Unauthorized Strike Halts Atomic Work in Oak Ridge
In Oak Ridge Tennessee an unauthorized wildcat strike by AFL construction workers idled over 700 on a $66,000,000 atomic bomb production project and halted related housing and a pipeline. An Atomic Energy Commission official said the National Labor Relations Board will send an investigator and unions deny involvement while sending agents to probe.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Oak Ridge
AFL
Atearmic
Atonic Energy Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Garden Molesworth
Atomic Energy Commission
Noel Hollingsworth’s Father Dies in Hillsboro Rites Planned
Dr Bo Hollingsworth 87 died at daughter's Hillsboro home. He was father of Noel Hollingsworth executive vice president at First National Bank Mexia and civic leader. Funeral 2 p m tomorrow at Marshall Funeral Chapel Hillsboro with Methodist ministers. burial Richland Cemetery near Mertens. Bank to close tomorrow in his honor. Survived by five sons, two daughters, twelve grandchildren, three great grandchildren.
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Bo Hollingsworth
Ellie Clary
Hillsboro
Noel Hollingsworth
First National Bank
Mexia
Marshall Funeral Chapel
T. W. Seymour
First Methodist Church
Pat Brown
Ninth Street
Furst
National Bank
Hellingsworth
Methodist Church
Hillsbere Masonite Lodge
Mr. Hellingsworth
Nel Hollingsworth
Glenn Hollingsworth
Spokane
Wash
Emmitt Hollingsworth
Boise City
Oklo
Cadmus J. Hollingsworth
Houston
Will Edd Hollingsworth
Beaumont
Elie Clary
A. G. Swint
Hills- Dare
Truman delays atomic energy commission nomination
The White House said President Truman will wait until Congress convenes before appointing a successor to David F. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The announcement places the nomination on hold pending legislative session actions in Washington, with Lilienthal’s term under review.
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Key West
Fla
White House
Truman
Congress
David F. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Third Annual Downtown Family Night Draws Mexia Crowds
Heart O Texas Scouters elect two Mexia men Raymond Dillard and Harold Nussbaum to vice president and executive board seats at a Waco meeting. Harold Hays elected Heart O Texas Council president. In Mexia, 35 firms stay open tonight for Downtown Family Night with door prizes and a 9:15 p.m. prize drawing at Commerce Sherman intersection as Santa visits Saturday parade planned with schools and Jaycee floats.
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Raymond Dillard
Harold Nussbaum
Mexia
Heart
Addie New
Troy Heidelberg
J. A. Schnable
Paul Page
J. W. Richardson
Farmers State Bank
Commerce-Sherman
Santa Claus
Santa
Mexia High School
White and Gillespie Drug
W. M. Eubanks Hardware
Bates Grocery and Market
Leon Flatt Stationer
Mexia Studio
Gene Sinclair Shoe
J. C. Penney, Karner and Phillips
Gafford Furniture
Louis Altman
Western Auto
Ben Franklin
Firestone
Duke and Ayers
Sewing Machine
Tidwell Drug
Vincent and Ray
Mexia Jewelry Company
Yowel Drug
Ward heads home ending 18 consulate staff arrest saga
Angus Ward leads the United States consulate staff from Mukden toward Tientsin on the first leg of their return to the United States, ending a yearlong Communist house arrest. In other items, Quintuple births are reported in Colombia, seven Marshall plantations fined 30 million dollars for cargo shortfalls, George Yeh rejects a protest over shipping near Shanghai, and Maine hunters record deer kills at 34,936 with 15 hunters also noted.
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Washington
Angus Ward
U.S
Mukden
Manchuria
Tientsin
United States
Medellin
Colombia
Angosturo Norte
Alfonso
Marina Arroyave
U. S
Britain
Denmark
Sweden
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Ireland
Hong Kong
China
George Yeh
Shanghai
Augusta
Maine
George Stobie
Mexia Area Men Due for Army Reserve Discharges
Three Mexia area men are due for discharge from the Organized Reserve Corps in December or January, Col. I. G. Walker announced. The men are Pfc. Sherman L. Cooper, Farrar. Kamac C. Ross, Route 2, Coolidge. and Willie J. Sherman, Route 2, Thornton. Col. Walker urges reenlistment and directs contact with Capt. James B. Caudle at Groesbeck or the Mexia recruiting station.
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Mexia
Organized Reserve Corps
Buenos Aires Endures 102-Degree Heatwave Sunstroke Cases Rise
Forty sunstroke cases, none fatal, were reported yesterday as Buenos Aires sweltered under a 102 degree heat wave. Public health officials advised rest, hydration, and shade amid the extreme temperatures.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Henry Wallace Linked in Red Atom Shipment
Washington reports Henry A Wallace is expected to be called before the House un American activities committee to testify about wartime atomic material shipments to Russia. A committee source said a date will be set. Wallace denied any involvement and Gen Groves said Wallace not in his chain of command. Ex-Congressman John McDowell tied Wallace to urging and arranging the transfer during the 1943 Great Falls investigation.
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Louis J. Russell
House un-American Activities Committee
Washington
Russia
Harry Hopkins
Air Force
George Racey
Henry A Wallace
Wallace
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Board of Economic Warfare
Leslie R. Groves
Groves
Gen. Groves
Pittsburgh
Penn
John McDowell
House un-American Affairs Committee
Henry Wallace
Soviet
McDowell
Great Falls
Mont
Missing Dallas Tot Found Safe After 24 Hours
United Press reports Rebecca Ann McCary, two, was found safe this afternoon asleep in a car parked near her Lisbon home as searches in woodlands continued for a missing child. A man in a green Dodge was seen with a girl fitting her description in east Dallas at midnight.
