Warrant seeks re arrest in fatal Missouri crash
Police Chief says he has a warrant for Vernon Allwater Kahoka for manslaughter in the January 20 auto crash that killed Rose Foley 28 at Gregory Landing. Atwater charged after coroner's jury found reckless speeding. Riney driver of other car also injured and in hospital. Trailer plant closes. Springfield plant lays off 189 workers due to steel shortage. Insects: only a few hundred species are enemies of man.
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Xbokuk
E. C. McPheggon
Vernon
All Water
Kahoka
Rose Foley
Gregory Landing
McPherson
Atwater
Miss Foley
Liberty
Kitmy
Donald Riney
Canton
Riney
Cole
Local births, marriages, and police court fines reported
Locals report a daughter born at St Marys hospital to Mr and Mrs Levi Harmon of 612 East State Street. Rankin Wheatley has returned from a 80 day naval leave to Norman Oklahoma. Robert W Bernick and Betty B Ramsey of Jefferson City filed for a marriage license. Several discharge papers filed and a hospital operation underway. A barn fire on Adams Street injured no one. Four traffic violators including Arthur Zawer and George Grant fined for parking violations. Mirlone Hale and Betty Lou Coonce applied for marriage licenses.
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Levi Harmon
East State Street
St. Mary's Hospital
Rankin Wheatly
Judge
Foster Wheatly
Naval Hospital
Norman
Ohia
Foster S. Wheatly
Arthur F. Zawer
E. Miller
George E. Grant
Woodlawn
W.E. Stanley
Sedalia
Ernie Warburton
Polish Slayings Threat to Unity
Washington reports a rising crisis in Poland tied to political killings and alleged police involvement. Bevin and Byrnes voiced concern while Polish ambassador Lange blamed an underground army led by Gen. Anders. Soviet commentators accuse Anders of terrorism, citing a force nearing 100,000.
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Washington
Poland
Moscow
Bevin
House of Commons
Byrnes
Oscar Lange
Wladyslan Anders
Italy
Anders
Britain
Lange
Rivets and Screws Put Unions at Loggerheads
In Kansas City two AFL unions clash over whether to rivet or screw a socket to radio sets. The dispute centers on the air communications company employing 40 machinists and 66 electricians, each group aligned with a different AFL union.
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Kansas City
Afo
Fen
AFL
Air Communications Company
Truman Bowles And Steel Facts Board To Meet
President Truman called the steel fact finding board and Price Administrator Chester Bowles to the White House for a 4 p.m. meeting amid reports of a new plan to settle the steel strike. Bowles was recalled from a South Carolina vacation. a high level plan for ending the walkout was being reviewed by White House advisers. The administration warned federal seizure remained off the table for now as urgency to resolve the shutdown grew. House debate over strike control legislation produced a Republican vote split, with the Case bill advancing on party lines.
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Washington
Truman
Steel Fact Finding Board
Chester Bowles
White House
OPA
Bowles
South Carolina
Labor Department
General Motors
House
National Farm and Labor
APL
William Green
Rep
Bailey
D-Wva
Rep- Case
R-Sd
Green
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Federation
GOP
Rep. Case
Surplus Property Duties Transferred
President Truman orders consolidation of surplus property disposal under a new war assets administration to be headed by Lt. Gen. E. B. Gregory. Functions shift from surplus property administrator to the War Assets Corporation until the War Assets Administration forms March 25. Gregory will lead the new agency, handling over 90 percent of domestic surplus disposal while the State Department runs nearly all abroad.
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Washington
Truman
War Assess Administration
E. B. Gregory
War Assets Corporation
War Assets Administration
Gregory
State Department
FEPC Termed Brain Abscess by Senator O'Daniel
Senator W Lee O'Daniel branded the proposed permanent fair employment practice commission as this nefarious brain abscess. The Texas senator denounced FEPC during a southern Democratic filibuster, likening the situation to gophers in Texas. He warned benefits would accrue to the Communist party, undermining American government.
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Washington
W. Lee O'Daniel
Lex
Theodore G. Bilba
Miss
FEPC
Senate
Texas
O'Daniel
James O. Eastland
Capital City May See Truman Churchill On Fulton Trip
Jefferson City may set up a Fulton headquarters to aid residents with meals and information during a planned visit by Truman and Churchill. Auxiliary police for traffic, and a parade band, could be organized. state lawmakers have not confirmed if the leaders will address the general assembly. Tickets for the event are not yet issued and demand is high.
