Kansas wheat harvest shows better outlook with three grains per mesh
Greensburg Kansas June 19 optimism grows as harvest proceeds though not a bumper year. Some fields report three grains per mesh, up from the usual two, with yields varying by county and variety from Kingman to Meade and Cowley.
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Don Evans
Weekly Star
Greensburg
Kas
Kansas Wheat Belt
Kansas
Sumner Oe
Weland Caldwell
Hobart
Pratt
Hoy B. Etling
Triumph
Edwards County
Oklahoma
Meade County
Gene Harris
Kiowa County
Cowley County
Kenneth Dunbar
Walnut River
Key Provisions Outlined For Postwar Draft Measure
The bill sets 19 to 25 year olds for twenty one months service across services with immediate effect. It allows up to 161000 18 year olds to volunteer for one year. It raises total armed forces to about 2,005,882 and caps alien enlistment. It includes deferments for students and certain workers and reestablishes the national selective service with a $12,500 director.
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Washington
Congress
Army
Navy
Marines
Senate
House
Armed Services
National Selective Service Organization
Bondsman’s Dime Bond Stuns Police in Auto Case
In Thompsonville Connecticut police counted a $1,000 bond posted in an automobile case. The money came in dimes totaling 10,000 coins. Police said the bondsman William G Fleming who also runs vending machines had amassed the large dime cache.
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Thompsonville
Conn
William G. Fleming
Miss Wallace Described as Carroll's Very Good Friend
Actress Beryl Wallace identified as a very good friend by Earl Carroll's attorney Sam Wolf amid Carroll and Wallace's deaths in the Mount Carmel plane crash. Wolf says no will mentions marriage and probate of the producer's estate expected in about ten days. In Alabama, the 40 foot cruiser Belle of Memphis burned at the Guntersville dam. owner burned in legs, others uninjured.
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Los Angeles
Beryl Wallace
Earl Carroll
Ikill
Sam Wolf
Carroll
Miss Wallace
Mount Carmel
Wolf
Guntersville
Ala
Memphis
W. M. Bell
Gunters Ville Dam
Notable Kansan Axel Hawkinson Celebrates Golden Anniversary
The Kansas City native Axel Hawkinson, at 74, is a royal vice consul for Sweden and a long-time real estate figure. His wife Maline is 71, and the couple marks their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at the Young Matrons Club. Hawkinson helped found Trinity Lutheran hospital and the Salem Home for the Aged.
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Sweden
Vasa
Mrs. Hawkinson
Young Matrons
Fifty-first
Oak Streets
Mr. Hawkinson
Hawkinson
Maline
Johnson
Twelfth
Wyandotte Streets
Southwest Corner
Sixteenth
Belleview
Wyandotte
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Salem Home For
Baltimore Avenue
Sir Axel
ECA Amendment Limits Abroad Purchases and Propaganda
The amendment restricts ECA to avoid bulk buys of U S farm machinery and limits grain purchases to US market prices plus transport and quality adjustments. It excludes items held by the Commodity Credit Corporation and leaves a 10 million dollar allowance for foreign newspapers and magazines for propaganda.
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United States
ECA
Commodity Credit Corporation
Truman NAMES 12 TO ADVISORY BOARD FOR ERP
President Truman nominates a 12 member public advisory board to assist Paul G. Hoffman as European Recovery Program administrator. Nominees span industry labor agriculture and education including James Carey George Meany Albert Goss James Patton Herbert Lehman Jonathan Daniels Robert Hinckley Eric Johnston George Mead Sarah Blanding Allan Kline and Arlen Lyons. The slate awaits Senate approval.
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Washington
Truman
Paul G. Hoffman
Senate
Jamesb. Carey
George Meany
New York
Albert S. Goss
Farm Bureau Federation
Arlen Everett Lyons
Illinois
Railway Labor Executive Association
Suspect Held After Death Found in KC Apartment
The body of Thelma Jackson, a Black woman, was found in an apartment at 2025 Prospect Ave. Jesse James Colbert, 28, Black, was arrested by Kansas City Kansas Police after investigators said Jackson had been dead for days and Colbert admitted firing a revolved weapon at an unidentified man in the apartment. He waived extradition and is held for investigation.
