Government Drops More Curbs and Price Boosts Indicated
The CPA scrapped low cost clothing controls and plans to shrink its payroll from about 34 000 to 15 600 by end of November. Price decontrol expands. textile rules may be revised. Electric and farm equipment prices rise. TV sets costs estimated at 250 to 400 plus tax. House Republicans back a 20 percent income tax cut and broader government restraint.
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Associated Press
Civilian
Office of Price Administration
Truman
CPA
John D. Small
Ous
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Minneapolis - Moline Power Implement Co
Washington
Joseph Gerl
Radio Manufacturers Association
American Institute of Laundering
Small Nations Challenge Veto Power At UN Assembly
Small nations at the United Nations denounce the five permanent members’ veto in the Security Council as Cuba and Argentina warn of potential walkouts and non permanent member boycotts. The debate sees Poland defend the veto while the US planned to respond with support for its continuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis W. Carpenter
Associated Press
N. Y
United Nations
Argentina
Cuba
Philippines
Security Council
Poland
United States
C.S.T
Tom Connally
Dtex
U. N
Jose Arce
Australia
Russia
Assembly
Testimony Concludes in Floydada Murder Trial
In Floydada the trial of Bill Queen 52 faces verdict after closing testimony. The case centers on the Sept 24 shooting of Patton 29 by Queen in his yard. prosecutors argue murder, defense claims self defense. Evidence included a DPS witness stating a shirt shows one bullet from the back as three shots hit Patton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floy Dada
Bill Queen
Floyd County
C. O. Patton
Matador
110Th District Court
Alton B. Chapman
Richard F. Stovall
I. O. Newton
Seymour
Queen
W. E. Grimes
Flovdada
Griffinm
Morehead
Plainview
J. H. Arnett
Department of Public Safety
Patton
Queen's Home
Probe of Attorney Requested By Wyatt
Housing Expeditor Wilson Wyatt asked the attorney general to start an immediate investigation into an unnamed attorney tied to a lease dispute for a government war plant in Chicago. Preston Tucker, head of the Tucker corporation, accused a private lawyer alleging government connections of offering to aid Tucker for six figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson Wyatt
Chicago
Watt
Preston Tucker
Tucker Corporation of Chicago
Tucker
Settlement Reached In CIO Seamen Coastal Talks
Federal Mediator Nathan B Feinsinger announced a settlement of the CIO longshoremen dispute amid a 45 day old Pacific coast maritime strike. Negotiations with Marine Engineers neared a climax while AFL Masters Mates and Pilots continued talks with the Pacific American Shipowners Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Dairy Leaders Meet To Plan County Improvement
About 50 to 60 dairy farmers and industry representatives met at the county agriculture building to discuss a proposed dairy improvement association. Talks covered a cow testing group artificial insemination and a one day county dairy show with graded stock and no premiums, plus more promotion for 4 H and Future Farmers of America youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers of America
E. R. Eudaly
Extension Service
Eudaly
Dallas Pastor Named Baptist Head At State Convention
Texas Baptists closed their state convention by electing Dr. Wallace Bassett of Dallas as president. Bassett, pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist church since 1918, urged staying true to Christ fundamentals. Vice president is Chester Watts of Mineral Wells with Thomas A. Gray of McAllen named second vice. Bassett quipped he never thought Texas would do this to itself after 36 years in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Barnard
Associated
Meral Wells
Texas Baptists
Wallace Bassett
Dallas
Truman
Vatican
Bassett
Cliff Temple Baptist Church
Texas
Chester Watts
Mineral Wells
First Baptist Church
Thomas A. Gray
McAllen
Water Board Approved For Lubbock Water Need
The Lubbock City Council approved Mayor Bestwick’s water resources board, naming members led by S. L. Forrest and Ruel Martin. The body can investigate hearings and advise the City Commission on enlarging and extending the water system and securing new sources. Ex officios are City Manager Homer Hunter and City Engineer John Ruhmann.
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Randall Abernethy
Lubbock
C. A. Bestwick
Water Resources Board
S. L. Forrest
National Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Ruel Martin
Dunlap
Joe Nislar
R. D. Erwin
Ben E. Keith Company
C. W. Ratliff
The
Avalanche-Journal
Harry Holcomb
Roy Riddle
First National Bank
Chas Maedgen, Jr
Lubbock National Bank
William Eisenberg
Ellwood Estates
Robert Wright
Owen McWhorter
Spencer Wells
Hemphill - Wells
Neil Wright
Ernest Pope
Hanna-Pope and Co
Irvin L. Jones
West Texas
Homer Hunter
John P. Ruhmann
City Commission
Chest Workers Push Campaign in Lubbock Drive
Lubbock's first Community Chest drive targets 92 173 37 with about 400 workers in four divisions led by Earl Kerr Hugh Anderson and Irvin L Jones as the campaign runs into next week The women's division aims 4 673 37 with the rest covering boy and girl scouts social services and administration The budget anticipates 7 000 in reserve for non collections due to death removal or unemployment
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Lubbock
Earl Kerr
Chest
Tenth
Avenue K
Hugh Anderson
General Sales Army
Irvin L. Jones
Kerr
Unit Account Group
Anderson’s Solicitors
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Junior Optiist
Boys’ Club
Milam
Salvation Army
Reds Deny Bombing Town Report in British Press
London dispatch reports Russia denying a British newspaper claim that Russian planes bombed Antung on the Korea Manchuria border. Tass issued a note calling the report a slander from beginning to end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Russia
Antung
Korea- Manchuria
Tass
Storm Toll Rises to Nineteen Dead in Western States
A three day storm lashed Southern California and Colorado leaving at least 19 dead and 11 missing after a Western Airlines plane disappeared. Heavy snow buried 100000 acres of beets in the Rocky Mountain region as sugar supplies faced threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
California
Colorado
Western Airlines
Agriculture Department
Rocky Mountain
Los Angeles
Three Americans Share Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three Americans. Dr James B Sumner of Cornell received half the prize for crystallizing enzymes. The other half went to Mrs J H Northrop and W M Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Princeton for their work in preparing enzymes and virus proteins in pure form.
