Truman Plans Three Congressional Messages for 1950
President Truman will deliver three messages to Congress in early January 1950. The State of the Union on January 4 will push fair deal domestic reforms, followed by an January 6 economy review, and a January 9 budget message outlining tax and spending positions. White House aides note the January 6 and 9 dates are tentative.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Charles G. Ross
Senate
House
Missouri
Rep
Spence
D.ky
House Banking Committee
Capitol
Schrankler Installed as Kiwanis Head
Sedalia Kiwanis club installed 1950 officers at Bothwell hotel with Rev. E. F. Abele officiating. New president Herbert Schrankler and officer slate include T. H. Yount as vice president Elmer Sterling secretary Co L Harney treasurer and directors Frank Keyser A W Klang Floyd Lively Ed McLaughlin Pinkney Miller W A Schien and Rev H A Campbell. Noel Tweet spoke on Sedalia Army Air base and Washington funding. Guests included Mrs Abele Mrs H K Schrankler John F Zander and others.
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Sedalia Kiwanis Club
E. F. Abele
Boonville
Bothwell Hotel
Sedalia Club
Herbert Schrankler
Dan’s
Noel
Yount
H. K Schrankler
John F. Zander
Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Hunt
Ray Hunt
Charles Wendt
E. W. McClammer
Tom Yount
St. Louis
Keith Yount
T. H. Yount
Utilities Gaining Headway After Ice Storm Restorations
The Missouri Public Service Co and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co report progress restoring service in Sedalia after the week old ice storm. Crew bring in from other districts, with 300 workers, aim to complete temporary fixes in five to six days and permanent repairs within weeks.
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Missouri Public Service Co
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
William Rich
Tom Mullaly
Sedalia
Mullaly
The
Telephone Company
Illinois
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
M.P.S. Co
Missouri Public Service
Killers To Face Firing Squad In Utah
District Judge Will L. Hoyt sentenced two Missouri men Vern Braasch 24 and Melvin Sullivan 19 to death for first degree murder in Beaver Utah They chose firing squad over hanging under Utah law The men from Kansas City were convicted Dec 19 for the Oct 22 holdup shooting of Howard Manzione 21 at a Beaver service station An appeal could delay the execution set for Feb 16 The defendants claimed broken homes and no real home while testifying they confessed and re enacted the shooting for officers
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Parowan
Utah
Will L. Hoyt
Missouri
Hoyt
Vern Alfred Braasch
Melvin le Roy Sullivan
Kansas City
Howard W. Manzione
Beaver
Las Vegas
Nev
Jasper Puffer
Beaver County
State Supreme Court
Brothers Drown After Falling Through Ice in Blue River
Two brothers Jack Prather twelve and John fourteen drowned when they fell through an icy Blue River while out shooting BB guns in Kansas City. Their companion George McKins tried to help and also fell in but escaped to the bank. Firemen recovered the bodies from about ten feet of water.
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Kansas City
Blue River
Jack Prather
John
Jack
George McKinstry
Prather
Holding Concerns Be Liquidated
The SEC approved a plan to liquidate United Light and Railways Company and Continental Gas and Electric Corporation and their Iowa Missouri and Kansas subsidies. The move, to comply with the federal holding company act, dissolves Continental Gas and Electric as a subsidiary of United Light and Railways and involves multiple Midwest utilities and a mining firm.
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Washington
Securities and Exchange Commission
United Light and Railways Company
Continental Gas and Lectric Corporation
Chicago
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
SEC
Continental Gas and Electric
United Light and Railways
Kansas City ‘Power and Light Co
Kansas City
St. Joseph Power and Light Co
St. Joseph
Iowa- Ilinois Gas and Electric Company
Iowa Power and Light Company
Des Moines
Eastern Kansas Utilities Inc
Fort Scott
Kans
Hume-Sinclair Coal Mining Co
Texan Hangs Self In Jail At Enid
Calvin Smith Brumley, 25, of Pampa Texas, hanged himself in Garfield county jail after a driving charge arrest by highway patrol. Identification came from a driver’s license and he tied a belt around the bed foot and his neck before lying down.
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Enid
Okla
Calvin Smith Brumley
Pampa
Tex
Garfield County
Air Academy Program Discussed by Civic Club Leaders
Committee members from Lions Optimist Rotary and Kiwanis met at the Chamber of Commerce to review Air Academy program progress. M D Weathers chaired the Kiwanis Public and Business Affairs group and led the discussion.
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Sedalia
Lions, Optimist
Rotary
Kiwanis
Chamber of Commerce
M. D. Weathers
Kiwanis Club
Step By Step To Negotiate Step By Step To Negotiate
Trygve Lie urges resumption of step-by-step negotiations between East and West to settle the great power conflict delaying peace at the United Nations. He notes 1949 saw constructive work despite quarrels and calls for flexibility and compromise to advance real talks.
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Lake Success
Trygve Lie
United Nations
United Nations Bulletin
U. N. Department of Public Information
U. N
Travel Boycott Threat Centered on Poland and Czechoslovakia
The U S State Department threatened a travel ban on private Americans traveling to communist Poland and Czechoslovakia as it seeks information on Hermann Field, Cleveland architect, and his brother Noel Field and Noel’s wife Herta. Embassy efforts in Warsaw have failed to yield details. Noel Field’s name links to the Alger Hiss trial.
