British physicist Alan May jailed for misusing official secrets act
London May 1 Dr Alan Munn May a 34 year old British physicist who worked on wartime nuclear research in Canada was sentenced to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to violation of the Official Secrets Act. He was accused of communicating information potentially useful to any enemy. The case followed Canadian probes into alleged Soviet espionage with Prime Minister Mackenzie King saying it extended to the United States and Britain.
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London
Alan Munn May
Canada
Vietion
Brill
May
MacKenzie King
United States
Britain
Gardiner
J Hartleyowhn
Russia
Old Bailey
Coroner Nomination Candidate Profiles by Election
Ray A Street candidate for coroner in Douglas County is profiled. Brief details note his Army service of five years, two and a half years in the South Pacific, and medical background including a Doctor of Medicine and a connection to Massachusetts and Kansas roots.
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Oread
Kansas
Pupils to Attend KU Memorial Benefit Show
Pupils from intermediate and junior high will be dismissed to attend a KU Memorial benefit show Friday May at the university auditorium. Tickets will be sold by schools to support the memorial fund with intermediate and junior high tickets priced at 10 cents and show tickets at 1 cent. Proceeds go to the KU Memorial Fund.
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War Meshow
Hneh Andi- University Commis
Tawr
Hieh
Yue
B. Geeree Sal
K.U. Memorial Fund
North Lawrence Home Damaged by Fire
Fire likely started by a defective light switch on the porch of the Happy Tyler residence at 112 Locust Street damaged the rear and southwest roof of the two story home between 3 30 and 2 o'clock this afternoon. No one was home and fire crews kept the blaze from spreading.
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Happy” Tyler
Locust Street
Meat Shortage Prompts 90 Day Price Control Review
Washington reports Secretary of Agriculture Anderson urged a 90 day window to clear meat shortages and black market conditions before possibly removing price controls. He cites hope in new packer slaughter quotas and anti black market campaigns, while noting reconversion and farm real estate prices argue to extend price controls.
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Washington
Anderson
Barkley
D.-Ky
Office of War Mobilization
OPA
John W. Snyder
Senate Banking Committee
Schacht Testifies on Foreign Ambassadors at Nuremberg
Hjalmar Schacht told the Nuremberg tribunal that all foreign ambassadors except those from Russia and the United States attended Nazi rallies. The court blocked testimony linking foreign nations' attitudes to Germany's rise, provoking a protest from Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson who argued foreigners are not on trial.
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Nuernberg
Hjalmar Schacht
International Military Tribunal Today
Russia
U. S
Germany
U.S
Robert H. Jackson
United Mine Workers Call Strategy Meeting in Washington
John J. Lewis summoned the 250 member policy committee to Washington next Tuesday as contract talks stall. The move follows renewed soft coal talks at the government’s request and comes as Fuller returns to duty after White House persuasion.
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Washington
John J. Lewis
United Mine Workers
New York
Paul W. Fuller
White House
Fuller
Labor
Schwellenbach
John S. Steelman
War Brides Expected Debark At New York And San Francisco
More than 750 service personnel are to debark from four vessels today at New York and San Francisco. In addition two ships carrying 1,287 war brides and children are due at New York. No Divorce Action Filed: Winnefred Mann sues William Alfred Mann in Douglas County District Court yesterday.
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Associated Press
New York
San Francisco
Douglas County District Court
Winnefred Mann
William Alfred Mann
University seniors plan annual business meeting
The senior class of the university will hold its annual business meeting next Tuesday to discuss graduation activities with Keith Bunnel, president, presiding. A new one way traffic rule will soon apply to two downtown alleys, directing southbound traffic in the Vermont Massachusetts street alley from Sixth to Eleventh streets, and northbound in the New Hampshire Massachusetts street alley from Seventh to Eleventh streets.
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Keith Bunnel
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Forestal rejects plan to merge armed services
Secretary James Forrestal told the Senate naval committee the push to form a single Department of Defense rests on a false premise. He backed improved coordination while criticizing merger details and emphasized sea power’s role in destroying Japan’s wartime foundations.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
James Forestal
Army
Navy
Department of Defense
Senate Naval Committee
Forrestal
MacArthur
Teaps
Jaan
Japan
Local society notes and club events hit Lawrence
Ha H pinnacle club met at Mrs. Leroy Alexander’s home with prizes to Mrs. Worthy Rogers and Mrs. C J Kempter. Sharon Jean named for newborn daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Lawson of Baldwin. AUW study group to meet 7 45 pm at Henley House with panel on Interracial Problems led by Davidson Wallace and Carter. Odell Wiley announce birth Michael Vance April 29 at Memorial. Benefit for Cancer Control at Woodlawn school May 3 featuring Jayhawk square dance and Bobby Socks play. talk by Dr Z M Mott. Eastern Star initation Friday at Masonic temple. BPW dinner May 7 at The Hearth prior to James Melton concert.
