Cub Scouts Seek Den Mothers for Mexia Unit
Paul Page, Cub Master of the Jocal Cub Scout organization, appeals for volunteers to serve as Den Mothers. He reports 40 local youngsters aged nine to eleven eager to join, currently overseen by three Den Mothers. Page urges at least four more volunteers to form additional groups.
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Paul Page
Jocal Cub Scout Organization
Page
Mexia
Leon Flatt
Hub Giles
Bennie Lee Speer
Calendar of Mexia Events Highlights Daily Activities
A dense list of daily community events from Mexia featuring church services at St Marys and Calvary Baptist, First Baptist classes for junior RA GA and intermediate RA and GA, youth activities at First Baptist and Methodist churches, music club meetings, Friday Club programs, choir rehearsals, and special pageants and film showings including Black Beauty Cowboy Blues and Deadline for Murder.
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St. Mary's Church
Lion’s Club
First Baptist
First Baptist Y
Methodist Church
St. Mary's
Calvary Baptist
Calvary Baptist Training Union
Palace
Judge Archer Denies Mandamus Seekers Admission
Judge Roy C. Archer denied Herman Marion Sweatt’s mandamus bid to force the University of Texas to admit him to its law school. He forecast a first class UT law school by February and indicated a form order to reflect compliance, with Sweatt's counsel awaiting judgment entry before any appeal.
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Austin
Tex
Roy'.c. Archer
Herman Marion Sweatt
Houston
University of Texas
Archer
Texas A. & M
Texas
126Th District Court
South
Peellekin
Law School
Ww. J. Durham
Dallas
Sweatt
Teen-Age Crime Ring Arrested by Denver Police
Denver police rounded up 20 juveniles including four 14 year olds after a four month spree of robberies car thefts illicit drinking and marijuana. Juvenile authorities estimate loot at more than 5000 as patrolman Phil Thomson described the tight gang structure with district divisions and strict territory rules.
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Denver
Phil Thomson
Official statement on industrial disputes and strikes
An official statement said to disrupt legislation would be ineffective against most strikes. Government labor officials voiced the prevailing view that new laws could not prevent widespread labor unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron William
Tor
Awas
American Named Canon of Basilica of Saint Peters
Msgr Hammick becomes one of 30 canons serving St Peters Basilica in Vatican City. He was presented to the pope by Cardinal Tedeschini and praised the Catholic Church for accepting an American into this historic post. The pope noted audiences granted to American soldiers since Rome's liberation.
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Vatican City
del IF
St. Petersi
Msgr
Hemmick
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini
St. Peters
Hammick
United Press
Flour Offered to Great Britain by U S
Food Minister John Strachey told the Commons that 36,000 tons of American flour had been made available for purchase by Great Britain in addition to a prior allocation of 63,000 tons of wheat and 16,000 tons of other grains.
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London
John Strachey
Commons
Great Britain
Atomic control drive near New Mexico test
United States scientists press for atomic control as civilian observers gather in White Sands New Mexico on December 17 to watch a unique experiment. Dr Fritz and technicians study artificial particles released by a rocket jet and the flames to observe particles escaping earth gravity into space. Photographers attend the launch site to capture the detonation flashes and ejected matter.
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Sands
N.M
Mexico
Fritztut
Drop in Retail Food Prices Regarded Unlikely
Washington report from the Agriculture Department states that retail food prices are not expected to drop significantly before spring. Even if farm prices fall five to ten percent in the next three months, the retail level will feel the decline later. October prices were 87 percent higher than October 1940, with most increases on foods that changed little during wartime price controls.
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Washington
Agriculture’ Department
Midnight Mass at St Marys Christmas Eve
Father Thomas Prendergast announced St Marys Church will hold a Christmas Eve Mass at 10 30 p m followed by a midnight service The choir will sing the Mass of Angels and the sermon topic is Wisdom of God The general public is invited to attend
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Thomas
J." Prendergast
St. “Mary's
St. ‘Mary’s
Westminster College Basketball Tonight
Westminster College schedules a home game tonight at the gym in Tebuacana with opponent under consideration. Event details and start time are not fully clear in the fragment.
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Westminster ‘College
Mister Gym
Tebuacana
Call for Permanent Authority for U S Intelligence
A U S House committee urged permanent authority to coordinate all government intelligence activities. It said intelligence is first defense and urged Congress to sanction the National Intelligence Authority set up by presidential directive on January 22, 1946. The report argues for an independent role in world affairs and stresses vigilance in peacetime.
