Chrysler Workers Strike Nationwide Walkout Hits Chrysler
89,000 United Auto Workers walk out at Chrysler after six months of pension talks end without a deal. Union seeks a funded pension with a 10-cent boost, while Chrysler offers a $100 monthly company administered plan. Mediators earlier planned renewed talks as production halts spread across 110,000 nationwide workers.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
C.I.O
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Reuther
Ford Motor Co
Ford
U.A. W
Gary
Ford Motor Company
Balla
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Acarcely
DeSoto
Dodge
Plymouth
Police Report Slots Scarce in Lawrence Under City Crackdown
Mayor Turner pressed a crackdown after last summer to outlaw slot machines and pay-off pinball devices. Police and Chief Moore inspected the Eagles lodge at 15 East Ninth Street, finding no gambling machines and no charges. The mayor said several phone tips prompted the raid, but no machines remained in operation. If any are found, officers will seize them.
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Lawrence
William J. B. Turner
Eagles Lodge
D. A. Moore
East Ninth Street
Porner
Stock Index Falls as Downtick Touches Sixty Stocks
Closing prices show a 60 stock index at 72.2 a drop of .6. The report notes market activity and the week’s performance alongside brief mentions of a separate event involving bouquet deliveries valued at twenty dollars.
Churchill Promises to Ease Tax Load If the Conservatives Win
Winston Churchill's Conservative party pledges to ease the British tax burden if elected and to maintain full employment while rolling back some Labour controls. The manifesto contrasts with political dynamics in New Zealand and Australia, where Labour governments faced defeats after long tenures.
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Churchill
Winston Churchill
Conservative
Labor Party
Britain
New Zealand
Australia
Labor I Povernmenta
Washington charges Soviet grabs four Chinese northern regions
Washington says Soviet Russia is absorbing four of China's wealthiest northern areas with alleged backing from two secret pacts with the USSR. Acheson cites Manchuria Outer Mongolia Sin Kiang and Inter Mongolia as targets. Vyshinsky calls the charges monstrous lies.
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Washington
State Department
China
Acheson
Russia
U.S.S.R
Manchuria
National Press Club
Outer Mongolia
Sin- Kiang
Inter Mongolia
Soviet Union
Vyshinsky
H. S. Debate Tourney Sets District, State Contests
The district AA and B high school debate tournament will be at the University of Kansas on Saturday. Top AA winners advance to the state event February 3 and 4, with Wyandotte Shawnee Mission Atchison Topeka Emporia among entrants and Winchester Madison Eskridge Enterprize KU. Each school fields affirmative and negative teams, four rounds daily, with morning sessions at 9 and 10 15 and afternoon at 1 and 2 15. The state tournament begins Friday afternoon as a preliminary, with all-day Saturday debates to crown state champions.
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University of Kaneas
Othex
Kanaae
University
Wyandotte
Shawnee Mission
Atchison
Topeka
Emporia
Winchester
Madison
Eskridge
Enterprize
University High School
K. U
Kansas
Unemployment Claims Plotted At Local Service Office
Walter Johns, director, announced last week 47 new and 245 continued unemployment claims at the Kansas State Employment Service office. Twenty nine women were placed, no men. Seven job openings exist for three waitresses, three stenographers and one salesman.
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Kangas
Blizzard blanked North Dakota roads as cold wave grips Midwest
A northern plains blizzard dumped heavy snow and gale winds stranding hundreds of motorists and closing many schools in North Dakota. Temperatures plunged below zero with Jamestown reporting 38 inches snow and Bemidji 29 inches. Some regions experienced record highs elsewhere before forecasts of a sharp midwest drop.
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Pras
Plains
North Dakota
Midwest
Weather Bureau
Towa
Atlantic Coast
North Central States
Dakotas
Jamestown
N. D
Bemidji
Minn
Blankig
Warning Is Issued On Coal Production Shortfall
Washington reports the head of the bureau of mines warned the Senate labor committee that coal output must rise or national health and welfare are at risk. James Boyd said the Taft-Hartley law may be invoked to end a strike if welfare is threatened. About 75,000 miners idle. three day week effects ripple to rail and steel sectors.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
James Boyd
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Boyd
John L. Lewis
Plan to Raise Ship by Air Bubbles Told by Former Sailor
Dallas' Scheidler proposes sinking pipes along the Missouri sides and pumping air or steam to create bubbles in Chesapeake Bay mud. He claims this method freed four ships in the Pacific during World War II, including a concrete-laden vessel on a volcanic flank, and urges Navy use.
