Greece Crisis Deepens as King Calls Leaders for Talks
In Athens Aug 23 Prime Minister Demetrios Maximos faces a cabinet split after a 300 million dollar U S aid package. Crisis alarms widen as leftists oppose the plan while right wing factions press for stability amid guerrilla warfare in northern Greece and strain with Turkey and neighboring states.
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Eeactie
King
Taaldaris
Teader
Securiy
Emecit
Otr
Kissin
Tacl Grable
Greece
Benders
Albarn
Duges Sievia
Ruigara
Fera
General Assembly
Two Bandits Arrested After Canadian Robbery Spree
Oct in Windeor reports two bandits identified as felons tied to a Canadian 540000 heist. Chief Constable Renaud says getaway car recovered, but suspects remain at large with a machine gun reportedly used. Police pursued across Windee and surrounding areas, with one suspect later traced.
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Windeor
Fis
Twe Bandis
Reyal
Renend
Res
Miners Perish in Explosion at Ireland Mine
At the Ireland mine today, 19 miners died after a shaft fire trapped the night crew of 24. Five men survived with severe injuries. The dead were brought to the surface as rescue efforts continued. In Towanda Kansas, L Brmenfield 22 died in a collision with a car yesterday, injuring others including Mr and Mrs Alex Surplus. The softball tournament in Lawrence concluded with teams competing last evening.
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Jalee
Towanda
Kan
I L. Brmenfield
Chaney
Wan
Alex Surplus
Romania Ratifies Peace Treaty With Allies
The article reports Romania ratifying a peace treaty with its allies following lengthy talks in Paris. It notes Russia gains from the agreement while describing the war as Romania’s only modern defeat and outlines terms affecting border limits and naval restrictions. The treaty was signed in Paris on February 1 after multiple foreign minister meetings.
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Romania
Russia
Paris
Britain seeks relief through higher home production and trade talks
Britain pins hopes for easing the economic crisis on greater home production and reduced imports. Talks with the United States over a loan and free convertibility of pounds into dollars continue, with final decisions deferred to next month in London.
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Washington
Great Britain
U.S
Britain
Oto
London
Treasury
Snyder Weet
World Bank Board of Directors
England
Attlee
United States
South America
PHA Scored In Small Business Subcommittee Hearing
Washington Aug 24 The Small Business Subcommittee hearing on public housing allegations featured Rep Plaeser criticizing the FPHA and Dillon while Rep Patman clashed with Arthur Marcus over Greenbelt co op housing. Debate focused on housing authority influence and veteran housing shortages in Maryland Wisconsin and Greenbelt area.
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Washington
Plaeser
Milwauker
Ploeser
Greenbelt
Rep
Patman
D-Tey
Arthur S. Marcus
Wisconsin Development
American Legion
Marc
Greendale
Dillon Fixer
Federal
Hhe
Fp.h.a
About 125000 Workers Involved in Strikes
The labor department reported preliminary figures showing about 125000 workers in approximately 200 strikes on Wednesday, the eve of Taft Hartley Act provisions. Some stoppages involved only a handful of workers, with several settlements reached at the eleventh hour before midnight.
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Washington
Labor Department
Highway bid opened for Ellis bridge project in Kansas
The state highway commission opened bids for several northwest Kansas projects including a bridge 11 miles north of Ellis where the lowest bid was 128,657.24 by Ralph Rhoades of Newton.
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Hays
Kan
State Highway Commission
Kansas
Ellis
Ralph Rhoades
Newton
Baths Forbidden in Austria Amid Water Shortage
Bathhouses barred in Vienna Austria today as a severe drought creates a water shortage. Authorities enforce restrictions to conserve supplies and protect public welfare.
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Austria
Vienna
Aus
Truman Daughter Gears Up For Concert Debut
Mary Truman, the President's 23 year old daughter, expresses confidence about her first concert tonight in Hollywood. She says the performance will be challenging yet she and Mrs. Truman have worked hard to prepare. The event is not to be broadcast.
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Hollywred
Mararet Truman
Aerang
Sharp fighting erupts as cease-fire struggles in Java and Sumatra
Dutch and Indonesian forces clash across Java and Sumatra amid a cease-fire order that took effect August 4. Dutch reports claim 8 killed and 40 wounded in a busy day of combat across multiple fronts, including Batavia.
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Retherlands Army
Java
Sumatra
Batavia
Argentina Seeks Unanimity and Veto at Hemisphere Defense Talks
Argentina vows to defend unanimity in any joint action at the Inter-American defense conference. Corominas reiterates support for veto rights while urging a voting rule that requires two thirds for treaty adoption. U S and most nations favor joint force against any attack. Argentina seeks limited action under consultation only.
