Striking Ship Princessa Fights to Reach England
Passengers aboard the strike stricken British freighter Princessa recount a voyage of drifting in the South Atlantic for days as the crew fished for sharks. Seven West Indian firemen faced magistrate charges. volunteers kept steam up and the ship near tows until a British frigate escorted it into the English Channel.
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Bristol
England
U.P
South Atlantic
Montevideo
Uruguay
N. Phillips
R. J. Allen
Las Palmas
Brazil
Expansion Of Scout Program Planned Across South Plains
The South Plains council announces a broad expansion of Cub and Boy Scout activities to prepare the movement for peacetime service. A roundup of new Scouts will be followed by open houses, hikes, and the formation of new units. A public roundup ceremony is planned for December 8 to 14 with further plans to come.
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South Plains Council
Cr. H. Cale
Affiliation Rejected By Railway Trainmen
A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, said the BRT independent union rejected affiliation with the AFL and CIO. The group would consider a CIO offer as a joint resolution and vote again on AFL terms, with William Green possibly addressing the Miami Beach convention. In El Paso, William S. Jameson, 27, UT law student, was nominated by the county Democratic committee for state representative to fill a death vacancy.
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Miami Beach
Fla
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
BRT
AFL
CIO
Whitney
William Green
EL Paso
William S. Jameson
University of Texas Law
Howard Butt Youth Revival Opens Monday in Lubbock
Lubbock hosts a five night youth revival at First Baptist Church with speakers including Charles Wellborn a Gladewater native and Bayor graduate. Howard Butt of Corpus Christi. Bruce McIver of Silver City. Jack Robinson a Baylor junior. and Joe Boyd a Southwestern seminary student and former Texas A M All American. Speakers shift from Wellborn Monday to Boyd Friday. The event follows revivals in Waco Houston Dallas and Fort Worth with audiences up to 8 000 students.
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Lubbock
First Baptist Church
Baptist Churches of
Howard Butt
Corpus Christi
Baylor
Bruce McIver
Silver City
N. C
State Baptist Student Union
Southwestern Seminary
Fort Worth
Jack Robinson
Paschal High
Joe Boyd
Texas A
M. Wellborn
Butt
Melver
Robinson
Yank Soldiers Face Long Prison Terms
Four American soldiers were sentenced to one to ten years in prison after a Meaux Paris suburb court martial found they robbed the mayor and council in a Meaux cafe. Pvt. Clark Lyles of Chicago allegedly fired a gun and forced officials to surrender wallets watches and valuables before fleeing in a jeep.
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Paris
Meaux
Clark Lyles
Chicago
Lyles
Connally backs UN power to enforce Trieste terms
Senate committee chairman Tom Connally said the United Nations Security Council could enforce Trieste decisions under the Italian peace treaty even if Yugoslavia refuses to abide. He endorsed Byrnes' Paris conference results and urged German industrial renascence for Europe.
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Hal Boyle
Associated Press
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations Security Council
Trieste
Yugoslavia
Paris
Fiume
Texas Democrat
State Byrnes
Italy
Byrnes
Senate
Security Council
Britain
United States
Connally
Germany
Europe
Stalemate feared if Republicans win Congress says Barkley
U S Senate leader Alben Barkley warns northern Missouri voters that a Republican House and Senate would cause a two year stalemate in government and in international affairs. He urges clarifying veto power limits in the U N charter and notes the Paris conference summary as favorable to the United States.
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Moberly
U.P
Alben W. Barkley
U. S. Senate
House
Senate
Missouri
Little Dixie
Barkley
America
Truman
Connally
Molotov
U. N
United States
Boys Abandon Indian Hunt Trek In Aurora Jail
Three Chicago area youths aged 9 to 14 set out with knives bows arrows a canary and 225 dollars to hunt Indians. They were found by Aurora police behind a billboard after taking a train to the city and were placed in jail until their parents could reclaim them.
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Aurora
U.P
Chicago
John Manscalle
Stanley Szot
Joseph Colwell
John
Joseph
Louisiana’s Largest Livestock Sale Ends
The biggest livestock sale in Louisiana history ended at 6 a m after an all day and all night session at the Alexandria stockyards. Cattlemen received about 300 000. Yesterday’s receipts totaled 2 600 cattle and 400 hogs bringing over 150 000 dollars.
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Alexandria
Louisiana
Molotov Rebroadcast Incident Cited by Byrnes’ Remarks
Molotov walked the deck during the Byrnes rebroadcast and Connally appeared to be the only diplomat who heard it. Molo tov declined comment until a complete text was seen, which was not available here.
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Molotov
Byrnes
Connally
Texas flood control funds may aid state projects
Army engineers said they cannot yet specify how much of the $35 million national boost will flow to Texas flood control works. An expenditure recommendation will go to the budget bureau, with division engineers notified next week. Col. D. W. Griffiths will decide Texas allocations as contracts signed earlier proceed, possibly launching a $500,000 Texas highway program tied to the $20 million Whitney dam project on the Brazos near Waco and Hillsboro.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Texas
Truman
Budget Bureau
Army Division
D. W. Griffiths
Galveston
Tex
Whitney Dam
Brazos River
Waco
Hillsboro
Highway Department
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British Railways
Low Coast
Stran-Steel
Great Lakes Steel Corporation
National Steel Corporation
Midland
Abell - McHargue Lumber Company, Ltd
Stran Steel Division
Land, Texas
Rey Ea Roe
Dic-A
Shakleen
Sherwin-Williams
Flor-Ceal
Caskey-Woods CO
14Th St
College Ave
James M. Reynolds, D. D. S
Lubbock, Texas
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