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Minneapolis
Dallas
Scheidler
U.S.S
Missouri
Chesapeake Bay
Pacific
Scheicher
Navy
Alger Hiss Sentenced to Five Years for Perjury
New York January 25 United Press Alger Hiss was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary after conviction on two perjury counts He will appeal stating he never leaked secret papers to a prewar Soviet spy ring Judge Henry W Goddard ordered bail continued as appeal proceeds Chambers Whittaker Chambers testified that Hiss transferred documents to the spy ring in 1937 and remained key witness through both trials
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New York
Alger Hiss
Henry W. Goddard
Hiss
State Department
Higher Court of Appeal
Goddard
Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Stanley Reed
Tom C. Clark
Clark
U. S
Jak Altho Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
CHECK ALL EMPLOYES IN SEARCH FOR BRINK'S VAULT RAID
Boston police and federal agents began systematic questioning of Brink's Inc employees and former staff to locate clues to a $1,500,000 raid eight days earlier. Detectives believe the vaults were targeted by someone familiar with the garage layout. About a score of Brink's workers were interrogated as two robbers took a $2,000 payroll from a club near the scene, prompting FBI to establish gun in Brink's garage headquarters.
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Boston
Brink's, Inc
Edward W. Fallon
Brink
FBI
Stock Prices Fall on Sudden Selling Drive
New York January 25 stock prices dropped amid an intense selling spree led by auto and railroad shares. Some major issues slid several points, with brisk selling causing the ticker to lag as trades piled up on the floor.
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New York
Auto Land Railroad
Pafter
Small Profit From Panama Canal
The Panama Canal earned a slim profit with net operating revenues of 53475 for the year ended June 30. This represents about one tenth of one percent, bringing total earnings since 1914 to 1.86 percent. Canal governor Brig Gen F K Newcomer said the government aims for three percent annual return. The report to a house appropriations subcommittee noted the canal’s total government investment of 731,907,811.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pananal
F. K. Newcomer
Canal
Panama
House
Newcomer
Blood for storage first offerings to blood bank program
Six Reuter Organ employees donated a pint of blood yesterday at Lawrence Memorial hospital for a new community storage bank. The unit, kept in a special refrigerator funded by the local Red Cross chapter, will serve any physician at either hospital needing transfusions. Donors included Mrs. Juanita Copple and five men, all tested satisfactory at the factory weeks earlier. The program is a joint effort by the Red Cross, Douglas County Medical Association, Watkins hospital, Lawrence Memorial hospital, and the local health department, led by Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson.
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Reuter Organ Company
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Red Cross
E. L. Falkenstien
Juanita Copple
Kentucky Street
Reuter's
Copple
Virgil Copple
Cero- Phyl Company
Lawrence
Kansas City
Alan Fisher
Vermont Street
Harry Deneciler
North Third Street
Clyde Kampschroeder
J. K. Garbutt
Massachusetts Street
Howard Hargrove
Prairie Street
Douglas County Medical Association
Watkins Hospital
Lawrence-Douglas County
City manager vote petitions near filing deadline
Lawrence residents author the drive to place a city manager government issue on the April 4 election. Petition group led by Karl Kreider seeks 80 valid voter names and must be filed within two weeks. Officials will verify signatures against registration records to ensure proper form.
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Lawrence
Mra
Karl Kreider
Harold Fisher
Douglas County to Begin Real Estate Assessment This Year
Douglas County real estate assessment starts within a week under County Clerk T. R. Gerhart. The four year cycle will recheck rates, with nine Lawrence staffers to aid, and about five weeks needed for real estate and personal property rounds. May 1 deadline. no expected major changes this year.
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Douglas County
T. R. Gerhart
Gerhart
Lawrence
Lawrence Real Estate
Kansas
Ottawa
State Chamber of Commerce Research Board
Wheat
March of Dimes drive totals and progress update
Rough tally shows about 2500 dollars raised toward a 6500 goal as workers report in mostly in downtown and district blocks. Donations surpass 1200 dollars in advance gifts with schools and PTAs contributing, and Pineknew children expected to finish tomorrow. Also reported is Secretary Acheson reportedly backing a 2 million dollar economic aid plan to Chinese nationalists on Formosa per Senator Connally.
