Chicago Potato Market Amid Mixed Midday Trading
Chicago market reports show potato arrivals and shipments varying as prices drift. Notable participants include Studebaker Tom Hubber Glen Martin and major firms like American Telephone Standard Oil and Western Union influencing activity.
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Chicago
Mar. i
USDA
Sotas UA
Colorado
Wall Street
New York
Ate
Valenie
Peyrrel Works Tehsoricel Alliat Chemical
War talk and memorial at university convocation
A university convocation featured a speaker urging Americans to view nations as relatives and warning against allowing democracy to lose ground to communists in Western Europe or India. Chancellor Deane W. Malott introduced the speaker who attended a luncheon, then spoke to the Journalism school, with the day ending after a memorial Ave Maria sung for three students killed in a car wreck near Kansas City.
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Europe
India
Deane W. Malott
Memorial Union
Atudente
Curnalium Department
University
D. M. Swarthout
Fine Arts School
Kansas City
Malott
Markets at a glance signal broad advance across ledgers
New York markets show gains with higher leaders lifting broad indices. Cotton quiet amid slow spot demand while Chicago wheat rises in the winter belt. corn firm on late-day moves. Hog futures steady, livestock receipts forecast firm, Kansas City and Denver reports show mixed cattle, calves, and feed prices with modest demand for dairy alfalfa and mixed hay.
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New York
Chicago
Nile
Kansas City
Hamay
Kansas
Ity
Labour Wins Again in British Parliament Vote
London reports the Labour government defeating a third Conservative motion of censure led by Winston Churchill. The Commons backed Labour by 808 to 289, with Sir Stafford Cripps signaling a pause on expanding the national health service. Bevan’s department sought extra funds for 1949-50, but expenditure controls were urged across ministries.
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London
Britain
Winston Churchill
Stafford Crions
House of Commons
National Health Service
la For
Mayor Turner Urges Scouting Prep for Civic Duty
Mayor William J. Turner addressed Boy Scout Troop 52 and parents after a Tenderfoot investure ceremony at Ecke. He urged youths to prepare to assume civic duties to safeguard American democracy. Police Chief Dixie Moore spoke on safety and city laws while Sam Ferguson introduced the mayor. Merit badges were presented to Wins ton Grantham Bob Hammig Toomy Pierson and John Har grove. Scoutmaster George Hoefer led the 12 Tenderfoot Investure ceremony with Dan Grover John Sommerpile Bilal Eide fagoner Fred Day Burton Pontier Raymond Pippert Harold Roberman John Harding Don Gardner Carl McClung.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. B. Turner
Ecke, All
Arm of Liberty
Pollee
Dixie Moore
Intestanla
Sam Ferguson
Myron Metz
Winston Grantham
Bob Hammig
Toomy Pierson
John Hargrove
George Hoefer
Tenderfoot
Dan Grover
John Sommerpile
Bilal Eide Ancen Fagoner
Fred Day
Burton Pontier
Raymond Pippert
Harold Roberman
John Harding
Don Gardner
Carl McClung
Gary Schmedemann
Billy Rosenbaum
Wendell Grantham
Hoeffer
Expensive Appetite Two Year Old Chews Tax Refund
A two year old chewed up half of his father’s tax refund check for 26.50. The father mailed the remainder to the U S Collector of Internal Revenue, who promised a duplicate check. Also included is a note from a Fresno ex serviceman who, after leaving a GI blanket and small items, explains his Christian conscience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Mar
Harry B. Rush
U.S
Donald
Rush
Marion Allen
Allen
Merced
Calif
Castle Field Air Force Base
Fresno
Obituary and Lodge Announcement From Memorial Hospital Notices
Memorial Hospital lists residents and relatives including Robert George MeLouth Helen Meats Mildred Sparks Eldina Patterson Laura street Juanita Garcia New Jersey Phyllis Nord hlon Baldwin Janice Roberts North Third street Amy Gilbert North Fourth street LeRoy Durbin and baby Route 1 Lemus House 800 Ohio Shelley Jean Hall New York Frances Nisely Route 2 Jane Heisler Louisiana Esther New-Man and baby Missouri Frances Watkins and baby Route 4 FE Breedlove son announced today Zerba Lodge of Perfection Web March 15 Supper 6 30 Degree work 7 30 through 10th Degrees Conferred.
