Memo to all stationary steam engine men of Hope area
The notice recalls Talbot Feild Jr and Missouri Pacific showing off for the Cotton Bowl and previews the Arkansas Razorbacks vs LSU Tigers game in wintery conditions. It mentions the death of Robert J. Lambert, 47, former Tulsa Tribune associate editor, noting his career from El Dorado Daily News to Little Rock News and Tulsa Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope _ area
Talbot Feild, Jr
Missouri Pacific
Hardy Souls Club
University of Arkansas Razorbacks
LSU Tigers
Chicago Bears
New York Giants
Robert J. Lambert
Mabel Lambert
Sutton
Nevada County
Washington, D. C
Bob Lambert
Tulsa
Okla) Tribune
Bob
el Dorado
Sutton High School
Ouachita College
el Dorado Daily News
Little Rock
Old
Tulsa Tribune
Rural Electrification Authority
Washington
Weathered skies dim air travel safety in America
The piece contrasts Shanghai Christmas air disasters with U S conditions, arguing weather and ground control versus instrument landing approaches shape safety. It blames the Civil Aeronautics Administration for delaying practical blind landing equipment and stresses the need to standardize safer grounding methods to reduce passenger disruption and risk.
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United States
Shanghai
China
America
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Congress
CAA
Labor Board Orders Bargaining With Louis Supervisory Union
The National Labor Relations Board directed Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation to bargain with John L. Lewis supervisory workers union for mine foremen and filed for Supreme Court review. The case tests if supervisory workers may be represented by a production workers union. A related case on supervisory workers at Packard Motor Co. is headed to the Supreme Court on January 9.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board Today
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
John L. Lewis’ Supervisory Workers Union
Supreme Court
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Packard Motor Company
Foremen’s Association of America
Snow and Ice Halt Arkansas Highway Traffic
A snow and ice blanket covered Arkansas from border to border causing near standstill highway traffic and flight grounding statewide. The weather bureau warned the cold wave would linger, with Little Rock forecast to dip to 28 degrees. A fire in Pine Bluff killed a Negro child, marking the eighth such death in flames in three days. Highways were glazed with ice and travel was hazardous. only Greyhound and Crown Coach Lines ran limited services from Little Rock. The Little Rock airport tower reported icing at 2500 feet and two tentative flights planned for today.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Pine Bluff
Greyhound
Crown Coach
Dallas
Bitter New Year cold grips vast region of nation
Weather on New Year Day 1947 brought a frigid belt from the plains to the Atlantic seaboard and into New England. Temperatures dipped below zero in the Midwest and upper New York, with snow and sleet across multiple states. Snow fell in the South as six inches were reported near Pikeville Kentucky and over eight near Corbin. Forecasts warned bowl games in Texas and New Orleans would be cold. Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, near normal. Cold air masses were expected to move into Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio Valley by Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains States
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Brownsville
Tex
Mid-West
Wisconsin
New York State
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Virginia
Gulf
Ohio River
Atlantic Coast
Monticello
Ark
Memphis
Corbin
Pikeville
New Orleans
Florida
Pasadena
Calif
Minnesota
Wauau
Wis
Five Die in North Carolina Plane Crash New Year's Eve
Coroner reports five aboard a converted Army C-47 perished when the Newark to Miami cargo flight crashed in a swamp 12 miles north of Charleston. Names and origins of victims are tentative. two women identified as stewardesses Olga Badner and Doris Wynn Austin. Weather and poor visibility cited as factors, searchers scoured marshes for wreckage.
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Charleston
S. C
John T. Deveaux
United Press Today
Newark
N. J
Miami
Fla
Deveux
Stonell
Walter Stonell
Inter-Continental Airlines
Doris Wynn Austin
Wynn
California
McNeal
Lumberton
N. C
Kortman
Westwood
Badner
New York
Deveaux
Stowell
J . McNorton
Charleston County Police
Ity
Seaboard
New Officials Take Over Hempstead Courthouse
New Hempstead County officials sworn in at the courthouse include Clerk Robert Turner Sheriff Claud Sutton Assessor C Cook Treasurer Syvelle Burke and Judge Fred A Luck. City police chief W L Tate succeeds F W Haynie, who becomes deputy sheriff of Pulaski County.