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Quitardinha
Brazil
Argentina
Aggres
United States
Arthur Vandenberg
U. S
Chapultevec
Accidental Death At Kansas County Fair Claims 15-Year-Old
Kansas City Kansas teenager Raymond Stifter died hours after receiving an electric shock while helping to construct an awning at Johnson County fairgrounds in Gardner. He was a 4 H club member and son of W B and Mrs M P Stifter, farmers from Johnson County, who are in Minnesota.
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Kansas City
Kan
Raymond Tifter
Johnson County
Gardner
W. B. Stifter
Minnesota
Fairgrounds
Russians to Free Three Yank POWs in Korea
Three American prisoners of war held in the Soviet occupation zone in North Korea were to be released Sunday near the border crossing. The trio are TS Tommy F. Pugsley of Berten Washington Pre John D. Hopfe of Seattle and Pre Jermi K. Geffen of Fort Chester. An American intelligence officer doubted the Soviet promise despite the stated plan and said the men would be interviewed in Seoul Sunday.
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North Korea
Tommy F. Pugsley
Berten
Wash
John D. Hopfe
Seattle
Pre
Jermi K. Geffen
Fort Chester
Seoul
Eu dora to vote on $133000 high school bonds
Voters in Eu dora and surrounding area will go to the civt hall next Wednesday from 3 AM to 6 PM to decide if rural high school district number 2 should issue bonds totaling 133 000 for a new annex to the high school building. The plan includes a gymnasium auditorium and community room with a vocational shop and separate grade school expansion on the north side.
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Eudora and
Civt
School Board of Rural High School District Number 2
D. Kerr. Desi
Kerr
J B. Wilson
Community Club
Eudora
Wilson
Ednesday
Ralph C. Terrell
C. J. Durr
Otto Rosenau
Douglas county fair entries due August 28 and 29
Entries for the Douglas county fair at Big Springs are due by noon Thursday. Judging begins at 1 p.m. in the order of agriculture then bulinary, fancy work and 4-H livestock, with open class judging at 10 a.m. Officials listed include President Carl Kampschroeder and others. Baseball games start at 3 p.m. daily, Friday features athletic events and a verrapin race, with evening entertainment by the Clinton group. Premium lists and entry blanks available from Pete Bahnmaier.
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Douglas County
Big Springs
Frnin Iers
Carl Kampschroeder
Willis Colman
Pete Bahnmaier
John Dam
Chicago Man Le Elected President at Annual Conference
Fragmentary report shows C. Mencitte of Chicago elected president at the annual conference. Names listed include Cheeta Delaney of Lake Weed, Obie ehed Beneenae, Wil ton Cartes of Topets, Kansas. Mention of new park and town administration.
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Chicago
Interactional Greep
York, Au
Driver education graduates from Kansas university program
Fifty three people including educators, highway patrolmen, and safety officials completed five eight hour sessions of the University of Kansas drivers’ school at the Eldridge hotel. The AAA sponsored course stressed social driving responsibility and instruction for high schools with dual control cars loaned for demonstrations.
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University of Kansas Drivers’ School
Eldridge Hotel
Lawrence
A. F. Anderson
Hasaei Institute
Lowell E. Barley
Liberty Memena
Tugh School
James R. Collins
Willam A. Cox
Lawrence Police Department
Whitfeld I. Anderson
Elizabeth [. Stephenson
University of Kansas
University Extension Division
American Automobile Association
Norman Key
AAA
Key
Committee On Traffic Safety
Automobile Companies
Fon Amos
M Joe Racker
TH. Glasscook
Wo Gustafeen
Marvin Lewis Earl Mardin
Clarence W McKay
Roy No Phollips
Herman R. Wultkuhte
Kansas Highway Patrol
Austin Wo
Coleman
Albert Cl Mader
Ernest F. Pratt
Topeka
Treacy Ho Thompson
Afets
Dean A Walter
Curreur
Jans J. Cetron
Foi Cove
Relbert Wo Means
Wichita
Arthur Z. Anderson
Echaoa
Rockwe'l
Herbert L. Render
Duxtge City
Edward Carmichael
Mary M. Carmichael
Leungton
Albert “Arnwell
Sunflower Ordnace Works
Henry A Felwards
Lebanon
William ¢ Ejchman
Bonner Springs
Charlee F. Foiles
Fredonia
Frank R. Freeman
Phillipshore
Melce W. Golterman
Tell
Mort A Harman
Kanwas
Howard B Harms
Wamexo
Albert E. Hart
Ava
Kenneth
Hill
Meade
James de Hivetett
Kansas Mi Auto Club
Harles
Belleville
Milbon W. Schrag
Augusta
Charles van Neas
Tlea
Sioux City
Tom Thompson
Hetlaire
Charles Po
OR. Wells
Ellie
Wow Woerham
Sehaale
Rire
Schoots Burtington
M. E. Gonser
Leavenworth
DROWNS NEAR TONGA AND MARSHALL MO MAN IDENTIFIED
A young man drowned near Tonga three miles southeast of Hallahan three miles southeast of Marshall Missouri. James Elmer Hayes 21 years old of Summersville Missouri is being sought to confirm identity after he and William Chaddock Kansas City disappeared from a state school for feeble minded and epileptics in Marshall. Chaddock surrendered to Kansas City police and Frank Hoey deputy sheriff noted only definite ID was a paper bearing Chad o r name.
