Rescue 33 of 37 Aboard Transport Survives Shark Infested Ocean
Navy aircraft rescued 33 survivors from a crash 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu after a Learjet like emergency. Survivors endured sharks circling life rafts and extreme exhaustion, with Captain James Calhoun of Rendova reporting all aboard were saved after an airborne search.
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Willan BR. Catheun
Birmingham
Alu
Hendava
Calhoun
Finsien
John
Minneapolis
Trey
Jenneson
Steve G. Kann
Hamemond
Ind
Johnston Island
Kana
Hic
Honda
Cape James
Rendoya
Cat Foun
Okinawa
Tulsa Bus Strike Grounds City Transport Hard Hit
Tulsa faces a citywide bus strike by union drivers and mechanics disrupting the oil hub’s transport. Thousands walk as buses halt, leaving cars and taxis as the only options during peak Christmas shopping days.
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Tulsa
Okla
Mechanica
Tulsa City
Bunsen
Secretary Marshall Undergoes Operation For Kidney Ailment
Secretary of State George C. Marshall underwent kidney surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Officials reported the operation a success, with potential implications for Marshall’s future as Truman’s secretary of state. He is 61, born December 31, and has served since 1947 after leading the army and shaping postwar strategy.
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Marshall
Washington
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Tru‘yian
Pearl Marker
Truman
China
State Department
Walter Read
Uited Nations
Paris
Robert A. Lovett
Warning on Christmas mailing hazards from post office
The office of Bow er Witham warns postal customers to prepare gifts early and ship safe. The postmaster urges secure packing with boxing material and clear sender and receiver notes. Cards and letters should be grouped by stamps facing the same way for efficient processing and incorrect addresses may delay or lose mail.
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Bower Witham
Lanera Dependiene
Jonas
Siti
National Guard
Andoyn
Wiliams
Grice McKee
Chamber of Commerce
Gene Wireel
Williams
Putin
Wiilama
Closed session to renew public hearings on communist spy activity
Washington dispatch reports the House Committee on un American Activities adjourned to executive session after a debate on public hearings into communist espionage in government. Witnesses including John E. Wortsey and Sumner Wells were readiness as Mundt Nixon and Stripling led the inquiry into alleged state department leaks before the war.
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House
Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Hebert DeLay
Noehoty
Actin
Mundt
Diplad
Sechet
Robert Stripling
Mehert
State Department
Uns
Hurbert
John E. Weortsey
Fory Administration
Sumner Wellen
William A. Wheeler
Striming
Wheeler
Alrand i
Loy
R.S.D
I Nixon
I Nixon Ar.-Calif.a
Robert E. Stripling
Chamber of Commerce Banquet Honors SMU Star
Reservations for the annual grid banquet of the Chamber of Commerce are due by noon at the office. Matty Hell of SMU will speak. John Chaney will chair the sports committee and serve as toastmaster. Greater Kansas City alumni will award standout lineman and back honors from last season.
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Smnusl Chamber of Commerce
Jther
Antilletra
of C
Crystal
Ebtridge
Madison
Matty" Hell
Southern Methodist University
John Chaney
I .Eatson
Mumni
Kansas City
E. R. Zook
Haskell pageant cast announced for Christmas nativity
Etta Tostoak, Mas Kell Institute student, to play the Virgin Mary in the school Christmas program on December 15. Cast includes Johany Danviel as Joseph and Reid Fremont as the narrator. about twenty more students as angels and townspeople. More than 250 participants with Patricia Mayer soprano and Adam Nordwall baritone solos. Public invited to the Haskell event at 7 p.m.
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Etta Tostoak
Maskell Institute
Wil
Johany Danviels
Joseph
John Paestor
Reid Fremont
Angels
Shepherds
Paces
Townapeople
Bethlehem
Ruth Skinner
Thelma Haverty
Pastomorm
Gus Grimm
Mre
Skinner
Rnices
Pasticia Mayer
Adam Nordwall
Beloigts
Haskell
Armel Services Set in Arlington for Captain Lyle Armel
Funeral services for Captain Lyle O. Armel former Lawrence resident who died Sunday in Washington D C of a heart attack will be held Thursday at Fort Myer chapel Arlington Va Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors by the United States Navy where he served as assistant director of civil relations until his death
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Lyle 0. Armel
Lawrence
Washington, D. C
Fort Myer Chapel
Arlington
Arlington National Every
United States Navy
Ilivis
Mule businessman James M. Piper dies at 80 in Tarrons
James M. Piper, 80, longtime mule industry figure in the middle west, died at his Tarrons home last night after living in Kansas City from 1917 to 127. He co ran the firm Sheet and Piper in the mule trade.
