Policy for China U. S. READY TO HELP
President Truman reaffirmed US recognition of the Chinese national government and said America will aid the Chinese people toward peace and economic recovery. Troop levels in China have fallen from 113000 to under 12000 as negotiations and unity efforts continue amid calls for an international conference chaired by General Marshall. Senators Flanders and Murray urged a broad international conference with participation by major Chinese parties while outside powers should stay out of internal Chinese politics.
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Washington
Truman
United States
China
R-Vt
Murray
Dmont
Rae C. Marshall
Jors Flanders
Marshall
America
Russia
Britain
Senate
Owen Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Chiang
Kai-shek
Bailey F. McNair
Chicago
Firemen Plan New Year Dinner for 1947
Lawrence Fire Department announced its annual New Year’s Day dinners for 1947. Fire Chief Paul Ingels said the event would be a double header with a 12:30 p.m. ham dinner for city officials and a 6:30 p.m. performance for firemen’s wives and girlfriends, both meals served at the fire station.
Stock Market Index Report
The Avereme 60 stocks index closed at 66 yesterday. Shares across the market showed mixed gains and losses as trading ended, with notable moves in several large-cap names and sector leaders.
Stassen Opens Bid to Balance Labor Law in GOP Race
Minnesota governor and former Navy captain Stassen announced a 1948 bid aiming to balance labor law by adding unfair practices like mass picketing to the Waburn Act. He plans a Washington office and frequent GOP talks to steer the party toward liberalism, focusing first on national labor policy, housing, health, and small business.
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Ibis Bci
Minnesota
Navy
G.O.P
Stassen
Vandenberg
Michigan
Taft
Ohio
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Gov
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Earl Warren
California
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Raymond E. Baldwin
Connecticut
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington
Earl E. Hart
Hart
Su- Spare Court
Harold Hurton
Burton
Cleveland
Inter
Congress
Good Years Ahead Forecast by Economic Advisers
The President's council predicts a favorable outlook for jobs and production for several years with a possible 1947 dip. It warns that swift action by business and labor can limit downturns, while drift could lead to unemployment and underproduction. Long term prosperity depends on free competitive enterprise with government support.
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The
Associated Press
Presidents Economic Advisory Council
Jobe
Washington
Council of Economic Advisers
Truman
Edwin C. Nourse
Lawrence City Schools Dismissal For Holidays
Lawrence city schools will dismiss Friday at five for Christmas holidays. Regular classwork resumes at eight Monday morning January 6 1947.
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Lawrence City
World Bank chief Meyer resigns as Smith quits post
Washington Dec 18 Harold D P Smith former budget director resigned as vice president of the World Bank. He will stay on temporarily after Eugene Meyer also resigns. The board has not named a replacement for Meyer. The top job pays 30000 annually tax free. Smith joined the bank five months ago. Several officials declined bank presidency offers. Dudley said Smith quit to let the new president choose his own VP. Smith 48 has more than 20 years in budget work. He was born June 6 1898 in Lawrence Kansas, is married with four children.
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Washington
Harold DP. Smith
World Bank
Smith
Eugene Meyer
Meyer
Washington Post
Graham F. Towers
Bank of Canada
Commerce
Averell Harriman
William Clayton
Drew Dudley
Dudley
Bureau of the Budget
Bank
International Institution
Budget Bureau
Michigan
State Budget Bureau
Lawrence
Kan
Fire damages coal truck. hose sprays antifreeze at Burgner Bowman Matthews
Fire Chief Paul Ingels said a radiator hose sprayed inflammable antifreeze onto the hot engine of a Burgner-Bowman-Matthews Lumber Co truck at 9 20 a m on West Sixth Street. The blaze required Lawrence Fire Department to extinguish it. no damage to the truck beyond repair needs.
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Burgner-Bowman- Matthews Lumber Company
West Sixth Street
Lawrence
Witness Testifies Of Threats Made
Edward P. Terry former secretary to Senator Bilbo testified that A B Friend warned him last April he would be killed if he revealed what he knew about Bilbo During a senate war contracts inquiry Terry said Friend delivered the threat while entertaining him and his wife at a Mississippi hotel He quoted Friend saying if you take part in this campaign or tell what you know on Senator Bilbo youll be killed The witness described plans of two men to kill him and noted he later reported the threat to authorities before meeting internal revenue agents about Bilbos income tax returns and a fund raising debt connected to Bilbos 1940 campaign.