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Prospect Avenue
Jesse James Colbert
Kansas City
Kansas
Thelma Jackson
Colbert
Miss Jackson
A Pall Over Her Party in Tulsa as Doctors Say
Sharon Mc Williams a 3 year old Tulsa girl celebrated a birthday party at Hillcrest Memorial hospital after an operation to remove malignant growth failed. Doctors say daily X rays to prolong her life must stop in weeks and her brothers sister and mother joined her for the long day. Nurses made her an honorary member of the school of nursing for caring for her dolls.
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Tulsa
Sharon McWilliams
Hillcrest Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing
Margerie Scott Addresses Beta Sigma Phi Group
Miss Margerie Scott spoke to a nine state delegation at a Beta Sigma Phi convention in the Municipal Auditorium. She praised the group’s ideas and objectives as universal and urged world friendship and understanding through international cooperation.
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Margerie Scott
Beta Sigma Phi Group
London
Municipal
Miss Scott
International Business Women’s Service Organization
Browning for Congress Club Formed in Lee's Summit
The Browning for Congress club with 226 members forms in Lee's Summit to back Cass W. Browning for the Democratic nomination in the Fourth District. Browning, 53, a four time mayor, Navy veteran of World War I, Missouri Automobile Club governor, and longtime merchant, will be discussed at an executive committee meeting led by chairman William Cress to plan the campaign this week.
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Browning For Congress Club
Lee's Summit
Cass W. Browning
Browning
The
Missouri Automobile Club
Club
William ‘Cress
Lee
Fire HQ wiring condemned. replacement planned at Central Street
City inspectors condemned the wiring at Fire Headquarters 1920 Central Street as unsafe. A contract for replacement has been let at a cost of 2688 dollars.
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Central Street
Cobbler Must Slack Up on Work Hours Court Rules
Arthur Blake the cobbler faced a Brentford County court injunction limiting his work to fifty nine hours a week and banning Sundays. Judge Tudor Rees praised his industry while noting the strain on neighbors living above. Mrs. Olive Rayne said she and her husband left Saturdays and Sundays to rest. Blake declined to comment on the ruling.
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Brentford
England
Arthur Blake
Olive Rayne
Tudor Rees
Dewey Favored by Delegates as Nominating Sparks Rise
The race tightens with Warren Stassen and Vandenberg seen as leaning to a deadlock while Dewey leads in nominations surge. Taft backers refuse to yield and hope a Taft Stassen pairing could seal a deal, though still unlikely.
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Evence
Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Stassen
Vandenberg
Taft
Taft-Stassen
Sigler Signals Vandenberg As Candidate At Demand
Michigan Governor Kim Sigler as Michigan delegation chairman says Senator Arthur Vandenberg is available as a candidate if there is public demand. He notes Vandenberg would prefer to stay in office but could be drafted at the convention. The remarks underscore Pennsylvania’s upcoming convention eve caucus and Vandenberg supporters’ hopes.
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Philadelphia
Kim Sigler
Michigan
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Sigler
Vandenberg
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
James H. J
Duff
Congress
Rodeo Injuries Send Two to Hospital
A 14 year old boy and a 28 year old stunt driver were treated at General hospital after mishaps at Blues Stadium rodeo yesterday afternoon. The boy, Tommy J. White, was thrown from a calf and kicked in the right side but had no fractured ribs. He volunteered to ride for $5 and is described as an expert horseman. The driver, King Kovaz of Hollywood, sustained a lacerated lip and facial cuts after a car overturned twice on a ramp at 35 miles per hour. Both were released after treatment.
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General Hospital
Blues Stadium
Tommy J. White
Helen Wilter
Myrtle Avenue
King Kovaz
Hollywood
Jon
Charm for Mr Dewey and Elevator Thematic Election Buzz
A Philadelphia convention scene sketches Dewey and Stassen campaign hubs at Bellevue-Stratford Warwick and Benjamin Franklin hotels. Vandenberg arrives with a Taft line, elevators disappear and reappear as reporters monitor the political bustle. Monday’s opening looms amid slogans, rooms, and a playful hint about the hogie.
Dinner for Derby Drivers at Shrine Hotel Continental
Boys entered in the Soap Box derby to be held in Swope Park July 18 will attend a buffet dinner at the Shrine headquarters in the Hotel Continental Thursday night at 7 30 oclock. The meeting will advise on racer building and check progress of cars already under construction.
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Shrine
Swope Park
Hotel Continental
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