Missing 2 Year Old Becky Found Safe Near Home
Becky Ann McCory two and a half years old was found unharmed in a private garage two blocks from her Lisbon Dallas area home after 25 frantic hours. Frank Debettencourt found her asleep in a car with a red wagon nearby and alerted authorities. Police and 150 boy scouts aided the search in a three mile radius. Her mother Mrs Truman McClung cried with joy as Becky was returned home and bathed.
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Dallas
Becky Ann MccCory
Frank Debettencourt
Lisbon
Debettencourt
Becky
Truman McClung
McClung
Dallasite Held After Fatally Shooting Wife
Harold Blankenship was arrested outside the insurance office where he shot his wife, Rosemary Blankenship, 26, to death. He admitted firing after saying he would not hurt anyone else and cited they were separated with divorce filings. Police found the victim shot six times and a .38 snub-nosed revolver at the scene.
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Dallas
Harold Blankenship
Rosemary Blankenship
P. L. Bentley
Home Life and Accident Insurance Company
Bentley
Accident Fatal To Mrs Srygley in Lake City Fla
Mrs Grace Stumpe Srygley age 47 of Tallahassee died when the car she rode with husband T Q Srygley overturned after clipping a truck. He suffered a fractured shoulder. The incident occurred Tuesday night in Lake City Florida. Srygley had been director of curriculum for Austin public schools and later worked in Tallahassee.
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Lake City
Fla
Florida Highway
H. A. Weaver
Grace Stumpe Srygley
Tallahassee
T. Q. Srygley
Srygley
Austin Public Schools
Austin
Jane
University of Texas
Houston
Weaver
Department of Education At
Three Addresses Slated Today As City Recalls Pearl Harbor
Austin observes the eighth anniversary of Pearl Harbor with Operation Democracy Day events. Ike Ashburn will speak at the Exchange Club luncheon at the Driskill Hotel. Homer Thornberry addresses Pycl School students. Major Horace H Shelton and Governor Allan Shivers will deliver broadcasts. Sigma Nu quartet provides noon music. J E McClain acts as master of ceremonies.
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Pearl Harbor
Austin
Travis Post No. 76
American Legion State Department
Ike Ashburn
Exchange Club
Homer Thornberry
Horace H. Shelton
The
American Legion
KTBC
Shelton
Allan Shivers
Gladewater
Texas Quality Network
Liberty Broadcasting Company
Driskill
Sigma Nu
University of Texas
J. E. McClain
Travis Post
Slavs Fight Cominform Call Amid Tito Controversy
Yugoslavia rejected Cominform pressure in a Borba editorial calling the manifesto a bankruptcy of Russia's peace policy. It argues the poison pill will awaken workers to Soviet tactics as spy trials unfold in Sarajevo and Sofia. Britain floated a Nordic Benelux-like union named Uniscan with Denmark Sweden and Norway. Western Germany debates a new army amid press opposition to a cannon fodder force.
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Yugoslavia
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Borba
Russia
Gamiens
Sarajevo
Bulgaria
Traicho Kostov
Sofia
Laszlo Rajk
Britain
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Uniscan
United Kingdom
Scandinavia
Paul Hoffman
European Cooperation Administration
Marshall Law
Europe
Western Germany
1500 Hear Choir and Symphony In San Marcos Concert
A capacity crowd of about 1500 heard Southwest Texas State College a cappella choir and the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven Choral Fantasy in Evans Auditorium San Marcos. Max Reiter led a two hour program with Bizet Symphony in C Major and Intermezzo by Wolf Ferrari. Max Carr of Trinity University played the piano solo in the Choral Fantasy. The SWTSC choir is directed by Ira Renay Bowles.
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San Marcos
Southwest Texas State College
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra
Evans Auditorium
Symphony Orchestra
Max Reiter
Bizet
Wolf Ferrari
Max Carr
Trinity University
Ira Renay Bowles
Closed Session Held By IPAA Directors
Russell B. Brown general counsel of the Independent Petroleum Association of America met in a closed session in Dallas with 30 IPAA directors and officers on December 6.
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IPAA
Dallas
Russell B. Brown
Independent Petroleum Association of America
Reds Took Top Secrets By Ruse
Former Air Force expediter George Racey Jordan said the Soviets obtained top secret American radar equipment and atomic materials during the war by ruse. He claimed Harry Hopkins helped move uranium, and Henry Wallace faced un American Activities Committee questions amid denials.
