Gambling houses amid New Orleans hearings draw mixed results
In New Orleans last week casinos faced closures with dining and cocktail areas still open at Beverly while slot machines stayed under canvas. Senator Estes Kefauver said gambling in the area is wide open as about 1,100 casino employees worry about the probe. The Orleans Parish grand jury convenes tomorrow as Sheriff Grosch faces questions over a $160 000 strongbox.
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Beverly
Country
Elch
Sycomere
Club Forest
Lady Lock
Parish
Clancy
Senate
Joniont Clancy
Phil
Dandy) Kastel
Carlo Marcello
Estes Kafauver
D.-Tenn
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Paul H. Maloney, Jr
Grosch
Insurance Man Dies at 86 Former Crowell-Collier Leader
Joseph Palmer Knapp, former chairman of Crowell-Collier and ex joint stockholder in Metropolitan Life, died in New York at 86. A Brooklyn native, he helped mobilize Metropolitan in 1919 and led Crowell-Collier publisher roles for Jere and Woman's Home Companion. He owned a Mackay Island estate and promoted American game bird preservation.
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New York
Joseph Palmer Knapp
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Knapp
Brooklyn
Metropolitan Company
Knappe
Crowell-Collier Company
Jere
Woman's Home Companion
United Newspapers Station
Mackayd
N.C
Actress Sheridan sues RKO for breach of contract
Actress Ann Sheridan sues film company RKO Radio Pictures claiming she was fired after contract disputes over a role opposite Robert Mitchum. She testified she rejected a proposed male lead, while the studio countersued for 72,626 dollars, alleging she refused approval of any suggested leading man.
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Los Angeles
Ann Sheridan
Rko-Radio Pictures
Reaver
Ite
Youn
Robert Mitchum
Rvi Gardner
Fragmentary town note from Texas panhandle region
In a damaged OCR snippet a small Texas town of about 9 000 is mentioned with a glass store explosion injuring two firemen. The fragmentary text references Childress index and southeast panhandle region with unclear timing and context.
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Childress
Chi
Texas Panhandle
Court Cases Set for February Term Docket
The February term docket for the four chalot court opens Monday February 12 with a 40 person jury panel. Only 23 cases appear on the criminal and civil dockets including six child desertion cases eight counts of freeny four burglaries three drunk driving one embezzlement one forgery and others. The civil list shows 37 divorces 21 damage suits ten quiet titles six money recoveries two foreclosures and two alienation of affection cases. Several damage suits involve the Dalton family against Lawrence National Bank Irving Hill and Justin D Hill over stock sales in Lawrence Paper Co. An injunction by the state against the Douglas County Kaw Drainage District is set for this term.
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Judge Means
City Lhce
C. R. Allbright
Wayne Allphin
Leonard Axe
Dalton
Lawrence National Bank
Irving Hill
Justin D. Hill
Lawrence Paper Company
Dougles County
Kaw
Postum Ad Hints To Cease Grave Claims About Coffee
Washington January 31 The federal trade commission announced that Postum makers General Foods agreed to stop implying that drinking coffee harms marriages and causes divorces business failures factory accidents juvenile delinquency traffic accidents fires or home foreclosures The settlement aims to tone down grave claims in coffee advertising.
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Postum
Washington
Federal
Comminston
General Foods Corporation
New York
Monkey causes havoc in Patterson candy store
A GPA monkey escaped from a housing problem in Patterson New Jersey and caused chaos in a candy shop for about ninety minutes. The animal swung from a chandelier and disrupted customers before its 14 year old owner Jack Koch retrieved it and returned home with the pet.
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Patterson
N. J
Jack Koch
Edger Family Memoir Marks Chicago Suburb Ties
The Rev Mr Edger born in Lawrence grew up a Journal World carrier and soda stand operator with brother Walter Edgar. He studied at Kansas University and Chicago Theological Seminary and served as pastor in Wilmette and Red Oak Iowa before moving with Mrs Edger and their three daughters Sally Janet and Patty.
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Edger
Lawrence
Journal-World
Walter Edgar
Eighth
Massachehuaetts
Fischer Shoe Store
McCoy Shoe Store
University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
High Prairie Methodist Church
Edgar
K. U
Chicago Theological Seminary
Wilmette Congregational Church
Red Oak
Jows
Edgars
Sally
Janet
Patty
Wichita Talent Auditions Extend Entry Deadline
Kansas high school seniors may enter the Wichita Symphony talent auditions with the deadline extended to February 2. Winners receive a full scholarship to Friends University or the University of Wichita, with auditions set for February 17 in Alumni Auditorium at Friends University.
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Wichita
Kansas
Wichita Symphony Society
Alan Watrous
Friends University
University of Wichita
Alumni
Krupp Executives Freed in Nuremberg Clemency Decision
Frankfort Germany January 31 1946 CPF American authorities spared 21 German war criminals and freed Krupp magnate Alfred Krupp and eight top executives. The decision restored Krupp property rights though not title and the plants will be broken into smaller units under new ownership. Seven death sentences were upheld including Oswald Pohl and others for mass murders.
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U. S
Krupp
Nuernberg
McCloy
Liberal and Olney pancake races to unite via telegraph
Liberal Kansas and Olney England plan simultaneous pancake races on February 6 over 415 yards. For the first time single unmarried women over 18 may compete, aligning Liberal with Olney’s open-age rule. Florence Callow, 18, won the first international Liberal Olney race.
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Kan
Jan
Iris
Olney
England
R. C. Collins
Chicago minister Builds for Family at Glenview Church
Rev. Robert A. Edgar, 38, former Lawrence resident and pastor of Glenview Community church, leads a house-building project for a local family with four children. The effort gathers Union members and local businessmen to form a land-holding corporation and rent the completed home.
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Nora &. Temple
Chicago
Lawrence
Robert A. Edgar
C. C. Edgar
Rhode Island
Glenview Community Church
Edgar
Glenview
Owen Edgar
Acme
Nancy Drake
Carl C. Drake
West Twenty-third Street
Missionary Congregational Church
Congregational Mission Board
Carl Drake
Journal-World
Drake
Glenvi
In junction filed against El Dorado National Bank
U S district court yesterday saw the department of labor seek a wage and hour enforcement order against El Dorado National Bank El Dorado Kansas. The action alleges repeated violations of minimum wage rules and overtime nonpayment since December 6 1948 affecting several employees.
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el Dorado National Bank
el Dorado
Kan
U.S. District Court
Department of Labor
Rex Carolyn Godfrey
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