Lawman and Lawyer Step Out in Kansas City
Kansas City Kansas police chief Swarner confirms ongoing raids and investigations after resignations. Attorney Fatzer plans to meet the mayor with new evidence, seeking cooperation while a guard protects the seized liquor and gambling equipment vault. Regular vice squad duties continue despite leadership changes.
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Kansas City
Kan
Fatzer
Tucker
Swarner
Harding
Topeka
Stewart
Ihr
Child Survives Polio Returns Home After Paralysis
Wayne Churchill, a polio survivor, has returned to Lawrence with limited use of his limbs and ongoing therapy. His father Ralph, a Sunflower Ordnance Works worker, built a new home as Wayne gains strength while cared for at home by his mother and visiting family.
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Watkins Memorial Hospital
N.Y
Ralph Churchill
Wayne
Lawrence
Corpus Christi
Tex
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Ralda Mae
Keith
Lawrener
Epiphany Service in South Park Draws 200 Attendees
About 200 people gathered in South Park for an Epiphany or Twelfth Night service commemorating the Magi’s visit to the Christ Child. Families carried Christmas trees to add to a burning pile as lights were extinguished and carols were sung led by Rev. Robert C. Swift with support from Rev. Dale Ei and Rev. Harry L. Smith.
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Atton
South Park
Stabie
Robert C. Swift
Trinity Episcopal Church
Tvice
Dale Ei
Plymouth Contrepational Churcch
Mr. Swift
Harry L. Smith
Ninth Street Baptist Church
Driver fined for wrong side of highway case
Stanley Leroy Shepard was fined $10 and costs in County Court for driving on the wrong side of the highway. Lawrence Lodge No. 6 A F and A M holds a special communication Tuesday January 8 at 3 p m to attend the funeral of Brother B Z Stephenpor. W B Snee M W H
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Stanley Leroy Shepard
Lawrence Lodge No
A.F
A.M
B. Z. Stephenpor
W. B. Snee- M
W.H
Walter B. Sneegas
Ww. M
Walter H. Varnum
Ady
Raymond Lee Dillon
Douglas County
New assistant manager named at Eldridge Hotel
Er nest Charles Johansen, 23, began duties as assistant manager at the Eldridge today. A Michigan State College graduate in hotel administration, he previously served in the Navy and is married. He succeeds Joseph Calderara, who left to work in war production at Boeing in Wichita.
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Eldridge
Ernest Charles Johansen
Michigan State College
Lansing
Mich
Mike Getto
Michigan State
United States
Johansen
Lawrence Post
Billy Hutson
Mr. Hutson
Mass
New York City
U. S. Navy
Caribbean
Joseph Calderara
Boeing Aircraft
Wichita
Outpost West of Koranpo Fights Reds as Blockade Tightens
Front fought fiercely near Ko rangpo as United Nations infantry fell back from two Red thrusts. Allied ships kept a tight blockade on East and West Korean coasts while carrier planes struck Communist supply routes and disrupted rail lines in 109 places.
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United Nations
Korangpo
Memorial Hospital births and injuries in Sunflower area
A crowded hospital news list reports births at Memorial Hospital in Sunflower with names and addresses of parents and babies, plus injuries from a toy accident for 16 month old Tommy Davison and a patient slip in Holton. Also noted are a grade crossing collision near Allen with two seriously injured adults, a forgery arrest of W Sneed in Douglas County, and former Governor Ben S Paulen injured on an icy sidewalk.
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Tommy Davison
E. E. Davison
Locust St
Helen Collins
Holton
Allen
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Dave Barrett
Emporia
Edith Wise
Ben S. Paulen
Kansas
Ike Willing to Consider Presidential Nomination
The article traces Eisenhower’s fluctuating interest in a 1952 bid. It notes past denials, repeated booms within both parties, and his December 1949 statement of no political ambition. In 1949 and again after a new GOP push, he left room for a possible candidacy while stressing respect for others’ rights as citizens.