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Ha’ H Pinacle Club
Leroy Alexander
Worthy Rogers
C. J. Kempter
J. 8. Tobler
Roy Lawson
Baldwin
Sharon Jean
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A.A. U.W
Henley House
Oread Avenue
Arthur Davidson
Eugene Wallace
E. Russell Carter
Odell Wiley
Michael Vance
Memorial Hospital
Will Gorrill
Theodore Wiley
Lawrence
Cancer Control Fund
Woodlawn
Woodlawn Home Demonstration Unit
Jayhawk 4-H Club
Jayhawk
Z. M. Mott
Albert Hayden
John Morgan
Jayhawk Club
Roland Roney
Personal Notices From The Local Staff
Mr and Mrs Dolph Simons returned yesterday from New York after attending the Associated Press and American Newspaper Publishers Association meetings. They visited two days in Detroit Mich. Mr and Mrs J W Arnold and two daughters of Wichita are visiting Mrs J B Henry. Mrs A J Anderson hosted her uncle Dr O W Huff of San Diego for a month in Hot Springs Ark and left today. Mrs Eugene Tait will leave for Chicago to visit her son at Notre Dame then travel to South Bend Ind and Indianapolis for ten days. Mr and Mrs George Docking and Robert Docking went to Wichita for the funeral of Mrs Walter P Innes. Mrs Lemuel Wiley has returned from S B A hospital Topeka after major surgery. Mrs H W Frazee, visiting in Lawrence, will depart for Los Angeles. Dr and Mrs W M Schoews
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Dolph Simons
New York
Associated Press
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Detroit
Mich
J. W. Arnold
Wichita
J. B. Henry
A. J. Anderson
O. W. Huff
San Diego
Calif
Hot Springs
Ark
Eugene Tait
Chicago
Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
Indianapolis
Winfield D.J. Wood
George Docking
Robert Docking
Walter P. Innes
Lemuel Wiley
Mississippi Street
S. B. A. Hospital
Topeka
Local Veterans Return Home From Service Allotments
Maj Richard A Barber son of Mr and Mrs J W Barber 926 Ohio Street returns home after 49 months army service most recently as staff officer on Adak Island Aleutians Cpl Robert Docking son of Mr and Mrs George Docking discharged at Fort Leavenworth arrives in Lawrence to reenter KU before summer term Fire department extinguished wiring fire under a car hood at Nineteenth and Louisiana streets causing minimal damage John Strong of Eudora treated at Lawrence Memorial for a broken left foot
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Richard A. Barber
J. W. Barber
Ohio Street
Fort Douglas
Utah
Barber
Army
Adak Island
Aleutians
Cpl
Robert Docking
George Docking
Fort Leavenworth
Lawrence
Army Air Corps
Washington, D. C
University of Kansas
Nineteenth
Louisiana Streets
N. W. Storer
John Strong
Eudora
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Fairfield residents head to Miami visit Capt McGuire family
Guire of Fairfield Iowa traveling to Miami Arizona to visit their son Captain Ben F McGuire and family. Captain McGuire, a 1942 KU mining engineering graduate, served three and a half years in the army with two years in Europe and the Mediterranean. Mrs Maude Carlson of Fo r m osa Beach California visits sons Elmer Carlson Route 3 and Ross Carlson 190 North Third Street. Mrs Carlson called to Amarillo Texas due to her father D L Wiles illness and death. Wiles resided at Lecompton until 1926 and died April 20. Don Farley of Corpus Christi Texas dined with Harold Herrer at the Dine-a-Mite. Charles Snow returned from Lawrence Memorial Hospital after three weeks following an operation at 1066 West Sixth Street. He is recovering well. Albert G Sabol discharged from navy at Camp Shelby Virginia March 21 and will study electrical engineering at KU. He and his wife live with his parents at 950 Ohio Street. Robert Wiedemann of 1947 Vermont Street recovering from an emergency appendectomy at Watkins Hospital.
