Greece Aid and Postwar Costs From U S Relief Efforts
Washington coverage outlines a $731 million U S aid package for Greece, including UNRRA support, postwar credits, and proposed new funds for relief, agriculture, industry, labor, and military modernization. It examines Greece’s dire inflation, debt, and living standards, with lawmakers debating options beyond relief.
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UNRRA
Greece
UNRAA
Congress
Clayton
Washington
Lawrence Voters Reject Trash Service Financing Plan
In a city election Lawrence voters emphatically rejected a proposed special financing method for trash and garbage collection. The defeat sends a rebuke to the health department, as a new mayor and three new councilors take office and face urgent needs for interim budgeting to maintain essential services.
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Lawrence
Health Department
Tazas
Greece names new king after sudden death of George II
Reaction across Greece centers on fear of leftist power grabs while the constitutional framework keeps government functioning. Prince Paul becomes nominal head as actual administration remains in the hands of experienced political leaders. The world watches Greece for stability and to avoid further trouble amid this royal transition.
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George II
Greece
Yeaterday
George TV
Paul
Good Roads Pioneer Woody Hockaday Remembered
Pioneer Woody Hockaday influenced Kansas road development by locating and marking practicable routes linking major highways across South central Kansas. His public work filled a gap before state and national highway construction expanded, earning esteem from older motor car drivers.
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Woody Hockaday
Hme
Kangaa
Hockaday
Kansas
Greece and Spain Under Shadow of Monarchs and Communism
The column argues King George’s failure bred weakness and ponders King Paul’s potential leadership amid Greek anti communists. It links Greece’s stance to Truman aid, and notes Spain’s Franco may retire in favor of Don Juan, with Franco’s continued rule harming Spain’s economy as world powers oppose him.
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Bong
George
Paul
Athens
Ple
Greece
Truman
Balkan
Congress
Spain
France
Generalissimo
Franco
Alfonso XIII
Don Juan
Madrid
Remaon
Truman’s political position described as hard to classify
The World-Herald judges President Truman as elusive in party alignment. It cites Halleck of Indiana noting he has followed Republican signals yet remains neither fully Republican nor Democratic. The paper concludes he is, for now, “a Truman man” rather than a clear party type.
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Treman
Omahe ‘World-Herald
Republican House
Halleck
Indiana
Blicans
Times
Register Republican
the World-Herald
Truman
Growing Weather Promises Favorable Conditions for Farmers
The weather man signals growing weather for the rest of the week, more favorable than social pressures. Farmers in the region welcome planting weather and time to reach the spring work piled up, with work in the fields becoming urgent as drivers push ahead.
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Kunsaxy
Simple Life in Florida A.P. Columnists View
Hal Boyle notes Florida offers one of best places to practice the simple life with low taxes and leisure appeal. He warns devotees to avoid a car and races, describing restraint as key to living cheaply while enjoying climate. The piece suggests trimming wants can fit simple living nearly anywhere with limited expense.
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Florida
Hal Boyle
The
A. P
Old Home Town Notes Include Post Office Absorption
Local items report Idwin post office absorbing Vinland rural route on April 16. Alan Asher of Lawrence named society editor for Daily Kansan for the semester, first full time on that desk. Several residents listed with travel, birthdays, visits, and social events across Baldwin Kansas City and Topeka. Election day yields a light turnout with women making up a notable share of voters.
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Beulah Stewart
Baldwin Peper
Idwin
Vinland
Alan Asher
Lawrence
Daily
Kansan
Society
Altho
E. Lawson
Hutchinson News
W. R. Smith
Matey
South
Robert L. Dill
Sire W. A. Dill
Boy Scouts of America
Cedar Rapids
Seattle
Wash
George E. Murphy
Twenty Five Years Ago in Town Movies This Week
Local listings announce films featuring Wanda Hawley in Bobbed Hair Freckles Barry in Booth Tarkington's Period Nazi motion picture A Doll's House Mary Aides in The Man With Two Mothers Mary Miles Minter stars in The Heart Specialist Rex Beach presents Iron A of high school girls group includes Mise O'Donnell Hobbs Lela Pyle Helen Walton Margaret Gustafson Frances Milli Ken Ruth Milliken Mary Enge MOT Mra Ida Record returns from Te vestre visit Florence Finch Kelly arrives in Lawtweee te ome es hae
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Wanda Hawley
Barry
Booth ‘Tarkington
Ruth Milliken
Mary Enge
Mot Mra
Ida Record
Te Vestre
Florence Finch Kelly
New York City
Old Stock Editor Letter on Pioneer Strength
J F Woodard argues nature selects the strong in historical populations. He cites Cartier and early Quebec deaths to illustrate how hardship shaped the Old American stock famed for risk taking and pioneer grit.
