American Troops Halt Red Offensive North of Chechon
American infantrymen counter attacked north of Chechon as Chinese red forces massed 15,000 or more in a push tied to battles around Chechon Wonju and Chipyong. Despite early gains by the Reds, United Nations artillery and counterattacks blunted the assault, with no clear pattern formed by the enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ican
Chechen
U.S. 10Th Corps
Chechon
Chipyong
Wonju
South Korea
38Th Parallel
Seoul
Chiprone
Mesalat Corpa
United Nations
Wonjn
U. N
Shortages at Front Hit Korean War Soldiers Hard
In Korea on February 16 delayed, Red Cross workers say daily items like stationery towels wash cloths pipes playing cards and spoons are in scarce supply for American troops. No post exchanges exist for these items and parcels take weeks to arrive. Writing paper and envelopes are the greatest need as soldiers travel miles to obtain basics. Pipe replacements are especially sought after by pipe smokers, a key gripe reported by Howard Brodie after a brief six day with infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Korea
Red Cross
Demain
Santa Ana
Pipesmokers Co
Howard Brodie
San Francisco
32nd Reunion of Battery B Scheduled for Thursday
The 92nd annual reunion of Battery B 130th Field Artillery 35th Division will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Building on Thursday, the anniversary of George Washington's birthday. Eudort, in charge of arrangements, secured the movie Your America about soldiers in training and battle. The American Legion auxiliary under Mrs. Dora Worley will serve the dinner. Kansas City, Feb. 17, LP to Zach Miller Jr., 87, banker and former Federal Reserve governor, died after a long illness. Enjoy chicken and steak dinners all you can eat family style at Six Corners. call 733-K-22 or drive out Ady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
130Th Field Artillery
George Washington
Ray Ogden
Eudort
America
Dora Worley
Kansas City
Zach Miller
Miller
Federal Reserve Bank
Seeks Action on Tidelands Oil Bill Dispute Faces Hearing
Washington February 17 Senate Interior Committee chair O Mahoney plans a rapid hearing on the tidelands oil bill to settle federal state ownership disputes. The plan calls for interim administration under Interior supervision and new leases while awaiting permanent legislation. California opposes interim action citing lost state ownership and royalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Q’mahoney
D.-Wyo
Senate Interior Committee
Mittee
Pirt
O’mahoney
Weisiaday
O'Mahoney
Secretary of the Interior
Murray
D.-Mont
Philip Pearlman
Martin White
Interior Department
Justice
Interior Departments
California
Gasoline Shortage Strains China Amid Korea War
Hindustan Times dispatch reports North China faces fuel and hospital pressures from the Korean conflict. Peiping and Tientsin suffer gasoline drought. only military trucks and diplomats have fuel. Hospitals in Manchuria and Peiping lack nursing staff as war casualties rise, alarming Chinese leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Hindustan Times
China
North China
Red China
Korea
Manchuria
Peiping
Moore
Tientsin
Unified federal offices for soil and water conservation urged
Washington reports a Brannan order to consolidate Soil Conservation Service the Production and Marketing Administration and the Forest Service into a single county office. Farmers would use one office and Saturday service to access all conservation programs, with an assistant secretary in Washington overseeing. PMA funds 285 million over two years while state and county PMA committees administer payments. SCS will assist in drafting programs. Douglas County shares office at 641 Massachusetts Street. Also, Truman nominates Willard Eugene Foos for postmaster at Healy, Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Bran- Man
Soil Conservation Service
S.C
Production and Marketing Administration
P.M.A
Forest Service
Brannan
Lncal
S.C.S
Oth
P.M.A. R
Department
Douglas County Production and Marketing Administration
Douglas County Soil Conservation District
Massachusetts Street
Most of Snow to Go in Kansas Weekend Outlook
Topeka reports moderating temperatures will melt most of Kansas snow over the weekend as skies clear by Sunday. A southeast drizzle is possible tomorrow, with warmer conditions in the east and cooler air in the northwest. Temperatures range from the 40s to 50s with lows in the 20s to 30s and variable snow reports lingering in the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Liberal
Goodland
Russell
Record number of homes started in January 1951
Washington reports a new all time high for U S home building with 87000 non farm dwelling units started in January. Private builders produced 34000 of the total while public housing fell and January starts declined eight percent from December. Early reports also suggest February may set another record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Bureau of Statistics
Feast of the Coon Supper Feeds Douglas County Hunters
About 200 members of the Douglas County Coon Hunters association and families gathered for a covered dish supper with roasted coon at the community building. Coons, caught by association members, were skinned, salted, frozen, then cooked for four hours with a vinegar based barbecue sauce.