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Washington
Poland
Czechoslovakia
State Department
U. S
Hungary
Robert A. Vogeler
Hermann Field
Cleveland
Noel Field
Warsaw
Prague
Foreign Office
Europe
Herta
Alger Hiss
New York
Post Office to close New Year’s Day observance
New Year’s Day falls on Sunday so January 2 is a legal holiday and all post office windows close. No city or rural mail delivery, but special delivery mail proceeds as normal. Regular street box pickup remains, with a noon collection in the business district. Edward P. Mullaley, postmaster.
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Edward P. Mullaley
Forrest Smith rules out Senate bid in Missouri race
Gov. Forrest Smith said he will not seek the U S Senate seat held by Forrest C Donnell and will finish his term as governor He denied President Truman backs any single candidate for the Democratic nomination Reagan pressed his bid for the nomination and said he has wide support Allison indicated he is seriously considering running for the post and would decide by Saturday morning
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ST. Louis
Forrest Smith
U.S. Senate
Forrest C. Donnell
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Truman
Franklin E. Reagan
Gov. Smith
Jefferson City
Emery W. Allison
Rolla
Allison
Kansas City
Mr. Truman
J. E. Taylor
John H. Hendren
Missouri Senate
Smith
Hendren
County Seeks All County Bills For 1949 Close
The county clerk asks all persons with claims against the county to present them to his office by Saturday as the books for 1949 close. The notice urges prompt submission to ensure proper accounting and settlement.
Little Betty Lou Marbury Loses Hand in Surgery
Ten year old Betty Lou Marbury from Brownsville Tenn had her diseased right hand amputated after a highly malignant bone tumor. She hopes to return to school and plans to write thanks to Phillip H Lord the radio executive who funded her trip to Boston doctors.
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Betty Lou Marbury
Betty
New York
Boston
Phillip H. Lord
Lord
Brownsville
Tenn
United States Sends Carrier Boxer to Strengthen Asiatic Fleet
The United States will deploy the 27,000-ton carrier Boxer and two destroyers to strengthen the Seventh task fleet in Asiatic waters. The move follows a White House NSC meeting with President Truman and top advisers assessing anti communism policy across the Far East. The decision, made December 6, aims to stabilize Western Pacific regions including near Communist China and Formosa.
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Washington
United States
Navy
White House
National Security Council
Truman
Far East
China
Matthews
State Acheson
State Department
Shanghai
U.S
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Formosa
Chiang Kai-Shek
Security Council
Chiang
Korea
Philippines
Indonesia
Indo-China
Burma
Trains Wrecked In Extreme Cold Near Calgary
In 20 below weather, two Canadian Pacific trains collided 95 miles southeast of Calgary. One man died and more than 40 were injured, six seriously. Capt. Jay Turner reported severe injuries and exposed survivors amid the wreck on the main line near Southesk as the Vancouver mail and express train struck the Toronto passenger cars.
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Calgary
Alta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Here
Jay Turner
Niagara Falls
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Toronto
Southesk
Vancouver
Weather outlook with clouds and mild temperatures
Increasing cloudiness and mild conditions ahead with a mix of Friday night and Saturday wind. Occasional rain develops from the southwest with Friday highs near 60 and continued mild conditions into the weekend.
Child Killed By A Charging Ram In Kansas Barnyard
Robert Watson Dosien two year old son of Lt and Mrs Robert W Dosien of Pensacola Florida and Halstead Kansas was killed by a charging ram in a barnyard near Bentley Kansas. The accident occurred while his father was briefly distracted during a farm tour. The child was taken to a Halstead hospital where he died shortly after admission. He and his sister Dale Carol had been living with their mother in Halstead.
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Wichita
Kas
Robert Watson Dosien
Robert W. Dosien
Pensacola
Fla
Halstead
Bentley
Dale Carol
Hungary Seizes Western Owned Firms in Nationwide Nationalization
Budapest announces a sweeping nationalization of all industrial enterprises with more than 10 employees. Foreign owners from the United States Britain Sweden and the Netherlands are affected, with compensation promised. Notable actions target ITT Standard Electric Works and other major concerns, while Russians remain unaffected. The move draws protests from Sweden and Britain and U S warnings limit travel and economic activity.
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Budapest
Hungary
Standard Electric Works
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Robert A. Vogeler
New York
Edgar Sanders
Imre Geiger
Erno Goro
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Shell
Vacuum
Standard Oil
Phillips Radio Company
Brown-Boveri Electrical Works
Moori
George Bannatine
Paul Ruedeman
Simon Papp
Moart
Sweden
Foreign Office
Stockholm
Britain
Sanders
United States
Washington
Plan To Avert A Strike In Southwestern Bell Pact
Governors from six states recommended resuming negotiations for 15 days to avert a strike by about 50 000 Southwestern Bell Telephone workers. The plan calls for arbitration if no settlement within the period, with union leaders signaling possible acceptance only if the company also agrees. The talks followed a ten day truce and wage, hours, and benefit disputes remain unresolved.
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ST. Louis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Southwestern Division 20
CIO Communications
Everett Cotter
Forrest Smith
Missouri
Southwestern Bell
Alf
A. E. Johnson
Union
Smith
Roy J. Turner
Oklahoma
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Sid McMath
Arkansas
Texas
M. B. Morgan
Labor Statistics
Illinois
Fern Rauch
Illinois Labor Department
George Green
Illinois Conciliation and Mediation Service
CIO Communications Workers of America
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Schrankler
Sedalian
Herbert F. Schrarkler
Air Academy
Trygve
Francis W. Carpenter
U.N
US Senate
Denis Truman
Memphis
Robert Hill
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