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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1948
Page
5
The International Group warns that Russia may seize Europe in a fairly short time, forecasting rapid advances and broad strategic implications for security and diplomacy. The warning emphasizes heightened tensions and calls for rapid alliance mobilization to deter aggression.
A private group reports that Russia could press hard to gain political advantages in coming months. It notes Soviet forces with three million peacetime troops, mass bomber production, jet planes, a large submarine fleet, and potential support from satellite armies. The committee, lone funded, cautions reports may be partly accurate yet suspicious.
Harold Knutson, longtime House Ways and Means chairman from Minnesota, said he may not seek re election. He will decide after the Republican convention in Philadelphia and return home. His choice could hinge on Congress action on his bill to overhaul about eighty tax technical revisions. He estimates the measure would cut federal revenues by about 400 million dollars annually without broad tax cuts.
University of Kansas reports a summer term enrollment of 3,329, an all time high, per registrar James K. Hitt. The campus will host about 2,869 students at 7 am Monday, with late registration expected to lift totals toward 3,500. Medicine school adds 365 in Kansas City. Additional workshops and field work claim 2,500 participants nearby.
In Syracuse New York on June 12 prices for steak were 5 6 and 7 cents per ounce. Housewives saw signs advertising per ounce pricing with per pound equivalents of 80 96 and 112 cents. Butchers cited scales that only register to 60 or 80 cents, prompting the ounce-based pricing.
The House un American activities committee plans hearings through late summer and early fall starting with the Condon case. Acting Chairman McDowell of Pennsylvania said it is very probable the panel will begin around August 1 in its probe of Dr Edward Condon.
In Frankfort Kentucky on June 12 AP reports Dr. R B Atwood president of the Kentucky State College for Negroes said he rejected the application of Miss a white girl seeking admission for missionary training. The action underscores segregation era policies at the institution and the regional education landscape.
About 25 Heart of America Radio club members operated under simulated emergency conditions at Swope Park for a 24 hour national Field Day test. Naval reserve crews provided SCR-99 gear while operators logged contacts to Minneapolis, Pawhuska, Kenosha, and others.
Washington June 12 AP report notes Knutson of the House Ways and Means committee attended the wedding of Mrs Mae Cox and Rep Richard M Simpson. He nearly discarded a newly lit cigar but a photographer urged him to leave it on the step. After the ceremony he retrieved the cigar smiling.
The Rev Ignatius Estes is to celebrate his first solemn high mass at Assumption church at 10 this morning after being ordained Tuesday at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington He is a Kansas City Kansas native and son of Mr and Mrs C E Estes 511 South Askew avenue He trained at Holy Trinity seminary in Maryland and will teach at Holy Trinity high school after returning there later
Atwood cites Kentucky statutes barring white and Negro students from the same school. He warns that allowing Betty Marie Ellis, 23, a College of the Bible student in Lexington, to attend a Negro institution would expose him and any teaching faculty to fines of 1000 dollars for violating state law.
Never Fail, a salesman for a laundry and dry cleaners supply company, filed a petition in bankruptcy in federal district court. The filing lists debts at 2286.21 and assets at 200. The report identifies the city as Oxtanoma City and the date as June 12.
Representative Patman of Texas charged Peru with failing to honor a pact in the U S Peru air compact. He urged barring Peru from receiving Export Import Bank financing unless Braniff Airways lands in the country. Patman filed the statement in the Congressional Record.
Jefferson City will host the annual convention of the Young Democratic Clubs of the second congressional district on September 10 and 11. Boonville delegates report counties Cooper Saline Cole Boone and Randolph represented at the meeting. Postmaster nominations include E Lucille Logsdon Grenoa Kansas and Marlin L Ames Long Island Kansas Waldo E Malone Clifton Hill Missouri and Aubrey M Gooch Meadville Missouri.
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