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Washington
Edward P. Terry
Bilbo
Dmiss
A. B. Friend
Friend
Terry
Mississippi
Florida
C. Phillips
Meridian
Miss
Phillips
St. Louis
Internal Revenue
Ferguson
R.mich
S Fund
Juniper Grove Raprany
Poplarville
Michael T. Morrissey
M. T. Reed
F. T. Newton
Senate
Lumber to be sold surplus articles from S.O.W.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Bacher announces a sale of salvage lumber and non repairable army articles. Included are used doors windows screens roofing scrap lumber and various items of fabricated furniture. Written bids due by 1 pm December 26 with sale starting at 9 am Monday and material available for inspection.
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S.0.w
Robert M. Bacher
Comets
Sunflower 0
Ee Paise Ete
Cys
Plan fast pace for new congress plan fast pace for new congress
Washington reports House Republicans aim for a short session and a quick adjournment by July 1 to avoid public dissatisfaction. Speaker designate Joseph W. Martin Jr. seeks limited business with emphasis on labor, budget balance, and taxes, under the July adjournment rule.
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Washington
House Republicans
Congress
Josep W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Martin
Douglas county budget reports 11 month expenditures
The budget director Mrs. Marvin LeSuer told county commissioners that total expenditures for county purposes reached 463000 for the first 11 months. Welfare Department led with about 182000, over 100000 from federal and state funds. General fund about 110000, road and bridge 65000, high schools 1900. About 40000 remains to cover December spending.
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Douglas County
Hll County
Board of County Commissioners
Marvin LeSuer
LeSuer
Home Lost To Wind Fire Leaves Surrey Family Needing Aid
The Fred Surzey family of five in Lawrence lost their home at 320 Mill Street to a wind driven fire Monday night. They moved in with the McAlexander family at 442 Locust Street while Salvation Army officers seek a new home and donors supply furniture and clothing. Salvation Army Adjutant Robert Getz urged calls to 633 for available housing and needed household items. The children are Lloyd 16 Beulah May 15 and Mary 6.
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Lawrence
Fred Surzey
Mill Street
Surrey
Mra
Kelly McAlexander
Locust Street
Salvation Army
Robert Getz
Getz
Lloyd
Beulah May
Mary
Warm Air This Way Forecast For Kansas In Contrast
Weather forecast by S. D. Flora, federal meteorologist for Kansas, calls for rising temperatures and fair weather through Thursday. Today will be clear across the state with south winds in the west. Tonight lows range from 20 to 30 degrees, with near 50 degrees expected tomorrow in most areas. Flora notes this as a sharp contrast to last year’s zero temps and eight inches of snow. Concordia reported 35 degrees as the state's high, while Phillipsburg and Ellis logged 10 degrees as the low.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Mercury
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Tonganoxie Lake Closed to Fishing
Tonganoxie Lake will undergo a state fish and game commission fishing clinic, leaving the 175 acre lake largely dry for about 18 months. Fishing is banned next summer with possible extension, as lowering the lake exposes mudbanks and moss for cleaning and study of fish habits.
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Tonganoxie Lake
State Fish and Game Commission
Isaac Walton
C.C.C
Lone Star Lake
Pageant Tonight at Haskell Institute Nativity Play
One performance of The Nativity by Haskell Institute debuts at 8 pm in the campus auditorium. About 500 students will attend, with 150 in the Nativity chorus, and 200 at dress rehearsal freeing extra seats. Lead players include Ona James, Elsie Taylor, Iris Massey, and Thomasine Hoyle. Directors include Ruth Pesirs Skinner, S Madison Coombs, and Russell Carter. Robert L. Briggs handles orchestrations and Ted Conklin oversees lighting.
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Haskell Institute
Margaret Pearson Speelman
S. Madison Coombs
Russell Carter
Robert L. Briggs
Haskell
Ted Conklin
Gold Nugget Found in Krasnoyarsk for State
A Pravda dispatch from Krasnoyarsk reports a gold nugget weighing 1702 kilograms found in Siberia. The nugget was handed to the state authorities.
