Senate Republicans Tackle Steering Committee Turnover
GOP Senate Steering Committee holds closed session to outline rules for selecting conference officers and resolving a partisan clash over committee assignments in the lead up to the new Congress. Tobey cites rule violations and protests plans to begin before the Senate convenes. Taft Vandenberg White Reed are cited as key holdovers shaping the process.
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GOP
Senate
Mittee
Tuobey
New
Congress
Tobey
Senate Republican Conference
Robert A. Taft
Sterring Committee
Arthur “H. Vandenberg
Mich
Wallace H. “White, Jr
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
Serlier
Taft
White
Coffe
Swift Takes Over Oil Mill Properties in Texas
Swift & Company announces the taking over and operation of the oil-mill properties formerly owned by Consumers Cotton Oil Co effective December 20. Products will be sold under the Swift label. A new Southwest district office, led by E. F. Czichos, will operate from Dallas, Texas.
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Swift
Swift & Company
Consumers Cotton Oil Co
Southwest
E. F. Czichos
Consumers
Dallas
Texas
Two Sisters Die From Bus Crash Injuries Near Baird
Three Wall sisters were involved in a bus auto collision ten miles south of Baird. Delia Wall of DeLeon died Saturday morning, Cora Wall of Lott died Sunday night, Delia Wall of Brownfield survived with injuries and possible recovery. Their sister Mrs. G P Donnell of Mexia is named. Funeral services for the two deceased will be held Tuesday in DeLeon.
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Delia Wall of
DeLeon
Baird
Callahan County Hospital
Cora Wall
Lott
Delia Wall
Brownfield
G. P. Donnell
Mexia
Mary Churchill to Wed Captain Soames at St Margaret’s
Mary Churchill daughter of Winston Churchill will marry Capt. Christopher Soames of the Coldstream Guards at St Margaret's Church Westminster on February 11. The engagement was announced last month in London.
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London
Mary Churchill
Winston Churchill
St Margaret’s Church
Westminister
Christopher Soames
Coldstream Guards
Knutson Supports 20 Percent Personal Tax Cut Plan
Rep Harold Knutson incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he will seek a 20 percent cut in personal income taxes and aims to bring a bill to the House floor by January 27. He argues revenues would hold up and debt could be reduced while cutting expenditures. Many Republicans urge delaying or limiting the cut until the budget is pared.
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Washington
Harold
Knutson
Minn
House
Ways and Means
Yan
Ways
Wil
Senate
British Search for Jews Suspected in Flogging of Britons
Dispatch from Jerusalem reports a house search in the Lydd district for Jews linked to the flogging of four British soldiers. Irgun Zvai Leumi pamphlets threaten further deaths in retaliation. In Washington, Truman to nominate A. L. M. Wiggins of Hartsville DC as Undersecretary of the Treasury.
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Jerusalem
U P
Lyddz
Irgun Zyai Leumi
Washington
White ‘House
Truman
A. L. M. Wiggins
Hartsville, D.C
Treasury
Unclear historical note on tax case and commissions
Fragmentary OCR text mentions 1922 references to O'Malley and commission bay income tax, with unclear statements about payments or connections. The readable elements are too fragmentary to establish a coherent event, parties, or outcome.
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O'Malley
Commission Bay
Case
Investigation of TWA Crash Conducted in Eire
Coroner inquiry in Shannon, Eire into the TWA Constellation crash that killed 12. Pilot Captain Herbert Tansey and co pilot Flight Officer Clifford Sparrow suffer injuries and cannot testify. Investigations are led by the coroner, the Department of Industry and Commerce, and TWA. Mrs Edith Waterbury, mother of a surviving infant, is hospitalized in Limerick with severe burns.
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Shannon
Eire
Herbert Tansey
Piltor
TWA- Constellation
Star of Cairo
Tansey
Barrington's
Rick
Clifford Sparrow
Washington, D. C
Dudley* Hull
Alexandria
Falls Church
Peing
Department of Industry and Commerce
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Wners
Edith Delaby Wateruly
Crafh
St. John’s ' Hospital
Limerick
Ing Fant
Waterbury
Veto Punishment Debate Cited In Treaty Talks
Grot Yko and Baruch clashed over veto use in treaty enforcement. Grotiyko defended limiting veto power while Baruch dismissed what he called light minded remarks as unconvincing arguments.
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Commission
Grofayko
Baruch
Nore
Grotiyko
Five New Portal Suits Filed in Detroit Area
Five new portal to portal back pay suits filed in Detroit area total $133,723,000. Four actions by United Auto Workers target Ford Motor Company General Motors and two smaller firms. The fifth by Local 1299 CIO United Steelworkers seeks $20,000,000 from Great Western Steel Corp.
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Detroit
Michigan
Dlo
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Company
General
Motors ‘Corporation
CIO
United Steelworkers
4 Steel Corporation
Ford Motor Campa
Ford
Hendrick family long tied to Abilene and oil legacy
The Hendricks married at Alpine on May 13 1888 and built a life ranching in New Mexico Crane and Winkler counties Texas and Odessa area. They moved to Abilene from Odessa in 1933 and supported the Hendrick Home for Children with much of the estimate funding going to an endowment. They had one son who died in infancy and are linked to burial practices at the Hendrick Home for Children in Abilene.
