Cooperation on Foreign Front and Budget Cuts
Congress adjourned its first session amid calls for teamwork with the White House on world affairs and a focus on domestic issues. Budget debates trimmed the proposed 37.6 billion dollar year, with divisions over spending levels and living costs.
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White House
Pough Road
80Th Congress
Croes
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Lawmak
Postpone Work on House in Family St for Sagem Guan
In the week of Howard Arthur Davenport Jr the four month old son of Mr and Mrs Davenport the work on a house in Family Street is postponed.
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Howard Arthur Davenport, Jr
Mr. and
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Howard Arthur Davenport
End of Sugar Rationing But Price Controls Stay In Force
The agriculture department ends sugar rationing at 11 a.m. EST due to funding shortage. Rationing ends for industrial and institutional users, housewives had been freed earlier. Price controls remain, with new inventory limits for nonhousehold users and wholesalers. The department and Congress failed to appropriate funds to continue the rationing program.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Congress
Hearings begun on Kaiser Hughes flying boat contract
Washington July 28 13 Mer Meigs WPB official told the senate war investigating committee there was no political pressure to favor Kaiser and Howard Hughes in the 200 ton flying boat project. He said officials sought every consideration though experts called the plan impossible. Hughes testifies and Meyer may appear. Brewster notes paid air transport. heat and drought sweep the region as farmers prep for fall seeding.
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Mer‘vill Meigs
War Production Board
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Henry J. Rae
Meigs
WPB Aircraft Division
Senate War Investigating Committee
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Howard Hughes
Kaise Hughes
Hughes
John Meyer
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Brewster
Hollywood
Trana World
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Meign
Ferguson
Mr. Kaiser
All Time High for Yearling Beef in St Joseph Market
A new all time high for choice mixed yearling beeves was paid on the St Joseph market. The price was 31 50 per hundredweight, $1 50 above the record set last October 27.
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St. Joseph
Stock Market Index Dips on Broad Market Decline
A market report shows the Average 60 stocks at 67.7 with a downward move across sectors. Traders adjust positions as momentum softens and investors reassess valuations amid cautious sentiment.
Auto Crash at 71st and Louisiana Street
An auto accident occurred at the intersection of Twenty third and Massachusetts streets at 1 45 p m. Police state Patrolmen Henry Collins and James Collins reported a southbound Pontiac coach driven by Charles Durr of Eudora was struck by a 1950 Ford sedan driven west on Twenty third by Mrs Harry Dicker of Del Soto. The left side of Durrs car was damaged. The city council has council approval to install a flashing traffic light at the intersection while a stop and go light request was denied. Action on the light is slated for tonight s council meeting.
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State Highway, Commission
Small Fire at Haskell Institute Alarm Raised by Boy
A three year old boy Gerald Harjo alerted firefighters at Haskell Institute when smoke rose from a Keokuk Hall porch roof. Firefighters extinguished a small roof hole at 1 40 p m. No injuries reported.
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Gerald Harjo
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Simple Rites For Truman's Mother
Martha Ellen Truman will be buried this afternoon at Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City in a simple private ceremony. President Harry S. Truman and his daughter Margaret attend services at her Grandview home before a small cortege to the grave.
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Kansas City
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Forest Hill Cemetery
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KU Women Rush Week Deadlines and Housing Plan
The University of Kansas sets August 1 as the rush deadline with registrations handled by the Women's Pan-Hellenic Association. Rush events run September 7 to 13, with rushees visiting 11 sororities, housing assigned to private homes, and pledging allowed from day two to week end. Each chapter may pledge at least 148 members while quotas reflect vacancies and home housing.
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Martha Peterson
Women
Pan-Hellenic Association
K.u.l
Ars
Dean of Women's Office
FALSE ALARM AT 441 PERRY STREET DURING SUMMER WEEK
Fire department responded to a 4:25 pm alarm at 441 Perry Street yesterday afternoon but found it was a false alarm. Louis L. Stillman was on his front porch reading a newspaper when crews arrived. Fire Chief Paul Ingels called it a prank and warned of potential damage from repeated false alarms.
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Paul Ingels
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Couple To Renew Vows On 56th Anniversary
Eighty one year old Mr and Mrs John F Hielscher of Seattle Washington prepared today to take off in their 1921 Model T Ford for Detroit Michigan on their second honeymoon. They celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary Sunday near Minnehaha Falls with 400 relatives and friends watching as Stewart Hielscher gave the bride away. Two brothers and two sisters of Mrs Hielscher attended. their ages ranged from 67 to 89. The couple said they expected no trouble reaching Detroit in the 26 year old car which has already traveled 135000 miles and brought them 1500 miles from Seattle.