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Reds
Jordan States
New York
Air Force
Russia
George Racey Jordan
Henry A. Wallace
House UN- American Activities Committee
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Wallace
Jordan
Lewis
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
Board of Economic Warfare
Russell Turner
Great Falls
Montair
Turner
Leonard Woods
General Electric
East Lynn
Woods
Elmer Williams
John Kukay
Democratic Party
Leslie R. Groves
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Brien McMahon
Dconn
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Groves
McMahon
Fulton Lewis Jr
Edward R. Murrow
Columbia Broadcastings System
Murrow
G. Racey Jordan
John Wood
D-Ga
House un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Mont
State Department
UN- American Activities Committee
Lewis Smaller Coal Operators Sign Up
A fragment of the soft coal industry signed a new agreement with John L. Lewis granting concessions. The contract covers mines mostly in Kentucky and accounts for about 2% of annual output. It includes wage and royalty increases and a welfare fund trustee, extending from Jan 1 1950 to Sept 1 1951.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Kentucky
Josephine Roche
UMW
Frank A. Putnam Dies Veteran Writer at 82
Frank A. Putnam, 82, poet and former newspaperman and magazine editor, died in his sleep at his Houston home. He worked in Houston St Louis and Chicago and edited the National Magazine in Boston. His poem Ode to Lafayette was read in Paris on July 4 1900. In 1912 Houston named him special commissioner to survey European municipal systems and ports and he published City Government in Europe. Surviving are son Thad E. Putnam New York City and daughter Mrs Helen Van Sickle San Francisco.
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Houston
Frank A. Putnam
St. Louis
Chicago
National
Boston
Lafayette
Paris
France
Show Goes On Always Leave 'Em Laughing
Movie projectionist Max Sutton died of a heart attack while preparing to show Always Leave Them Laughing at the Jordan Theater in Greenville Pennsylvania. The audience remained unaware until after the feature, when laughter turned to shock.
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Greenville, Pa
Max Sutton
Jordan Theater
Sutton
Li Tsung Jen of Nationalist China Greets San Francisco
Acting President Li Tsung Jen landed in San Francisco aboard a Pan American Clipper to pledge his people will resist the Communist insurrection. He will seek medical treatment in New York at Presbyterian Hospital for a peptic ulcer before meeting officials and visiting the United States.
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San Francisco
Li Tsung-Jen
China
San Francisco International
Neikiang
Tou River
Tzuchung
Chengtu
New York
Presbyterian Hospital
Young Cleared in Colorado Slaying Case
Wayne Nelson Young, 28, was released after police chief J B Bruce concluded he is innocent of the slaying of Walter Joe Parsons. Young, brought from New Braunfels Texas for questioning, was cleared after a three hour interview.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Wayne Nelson Young
Walter Joe Parsons
J. B. Bruce
Young
Parsons
New Braunfels
Texas
North Korea Offers To Free Americans Ward on Way Out
Washington reports indicate Angus Ward and his consulate staff left Mukden after over a year in confinement. North Korea allegedly offered to free two more Americans, Alfred Meshter of Kinderhook New York and Albert Willis of Brooklyn, if a US representative retrieved them.
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North Korea
Ward
Washington
Angus Ward
Manchuria
Pyang
Seoul
South Korea
38Th Parallel
North
Alfred T. Meshter
Kinderhook
N. Y
Albert E. Willis
Brooklyn
Kentwood Bank Robbery Nets $5,000
Two unmasked men about 25 robbed the Kentwood Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. around noon, escaping with $5,000. The gunmen, wielding two sawed off shotguns, held staff at bay while the sole teller dumped cash into a barracks bag. Road blocks were set on nearby highways and other roads patrolled.
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Kentwood
Guaranty Bank and Trust Comey
Hammond
F. A. Sheffield
McComb
Bogalusa
Uranium Shipments to Russia in 1943 Considered Negligible
Three top scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab said reports of 1943 lend lease exports of uranium to Russia were negligible in value. They noted the amounts were small and consisted of common chemicals unlikely to aid Soviet bomb work, possibly intended to mask U.S. atomic research.
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Chicago
Russia
Harold C. Urey
Thorfin R. Hogness
University of Chicago
Arthur Jaffe
Airgonne National Atomic Laboratory
State Department
Urey
Hogness
Jaffee
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Pleasant Austin Forecast With Cool Start
The Weather Bureau predicts cool early temperatures around 45 in Austin on Wednesday with clearing skies. Highs near 70 to 76 are expected, following a low around 50s and a trace of precipitation totaling about .01 inches.
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Austin
Texas
Mercury
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Home Accident Life Insurance Company
Rosary
Associated Press
Economic Union
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Italy
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Fritalux
Frost
Belvidere
Bobby Soxer
George Frost
Belvidere Area
William Carroll
Carroll
Clara Jane Grebe
Bexar Symphony
Inquirers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
R Velt
Wood
Mutual Broadcasting System
New York World Telegram
United Press
McDowell and
Vail
Mutual
World Telegram
Milo Perkins
Mr. Perkins
Louis J. Russell
House on-American Activities Committee
John D. Battle
National Coal Association
Battle
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Moody
UMW Policy Committee
Colorado
Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
Moscow
Mukden
Department
North China
Tientsin
Alfred T. Wellborn
Wellborn
Lakeland Victory
Communist China
Lakeland
Taku Bar
Pusan
Korea
Louisiana
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