Truman Civil Rights Panel Urges End to Racial Barriers
A 15 member committee chaired by Charles E. Wilson urged federal anti lynching anti poll tax and fair employment laws and the outlawing of segregation and restrictive covenants. The report argues for immediate action nationwide in trains buses schools hospitals and private employment and warns against hysteria toward Communists while stressing civil rights protections and due process for federal employees.
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Max Hall Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
Congress
United States
White House
Front Door Blocked by Car On October Night
Resident Jordan Williams awoke to find a 1940 grey Ford coupe wedged in his entrance after a midnight thud. Police were called as the crime seemed to be a car theft attempt, with E J Kellogg later identifying his own vehicle from the back lot.
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Jordan Williams
North
Garfield
Mr. Williams
E. J. Kellogg
North Garfield
Amarillo Weather Warm Up After Cold Snap
Shirtsleeves gathered as Amarillo and Panhandle areas saw a warming trend. The low held at 53 degrees around midnight and rose through the 50s to 60 by 6 this morning. Forecaster Walter Watts at English Field says fair weather continues with a high around 77 this afternoon after yesterday’s 74. Poor visibility troubled airlines and roads with zero visibility in Lubbock and Pamp a during the night and early morning.
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Amarillo
Walter Watts
English Field
Panhandle
Pampa
Lubbock
Watts
Gasoline Prices Rise Half Cent Across Texas Area
Retail gasoline prices advance by half a cent a gallon with Texas Company tank wagon rates up. Service stations in Amarillo report regular gasoline at 21 to 23.5 cents and ethyl at 22 to 24.5 cents. Oil price increase of 20 cents a barrel cited as cause with more hikes possible.
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Texas Company
Sta
Amarillo
Houston
Phillips Petroleum Company
Weather forecast trio for Amarillo and surrounding regions
The bulletin notes continued fair weather in Amarillo and vicinity with little temperature change through Thursday. West Texas remains partly cloudy with scattered showers around Del Rio and east of the Pecos River today, then mostly fair again. New Mexico skies stay fair today and Thursday with highs near 74 and lows around 53.
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Amarillo
West Texas
del Rio
Pecos River
New Mexico
Hollywood hearing probes Communist links in film world
Washington Oct 29 More hostile witnesses faced the House committee probing Communism in Hollywood while one writer answered, others refused to say yes or no if they were Communists. Emmett Lavery, president of the Screen Writers Guild, testified and defended his group against charges of Communist influence.
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Washington
U.P
Sam O
Herbert J. Biberman
Ornitz
Biberman
Emmett Lavery
Screen Writers Guild
Lavery
Robert E. Stripling
Guild
Stripling
Poughkeepsie, NY
New York
Jack Warner
Warner Bros
Warner
John Charlies Moffitt
Morrie Ryskind
Rupert Hughes
Ryskind
Hughes
Thomas
J. Parnell Thomas
Hollywood
Congress
France in Turmoil After Massive Paris Clashes
In Paris 15 000 Communists clashed with several thousand police and troops in a violent confrontation over a meeting for those oppressed by the Soviets. Police wounded demonstrators and bystanders as order was restored. The attack followed Premier Ramadier’s warning of civil war if France split into camps. The National Assembly planned a confidence vote for Ramadier the next day.
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Paris
France
Paul Ramadier
National Assembly
Wagram
West End
Gustave Gautheret
Place de Ternes
Ann Blackman
New York
Richard Dale
Acme News Pictures
Oklahoma
Salle Wagram
L’humanite
Ramadier
L'Humanite
Truman
Assembly
Charles Lussy
Pennsylvania Congressman Fenton Inspects Helium Plants
Dr. Ivor D. Fenton a Republican from Pennsylvania visits Amarillo on a two day inspection tour of Bureau of Mines sites including helium plants in the Panhandle and Exell. He tests if taxpayer money is used properly and if more funds are needed. He notes helium medical uses and praises Rep. Worley.
