Labor Hearing Ends In Angry Taft Clash On Taft Hartley
Senate Labor committee wrapped eight hours of bitter debates as Sen Neely shouted at Sen Taft to keep quiet amid scuffles over the Taft Hartley act and Truman administration plans to replace it. Dems charged Republicans aimed to run out the clock. Taft and aides accused witnesses of being backed by labor.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Senator Neely
D-Wva
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Senator Aiken
Murray
D-Mont
Gerald D. Reilly
Rielly
Congress
Neely
Blackguard
Ludwig Teller
New York
Teller
Pepper
D-Flo
Mindszenty pleads for mercy as death penalty urged
In Budapest on February 5 Cardinal Mindszenty faced a treason trial where prosecutor Gyula Elapi asked for the death penalty for Mindszenty and six co defendants. The cardinal urged God to guide the judges toward a peaceable settlement between church and state. The defense sought leniency as the trial adjourned to 9 am Tuesday.
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Budapest
Hungary
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Gyula Elapi
Cardinal Mindszenty
Vilmos Olthys
Father of Ex Tech Football Star Dies in Car Struck Incident
George A. Schlinkman, 58, father of former Texas Tech football star Walter Schlinkman, died in Dumas after being struck by an automobile Friday while trying to light a flare at a street intersection. The incident occurred in Dumas and he later died of injuries this afternoon.
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Tech
Dumas
George A. Schlinkman
Texas Tech
Schlinkman
Walter Schlinkman
Green Bay
Eleven Injured in Truck Bus Collision Near Amarillo
Eleven people were injured, three seriously, when a Panhandle Trailways bus and a Colorado truck collided east of Amarillo on Highway 66 Friday night. Serious casualties included H. W. Brice 30 Panhandle Jane Wild 22 Pantex Village and John Nikkel 45. Two truck occupants also hurt. All hospitalized in Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Colorado
Heavy selling hits stock and grain markets in surge
Sharp setbacks in stocks and futures send the Dow and NYSE into declines as grain and livestock also weaken. U S Steel General Motors and Santa Fe lead losses. corn prices hit three year lows and volume surges, signaling market nerves amid uncertain outlook.
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Chicago
Truman
New York
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Union Stockyards
National
East St. Louis
New York Stock Exchange
U. S. Steel
General Motors
Santa Fe Railroad
National Steel
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Illinois Central
American Tobacco
West Texas Gas to Begin 1949 Expansion Project
West Texas Gas will start a $200000 phase of a two year 5 million expansion program on Monday weather permitting. C I Wall VP operations says the six inch main from Brownfield to Wellman about 13 miles will replace a three inch line. Brody Construction Co is the contractor and completion is expected in about three weeks if weather holds. The project aims to assure abundant gas supplies for customers along the Brownfield Wellman Sea graves Seminole corridor and improve storage and pressure capacity.
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West Texas Gas Co
C. I. Wall
Brownfield
Wellman
Brody Construction Co
Wall
Seagraves
Seminole
Texas liquor by the drink bill filed in House
Rep J E Vale introduces a bill to permit liquor by the drink with dispenser permits for premises selling liquors from 14 to 50 percent. Dispensers would pay 1500 dollar annual tax and a 10 percent gross proceeds tax, funding schools and the aged. Texas forces oppose the measure and the WCTU threatens a prohibition counter campaign.
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Texas
Associated Press
USTIN
House of Representatives
J. E. Vale
Rio Grande City
Liquor Control Board
Texas Old Age Assistance Fund
Texas Diry
WCTU
Haylift Continues Amid High Winds and Cold Weather
Wind gusts from 30 to 41 mph hampered Midwest rescue efforts in South Dakota Nebraska and Wyoming. Rapid City visibility dropped to zero while Chadron and Sin clair faced blowing snow. Colder air moved in with subzero readings across North Dakota and mild conditions elsewhere, as Air Force lift remained active.
