Two primaries race in the South today
Southern Democrats face renomination battles as E D Smith and Gov Olin Johnston compete in South Carolina while Hattie Caraway Meantime Arkansas Negro voting under loyalty rule concerns emerge. Aides say Dewey will focus on farm issues at Midwest governor meeting with Bricker as Brownell cites party enthusiasm and anti machine rhetoric.
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South Carolina
E. D. “Cotton Ed” Smith
Olin D. Johnston
Roosevelt
John M. Dani
Augustua S. Merriman
Inter
Carl B. Epps
Sumkansas
Senate
Hattie Caraway
J. W. Fulbright
U. S
Homer Adkins
Barton
el Dorado
J. Ganer Venable
Little Rock
Nepre
Arkansas
Harvey G. Combs
Democratic State Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
Albany
N. Y
Midwest
St. Loui
John M. Bricker
Ohio
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Washington
Brownell
Bie City
Thayer coal bed in Kansas reveals 37 million ton reserve
A State Geological Survey report shows the Thayer coal bed under 2200 acres across Wilson, Neosho, Montgomery, and Linn counties holds an estimated 37 million tons. Since 1870 only about 757,000 tons have been mined, though BTU content ranges from 12,963 to 15,810. The bulletin includes mine and outcrop data and a Kansas coal bibliography.
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Thayer
Wilson
Neosho
Montgomery
Linn
Kansas
State Geologics Survey of
Altho
Thayer Bed
John C. Frye
Kansas Survey
W. H. Schoena
State Geological Survey
University of Kansas
Sewall Macferran
Former KU Student Navi gator on B 17 Bomber
Second Lt. W Sewall Macferran, a Topeka native and KU freshman before enlistment, has been missing in action over Germany since July 7. He served as a navigator on a B 17 with the Eighth Air Force in England after entering service in February 1948 and being commissioned at San Marcos Field Texas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs William Macferran Sr of Topeka where the father presides over State Savings.
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W. Sewall Macferran
Germany
Eighth Air Force
England
Ieutenant Macferran
Topeka High School
University of Kansas
San Marcos Field
Tex
Macferran
William Macfer
Truman Plans to Meet F Roosevelt in Midwest
Kansas City July 25 Truman recalling old times with home folks faced repeated questions about meeting President Roosevelt to discuss the fourth term campaign. Local Democrats expect a meeting soon, possibly in the Midwest, as censorship limits details of movements. Truman said Missouri is hospitable and will stay in state until August 1 for the primary. Senator Bennett Clark criticized by opponents as isolationist and slow to support Pearl Harbor policies.
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Kansas City
Truman
D-Mo
Roosevelt
France
Missouri National Guard
Missouri
Middlewest
Press
Velt
Bennett Clark
Pearl Harbor
Flood near Dodge City drenches valley homes in record rain
Dodge City Kan July 25 A four inch rain caused a flood uprooting families and damaging basements along highway 50s, with water a foot to a foot and a half deep. L E Holland family evacuated to a partially filled planary as streets overflowed. City rainfall count for the year rises to 24 408 inches.
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Dodge City
Kan
Walli
L. E.holland
City
Dod
Pin Up Girl on Fiji Islands Wins Honor
Private Williams reports Reynolds Schultz's baby Michele Ann, two, earned honorable mention in a Fiji Islands baby contest for American soldiers. Certificate signed by three majors praises the child as pure and above reproach. Also notes a piano recital planned in Peoria and a Baughman ice cream plant fire with $100,000 loss.
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Guy E. Schultz
Route 8
Robert Williams
Pfc
Reyolds Schultz
Marines
Williams
Reynold
Michele Ann
Fiji Islands
Michela’ Ann
Reynolds _ Schult
Saipan
Seem Etat Taree
Opeka
Baughman Ice Cream Company
Ralph
Ees
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Shaw Lumber Co
Vermont St
Rogen
Ereid
John Clements
Godfrey Tearle
Tom Walls
Rigel
Nea
F. A. Newcome
Main
Bell Munie
Lawrence
Kasess
Evila
Judy Goes
Ree
Miles Ruth Orcutt
Blanch Pierson
Bell
Jelen Pierson
Louisiana
Starlings
Starling Furniture CO
Mubsvar
Dorothy Lamour
Fred
Macmurray
Betty Hutton
Diana Lynn
Raymond Walburn
Eddie Foy
Chicago
Academy
Flassie
RED Skelton
Harry James
United States Navy
Hirohito
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