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Roberts
Eisenhower
Europe
Truman
Ike
White House
Columbia University
GOP
Open House and Dedication for KU Journalism Center
An editor will speak on work and objectives as officers are elected. Open House Friday coincides with dedication for the remodeled Old Fowler Shops building housing the School of Journalism and University of Kansas Press. Dean Marvin notes expanded facilities for photography editing writing and layout.
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Marvin
Fowler
University
School of Journalism
University of Kansas Press
Constant Construction Co
Canham
Christian Science Monitor
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Maine
Bates College
Oxford University
England
Ags
The
Monitor
League of Nations Assembly
Washington
William Allen White Foundation Board
Two Leading Newspapers Back Ike Bid for White House
New York Times and Chicago Sun-Times endorse General Dwight D. Eisenhower for the White House. Both papers cite his foreign policy stance and praise Sena tor Lodge’s NH primary move. The Times contrasts past endorsements with Dewey Willkie Roosevelt votes. the Sun-Times cites Truman Roosevelt wins.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New York Times
Chicago Sun-Times
White House
R-Mass
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
the Times
Thomas E.dewey
Truman
Wendell L. Willkie
Father and three children die in Milwaukee plane crash
Milwaukee Jan 7 Dr George Thill and three of his children are believed dead after a plane crash in Lake Michigan Saturday night en route home from a Florida vacation. Wreckage with a log book bearing the physician’s signature was found by the Coast Guard cutter Sundew five miles southeast of Milwaukee. Mrs Thill and daughter Nancy 16 were believed to be returning by car. Officials said the children aged 18 James 14 and Mary eth 11 accompanied their father.
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Milwaukee
George Thill
Fire at Grand Hotel sends guests fleeing in Leavenworth
Early yesterday a fire swept the third floor of the Grand Hotel in Leavenworth causing 30 to 40 guests to flee. Fire Captain Joe Phillips carried an unidentified sleeping woman from the building as Fire Chief Robert Schroeder stated the blaze origin is undetermined. Also noted, anti malarial drugs can be derived from furfural, a chemical sourced commercially from corm.
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Leavenworth Hotel
Leavenworth
Grand Hotel
Joe’ Phillips
Robert Schroeder
Deaths and Funerals Rites for Nellie Woodard
Funeral services were held for Nellie M. Woodard wife of Emery Woodard at Funk Chapel with pallbearers Arthur Olson James Dresser Leo Bellinger Herbert Jones John Edmonds and Glenn A. Dawes. Also noted were obituaries for B Z Stephenson Elda Melvina Brown Josephine Newland and Fredrick Dissinger with service details and survivors.
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Mra
Woodard
Nellie M. Woodard
Emery Woodard
Funk Chapel
Arthur Olson
James Dresser
Leo Bellinger
Herbert Jones
John Edmonds
Glenn A. Dawes
Richard Preis
Death of Ada Stewart Savage noted in local ad notices
Ads Stewart Savage Friends report the death of Ada Stewart Savage a former city resident on December 5 in Los Gatos California. She lived with her son-in-law and daughter Roy Porterfield in Chevy Chase Maryland before moving to California about a year and a half ago. Burial took place in Los Gatos. She was an early member of Chapter AI of PEO in Lawrence.
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Ads Stewart Savage
Ada Stewart Savage
Los Gatos
Calif
Roy Porterfield
Chevy Chase
California
Honor Comes to Head of K U Geology Department
Prof. Robert M. Dreyer chairing KU Geology is elected a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, one of about twenty living between the Mississippi and California. He is the only U.S. geologist who is both a Mineralogical Society fellow and a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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Robert M. Dreyer
University of Kansas Department of Geology
Mineralogical Society of America
Mississippi
California
Society
Dreyer
United States
The
Mineralogical Society
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Dr. Dreyer
Geological Society of America
Local Scenes and Court News From Lawrence and Washington
A Lawrence visit to the city library Children’s Room features a mother and son discussing antique dolls and a mink fur query. A Christmas tree incident at South Park ends with the smallest child’s distress prompting the tree’s return home. In Washington, the Supreme Court upholds a $750,000 Taft Hartley Act damage award against Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association. A separate $10,461 damage suit is filed in Douglas County District Court over a November traffic wreck on Massachu setts Avenue.
