Budget Argument Stays Tax Action
A budget and tax debate centers on delaying tax cuts until Congress fixes the spending plan. Knutson notes hearings shift, with discussions on a possible $86 million reduction and potential revenue impacts. Taft advocates curbing income taxes by early action, while House plans to press for quick approval of a full budget cut.
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Washington
Fel
Congress
Knutson
R.-Minn
Taft
R-Ohie
FSW
Ohio
Senate
House
Ways and
Esoum HO
Mother of President Resting After Injury in Crandview
Crandview Missouri reports Mrs. Martha Eo Trenat, mother of the president, is resting well after a fall that fractured her hip. Widespread relief comes as relatives, including a brother of the late President Truman, offer encouragement. Local residents recall her long years of public service as she recovers at home.
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Crandview
Marth Eo Trenat
Washington
Truman
Fran
Federal Inspector Testifies in Leavenworth Liquor Trial
Federal inspector J. Kepier testified in Leavenworth on 11 defendants accused of conspiring to violate liquor laws. He identified more than TAU fifths of whisky seized from a defendant and produced inventory showing 450 fifths seized from Farrell's garage on November 9, 1945 and about 275 fifths from a tavern run by Andrew Currie.
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Kateus City
Kan
Beboty
J. Kepier
Leavenworth
Kei
Arth Verht
Federal District Court
Peetin Sen
Mayer
Mayes
Kepler
Farrell
Andrew Currie
Senate committee votes to limit presidential tenure
The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a constitutional amendment to limit presidents to a maximum of two additional full terms after serving part or whole terms. The panel, split along party lines, backed convention ratification with three-fourths of states, and sent the measure toward floor votes.
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Senate Committee
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wiley
R-Wis
House
Senate
Topeka fuels crisis fuels governor action on liquor law
In a bid to ease a looming fuel shortage, lawmakers sent amended alcohol controls to the governor for signature. The debate touched on nuisance provisions and liability for stamp holders while session focused on school reorganizations, municipal bonds, and city manager duties as bills advance to deadline.
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Topeka
Feho
Notie
Gav
Carl Sank
Wyandotte County
State É Entomological Commission
Kansas
House-Senate
Edwin Abels
Lawrence
Erie
Ora McClellan
Neosho County
MeClellgn
Neosho
Royal Family Arrives in Capetown to Warm Welcome
King George VI Queen Elizabeth and daughters receive a joyous 29000-strong crowd in Capetown as the royal party steps ashore from the Vanguard after a long voyage. The scene shows blacks and whites waving both flags along a three mile route with keen public interest in the visit.
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Capetown
South Africa
HMA
George VI
Elizabeth
Vanguard
England
Memorial gift funds bell towers at University
Mrs Harold Do Smith sent a 100 pound check to the Memorial association for a memory of her husband Harold PD Smith, a University graduate and former World Bank president, toward bell towers. She plans to sell their Arlington home and move to a Washington DC apartment. A Virginia farm will occupy her time. A fire on West Emory Road was put out Saturday by the fire department.
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The
Memorial Association
Harold Do Smith
War budget cuts shrink 1947 requests by half in Congress
Washington reports the Republican controlled house appropriations committee slashed President Truman's 1947 money request by more than half, from 315 546 600 to 139 360 000. The panel also called for large deferrals and eliminations including Civilian Production Administration. It approved a 136 200 000 stop gap for the Veterans Administration and extended the Office of Defense Transportation, with minor increases to tax refund handling funds. The measure targets deficiencies for the current fiscal year ending June 30 and anticipates further VA funding through March.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Tordas
Civilian Production Administration
Office of Defense Transportation
Apa
O.D.T
Veterans Administration
The
Treasury
OPA
Office of War Mobilization
Colder Tuesday with light rain and snow across Kansas
Federal weatherman 133 D Flora says temps will dip to 35 to 40 as a light rain snow mix spreads across Kansas Tuesday. Saturday hit 72, Sunday 35 at Phillipsburg. winds shift north making skies overcast. Overnight lows 14 to 23, no weekend precipitation reported near Kansas. Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill becomes deputy chief of the U S advisory military mission to the Philippines under Maj. Gen. Albert Jones.
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Kansas
Flora
Phillipsburg
Cofferville
Gordland
Kaneas
Frank Merrill
Stock Market Index Reported at 66.2 on Saturday
The index stood at 66.2 points on Saturday as Avenue 0 stocks moved in the market. Trading activity was steady with prices showing minor fluctuations across sectors.