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Highway Department
Hope
Dallas
Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead County
Robert Turner
Claud Sutton
C Cook
Syvelle Burke
Fred A. Luck
W. L. Tate
F. W
Lyle Moore
W. Clyde Fritz
Harvey Barr
Remmel Young
Dorsey McRae
E. S. Richards
City Recorder
Frank Douglas
Claude Sutton
Crit Stuart
LSU
New Year Crowds, Strikes Mark 1947 Celebrations
Across the nation revelers welcomed 1947 with big crowds in Times Square and Atlantic City. A downtown loft collapse in New York left four trapped workers, while San Francisco faced a Yellow Cab strike reducing taxi service. Twelve deaths from auto accidents were reported nationwide. Virginia ended liquor rationing as stores remained closed and New Year's festivities continued under festive prices and high cover charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Times Square
Greenwich
Atlantic City
N.J
Halleck Seen Set as House Speaker Likely Leader
Washington reports say Congress opens with harmony as Clarence J. Brown exits race leaving Charles A. Halleck of Indiana poised to become GOP floor leader. Jenkin and Dirksen had opposed Brown. Dewey-backed Halleck expected to win caucus support.
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Washington
Congress
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
House
Thomas Jenkins
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Brown
Halleck
Indiaman
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Senate
Taft
White
Maine
Vandenberg
Michigan
Old World Greets New Year Across Europe
London reports a hopeful New Year as Britain marks government coal mine ownership affecting 700,000 miners. Amid fuel shortages in Europe, celebrations end early and governments push price cuts and relief efforts while the Soviet Union signals renewed diplomacy and the Relief Commission forms at Lake Success.
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London
Wales
Europe
Britain
Will Lawther
Bugles
Russia
Promice
Expa i
Soviet Union
France
Leon Blum
Enrique Adolfo Jimenez
Panama
International Relief Organization
Lake Success
N. Y
UNRRA
Rome
Paris
Brussels
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Germany
Hamburg
Italy
Moscow Radio
Yoy
Red Square
Moscow
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Tass
Oil industry posts record 1946 output, Pew says
Philadelphia reports that the American oil industry showed the highest crude oil and product production in 1946, surpassing pre-war levels by 24 percent. J Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co, cited near absence of major labor troubles and wartime private investment in plants and equipment as key factors.
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Philadelphia
J. Howard Pew
Sun Oil Co
Pew
Group Studies Way to Oust Sen. Bilbo
Washington January 1 The GOP Senate Steering Committee considers strategies to remove Democratic Senator Theodore G Bilbo of Mississippi. Plans include independent Justice Department probe and a possible ouster after congress convenes, with Democratic allies and Barkley urged to join. Bilbo defends innocence and vows to fight on.
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Sen. Bilbo
Washington
Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
Misssissippi
Taft
Ohio
Justice Department
Bilbo
Senate War Investigating Committee
Special
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Mississippi
Tet
New Republican
Congress
Alben Barkely
Kentucky
Whimsical Passenger Puts Taxi Driver in Hospital
Little Rock taxi driver Charley Vandiver was assaulted by a whimsical passenger who struck him three times then again at the cab’s door. Vandiver drove to the garage and was taken to a hospital with non life threatening injuries.
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Little Rock
Charley Vandiver
Vandiver
Shakeup Looms in Army's Court Martial System
Washington reports the War Department will urge a broad reform of the Army court martial system when presenting to the new Congress. Proposals include enlisting personnel on trial panels, extending articles of war to field grade and other officers, and giving the judge advocate general more power and oversight over courts.
