White to Seek Two BG Posts in Senate R bordo
Washington December 7 1946 Maine Senator White announced plans to serve as floor leader and chairman of the commerce committee in the new Republican controlled Senate. A plan to double up chairmanships faces opposition from insurgent Republicans and Reed.
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Washington
Sena- Lee White
Maine
Moate
White
Commerce Committee
Republican Conference
Sevedere
Reed
Oveer
Vandenberg
Mich
Taft
Ohio
Millikin
Colo
G.O.P
Wherry
Senate
Commerce Post
Kanaan
Tobey
R.-N.h
Tere
Funeral notices in Baldwin and Lawrence areas
Funeral services announced for Herbert E. Capen owner of the Santa Fe restaurant set for tomorrow at 2 p m at Rumsey funeral home with Rev Keith Taylor burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Seth Fenton to be buried in Vinland cemetery after 2 30 p m service at Vinland Methodist church. Dr Samuel A Lough former Baker University president to be honored in Denver and Baldwin graveside service planned.
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Herbert E. Capen
New York Street
Santa Fe
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Rumsey Funeral Home
Keith Taylor
Memorial Park Cemetery
Seth Fenton
Vinland Methodist Church
C. W. Brewster
Vinland Cemetery
Stanley Funeral Home
Baldwin
Samuel A. Lough
Denver
Colo
Oakwood Cemetery
Baker University
Lough
Baker
Winter Tire and Winter Chevrolet Chartered by Kansas
Topeka December 27 The Winter Tire and Implement company and the Winter Chevrolet company of Lawrence have Kansas charters. M S Winter named resident agent for both firms. Tire firm capitalization 50000 dollars and automobile firm 150000 dollars. Winter said no operational changes expected beyond incorporation. State Dept continues investigation into the Darren incident with final conclusions later. Telegraph rates up approximately five percent authorized for Western Union Telegraph Company.
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Topeka
Winter Tire and Implement Company
Winter Chevrolet Company
Lawrence
Kansas
M.S. Winter
Tulsa oil pioneer Homer F Wilcox dies at 62
Homer F Wilcox, 62, Tulsa oilman and founder of the H F Wilcox Oil and Gas Company, died at his Tulsa home from a heart attack. He discovered the Wilcox oil sand, built a major company, and helped open pools in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and the Seminole field. He retired four years ago to a Verdigris ranch and Palm Beach.
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Tulsa
Okla
Homer F. Wilcox
H. F. Wilcox Oil and Gas Company
Altho
Wilcox
Verdigris
Hia Patatia
George A. Dye
Buffalo
N. Y
Gracie Cal
Bixby
Tulsa County
Mississippi
Poor Farm
Bristow
Sac and Fox
Stroud
Boy Scouts Swim Arrangements at Robinson Gym
Residents of the 500 block on Tennessee street honored Journal-World and Star carriers with gifts. During the 18 day wrapping station period 180 mail bags of gifts were processed, with promotion funded by the Community Chest via the Chamber of Commerce Merchants area. Temperature readings show unseasonable weather with a 43 degree low and 72 degree high typical of late December in Lawrence. War Assets Administration gifted government surplus buildings at Wilson Bonfils Flying School Chickasha to the city. government cost was 249075. Pierre Renoir noted for porcelain painting early work.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Washington
War Assets Administration
Wilson-Bonfils Flying School
Chickasha
Okla
Training as Shield Universal Military Draft Urged by March
On his 82nd birthday General Peyton C. March urged universal military training for American youth as the best safeguard against war. He criticized reliance on the League of Nations and the Kellogg Briand pact, warned Britain might someday be an adversary with atomic weapons, and urged a strong trainee pool to deter future conflicts. He stated Truman’s training proposals echo the program he once championed and urged quicker passage.
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Washington
Peyton C. March
War Department
United Nations
League of Nations
Kelogg- Briand
United States
Great Britain
Amritsar
India
Truman
Congress
Five Die in Collision Near Forest Green Missouri
Five persons were killed and several injured when a Santa Fe trailways bus and a transport truck collided on a bridge three and a half miles south of Forest Green Missouri.
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Motherly
Santa Fe Trailways
Forest Green
Suit for Divorce Filed in Douglas County Court
May Hampton filed a divorce suit against Hii Hampton yesterday in the Douglas County district court.
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May Hampton
Hii Hampton
Douglas County
Fire counsel purge report leaks amid House turmoil
Washington reports that Rep J Parnell Thomas says he will fire Ernie Adamson as chief counsel of the un American activities committee. Adamson's disclosure that unions may be communist controlled drew rebuttals from Luther Evans and Henry Fleischer while Robert Stripling is named to replace him pending chairmanship shifts.
