Fuehrer
Germany
Hitler
Walter Wilhelm Canaris
Erwin Lahousen
Canaris
Lahousen
Navy Warns Against Monopolizing Air Power in Atomic Era
Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that big air armadas may become obsolete with atomic warfare and urged against a Navy Air Forces merger. He cited Doolittle’s claims and suggested future battleships and armored vessels with guided missiles could dominate. Truman may push for full unification in early December.
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Washington
Navy
Army Air Forces
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
War Plans Division
Chester W. Nimitz
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Sherman
Air Force
Doolitts
Harold Stassen
United Nations
Moving traffic violations tallied in Ama rillo court
The police report shows six moving violations with total fines $100 and nine other traffic cases, bringing grand total to $109. Named violators include Lyman Hall 2116 Van Buren reckless driving $50 Lee Thompson 214 North East Eighth reckless driving $10 Maggie Stevens Box 575 Canyon no driver's license $10 A J Weisner Los Angeles reckless driving $10 Lindsey Nichols 1817 North Cleveland no driver's license $10 R L Thompson address not listed reckless driving $10.
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Lyman Hall
van Buren
Lee Thompson
North East Eighth
Maggie Stevens
Box
Canyon
A. J. Weisner
Los Angeles
Lindsey Nichols
North Cleveland
R. L. Thompson
War Department Pays for U. S. Wheat in Germany
Frankfurt Germany November 30 Approximately seventy five million dollars of United States wheat processed foods and gasoline have been imported into Germany and paid for by War Department funds.
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War Department
U. S
Germany
Frankfurt
United States
Dusky GI's Black Deed Revealed In Missing Soldier Tale
A distraught Czech woman seeks help in locating Willie Brown, a vanished American soldier who promised marriage. She claims Brown, described as black-skinned due to injections for invisibility as a night fighter, said he would be made white again in the U.S. Army. She also says Brown spoke of night fighters recruited from a place called Mississippi.
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Czechoslovakia
Willie Brown
Angle
Brown
United States
U. S
Missisippi
Northeastern Gale Causes 16 Deaths As Storm Lashes Region
Snow depths vary from three inches in New York City to 28 inches in Attica New York with winds to gale force in Boston. The storm blocks transport and cuts power as 16 deaths are reported across New England and New York, including eleven in New York and three in New Jersey.
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Attica
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Boston
Great Lake
Chicago
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
New England
New York
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Albany
Hartford
Lawrence, Mass
Cranston
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New Jersey
Boston Harbor
House Committee Votes to Call Hurley to Testify
The House investigating committee voted to compel Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley to testify about his claims that Communist forces operated within the State Department. Chairman Wood said Hurley would be asked to appear Monday.
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Hurley
Washington
House Committee
Patrick J. Hurley
State Department
Wood
Georgia
U S Sends Diplomats to Iran Fringe Area for Separatist Probe
The State Department says three diplomats from the American embassy in Tehran have moved to Northern Iran to investigate reports of an Iranian separatist movement. Washington has not yet heard from Russia or Britain regarding a note urging withdrawal of Russian, American and British troops from Iran by January 1.
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Russia
United States
Langmuir
Senate
Special Committee On Atomic Energy
Washington
State Department
Tehran
Iran
McDermott
Britain
Churchill 71 as world honors former PM with private party
London reports mark Winston Churchill turning 71 with hundreds of congratulatory messages from around the world. A small family gathering and friends party is planned at his Hyde Park Gate residence tonight.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Hyde Park Gate
Doomed to Deportation German Internees Self Harm in Swedish Camps
In Stockholm a mass self harm bid by hundreds of German Polish Austrian and Baltic internees halted plans to transport them to Russian occupied territories. Internees stabbed themselves with knives razors glass and stones while others barricaded barracks and begged to be left behind. At Backamo more officers attempted mass self harm as police intervened.
