March on Capital Picks Up Steam for Inauguration Festivities
Washington buzzes as Republicans descend for three days of inauguration events for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon. Governors, officials, and crowds pour in, with streets festooned and floats being prepared for the grand parade amid uncertain weather.
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Davight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
New York
Herbert Hoover
National Symphony Orchestra
Richard M. Nixon
Republican National Committee
Washington
Nixon
Weather Bureau
14 Believed Killed In Newfoundland Air Crash
An American C34 military transport crashed Friday night near Harmon Air Base at Stephenville Newfoundland. Four engine plane carried 14 American military personnel believed killed. A board of officers will investigate the crash and determine the cause. Weather in the area was reported as generally good.
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ST. John's
Harmon Air Base
Stephenville
Newfoundland
U. S. Air Force
Halifax
Winter Sleet and Flu Clash with Texas Schools and Roads
A damaging sleet storm and bitter cold sweep Texas delaying relief into Sunday and threatening crops in the Rio Grande Valley. Health officials warn hundreds of thousands to stay indoors to avoid pneumonia as roadways glaze over and traffic accidents rise. about 100 schools close due to flu or weather. Lawrence High and Shawnee Mission basketball games and KU versus K-State are to be aired by Journal-World after 8:30 p.m.
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Dallas
Texis
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
State Health Department
State Highway Department
Journal-World of Mee
Rence
Mission
Kansas
K. U
K-State
Hoch Auditorium
Senators Study Legal Barriers Involving Wilson Appointment
Republican senators pressed President-elect Eisenhower to resolve legal obstacles to confirming Charles B. Wilson as secretary of defense while he retains General Motors stock. Two routes were discussed: special legislation to repeal bans and a narrow interpretation of the law. House actions moved to block Eisenhower tax deduction proposals, as leadership sought to limit benefits for the President and others.
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Eissenhower
Charles B. Wilson
General Motors
Wilson
Defense Department
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Armed Services Committee
Herbert Brownell Jr
Sherman Adams
Brownell
Adams
House
Truman
Reed
R-Ny
Ways and Means
Nixon
Martin
Egypt crushes Communist plot to topple Naguib
Cairo reports a crackdown on a Communist and Wafd conspiracy with 40 arrests. Col. Abdel Nasser, acting chief of staff, says the group planned disturbances to coincide with the early Jan celebration of Naguib’s liberation. Noted detainees include Fuad Serag Ed Din and Prince Abbas Halim. The premier dissolves all political parties and bans their activities for three years.
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Egypt
Mohamed Naguib
Abdel Nasser
Naguib
Nasser
Pny Ermary
Coun
Farouk
Republican Party Eyes Wes Roberts for Chairman in Washington
Republican leaders in Washington gathered to elect C. Wesley Roberts as chairman, replacing Arthur E. Summerfield who resigns to join President elect Eisenhower’s Cabinet as postmaster general. Roberts, a former Kansas newspaperman and WWII veteran, has Eisenhower’s backing and previously ran Eisenhower’s national headquarters and Carlson’s 1950 Senate campaign. The vote was slated for an afternoon closed meeting after a subcommittee recommendation.
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Washington
Republican Party
GOP
C. Wesley
Wes) Roberts
Kansas
Arthur E. Summerfield
Michigan
Summerfield
Eisenhower
Roberts
Sen
Carlson
Senate
Arn's Pachyderm Vehicle Goes to Garage as Guest
Big Babe the elephant that attended the Republican National Convention in Chicago last summer is a guest in a Ft. Scott garage Saturday. Babe and her keepers, Mr and Mrs Jimmy O'Dell of Kansas City, were en route to Bryan Texas when the truck broke down near here Friday. Despite a hefty push by Babe, the engine wouldn’t start. A wrecker towed the truck to a garage for repairs while Babe rests in a car stall. The elephant, owned by C A Vernon of Bryan, was ridden by Gov Arn in Wichita on election day last November.
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Babe
Chicago
Jimmy O'Dell
Kansas City
Tgute
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Bryan
Gov. Arn
Wichita
Secretary Dulles Pushes Liberty Theme in Satellite Nations
Washington reports a sharp policy split between Secretary of State designate John Foster Dulles and George Kennan on dealings with the Soviet bloc. Dulles favors moral pressure and propaganda to promote liberty in satellite states, while Kennan warns against actions risking internal disintegration. Kennan, barred from Moscow, has long clashed with State Department elites. The debate centers on how aggressively the United States should press for freedom within Soviet spheres while upholding UN commitments.
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Russia
John Foster Dulles
State Department
George K. Kennan
Dulles
Niles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Kennan
Scranton
United Nations
Lawrence Cyclones Won Show At 1889 Harrison Inaugural
Lawrence men formed the Cyclones firework club that wowed Washington at Harrison’s 1889 inauguration. They won the $750 prize for best moving display despite a supply-cart fire accident. Three Lawrence survivors recall the historic feat and Bullene’s victory telegram.
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Lawrence Cyclones
Harrison
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington, D. C
Benjamin Harrison
Lawrence
Tenth Street
Old
Cyclone Club of
Shawn
Sam S. Elliott
W. 7Th St
Lathrop B. Read
Tenn. St
Willard Brown
St. Elliott
Read
Brown
Journal-World
Toes and fingers come by sixes in Coffeyville case
Sandy Long of Athens Georgia was arrested by Coffeyville police and jailed for 30 days on vagrancy. He reports all six of his and his relatives’ fingers and toes, including his father and 91 year old grandfather, with six digits each, a trait he says may help during cotton picking time.