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Avenue
Another Delay in Lews Case Stalls Supreme Court Action
Washington February 17 The Supreme Court delayed its ruling in the governments contempt action against John L Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The case will not be decided today and a two week recess follows until the next opinion on Monday March 3.
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Assisted
Washington
Supreme Court
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
Lewis
United States seeks to keep Pacific islands as strategic area
The United States informed the world it intends to keep the Seee nese-mandate islands in the Pacific as a strategic area under American administration. A draft agreement sent to UN Secretary General and circulated to the Security Council asks that most of the Marshalls, Marianas, and Carolines be designated a strategic area. Russia Great Britain Australia expected to oppose acceptance until the Japan peace treaty is signed. Regardless, the U.S. insists it will not relinquish the islands.
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Lake Success
N.Y
United States
Seeenese-mandate
Pacific
Trxgve Lie
U.N. Security Council
U.S
United Nations
Marshalls
Marianas
Carolines
Byrd Drops Flag Over South Pole Mission
Admiral Richard E. Byrd flies over the South Pole in a 12 hour flight. drops the United Nations flag at the pole from Mt. Olympus. Flight returns to Little America with one plane. details on distance and second craft unclear. Temperature near 40 degrees below zero at 12,000 feet. communications hindered by atmospheric conditions.
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Alton W. Blakeslee
Mt. Olympus
Antarctic
Richard E Few
South Pole
United Nations
Little America
Pole
Beck
Byrd
Chester Nimitz
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations
Radin
CAP Official Dies in Plane Crash Near Cleveland
Col Farle L. Johnson national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and two other servicemen died when their army twin engined transport crashed near North Rosalien after takeoff for Washington. Witnesses said the plane dived from 2000 feet and exploded on impact. Johnson was a former Ohio state director of aeronautics and longtime Cleveland resident. Bernardo Villa Ramirez left KU to resume as professor in Mexico City and complete a master's in zoology enlisting in the AAF. John S. Martin of Eudora reenlisted at Fort Riley in the Army Air Forces. Sgt Harry Bly, Lawrence recruiting sergeant, noted Martin’s three year reenlistment.
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Cleveland
Farle L. Johnson
Civil Air Patrol
Line of
Army
Washington
Col. Johnson
Great Barrington
Ohio State
Ohio
Lake Compna
Bernardo Villa-Ramirez
University of Kansas
Mexico City
Institute of Biology
University of Mexico
Lawrence
AAF
John S. Martin
Route 1
Eudora
Fort Riley
Army Air Forces
Harry
Martin
Service in Two Wars is Laudable at Haskell
Willard Beatty of Washington praised American Indian service in both world wars as key to integrating Indians into U S life. The ceremony marked the dedication of the Haskell organ, a gift from the alumni association, with veterans, officials, and student performers attending a memorial concert by organist P Hans Flath.
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United States
Willard Beatty
Washington, D. C
Haskell
Beatty
Indian Education
Alumni Association of the Indian School
Arizona
New Mexico
Haskell Band
Charles B. Pruner
Haskell Alumni Association
Dorothy Davis
Marine Corps
Pruner
Miss Davis
Navy
Warner Coffman
Veterans of Foreign Wars
E. Russell Carter
Russell Kelley
H.kell
Oklahoma City
Keith Kelley
Homer Howard
Chicago
Jack Blalock
Yaskell
Tejana
Clarence Tiner
Solan Ayers
Pbvorak
P. Hans Flath
Flath
Farmers Plant Oats in Warm Florida Winter
Douglas county farmers rush to plant oats for 1947 amid unseasonably warm weather. Herman Buttell Jr reports starting as early as January 24 with 40 acres sown. others waited for a warm spell that reached 73 degrees in Lawrence, a record for the period though below historic highs. Pitt names Walter S Milligan as head football coach succeeding Was Fester at Ohio State.
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Florida
Douglas County
Herman But Ell, Jr
Baldwin
Butell
Lawrence
al Er
Pitt
Pittsburg
Walter S
Mike) Milligan
Milligan
Was Fester
Ohio State
Deepest Well Reaches New Depth in Oklahoma County
The Superior Gas company No 41-11 well in Caddo county Oklahoma reached 16 935 feet, the deepest drilled in the world, beating the 16 608 foot record at Greitos Park. The well lies in SW ONW SEo of LisN 12W.
