France Pushes West European Union Amid German Inclusion
Paris reports the French national assembly backed a plan for a western European federation including western Germany. The vote 327 to 249 endorses European political authority and security guarantees, while rejecting a communist alternative 424 to 182.
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Germany
Bonn Republic
Council of Europe
Consultative Assembly
Council
George Bidault
Popular Republicans
MRP
Socialists
Ruhr Valley
Milla
U. S
France
Britain
United Staes
President orders crackdown on atomic secrets amid TV debate
A presidential directive directed Attorney General McGrath to tighten safeguarding of atomic and national security information after a senator's televised discussion on atomic weapons sparked concerns. Senator Edwin C. Johnson disputed the secrecy critique, while officials withheld specifics.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
D.-Cole
Truman
Johnson
McGrath
McMahon
D.-Conn
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
New York
Joint Atomic Committee
Nagasaki
United States
Christmas Tree Market Rides High Supply in Topeka
Topeka reports a fair Christmas tree supply with prices similar to last year. Ben Pannkuk of Fleming Company says first shipments arrived, two railroad carloads, from Montana high altitude Douglas firs. Five to six foot trees priced at 1 to 1.50, as 6,000 to 6,500 trees were loaded for central and western Kansas, with about 110,000 trees expected in the season.
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Topeka
Ben Fannkuk
Fleming Company
Montana
Pannkuk
Kansas
Regents Meeting Set at K U on December 16
State Board of Regents will convene at Kansas University on December 16, with Secretary Hubert Brighton announcing. Only routine business appears on the agenda and will be considered during the session.
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State Board of Regents
K. U
Hubert Brighton
Truman Heads to Army Navy Game for Vacation Start
President Truman left Washington aboard an 11 car two-diner special train to attend the Army Navy football game in Philadelphia with Mrs. Truman and a large White House party aboard. More than 200 passengers boarded and thousands of fans gathered at Union Station. The trip marks his fifth attendance at the game as president and opens a three week Key West vacation, with a stop at Constitution Hall to hear daughter Margaret perform.
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Washington
Truman
Philadelphia
Mrs. Truman
White House
Union Station
Philadelphia Stadium
Key West
Fis
Navy
Constitution Hall
Margaret
Two Leavenworth youths held for Eudora burglaries
Everett G. Conley and Roy L. Nichols both 19 confessed to breaking into the Perry filling station and other sites in Ozankie and Os kaloosa on Thanksgiving night. They were held in Jefferson county jail at Oskaloosa for questioning after discovery of a car with stolen tires.
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Leavenworth
Eudora
Douglas County
Will Johns, Jr
Oskalooza
Everett G. Conley
Roy L. Nichols
Perry
Ozankie
Oskaloosa
Johns
Conley
Nichols
Pueblo
Colo
Jefferson County
State of Siege Casts Shadow Over Colombian Election
In Bogota Colombia a state of siege or modified martial law has been declared as the nation braces for elections tomorrow with a conservative as the sole presidential candidate.
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Liberal Party
Demedia
Bogota
Colombia
Violence erupts in Bogota as liberal leader’s brother dies
In Bogota on election eve violence wounds Liberals and a military police corporal after a clash near a demonstration. Vicente Echandia dies and Dario Echandia’s brother is killed amid a Liberal boycott and martial law tensions. Conservative Laureano Gomez remains the sole presidential candidate.
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Bogota
Colombia
Dario Echandia
Liberal
Sanchez Amaya
Jaime Cortes
Laureano Gomez
Ariano Ospina Perez
Cool Air Forecast Across Kansas This Weekend
Topeka reports clear skies and cooler temperatures as a weekend pattern unfolds across Kansas. Tonight lows dip to the middle 30s with a statewide decline continuing Sunday. western highs reach around 65, eastern areas 50s to mid 50s. Garden City hit 70 yesterday while Leavenworth logged freezing in the morning at 41.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mercury
Garden City
Leavenworth
Army Navy Golden Anniversary Game Bright in Philadelphia
Brilliant sunshine and crisp air welcomed fans in Philadelphia for the Army-Navy football golden anniversary clash marking a historic intra-service rivalry.
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Philadelphia
Army-Navy
Hopes Revived To End Coal Walkout
Washington reports a bid by Southern Coal Producers Association president Joseph F. Moody to resume negotiations with John L. Lewis boosts hopes of avoiding a general coal strike set for December 1. Talks stalled in October as unions and operators debated contract terms and a Taft-Hartley framework looms.