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Carl Hess
Eva Hess
West Ninth Street
Douglas County Coon Hunters Association
Charles E. Martin
Arkan
Martin
Lawrence
Eudora
Hess
Control of Wages A Major Problem
Washington reports major fault lines in wage controls as labor leaders walk out in protest and industry leaders accuse them of hindering national unity. The wage stabilization board adopts a 16 percent ceiling from Jan 15, 1950, to July 1, 1950, affecting auto raises but delaying others. Eric Johnston awaits his signature to enact the plan amid industry and union warnings of serious unrest and calls for a crisis in mobilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eric Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
Johnston
Emil Rieve
Elmer E. Walker
Hank C. Bates
Bates
Henry B. Arthur
J. Ward Keener
Reuben Robertson, Jr
United Labor Policy Committee
AFL
CIO
Rail Brothershoods
Local Family Receives Air Medal News Amid Missing Son
Lloyd L. Boughton and wife of Gardner were informed their son Lieut. George B. Boughton is missing in action as of February 12. A February 9 letter from Lieut. Houghton accompanied the war department notice and a photo shows the air base commander pinning the air medal on Houghton. The medal, awarded in January, comes with two oak leaf clusters. The Boughton family has many Lawrence friends, and Lloyd was a long time University of Kansas faculty member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd L. Boughton
Gardner
War Department
George B. Boughton
Houghton
Air Force
Boughton
Lawrence
Local resident reports losing cash in Topeka purse incident
Audra X Scarbrough, visiting Topeka, reported losing a purse containing four hundred one hundred dollar bills, three ten dollar bills, a five, four ones, two silver dollars and a seven fifty check after leaving a chain grocery. She listed two addresses in Topeka and Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Topeka
Audra x. Scarbrough
Enat Fourth Street
North Second Street
Boeing plans 21,500 payroll for B47 bomber work
Boeing Aircraft plant here expects 21,500 workers on the payroll by June to build B47 bombers. Boeing vice president and general manager Q. E. Schaefer outlined that 3,500 new hires are needed, noting current payroll around 320,000 dollars daily and contracts totaling 124,700,000 with more than 57,000,000 flowing to Kansas firms.
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Wiehira
Naw
Feb. K
Boeing Aircraft
Q. E. Schaefer
Boeing
Fer
Schaefer
Schmeier
Kansas Firme
Three Way Split Dominates Senate Troop Debate
Washington observers report a looming three way split among Senate Republican leaders over the troops to Europe issue as hearings resume next week with Hoover and Dewey invited to testify. Debates swirl on capping American troop numbers abroad while supporting a European rearmament plan, alongside Secretary Marshall’s four division expansion and counterpoints from Acheson and Bradley. The Kansas education school honors list shows record high averages, with 52 students on the fall honor roll and multiple all A students including six with perfect grades.
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Washington
Senate
Europe
Foreign Relations and
Armed Services Committees
Hoover
Thomas E.dewey
New York
Dewey
United States
Congress
North Atlantic
Isvight D. Eisenhower
Millikin
Colorado
Conference
Taft
Ohio
Senate Policy Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
G.O.P
Defense Marshall
Marshall
State Acheson
Omar N. Bradley
Acheson
Russia
School of Education
University of Kansas
George B. Smith
Patty Davis
Medicine Lodge
Margaret Gowans
Hutchinson
Mary Lou Lane
St. Marys
William Mitchel
Topeka
Shirley Rice
Salina
Marian Kysar Shaw
Quinter
Lawrence
Dean Smith
Ralph L. Bontrager
Rhode Island
Marilyn Ruth Smith
Indiana
Joan Squires
New Hampshire
Emily Stacey
Commissioners to Submit Two Special Voting Issues
The county commissioners voted to draft resolutions to submit two questions to voters in a countywide special election on April 3. The 4 H petition seeks a fund to build a building for 4 H clubs and agricultural shows, and a vote on selling the county property at 708 Connecticut Street, the former county shops site, due to its value exceeding 5900.
Health Board Calls for Another Special Meeting Next Week
The board of health met in special session Thursday night on personnel matters and, finding no decision, will hold another special session next week. Chairman Elmer Ousdahl announced the plan and stated no exact time had been set yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Elmer Ousdahl
Guest Conductor to Lead KU All Musical Vespers
Dr Ernst von Dehnanyi will guest conduct KU School of Fine Arts All Musical Vespers at 4 tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium. He directs Mendelssohn Italian Symphony second and third movements with the University Symphony Orchestra. Other groups include the KU concert band and choirs along with Clayton Krehbiel leading the a cappella and women’s glee. The program features Palestrina, Stanford, Glinka, Stravinsky and Schuman pieces. The event is open to the public with no admission charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernst von Dehnanyi
University of Kansas School of Fluents
Hoch
Dohnanyi
Kh. J
University Symphony
Mendels-J Aohn
Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
School of Fine Arts
K. U
Clayton Krehbiel
Palestrina
Krehbiel
Glee Club
William Schuman
Russell L. Wiley
Stravinsky
D. M. Swarthout
Former Quarters to House Sunflower Ordnance Office
Lieut. Col. Walter D. Rogers announced that the administrative offices of the Ordnance Corps and Hercules Powder Company have been re established in building 214, the WWII era home of those offices. The building, idle during four years of standby work at Sunflower Ordnance Works, is being rehabiliated and will again serve as the activity center under Mass man Patti Tanner and Mitchell, with supervision by the Corps of Engineers of the Kansas City district.