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Coffeyville
Sandy Long
Athens
Long
Carl E. Ziegler
Independence
Georgia
Wreck injures seven near Fleming Georgia in fog
An ACL Miami to Boston passenger train rear ended a freight train in thick fog at Fleming Georgia, injuring seven with two in critical condition. Locomotives and passenger cars derailed, logs and debris scattered as crews reported hot boxes and failed signals in the crash.
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Atlantic Coast Line
Boston
Miami
Fleming
Here
E. E. Sharpe
Southern
ACL
Robert Robinson
Passager
Selman R. Pack
Waycross
Jim Bisson
Savannah Morning News
Evening Press
Bisson
Arrested in Red Spy Hunt in Vienna
U S agents rounded up persons in Vienna suspected of spy ring ties to Russia. Theresa Harris, 30, a Vienna born British national working for the U S Army since 1949, is in questioning with no formal charges yet. She previously left Vienna in 1938, later returning after marriage and divorce in Britain.
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Austria
U. S
U. S.army
Theresa Harris
U. S. Army
Harris
Theresa Kakmar
Britain
U__S
Otto Verber
Kurt L. Ponger
Accused Soviet Spy to Leave U S
Yuri V. Novikov Soviet diplomat and alleged spy plot director will depart the United States Sunday per State Department order. The Idlewild flight to Brussels ends his role as second secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Washington amid indictments of two former U S soldiers seeking to obtain intelligence secrets for the Soviet Union.
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New York
Yuri V. Novikov
State Department
U. S
Novikov
Washington
Idlewild
Sabena Airlines
Brussels
Soviet Union
Mandt to keynote Kansas Day GOP rally in Topeka
Senator Karl E Mandt R SD was named main speaker for the Kansas Day Republican rally in Topeka on January 29. Publisher Mundt will also address the Kansas Republican Veterans Club that day. Mandt, elected to the Senate in 1948 after serving in the House, is known as an author and speaker on farm and political social science topics.
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Karl E. Mandt
R-Sd
McDill Boyd
Phillipsburg
Kansas Day Club
Kansas Republican Veterans Club
Mundt
Senate
House
Stockman Elected Topeka Board of Agriculture President
William Condell of El Dorado Hereford breed er was elected president of the Kansas Board of Agriculture at its annual meeting. Lew Galloway of WaKeeney was chosen vice president and Everett E. Erhart of Stafford treasurer. Condell, Galloway, Erhart and Perry H. Lambert of Hiawatha were re elected to three year terms. The board urged the legislature to pass workable watershed legislation and to ensure county Farm Bureau associations have representation at annual meetings.
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Topeka
William Condell
el Dorado
State Board of Agriculture
Condell
Lew Galloway
WaKeeney
Jett
Everett E. Erhart
Stafford
Galloway
Erhart
Perry H. Lambert
Hiawatha
Kansas
Farm Bureau
Extension Service
Warmer Sunday forecast after Kansas snow event
Snow blanketed eastern Kansas with up to three inches in places and sleet earlier, causing hazardous driving but no drifting as roads remained open. By Sunday highs should rise to 35 to 40 with lows 15 to 25 in central and eastern areas. In Kansas City a fatal truck collision killed Watson W. Standish, 39, of Bethel, while Arnold D. Wilson, of North Kansas City, Mo., survived. Clayton L. Stone, Journal World advertising chief, underwent surgery in Lawrence and was listed in satisfactory condition.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wichita
Hutchinson
Emporia
Kansas- Missouri
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Chanute
Wameego
Ripley
Ft. Scott
Kas
Watson W. Standish
Bethel
Arnold D. Wilson
Kansas U Aims for TV Station Amid Budget Cuts
The 1953 Kansas Legislature's economy drive dims KU and K State's plans for educational TV. KU faces a reduced operating budget and doubts about securing $200,000 needed for a station. Ford Foundation offered $100,000 to KU and K State if they raise $200,000 more by January 31. Both campuses plan to use same programs but seek licenses for channels, with KU awaiting FCC processing and MU already licensed for Channel 8.
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K.U
University of Kansas
K.U. L
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Franklin D. Murphy
James A. McCain
Kstate
K-State
Federal Communications Commission
Lawrence
Kansas City
FCC
Lan
University of Missouri
M.U
United States
Snowfall at Noon Sets First Measurable Snowmark of 1953
The Lawrence area recorded its first measurable snow of 1953 totaling about an inch with one tenth inch moisture. Roads were slick and travel was hazardous though no major closures reported. An earlier light snow thawed by late morning as sun intermittently appeared.
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Lawrence
State Weather Bureau
Douglas County
Hugh Sheridan
Ely
Sheridan
Tennessee
Louisiana
Iwrence
C. J. Posey
Ronays
J Posey
Kansas Traffic Toll Figures From State Records
State accident records list two fatalities in the last 24 hours and 21 for the year to date. The 1953 period shows 24 total deaths for the same span, reflecting ongoing roadway fatalities in Topeka and across Kansas as authorities track trends.
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Topeka
Kansas
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