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Moscow
Pravda
Siberian
Krasnoyarsk
Rocket reaches 111 miles in White Sands test
White Sands New Mexico December reports a German V-2 rocket reaching a record 111 miles high, with 14 tons of hardware and a speed of 5350 feet per second. The shot surpassed the prior 104 mile altitude and awaits film evaluation from about 300 cameras trained on the sky. Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner calls it the best yet.
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White Sands
N. M
Weer
New Mexico Ordnance Proving Ground
Harold R. Turner
Final Examinations Set At University Of Kansas Schedule
Final dates released by Chancellor Malett show the University of Kansas end of term near. Exams for the first half begin January 30 with a seven day window and three two hour periods daily plus a fourth period later in the week. Law and medicine set separate schedules. No exam exceeds two hours. Registration for the second semester opens February 10 ahead of classes starting February 13.
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Deane W. Malett
University of Kansas
Law and Medicine
Altho
University of Kansas student council votes against paying printing costs
The student council declined to cover a $2,000 directory printing bill after directories were distributed free under a constitutional provision. The issue arose when the directory job, authorized by the publications committee, was not delivered to the council and would overshoot the budget by about $893, with a possible use of a $1,000 reserve. The council expressed willingness to discuss a compromise with university officials.
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University of Kansas
Howard Engleman
Karl Klooz
Tom Harmon
Publications Committee
Council
Carroll McCue
Declaration to end war agencies urged by Scrivner
Rep. Scrivner said he will seek a new congress declaration formally ending the war. He argued shooting stopped over a year ago and that peace time needs no war agencies. He noted passage of a resolution could terminate hundreds of wartime laws and speed reconversion.
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Washington
Rep
Scrivner
Congress
Kansan
Operation of FM Radio Stations Is Authorized
The communications commission has authorized operation of new FM radio stations by Sunflower Broadcasting system in Kansas City Kansas World Co in Lawrence and the Topeka State Journal Inc in Topeka The World Company which publishes the Journal World received a conditional grant for an FM broadcasting station over a year ago and the latest action permits further planning and construction.
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Washington
the Communications Commission
Sunflower Broadcasting System
Kansas City
Kan
the World Co
Lawrence
Topeka State Journal, Inc
Topeka, Kan
the World Company
Journal-World
FCC
Busy schedule for KU students before holidays
KU students faced a crowded last three days of the year with classwork, Christmas shopping, and holiday plans. Events included the inter-house men’s sing at Hoch Auditorium, a midweek dance in Memorial Union, Miss Student Union voting to fund TB relief, a 110-voice University A Cappella choir Christmas program, and vespers at Danforth Chapel. Other activities covered Nativity plans at Haskell, a Kappa Beta party sending gifts to Colorado children, Pershing Rifles at American Legion Hall, and several campus clubs hosting parties and movies.
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University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Phi Mu Alpha
Memorial Union
Miss Student Union
Mt. Oread
D M. Swarthout
Frang Strong Hall
Anforth Chapel
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Danforth
Juanita Ferguson
Tower of Dyche Museum
Haskell
Margaret Speelman
Kappa Beta
Myers
Colorado Childers
Partis
Pershing Rifles
Lawrence
K. U.M.U
Inter-Varsity
Christian Fellowship
Naomi Light
Massachusetts
Fraser
War Dads Seeks List of WWII Children and Widows
The American War Dads chapter and national group push to compile a permanent record of all children and widows of men who died in World War II. Lawrence and other local chapters will organize the listing via a Marigold Tag Day fund. Anyone with knowledge of such families should send names and addresses to M. N. Penny, Box 131, for inclusion.
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American War Dads
National Organization of War Dads
Lawrence
Fathers of
M. N. Penny
Postoffice
Weather outlook for Mansas-Fall tonight and Thursday
Tonight and Thursday expect warmer conditions in the west and north portions. Low temperatures range from 18 to 24 degrees. After tonight, temperatures rise slightly across the same areas for Thursday.
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Mansas
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Michael J. Morrissey
Vicksburg
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Colinel
John A. Bellan
Morrissey
Kessler Field
Biloxi
Misa
Tella
Fred Surrey
North Lawrence
Assocated Press
K. U
K.U
Will
Myers Hall
Cavenneee
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