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Tarrons
Kan
James M. Piper
Middlewest
Kansas City
Sheet and Piper
Quick indictments sought in Whitaker Chambers case
New York December 7. A federal courthouse source said the justice department is making every effort to obtain swift indictments in the Whitaker Chambers Alger Hiss investigation. The report notes ongoing federal activity amid the high profile case.
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New Yorki
Jus'lice Department
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Red Armies Advance Amid Ice and Mud At Nan King
Communist forces pushed through winter conditions encircling three Nationalist army groups totaling about 110,000 men at Nan King, with a fourth trapped earlier. A Suchow garrison fled after delay, abandoning towns near Weiping. Supplies and government aviation fuel were lost near Peiping as Mme. Ching Kai-shek faces a hard push to secure more U.S. aid.
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Mies
Nan
King
Acme
Suchow
Weiping
Peiping
United States
Yoo
Washington
U. S
Scott Defies Mulloy Over Liquor Plan In Kansas
Lola Register editor Scott challenges Leo Mulloy and the Kansas Legal Control Council over a six point liquor plan. He questions authority and accuses using citizen names without consent. Scott says saloon plans contradict campaign promises and warns of hotel monopoly claims.
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Yola
Kan
Angelo Scott
Lola Register
Leo Mullay
Kansas Legal Control Council
Wichita
Mulloy
Scott
Control Council
Legal Control Council
National Distillers Institute
Kansas Hotel Men's Association
Executions to Wait on Court Action
Tokyo dispatch reports General MacArthur saying Hideki Tojo and six other condemned leaders will live until the US Supreme Court acts. The court will hear appeals from two death row inmates and five others in prison, a move seen as a challenge to MacArthur's authority.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Hideki Tojo
Supreme Court of the United States Actaon
Japan
Eadern
U. S
MacArthur
Plan A Driv e In Theatre To Open In Lawrence Next Spring
Lawrence plans a drive in theater located east of Lawrence on best Twercestiird street. Stanley Lehwahn of Commonwealth theater corp announces the project to be built near Gut Twenty-Third, with a 340 foot site south of Highway 59 and a 100 foot parking area. The 80 foot tower will support a giant screen seen for miles, and individual car speakers will let patrons adjust volume. A supervised child play area and a central snack bar with car hop service are planned. Opening hoped for April, weather permitting, with a staff of 25. Commonwealth, formed in 1934 to build Granada theater in Lawrence, also operates the Granada and Putee venues. Continuous underground wiring and modern neon will feature in the drive in.
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Lawrence
Best Twercestiird
Stanley Lehwahn
Commonwe Theater Corporation
Alrivesji
Theater
Ralph Puckett
Gut Wi
Marth
Schwahn
Lehwahn
Schwalin
Commonwealth Lawrence Theaters Company
Granada
Commonwealth
The
Vatee
Date Set for Hearing on Kansas Dry Law Validity
The Kansas supreme court schedules December 17 at 9 30 a m for a hearing on the validity of the states hot dry law as lower courts have largely ruled against it The case involves Richard Manning held in Dickerson county jail on liquor possession and nuisance charges The hearing is on an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Bruce C Heath Abilene attorney who argues the statute was invalid after last months repeal vote District Judge Edgar C Bennett at Manhattan recently ruled the dry law remains in effect Judge Bennett also found the repeal amendment grants power to license sale of liquor if the Legislature so desires Separate rulings concern Abe Schooter a 34 year old man granted a writ of habeas corpus nullifying a city ordinance banning liquor possession The decision follows City defenses and related injunctions Mortuary reference noted in closing.
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Topeka
Dec
Kansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Richard Manning
Dickerson County
Bruce C. Heath
Abilene
Mannibee
Eerit
Mannine
Edgar C. Bennett
Manhattan
Bennett
Ed Springer
Riley
Wichita
Rone McCormick
Abe Schooter
Jude McCormick
Clinton farmer hurt in accident near Lawrence
Ralph James, 54, a Clinton farmer, sustained critical injuries in a morning crash on the Clinton Lone Star road four miles from Lawrence. Two county road employees suffered serious injuries as a county pickup driven by Floyd Perdue, with Bill Stevens as passenger, collided with James’s cattle truck. Perdue and Stevens were en route to Lone Star Lake. The wreck damaged cabs and stock racks. cattle escaped but were rounded up nearby. Perdue returned to Lawrence after treatment. Stevens was hospitalized. Authorities reconstructed the crash from road marks due to lack of witnesses.
