Elks Lodge Christmas Party and Holiday News in Lawrence
Nearly 30 Elks gathered at 725 Vt. St for the annual stag Christmas party with Santa delivering gifts and a buffet luncheon. A Lawrence man drew headlines for spiking fruit cakes with a hypodermic needle, while a wife used a broom during a Christmas dispute. Police were later asked to help locate her husband for the holidays. The day’s Christmas baby is Harold Wayne Sneegas, born at 8 24 am to Mr. and Mrs. B C Sneegas, with multiple potential arrivals hinted at before press time.
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B.P.O.E. Elks Lodge
Vt. St
Santa Claus
Wan
Harold Wayne Sneegas
B.C. Sneegas
Pawnee St
Walter D. Sneegan
Lawrence
Wilford Johnson
Garrison
Journal-World
War Correspondents Sing in Caroling at Panmunjom
War reporters at Panmunjom in Korea join a multi language Christmas songfest near the armistice talks. American British Australian and other reporters sing in English while French Yugoslav and Polish Hungarian correspondents also perform. Korean journalists from both sides contribute songs as negotiations continue nearby.
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Korea
Panmunjom
Newa
Poland
Hungary
Red Chine Pang
North
South Korea
Cop on Horse No Match For Motorized Bandits
In Manhattan West Street a mounted Patrolman John Tait chased a fleeing bandit car after a bar holdup of 440 dollars. Tait fired three shots but the car outran the horse. A passerby alerted him to the crime near the riverfront.
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New York
U—Manhattan
West Street
John Tait
Tait
Coffeyville Commended for Support of Public Schools
Washington December 25 Coffeyville Kan commended in the December issue of School Life official journal of the Office of Education for enthusiastic support of its public schools Ellaworth Tompkins the office specialist on large high schools visited Coffeyville after a Kansas education official said staff relations in the city’s schools were excellent He spoke with a diverse cross section of residents and found Coffeyville citizens are sold on their schools The note mentions trips to Philadelphia San Francisco and Denver in connection with the office network.
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Washington
Coffeyville
Kan
Office of Education
Ellaworth Tompkins
Ralph Bunson
Kansas Education Department
Tomkins
Board of Education
Coffey- Ville
Memorial Hospital Patient Admits and Births Reported
At Memorial Hospital several residents including Zoe Glassmire Vivian Vail Virgil Coates Leona Green Josephine White Gilbert Weidman Cham Williamson Eudora Harriett Harwood Delbert Golden and Virgil Coates Baldwin are listed. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Gilbert Ulmer and a son to Mr and Mrs B C Sneegas. Kenneth Kempter received emergency room treatment for a lacerated cord injured hand. Edith Baldwin was admitted for a head injury and expected to return tomorrow for further treatment.
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Zoe Glassmire
Crescent Road
Vivian Vail
Sunflower
Virgil Coates
Baldwin
Leona Green
Josephine White
Tenn
Gilbert Weidman
Cham Williamson
Eudora
Withers
Vt. St
Harriett Harwood
Kenneth Kempter
Tenn. St
Edith Baldwin
Tomorf
Bethlehem Says Peace On Christmas Day Amid Armistice Calm
In Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and Day 1948, pilgrims from Jewish, Arab, and Christian communities gathered near the Church of the Nativity as a UN armistice held. Arab police monitored the routes across barbed wire as Masses and midnight services were held with a Star of Bethlehem guiding worshipers to the traditional birthplace.
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Bethlehem
No Man's Land
Jordan
Christ
Palestine
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
Israel
Palestine Hills
Church of the Nativity
Manger
Nazareth
Galilee
Seegg
Douglas County Farmers Contend With Wheat Pests And Rust
Unters reports green bug scarcity linked to early winter conditions. Fall rust appears on bottom land farms along Kaw River, with soil tests showing low organic matter due to flooded soils. Oat planting expected earlier than last year as winter plowing progresses and mid winter storms look unlikely.
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Douglas County
Deal Six
Kaw
Two Kansans Bodies Returned to U S
The bodies of two Kansans killed in the Korean fighting were shipped home aboard the New Zealand Victory. The Department of Defense list names Pie Bert L. Fields of Wichita and John F. Stenger of Densmore, as the deceased. Chicago faced a crippling eight inch snowfall as the city reeled Christmas Day, though transit crews reported plows and some streetcar lines back in service by morning.
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San Francisco
United States
New Zealand
Department of Defense
Pie Bert L. Fields
Fields
Wichita
Pie
John F. Stenger
John Stenger
Densmore
Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
CTA
Fire alarms family as flames engulf Chicago brick home
A basement blaze on Chicago near northwest side woke Skipyipper the dog who saved 11 people. Carpenter Filakov alerted his mother wife and two children plus two grandchildren and the neighboring Peter Cebulko family. Deputy Fire Marshal Petersen cited undetermined cause and $10,000 estimated loss.
