Averting Jan. 14 Steel Strike Seen by Officials
Washington reports hope that the steel strike due January 14 may be averted. Production Administrator Small warned the nation of a potential mess. commerce finds price boosts needed if impasse breaks. GM walkout prompts White House to seek stronger fact finding, while unions press $2 wage rise.
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Charles H. Herrold
United
Washington
Civ
John D. Small
Wwe
Department of Commerce
U. S. Steel Corp
Industry Leacer
United Steelworkers
CSO
Yronington
Ashington
Truman
Congress
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Walter Reuther
National Labor Relations Board
Beard
Govat
War Wabor Board
OPA
U.S. Steel Corp
War Labor Board
Carnegiers Steel Corp
American Steel & Wire Co
Rational Tube Co
Cal, Iron and Railroad
Columbia Steel Co
Mystery Surrounds Two Houston Deaths
Houston justice delays verdict in two related shootings. Charles Cogburn 42, a funeral director, and Eldyss McCauley 35 were found shot in Cogburn’s car near the Fogel West funeral home. Autopsy ordered. bodies believed dead since Friday midnight. Cogburn survived by wife and two young sons. McCauley, hostess at the funeral home, recently moved from San Antonio and had been married before.
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Houston
C. Ragan
Charles T. Cogburn
Eldyss W. McCauley
Louis Crapitto
Justice Ragan
Cogburn
Fogel-West Funeral Home
Harold Allen
The
Fogel- West
B. Porter
Miss McCauley
San Antonio
Hollis
Oklo
Fannie Castleberry Promoted in Manila
WAC technician fourth grade Fannie Castleberry of Slaton Texas has been promoted in Manila as part of Army Forces Western Pacific. A January 9 1943 enlistment, basic at Fort Des Moines and overseas since August 1944, she served in Brisbane New Guinea and Manila as a telephone operator. She is a Draughon’s Business College graduate. The pendulum was invented by Galileo.
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Fannie Castleberry
Manila
Army Forces Western Pacific
Mabel Adkins
Slaton
Texas
Castleberry
Women’s Army Corps
Fort Des Moines
Brisbane
Australia
New Guinea
P. I
T/4
Draughon’s Business College
Lubbock
Sale Of Cattle And Sheep Shows Boost For State In ’45
Texas ranchers marketed liberal cattle and sheep in 1945 due to broad demand and satisfactory prices. Scarcity of protein feeds and dry range conditions reduced supplies in some areas while good fall weather supported gains. Few cattle contracted for spring delivery, but strong offers appeared. rain and feed shortages loom as spring approaches.
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Frank Reeves
Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
Texas-New Mexico
South Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Demo Leader Seeks Negro Voting in Alabama Primaries
MOBILE Alabama December 29 Gessner T McCorvey chairman of the Alabama Democratic executive committee says he will ask the committee to let qualified negroes vote in Alabama primaries next spring He would do any move to get around a US Supreme Court decision in a Texas case allowing negroes to vote in the souths white primaries by returning to the old convention system
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Mobile
Ala
Gessner T. McCorvey
Alabama Democratic Executive Committee
Alabama
McCorvey
U. S. Supreme Court
Texas
South
County Flopping On Sales Of E Bonds
County officials report Lubbock’s first E bond drive is failing to meet the war emergency quota. Through December 24 sales totaled 618,113.75 on a 955,000 target, with officials predicting likely totals under 700,000 once all county points report. Bond leaders express cautious optimism as the drive ends around midnight Monday.
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Lubbock County
Slaton
Prominent Denison Optometrist Dies
Denison, Dec. 29. Dr. Benjamin R. Busby, 57, longtime optometrist and former grand patriarch of Texas Odd Fellows in 1944, died yesterday of a heart attack. He was past vice president of the State Optometric Association. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday in Denison. The county bond sale involved George E. Benson, vice president of Citizens National Bank, who helped raise about 300,000 of the 618,113.75 total bonds.
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Denison
Benjamin R. Busby
Texas Odd Fellows
Busby
The
State Optimetric Association
George E. Benson
Citizens National Bank
Texas War Finance Committee
McNarney: German recovery hampered by French stance
General Joseph T. McNarney, U S occupation chief in Germany, said sustaining a minimal economy hinges on ending French barriers that block unified trade. He noted progress in denazification and cartel dismantling, but warned that Allied control remains deadlocked and elections near.
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Frankfurt
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S
Germany
McNarney
Urther
United States
Army Recruiting Program Will Glamorize Peacetime GI
Special correspondent Jim G. Lucas reports a War Advertising Council campaign to glamorize the Regular Army peacetime soldier. Gen H N Gilbert says ads will portray him as dashy and family oriented, without recruiting pitches, aiming to raise public respect for the Army. The program includes newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, and 300 trained recruiters every three weeks at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia.
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Army
Jim. G. Lucas
Washington
Dec
America
H. N. Gilbert
War Advertising Council
New York
Gilbert
Council
Iman
van Johnson
Ingrid Bergman
Ing
Gen. Gilbert
Fort Oglethorpe
Wild West Returns For Highway Officer
Henderson December 29 State Highway Patrolman Wilton Burns pursued a runaway team at thirty miles an hour. Spectators thought the Wild West had returned as the wagon wheel was the only damage reported in Rusk county.
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Henderson
Rusk County
Wilton Burns
Burns
Floating Power in 1946 Cars Cushions Engine Vibrations
Engineers describe Floating Power as a cradle of rubber formed by strategic poise points to insulate the engine from the car body. The system absorbs thousands of engine explosions per minute, keeping vibrations from reaching passengers and offering comfort, safety, and pride in new Plymouth, Dodge, De Soto, and Chrysler models.
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Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth
Dodge
de Soto
Chrysler
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Galileo
Brownfield Highway
SEE Optical CO
Dr. E
Friedman
Fred Faris
Tononica
Tokyo
Tom Shafer
Acme Newspictures
NEA
Denison Optometrist
Gen. McNarney
Reich
DeSoto
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