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Journal-World
Quebec
Cartier
St Lawrence
Cap Rouge
J. F. Woodard
Inflation hits giraffe trade in Swope park zoo plan
William T A Cully, director of Swope park zoo, notes rising costs as importers in New York report prices for giraffes leaping from 4000 to 20000 dollars. Prices soar 600 percent as South America and Europe supply markets reopen, while East Africa hunts push costs higher.
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Kansas City
William T. A. Cully
Swope Park Zoo
New York
Meems Brothers & Ward
Zooa
South America
Europe
East Africa
Nelson pension ends as British House votes to repeal
The British House of Commons voted to end the perpetual Nelson family pension, a grant costing taxpayers 2,320,000 pounds over 141 years. Proponents argued the pension unwarranted as Nelson sought no personal bounty, only state support for Lady Hamilton and Horatia.
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London
Home of Commons
Admiral Nelson
Britain
Nelson
Lady Hamilton
Horatia
Old Sailor Had His Big Moments on Ocracoke Island
Old sailor known as Big Ike O'Neal, nearly 82, recalls a life at sea from Ocracoke North Carolina. He describes sailing between the coast and West Indies, serving as a fisherman coast guardman and mail carrier. He recalls eating flour for the first time during the famed 1899 storm and other hard times, including a duck landing incident. The piece captures a weary veteran of the sail era in his weathered home near the Outer Banks.
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Hal Boyle
Ocracoke
N.C
Big Ike” O'Neal
Big Ike
North Carolina
Atlantic
Agiay
Hatteras
O'Neal
West Indies
Coast
New York
Ike
Duck
Unclear OCR: U S Senator and scattered clues
Fragmentary OCR text lists terms like US congressman overdue debt total mother named tithe and others including compass pole half an em wine cup border Egyptian tow hearing orgs at home he be watery and deciphered. No coherent article or facts available.
Chile Would Buy Wine and Sherry says Chilean minister
Chilean Minister Manuel Hebner in Canberra signals Chile’s interest in importing Australian port and sherry. He noted Australia had so far imported mainly cherry from Spain and port from Portugal. The piece also references the Monte Carlo fete celebrating 25 years of Prince Louis’s reign with events spanning June 25 to 20.
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Canberra
Australia
Manuel Hebner
Sie
Spain
Pee Duro
Portugal
Monta Carlo
Monte Carlo
Upi
Prince Louis Ot Ton Rei
Duck in a Flooded Home Teeters During Storm
A chaotic scene unfolds as a family huddles while water rises and a duck flies through the house ceiling. A man uses an ax to vent and hopes to equalize pressure before rescuing a white duck he later boxes, too frightened to eat it until the storm ends.
Plan Lets VA Advance Tuition For Veteran Students
Wichita April 2 Under a new GI plan profit colleges and universities may receive substantial advance payments of tuition and related costs for veterans enrolled. Approved schools contract with the VA regional office to receive up to 73 percent of estimated costs as soon as a semester begins and enrollments are known. Final expenses, minus advances, are settled at semester end or refund period. unapproved schools bill in arrears.
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Wichita
Kan
R. R. Gibson
Veterans Ministration
Gibson
Ibson
Merger Under Way In Protestant Churches Of Hesse
Wieshanden reports show 71 steps toward unification of Protestant groups in Hesse as religious officers in the American Military Government note April elections may unify 1.5 million southern members under a common synod. Monthly conclaves also push closer ties with 1 million North Hesse church members. Consolidation has been sought since the Nazi state church dissolved.