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Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Clement Attlee
Churchill
Nto
Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Formosa
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Nexteek
Washington
U. S
State Acheson
Alcide de Gasperi
Italy
Gene Doane
Jayceen
Isn
Doane
George Dunkley
Firt National Bank
Delbert Richantaen
Richardson
Chaiie Iman
New York
P.T. A
Lincoln
Acheson
Connally
D.-Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Service Organizations to Close by Tuesday
The United Service Organizations announced it cannot raise funds to continue and will terminate operations of its 12 branches nationwide by Tuesday. The wartime entertainment circuit served Burma to European beaches with about 6,000 service centers and over 200 touring units, with a peak annual budget of 36 million dollars.
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Associated Pro
New York
United Yeetuice
Burma
Beachhelds
Europe
United States
Snow Over Kansas Bulletin Forecast Glazing Conditions
A Topeka Weather Bureau advisory reports light snow spread across Kansas with sleet and freezing rain possible tonight in the southeast and east. Temperatures range from near zero to the mid teens, with scattered reports of about an inch of snow statewide and ongoing cold snaps after a brief warm spell yesterday.
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Kansas
Richard Garrett
Garrett
Weather Bureau
Garden City
Fort Riley
Leavenworth
Goodland
Wamego
Phillipsburg
Hutchinson
Wichita
Great Bend
Arkansas City
Rees
Mercury
Boy Scout Kaw Council Holds Annual Session at Eldridge Hotel
The Kaw Council's annual meeting at the Eldridge hotel was led by retiring president C Wells Haren of Kansas City. Officers were elected including 1.8 Staples Mixalon president and Burcham Lawrence as vice president, with members from Kansas City Lawrence Leavenworth and Mission. Advisory board named including Harry Darby L T Mart and Clarence Rice Kansas City.
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Boy Scout Kaw Council
Eldridge Hotel
C. Wells Haren
Kansas City
Riley Burcham
Staples
Mixalon
Howalter
Kansas Cit Co
Burcham
Lawrence
F. O. Kimball
Kansas Minisaoner
A. W. Seara
Kanena City
National Council
Haren
Hareold Lowe
Cip Touier
Harry Gra
Wood
Muller
Misson
Bureham
Rd. Basie
Ralph Graeher
George Lowman
WD. Wolfe
Harry Darby
L. T. Mart
Harry Miller
Clarence T. Rice
Morris Watkins
MS. Eddy
Arthur W. Johnson
F. A. Rimbaly Kaliance
Omer City
Rapid Winter Storm Strands Lawrence Amid Ice and Snow
A fast moving storm blanketed Lawrence with ice and mix of freezing rain sleet and light snow. Highways slick and travel hazardous across eastern Kansas. Five minor accidents reported. no injuries. Temperatures plunged from 72 to 16 degrees as wind sharpened the chill.
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Cuthank
Nebraska
Salt Lake City
Prospect
Salas
Midwest
Mercury
Oklahoma City
Pittsburg
Kan
Little Rock
Ark
Columbia
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Indianapolis
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Weather Bureau
Lawrence
Mt. Oread
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Twelfth
Kansas
State Highway Patrol
Douglas County
K. U
Union Pacific Railroad
Gomer T Davies Observes His 95th Birthday Today
Concordia Kansas January 25 UP Gomer T Davies veteran Kansas newspaperman observed his 95th birthday with no planned celebration at his home. Cards telegrams and calls poured in including one from Gov Frank U Arigon. Davies editor and publisher of the weekly Concordia Kansan has been in ill health but still writes editorials and enjoys daily car rides when weather permits.
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Concordia
Kan
University Club gathers to discuss liquor control issue
Angelo Scott editor of the Iola Register will chair a Kansan Alcohol Beverage Commission board of review discussion tonight at the University Club. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the club room located at 007 Massachusetts Street. Dixie Carmel Corn Shop advertises nearby.
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Angelo Scott
Iola Register
Scott
Kansan Alcohol Beverage Commission Board of Review
Dixie Carmel Corn Shop
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