Mass German Strike Halts Life Across Hamburg to Stuttgart
Up to three million German workers in the British American zones walked out for 24 hours over food shortages. In Württemberg-Baden General Clay visited Stuttgart as clerks, banks, and offices deserted. streetcars idle and factories paused. The strike aims at food officials with a demand for fair rations and crackdown on the black market.
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Hamburg
Stuttgart
Contreets
Werr
Mannheim
Ulm
Heidelberg
Germany
Wurttemberg-Baden
Ood
Carlson Keeps Busy In State And City Travels
Gov Frank Carlson of Kansas begins a busy round of conferences and travel. He attends a Parent-Teacher meeting in Emporia and a Beloit hospital dinner, then flies to New York to join federal-state relations discussions with Hoover committee members. He will then travel to Des Moines to join a Midwest governors conference planning session.
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Topeka
Hoover Committee
Hoover
Carlsen
Des Moines
Robert D. Blue
Iowa
Truman has no plans for out-of-town speeches
Washington February 8 The White House said President Truman has not made any plans for speeches outside Washington. Presidential Secretary Charles G Ross told reporters that no formal engagement exists beyond the 13. He noted an invitation for Truman to speak at a Friendly Sons of St Patrick dinner in New York on March 17 is being considered.
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Washington
White House
Truman
Charles G. Ross
Mr. Truman
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
New York
No Rapid Action on G.O.P. Tax Reduction Bill in the Senate
The Senate delayed the Republican tax cut bill, likely keeping it in limbo for two months or more. House passage was 297 to 120, with some Democrats for, one Republican against. Taft warned veto override hinges on revenue cuts, possibly to about 4.0 billion, as budget plans loom and hearings shift to the July fiscal year.
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Washington
Senate
G.O.P
House
Rep
H. Carl Andersen
Minnesota
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Senate-House Budget Committee
Truman
Mil Lin Er.-Crio
Senate Finance Committee
Budget Committee
Trouble in India after Gandhi assassination sparks protests
New Delhi reports two Hindu militant groups Mahasabha and RSS facing police arrests amid mob violence after Mohandas Gandhi's murder. Nehru bans private armies and vows swift action while urging calm as incidents spread nationwide. Police identify Gandhi's assassin as a Mahasabha member, with officials pledging justice.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahasabha
RSS
Aten
Great Organization
Hind US
Rastriya Swayam Sevaysangh
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Gandhi
Narayan Vinayak Gadse i
Poona
Nehru
Ite
Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Rehearing sought on Southwestern Bell rate hike in Kansas
Topeka Kansas February 3 Southwestern Bell Telephone seeks a rehearing of its 3.33 million dollar rate increase petition filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission. Company counsel says the law requires an itemized cost statement from affiliates and that Western Electric charges vary daily. A firm spokesman warns of district court if rehearing fails. Louis R Gates counters there is no evidence supporting relief.
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Topeka
Kan
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Kantxax
Intate Corpor i Commission
Southwestern Bell
Kansas
I. John Mohler
St. Louis
Western Electric Company
Mohler
Louis R. Gates
Commission
Bad weather forecast hits Kansas with snow and freeze
Topeka February 3 forecast shows snow or freezing rain across Kansas with below normal temperatures. D Flora, state meteorologist, predicts light snow statewide and freezing rain in the south tonight into Wednesday. Roads are open but slick. temperatures range from 11 to 20.
Britain accuses Romania of violating peace treaty freedoms
Britain and the United States issued notes accusing Romania's communist dominated government of breaching treaty obligations. The notes cite arrests on charges of economic sabotage and fascist activities without timely trials, and claim suppression of the National Peasant party and other opposition groups.
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London
Britain
Romania
United States
National Peasant Party
Griffith seeks reelection as county commissioner third district
L UH Griffith of Lone Star filed for reelection to county commissioner from the third district. He is finishing the last year of his second four year term and previously served seven years as chairman of the board. The filing brings the board race to two candidates with Raymond Ogden of Endora having filed for the second district last month.
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L. UH. Griffith
Lone Star
Griffith
Board of Commissioners
Raymond (Shorty) Ogden
Endora
Kansas City Alumni To See Orange Bowl Movies
Kansas City hosts motion pictures of the Kansas Georgia Orange Bowl game at Edison Hall Thursday night. Kansas assistant coach Mike Getto will provide narration during the screening. Attending alumni include Ray Evans Don Fambrough and Marvin Small alongside others from the University of Kansas. A Leavenworth resident Alice B Gardiner 69 wife of J E Gardiner Leavenworth newspaper man died after a year long illness. Gardiner San Na Gardiner also survived.