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John L
Joseph F. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Lewis
Moody
New York
Pittsburgh
Truman
C.I.0
Philip Murray
Murray
Organized Labor
Mr. Truman
Steelworkers Union
White House
John Steelman
Steelworkers’ Union
Steel
Stolen Sewing Machines Recovered Across Kansas Schools
Topeka reports sixty sewing machines stolen from Kansas high schools earlier this fall have been recovered or located. KBI director Lou Richter says the thefts were likely the work of a gang operating in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Four men charged in Texas face trial there. The thefts occurred between August and mid October at Wellington, Oxford, South Haven, Oswego, Chetopa, Independence, Augusta, Yates Center, Fort Scott and Arms.
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Topeka
Kansas
Enco
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Lou Richter
KBI
Alee
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Wellington
Oxford
South Haven
Oswego
Chetopa
Independence
Augusta
Yates Center
Fort Scott and Arms
France's General Strike Ends Quietly
The 24 hour general strike in France ended without major incidents or disruption. Authorities reported minimal unrest as workers resumed daily duties and life returned to normal after the nationwide protest.
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France
Associated Press
Gather to defend Chungking amid rising armed camp
Chinese nationalist troops invaded the United States consular compound in Chungking seeking billets. A custodian deterred them and reported the incident to British Counsel-General Michael Gillett. Americans had left the city last week as clashes around Chungking intensified.
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Chungking
United States
Michael Gillett
Jayhawks Aim For Fifth Win In Arizona Showdown
The University of Kansas football team seeks a fifth win in the season finale against Arizona in Tucson. The game starts at 9 o'clock CST with radio coverage on WREN from 8:45. Announcer Max Falkenstien will describe the plays as Kansas, holding a 4–5 record after a win over George Washington Oklahoma A&M Kansas State and Nebraska and losses to Texas Christian Iowa State Colorado Oklahoma and Missouri, travels to Arizona.
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University of Arizona
Tucson
CST
Lawrence
WREN
Max Falkenstien
Jayhawker
George Washington
Oklahoma A
Kansas State
Nebraska
Texas Christian
Iowa State
Colorado
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas City
Arizona
Frat Groups Urged to End Racial Barriers
The National Interfraternity Conference was urged to repeal bans on membership based on race or religion. An undergraduate draft resolution, presented by Alexander Goodman, faced uncertain prospects after the executive committee deemed the issue not proper for the body to rule on.
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Washington
National Interfraternity Conference
Conference
Resolutions Committee
New England
Alexander Goodman
Baltimore
Phi Alpha Fraternity
Frank H. Myers
Myers
Dinner to Honor Farmer Trainees at Liberty Memorial High
Eleven young Douglas county veterans completing three years on-the-farm training will be honored at 8:30 p.m. in the Liberty Memorial High School auditorium with C. R. Jaccard of Kansas State College as principal speaker. A 6:30 p.m. dinner precedes the program in the high school cafeteria.
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Douglas Ouenty
Liberty Memorial High School
Neal Wherry
C. R. Jaccard
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Board of Education
Lawrence
Wherry
William R. Breese
Harold J. Brrohammer
Baldwin
Everett L. Buerman
Yudon E. Eckman
Marl R. Flory
Earl J. Hallenbeck
Max I. Kepple
Donel H. Otto
Donald E. Palmateer
Karl F. Niebrugge
Charles W. Rosas
Kentucky
R. O. Bergzert
Mersweer
Tewell FE. Bailey
H. R. Lindenberger
Fourth Ward
Mrs Blaine’s $50,000 gift to AVC honors son
The American Veterans committee received a $50,000 donation from Mrs. Anita Blaine in memory of her son Emmons Blaine Jr who died in World War I. AVC chairman Gilbert Harrison called the sum unexpected and said it was given at the fourth annual convention banquet after pledges for a 1950 membership drive. Mrs Blaine backed Henry Wallace in the prior presidential race.
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Chicago
American Veterans Committee
Anita McCormick
Gilbert Harrison
AVC
Blaine
Emmons Blaine, Jr
Harrison
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Frazier Visits KU Discusses Campanile Plans
Bernard E Poco Frazier from Tulsa Oklahoma Talbot Philbrook Art Center visited Lawrence to meet with the KU fine arts faculty and alumni secretary Fred Ellsworth about Frazier creating bronze figures for the 172000 World War II Memorial campanile. He is en route to a Chicago meeting.
