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Newspaper
Lawton Constitution
Location
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1946
Page
4
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Japanese seismologists predict continuing shocks as the quake area remains hard hit. Casualties rise to 2,590 with 14,275 homeless. New tallies: 12,177 dead, 1,555 injured, 163 missing. Relief ongoing with food medicine clothing and personnel. Red Cross worker Richard Day reports precautions and relief in Wakayama peninsula.
Stephens County Oklahoma hosts a banquet in Duncan to honor District Judge Cham Jones on January 10. The veteran jurist plans retirement after leaving office in January. His public service spans statehood through multiple roles including constitutional convention delegate, legislator, and long-serving district judge with prior Supreme Court commission tenure.
London reports Radio Moscow quoting Izvestia condemns Cardinal Spellman of New York for anti progressive bias and whitewashing Nazi collaborators. It accuses his Cosmopolitan article of masking an anti Soviet crusade doomed to failure.
Topeka Kansas December 25 1947 AP Santa Claus rode with the Kansas highway patrol to honor nine year old Vona Dre vies who saved her three younger siblings from a house fire in Milford Kansas Fire destroyed a four room cottage and gifts were delivered by patrol cars along with town donations to the Davies family as part of Mayor Warren appeal
U S Attorneys refused to represent the War Assets Administration in a lawsuit by a war veteran alleging that sharp traders, not veterans, obtained airplanes at fixed prices. The CIMARRON field sales unit is under a temporary restraining order as Judge Vaught sets a hearing for December 31 on jurisdictional questions.
Attorney arguments question whether courts may review administrative choices by the War Assets Administration amid a suit by Oklahoma City veteran Martin C. Moore. Sid White contends the agency sold surplus aircraft to traders and deprived veterans with priority certificates of fair access, while WAA regional and state officials dispute defending its policies.
Dierler said the ruling would settle how the court obtains jurisdiction, framing the judgment as a key step in defining procedural authority. The remarks pointed to ongoing arguments over statutory interpretations and potential appeals.
In Chicago on December 5 a federal suit seeks 100 million dollars for portal to portal pay. The complaint targets International Harvester Co and asks 51 million in accumulated overtime and 40 million in liquidated damages filed by CIO union officials through Attorneys Rothstein and Myers on behalf of United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers locals.
Secretary of State Byrnes departed on a Christmas holiday from Washington to Aiken South Carolina. It will be his first prolonged absence from official duties in months. He is expected back next Tuesday.
In Nanking on December 25, China’s new national constitution was formally adopted by the national assembly. The charter aims for an all party government, though Communist delegates boycotted the final day, denouncing the process as a Kuomintang show. The document remains close to the interparty recommendations from the November 15 session.
Tokyo residents and rural areas celebrate Christmas under western influence, a brighter holiday than last year despite earthquake tragedy. Food outlook is more promising, yet tens of thousands live in bombed city tin shacks while American soldiers spread Christmas cheer.
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