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Daily News
United Press
Rebecca Ann McCary
Dallas
Woodlands
Lisbon
Odis Pipers
Rebecca Ann
Pipers
Christine McClung
Mexia Legion Rejects Democracy Day Observance
Mexia American Legion post voted Monday night to oppose a special Democracy Day observance Wednesday while endorsing the state plan. Commander O F Watkins said there is no need for a publicity push in Mexia and urged Americans to practice democracy and 100 percent Americanism year round. The post also consented to sponsor the Mexia State school Christmas party again and sought help from earlier supporters. The national program will feature a Brownwood radio address at 7 45 pm and Gov Allan Shivers’ Terrell broadcast after a Gladewater breakfast, as officials noted.
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Mexia
American Legion Post
Mexia Legionnaires
O. F. Watkins
Post
Watkins
Mexia Post
Mexia State School
Legionnaires
Legion
Texas Department of the American Legion
Brownwood
Joe Spurlock
Allan Shivers
Terrell
Gladewater
Dallas Man Shoots Wife in Down Town Office
Harold Lloyd Blankenship, 25, a Dallas art student, shot and killed his estranged wife Rosemary, 26, in a downtown insurance office as she sat at her desk. He told police he bought a new .38 pistol and shot her six times to prevent her from harming the kids, asserting they had separated and she had begun divorce proceedings. She died en route to a hospital. two sons, ages two and three, are her children.
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Dallas
Harold Lloyd Blankenship
Rosemary
Oil Conservation By State Governments Praised By Shivers
Texas Governor Allan Shivers praised state efforts to conserve oil and gas at the Interstate Oil Compact Commission. He cited cycling plants as proof of increased recovery from resources and said private enterprise should develop future resources under state regulation. He noted cycling capacity up 38 percent in the past year with 35 of 48 plants in Texas.
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New Orleans
Texas
Allan Shivers
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Shivers
United States
Meeting to explain new wintering method for cattle
Farmers in the area are invited to a 7 30 meeting tomorrow at the Farmers Supply and Hatchery to learn a more profitable wintering method under range conditions. The session is sponsored by Vernon Vinson and Don Caldwell Jr. of the store.
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Farmers Supply and Hatchery
Vernon Vinson
Don Caldwell Jr
Five Men Charged As Driver Strike Flare Violence
In Houston five men were charged with affray after a dormant limousine drivers strike turned violent twice last night. Two limousines were damaged one by fire and two people injured before police stopped small clashes between belligerent strikers and non striking drivers.
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Houston
Telephone workers cry foul in Taft Hartley bargaining
Washington, UP. The Communications Workers of America CIO accuses AT&T and 18 Bell system subsidiaries of bad faith bargaining in violation of the Taft Hartley Act. The union says negotiations have been unfair and seeks remedies under federal labor law.
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Washington
Communications Workers’ of America
CIO
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell System
Houston Accident Claims Second Life As Driver Succumbs
Luther Leslie Coleman a Midway Texas truck driver died ten hours after his semi struck another truck causing both vehicles to jackknife across a Houston highway. The crash also killed bus stop pedestrian John Edward Spangler age 19, who died instantly.
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Houston
Luther Leslie Coleman
Midway
Texas
Coleman
John Edward Spangler
Henderson Publisher Dies After 67 Years In Printing
Henderson, TX D. R. Harris known as Uncle Dick, 78, publisher of the Henderson Daily News and former Texas Press Association president, died at his home after a long illness. Harris began as a printer's devil at 11 and spent his career in Henderson.
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Henderson
D. R
Georgetown Insurance Man Fatally Shot on Golf Course
R L Galloway a prominent Georgetown insurance man and civic worker of 20 years was found fatally shot late yesterday on the country club golf course Justice of the Peace W H Davis ruled the death accidental.
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Georgetown
R. L. Galloway
Georgetown Insurance
Country Club
Justice of the Peace
W. H. Davis
Fire damages a 1940 Ford owned by H S Miller
Fire heavily damaged a 1940 Ford owned by H S Miller of 206 South McKinney last night near 6 30. Mexia fire department responded to the alarm and found the interior burned out though the motor escaped serious damage.
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H. S. Miller
South McKinney
Mexia Fire Department
Milam woman slain in Mexia cafe shooting spurs manhunt
Annie Milam Milam, a thrice married mother of two, was killed in a Mexia cafe shootout. James Rudasill, 26, is charged with assault to murder as police search for the shooter. Dempsey, wounded in the back, was hospitalized in serious condition. Investigators found shell casings and traced suspect movements toward Houston. Funeral arrangements pending for Milam. Rudasill in jail with officials preparing further inquiries.
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Mexi
Limestone County
Beck
McDonald Milam
Milam
Dive Milam
Agai
Cc Beck
Ma Dempsey
Groesb
James Rudasill
Rudasill
Justice of Peace
Groesbee
C. B. Robertson
Missippi
Donald
Evergreeia
Green
Are
Brown Hospital
Houston
Gre
Raymond Teague
Troy Marshall Davis
Stone County
Teague High
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