Pilgrims Fill Via Dolorosa Amid Jerusalem Easter Observances
Throngs of pilgrims walk the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem from Pilate’s palace to Mount Calvary during Holy Week rites. Despite a civil strike and Jewish Arab tensions, large crowds joined Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services across multiple sects and languages.
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Tanks Led Attack Chungking Says Central News Agency
Mukden dispatches claim four or five medium tanks and crews from a foreign country led the assault on Changchun. Government reports from Chinhsien describe an outnumbered garrison holding only two artillery-battered buildings as dawn approached. Peiping notes the First Army is 76 miles away, advancing slowly, while truce talks resume in Chungking amid renewed bombardment and incendiary shells striking Changchun.
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Markets Close For Good Friday Across Major Exchanges
The New York and other major markets shut down for Good Friday April 19. Security exchanges in New York Chicago London Montreal and Toronto halt activity while some livestock markets stay open. Trading resumes Saturday with New York stock and Chicago grain resuming after the holiday.
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Mysterious Salina Army Visit as Man Digges for Wife
Bonner Springs Kansas reports that a Salina based army private led city officials in a midnight riverbank dig for his missing wife. After hours of digging, the soldier confessed she was alive and the group returned to Salina.
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Salria
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Saline
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Bonner
Wilburr Frisbee
K. M. Rottluff
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Benner Springs
Californ
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Sam
Vha
California
Grass Roots Plea Shapes Easter Recess For House
House members head home for a short Easter recess amid doubts on draft and OPA legislation. Lawmakers say they will test public opinion in their districts and gauge support for extending the measures with strict restrictions. McNutt arrives in Manila returning as High Commissioner with Mrs McNutt and their daughter aboard the transport plane.
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Hoover to Continue Famine Survey Abroad Before Return
President Truman agreed Hoover should finish famine survey duties in foreign countries before returning to the United States. Hoover, speaking from Cairo, plans to proceed to India China Japan and the Philippines before a May 12 New York meeting.
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Five Bills Targeted by Washington Leaders
An administration plans to push five key subjects to break Senate resistance. OPA salvage, draft reforms, regular appropriations, a $3.73 billion British loan, and long-range housing are prioritized. If approved, measures merging armed services, higher minimum wage, expanded social security, labor dispute curtailment, a permanent fair employment commission and state poll tax repeal would be deferred to January.
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Vandals ruin a rural school near Topeka
Vandals broke into Mission Center rural grade school four miles southwest of Topeka and wrecked interiors. Windows smashed desks overturned flag and Bible torn from walls books scattered and a sand table tipped. One youth detained for questioning. In Japan a war crimes tribunal sentenced Kunimitsu Yamauchi to forty years for the beating death of Cpl Walter R Johnson of McPherson Kansas.
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Australian Proposal Sways U N Security Council Debate
The United Nations Security Council showed interest in a five member sub committee proposed by Australian delegate W R Hodgson to probe the Spanish issue and report by May 17. Council members expect to revisit the Iranian case next, amid a ruling that the agenda can stay open as long as needed.
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Will Check on Russian Removal of Jap Assets
Secretary Byrnes said Edwin W. Pauley will visit the Orient to identify Japanese assets the Russians have moved from Manchuria and Korea. He noted Pauley was previously barred from Russian controlled Manchuria but expects easier entry as evacuation continues.
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Pope observes Holy Day in Vatican Holy Week rites
Pope Pius XII attended the Holy Thursday mass in the Sistine Chapel and joined the eucharistic procession to the Pauline chapel. Cardinals and most Vatican diplomats were present along with allied military personnel visiting Rome for Holy Week.
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Old Guard Infantry to Police Berlin Occupation
The U S Army Third Infantry Regiment, oldest in the line, will assume Berlin occupation duties from the 8th Division. Col. Herbert J. Vander Heide leads training for full duties by May 1 as the unit, once Pennsylvania troops, handles prisoners of war and recalls its long lineage with 27 battle streamers.
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Flock to Courses Refresher For Nurses At KU Kansas City
Enrollment over 160 today surpasses the 125-nurse target for the Unity of Kansas School of Medicine refresher course for nurses in Kansas City April 23 to 25. The program draws 26 Kansas cities and three from the Greater Kansas City area. Lecturers include Florence Brennan, Mary C. Corcoran, and Henrietta Loughran. Topics cover pedomyelitis, new drugs and treatments, histoplasmosis, isolation techniques, and nursing care across surgical psychiatric and obstetrical fields. This is KU's first nurse refresher course and part of a broader graduate education series.
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Senate to take up 500 million airport aid Tuesday
The Senate deferred until Tuesday the consideration of a 500 million dollar federal airport construction aid program. Senator Brewster of Maine criticized the plan as a state’s fight favoring direct city requests to Washington over state channels.
