Draft rush as Truman delays signing bill fuels Kansas City enlistments
Kansas City youths aged 18 to 25 rush to enlist in full time and reserve units as the peacetime draft nears. Enlistments surge at the United States courthouse recruiting station while officers await presidential approval and signatures from congressional leaders.
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ARMY
United States
Tech. Sevet
Robert D. Ross
Maj
Joseph C. Rollins
Air Force
Kansas City Star
Truman
Kansas City
Charles G. Ross
Washington
Senate
House
Philadelphia
Joseph Martin
Arthur Vandenberg
Ross
Nine in One Hero Grave at Santa Fe Ceremony
Nine crew members of an American heavy bomber shot down in Algeria will be buried in a single ceremony at Santa Fe National Cemetery on June 30. A 39 man detail from Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, will assist. Individual identifications were impossible due to death circumstances.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Algeria
Santa Fe National Cemetery
Kirtland Field
Albuquerque
Carl O. Gruel
Clark Bender
Leslie S. Bender
Chico
Calif
Ned R. Hugley
Ned Hugley
Plainville
Kas
Ernest R. Jones
Mary Jones Cook
Johnson City
Tenn
Leonard G. LaJoie
Arthur LaJoie
Superior
Wis
Raymond L. Martine
Inez H. Preminger
Spokane
Wash
Edward J. Pearce
Marian P. Pearce
Flint
Mich
Joseph W. Shank
Sara Shank
Rosemond
Turner A. Sowell
New Augusta
Miss
Eugene C. Weishaar
Charles M. Weishaar
Villa Park
School Ledger Study by Dr J G Fowlkes at Wisconsin
Dr J G Fowlkes of University of Wisconsin will visit Saturday and Sunday to audit the public schools budget and bookkeeping practices. He will later present recommendations to the Board of Education and may propose modernization plans. A special board meeting will discuss his preliminary findings.
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Jonn Guy Fowlkes
University of Wisconsin
United for Fifty Years Mr and Mrs Dillingham Observe Golden Wedding
Lee's Summit couple Mr. and Mrs. D M Dillingham celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a reception and open house from 2 to 6 Sunday at the home of their daughter Mrs Wade Brownfield and Mr Brownfield in Blue Springs. He is 76, she 70. Niece of the late T W Records of the Bank of Blue Springs, he a son of Jackson County pioneers Morgan Dillingham. he has run a mercantile business over fifty years. The couple first owned a store in Tar...
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D. M. Dillingham
Lee
Wade Brownfield
Mr. Brownfield
Blue Springs
Mr. Dillingham
Dillingham
Mrs. Dillingham
T. W. Records
Bank of Blue Springs
Morgan Dillingham
Jackson County
Tars
A Kansas City Area Couple Linked by Marriage and Family
The article notes a bride and groom moving from ney, Missouri to Blue Springs after eight years. Mr. Dillingham later joined his father in a mercantile business. They have two other children M V Dillingham Lee's Summit and David R Dillingham 3634 Norledge Avenue Kansas City plus three grandchildren.
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Will Rogers
Navy Reserve Armory
Ve Nut Street
Victor B. Tate
Marine Armory
Marine Re‘ory
401 East
John W. Hoffman, Jr
Sick Bay
Nus
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Ernest von Pawel
Quartermaster Depot
Independence
Hardesty Avenues
Infantry
Artillery
Armored Force
Engineers
Quartermaster
Ordnance and
Transportation Corps
Kansas
J. G. Fowlkes
United
Mark
Kefecperdbre
Cpl
Big Boy
Jones Auto Accessories Department
Jones Store
Minn. Ave
Jones Auto Accessories
International Harvester
Minnesota
Kans
Doubleday Heating Company
Y Kansas City, Missouri
Jones
Sumter Rugs
Alexander Smith & Sons
Hook Designs
BolDep
Rouge Mauve
Gainsborough
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