UN Forces Fall Back From Pyongyang Front
UN troops prepared a rearguard defense ten miles north of Pyongyang as they retreat south from the former Korean capital. Chinese forces reportedly massed up to 150000 troops south of the Chongchon River threatening the 10th Corps and Seoul, Inchon defenses. General Walker led the escape while Allied airpower bombed and Chinese pressure eased briefly. calls for a stronger line around Seoul grew as U.N. leaders debated the next move.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Pyongyang
Walton H. Walker
U. S. Ath
Chongchon River
MacArthur
Korea
Manchuria
China
U. S
Phat Ieeearr Jungnamey
10Th Corps
Changjin
A. P
Tom Stone
Leif Erickson
Eighth Army
Republic
Seoul
Inchon
Labette County Sheriff Killed in 3 Car Wreck
Three vehicle crash near Chetopa Kansas claimed the life of Labette County Sheriff J. W. Boelens age 50. The incident also injured William Rogers 17 Merl Whitner 17 and Undersheriff Dale McBuas. The other driver Bobby Lee Nading and his wife were uninjured. State patrol said Rogers attempted to pass the Nading vehicle on a hill when the collision occurred.
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Chetopa
Kan
Here
J. W
Jake) Boelens
Labette County
Way Patrol
Boelens
William Rogers
Dearing
Rogers
Merl Whitner
Coffeyville
Dale McBuas
Vego
Jens
Bobby Lee Nading
Nading
Highway Patrol
433 More War Casualties No. 167 List
A casualty listing reports 37 killed 144 wounded and 209 missing or taken as prisoners in the latest roll of war dead. Names and units are partially recorded, reflecting ongoing combat losses across fronts.
West Berlin Delivers Decisive Vote Against Communism
West Berlin voters turnout reached 90.4 percent of eligible citizens in municipal elections. Socialists led with 653,974 votes, Christian Democrats 360,829, Free Democrats 337,477, as mayor Ernst Reuter urged unity in a three-party coalition amid calls for unification talks with East Germany. Soviet and Western officials exchanged signals while police jailed 308 communist agitators, noting a quiet Sunday in the occupation zone.
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Christian Democrats
Free Democrats
Ernst Reuter
Soviet Zone
ADN
Otto Grotewohl
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Adenauer
Deisburg
Bonn
Kremlin
West Ride
West Berlin
MacArthur cites 810000+ Chinese troops massed near Korea and Manchuria
General MacArthur announced a war chart showing over 810000 red troops concentrated in North Korea and adjacent Manchuria with another 200000 moving north. He broke down the totals by fronts and echelons and counted about 4000000 under arms in China with additional units en route to support lines.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
North Korea
Manchuria
China
Mantehuria
Rede
Fourth
Yalu River
Fourth Field Army
North China Special Army Group
Third Field Army
Tumen River
Mancchuria
Siberia
Snyder says federal spending may jump 50 percent
Washington reports Secretary of the Treasury Snyder warned before the Senate finance committee that outlays could rise to 67.5 billion dollars next fiscal year starting July 1 due to vast defense costs and urged approval of Truman's 4 billion excess profits tax. He contrasted House substitutes, noting potential extra revenue and higher corporate tax, with a likely late-vote showdown in the House.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Sail Snyder
Senate Finance Committee
Truman
House
House Committee
Martin
Massachusetts
Yoshida Affirms Japan Will Not Volunteer for Korea Campaign
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida told parliament that volunteers cannot be permitted in the Korean war effort. He said Japan remains constitutionally banned from armed action and that police are sufficient to maintain domestic security. He noted some ships and seamen support supply lines but Japan is not fighting.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Yoshida
Japan
Korea
Water, sewer meetings headlined for Kansas officials
Three local men will attend two one day district meetings of the Kansas sections of the American Waterworks association and the American Sewage Works association. Major Hager of Lawrence water department will direct the Kan board of health and join A W Rumsey Kansas City and D E Kissinger Topeka in the sessions. The meetings occur tomorrow in Stockton and Wednesday in Dodge City with further plans unfolding Saturday.
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Kansas
American Waterworks Association
American Sewage Works Association
Stockton
Dodge City
Major Hager
Lawrence
Kan Board of Health
A. W. Rumsey
Kansas City
Waterworks Group
D.e Kissinger
Topeka
Sewage Sec
Weekend auto collisions injure none of 12 vehicles
Six weekend traffic accidents caused about two dozen thousand dollars in damage to a dozen cars though no injuries were reported. Individual crashes involved Mrs Lee Schwinley Jack Byrd J Corbin C D Anderson James Short James R Cheek E H Bullock Larry Drake Sybil Gregg Richard Roberts and Jack Stephenson at streets including Eleventh Rhode Island Ohio Seventh Maine and Indiana with damages ranging from about 20 to 100 dollars.
