23 Dec 1946
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1946
Page
1
The weatherman predicts no snow across the nation for Christmas with warm weather melting current snow in places like New York and Pennsylvania. He notes better driving conditions for holiday travel but expects disappointment for children awaiting a white Christmas.
The Mexican Chamber of Commerce and the Ministerial Association sponsor a 6 45 PM Christmas carol service in Mexia. Civic organizations, churches, schools join choral groups for a program featuring familiar carols with Cecille B Demille slides, directed by Bailey Forrester. Mrs Billy Walker delivers the mimeographed prayer and the benediction follows Joy to the World. Citizens urged to attend and support a successful holiday effort.
The Farmers Union in Texas reorganizes with expanded staff and a new legislative agent Terrell Siedge of Kyle. Siedge, a stockman and journalist who pursued the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination last summer, calls the group an organization for dirt farmers on the liberal side and says yearly objectives will be outlined at the January 14 15 16 Ama ril e convention.
Residents of Palestine Texas planned a protest march to Austin after Marshall Morris, a convicted bootlegger who beat a nurse, won a clemency remission. State Senator James E Taylor of Kerens called for a senatorial investigation into Pardon and Parole Board activities.
Mexia calendar lists a Christmas Carol Service at 6 43 p m downtown and 7 p m choir practice at St Marys church on Monday. Brotherhood meeting at Calvary Baptist at 4 30 p m followed by WAMU program 7 30 p m. Tuesday features a Carol Service at St Marys at 11 30 a m and a midnight Christmas Mass at St Marys with further showings of Cloak and Dagger at Palace Falcon's Alib.
Washington December 23. The American Shippers Federation told Congress that railroad rate practices threaten the U S water shipping industry and could drive it into bankruptcy. A 20 page brief filed with the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee outlined a coming fight before Congress and the Interstate Commerce Commission next month. The federation said railroads, needing revenue, keep low spirits in states where rail and water shipping compete and wage a campaign to destroy water competition with high rates in noncompetitive areas.
Fragmentary report describes a U S Navy vessel ordered to depart a port after Russian military authorities refused clearance for two American journalists to operate with full U S authority. The incident highlights diplomatic friction and press access limits in the region.
A McClellan judicial proceeding shows partial case information with Bilbo's involvement and cited parties. The report notes an ongoing matter and incomplete docket details as officials review the records.
A fragmented 1943 item notes Jehovah Witnesses and other objectors facing controversy over Christmas observances. The text references opposition, likely from wartime policy debates, with unclear specifics due to OCR damage.
The report notes unions filing suits to recover portal to portal pay as laborites review the Bevin administration. Prime policy discussion centers on a middle road between Russia and the United States with Laborites welcoming Bevin’s recent foreign minister successes.
UK reports the gravest fuel shortage in history as Labour moves to nationalize coal. Railroads warn of only a week to ten days of emergency supplies, far below normal. Ministry officials cite 695000 miners, down from 709000, and call for more workers and higher productivity.
Washington reports secrecy wraps removed from the Tiamat a 600 mile an hour guided missile. The experimental pilotless craft with explosives is named after a goddess and described by NACA as the first guided missile to fly a predetermined maneuver program. It is faster than the German V 1 and rocket propelled with target guidance.
United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis ask the U S Supreme Court to review the legality of Judge Goldsboroughs preliminary injunction amid the coal strike. Lewis and the union were found in contempt with fines totaling 3 5 million and 10 thousand for disobeying a prior restraining order, and the strike ended after 17 days. The Court had planned to consider contempt convictions and may extend to the injunction if accepting the request.
In Saigon on December 23 martial law was proclaimed across Northern Indo China. Viet Nam independence forces attacked French troops in Tonkin and Annam provinces while French authorities tightened security anticipating spread to Cochin China. Admiral Thierry d Argenlieu arrived from Paris as the crisis deepens. The proclamation warns any armed nonuniform person will be shot.
Radio Moscow reported Premier Stalin received Elliott Roosevelt and his wife Faye Emerson. The broadcast did not specify the venue. It noted that on December 21 Stalin had previously hosted the Roosevelts during a council of ministers meeting.
Texas traffic toll rose with at least 16 dead during Christmas week as the Department of Public Safety warned more than 100 might die in the last ten days of 1946. Director Homer Garrison issued the alert in Austin amid a wave of crashes across the state.
Labor unions filed federal suits seeking hundreds of millions for portal-to-portal pay after the Supreme Court ruling. CIO and Steelworkers targets included Briggs Manufacturing General Motors Ford and Standard Oil Ohio with Cleveland and Detroit actions totaling over 222 million plus other cases nationwide. The Chamber of Commerce moved to revise the wages hour act to prevent future claims amid industry alarm.
Early reports estimate up to 500000 homeless in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. Survivors burying the dead and clearing ruins as U S Army spokesmen say the situation is under control. Rescue teams struggle to reach the center of the disaster with disrupted communications and crowded refugee roads. Death toll figures vary. a United Press tally lists 569 dead, 1431 injured, and 63 missing.
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