Burglary strikes homes and cafe. valuables taken
Police report multiple break-ins near the city limits. Kenneth Armstrong’s home on West Twelfth was entered, with several watches rings and firearms missing. Dr Carl Daniels’s East Ninth home was ransacked for an electric clock. Hole-In-The-Wall Cafe on North East Eighth had the music and marble machines damaged and their money boxes broken.
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Armstrong
North East Eighth
Kenneth ‘ Armstrong
West Twelfth
Carl E. Daniels
East Ninth
1501
Howard Gann
Southwestern Friendship Train moves grain to feed Europe
A Texas Oklahoma and Kansas wheat driven Friendship Train will depart Amarillo for Chicago carrying up to 120 cars of grain donated to Europe. Santa Fe Railroad offers free transport. Kansas Oklahoma and Texas leaders, church groups, and 1946 candidate David White pledge grain. State Department plans for direct aid are separate from the train effort.
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Topeka
Kan
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Amarillo
Chicago
Frank Carlson
Santa Fe Railroad
Europe
Roy J. Turner
Gov
Beauford Jester
Carlson
Gove, Ford
Graham
David C. White
Prohibition Party
Southwest
California
Santa Fe
O. L. Gray
Panhandle
State Department
Fire at Phillips Petroleum Alamo Refinery Threatens Town
A massive fire roars through an acid unit at Phillips Petroleum Alamo Refinery in Phillips. Firefighters cannot approach due to acid fumes. Winds threaten 4000 residents with possible evacuation if fumes shift. An 8 inch acid line and explosions sparked the blaze earlier today. No hospital treatments reported. Authorities closed roads and ordered trucks off site.
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Phillips Petroleum Company
Alamo
Phillips
Jack Roberts
KHUZ
Amarillo Globe News
Borger
Trolmen
Roberts
Pantex Hospital
Hugh Anderson
Hutchinson County
William Dozier
Soviet Move To Press Yugoslav War Criminal Probe
The Soviet bloc urged the United Nations Assembly to revive a rejected Yugoslav proposal accusing the United States and Britain of shielding war criminals. The U S rejected the move as aimed at political dissidents, calling approval a gross injustice. The legal committee had voted 35 to 7 with eight abstentions on the Yugoslav measure, then backed a British counter-proposal on trials of war criminals.
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New York
United Nations Assembly
United States
Britain
Stanoje Simic
Oscar Lange
Simic
Germany
Italy
Lange
United Nations
Charles Fahy
Assembly
Rail Brotherhoods Demand Wage Parley
Five railroad operating brotherhoods urged railway officials to grant immediate consideration of a 30 percent daily minimum wage increase, effective November 1, as they pressed for wage rises amid ongoing talks on rules changes and working conditions. The unions had warned of the higher wage demand since September and began talks on October 7, with the current discussions focused on rules changes.
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Chicago
United Nations partition plan eyed for July 1 1948 independence
Bulletin reports the United States proposed that if the Palestine partition is approved by the UN Assembly, the Arab and Jewish states would become independent nations on July 1, 1948. The note frames a possible two-state path to sovereignty following UN action.
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United States
Palestine
United Nations Assembly
Kashmir conflict unchanged as Indian government states
New Delhi reports the military situation in Kashmir remains virtually unchanged after reports of thousands of Pakistani infiltrators entering the region. The bulletin also mentions a public event at an amusement venue titled Saturday morning at the Roller Palace, with a playful slogan for kids under 12.
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New Delhi
India
Kashmir
Pakistan
the Roller Palace
Jester Declines Grounding Plans Amid Air Travel Push
Austin October 31 Texas Governor Beauford H Jester vows to ignore calls to stay grounded after the Oregon air tragedy. He defends extensive air travel arguing vast state distances require time savings and cites flights to Mexico City Guatemala City Salt Lake City New York and Asheville North Carolina for a southern governors conference.
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Austin
U.P
Beauford H. Jester
Texas
Earl Snell
Oregon
Jester
Air Force
Ips
Mexico City
Guatemala City
Salt Lake City
New York
Asheville
Hughes Flying Boat to Undergo Water Tests Saturday
Howard Hughes plans water tests for his 200 ton flying boat with a 320 foot wingspread as the Brewster Committee set to reopen hearings on Monday. He said the ship likely won’t fly until next spring and will conduct a harbor taxi cruise on Sunday.