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Robert George
MeLouth
Helen Meats
Mildred Sparks
Tonganoxie
Eldina Patterson
Laura Street
Juanita Garcia
New Jersey Street
Phyllis Nord+hlon
Baldwin
Janice Roberts
North Third Street
Amy Gilbert
North Fourth Street
LeRoy Durbin
Lemus House
Ohio Street
Shelley Jean Hall
New York Street
Frances Nisely
Jane Heisler
Louisiana Street
Esther New- Man
Baby
Missouri Street
Frances Watkins
Lodge of Perfection
H. G. Be
Lawrence notes mix of sports, housing, and traffic shifts
Lawrence residents discuss Coach Gardner and KU Bradley game in Kansas City, while city planning tests traffic with a Sixth Street cutoff. Housing demand soars with 1,500 enrollment drop since the war. 4,961 paid circulations mark a new high. Sixteen Liberty Memorial High students tour Macy's in Kansas City. Mike Lonnecker, polio survivor, walks with and without crutches.
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Lawrence
E. U
Sixth Street
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Seventh
Massachusetts Street
Vermont
Liberty Memorial High School
Kansas City, Mon
Princial Neal Wherry
BE. J. Lowadon
A. E. Woestemeyer
Macy's Department Store
Mike Lonnecker
Sur
Mike Ia
Bill Lonnecker
Alta Lonnecker
University
Row Over Teacher at Cathey School Causes Split
A protest erupts in Cathey two room school near Eufaula Oklahoma after charges that teacher W E Dickey snapped girls elastic and touched legs. Dickey pleads innocent in county court and bonds set at 1000 pending jury trial. School board has exonerated him, while patrons report several girls transferred to another school and state board may act if local board does not suspend him.
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Eufaula
Okla
Cathey
W. E. Dickey
Jimmy Whiteley
Dickey
Whiteley
State Board of Education
Labor union moves annual convention to Pittsburg
The American Federation of Labor announces its annual convention will shift from Salina to Pittsburg after learning Lamar hotel company used non union labor on an expansion. The meeting now runs May 12 to 18 at the Besse hotel in Pittsburg. Five KU music education faculty members will join the Music Educators National Conference in St. Louis March 18 to 23, with several students also attending.
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Toveka
Mar
Ka Cans Federation of Labor
Salina
Pittsburg
Floyd Black
Lamar
Lamer
Black
Pittebure
Besse Hotel
Music Education Department
K. U
St. Louis
E. Thayer Gasto
Elin Jorgenson
James K. Nickerson
William Sears
Clifton A. Burmeister
Chrysler Strike Moves Toward Settlement Talks
Federal mediator Cyrus S. Ching invited Walter Reuther to discuss the Chrysler auto workers strike that began January 28 over pension and wage demands. Reuther may push for higher raises as GM contract nears expiry May 29 while United Auto Workers fronts pension funding for members in GM and Chrysler plants. Donna Ramsey to give a senior recital at K U and soprano Donna Romper performs at Strong Auditorium tomorrow night.
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Donna Ramsey
K. U
Washington
Mar
Cyrus S. Ching
Walter Reuther
Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Reuther
C.I.0
United Auto Workers
Ching
Chrysler
General Motors Corp
U.A.W
U.am
Detroit
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Donna Romper
Alice Moncrieff
Audi
Third and fourth candidates enter Douglas County race
T R Gerhart Republican seeks a seventh term as county clerk after entering as deputy in 1935 and appointment in 1937. Mary Ellen Simmons Republican seeks district court clerk post. currently in her third term after earlier work in the county treasurer’s office. Other announced candidates include Travis K E Glass Republican for sheriff and Milton Allen Republican for county attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
T. R. Gerhart
Mary Ellen Simmons
Travis KE. Glass
Will Johns
Milton Allen
Robert Oyler
Alson
Ramaixtant
Gerhart
Will Sail for Russia Spy Gubitchey Plans Return
Valentina A. Gubitchey told Judge Sylvester J. Ryan that he will sail for Russia on Monday. Abraham L. Pomerantz, his attorney, notified the court of the decision and revealed yesterday’s earlier refusal to drop the appeal. U.S. Attorney Irving H. Sayvol pressed for a waiver of the appeal, aiming to suspend a 15 year sentence on condition of deportation with no return.