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Walter D. Rogers
Sunflower Ordnance Works
The
Ordnance Corps
Hercules Powder Company
S.O.W
Massman
Patti
Tanner
Mitchell
Corps of Engineers of
Kansas City District
Oklahoma plane crash kills two near Bartlesville
A light airplane crashed 114 miles southeast of Bartlesville Oklahoma killing one man and injuring another. The victims were Henry Barbick and Larry BieDon, both Bartlesville Flying Club members. Muddy roads hindered search parties reaching the scene.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Pne
Jared
Highway Patrol
Robert Bynum
Henry Barbick
Larry BieDon
Bartlesville Flying Club
Stock Market Index Stays Steady in Late Trading
New York stock market closes with the 60 stock average at 36.4, unchanged from the prior session. The report notes open hours for evenings and Sundays and mentions the ra Food Center at 2nd and Linc as part of the market scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ra Food Center
2Nd & Linc
Casualties Identified in Korean War Report
Washington reports the Defense Department identifies additional U.S. casualties from Korea. The 228th list lists 128 killed in action 168 wounded 23 missing in action and 20 injured in accidents. Sunday dinners served at Six Corners from noon to five. Drive out five miles northeast on Highway 2440.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
New Use for Water as a Fuel
Two Utah inventors from Salt Lake City say they have a device that burns ordinary water to heat homes or power industries. George Jackson and William Daugherty applied for a patent, claiming a pint of water could heat a four room house for four hours. They say water is heated under pressure by alcohol, then released as hydrogen and oxygen to burn at high heat, with alcohol only to start the process. A home burner could cost about 15 dollars, and it would burn other fuels without carbon deposits or smoke.
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Associated Peasy
Washington
Utah
George Jackson
William Daugherty
Salt Lake City
Daugherty
Government bans white sidewall tires to save rubber
The National Production Authority ordered manufacturers to stop producing tires with white sidewalls to reduce rubber use by about 10 percent. The rule restricts lines and colors, allowing one line per tire type and one color for inner tubes, with limited exemptions. Officials say consumer availability should not be affected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Autthority
N.P.A
Call for Packer's Strike Chicare Feb 17
The nation s largest packinghouse workers local with about 7000 members authorized an immediate strike in the meat packing industry. Leon Beverly president of Chicago local 34 of the CIC Limited Packinghouse Workers urged the action in a telegram to Ralph Helstein head of PW The telegram notes the Wage Stabilization Board collapse and demands a wage increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicare
Leon Beverly
Chicago
C.I.C. Limited
Ralph Helstein
Armour and Company
Beverly
Wage Stabilization Board
Two more to file in city primary
Oliver Beaman and Albert C. Hayden began circulating petitions for the five city commission posts as filing closes March 9. Beaman, 46, owner of a radio and TV shop, seeks a non partisan ticket backed by the Lawrence Committee for the Support of Good Government. Beaman has served on the council for four years. Hayden, 49, North Lawrence resident and former auto service operator, lists economics as his college major and has lived in the area most of his life. The Lawrence group formally approved 18 potential candidates and will circulate petitions for those who accept. The primary is March 20 with the city election on April 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Beaman
New Jersey Street
Albert C. Hayden
Lincoln Street
Fred E. John
Mainestreet
Beaman
City Manager Commission
Lawrence Committee
Lawrence
North Central College
Minoia
Odd Fellows Lodge
Mie Kiwania Club
Garden Club
University of Kansas
Liberty Memorial High School
Jayden
North Second Street
North Lawrence
University of Neas
DeSoto
Baldwin
Trinity Lutheran Church
Grant Township
Lawrence Lawridge
City Commission
League of Women Voters
George J. Hood
Crescent Road
Private deaths at Fort Riley after shell misfire
A 105 millimeter artillery shell fell short of its target at Fort Riley Kansas killing three infantry privates instantly and injuring eight others. Private James V Starr 27 grandson of Edward and Mrs Kerr of High Bridge Wisconsin died last night. Alf St Myhre 22 of Decorah Iowa and Sante A Quattrocchi 28 of Lincoln Nebraska also died in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Riley
Kan
James V. Starr
Edward Kerr
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Jo Zach Miller
Healy
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Willard Eugene Foos
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Penn Yan
Grace McLoud
John Pepper
Beaufort
S. C
Lady's Island
Columbia
Stouta Iga
N. Y
Associated Press
K. U. Vespers
Budapest
Philharmonic
Hoch Auditorium
Jenna
Sunflower Ordnance Office
Oklahoma
Deane W. Malott
Pres
James A. McCain
Kansas State College
Manhattan
McCain
K-State
State College
Malott
Comel University
Hhaca
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Gfercion
Doura
Chicaza
Denver
Edmonton
Los Angeles
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NPA
Packer
Oliver, Beaman
Albert Hayden
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