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Washington
Congress
Ional ‘Intelligence Authority
Seth Up
Merican
Soviet says German war plants in zone liquidated
The Soviet Union announced that its zone has liquidated the most important German war plants. Authorities denied dismantling and carting away machinery to Russia. The Taegliche Rundschau cited a production comparison showing heavy machinery output at 3.5 times the agreed level, with explanations forthcoming. Some see it as a reply to critics of turning eastern Germany into an industrial desert.
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Berlin
Dees
Rirect Tian Aasnes
Russia
Germany
Taegliche Rundschau
Allied Control Council
Britain unveils advanced jet plane with wing propulsion
Britain revealed its most advanced jet airplane amid a formal showing of jet gas turbine engines. Officials said the flying wing, built by Armstrong Whitworth, could reach about 550 miles per hour and pave the way for a passenger trans Atlantic jet liner capable of crossing the Atlantic in three and a half hours. The arrowhead shaped craft has a 92 foot wingspan, weighs two tons, and uses Rolls Royce turbine engines.
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Condon
U.P
Britain
Armstrong-Whitworth
Atlantic
Oil Firms Plan $13 Million Iraq Investment
Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony Vacuum Oil Co will invest $13.4 million in Iraq Petroleum Co through Near East Development Corp. Iraq Petroleum will raise $56 million more from current owners. Funds will double pipeline capacity to the Mediterranean, fund exploration, and redrill wells. First pipeline leg to Kirkuk to be finished in 1947 with full project by 1948.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
N. J
Socony Vacuum Oil’ Co
Iraq
Near East Development Corporation
Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd
Iraq Petroleum
Mediterranean
Kirkuk
CIO Leaders Confer On Pattern of New Drive for Wages
Pittsburgh dispatch reports CIO boards of United Steel Workers and United Electrical Workers meet to decide wage demand patterns for early next year. CIO President Murray, Steel Workers, Albert Fitzgerald Electrical Workers, and Walter Reuther of United Auto Workers lead discussions. Each union to set its own wage floor and ceiling within bargaining limits.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steel Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Unions
Philip Murray
Steel Workers
Albert Fitzgerald
Electrical Workers
Walter Reuther
United Automobile Workers
Steel Union
Steel and Electrical
UMW
Murray
General Strike in Naples Protests Food Conditions
Hundreds of thousands of workers in Naples and Naples Province begin a general strike called by the Confederation of Labor to protest high food prices and poor distribution. In Rome the Cabinet considers reducing national bread rations to meet the winter crisis as Milan reports ongoing agitation for more food and Genoa seeks to freeze prices to curb the black market.
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Naples
Confederation of Labor
Romhe
Milan
Genoa
Baruch urges immediate action on world atomic control plan
Baruch, U S delegate, calls for a first showdown vote at the United Nations atomic energy commission. He says the 12 nation body is under compulsion from the UN General Assembly to implement the Baruch plan and establish an international development agency to control atomic energy.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Bernard M. Baruch
Atomic Commission
UN General Assembly
Baruch
Manuel Sandoval Vallarta
Mexico
Commission
Molotov
Security Council
UN Security Council
International Development Agency
Hays
General Assembly
Mexia State School To Get Senile White Women
Movement of senile White women from the Austin State hospital to Mexia State hospital will begin January 2 and 3, with transfers from San Antonio on January 6 and 7. The relocation aims to relieve overcrowding and free medical staff for younger patients, giving closer to 1,000 combined population for Mexia units. transfers continue as space is prepared.
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Mexia State School
Austin
Tex
Austin State Hospital
Mexia State Hospital
Carlos Ashley
State Board of Control
San Antonio
Ashley
Skeleton found near Corsicana may be Chester Bennett
Police search in Navarro County works to identify a man whose skeleton was found Sunday in a briar thicket near the B L Davis farm at Cedar and Richland Creeks. The remains, unclothed with a leather belt, are hypothesized to be Chester Bennett who vanished in 1940 at age 27. Relatives saw the bones but could not identify them.
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Corsicana
W. P. Jameson
Bazette
Navarra County
B. L. Davis
Cedar
Richland Creeks
Chester Bennett
Richland
Bennett
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