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Tonganoxie
Kan
Frank Farrningham
Summersville
Hee
James Elmer Hayes
Missouri
Hayes
William Chaddock
Kansas City
Marshall
Moean
Chaddock
la Eigedy
von Hayes
Frank Hoey
Chadoor
Ate Peiues
Aidight
Mike
Hallahan
Drop In Mid August Corn Estimate
Topeka reports the mid August forecast for Kansas 1947 corn yield is cut to 45 771 000 bushels from 60 225 000 earlier. Hot dry weather in early August caused the drop while east central areas with heavy rains and southern regions with better progress still show potential.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
State Board of Agriculture
East Central
City council to review plan to buy Nineteenth and Louisiana site
The council will consider a plan to acquire the Nineteenth and Louisiana housing site at the next regular meeting. Funding is tight after a parks bond issue was rejected by the Kansas legislature and an attorney general ruling blocked the purchase from a city owned project site. Burgert resigned, enabling a legal path to fund the purchase from other city departments, and a fourth ward vacancy will be filled until April 3, 1948.
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Nineteenth
Louisiana Street
Cty Council
Kansas
Lst
R. A O. Burgert
James H. Parsons
Fourth Ward
Burgert
Weather outlook for Kansas week end and heat relief expected
The Weather Bureau reports continued hot and fair conditions across Kansas with an exception in extreme northwest where cooler air and possible thunderstorms may arrive Sunday. Highs range from 60 to 95 across the state with lows 65 to 73 in the northwest and east south tonight. No rain reported state wide in the past 24 hours.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Harsas
A. D. Robb
Rebb
Goodland
Cheng Deneer Rey
Ipry
Havre
Kansaeates
Ankees Mims
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Washington
F & Rin
Howard Moore Heads Kansas Delegation to National Legion Meet
Howard Moore past commander of the Dorsey Liberty American Legion post sails for New York City as a second district delegate. He travels with 300 Kansas Legionnaires aboard the Sunflower Special train with stops in Chicago Detroit Windsor and Niagara Falls and includes an overnight Lake Erie cruise. The return trip plans a Washington D C stop.
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Howard Moore
Dorsey-Liberty American Legion
National Legion Convention
New York City
Legion
Moore
Kansas
Chicago
Detroit
Windsor
Ont
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
Washington, D. C
Charges Dropped in Child Stealing Case Against Hero
Beverly Hills California August 23 charges of taking his own children from Jose Iturbi were dismissed. Stephan Hero the concert violinist had been held on a 15000 bond since Monday. Judge Griffin ruled the custody order from Iturbivoid after Maria Iturbi Hero’s wife died in April 1936.
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Beverly Hills
Galif
Stephan Hero
Jose Iturbi
Hero
Theresa
Maria Antonia
Iturbi
Beverly Hilla
Charles J. Griffin
Maria
Willow Springs Clerk Resigns From Township Board
Willow Springs Clerk Harry H. Hobson resigns from the township board effective August 25. Hobson will take over the Co op store at Baldwin. The remaining board will choose a successor, subject to county approval.
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Willow Springs
Harry H. Hobson
L. H. Grifshed
Hobson
Baldwin
Joners
Kanwaka 4-H Club Tops at Open Fair
Kanwaka 4-H Club from Lawrence won top honors at the 11th annual H and open national fair ending yesterday at Haskell Belleview and Mesgenlark venues. Exhibits covered livestock crops poultry vegetables and dairy with 22 blue ribbons awarded across divisions.
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Haskell
Belleview
Mesgenlark
Saskeil Staediurt
Merth
Lawrence
FFA
Cudses
LU Yeang Pepe
Rome
Closed Coal Mine Ends Eight Years Of Operation At Lansing
The eight year old coal mine at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing was closed at noon today by order of Governor Frank Carlson. The closure followed legislative authorization and a study cited by the legislative council citing serious reasons for ending the operation. The program included a baseball game between the Sixty Basehall Second District Al. Stars Jr. Legion and Lawrence Jr. Legion at 3:15 p.m. in a new park with admission 40 cents.
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Cv. Legion
Ve. Lawrence Jr
Legion Tonight
New Park
Topeka
Kansas
Lansing
Frank Carlson
Basehall
al. Stars Jr. Legion Ve. Lawrence Jr. Legion Tonight
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