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Lee Schwinley
Jack Byrd
West Eleventh Street
Schwinley
Byrd
J. Corbin
East Fourteenth Street
C. D. Anderson
Rhode Island Street
Eleventh
Rhode Island Streets
James Short
Ohio Street
Seventh
James R. Cheek
Wisconsin Street
Steet
E. H. Bullock
Seventh Street
Bullock
Larry Drake
Kansas City
Sybil Gregg
Fifth
Maine Streets
Richard Roberts
Pennsylvania Street
Indiana Street
Jack Stephenson
Banish Soviets From United Nations Call Made
Senator Knowland urged expulsion of the Soviet Union from the United Nations in a bristling Senate speech. Kenley pressed a no appeasement policy toward red China as U N forces fight in Korea. Rep Scrivner named to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the defense budget.
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Washington
Knowland
R.-Calif
Soviet Union
United Nations
Senate
Ke Nley
China
U. N
Korea
Newrial Denied New Trial Motion in District Court
Judge Hugh Means denies a post trial motion by Charles Donald on a per charge in district court. The defendant had been convicted on a single count and the court ruled against the request for a new trial.
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Charles
Donald
Hugh Means An
School Board to Meet At High School Office Tomorrow
The board of education will meet at the high school office tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock. Also noted is the upcoming arrival of the new 195 Chevrolet during the Winter-Adv period.
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Board’of Education
Prime Minister Attlee Arrives for White House Talks
British Prime Minister Attlee arrives in Washington to confer with President Truman on world crisis policy. The two leaders meet in the cabinet room with a large staff, including Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, Harriman, Symington, and Gifford, to align policies for a volatile global situation.
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Washington
Attlee
Truman
White House
Britain
Charles Ross
State Acheson
Defense Marshall
the Treasury
Snyder
Averell Harriman
W. Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
Walter Gifford
London
Philip C. Jessup
State Department
Dean Rusk
George Perkina
Ansistant
Eurnpean
Omar Bradee Eheirman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kansas Athletic Board Meets for Football Letters
The University of Kansas Athletic Board met at 4 p m for a routine session to award football letters from the past season. Contracts for coaches were not on the agenda and would be discussed later with ratification by the state board of regents. The board also planned to review the financial condition of the KU athletic association and the 16100 capacity fieldhouse armory with final arena plans to be checked in To ka and bids opened January 17.
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University of Kansas Athletic Board
Arthur C. Lonborg
State Board of Regents
K. UW. Athletic Association
Toka
Judgment Day for Those Who Ignored Traffic Tags
Nearly 400 Lawrence residents will receive appearance notices from the Lawrence police today after red parking tickets were ignored. Mailings went out Saturday with a date set about a week later. failure to appear doubles the fine for the next week and triples it thereafter. Appearances are scheduled Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 4 30 p m in the Community building basement under Judge Wayne Allphin. Christmas gift Nant card accompanies each order.
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Lawrence
Tle
John Ingalls
Wayne Allphin
Park Street
Government Seeks 3.1 Billion Civil Defense Plan
The government laid before Congress a 3.1 billion dollar civil defense program to be funded over three years by federal, state, and local governments. Most funds would back communal shelters as part of a broad defense effort.
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Washington
Congress
Indictment Links Atomic Lab Figures to Red Infiltration
Four named in the contempt of Congress indictments include Steve Nelson and Myreel Scherer both tied to Communist activity in Western Pennsylvania and the wartime UC radiation lab, plus Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and Irving David Fox, scientists who worked on the atomic bomb. The cases stem from refusals to answer questions from the House Un American Activities Committee.
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Washington
Congress
Steve Nelson
Western Pennsylvania
University of California Radiation Laboratory
Myreel Scherer
Nelson
House un-American Activities Committee
Radiation Laboratory
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
Irving David Fox
Th Radiation Laboratory
House’ un-American Activities Committee
General Bradley to Testify on Yugoslav Aid Bill
Washington December 4 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to summon General Omar N Bradley head of the joint chiefs of staff for testimony tomorrow. He will discuss the bill authorizing thirty eight million dollars in emergency aid to Yugoslavia.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Omar N. Bradley
Connally
I.tex
Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yugoslavia
New Red Cross President Named in Washington
E Roland Harriman of New York bank and railroad interests assumed the Red Cross presidency in Washington today. He succeeds outgoing Secretary of Defense Marshall who resigned after being appointed by President Truman to lead the military establishment.
