Plan A Cash GI Pay for Veterans Heads to President
The $2.0 billion GI terminal pay bill clears both houses and heads to President Truman. Lawmakers plan to allow cash cashing of bonds next year to speed payments, with a House measure already approved for $2.432 billion in cash and bonds. An estimated 16 million veterans would receive about $166 on average, limited to 120 days of pay.
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Washington
Truman
House
Congress
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Massachusetts
Gavin
R.-Pa
Britain
Dwight L. Rogers
D.-Fla
Repomason
D.-Tex
Senate
Thomason
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Dehydration Plant Operator Purchases Downtown Feld Building
Kansas City August 1 CP W J Small of Neodesha Kansas said he had purchased the six floor downtown Feld building for use as headquarters for his chain of dehydration plants.
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Feld
Kansas City
W. J. Small
Neodesha
Kan
Marines defend themselves after Chinese attack report
A brief notice states 12 Chinese were killed and an undetermined number wounded as Marines defended themselves in a confrontation. Further details and exact location are not provided in this fragment.
Businessman expands to four states with new warehouse
Small, former major hay dealer, did not disclose purchase price for a Kansas City Kan plant site from the old City Ice company for a new warehouse. He previously established the ice dehydration plant west of the Mississippi in 1931 and now runs 30 plants across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Arizona.
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Small
Old City Ice Company
Kansas City
Kan
Mississ
Ween
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arizona
Truman Expects Jackson to Return to High Court
President Truman said he expects Associate Justice Robert H Jackson to resume his Supreme Court duties upon return from Germany. Jackson, who served as chief U. S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial, is due back in Washington tomorrow. He will discuss duties and potential disagreements with Justice Hugo Black when he returns.
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Washington
Truman
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
United States
Jackson
U. S
Nuernberg
Hugo Black
Germany
Mr. Truman
Communists Admit They Battled U S Marines
Peiping reports Chinese regulars from the Eighth Route Army fought U S Marines southeast of Peiping on Monday. The Marines say three Marines were killed and 12 wounded in an ambush by about 300 Chinese in a highway defile, while the Communists claim it was not an ambush and accuse the Marines of aggression. Headquarters added
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Peiping
Eighth Communist Route Army
United States
Marine Corps
Twenty One Boy Scouts Return from Camp Naish Closure
Twenty one Lawrence scouts completed a week long bivouac at Camp Naish near Bonner Springs after the Kaw Council camp was closed due to polio risk. Outstanding campers Charles Haverty and George Williams were named and inducted into the Order of the Arrow.
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Lawrence
Camp Naish
Kaw Council
Bonner Springs
Charles Haverty
Alvin Haverty
New Hampshire Street
George Williams
Chris Williams
Tennessee Street
Order of the Arrow
William Watson
Robert Stucky
Pelathe
Knife best evidence in Suzanne Degnan murder case
Chicago police say a long blade hunting knife traced by the Chicago Tribune is the best circumstantial evidence in the Degnan homicide inquiry. The knife is linked to 17 year old William Heirens, indicted for killing Suzanne Degnan and Frances Brown.
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Chicago
Philip Breitzke
Chicago Tribune
Suzanne Degnan
William George Heirens
Suzanne
Frances Brown
the Tribune
Heirens
Degnan
Guy E. Rodrick
Rodrick
New KU Curator Appointed for Dyche Museum Snake Collection
Dr. E H Taylor named curator of the Dyche Museum herpetology collection at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History by Chancellor Deane W Malott. A 1912 KU graduate with a 1926 PhD, Taylor has been a zoology professor since 1937 and will keep teaching. He serves as first vice president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. From 1916 to 1921 he led the fishery division in the Philippine Islands before teaching zoology there.
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E .H. Taylor
Dyche
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History
Deane W. Malott
Taylor
American Society of Ischithyologists and Herpetologists
Fisherieas
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Bethel Social Front Flourishes with Local Visits
Bethel notes show Mr. and Mrs. Skinner hosting Tuesday supper with Clarence Albright. Nettle Smith visits Lone Star, and multiple families share dinners and gatherings at Overbrook Worden and To-Deki. Fleet Farm sale noted. family updates include Charles Kelly’s hospital stay in Kansas City and a brother’s death from palsy.
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J. C. Skinner
Athene
Clarence Albright
Nettle Smith
John Smith
Lone Star
Maridonna Hoffman
Floyd Heffner
Ruby Mae
Worden
Raymond Oehrie
Elaine
Alan
Clarence Coursen
Overbrook
Chatteraon
Kansas City
Nellie Jones
Alan Oehrle
Mae Vance
Weok
Aoo
Ernest AldeMartha
Sue
To- Deki
Charlies Hoffman
An Rs
Ben Baker
Elthere
Leand
Raymond Ochrie
Perry Wison
Wilson
Fleet Farm
Globe Store
Cecil Brecheisen
Charles Kelly
Charles
Palia
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Douglas County
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Humeston
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Rankin Druco and
Corner Drug Store
Santa Fe
Colorado Rockies
Pacific
Great Lakes
Santa Fe Trailways
Trailways
Trailways Bus
Excee
Thayel Jug
Santa FE Tran
UNIO
Santa A
Wade
Tete and
Lara
K. U
E. H. Taylo
Dyche Museum
Missouri River
Caruthersville
Bethel
Journal-World
SWOPE
L. T. Harris CO
Skyline Club
Haskell
Lynn Craig and His
Skyliners
Jerry Correa
Nora Jean Hinds
Hollywood Canteen
Skyline
Lawrence’s
Otte Fischer
Grayson
Allyson Nasritz Melchior
Jimmy Durante
Peter Lawford
Susie
the Kid From
Brooklyn
Danny Kaye
Virginia Mayo
Ap Aleretsta
Reas Boyer
Pua. T Avon
Epee Cluny Gaon
Jive Musical
Cowboy Blues
KEN Curtis
Hoosier Hotshots
Roy Roger Trisger
Scadeet Nees Oe
Uidase
Roscoe
Bruce Cabot
Carrot
Bugs Bunny
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