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Chicago
Sreckey
Skipyipper
Lesten Ilakov
Filakov
Peter Cebulko
Finn Acnemtem
Aes Uepos Une
Albert Petersen
Mysterious Borrower Steals Trailways Bus for Holiday Ride
New York report says a 41 passenger Diesel bus vanished from its Trailways of New England garage early today, reappearing three hours later blocks away. Police alarm issued. keys in ignition, no driver found. Investigators question who borrowed it and why.
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New York
Trailways of New England Bus System
Bat Nybody
M ‘Ouras
Embassy Revokes Passport From U S Civil Righter
The Civil Rights Congress says its executive secretary William L. Patterson was asked by the U S Embassy in Paris to surrender his passport. Patterson is in Paris awaiting the General Assembly's reconvening after the holidays. He may seek a hearing on a statement accusing the U S of genocide toward Negroes. Aubrey Grossman, the Congress secretary, said Patterson advised him of a message about refusing to surrender the passport. The Civil Rights Congress has been named by the U S attorney general as part of subversive organizations.
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New York
Civil Rights Congress
William L. Patterson
United States
Paris
Patterson
United Nations General Assembly
U. S
Aubrey Grossman
Organization
The
Congress
U.S
Nat
Idle Hour Nursing Home Fire Traps Elderly Patients in St Joseph
Twenty four elderly residents were rescued from a two story Idle Hour Nursing Home fire in St Joseph. Most patients were bedfast and suffered exposure but were not injured. ambulances ferried them to hospitals. Cause of the blaze remains unknown.
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St. Joseph
Idle Hour
Pansersby
Deaths and Funerals KE Keim and Mills Family
KE Keim 67 of Ozawkie died yesterday in a Topek a hospital after lifelong residence there. Survived by wife son daughter a brother and two sisters. George W Mills 93 of Winslow Ark died yesterday. Funerals set through Watson Funeral Home Fayetteville Ark. He lived in Arkansas most of life with 1941 to 1948 in Lawrence. Five sons one daughter and two grandchildren survive. J S Mills and son Rex left by train for Winslow.
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KE. D. Keim E
Keim
Ozawkie
E. P. Addy
Mass. St
Topeka
George W. Mills Ward
Rex Mills
Winslow
Board of Thanks for Mary J. Raffle Following Illness
We thank relatives friends organizations ministers and especially Dr John A Holmes for kindness thoughtfulness to our grandmother and mother during her sickness and death Mary J. Raffle Sadly missed by Bernice Miller and Rotfin M. Miller with family members and condolences.
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John A.holmes
Mary J. Raffle
Bernice Miller
Rotfin M. Miller
Union Chief Killed in Tennessee Strike Dispute
Jackson Tenn Dec 25 an official of a CIO union was shot and killed by a non striker while circulating a back to work outline Lowell Simmons 41 business agent of the CIO Textile Workers of America which struck at Bemis Bay Company Ort 30 Sheriff E Bruce charged Cecil Cook 40 with murder Cook fired a real screen door at his home the slug hit Simmons on the porch Simmons had gone to Cook s Bemis home to complain about the petition a preliminary hearing was set for tomorrow the petition urged 800 strikers to return to work while their demands for a 614 percent increase and other benefits were negotiated sheriff said Cook started the petition himself
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Bruce
Simons
Simmons
Cook
Bemis
Blackmail Angers Continues Calls for Ransom Release
A petition to raise funds for releasing four airmen circulated amid anger over a State Department response. Elmer Kennison of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and Editor Phillip H. Parrish urged cooperation to gather funds, with the American Legion in Oregon ready to accept contributions. The other two airmen are Capt. John J. Swift of Glen Falls New York and T/Sgt. Jess A. Duff of Spokane Washington. The alternative to paying was a three month jail term for each.
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State Department
Elmer Kennison
Chamber of Commerce
Phillip H. Parrish
Portland Oregonian
American Legion In
Oregon
John J. Swift
Glen Falls
Jess A. Duff
Spokane
Wash
Ers
Grunewald Linked to Powerful Figures in Probe
In probe No 3 policy talks Grunewald suggests close ties to influential Capitol figures but refuses to name them. He confirms one contact as an FBI agent but offers no details. Separately, a city marriage bureau rushes permits as Christmas homecoming swells demand.
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Grunewald
Canitol Hill
Federal Bureau of Tovestigation
Aimacl
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Wellaville
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Coates
Gilbert Ulmer
B. C. Sneegas
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Fred Snart
Neva Ketchum
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Herb Weekly
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Nellie Benson
Mike Kinney
Journal-World Photo
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Zonsin State Capitol
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Igbroun
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