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Washington
Staveme
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremen’s Union
Jueau (Alaska) Spruce Corp
Bridges
Douglas County
Wallace T. Hicklin Jr
Orchard Lane
George Wyatt
Tenn. St
Massachusetts
Hicklin
Wyatt
Kiwanis selects Hutchinson as 1952 convention city
Jan 7 reports Hutchinson chosen by the Kansas District Kiwanis International trustees for the 1952 convention while the mid winter conference ends today in the city. Also Kansas Democrats name Harry Miller as general chairman for Washington Day club meetings February 22 and 23.
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Hiwanians
Hutchinson Emporia
Kansas District
Kiwanis International
Hutchinson
Kiwanis
Topeka
Harry Miller
Kansas City
Washington Day Club
Kansas
Man 15 Found Dead on Kaw River Bank
Charles B. Lowe age 80 living alone at 26 North Fourth Street was found dead at 9 30 this morning on the south bank of the Kaw River at the foot of Rhode Island Street near the Lawrence Paper Company. He apparently wandered from home to the river bank on ice and fell. Coroner Dr. H Penfield Jones ruled death due to exposure about three to four hours before discovery. He was a retired brakeman for the Union Pacific railroad. Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at the Rumsey Funeral Home with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery. He is survived by a daughter Mrs. Lawrence Pine of 431 Forest Street two sons William Lowe of Topeka and L S Lowe of Olathe two sisters Mrs Minnie Hoyce of San Francisco California and a brother Dean Lowe of Waterloo Iowa and a granddaughter Miss Joyce Pine of Lawrence.
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Disainger
Fredrick Charles Dissinger
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Carl Althaus
la. St
Lehighton
Moses
Amelia Dissinger
Kansas
Texas
Henrietta
Evangelical Church
California
Colorado
Abilene
Rose Nuffer
Peter
Caroline Nuffer
Stull
Dissinger
Althaus
Clarence Dissinger
LaGrange
Ill
Rae Swicegood
Long Beach
Cati
Carl Eugene Althaus
Ogillala
Nebr
Glen Sankey
Peoria
Ann Dissinger
Mil
Evangelical United Brethren Church
E. F. Boehringer
Yates Center
Schubert Chapel
Memorial Park Cemetery
Charles B. Lowe
N. 4Th St
Kaw River
Rhode Island St
Lawrence Paper Co
Lowe
North Lawrence
H. Penfield Jones
Douglas County
Union Pacific Railroad
Rumsey ‘Funeral Home
Maple Grove
Lawrence Pine
Forest St
William Lowe
Topeka
L. S. Lowe
Olathe
Minnie Hoyce
San Francisco
Calif
Dean L. Lowe
Waterloo
Joyce Pine
Lawrence
Guest speaker Dr Frank C Fowler to address KU section
Dr Frank C Fowler chemical engineer and private consultant Kansas City will speak at the January meeting of the University of Kansas section American Chemical Society on retrograde condensation and phase behavior of hydrocarbon systems at 7 20 p m tomorrow in Batley Chemical Laboratories KU He has four years as a full professor at University of Oklahoma previously with Phillips Petroleum Co and holds a B S from Illinois and a Ph D from Michigan
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Frank C. Fowler
Kansas City
University of Kansas
University of Ilinois
University of Ify of Michigan
KU Faculty Recital by Cerf and Gorton Tonight
University of Kansas Fine Arts School presents a faculty recital in Strong Auditorium at 8 p.m. featuring Raymond Cerf on violin and Thomas Gorton on piano. The program includes Prokofiev Sonata in D Op. 94, Kreutzer Sonata, Ravel Violin Sonata in A major, and Beethoven works.