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Los Angeles
Howard Hughes
Brewster
Hughes
Prosecution Scores in Trial of Satira Schmidt
Havana October 31 A key defense blow arose when yacht companion Charles Jackson testified he never saw John Lester Mee strike or push Satira Schmidt. He stated Mee’s violence was not witnessed, countering Schmidt’s testimony of terror and instability during the Chicago to Havana voyage aboard the Laura.
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Havana
U.P
Patricia “Satira
Charles Jackson
Mee
Miss Schmidt
Jack
Patsy
Enrique Mazas
Jackson
Ohio
Chicago
Laura
Price of Haircut Going Up
Amarillo barbers will raise prices with haircuts to 85 cents and shaves to 65 cents, effective tomorrow morning. The increase comes after nearly two years at 75 and 50 cents respectively, approved by the price committee and the union executive board amid higher living and operating costs.
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Amarillo
Perry Ford
Barbers Union
Mr. Ford
Union
Roy
Sister Vitus Haslaur Taken by Death at 45
Sister M. Vitus Haslaur CCVI died this morning at St Anthony's Hospital age 45 born in Schapolterau Germany in March 1902. She joined the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word June 10 1920 and served at St. Anthony's and other Order hospitals in San Antonio Corpus Christi Marshall McAlester St Louis and Amarillo. Funeral services will be at St Anthony's Hospital chapel tomorrow at 8:45 conducted by Rev B O'Brien. Boxwell Brothers in charge.
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M. Vitus Haslaur
CCVI
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Vitus
St. Anthony’s
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio
Sister Vitus
Santa Rosa School of Nursing
Schapolterau
Germany
Pryor Resigns to Run His Own Green Hotel in Amarillo
Charlie Pryor resigns after 11 years as Amarillo Hotel manager to operate his own property at 1009 Pierce now named the Green Hotel. He and Mrs. Pryor will move into an apartment there as they wind down Amarillo business and plan a months long rest before reentering civic life.
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Charlie Pryor
Amarillo
Pierce
Green Hotel
Pryor
Amarillo Hotel
Island Is Graveyard For Plane
Wreckage of a Pan American World Airways clipper with 18 aboard was sighted on a Tamgas Mountain hillside on Annette Island Alaska. Wesley Monsen, son of the crashed pilot Alf M. Monsen, said the wreckage indicated all aboard were killed. The crash occurred after extreme turbulence forced a missed landing at Annette field. Rescuers plan to push through brush toward the A 26 bomber crash on Mt Baldy, California, where five aboard died.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Pan American World Airways
Annette Island
Wesley Monsen
Alf M. Monsen
Tamgas
Annette Field
Monsen
March Field
Cal
U.P
Mt. Baldy
Biggs Field
Tex
Burbank
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy today tonight and Saturday with fresh northerly winds. Cooler today and tonight but slightly warmer tomorrow. West Texas fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday with cooler tonight. High 77 degrees and low 44 for the past 24 hours.
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Amarillo
West Texas
No Army confirmation of 63 armed incidents in Trieste
Rome authorities say there has been no U S Army confirmation of Rep Marion T Bennett s claim that Communists conducted 63 armed incidents against US forces in Trieste The remarks were reported as of October 31 by public relations offices in Trieste and Rome acknowledging no verified tally.
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Rome
Trieste
Marion T Bennett
Republican
Missouri
Stolen Sweets Find Way Home After Mea Culpa Letter
A truck owner reports missing chocolate almonds and cookies from his confectionery delivery. A note, money, and goods arrive at the home of a rival distributor whose address appeared on the boxes. The writer apologizes for a Halloween prank and promises repayment, renewing faith in American boyhood.
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Bob Graves
van Buren
Tom Kaigler
West Tenth
Kaigler
Engineer Coming Here to Discuss Water System
Marvin Nichols city consulting engineer from Fort Worth will visit Amarillo next Tuesday to confer with city officials on the municipal water system expansion program.
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Marvin Nichols
Fort Worth
Amarillo
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Otis A. Armstrong
Holy Lord
An . S. Svubams
Dallas
Department of Ag
United
Great Plains Empire
Associated Press
Uates
Phillips Pl
Leon Hill
San
Gene Worley
The
Globe
Observer Lake Success
City Shoe Shop
Taylor
Bulletins
Klamath Falls
Ore
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
E. S. Leach
Portland
Cliff Hogue
Leach
Hogue
Rick
Hughes’ Flying Boat
Neely Greenhill -Lowndes—Insurance
Jacky
Satira
Edison
Russell State. Co
John Maynard Lor. Co
W. 5Th
Williams-Boyce Agency
Lee
Lanier Finance Co
7Th and
Vitus Haslaur
Cc. S. Pryor
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