Steel firms cut back as coal strike hits steel industry
Pittsburgh dispatch reports widespread steel plant cutbacks due to the coal strike and freight embargo. Youngstown Sheet & Tube operates at 30 percent capacity with 8,000 furloughed. Republic Steel cuts 5 to 20 percent, 5 000 to 8 000 laid off. Total steel unemployment around 60,000 and rising. railroads also furloughing thousands next week.
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Pittsburgh
Youngstown
Sheet & Tube Company
Republic Steel. Corporation
Republic
Junior High Classes Host JL Bond Fund Drive
Junior High students plan a class competition to raise funds for the J. L. Bond Fund aiding a Mexia boy with spastic paralysis. A city drive seeks 1600 dollars for Houston treatment. $178.47 remains in the fund, with contributions sent to Mexian Daily News or deposited in the First National Bank.
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J. L. Bond Fund
Houston
Mexian Daily
First National Bank
J. L.bond Fund
War Department extends draft holiday to January first
The War Department extended the draft holiday through January 1. It was unclear if later calls will be issued.
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Washington
War Department
Calendar of Mexia Events Highlights Local Screenings and Visits
The Mexia events calendar lists Jaycee meet at Red Smith's Cafe 7 p m Thursday along with American Legion Auxiliary 7 30 p m and National theater showing So Goes My Love. Palace offers Terror on Horseback and The Dark Horse while Liberty runs Woman of the Town and The Crooked Trail. Friday Santa Claus visits Mex ia at 3 p m with National again showing So Goes My Love Palace screening Terror on Horseback and Liberty presenting Bar 20.
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Jaycee
Red Smith's
American Legion Auxiliary
Palace
Dark Horse
Liberty
Santa Claus
Mexia
Housing Controls Relaxed After Wyatt Resignation
Washington reports decontrol moves advance housing policy after Wyatt quits amid inter agency friction. President Truman vows controls will be loosened quickly within the new policy framework as intergovernmental struggles continue.
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Wyatt
Washington
Veterans Housing Program
Wilson
Tringa
national / house
Truman
American Veterans Committee
Truman accepts resignation of CPA head John D Small
President Truman accepted the resignation of John D Small as head of the Civilian Production Administration effective tomorrow. The resignation follows Small’s long stated wish to leave government service as a new liquidation agency will take over CPA functions and related duties.
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Washington
Truman
John D. Small
White’ House Press
Charles G. Ross
CPA
Smalls
Ross
Small
Paul A. Porter
Wilson
Wyatt
Gas Flows Through Little Big Inch Line
Gas began to flow through the Little Big Inch pipeline at 12 45 p m est as part of a stated supply. The flow is expected to provide only limited relief from the coal crisis. Davies testified before a House committee that surplus property disposal involved gas being put into the line at Natchitoches Louisiana for sale of 50 000 000 cubic feet daily. He said he learned of the fact shortly before appearing before the committee.
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Washington
Davies
House
Natchitoches
Cormnmitte
Santa Claus to Visit Town This Friday Afternoon
Local reports confirm a Santa Claus appearance at the airport on Friday afternoon. The event promises a festive Merry Christmas atmosphere for residents and visitors alike.
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Santa Claus
Ted’ Press
Santa Claus Will
Annual Christmas Concert by Black Cat Band Dec 13
Mexia Pride presents the annual Christmas concert featuring the Black Cat Band. Savi voices will perform, with Ladd a, and festive anthems mark a Christmassy program. Admission is free.
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Black Cat Band
Mexia Pride
Savi
Ladd
Lynn Adams Injured In Auto Collision North Of Corsicana
Lynn Adams sustained a head injury when a truck blinded him on a highway near Corsicana Navarro County. He was unconscious until Thursday morning and then regained consciousness and rested easily at Navarro Clinic.
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Lynn Adams
Corsicana
Navarro
Lynn
Adams
Community Christmas Gift Drive Planned for Mexia State School
Local groups organize a holiday program with Gene Womack coordinating gifts for girls eight to sixteen, Billy Tack-Steele handling women forty and younger, Ozzie Edwards listing women thirty to twenty three, John Neece Jr coordinating boys eight to seventeen, and Wayne Underwood overseeing men eighteen to forty one. The Christmas tree event moves to Saturday December 21 with the American Legion providing a tree and Santa to present gifts.
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Mexia
Gene Womack
Billy
Tack-Steele
Ozzie Edwards
John Neece, Jr
Wayne Underwoold
Fain
American Legion
Miners back Lewis as fight over union funds grows
In Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, miners voiced strong support for Tobin L. Lewis amid a federal fine of 3.6 million dollars. Locals from Marianna, California Ellsworth Cokeburg and others sent blank checks to Washington as unions and operators trade tensions. A separate Alameda county AFL walkout in Oakland ended on the third day.