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Ap Gt
Abilene
Hendrick
Texas Scottist Hospital
Dallas
Hendrick Home For
Hendricks
Texas
Odessa
Winkler ‘County
Fighting in French Indo China Kills 150 Europeans
Saigon reports 150 European civilians killed in Hanoi with many more missing after fighting erupts between Viet Nam and French forces. Artillery spotters hammer the city center as French troops retake offices and restore electricity and water. Heavy clashes continue at Nam Dinh and near Hue and Tou Rane with scattered acts of terrorism noted.
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Saigon
U.P
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Nam Dinh
Hue
Tourane
Indo-China
Stevenson Reappoints Three Texas Regents
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson announced reappointment of W. Scott Schreiner Orville Bullington and Dr. Walter H. Scherer to six year terms on the University of Texas board. Schreiner a Kerrville merchant, Scherer a Houston dentist, and Bullington a Republican were named earlier by Stevenson and O'Daniel respectively.
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Austin
Coke
Stevenson
W. Scott Schreiner
Orville Bullington
Walter H. Scherer
University of Texas
Scherer
Houston
Schreiner
Kerrville
Oo Bullington
W Lee O'Daniel
Frank
University
Homer P. Rainey
Stephens College
Columbia, MO
Teachers In St Paul Vote To Suspend Strike
In St Paul Minnesota 30000 public school students returned to classrooms after teachers voted to suspend the strike. The move followed approval of a city charter amendment to raise spending limits and fund demands, with voters to confirm the changes.
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St, Paul
Minn
Joint Council V
City Charter Commission
Texas Cold Wave Drops Statewide Temps Below Freezing
A blue norther swept Texas driving temperatures to below freezing across most areas except along the lower Gulf Coast and the Mexican border. Brownsville marked 39 degrees the warmest in the state with Laredo at 35 and Corpus Christi at 34 as Dallas area faced light sleet and frost potential tonight. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned of only minor relief as temperatures edge up slightly today and tonight.
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Texas
Gulf Coast
Mexican
United States Weather Bureau
Laredo
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Weather Bureau
Pampa
Panhandle
Dallas
Massive Soviet Migration Into New Territories After War
Hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens have been relocated to newly acquired territories including the Karelian Isthmus South Sakhalin Kurile Islands East Prussia and the Baltic states. The transfers target collective farmers fishermen technicians and builders moving from central industrial regions to support settlement and development.
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Moscow
Karelian
Sakhalin
Kurile Islands
Japan
East Prussia
Baltic States
Soviet Union
Isthmus
Pacific
Baltic
Russia
Carrie Jacobs Bond to be buried in Forest Lawn Court
Carrie Jacobs Bond 84, composer of songs including The End of a Perfect Day and I Love You Truly, dies of a heart attack. Forest Lawn Memorial Court of Honor in Glendale chosen as burial place, second entombment after Gutzon Borglum. Mrs. Bond’s granddaughter Mrs. Robert Jadine travels from Austin to attend services in Hollywood.
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Glendale
Cal
Forest Lawn Memorial Court of Honor
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Gutzon Burglum
Mt. Rushmore Memorial
Robert J. Jadine
Austin
Hollywood
Calif
Bond
U S Bans Mexican Grapes Amid California Plague
Mexico City reports the Department of Agriculture announced a ban on importing certain California grapes and grape products. The restriction targets grape plants parts and natural products from San Diego County where a plant disease known as Harrisina brillans is present.
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Mexico City
Mexico
California
Department of Agriculture
San Dpe County
Cal
Weather Watcher Reports Narrow Temperature Range
Miss Josie Newman the official weather observer records a 24 hour minimum of 20 degrees and maximum of 22 degrees by 7 00 am Monday. Saturday temperatures dropped from 75 to 23 degrees with forecasts predicting warm Tuesday as a cold front from the north sweeps the state. The Northern storm surge caused a sharp temperature plunge across the region.
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Josie” Newman
Mercury
Dallas Man Found Dead in Blue Norther Cold
Lester Leonidas Logan, 65, was found dead near the Santa Fe tracks in South Dallas after a blue norther swept into Dallas from the Rockies. Justice of the Peace John Baldwin ruled death from exposure. Logan lived at the Salvation Army hotel. officials sought his relatives.
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Dallas
Lester Leonidas Logan
Rockies
Logan
John Baldwin
Salvation Army
Regional temperatures show Texas cool spell across cities
Low readings across the state include Dallas 19 and Fort Worth 18 while San Angelo 24 and Galveston 31 mark the mild end. Other towns report scattered values from 2a to 39 with Brownsville 39 and Laredo 35.
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Dallas
Fort Worth
Texarkana
Pampa
Amarillo
Abilene
San Angelo
Big Spring
Wink
Guadalupe Pass
Lubbock
Wichita Falls
Waco
Austin
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Galveston
Beaumont
Houston
Laredo
el Paso
Tyler
Junction
Rocks Spring
Salt Flat
O Dandiel to Return to Capital with Labor Curbs
Fort Worth Texas December 30. Senator W Lee O Daniel plans to re introduce labor curbing bills in the 80th Congress. He targets the Wagner Act the closed shop and seeks an anti violent bill. He hopes to push a one term federal official tenure amendment but doubts anyone will carry it.
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Fort Worth
Tex
W. Lee Pappy O'Daniel
Washington
O’daniel
Texas
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Granberry
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Forest Lawn Court
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