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J. Parnell Thomas
R-Nj
M Line
House Committee On un-American Activities
Peat
Ernie Adamson
Thomas
Adamson
Torday
Congressional Library
Luther Harris Evans
Librarian of
Congress
Evans
Legislative Reference Department
Robert E. Strippling
Martin Dies
Texas
Associated Press
House
C.I.0
Henry Fleischer
Fleischer
Bloom
D-N.y
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations
Committee Investigators Receive Unapproved Report Copy
Several committee members said they received copies of the report after publication and stressed it had not been approved by the committee. Formal approval or modification is expected next week.
Newark Gas Workers Return as New Strike Spreads
Newark December 27 UPE workers at Jersey City and Piscataway plants resumed work at 5 am after a settlement in a prior dispute. A larger strike began at Harrison plant and Newark substation, with about 400 workers idle. Union members cited wage demands and a lack of contract, while the company noted interlocked plants to cover outages.
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Newark
N. J
UPE
Public Service Electric and Gas Company
Jersey City
Piscataway Township
Harrison
Frederick A. Lydecker
Public Service
International Chemical
Wales
Thomas P. Hoyle
Boyle
Swanson sues fifth husband over alimony arrears
Gloria Swanson accuses William N. Davey of failing to pay $300 weekly alimony awarded in New York for life or until remarriage. She says $2,000 in arrears on $200 weekly temporary alimony from 1945 and seeks a total of $13,400. Her former husbands include Wallace Beery and others.
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Los Angeles
Gloria Swanson
William N. Davey
New York
Davey
Wallace Beery
Herbert Sombarn
Marquis de la Falaise
Michael Farmer
Death toll rises in Shanghai Christmas plane crash
Shanghai reports 171 deaths after the Christmas night airliner disaster near fogbound Shanghai. Eleven people survive with Captain Ralph Brand Preus of Minneapolis among the injured, suffering severe head and facial injuries and a broken leg as a government board investigates the crash.
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Shanghai
Ralph Brand Preus
Minneapolis
Preus
Drake Coaching Post Sparks Navy to Drake Selection
Des Moines report lists Charles B. Bud Wilkinson as a leading candidate for Drake University football coach with two others in major consideration after Wee Green resignation. Tribune notes Wilkinson’s tour, while other names remain undisclosed. Navy service context linked to Pearl Harbor era.
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Des Moines
Charles B
Bud) Wilkinson
University of Ceisdoms
Fead
Drake University
Moines Tribune
Wilkinson
the Tribune
Wee Green
Immigration Halt Debate Sparks Senate Split
Senator Elmer Thomas calls for immediate halt to all immigration with no exceptions while President Truman cites plans to liberalize entry for Jewish refugees. Republican leaders urge review of Truman’s proposal before committing. Taft declines to comment on reception.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
United States
Mr. Truman
Thoms
Congress
State Department
Thomas
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Steering Committee
Wreckage Found in Laguna Mountains Missing Western Airlines Flight
Wreckage of the Western Airlines transport missing since Christmas Eve was found this morning by a search party in the Laguna mountains. Ed Neil, San Diego Tribune Sun photographer, counted ten bodies at the scene, two of them badly burned.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Calif
Western Airlines
Laguna Mountains
Ed Neil
San Diego Tribune-Sun
Body found along Missouri highway near Marshall
The body of a man tentatively identified as Lewis Pogue a missing Boonville cab driver was found on an embankment along state highway 20 about four miles west of Marshall Missouri. A bullet wound was in his head and the cab blood stained was found by two youths who gave a ride to a stranger.
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Marshall
CPI
Lewis Pogue
Boonville
Tae Foun
Here
Pogue
Kansas City
Roosevelt Driver License Hearing Ordered After Yonkers Crash
New York state Bureau of Motor Vehicles says it subpoenaed Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt for a January hearing in White Plains to determine if her automobile driver's license should be revoked suspended or continued after a three car crash in Yonkers on August 14 last year.
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Wisaner
Albany
N. Y
New York State
Eleanor Rossevelt
White Plains
Yonkers
Markets at a Glance from New York Dec 37 AP
Market roundups show declines in most rails while cotton eases on profit taking. Corn and oats mixed to nervous trade. hogs and cattle firming with price quotes and receipts noted. Kansas City livestock and wheat market details include several price ranges and estimated arrivals.
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New York
Kansas City Grain and Livestock Market Summary
Wheat prices edge higher with No 2 red at around 1.74 to 2.18 per bushel. Corn mixed with No 2 yellow near 1.48 to 1.53. Hay receipts include alfalfa prairie timothy and clover. prices steady. Eggs butter and poultry markets report varied offerings and prices across Chicago and Kansas City exchanges.
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Kansas City
Kaneas City
Kansas
Wall Street Recovers Some As Downturn Narrows
The Day in Wall Street notes selected stocks regaining ground after a morning dip while many leaders stayed in the red. Trading was active with around 1.3 million shares transferring, rail bonds slipping, and some gains appearing near the close. Appreciation is expressed for L. L. Morgan supplying a turkey dinner for a Scout Cub Pack 60 gathering at First Baptist Church with G. L. Smith as Cub Committee Chairman.
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Wall Street
New York
L. L. Morgan
First Baptist Church
G. L. Smith
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