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Pittsburgh
Dee! 5
Tobin L. Lewis
United Mine, Workers
UEL
Washington
Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
Lewis Jost
Jose
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Marianna
California
Ellsworth
Cokeburg
District Four
Treasury
Qakland
Cal
Dee
AFL
Alameda County
Conference on Labor Legislation Denounces Anti-Strike Measures
The annual Labor Department sponsored conference approved resolutions calling for a 0.75 per hour minimum wage and repeal of the Smith Connally anti strike law. Attended by State Labor Commissioners and CIO AFL representatives, it urged extending Social Security to migratory workers and broadening unemployment compensation to firms with at least one employee.
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Washington
Annual
Conference On Labor Legislation
Labor Department
CIO
AFL
AFL Offers to Call Off Oakland Strike
The AFL proposed ending its Alameda county walkout if Oakland city government pledged no police involvement in labor disputes. City manager Hassler said union leaders would halt the strike by 10 a.m. if conditions were met, but AFL later insisted the strike continue until formal city concessions were given.
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Oakland
Cal
American Federation of Labor
Alameda County
AFL
John
Hassler
Strom “Usis Gth
Oatland
Bidault Fails in Bid to Become French Premier
Paris December 5 Georges Bidault failed to win the premiership in the National Assembly gathering when he received 240 votes short of the 310 needed. Bidault, who has served as Premier President and Foreign Minister in the Interim government, was put forward as the National Assembly labors into its second day of deliberations to select a new Premier.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
National Assembly
Bidault
East Texas Chamber Speaker At Mexia Jaycees Meeting
Curtiss Morris manager of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce Taxation and Legislation Department will be the principal speaker Thursday night for the Mexia Jaycees meeting at 7 00 p m at Red Smiths Cafe. President Ozzie Edwards reports on the State Directors meeting in Austin and Sid McKinnon attended. Food will be served.
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Curtiss Morris
East’ Texas Chamber of ‘Commerce
Mexia Jaycees
Red Smith
Ozzie Edwards
Jaycee
Sid McKinnon
Austin
Truman to address nation on coal strike crisis
President Truman will broadcast live at 8 30 p m CST to appeal to miners and ease a crisis described as bringing the nation to the brink of economic paralysis. The White House says the talk may urge miners to return to work if the strike persists and will follow government efforts to end the shutdown without court action.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Cstunday
John L. Lewis
D. H. Wheeler
Wheeler
Lewis
United’ Mine’ Workers
UFL
UMW
T. Alan Goldsborough
Supreme Court
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Aye Wa
Ross” Truman
Tom Clark
J. A. Krug
Plan for Jester's Veterans Commission proposed in Austin
Gov elect Beauford Jester's conference with 40 veteran group reps endorsed Maj Horace H Shelton's plan for a five member non salaried state commission and a salaried staff. Commissioners named by the Governor would include one from the American Legion, one from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, one from the Disabled American Veterans, and two from other congressionally chartered veteran groups. The commission would appoint a state service officer and coordinate veterans activities while county service officers are chosen by county courts and must meet state commission standards.
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Austin
Veterans Commission
Elect
Beauford Jester
Horace H. Shelton
Texas Department
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Shelton
American Legion
Veterans of ‘Foreign ‘Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Commission
Hydro Gas Plant Explosion Kills Two in Corpus Christi
An explosion at the Hyd Gas Fuel Company in Corpus Christi killed two people Raymond Redmond owner of a nearby cleaning business and his employer Rev BE Lewis pastor of the First Pentecostal Church were the victims. The blast shattered windows two miles away and flames burned for hours injuring nine residents including three cut by flying glass and debris at a nearby trailer camp.
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Corpus
Hyd
Christi
Raymond Redmond
BE. E. Lewis
Byrnes Seeks Release Of German Prisoners Across Europe
Secretary James F. Byrnes urged France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg to release at once 674000 German POWs transferred to their custody by U S forces during World War II The statement did not mention prisoners held by Britain or the Soviet Union which still hold large numbers.
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New York
James F. Byrnes
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Great Britain
Soviet Union
AFL Chief Warns Government Over Coal Strike Handling
AFL President William Green accuses the government of steering the coal strike toward tyranny in a December 5 statement from Washington. He criticizes policy actions and calls for intervention to avert authoritarian overreach.
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Washington
AFL
William Green
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