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New York
Valentina A. Gubitchey
Sylvester J. Ryan
Russia
Gubitchey
Abraham L. Pomerantz
Ryan
Pomerantz
Gubitchev
U.S
Irving H. Sayvol
Deaths and Funerals in Douglas County and Lawrence
Vernon King 73 lifelong Douglas County resident died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He helped with city garbage collection for years and is survived by wife Dessie, two daughters, two brothers and six grandchildren. Funeral Saturday 2 p.m. at Rumsey funeral home with Oak Hill Cemetery burial. Arthur Simon 51 died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. residence 509 North Street. Funeral announcement forthcoming. Iva Mildred Chiles 45 of Amherst died last night. husband George and four sons and four daughters survive plus stepfamily and siblings. Funeral Friday 2 p.m. at Lecomp ton Evangelical United Brethren Church led by Rev. John Patterson and Rev. Frank McClelland.
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Vernon King
Douglas County
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Dessie King
Viola Thiry
Oskalonsa
Olive Eberwein
Lawrence
Clarence King
Anthony King
Los Angeles
Calif
Rumsey Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
Arthur Simon
Lawrence Memorial Hosital
North Stret
Joe Simon
Maine Street
Oscar Simon
Overbrook
Iva Mikkreé Chiles
Iva
Mildred Chiles
Mpton
George Chiles
Vernon
Duane
LeRoy
Jim
Nadine
Patricia
Mildred
Frances
John Chiles
Holton
Harold Chiles
U. S. Navy
Wilbur Chiles
Lecompton
Juanita Guffey
Town Meeting to Hear Mrs Whitney at KU Center
A Kansas City group of KU Medical Center physicians will attend Friday’s town meeting to hear Mrs. Paul Whitney speak at 8 p m at the high school. Local supporters praise her youth outreach, and she will also address KU education students at Frank Strong Hall at 3 p.m.
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University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Paul Whitney
H. R. Wahl
Whitney
Chris Kraft
Knife and Fork Club
America
Elin Jorgensen
Norman Vincent Peale
Marble Collegiate Church
New York City
Rotary
Temple sued over willcontests of surgeon estate
In Reno Nevada on March 15 a will contest challenges the 1.4 million dollar gifts to Temple University by the Philadelphia surgeon Dr Theodore Chase 84. Mrs Juice Chase King of Silver Springs Maryland claims her father was kept nearly a prisoner in a special room near Temple Medical School and subjected to elaborate acts of reverence as part of an effort to secure wealth.
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Reno, Nev
Temple University
Philadelphia
Juice Chase King
Silver Springs
Theodore Chase
Temple
Chase
California Keeps Mrs Worthington From Kansas Return
California governor Earl Warren announced that 73 year old Frances J Worthington would be prosecuted in Long Beach for grand theft rather than returned to Kansas as a parole violator. He withdrew an extradition warrant to Lansing and said he would reissue it after the Long Beach case.
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Sacramento
Calif
Long Beach
Bleing
Kansas
Earl Warren
Luc Ledford
Frances J. Worthington
Oakland
Warren
Lansing
Kan
California
Plan Law Institute at University of Kansas
The second annual law institute will run March 31 and April 2 with about 150 attendees. KU Extension, Douglas county bar association and others sponsor sessions led by notable figures including Albert C. Jacobs of Denver University and state legislator Jeff Robertson of Topeka. Additional speakers include Jack Cope Richard Jones Jane Albert William Scott J. B. McKay and Dr E A Staghery. A noon luncheon closes the event at Lawrence Country Club on April 1.