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Clinton-Lone Star
Lawrence
Ralph James
Clinton
James
Floyd Perdue
Perdue
Bill Stevens
S24
Font Fourteenth Street
Stevens
Lone Star Lake
Memyri
Stream
Stevena
Peniue
Journal-World
IS VICTIM OF BLAZE Garnett Kansas Fire Tragedy
Garnett Kansas December 7 A CP A volunteer fireman Charles H Crary 24 died trapped by smoke in his second floor sleeping quarters as a blaze destroyed city hall. Firemen saved two trucks and gained control early this morning leaving a complete loss with only outer walls standing.
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Garnett
Kan
Charles H. Crary
Quiet on Pearl Harbor Day Across Text Snoops
Pearl Harbor Day passes with focus on rescue of 33 air force men instead of anniversary ceremonies. Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Washington memorializes the day and dead in defense of liberty. In San Diego Veterans of Pearl Harbor form. Adm. Frederick C. Sherman to speak aboard Curtis, while Pearl Harbor itself shows dimmed memories seven years later.
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Pearl Harbor
Rawaii
Mid- Pacific
Serenth
Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
Ching
San Diego
Calif
Veterans of Fear
Adm
Frederick \C. Sherman
Curtis
Will Head Drive For Red Cross Fund In March
Alan Asher named Red Cross fund chairman by H. C. Brinkman at the Douglas county chapter board meeting. Asher, a local attorney and army veteran who served with the 78th Lightning division, helped cross the Rhine at Remagen and later worked in war crimes administration in Heidelberg. A nominating committee for 1949 officers was appointed with Clifton Calvin, Rev. George Towle, Mrs. W. C. Boardman, Mrs. Bert Wilson and H. G. Harr. A dinner committee and a by-laws revival committee were also named.
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Red Crosse Fund
Red Cross Board
H.C. Brinkman
Asher
Red Cross
Germany
78Th “Lightning
Siegfried Line
Remagen
Judge Advocate General Départment
Heidleberg
Brinkman
Douglas County
Clifton Calvin
George Towle
W. C. Boardman
Bert Wilson
H. G. Harr
John Patton
Misa Electa Kindlesperger Pares Hurley
Devor
FE. Love
Frank Gray
Kelvin Hoover
Marvin LeSuerl
Robert Oyler
Cold Weather Forecast for Kansas Snow and Cold Ahead
Topeka reports the weather bureau predicts general snowfall across Kansas Wednesday night with escalating cold through Thursday. Strong northerly winds, then diminishing, accompany the storm, with temperatures turning lower overnight into Thursday. Clearing skies and fair cold weather expected Friday as builders and farmers brace for the change. Lows 20s to mid 30s. highs near 49. Stock index noted at 64.4, down 1.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
A.D. Robb
Robb
Yukon Valley
United States
Skiee
Chanute
Goodland
Elm Trees Should Be Banded and Sprayed Say Hungerford
Prof H B Hungerford urges Lawrence residents to band and spray elm trees to prevent a cankerworm outbreak. First banding and spraying should occur mid December with follow up as moths emerge. bark must be protected and bands kept tight to avoid scars. Local stores await sticky solution. DDT spray is available for use on trunks and a DDT liquid for painting hands. City officials note elm areas and cemeteries require prompt treatment as supplies arrive.
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Lawrence
Pofessor
Hunwerford
Professor Hungerford
Joe Traylor
Architect Meets With The Board Over District 60 Building Plan
Ted Griest of Griest and Ekital Topeka was chosen to design the district 60 building. He met the board of education in December to discuss safety and crowding. Proposals include fire escapes, stair redesigns, and a new exit for several buildings. Bills totaling $42,938.38 were approved. attendees listed include Core, Cotton, Shenk, Pine, Wagstaff, Quakenbush, Woestemeyer, and Supt. Novotny.
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TOR
Ted Griest
Griest and
Ekital
Topeka
Inchoo! District 60
Edvertion
Tte
Conte
Hstyiok
Truman Sets Date For Conference On Chiang Kai-shek
President Truman will meet with Madame Chiang Kai-shek on Friday at 4 p.m. CST. Madame Chiang is in the United States on an unofficial mission seeking aid for China's nationalist government.
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Truman
Madane
Chiang Kai-shek
White House
Charles G. Ross
Cheralissima
Gues
Teest
Madame Chiang
United States
China
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