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University of Kansas Fine Arts School
Raymond Cerf
Thomas Gorton
Ravel
Kreutzer
Beethoven
Homewood Wolf Drive Nets Nineteen Coyotes
Nearly 140 hunters joined the annual Homewood drive near Ottawa yesterday afternoon and bagged 19 coyotes and wolves. The six mile square roundup was directed by planes and PA equipped cars. A community lunch followed at Homewood School. Several Lawrence men attended.
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Homewood
Ottawa
Homewood School
Lawrence
Marriage Licenses Issued by Probate Court in Lawrence and Bemidji
Licenses granted to Rof fle M Miller 18 and Ella M Me Pike 22 both of Lawrence Clarence W Davis 21 of Lawrence and Phyllis M Bunnell 19 of Bemidji in Minnesota.
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Rof
Fle M. Miller
Ella M. Me
Pike
Lawrence
Clarence W. Davis
Phyllis M. Bunnell
Bemidji
Inn
Market News From Jan 7 Across Grains and Livestock
Markets mixed with demand in Isaaca and higher rodents in ration. Chicago wheat fell on weak demand while corn and oats dropped. Livestock in Kansas City and Chicago showed uneven to steady trade with cattle and calves selling unevenly, stockers active, and lambs slow but steady overall.
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Isaaca
Chicago
Aidle
Kaneag City Livestock Kansas Civ
Choles
Ealven
Hogedon
Kansas City
Kansay
Jane Ale
Jaseavnek
Imad
Colorado
Jonia
Fond
Anil Prine
Kansas
Kansas Wheat
Ina
Market notes on hay, produce, and stocks from Kansas City and Chicago
Hay receipts in Kansas City show 7 cars of alfalfa and prairie hay with steady to firm prices, while alfalfa market remains steady for good quality and slow for poor. Chicago potato and fruit markets report mixed activity with varied prices. Wall Street ends mixed with chemicals and radios weak, aircrafts holding gains, notable movers Boeing Douglas Lockheed, Kodak, Union Carbide, and others advancing or retreating.
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Jan
Ap-Hda
Prairle
Wall Street
New York
Jan. T
Tren
Boeing
Douglas
Lockheed
Jens Blartin
Frartians
Fastman Kodak
Union Carbid Fopuan
Case
Zenith
American Can
General Eieceric
Erican Tohaecs
U.S. Gypsum
US 8. Steel
Erthleham
Montgomery Ward
Kenneeut Copper
American’ Woolen, Santa Fe
Westinghouse
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Ern Front
Memorial Hospital
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Lecompton
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Dt. St
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Maple St
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Pa. St
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Leon Abele
Lyn Fearing
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Sylvester Winter
John Howe
Tenn
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Tonganoxie
Wilma Price
Indian Ave
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Jesse Horton
Lincoln St
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Patricia Deason
Naomi Richardson
N. Ard
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Sun
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Roy Cameron
Archie Coverson
Vt. St
Thuredsy Co
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Sneed
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B. Z. Stephenson
Rumsey Funeral
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence Masonic Lodge No. 6
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Elda Melvina Brown
Leroy Thornburg
Thornburg
Hesper
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Chivington
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Salem
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Josephine M. Newland
West Baldwin
Leonard Newland
Anna Young
Pilot Grove
Mary Grease
Buhl
Idaho
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Church of the Annunciation
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Laurenz Reith
Eudora
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Kansas State Employment Service
Penwell Gable
Copeka
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Carl “Sandy” Winsor
University Ofas
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Pat Winsor
Moody Air Force Base
Baidosta
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Lawrence and Nowe
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K. U. Geology Department
City Library
Erwin J. Rice
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Coyotes
Lawrence City Commission
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City Hall
11Th and Mass. Sts
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Geonce S.may Company
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