Warns coal users to stock midwestern coal now
Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes urges midwestern coal consumers to order and store coal this summer to avoid a dangerous shortfall next winter. He notes production gains yet warns delays in ordering force reliance on Southern Appalachian coal and risk widespread shortages, urging immediate action to meet at least 25 percent of next winter’s needs.
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Harold L. Ickes
Midwest
Solid Fuels Administration
Pennsylvania
Statistics An Aid to Ignorant Says Solon
Washington reports detail a House Banking and Currency Committee hearing on statistics with Rep Crawford challenging the use of data. Interjections from Rep Gifford and others reflect skepticism about precise figures and official bodies including the RFC and CPA. A rabies report note appears as a brief item.
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Solon
Washington
House Banking and Currency Committee
Crawford R-Mich
Jesse
Commerce Department
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
CPA
Jones
Gifford
R-Mass
Dog Killed Near Walcott Linked to Rabies Report
Topeka reports indicate Dr. George A. Rathman of the state livestock sanitary commission is reviewing a rabies case in Leavenworth county. The killed dog, owned by C. F. Dawkins of Wolcott, was sent to a Kansas City lab and allegedly tested positive, with claims it bit 26 other dogs near Wolcott.
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Topeka
George A. Rathman
State Livestock Sanitary Commission
Leavenworth
Rathman
C. FP. Dawkins
Wolcott
Kansas City
Dawkins
Serenaders to Play at Fun Fest in Community Building
The Rio Grande Serenaders eight piece Mexican string orchestra of Kansas City will provide dancing music at the Fun Fest in Lawrence Community Building on Wednesday evening. The event, organized by the Lawrence Rancho Grande club with Prof. F P O Brien, features Mexican folk dances, a stage show with Carl Sandburg folk songs group, University High square dancing, Tau Sigma dance numbers, and a prize bridge bingo event hosted by AAUW. Tickets and reservations available via AAUW members or at the door.
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Rio Grande Serenaders
Kansas City
Lawrence Rancho Grande Club
F. P. O Brien
Senor
Ramon ‘Savejo
Senora Soledad Nunez
Clifton Calvin
United States
Carl Sandburg
Corlett Cotton
Trof
John Hawkins
Harold G. Barr
Kelvin Hoover
R. M. Price
Verner Smith
Calvin
Wayne Replogle
University High Square
Ruth Hoover
Donald George
Eugene Tait
Austin Turney
George Davidson
Bob Moorman
Tom Jones
Lotta Marie Houk
Waneta
American Association of University Women
AAUW
Tax Bill Is Ready
Washington reports the house ways and means committee completed a bill to free about 30 million taxpayers from annual returns and introduce withholding on wages and salaries. The plan, effective January 1, would adjust withholdings to collect full liability for earners up to 5,000 dollars annually, with simplified procedures for the rest. Chairman Doughton expects Congress to act soon.
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Washington
House Ways and Means
Congress
Doughton
D.-N.c
House
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Kansans Missing in Action in World War II
Washington reports eight Kansans among 662 soldiers listed as missing in action by the War Department. Named are Capt. Benjamin H. Albertson Sylvia. Second Lt. George B. Callow Garnett. Maj. Carl W. Faust Emporia. Cpl. George E. Jones Wichita. Tech 5th Gr. Russell T. Buddenhagen Parsons. Staff Sgt. Clifford W. Johnson Ottawa. Tech Sgt. Carl E. Moore Idana. Second Lt. Holly G. Ponder Topeka.
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Washington
CPI
War Department
Benjamin H. Albertson
Sylvia
George B. Callow
Garnett
Carl W. Faust
Emporia
George E. Jones
Wichita
Mediterranean
Tech
Russell T. Buddenhagen
Parsons
Clifford W. Johnson
Ottawa
Carl E. Moore
Idana
Holly G. Ponder
Topeka
Plan to create world stabilization fund urged by Hull
Washington reports that Secretary Hull urged implementing an international stabilization fund before war end to stabilize postwar economies. A proposed $8 billion gold backed fund would be built from major powers led by the United States, Britain and Russia with eventual expansion to $10 billion.
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Washington
State Hull
Treasury
United Nations
Russia
Hull
United States
Mongenthau
Morgenthau
Senate
House
Roosevelt
United Front
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
UNRRA
Great Britain
Harry D. White
China
France
McAllaster PTA Honors April Meeting and Community Events
The McAllaster PTA met in the school auditorium for an April gathering featuring a showing of the film Hidden Hunger. A free clinic for physical and dental exams and immunizations for preschoolers in the district is planned for May 2 at 2 30 pm in the auditorium. The annual Funesta is set for May 4 at 7 30 pm. Delegates to the state convention in Topeka on April 19 and 20 were Mrs Harris, Mrs Commons, and Mrs Herbert Jones. A bulb and seed exchange was led by Mrs Earl Johnston and Mrs Sydney Mitchell. Kindergarten mothers hosted with Miss Hazel Featherston, Mrs Martin Denlinger, Mrs Ernest Pontius, Mrs John Akers, Mrs Dan Merriot, and Mrs Howard Creel in charge.
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McAllaster
Topeka
Harris
Commons
Herbert Jones
Earl Johnston
Sydney Mitchell
Hazel Featherston
Martin Denlinger
Ernest Pontius
John Akers
Dan Merriot
Howard Creel
D A R Modernizes as Machines Decide Officers
In New York the Daughters of the American Revolution held their 58th triennial congress, voting on five ballots to select officers for three years. Mrs Charles Blackwell Keesee of Martinsburg Virginia was named vice president general at large on the fifth ballot, with Mrs Geoffrey Greyke of Washington DC earning a similar post on the fourth ballot. The gathering, featuring voting machines, extended an extra day and ended with Mrs Julius Y Talmadge installed as president succeeding Mrs William H Pouch of New York.
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New York
CPI
Daughters of the American Revolution
Charles Blackwell Keesee
Martinsburg
Geoffrey Greyke
Washington, D. C
Julius Y. Talmadge
William H. Pouch
Alexander J. Berger
Douglas county board issues tire certificates
The city panel of the Douglas county war price and rationing board at its meeting yesterday issued certificates for tires including three grade one casings five grade three casings two passenger tubes two truck tires and two truck tubes.
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Douglas County War Price and Rationing Board
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