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Jefferson City
Fulton
Truman
Churchill
General Assembly
Jefferson Cillans
Seven Wichita police officers dismissed over union activity
Six officers and one female officer were fired by Police Chief George Shepherd as part of a crackdown on the newly organized local of the American Federation of Labor police union. City Manager Russell E. McClure signed the order halting union activity, with 75 officers backing the fired group. Detective Lester Watts, union president, pledged to fight on to build a better department under the GI bill rights.
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Wichita
Kan
Watts
Shepherd
Bar to Investigate Continuance Abuse
ST LOUIS Feb 1 AP David L Millar president of the Missouri Bar Association said the association s legislative committee would be asked to investigate abuses of the law allowing lawyer members of the legislature to obtain continuances in court cases He noted the privilege is being abused especially in the lengthy current session and said the committee would study and draft recommendations for corrective action The bar has not yet taken a stand
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ST. Louis
David L. Millar
Missouri Bar Association
Millar
Bar Association
Nylons Vanish In Drain Tragedy At Tulsa Home
Bonnie Blackburn fought through a crowd for a pair of nylons. Upon returning home she dropped a basin plug and bent to pick it up. Rising, she discovered the nylons had been drawn down the unguarded drain, apparently vanished by the missing guard.
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Tulsa
Okla
Bonnie Blackburn
35 Million Credit Grant To Finland
The export import bank approved a $35,000,000 loan to Finland for materials equipment and services from this country. The credit does not affect a recent $5,000,000 loan already available.
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Finland
Families Of All Soldiers May Go Overseas Soon
Dependents of soldiers of all ranks may join their kin overseas when accommodations are available. Officers and top three enlisted grades receive full government transport by law, with others to be transported at no charge except meals on government ships. European theater commander Eisenhower supported the plan.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$200,000 Damage Suit By Calloway
Cats Calloway, famed African American singer, filed a $200,000 damage suit against a Kansas City ballroom alleging injuries from a recent visit to Lily Kansas. The petition, filed by Maurice O'Sullivan, seeks $100,900 for December 22 injuries and $100,000 for alleged false arrest and imprisonment.
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Kansas Lily
Cats Calloway
Kansas City
Plamer
Maurice O'Sullivan
Calloway
Bank Supports Finland Cotton Sales and Loan Refund
A bank arranged financing to Finland for raw cotton imports and agreed to refund a 25 million loan to the Finnish American Trading Corp from 1939 and 1940, guaranteed by the Finnish government. The move reinforces ongoing financial support and government guarantees for Finland.
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Finland
Deadeye Division Home Tomorrow
Eighteen hundred officers and men of the 96th infantry, the Deadeye division, will land in Los Angeles tomorrow for discharge. Maj. Gen. J. L. Bradley will greet them, and Actress Marjorie Main was chosen as their Occupation Girl. The division fought at Leyte and Okinawa, with 40,000 Japanese killed, two receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, 18 the Distinguished Service Cross, and 300 the Silver Star.
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Los Angeles
96Th Infantry
Okinawa
J. L. Bradley
Rolla
Marjorie Main
96Th
Leyte
Ploeser to Missouri for Series of Speeches
Rep. Ploeser from Missouri has accepted invitations to speak from February 8 to 18. The schedule includes events with the Republican Editorial Association on Feb. 8 in St. Louis, a Feb. 9 gathering of the Missouri Federation of Republican Women's Clubs, a Feb. 9 meeting with state Republican leaders, and a Feb. 14 luncheon hosted by the Daughters of the American Revolution in St. Louis.
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Washington
Ploeser
R-Mo
Republican Editorial Association
St. Louis
12Th Congressional District
Republican Committee
Missouri Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Daughters of the American Revolution
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Henry LePage
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Wallace E. Tiberghien
Morris Munson
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William L. Spencer
G. Hubert Bates
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Tade Bunch
Mirlone Hale
Henley
Betty Lou Coonce
Marion
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Joseph Stalin
Truman, Bowles and Steel Facts Board
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Wight
Maggie
King OF the Royal Mounted
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Mae
Jerome
Hal
Mrs.bleeke
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CPS
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Freckles
Benke Boys
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MR. Wayman
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T& SP
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Avisties Corp Ee van Baldwin
Eaea Fenbeetiaas Sun Balu Ohio
Belk
Ches & Ohio
Ame
GONG
Chrysler Corp
Cova-Cola
Curt Wright Sk
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Ae Cup Wright & Tess Sa du Pont
Googrich
Kan City
Axroger
Nas-Kelvin Nat
Ri North Am Co
Yi Packard
Pena
Pepsi-Cola
Aaty Phillips
Repab Steel
Sears Bobek
Sinclair
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Texas Co Baat
Unio Pacaba
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WU Tela
Woolwarts
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