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Oklahoma City
Weller
Cad
Oklahoma
Gretoes Park
Pacific Western Oil Company
Kern County
California
Caddo County
Two residents file for office in district education board race
Honey Shenk a KU physical education staffer and associate professor and Rev Carter a home missions worker file to seek seats on the district 60 education board and Ward Two council respectively. Ferguson seeks reelection to the Ward Two council seat.
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Maren
Thesehord Board
Honey Shenk
Kh. Ce
Hes
Russell Carter
Lipinus
Haskell Intate
Counsilmuin
Ferguson
Het
Shenk
Cyrdley School
University of Kansas
University of Wisconsin
Paula Hign
Junction City
Kentucky Street
Mt. Oread
Lawrence Kiwanis Club
Altho
State Teachers Association
Indiana
Carter
F College
Richmond
Ind
Home Missions Count of
North America
Temesassa
Quaker Brirler
N.Y
Oklahoma
Revo
Lawrence
Vermont Street
Firms Enroll in Blue Cross Plan Across Lawrence
Lawrence firms enrolled in a shared medical plan with Blue Cross and physicians payment coverage. Forty hospitals have joined, with many local groups including Kansas Colors Press and J. Penney Company active in enrollment efforts. Lorene Edwards and Norton Long will present details and assist firms with five or more employees.
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Blue
Karl Klong
Lawrence Blue Cross
Kinshan
Addess Protection of
Kansas
Phy
Lawns
Medical Soeiy
Bine Cross
Cnst
Kansas Colors Press
Wren Broadcasting Company
the World Company
Sunflower Ordnance Works
FLW
Wentworth Company
Howse Mothers Association
McConnell Lumber Company
Stevens & Brand
Guy's Lunch
Others Cloth
O Dwyer Preston to Address Topeka Democratic Meeting
Washington February 17 Mayor William O Dwyer of New York and Rep Preston Democrat Ga will speak at Topeka Kansas February 22 at joint meetings of the veteran Democrats of Kansas and the Young Democrats of Kansas O Dwyer will address a joint dinner session and Representative Preston a luncheon The two will appear at Topeka as part of a campaign push by the Kansas Democratic groups Also noted is the death in Nanking February 17 of Prof Percy Maude Roxby 66 Britain's chief representative on the China British council whose death was announced by the British embassy in Nanking this morning
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Washington
William O'Dwyer
New York
Preston
D-Ga
Topeka
Kan
Veteran Democrats of
Kansas
Young Democrats of
O'Dwyer
Nankin
Shanghai
Percy Maude Roxby
Britain
China- British Council
Nanking
Two Brothers Face Gambling Charge
Police Chief CLA Bliesner announced ten men were arrested after a raid on Tut's Billiard Parlor at 719 Massachusetts Street. Harold Ture and Wallace Tuttle, both claimed owners, were released on bonds. The raid seized betting records and a ticker used to receive race results, with trial set for February 21 before Judge J. Lane.
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Cla. Buesner
Tut
Maesachusetts Street
Harold Ture
New Hampshire Street
Wallace Tuttle
Indiana Street
Bliesner
Carpenters
Miesner
Sulhiard
Blesner
Potier Jurze
J. Lane
Concert by K U Band Winter Show at Hoch Auditorium
The University of Kansas concert band with 115 players directed by Russell L. Wiley will give its annual winter concert at Hoch Auditorium Wednesday night February 19. Featured soloists include Leo Horacek and Bill Sears with works from Kranke Goldman Tukas and Gluck among others. Students with activity tickets admitted.
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University of Kansas
Russell L. Wiley
R O
Hoch Auditorium
Leo Horacek
University
Edwin Kranke Goldman
Three Queens
Jexing Peck
Dorothy Brenner
Anne Noe
Annie Laurie
Glirre
Strauss
Moszkowsky
Senate Votes to Keep War Time Excise Rates
Washington reports the Senate passed a bill to retain war time excise taxes. A conference committee will iron out amendments affecting items such as liquor cosmetics jewelry and furs. The Senate approved the measure by a narrow vote with little debate.
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Senate
Washington
House
Weather outlook for Kansas turns colder with wind
The forecast shows fair to partly cloudy conditions across Kansas with mild temperatures this afternoon. Increasing cloudiness in the north precedes a sharp drop in temperatures and strong northerly winds. Light rain or snow possible in southern areas, with flurries near the marshy border region and locations near the year 2019 reference unclear.
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Kansas Fair
Western
Parron
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