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Law Institute
University of Kansas
Oon “Property We
K. U. Extension
Douglas County Bar Association
Committee On Legal Institutes
Har Axsociacn
RK. U
Kansas
Miasouri
P. J. Moreau
Law School
Albert C. Jacobs
Denver University
Jeff Robertson
Topeka
Jack Cope
Land of St. John
Richard _O. Jonea
Wichita
Jane Albert
Faulconer
Winfield
William R. Scott
J. B. McKay
el Dorado
E. A. Staghery JSON
Bh Moreau
Lawrence Country Club
Darby Sees Change In Economic Blues For 1952
Topeka March 15 Senator Darby Republican Kansas says economic pressures may mirror 1932 Hoover era shifts and Democrats must explain farm price declines. He predicts a change coming with a big payoff in 1952 after meeting Winter Veterans Hospital officials about a personnel cut slated for next month. He will seek reconsideration from Kansas congressional delegation to prevent or lessen the layoff and its impact on veteran care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Darby
R.-Kan
Truman
Veterans Hospital
Kansans
Five flee jail in Atlanta high rise escape
Five suspected toughs escaped Fulton county jail by breaking from the fourth story via a bunk sheet rope. They overpowered Deputy J. C. Williams, gagged him, and fled a wall with gasoline drum ladders, mauling a motorist and stealing a car before splitting into a taxi and on foot. Suspects named include Joseph L Mauldin 23 Roy J Mauldin 28 Eston Anderson 23 Luther Masters unknown Earl Curtis Taylor 22.
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Atlanta
Mar
CPH
Fulton County
J. C. Williams
Outakiite
Sherriff A. B. Foster
Joseph L. Mauldin
Roy J
Eston Anderson
Luther Masters
Earl Curtis Taylor
New Orleans
Attlee Allows Exiled King To Stay. Child Expected in June
Prime Minister Attlee acknowledged the stork in London's sphere today by modifying the plan to exile Seretss Krama and his white bride from their African tribal kingdom. He said the Negro king may remain in his British-protected homeland until his English wife gives birth, expected late in June.
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London
Attlee
Stork
Seretss Krama
D Attlee
Jet planes collide over New Mexico injure cadets
Two jet planes collided over Sandia base near Albuquerque yesterday as a four ship formation from Williams air base Phoenix headed to Albuquerque and El Paso. Cadets W S Vance and G R Eston received scratches and bruises, Lt H M Chapman piloted the lead. Eaton was pilot of No 2 plane. A soldier fined 58.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerquies N. M
Mar
New Mexico
Sandia Special Weapons Base
Williams Air Force Base
Phoenix
Ariz
Albuquerque
el Paso
Tex
W. S. Vance
Fort Worth
G. R. Eston
Lawrenceville
Mainand Mountains
H. M. Chapman
Mesa
I Chapman
Vance
Eaton
Fort Riley Men Charged With Driving While Intoxicated
Fort Riley soldier Boyd Drigners Jr was fined 50 in city court by Judge Wayne Allphin for driving while intoxicated. F H Cox of Osklaboam got 14 days in jail on a drunkenness charge. Also mentions dry weather hurting wheat and a government crop report. Cards of thanks express appreciation for hospital care and visitors from Mrs Innes Champion and Mr Joyce Leach.
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Boyd Drigners, Jr
Fort Riley
Wayne Allphin
Allphin
F. H. Cox
Osklaboam
Avatin
Texas
High Plains
U. S. Department, of Agriculture
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Memorial Hospital
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the Public Library
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Oklahoman
To Music Conference
Laat
Mrs. Worthington
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Willind
Innes Champion
Joyce Leach
Masden’s Watch Shop
E. Sth
Mase
Evereeversee
Ruth V. Kaigee
Everent E. Aker
A. Wilmoth
Fred A. Hremer
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Greyhound Bus Depot
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Continental Trailways
George Noland Insurance Agency
Maine
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