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Easter Assembly at Liberty Memorial High School
The Girl Reserve of the Young Women's Christian Association sponsored the Easter assembly at Liberty Memorial High School yesterday in the school auditorium. Reserve officers Carolee Eberhart Barbara Richard and Barbara Clough led worship scripture reading and prayer. A girl’s trio Marilyn Barr Carol Buhler Joan Eliott with Randi Pierson sang Prayer by Guion followed by a dramatics and religious story The Wife of Pontius Pilate.
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Garson Rescued by Sardine Boat Skipper in Rescue
In Carmel California on April 19 Greer Garson the film star was swept from a fishing rock by a heavy wave and saved by Vincent Sollecito skipper of a sardine boat. Sollecito, MGM technical adviser, dived into the surf and reached the actress before the shore broke again. She suffered cuts on her legs during the Coast shot incident.
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MGM
Senate to weigh gentler OPA treatment amid price push
Washington reports administration hope that the Senate will handle OPA with more restraint than the House. The House measure would sharply cut ceilings on many goods and end food subsidies. Senate probes include extending price control and possible amendments to limit subsidies. Berlin notes a U S air force buildup in Europe under Gen Carl Spaatz with 71 000 personnel planned by July.
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Maneuvers Begin as Fleet Heads to Rendezvous Off Norfolk
Norfolk Va April 19 ships of the eighth fleet depart for the rendezvous area off the coast where President Truran will join Monday to review battleships and auxiliaries. The 45000 ton carrier Roosevelt flagship Mitscher will carry the President to the rendezvous and back to Norfolk naval station. War games are split into four phases from today through May 26 covering waters from Trinidad to Bermuda and Guantanamo to New York with air crews aboard Roosevelt Midway and Princeton.
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Kansas High School Athletes Competing at University
Kansas high school athletes from about 114 schools compete in the interscholastic track and field meet at Memorial Stadium, with preliminaries this morning and finals at 1:30 pm. The event uses three divisions Class AA A and B as visiting athletes are guests of the Athletic Association at the Kansas Relays tomorrow.
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Junior High Circus Promises An Evening Of Fun And Fashion
The third annual Junior high circus occurs Friday April 26 in the Community building to raise funds for the school yearbook The Junior. Lois Penny leads the program with a fashion show by home economics girls guarded by an Old Lady prop. A skit explains the Old Lady Who Ered in a Shoe. Joyce Emick reads lines. Marilyn Ringler Ellen Jane Lupton serve as pages. Bettina Gagliardo is the neighbor lady. Other acts include acrobatics by Nancy Summer Stellan Carney a rope-jump dance by Dirndt girls and tumbling by physical training students led by Wilbur Duver. Proceeds support the yearbook and festivities attract students and parents alike.
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Ellen Jane Lupton
Bettina Gagliardo
Marlene Oehrie
Nancy Summer
Stellan Carney
Bonnie Raines
Freda Shutt
Donna McNermond
Helen Keene
Marie Woodruff
Betty Fink
Charlotte VanBelcher
H Salvesen
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Charlotte VanRebber
Joyce Wratt
Ben Hall
Javee Dine
Bettina Gagiianio
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Weather forecast for Easter parade in Kansas
Weather man Flora predicts fair and warmer conditions for Sunday's Easter parade with highs near 80 to 85 and warmest towns like Dodge City reaching 64 yesterday. He also forecasts a cool period with moderate rain moving in Monday through Tuesday, followed by a warming trend next Wednesday.
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Honolulu prep school runners join Kansas Relays trip
Wealthy Honolulu sponsor funds four extra Punahou athletes to join seven others at the Kansas Relays. Frank Relding and Robert Paris head the 11 member group traveling from Honolulu to California then to Missouri and Lawrence. The squad will also compete at the Penn Relays next week and later work out at Cornell University before April 26 and 27 events.
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Dion Lord
Edwin Sorenson
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Sheriff Force Investigates Baldwin Accident On Highway
Douglas county sheriff and Kansas highway patrol responded yesterday afternoon to a collision in Baldwin involving a truck and two automobiles. A. D. Addington drove the automobile, struck an Arad owned by Birch Trucking, as Addington entered from Eighth Street. The car hit the rear and veered off, the truck left the highway, no injuries reported, traffic briefly delayed.
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Weather District Forecast Summary for Apr 23
The forecast covers Missouri Oklahoma and Nebraska with fall and mild days ahead. Expect general showers and coolness Monday into Tuesday with clearing and warming by Wednesday. Temperatures 3 to 8 degrees above normal with moderate precipitation except heavy in eastern Oklahoma and southeastern Missouri. Quite mild at night with lows around 38 to 80s in extremes west.
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