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Associated Press
South Dakota- Nebraska - Wyoming
Rapid City
S. D
Chadron
Neb
Sinclair
Wyo
Grand Forks
N. D
Bismarck
Ohio Valley
Gulf
Florida
Nevada-Utah
Air Force Daylift
Financing problem unsolved city limits curb Lubbock growth
The FHA senior evaluator J A Raley warned that not extending Lubbock city limits and not extending water and sewer services could cost 200 to 300 new residences next year, with potential losses of 1.4 to 4.2 million in payrolls and sales. He cited cheaper suburban lots and easier financing within limits as key factors.
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Lubbock
J. A. Raley
Federal Housing Administration
Rasey
Power failure hits South Plains sections briefly
A temporary overload on lines caused a relay switch at Southwestern Public Service Tuco plant north of Abernathy to open Saturday evening, darkening Lubbock Plainview Littlefield Levelland and many nearby towns for minutes. Five outages in 28 minutes disrupted three Lubbock radio stations and affected Denver City to Floydada areas before recovery.
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Plainview
Littlefield
Levelland
South Plains
Southwestern Public Service Company
Tuco
Abernathy
George Bunton
Southwestern
Bob Dyer
Borger
Carlsbad
N. M
Hereford
Dyer
Denver City
Taco Plant
Dimmitt
Hart
Earth
Orion
Lockney
Silverton
Floydada
Meteor sighting brightens South Plains skies near Lubbock
Mr and Mrs R P McGee of route 7 reported a bright meteor Friday night east of Lubbock appearing midway between Lubbock and Lorenzo. G T Williams in Southwest Haven joined by others witnessed a ball of fire in the southwest sky. Residents also saw a meteor last Sunday at 6 54 PM in the area.
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South Plains
R. P. McGee
Route 7
Lubbock
Lorenzo
Williams
Plains Pioneer Lewis Wade Hardy Dies in Fort Worth
Lewis Wade Hardy 82 longtime South Plains resident died in a Fort Worth hospital after living in Lubbock and Shallowater areas. Funeral services set at Rix Funeral Home this afternoon at 3 with pallbearers named, survivors include two daughters two sons and several siblings.
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South Plains
Lewis Wade Hardy
Lubbock County
Fort Worth
Hardy
Bledsoe
Hugh Ragland
Shallowater
Lubbock
Rix Funeral Home
Ragland
W. R. Humble
Wade Hardy
Alton Hardy
L. C. Denton
Hattie Stoker
California
Jess Hardy
Pete Hardy
Milton Hardy
Hereford
George Ragland
Bob McAlllister
Bill Richter
Leonard Hearrell
Henry Mahoney
W. A. Barr
Henry Ward
Paul Purdy
Indictment Quashed for Dallas Electrical Contractors
Federal District Judge T Whitfield Davidson today quashed an indictment against a group of Dallas electrical contractors charged with Sherman anti trust violations. The judge ruled the terms of the indictment were too general.
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Dallas
Federal
T. Whitfield Davidson
Davidson
Plan To Drop Gasoline Sales Tax
A bill to repeal the four cent per gallon gasoline tax and replace it with a one cent per gallon tax on processing of combustible fuels was prepared for House introduction. Rep. Davis Clifton of Farmersville authored the measure, aiming for early consideration and an estimated $115 million annual revenue versus $72 million now.
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BO Byers
Associated Press
Astin
House of Representatives
Davis Clifton
Farmersville
Clifton
University Fund
James L. Norton, Jr
Nacogdoches
University of Texas
Texas A
M. College
Texas University
High Courts
Texas
Louis J. Ivey
el Paso
Secretary of State
Man Shot Wounded In Lubbock Rooming House
James L. DePauw, 34, of 1404 Ave O, was found wounded in a rooming house on the second floor. He was in critical condition at St Marys hospital after a .32 caliber pistol bullet struck his left chest. investigators continued the case as city detectives pursued leads.