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Bernard E. “Poco” Frazier
Philbrook Art Center
Tulsa
Okla
Lawrence
Fine Arts
Fred Ellsworth
K. U. Alumni Association
Frazier
Kk. A. Fine Arts
Ellsworth
Chicago
Panama Crisis Shocks U S as Arias Seizes Power
Washington reports state department officials expressing alarm over Latin American upheavals, focusing on Arnulfo Arias as Panama's self proclaimed president. The United States cuts diplomatic ties with the new regime while Arias predicts eventual U S recognition.
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Washington
State Department
Latin America
U.S
Panama
Arnulfo Arias
United States
Arias
Col
Jose Antonio Remon
Back to Classes After Thanksgiving Holiday
KU Lawrence resumes normal class schedules Monday morning with more than 11,900 students returning for three and a half weeks of work before Christmas vacation. Extra railroad and bus service will handle heavy travel as Haskell Institute observes vacation from December 9 to January 4.
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University of Kansas
Lawrence
University High
Lawrence Public Schools
Haskell Institute
Haskell
Russian Sentry Kills U.S. Airman Near Gatow
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor protested to Soviet commander Maj. Gen. Alexander Kotikov after an American air force sergeant Staff Sgt. John E. Staff of Ramsey UK was fatally shot by a Russian sentry during a joy ride in the British sector near Gatow airfield. Three companions and a German girl were in the car. The sergeant died at Gatow RAF hospital.
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Berlin
Maxwell D. Taylor
Army
John E. Staff
Ramsey
Taylor
Alexander Kotikov
U. S. Army
Air Force
Gatow
R.A.F
Margaret Truman Disputes Engagement Rumor Target
Margaret Truman says rumors of her engagement are untrue and scorns the rumor mill. She tells reporters she has never met Ed Wall an AFL editor from Albany NY who was named as a prospective fiancé by gossips.
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Washington
Margaret Truman
Newswomen
Ed Wall
A.F.L
Albany
N.Y
Barriers to Shipment of Arms May Be Removed at Paris Conferences
Washington reports defense leaders head to Paris to lift barriers to sending 900 million dollars in arms to allies. Secretary Johnson and General Bradley plan talks with President Truman and British leaders. Atlantic pact plan gains support as NATO defense ministers prepare a collective security framework.
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Paris
Washington
U. S
Johnson
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army-Navy
Philadelphia
Bradley
Atlantic Pact Military Committee
Atlantic
Congress
Pact
Truman
Britain
William Slim
The
Imperia
Eral
Canada
Viscount Montgomery
Europe
Western Union Defense
North Africa
J. Lawton Collins
U. S. Army
Voice of America
North Atlantic
United States
City council set to vote on bond sale and zoning changes
The Monday meeting will consider a 4 334,698 bond issue for municipal housing and a renewed six month parking meter trial. Also on agenda are a new zoning ordinance and a Santa Fe Railway franchise for a spur to Lawrence Paper Co on Jeeve Street. The bond funds would back sanitary sewer projects in Lawrence.
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Saneta’ Fe Railvoad
Lawrence Paner Company
Jevee Street
Lawrence
Harold Fisher
Welles
Fisher Sani
State School Fund Commission
Commerce Prist Company of
Kansas City
Below Zero Weather Hits Lower Michigan
Sub zero temperatures lingered in south central Lower Michigan with readings of four below at Lansing Jackson and one below at Battle Creek. Detroit fared warmer at 12 above, while the broader Midwest sees snow sleet and rain with varying cold fronts across Missis sippi and Alabama and light snow in New England and northern states.
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Irs
Midwest
Lower Michigan
Mercury
Lansing
Jackson
Battle Creek
Detroit
Mississippi
Alabama
Birmingham
Greenwood
Miss
Minnesota
South Dakota
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kentucky
Denver
Miami
Sheridan
Wyo
Arkansas farmer touts giant six ounce pullet egg
Arkansas City farmer W. W. Sanford records a remarkable pullet egg weighing six ounces. The egg measures seven inches around the middle and nine inches around the ends, drawing local pride for an extraordinary poultry produce find.
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Arkansas City
Kan
W. W. Sanford
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