Kansas Officials Question 2 Percent Sales Tax Enforcement
Topeka officials sought to clarify Kansas stance on collecting the two percent sales tax from Nebraska merchants doing business across the border. Kansas officials noted no widespread difficulty with states collecting the tax, and warned they could seize merchandise and trucks entering Kansas if noncompliance continued. Governor Schoeppel proposed sending representatives to Fairbury to discuss the matter and explain the law.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ralph Bennett
Kaxz
Halt Order on Gifts Stops War Assets to Schools
The War Assets Administration halted the transfer of 53 European camps and war plants to educational institutions amid a congressional inquiry into gifts. Thunderbird field near Glendale, Arizona, is under scrutiny for a 100 percent discount sale to the American Institute for Foreign Trade.
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Washington
War Assets Administration
WAA
House
Thunrd, Ariz
American Institute For Foreign Trade
Rep. Slaughter
D-Mo
Thunderbird Rad
Glendale
Ariz
Anne
B. K. Yount
Gulf Ordnance Plant
Aberdeen
Miss
Tycoon
Miami
Fla
O'Brien
New Teacher of Logic Edwin S Robinson Joins KU Faculty
Edwin S Robinson named associate professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas, set to join next month. He comes from Oklahoma A and M College where he taught since 1938 excluding three years in the army. He holds AB AM from Harvard and a PhD from Harvard earned in 1982, studied in Paris Vienna Gottingen and Berlin, and taught at Kenyon College 1936 to 1938.
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Edwin S. Robinson
Philbig T
University of Kanancellor
Robinson
Obingon
Kansas
Oklahoma A
Stillwater
Harvard University
Harvard
Radcliffe
Europe
Paris
Vienna
Gottigen
Berlin
Kenyon College
Ohi
Record Number of Women Seek Careers As Doctors
Chicago reports a record 864 women finished their freshman term in U S medical schools. Women outnumber men in premeds due to male draftees, with seven entering medical schools in their first year. Freshmen total 5991 with about six men for every woman. Dr. Victor Johnson notes ongoing enrollment and many former WACs joining the coming class.
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Chicago
U. S
Zieticat Een ’ Council On Medical Education
Victor Johnson
Wacs
WAC
Fasah
Troop Movements Debark From Four Transports
More than 3,000 service personnel are due to debark today from four transports and eight ships, as reported by the Associated Press. The redeployment involves units slated for reassignment and routine post‑mission processing.
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Associated Press
Hollywood Singer Seeks Skywritten Name Far Above
Miss Jacque Lee wins a radio contest and asks for a skywriter to inscribe her name a mile high. The sponsor arranges the stunt promising publicity counts in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Calif
Jacque Lee
Re-enlistment and odd local notes across the nation
Civ ilian for 24 hours, Ralph A. Densmore re-enlists as master sergeant in Los Angeles. In Idaho Springs a Purdue chemist R Norris Shreve plays a panning prank by saltining a stream, while a Chicago desk sergeant learns of a love bouquet theft and a Centralia notice jokes about the family seeking a home as a dog endures.
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Los Angeles
Ralph A. Densmore
Idaho Springs
Colo
Lean
R. Norris Shreve
Purdue University
U Price Uriscoe
Briscoe
Biscoe
Chicago
Steven Berkowitz
Coast sailor losses and a state official death
Strikes at three west coast ports report ships arriving from Yokohama and Bikini Atoll with 15 navy personnel aboard. A state representative from the List district in Cowley named Emil C. Keilho died in his sleep at his ranch near Cambridge after being discharged from Winfield hospital following a heart ailment. U S coffee consumption in 1944 averaged 18 pounds per person including the armed forces.
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Strerers
SrriviDa Cies Pentane Eens Frat Yahoos — Grove
Citydale Victory
Yokshama
San Diego
Diewe Sumner
Barstom
Bikini
Honolulu
Navy
Mative
Wintel Ug
Emil C. Keilho
Otate Represtein Tae
Cowley
Cambri
Here
Winfield
U. S
First 85-Mile Rural Electrification Line Opens
The Leavenworth Jefferson Electric Cooperative opened the first 85 mile section of its rural line with a ceremony at the Tonganoxie sub-station. D A Leamont and Jene Barb attended, noting the cooperative aims to serve about 550 farmers on more miles of line after the war delays.
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Tonganoxie
Ahe Leavenworth-Jefferson Electric Creative Company
Strath
D. A Eenent
Jene G. Barb
Kansas Electric Power Company
Harrod
Abseid Cooperative
Orga
Rural Electrification Coueentive
Euild
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Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup
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Toot
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