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Washington
American Cross
E. Roland Harriman
New York
Defense Marshall
Truman
New State Judge Sworn for Kansas Supreme Court Seat
Lloyd M. Kagey, Wichita attorney, sworn in to serve a 35 day term on the Kansas supreme court as justice number 5 for the current member’s term. The appointment follows his election last month and occurs in Topeka.
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Topeka
Lloyd M. Kagey
Wichita
Kansas Supreme Court
Numr
United States asks UN to act on Korea crisis
The United States and five other countries formally urged the United Nations to take up the Chinese communist intervention in Korea. The tele gram to UN Secretary General Lie reported an urgent matter and signaled talks and cautious optimism over potential diplomatic solutions.
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New York
United States
United Nations Assembly
Korea
Li. N
Jygve Lie
Assembly
Britain
France
Norway
Cuba
Ecuador
Security Council
Peiping
India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
China
Na Nsin-Chuan
Sir Benegal
Lie
U. N
Central People’s Government
Central People’s Republic of China
Mave
Cafe owner Ducky Ingalls dies after long illness
Harry F. Ducky Ingalls longtime operator of Duck's Sea Food Tavern 824 Vermont street died yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a year of ill health He was a World War I veteran and had managed several Lawrence eateries Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 2 pm at Rumsey Funeral Home Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery Surviving relatives include his wife Leta sister Phoenix Arizona three brothers including Police Chief John Ingalls and his father RF Ingalls Sr
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Harry F
Ducky” Ingalls
Duck’s Sea Food
Vermont Street
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Topeka
Lawrence
Lawrence Public
Liberty Memorial High School
U. S
Jayhawk
Thirteenth
Ohio Streets
Genmmell
Hrnck's Cafe
Haskell Cafe
Sea Food, Tavern
Rumsey Funeral Home
O. E. Allison
Pyongyang Exodus Under Looming Collapse
Eve Pyongyang reports thousands flee the doomed city as refugees crowd the streets. The text notes a likely reversal to communist control and portrays distressed residents fleeing with children and the elderly in the bitter cold.
Novel Wins Award in 1950 William Allen White Contest
Miss Pespy Jane Craven of Wellington wins the 150 first prize for the novel Rube in the annual William Allen White Creative Writing contest at KU. Wayne M. Carver and Frank C. Curry take second and third, judges include Pearl Buck and Dean Marvin.
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Pespy
Jane Craven
Wellington
William Atten White
Craven
University of Kansas
William Allen White
School of Journalism
Wayne M. Carver
Ogden
Utah
Frank C. Curry
Topeka
Miss Craven
Kansas City
Southwest High School
MacMurray College For Women
Jacksonville
Appleby Prize
MacMurray
Pearl Buck
Theodore M. Purdy
Putnam's
Dean Marvin
Cold Wave to Hit Kansas With Strong Northerly Winds
Topeka Dec 4 A sharp cold wave with 25 to 35 mph northerly winds is forecast to sweep northwest Kansas tonight and spread across the state tomorrow. Clouds and light snow flurries accompany the cold air as temperatures slide from about 35 in the southeast to around 10 in the northwest. Winds ease in the southeast tomorrow, with sunshine returning after yesterday’s 50s in western Kansas. Garden City and Hill City topped at 54 degrees. most areas ended the night in the 20s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Richard Garrett
Garrett
Garden City
Hill City
Building News Dominates Kansas Campus Projects
Kansas University reports active remodeling and four major construction efforts, including a journalism building bid in Topeka and a 16 000 seat armory plan. Final plans for the journalism building and K U Union expansion move toward bids and funding, with state appropriations and bond financing shaping the project timeline.
Weather forecast with snow flurries and cold wave
Weather outlook shows snow flurries and much cold air sweeping the west and north. A cold wave grips the Northwest and North Central tonight, easing by Tuesday night, while the extreme southeast warms slightly. Winds rise from the northwest to 35 mph in western and northern zones, then diminish Tuesday night.
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Kansas
Eight New Members Initiated Into KU Sachem Society
KU seniors in the Sachem Society initiated eight new members based on scholarship leadership and service. Named initiates include Walter J. Brown Turner Harold E. Edmondson Richard A. Moore Trobert A. Kleist John Thimesch Charles R. Hall Mary Smith and Gerald D. Petersen.
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Sachem
University of Kansas
K. U
Walter J. Brown
Turner
Harold E. Edmondson
Wichita
Richard A. Moore
Pratt
Trobert A. Kleist
Lawrence
John Thimesch
Greeley
Charles R. Hall
J. Marysville
Eyn Smith
Johnson County
Gerald D. Petersen
Omaha
Neb
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