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James L. DePauw
Ave. O
St. Mary's Hospital
DePauw
H. F. Wood
Wood
McDonald
R. L. McDonald
Rumning House
See
Death of J. J. Dillard Pioneer County Figure
J J Dillard 79 longtime Lubbock County resident and former county judge died at a West Texas hospital after a fall broke his hip. Funeral services are set for 2 30 p m Monday at Broadway Church of Christ with Elder Liff Sanders presiding. Burial will be in Lubbock Cemetery. Dillard helped found the Lubbock Avalanche later a daily paper and taught school in Archer and Lubbock counties. He moved to Lubbock in 1896 and printed the paper’s first copies May 4 1900 with Thad Tubbs as partner. He was born July 17 1869 in Clark County Mississippi.
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Ohn J. Dillard
Lubbock County
West Texas Hospital
Broadway Church of Christ
Liff Sanders
Lubbock Cemetery
Sanders Funeral Home
Dillard
Avalanche Journal
Clark County
Mississippi
Texas
Montague County
West Texas
Clay
Wichita
Wilbarger
Childress
Collingsworth
Hall
Briscoe
Hale
Crosby
Flood
Motley
Cottle
Baylor
Archer Counties
Archer County
Lubbock
Gravesville
Plainview
Tubbs
Pioneer
Reds Cross Yangtze To Threaten Nanking
Communist forces reportedly crossed the Yangtze to establish a beachhead south of the river, enabling nine columns to threaten Nanking. Several thousand troops reportedly crossed about 100 miles west of Shanghai as an eight‑man peace delegation gathered in Shanghai for talks in Peiping, with unofficial approval from acting President Li Tsung‑Jen.
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Nanking
INSI
Yangtze River
Yangtze
China
Shanghai
Peiping
Li Tsung-Jen
Workers Are Given Jobs Lubbock Seeks Weather Victims
Approximately 100 men registered for city jobs after bad weather disrupted work. About 65 reported for 50 cent hourly pay with 25 cents cash and 25 cents in grocery orders. 35 registered but did not work. program to continue under city county welfare, with registrations again Monday at Allen Bros. post home, American Legion, 910 Texas Avenue.
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W. H. Rodgers
Gerald E. Jarvis
Jarvis
Allen Bros
The
American Legion
Texas Avenue
Lubbock
Norway In News Pact Talks Sparks Soviet Critique
London dispatch reports Moscow offered a non aggression note to Norway while denouncing Washington for trying to sustain a war atmosphere. The Soviet envoy delivered the note to Foreign Minister Halvard Lange as Norway’s stance on an Atlantic pact with the United States and Western Europe remained unsettled.
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Russia
Norway
United States
Europe
Halvard Lange
Moscow
London
U. S
Washington
Soviet Union
Stalin
Truman
International
United Nations
Canada
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Denmark
Lubbock Man Robbed After Abduction at Gunpoint
Wesley Boling 55 of 519 Eighteenth was abducted early Saturday by a man who forced him to drive and surrendered $109. Boling’s 1936 pickup was found abandoned. his billfold, minus the money, lay inside. Boling reported the incident at Ellwood Service Station.
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Wesley Boling
Boling
Ellwood
Nineteenth and College
South Ave. H
Seventeenth
Ave. H
Twenty-third
College Avenue
College
Sterling cigarette urn and tray offered at 5.95
An advertisement lists a sterling cigarette urn and tray priced at 5.95, promoted by King's Jewelry.
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King’s Jewelry
King's Jewelry
Weather Forecast and Temperature Readings for Lubbock Area
Partly cloudy today with colder conditions this afternoon and Monday. Official 24 hour readings show max 53, min 4, with a March year-over-year comparison of 38 and 33. Sunrise 7:41 am, sunset 6:32 pm.
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Lubbock
U. S
Weather Bureau Statiop
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Avalanche-Journal Station
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Haylift
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H. L Kiefer
Avalanche-Journal
Plains Pioneer
J. J. Dillard
John J. Dillard
Reds
U.S
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