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Stockholm
James B. Sumner
Cornell University
J. H. Northrop
W. M. Stanley
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Princeton
Swedish Academy
Sumner
Northrop
Stanley
Greek premier in emergency talks over undeclared war risk
Premier Constantin Tsaldaris held an emergency meeting in Athens with military chiefs and opposition leaders to discuss the northern Greece situation described as taking the clear character of an undeclared war against Greece. New shipment crystal. King's Jewelry, 1020 Edway. Adv.
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Athens
Constantin Tsaldaris
Greece
King’s Jewelry
Republican push to block Bilbo from Senate seat
The GOP steering committee reportedly plans to block Mississippi’s Bilbo from taking his Senate oath on January 3. A unnamed Republican senator cited investigations by the Campaign and War committees, while Bilbo denies the charges and pledges to fight the move.
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Associated Prensa
Ashington
Republican
Bilbo
Congress
Senate
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Special War Investigating Committee
Mississippi
Poplarville, Mins
Republican Steering Committee
Rules Committee
Ellender
D-La
Special
Senate Committee
Bridges
RNH
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Curbs On Labor Unions Studied
Washington Nov 14 A new push for labor curb legislation emerged in multiple capitals while the Veterans Administration denied unemployment pay to three veterans idle due to a labor dispute. Senator Ball led the drive for changes in labor laws with allies Hawkes Bennett and McConnell. He plans to introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop and pursue other reforms in 1948.
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Cos Rectstars
Interior Krug
Veterans Administration
General Motors
Senator Ball
R-Minn
Ball
St. Louis
Chicago
Foreman High School
Beverly Boulevard
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company
J. W. Davis
Associated Press
Washington
Hawkes
R-N.j
Bennett
R-Mo
McConnell
R-Pa
Roosevelt
Congress
Recovery Of State Money Is Ordered
The state legislative audit committee urged the state treasurer to recover about 520,000 believed due to payroll misdeeds by a former head of the horticultural inspection division in the Agriculture Department. Indictments for theft and forgery were returned against J M Del Curto, tied to the audit findings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
State Legislative Audit Committee
State Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Travis County
J. M. del Curto
Department
del Curto
Modernize your diamond in a new mounting
Jewelry ad for King's shows 1020 Edwy offering to remount diamonds into new settings. Promotes upgrading engagement rings and heirloom pieces with contemporary mounts and craftsmanship.
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King's
Power of Governor Debated Over Trieste Treaty Role
The four power foreign ministers stalled final action on Italy’s peace pact as Molotov pressed to internationalize Trieste governor power. Byrnes Bevin and Couve de Murville argued the governor must also hold enforcement authority. A decision was postponed to a restricted meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Andrei Vishinsky
Molotov
America
James F. Byrnes
France
Maurice Couve de Murville
Byrnes
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Alex H. Singleton
Associated Press
EW York
Trieste
Council of Foreign Ministers
Italy
U. S S
Couve de Murville
Slaton Rail Official Testifies At Interstate Hearing
L M Olson Santa Fe division superintendent at Slaton Texas testified at the ICC hearing in St Louis. He said allowing Santa Fe trains into St Louis would cut freight car handling time for Kansas City shippers by 19 hours 29 minutes per car on all Santa Fe routes and 13 hours 24 minutes on east bound traffic. He identified terminal detention at Kansas City as the bottleneck in interline interchange with other roads.
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ST. Louis
L. M. Olson
Santa Fe
Slaton
Tex
Kansas City
Olson
Interstate Commerce Commission
State fair weather forecast calls for warm, fair day
The Weather bureau projected continued fair and warm conditions for today at the state fair. Yesterday's temperatures ranged from 63 at Guadalupe Pass to 78 at Brownsville with only a trace of rain near Del Rio.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Guadalupe Pass
del Rio
West Texas Weather Outlook and Temperature Readings
Partly cloudy and warmer in Pecos valley eastward Friday then cooler in El Paso area Panhandle and South Plains Saturday. Official Texas Experiment Station readings over 346 hours show highs around 7 and lows near 1 in unspecified units.
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West Texas
Pecos Valley
el Paso
Panhandle
South Plains
West Texas Gaa Company
Texas Experiment Station
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House Republican Steering Committee
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Massachusetts
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Martin
Floydada
Wyatt
CIO
John L. Lewis
United Mine
Lewis
Baptist
Sen. Bilbo
Solons
Slaton Rail
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