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David Rasco Stocky
Ivor D. Fenton
Pennsylvania
Amarillo
US Bureau of Mines
Exell
Cliffaide
Erecea House Appropriations Committee
Fenton
Dore Ise
Department of Interior
West
Utah
Reclamation Indian Affairs, Wildlife and Fisheries
Globe
Bureau of Mines
The
Panhandle
Mahanoy
Congress
Eugene Worley
Danish cabinet crisis after elections in Copenhagen
Premier Knud Kristensen called his cabinet into session after parliamentary elections left no majority and Communists down from 18 seats. Leaders reluctant to form a new government. In Cincinnati Walter Mullery announced Leslie M. OConnor of the White Sox suspended for failing to pay a fine tied to signing a high school player.
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Copenhagen
Knud Kristensen
Cincinnati
Walter Mullery
Baseball
Leslie M. O'Connor
Chicago White Sox
Cotton futures slump on grain weakness and aid doubts
Cotton futures fell by over 2 a bale as heavy liquidation swept the market. Traders cited grain weakness and fears Congress may cut foreign aid under the Marshall Plan as factors causing renewed nervousness among investors.
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New York
Congress
Treasury probes dealers over tax evasion from used car flips
Secretary Snyder said at a news conference that Treasury agents are investigating several automobile dealers suspected of evading income tax on unusual profits from reselling used cars traded in on new models.
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Washington
Snyder
Treasury
Grain prices plunge on Chicago Board with limit selloff
Chicago, Oct 29 heavy selling by commission houses drove a sharp grain break on the Board of Trade. December May and July wheat fell 10 cents at one point, the session limit. Prices edged up later but rally lacked strength as trading stayed active.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Local Option Petition Surpasses Required Signatures
County official Loren Jones reports a local option prohibition petition has over 1100 signatures certified with hundreds more to be checked. He notes the total will reach 1500 or more, though 987 certified signatures are sufficient to qualify.
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Loren Jones
Oregon Missing in Plane
Commander Hugh Tolley said a search began for a private plane carrying Gov. Earl Snell State Secretary Robert Farrell State Senate President Marshall Cornett and local pilot Cliff lHlogue. The craft departed Klamath Falls last night en route to Adel Lake County for a hunting trip but did not reach its destination. Seven planes were dispatched with more to come as cloud cover hampers visibility.
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Klamath Falls
Ore
Hugh Tolley
Klamath Air Search and Rescue Unit
Earl Snell
Robert Farrell
Senate
Marshall Cornett
Cliff lHlogue
Tolley
Adel
Lake County
Kittridge Ranch
Ranch Mystery Case Reopens in Colorado Springs
El Paso County officers investigate a six year old mystery after Wesley Vandervoort, 91, accuses his father Junio Vandervoort, 61, of shooting his wife in 1941 and burying her remains in a ranch shed. Skeleton fragments found. coroner notes missing skull and limbs. May reveal earlier killings and a prior murder acquittal involving the elder Vandervoort.
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Colordado Springs
Colo
el Paso
Ray Slocum
Junio Wesley Vandervoort
Slocum
Wesley
Here
Vandervoort
Henry W. Mele
Vandevort
Bloomington
Ill
Wellington
Kans
Cora
Colorado
Luis Plitz
Rosida
Penthouse Assault Case Set for December Trial
Davis Williams West faces a rape charge involving a 10 year old girl in the penthouse of Northwest Texas Hospital. Judge Henry S. Bishop set the trial for the week of December 1 in 47th District Court. West, a former soldier discharged under article of war on mental incompetence, was arrested September 1 and is held without bond after prior postponement at defense counsel’s request.
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Davis Williams West
Northwest Texas Hospital
Henry S. Bishop
47Th District Court
C. G. Clayton, Jr
West
Fears Mount for Fate of 18 Aboard Missing DC-4 Clipper
Fears mounted for the fate of 18 persons aboard a missing Pan American DC-4 clipper near Ketchikan Alaska as rain and wind hindered search crews. After a day of scouting the southeast Alaska islands planes returned with no clues found.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Military seeks witnesses for court martial in Shanghai
Military authorities hunt three character witnesses for court martial testimony. Two are jailed in Shanghai and the third is in Peiping. Neely Greenhill Lowndess Insurance FHA Repair Loans referenced with no down payment. See John Maynard Lumber Co. 800 W. South.
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Shanghai
Peiping
Neely Greenhill-Lowndess—Insurance
John Maynard Lbr. Co
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