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Hesse
Hessen-Nassau
Help for Lorient France Welfare Center Drive
The Atlantic port of Lorient in postwar recovery seeks aid from England and the United States. An American Aid Committee campaign targets 350000 dollars across eight southern states and Stamford to fund a Lorient welfare center with medical equipment for schoolchildren. Beth Adams jokes at a St Louis home, saying she forgot her scissors after being given a stack of magazines by friends.
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Lorient
France
England
America
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
North
South Carolina
Stamford
Connecticut
Beth
St. Louis
Kenneth Moore
Baldwin News Dinner Plans At Parmenter Commons
Frances Chatalaline of Fair hur Neh worked with her parents the Rev and Mrs H E McLeod on Dearborn Street The Baker faculty club hosts an April dinner next Monday at 6 30 PM at Parmenter Commons with Mr and Mrs Earl Kirker in charge of arrangements The Rev R E Carylon Falls City Methodist pastor is involved
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Frances Chatalaline
Fairhur
Neh
H. E. McLeod
Dearborn
Baker Faculty Club
Parmenter Commons
Earl Kirker
R. E. Carylon
Methodist Church
Falls City
Neb
Miscox Margaret
Hilda Carlyon
Baker
Baldwint Hotary Club
Robert Pruitt
First Methodia
Ottawa
Alfreda Humpfelin
Uves
Latvia
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Donald
Witerne
Bethany Hospital
Kansaes City
Peck
Berkeley
Calif
Hfs
Atatin Brith
Taul Selger
Hale Bierle
Belzer
Stanley FH. Filckingers
Nan
Sacramento
Mra
OC. uAliderdice
Soldwater
J. E. Mellor
F. . Lelmaker
Misa Geraldine Dunn
Surdnes
Apent Mateekend
Baldwin
Edenra Wond
Kansas City
Wood
Temph Stetl
Aon
Jon
Kansan City
Bre
William ¢ Coe
Rankin Welborn
Son
Hiss
Robert
Radio Programs and Local News Highlights
A Baldwin area radio schedule shows programs on KMBC WREN WDAF and related stations including late evening talks with Beulah Show Dinah Shore and Dr Tweedy. The week’s events include a town meeting and a series of local notices plus school spelling contest results at Baldwin McAilor and Lawrence Memorial Hospital updates.
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Wren
Paul Whiteman
KMBC
KMEC
WDAF
Grand Marques
WEN Stud
Terkel LE
Contall Wrens
KMRC
Borton
KSIBC
Heart of America
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Dovrise
Serenasa & Themesos, Inc
North Michinny
West
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Audit Bureau of Circulations
Tham
Abie Bamauts
WEA
Washincton
D. C
NEA
Senate
Bouse
Sone
United States
Great Britain
Good Roads Pioneer
Sherwin Kelly
C. 3. Finch
Charles Kohler
Theodore Lander
Oscar O'Connor
Ed_ Penchard
James Dale
Kanaas City
Ming Hortense Rodenburg
Leavenworth
Maude Harding
Gertrude Hillard
Manhattan
B. Addison
Julius Cohn
A. Young
Misa Robb
Young
Ellsworth
Charlea Brooke
Harry Dunkle
Huntington
Mise
Emma McCoy
Trewergy
Milo Trewergy
Lamar, Colo
Misa
Juliet Poff
Norm Gentry
Topeka
James Hemphill
Baldwin Waa
Yesteryday
J. A. Benson
Tor Kannes City
Elizabeth T. Wilson
Sarovel
Columbus
Ohio
End In
Wallace McGrath
Paul’ Peterson
Peipini
U. S
Truce Headquarters
Post Exchange
Salvation Army
Nebraska City
Bert Hershey
Missouri River
Tuea, Mich
Theodore Mulyk
Mulyk
Opea
Ike” O'Neal
U.S
AleIte
Chile
Sherry
Baldwin News
Apen A
Kefku
Hammond
Faure
HANNA
Ib. G. Gustafson Optometrist
Round Corner Drug Co
Mel Fisher
John
Charles Thomas
AL Jolson
Bing
Crosby
American Broadcasting. Company
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