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Kansas City
Edison Hall
Mike Getto
Kansas
Ray Evans
Don Fambrough
Marvin Small
University of Kansa
Leavenworth Leavenworth
Kan
Alice B. Gardiner
J. E. Gardiner
Leavenworth Newspapermans
San Na Gardiner
Leavenworth
Southern Democrats Split Talk Grows Increases Pressure
Washington February 3 Southern Democrats angrily accused President Truman of stabbing southern supporters over civil rights and warned of a possible Dixie split. House members argued about a convention to select a Southern candidate and possible withholding of electoral votes. Governors meet in Tallahassee Friday to discuss Truman's 10 point civil rights program and electors plans.
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Washington
House
Dixie Democrats
Truman
Williams
Cox
D.-Ga
Congress
Rankin
Europe
United States
Communist Party
Rivers
D.S.C
Dorn
D.-S.c
Wallace Henry Wallace
Whitten
D.misa
South
Conference of
Southern Governors
Politi Mathering
Lawrence educators travel to Hutchinson for KS Teachers meeting
Seven administrators from Lawrence public schools will join the Council of Administration of the Kansas State Teachers association gathering in Hutchinson over Thursday through Saturday. Superintendent E L Novotny will speak in a Thursday morning symposium on sensational needs of exceptional children.
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Lawrence
Council of Administration
Kansas State Teachers Association
Hutchinson
E. L. Novotny
Renin Koreper
Mildred Kirkham
New York
Kansas Pals’ Association
Hazel Lee Simmons
Cordiey School
The
Kansas Dinner Club
Kirkham
Miss Simmons
Opal Jayne Kennedy
Helen Shaw
Neal Wherry
Ralph Graber
Krug warns on natural resources and looming shortages
Washington reports Secretary Krug warns America faces sharp resource decline if actions not taken. He cites potential feed needs of 15,000,000 in 1960 and 165,000,000 by 1990, with topsoil loss threatening 145,000 people yearly. Advocates saving coal, reclaiming land, new oil sources, and reduced waste.
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Washington
America
Krug
United States
Kansas
Pair Sentenced to Lansing for Shoplifting Spree
Annis Singleton and Juanita Fain were sentenced to the Kansas Industrial Farm for Women in Lansing after pleading guilty to grand larceny charges. They, with Bernice Mallard and Jennie May Rivers, had been arrested in Lawrence for stealing several hundred dollars in Christmas season goods. The other two defendants were released on bond and await trial in February. Elmer Neidholdt withdrew an appeal from a prior county court assault and battery sentence and was sent to county jail for 60 days.
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Annis Singleton
Juanita Fain
Kansas City
Lawrence
Kansas
Lansing
Hugh Means
Robert B. Oyler
Oyler
Bernice Mallard
Johnnie May Rivers
Elmer Neidholdt
DeSoto
Dallas Ward Named Colorado U Grid Coach
Dallas Ward, 41, backfield coach at the University of Minnesota, was chosen from 100 applicants to head Colorado football. He succeeds Jim Yeager, who resigned after a disastrous season to join the women’s clothing business. Ward will sign a three year contract and may name his assistants. Salary not disclosed but believed higher than Yeager’s 6500.
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Denver
Dallas Ward
University of Minnesota
University of Colorado
Jim” Yeager
Board of Regents
Ward
Yeager
Rarebred Herefords sell at Winfield auction for 551 a head
Forty five Rarebred Herefords from the Faites Brothers Walnut Valley ranch near Winfield sold at the fairgrounds auction for an average of 551 a head. The total sales reached 24,725 with top bull, OJR Domino Royal Ninth, bought by Robert Hearme of Arkansas City for 2,008. Chart J ere per topped at 1,500 for a cow as WVHR charity stock numbers shifted amid market activity.
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Winfield
Faite Brothers
Walnut Valley Ranch
Here
Winfield Fairgrounds
Robert Hearme
Arkansas City
OJR
Domino Royal
Chart J.ere
Plans for soil conservation discussed in Grant township
Douglas county farmers heard county agricultural leaders outline soil restoration plans at White school in Grant township. They cited erosion control, crop rotation with legumes, and terraces and waterbars for an average 200 acre farm, stressing that rotation with alfalfa and sweet clover is key while noting limited federal aid and the need for lime to improve legume growth. Plans will be repeated in Eudora Baldwin and other townships this week.