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John F. Hielscher
Seattle
Wash
Detroit
Mich
Minnehaha Falls
Stewart Hielscher
Hielscher
Former Slave Polly Schaffer Dies in Leavenworth
Polly Schaffer a former slave of Leavenworth Kansas died Saturday night at age 115 according to relatives and friends She is survived by her husband John Schaffer who claims to be 101 Also notes a Junior Legion baseball schedule with games against Ban Johnson tonight and McPherson tomorrow with 30 cent admission.
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Polly Schaffer
John Schaffer
Junior Legion
Ban Johnson
McPherson
Dutch say new successes in Eastern Sumatra
The Dutch military HQ reports sweeping gains in Eastern Sumatra with capture of key coal fields and oil holdings near Palembang. Ratoeradja town and Boekit Assam mines seized intact, while Indonesians retreated burning villages toward Sekajoe. Paratroopers reportedly used but wiped out near Lamadiang.
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Summer Heat Holds In Topeka And Kansas
Topeka reports 102 as a high with Ellis and Phillipsburg matching the heat. The eastern region dropped to about 78, while Goodland recorded a 62 low. Meteorologist S D Flora predicts tonight and Tuesday will mirror Sunday with no rain in sight.
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Goodland
Flora
De Gaulle Attacks French Communists Over Moscow Links
In Rennes on July 27 Gen. Charles de Gaulle accused French communists of serving Moscow's orders. He said they deliberately foment strikes and promote class hatred to destabilize France.
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Condolence Messages Flow to President on Truman Loss
World leaders and the public sent condolences after President Truman’s mother died. Messages arrived from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and from Pope Pius XII via telegram, among others expressing deep sympathy.
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Truman
White House
George VI
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Resignation of Miss Gertrude Hunt at County Convalescent Hospital
Miss Gertrude Hunt resigns as superintendent of the county convalescent hospital effective by November 1. County Commissioners say her work has been highly valued and will search for a successor within six weeks. The hospital, opened after a 1944 fire, serves county residents of advanced age near Lawrence.
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County Convalescent Hospital
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L. H. Griffith
Convalescent Hospital
Lawrence
Griffith
Fd Johnson
Elmer Ousdahl
Car Struck Culvert Injuring Three Near Dover
Mrs. William Wulfkuhle and Miss Betty Schwemmer were seriously hurt when a car struck a culvert east of Stull while returning from church. They were extricated by bystanders, transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, with Mrs. Wulfkuhle in poor condition and Schwemmer listed as fair. Robert Wulfkuhle and Raymond Hoffsommer assisted at the scene.
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General Eisenhower Departs Fort Riley for Great Falls Mont
General Dwight D. Eisenhower left Marshall Field Fort Riley at 906 a m CST for Great Falls Mont on the second leg of a trip to Alaska to inspect army installations He observed a flight by an experimental L 15 observation plane before departure Eisenhower planned to reach Anchorage Alaska on Tuesday to visit with his brother Milton S Eisenhower at Kansas State College Manhattan and overnight there before continuing the tour
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marshall Field
Fort Riley
Great Falls
Mont
Alaska
Army Chief of Staff
General Eisenhower
Milton S. Eisenhower
Kansas State College
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Anchorage
Lightning strikes man at Buckeye Lake porch
Roy Huffman aged 54 survived a lightning strike at his Buckeye Lake cottage near Lancaster Ohio describing a green flame and red hot pain. Doctors reported three broken toes among injuries with legs scorched and shoes ripped. The incident occurred Sunday night at the cottage doorway.
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Roy Huffman
Huffman
Buckeye Lake
KU Institute For Steelworkers Opens Weeklong Program
A KU hosted weeklong institute for steelworkers began with talks by former dean Fo i Stovaten and others on collective bargaining economics and labor policy. Sessions run 8:15 to 9:30 each morning with multiple afternoon divisions and an evening program, including speakers Ethan Allen and Russell Bauder.
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Evtemsien Avacs.cn
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Collision at Thirteenth and Massachusetts Streets
Two cars collision at the intersection of Thirteenth and Massachusetts Streets Saturday afternoon caused considerable damage to vehicles. Drivers Rev Ira C Ward of Eudora and Edward O Bond of Nortonville escaped injury. patrolman William Cox noted the crash occurred around 4 15 pm.
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William Cox
Cox
Ira C. Ward
Eudora
Edward O. Bond
Noretonville
Weather Forecast for Kansas Tonight Into Tuesday
Dry and fair conditions with coastal breezes expected tonight. Temperatures rise into the 100s on Tuesday with highs around 100 east and 105 west.
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