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Canaris
Maxime Weygand
Henn Giraud
Wilhelm Kietel
France
Weygand
Marshal Petain
North Africa
Giraud
Stockholm
Sweden
Backamo
More Fog and Clouds Expected Tonight in City
The weatherman at noon warned of more fog and clouds tonight with no precipitation. Moisture remains minimal this month with fog on streets counted as condensation. Winds shift to the north and it will be a bit cooler tomorrow.
A Regal Coal Estate and sans Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes
A Regal Coal Estate case involves parties including Neely Greenhill Lowndes and insurance matters. The fragment notes a legal or financial dispute centered on ownership or coverage with named individuals and firms referenced.
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A_ Regal Coal Estate
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes
Insurance
Two Texas Soldiers Injured in Calcutta Disturbances
United States Army headquarters announced the names of 24 American soldiers injured during Calcutta civil disturbances last week. The hospitalized include Second Lt. Milford Liggett of Collegeport Texas and Pvt. Paul Vickery of Dallas among those with minor injuries.
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Calcutta
United States Army
Milford Liggett
Collegeport, Tex
Pic
Paul Vickery
Dallas
Bond Drive Shot In The Arm For Amarillo Victory Loan
Victory Bond activities accelerate with a new $170 000 drive plan led by chair man Guy Saunders. Seventeen Amarillo men pledged to sell $10 000 each in Series E bonds within a week to boost state efforts. A central selling booth will operate at the Airborne Attack show at English Field Sunday from 1 to 3 pm with aircraft on review at 3 pm.
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Drive
Amarito
Amarillo
Texas
English Field
Treasury Department
Chinese Reds Target Suiyuan Capital with Japanese Aid
A Chinese Nationalist dispatch from Chungking reports Communist forces aided by Japanese artillery opened a new attack on Kweisui the capital of Suiyuan in Inner Mongolia. Farmers say 30 Japanese commanded the two large guns. Moscow radio and Chinese press say Russia will stay in Manchuria to allow China to mobilize further troops.
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Chungking
Kweisui
Suiyuan
Inner Mongolia
Moscow Radio
Manchuria
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Vicinity
The region expects fair and mild conditions this afternoon with southerly winds 25 to 35 mph. Tonight cloudy and cooler, Saturday partly cloudy with a shift to north winds and cooler temperatures. West Texas shows partly cloudy skies with little temperature change tonight and a colder Saturday. New Mexico remains partly cloudy through Saturday with cooler northwest portions this afternoon and northeast areas Saturday afternoon. Low tonight 15 to 20 northwest to 40 southeast, high Saturday 50 to 80, 24 hours ending 6:30 AM: high 71, low 45, noon 59.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Plan to Nationalize Banks in France
Paris reports the government presenting a bill to nationalize the Bank of France and four large private banks and to bring all French credit operations under government supervision. The measure advances to debate in the assembly with a likely passage before markets open Monday.
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Paris
Bank of France
Army Ignored Attack Tipoff on Pearl Harbor Warning
Maj. Gen. Sherman Miles testified before a congressional committee that US military intelligence discounted a January 1941 warning from a Peruvian minister in Tokyo about a possible surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He noted the Hawaii fortress was built against Japan and that no specific warning tied to Hawaii existed.
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Washington
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U. S
Hawaii
Sherman Miles
Congressional Committee
Pearl Harbor
State Department
Tokyo
Joseph C. Grew
Japan
Grew
Oahu
Miles
Blaze the Roosevelt Mastiff Is Destroyed After Fala Fight
Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's bull mastiff famed for the transcontinental flight, was destroyed as a precaution after a confrontation with Fala the Scottie. Blaze's head showed no rabies. Fala was treated at Dr. Sheldon’s hospital in Rhinebeck, with stitches and weakness from blood loss.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Scottie
Fala
State Health Department
Thomas Sheldon
Rhinebeck
Sheldon
Shelden
Roosevelt Hyde Park
Faye Emerson
California
Roosevelt
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England
New York
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Associated Press
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