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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1948
Page
2
Two men posing as guests forced night watchman Sam Ferrara at Wander Inn in East Ninth Street to unlock the tavern. They fled with $685 from cash registers and safe and seven cases of whisky worth 280 after breaking a rear door lock. Ferrara, 65, survived the ordeal.
In Cuiacoa June 25 Mrs Julia Brittan 23 fainted on the operating table at American hospital during an appendectomy. Dr Max Thorek chief surgeon arrived within three minutes and directly accessed the heart creating incisions to the diaphragm and pericardium. He massaged the heart injected adrenalin and restored a normal beat. The chart lists her condition as fair.
Doris Lennie McWilliams, an eight year old Negro girl, was treated at General Hospital No. 2 after a firecracker exploded in her mouth. She received one stitch for a lip wound and burns on her face. A boy nearby watched as a man allegedly prank placed the firecracker in her mouth and fled. A suspect man is being sought. Doris named the boy but could not identify the man.
Wanda L McMullen a 15 year old girl died at Osteopathic hospital from suspected food poisoning A coroner s inquest will be held She was daughter of Rev Roy McMullen and Mrs McMullen and had just completed her freshman year at Central high school Funeral services set at 2 o clock Monday at the Rosedale Tabernacle FLW
About 350 workers from nine GE divisions in Kansas City attended a company outing at Quivira lake. The day began with a golf game and continued with additional outdoor activities planned for the afternoon.
A 2-day drive to sell Security Loan bonds totaling 15 million dollars in Jackson County kicked off with a rally on Eleventh street and a parade of eight Studebaker convertibles. Mayor Kemp, Sheriff Purdome, and officials led the event, with vaudeville acts and performances by KC civic leaders. The bondmobile tours to St Joseph next, then Swope Park for more concerts and a King Cole trio appearance.
An estimated twenty persons were injured as twenty three gasoline storage tanks exploded at the Aetna Oil plant in Louisville Kentucky. Fires confined to the rundown farm area behind a dike with damages projected up to nine hundred thousand dollars.
Statement argues for strong unity with free nations to deter aggression and prevent a third world war. It asserts Soviet aims to drive out Allies from Berlin and subjugate Germany’s eastern zone under totalitarian rule.
Residents of Princeton Missouri gathered around Elmer Davis's radio repair shop as a radio set picked up conversations from the local telephone exchange. Davis worked through the day to remove the quirk and restore normal reception. An erroneous Trenton dateline appeared in an earlier edition.
Fred Traber aged 73 died in Great Falls Montana. He was former Kansas City real estate partner in McEntire Traber and president of Idowell Creamery in Great Falls and Montana Creamery association former. Survived by wife Twila Russell Traber three sons Russell Fred Jr and Herman all of Great Falls a daughter Sidney Smith Missoula sister Rollin Feitshans Los Angeles and seven grandchildren. Masonic funeral services scheduled in Great Falls.
Sophia Noelling 93 widow of C F Noelling former Noelling Steel Sales president died at home in Louisville after a two month illness. She leaves five daughters and seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral services and burial will be in Louisville.
Robert W. McMahan, 32, a former air force sergeant jailed at Leavenworth on a 10 year sentence, was released today on bond after a writ of habeas corpus. Convicted by court-martial for attempted rape in Bad Kissingen Germany on May 23 1946, he has been at Leavenworth since September 1946. The release follows claims that pre trial investigation was improper.
Judge Harry M. Gambrel was elected president of the police pension system retirement board yesterday. Henry W. Johnson, chief of police, was named vice-chairman and John J. May became treasurer.
The 6 Republican congressional candidates in Philadelphia all won seats. Scott, born November 11, 1900 in Fredericksburg Virginia, is a Randolph Macon and University of Virginia Law School graduate who practiced law in Philadelphia before entering Congress. Dewey’s aides said William Murphy will be retained as publicity director.
Missouri gubernatorial candidate Murray E. Thompson accuses the state Legislature of turning a 9 million dollar deficit into a 60 million dollar surplus over eight years. He warns voters in Burrito about a revival of political gang rule and cautions against communism’s threat to freedom.
Crippled actress Susan Peters says she and actor Richard Quine have a property settlement and will seek a quick divorce. She notes they may stay together for years but want to end the marriage while they are still young and before their adopted two year old son is hurt by separation.
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