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Douglas County
Grant Township
Wilson Counts
Soil Conservation District
White School
Deal Six
United States
Melvan Wertz
Berger
Sion
George Rutell
County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Butell
Eudora
Wakarusa
Willow Springs
Palmyra
First Methodist Church
Baldwin
Lecompton
Kanthursday
Clinton
Marion Township
Thomas W Lamont Dies Head of Morgan Co Founder and Financier
Thomas W Lamont aged 77 died at his Boca Grande Florida home his death announced by R G Wasson of J P Morgan Co Lamont a longtime financier and philanthropist had been in poor health for over a year He rose from Bankers Trust Co secretary treasurer to partner at J P Morgan Co and eventually its chairman His death ends a storied era in international banking Clyde Reed named to U S Merchant Marine academy board of visitors and a March of Dimes fundraising note from India school district 55 reports 40 75
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New York
Thomas W. Lamont
Wallstreet
House of Morgan
Boca Grande
Fla
J. P. Morgan and Co
R. G. Wasson
Wasson
Florida
Corliss Lamont
C. C. Cunningham
Lamont
Bankers Trust Co
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. P. Morgan Co
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
International Banking House
Mot
Clyde Reed
Washington
Senator Reed
Kan
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Vandenberg
Senate
Break in Food Prices Hints Change in Market Values
New York reports a sag in wholesale prices from January peak, with steel and hog costs down about 8 percent and bacon 5 cents a pound cheaper than last week. Retail sugar prices are expected to drop to align with refined sugar’s lower raw level, signaling a possible easing in consumer costs.
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Bo the Assonated Press
New York
Rooms Needed for Married Students at KU Amid Housing Shortage
A housing shortage at the University of Kansas leaves married students few options beyond Sunflower Village. Ruth Nash, housing director, said single rooms are available but married students struggle to find adequate housing, with Sunflower Village as the main exception. Ice and snow-coated streets prompted warnings to drive cautiously and avoid steep campus exits. Authorities reported slick highways but generally open routes, with trains and buses largely on time except for a late Santa Fe passenger and one Albuquerque coach.
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University of Kansas
Ruth Nash
Sunflower Village
Sunflower
Ecrewmen
Streets Department
J.C. Starper
Missouri
Kansas
Dread Avenue
Harper
Mississippi
Indiana
Emery
Mount Orvad
Lawrence
Raoper Harvey — Schmedemann
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Addy
la Junta
Colo
Newton Run
Union Bus
J. R. McKinley
Albuquerque
Housing office weighs Sunflower living for students
A housing official said Sunflower is adequate for many students but transportation problems leave some unable to use it. He noted graduate assistants work late and long hours, and suggested Lawrence residents with spare rooms could convert them into apartments to ease demand. Landlords would gain quick occupancy as some singles and doubles sit unused due to high rents. Registrar James K. Hitt said spring enrollment is on schedule with about 400 total new registrations expected, including new students and reentries.
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Sunflower St Iit
Lawrence
James K. Hitt
Rural district consolidations bring four Eudora schools
Voters in Belleview and Weaver rural districts approved joining Eudora grade school district raising the count to four. County Superintendent Margaret Hurley said Pleasant Oak and Farm land districts voted against consolidation. others in Clearfield Leavenworth and Johnson counties reported as defeated. An election to pick three board members for the enlarged Eudora district will be held this spring.
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Eudora Township
Eudora
Margaret Hurley
Belleview
Weaver
Althe
Clearfield
Leavenworth
Johnson Counties
Hurley
Pleasant Oak
Baldwin
White Farmland
Althe Pleasant Oak
Board of Education
Freedom Train in West Stops in Kansas Towns in May
The Freedom Train with priceless American historical documents has begun its southwest tour. It will pass through Kansas towns Hutchinson Wichita Emporia Topeka Lawrence Parsons and Kansas City Missouri in May with dates ranging May 9 through May 21. The train is currently in Tyler Texas and heads toward western and northwestern states, leaving February 15.
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St. Louis
Southwest
Kansas
Missouri
Hutchinson
Wichita
Emporia
Topeka
Lawrence
Parsons
Kansas City
Tyler
Texas
Weather District Forecast for February 3 Across Reels
Forecast covers Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Nebraska with below normal temperatures in Nebraska and generally below normal elsewhere. Warmer in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma, much colder Thursday, cold Friday, warming by Saturday and Sunday with light precipitation in eastern Missouri and southeast Oklahoma Wednesday night spreading southwest. Kansas expected light snow or sleet north and west with freezing drizzle elsewhere. Temperatures range from lows in the teens to mid thirties with variable precipitation through Sunday.
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Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Neraska
Nebraska
Kansaa
U. S
Chicago
Reaver
Fort W
Havre
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Washington
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Concordia
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Maybank
Pie Capper
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University of Kansas Department of Political Science
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Hobart Hanson
Lawrence Center
University Extension
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James Surface
Esearch
E. J. Logsdon
Liberty Memorial High School
Harvard School of Business
Hanson
Son
Russia
Colorado U
Thomas Lamont
Boys and Girls of India
March of Dimes.x
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Coffeyville
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