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Washington
War Department
Congress
Army
American Bar Association
Judge Advocate General's Office
Truman
Capitol Hill
Private Firm May Purchase Two Pipelines
Little Rock Arkansas February bids loom for the 147 million dollar Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines running from Longview Texas to the U S east coast via Arkansas. War Assets Administration official C S Christian said the lines would be offered for sale for use in petroleum or natural gas transport. Bids open February 10 with proposals due by February 3 noon.
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Little Rock
Longview
Tex
U. S
Arkansas
C. S. Christian
War Assets Administration
Christian
Revenue Stabilization Act draws broad support with minor changes
Arkansas legislators largely back the 1945 Revenue Stabilization Act now before the 1947 General Assembly. Key proposed changes include scrapping the tax reduction fund, adding a fifth category for schools to share surplus, and revising distribution percentages across agencies.
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Bob Brown
Little Rock
General Assembly
John Truemper
Senate
House
John W. Cloer
Springdale
James P. Baker, Jr
West Helena
Ernest Maner
Hot Springs
F. ¢. Crow
Hope
General School
Max Howell
Little Rock J
Two Detectives Shot to Death at Little Rock
In Little Rock the chief of detectives O N Martin age 50 and lieutenant Jack Deubler age 35 were found shot to death in a Lakewood area park beside their squad car after leaving headquarters at 8 15 am. Deubler was killed by a shotgun blast to the back while Martin suffered a head wound. Police and sheriff units scoured the scene while investigators noted prints including a possible female footprint. Deubler headed the identification bureau and both officers were in line for promotions following the retirement of Police Chief Pitcock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
O. N. Martin
Jack Deubler
Deubler
Martin
Lakewood
North Little Rock
Gradys Ratcliff
Pulaski County
Pitcock
Chinese Stage Anti American Demonstration Shanghai
A thousand Chinese university students protested against Americans in Shanghai on January 1. They attacked an army lieutenant and an Associated Press photographer, shouted obscenities, and placarded buildings with anti American slogans and crude cartoons. The marchers demanded withdrawal of U S forces and attacked perceived hypocrisy while targeting soldiers and civilians along Avenue Joffre and near the Bund.
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Shanghai
Army
Associated Press
Avenue Joffre
Cfoat
Louis F. Roth
China
Broadway
United States
U. S
U. S. Navals
Bund
National Fuhtan University
Dwight Mission Restoration Planned Near Russellville
Restoration of the Dwight Mission near Russellville Arkansas is planned by the Presbyterian churches of Arkansas. The site will become a shrine to an early Protestant church school founded in 1820 by Rev Cephas Washburn for Cherokee students. The mission was moved to Oklahoma years ago.
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Russellville
Dwight
Presbyterian Churches of
Arkansas
Mississippi River
Cephas Washburn
Oklahoma
Unio
Lawmakers seek repeal of wartime powers as Truman weighs end
Republicans press for scrapping emergency controls linked to World War II amid debate over timing to avoid derailing Treasury plans. Michener to lead postwar policy review as party hopes to detail changes in the state of the union.
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Washington
Jan
Truman
Rep
Michener
Michigan
Congress
Legislative Bloc to Fight for Probe
The 1047 state legislature nears an evening session as a strong bloc vows a full investigation of the state hospital for nervous diseases. Two representatives and one senator have openly supported the probe, while a circuit judge urged openness and access to the records for legislators.
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Tove
Pu Circuit
Rej
Mi Committee
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Alex. H. Washburn
Hardy Souls
BY James Thrasher
Labor Board
Steel Group
Louis
State
North Carolina
William F. i” Menamin
Revenue’s Stabilization Act
United Press
56Th General Assembly
Tax Reduction Fund
Dick Wright
Lynn Wilson
Danville
G. W. Freeman
Ozark
Lloyd Darnell
101 Springs
C. H. Herndon
Mt. Ida
Carlton Currie
Hot
Sam B. Crawford
Sam Suan
Searcy
W. F. Rector
Dwight Mission
Legislative Bloc
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