Prague Orders Churches In Line With State Warning
Prague reports say Czech leaders accused Protestant churches of ties to the Anglo Saxon world and urged aligning with the state. The broadcast denounced Catholics and Cardinal Mindszenty amid heightened anti church measures in Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Zdenek Nejedly
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Nejedly
Jan Hus
Switzerland
Vatican
Josef Beran
Europe
Rome
Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Holiday Death Toll in Texas Reaches 99
Ninety-nine violent deaths were tallied by the Texas Department of Public Safety from Dec 23 to Jan 1. Traffic accidents accounted for 49 fatalities, with weather and patrol efforts credited for a lower than expected toll. Victims listed include William Baratta 8 Grand Prairie Manuel Gutierrez 35 Laredo Will Hysan 50 Luling and others. also James Rawlins 14 Liberty Hill Johnnie Span 20 Galveston labor and Samuel Mitchell 58 Covington.
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Co. G. Conner
William Allen Baratta
Grand Prairie
Manuel Gutierrez
Laredo
Will Hysan
Luling
Caldwell County
Eagle Pass
James Robert Rawlins
Liberty Hill
Andice
Williamson County
Johnnie Span
Galveston
Eagle Lake
Colorado County
Samuel E. Mitchell
Covington Farmer
Four Charged in Beating Case at Austin Business
Howard Huckaby 25 of 2100 Holly faces aggravated assault and simple assault charges in county and justice courts over a beating at Charles Nassour's Golden Gloves case on East Sixth Street. Nassour, stabbed in the neck, is hospitalized in good condition. Nassour's son-in-law Herbert Nassour of Lockhart says attackers jumped him after questions about entry to the business. Nehra and another man were also assaulted. Police questioned several suspects and released one.
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Howard Huckaby
Holly
Justice of the Peace
P. L. Nairn
Nairn
John Turner
Haskell
Charles Naira
Golden Gloves
East Sixth Street
Brackenridge Hospital
Herbert Nassour
Lockhart
Egypt buries premier after assassination in Cairo
Cairo December 29 funeral rites for Mahmoud Fahmy Nekrashy Pasha, assassinated prime minister. Procession led by red fez troops. Saadist youths vow vengeance on the Moslem Brotherhood leader Hassan El Banna. Police identify 21 year old Abdel Hamid Hassan as the attacker. Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha appears as new premier amid crowd and police.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Shiek Hassan el Banna
Nekrashi
Abdel Hamid Ahmed Hassan
Fauda University
el Kekhia
Abbassia
Ahmed Maher Pasha
Maher Pasha
Nokrashy
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha
Farouk
Wrecks Hospitalize Two Gonzalans
Two Gonzales residents are hospitalized after accidents during the post holiday period. Mrs Belle Phillips an insurance agent is in critical condition at Holmes Hospital Gonzales after being struck on the main square. Carl Mahler is seriously injured in an Aransas Pass hospital from a separate collision.
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Gonzales
Belle Phillips
Holmes Hospital
Carl Mahler
Aransas Pass
1948 Food Index Drops After 23-Week Slide
New York December 29 UP Dun and Bradstreet reports wholesale food prices fell over 14 percent in 1948 after a 23 week decline from the July peak. The weekly index for December 28 stood at 6.21, down from 7.36 on July 13 and 14.2 percent below the 1947 finish. The 52 week average was 6.82 the high all time, more than double 1941 and 1919 levels.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Dun & Bradstreet
UN Orders Palestine Truce and Conciliation Effort
The UN Security Council urged an immediate Palestine truce and asked the general assembly to organize a conciliation committee. The panel, comprising France the United States and Turkey, will be formed at once with Joseph B Keenan as the US representative and Claude Deboisanger appointed by France.
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General Assembly
Palestine Conciliation Committee
France
United States
Turkey
Joseph B. Keenan
Claude Deboisanger
Gonzales To Resume Community Chest Drive
Gonzales plans to continue its Community Chest drive after January 1 with about 76 percent of the $7,500 quota raised. Six agencies benefit, including Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, March of Dimes, USO, Salvation Army and local charity, with $5,700 on hand and pledges hoped to complete the total.
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Gonzales
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
March of Dimes
USO
Salvation Army
Oklahoma Repeal Petition Starts Campaign for 200000 Signatures
An initiative petition to repeal prohibition in Oklahoma began on December 29 with a goal of 200000 signatures by February 1. The measure proposes a constitutional amendment removing prohibition and leaving liquor control to the Legislature, bans sales to minors and on Sundays, and bans open saloons pending legislative definition. Leo T. Gibson of Bristow announced petitions would circulate statewide immediately.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
INS
Oklahoma
Elgin Lumber Company Rebuilds Front With Modern Brick Facade
Elgin on December 29 report that Mutual Lumber Company tears off 40 feet of its North Avenue C frontage to replace with a 40 by 72 foot brick front. The renovation includes large glass windows modern floors and space for builders hardware and home necessities with new offices.
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Elgin
Mutual Lumber Company
North Avenue C
Guerrillas Repulsed By Greek Loyalists
Greek government forces repulsed an attack by three guerrilla battalions supported by artillery on Mount Bikovic the defense bastion before Kastoria a government communique said in Athens on December 29 by United Press.
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Athens
Mount Bikovic
Kastoria
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