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Guire
Fairfield
Miami
Ariz
Ben 5
McGuire
University of Kansas
Europe
Mediterranean
Maude Carlson
Formosa Beach
Calif
Elmer Carlson
Ross Carlson
North Third Street
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Albert G. Sabol
Navy
Camp Shelton
Albert Sabol
Ohio Street
Robert Wiedemann
Vermont Street
Watkins Hospital
Delta Delta Delta to Install Chapter at the University This Week
The Theta Omega chapter of Delta Delta Delta sorority will install as the 90th national chapter at the University of Kansas in Lawrence May 2 to 4. National officers and Kansas City alumnae assist. ceremonies culminate with an installation banquet at Eldridge.
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Theta Omega
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
National Social Organization
University of Kan- Bap
Lawrence
Louisiana
Stars and Crescent
Eldridge
Delta Delta Delta
National Executive Board
Charles Perrin
Philadelphia
Otto K. Jensen
Indianapolis
A. G. Roeske
Cmpaign
Inl
A. L. Grant
Minneapolis
James T. McDonald
Chicago
Kansas City Alliance
Boston University
United States
Canada
United China Relief
China
Alliance
Red Cross
Emily Berry
Kansas City
Eunice Carlson
Concordia
Helen Deltzel
Kanaan City
Shirley Grigsby
Mary Kinswater
Bartlesville
Okla
Anna Krehbler
Mound Ridge
Elizabeth Mallonee
Wichita
Louise McIntire
Carthage
Barbara Meyer
Eileen O'Brien
Pauline Rankin
Lawren
Mary Ann Bowyer
Cane
Sorma Jean Schneider
Dorothy Stephenson
Independence
Cora Downs
University of Kansas
Bonnie Benkelman
St. Francis
Sue Callaway
Blue Springs
Beverly Cupbuge
Des Moines
Patricia Live
Mary Klood
Joan Manners
Garnett
Mary Alice Martin
Salida
Cola
Jean MeIntire
Marjorie Seidmore
Salina
Kansas school law lacks central administrative interpretations
Topeka May 1 Two North Dakota lawmakers studying Kansas elementary school reorganization heard that the law’s main weakness is the absence of a state level administrative body to issue official interpretations. W A Stacey assistant state superintendent urged a traveling state office to guide counties and straighten out difficulties.
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Topeka
North Dakota
Kansas
W. A. Stacey
Stacey
Missouri
Ilinois
Iowa
New Army Re-enlistment Opportunities Postwar MOS Open
The War Department offers ex service members honorably discharged on or after May 12 1945 a chance to reenlist in the regular army in their qualified occupations. Enlist before June 20 1946 for full grade based on MOS length. Details at U S Army Recruiting Sub Station Lawrence Kansas Post Office Building.
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Rempere Conte
War Department
U.S. Army
Lawrence
Kan
Death notices for Charles F. McKinzie in Lecompton
Charles F. McKinzie of Lecompton died yesterday morning of a heart attack at the Santa Fe freight depot in Lawrence. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Rumsey funeral home with Rev. Warren Hile presiding. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. He was 28 and survived by his wife Goldie, two sons Wayne and Charles Eugene, three daughters Velma May Lillian Louise and Evelyn Christine, his father Albert McKinzie of Stockton, four sisters and one brother.
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Charles F. McKinzie
Lecompton
Santa Fe
Lawrence
Rumsey
Warren Hile
Oak Hill Cemetery
McKinzie
Goldie McKinzie
Wayne McKinzie
U. S. Navy
Charles Eugene
Olathe
Velma May McKinzie
Lillian Louise McKinzie
Evelyn Christine Turner
Albert McKinzie
Stockton
Market Trends Mixed as Commodities Slump and Livestock Rises
Market downbeat in grains with cotton and wheat steady or lower amid broad selling. cattle and hogs show uneven moves with young cattle up to near 18 dollars while cows and vealers soften. Live cattle and hog futures mixed. regional reports note limited early sales and higher lamb quotes in spots.
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U._S
Chicago
P.A
Kansas City Market Notes May 1 Livestock and Grain
May 1 report lists shorn ewes at 1.50, advance livestock receipts for morrow, cattle cash and hogs, sheep at 4,000 head. Also Kansas City hay, corn futures, wheat, and prairie prices. Chicago potato market, butter, poultry, and general grains mixed. Wall Street closes with caution on price controls and bonds.
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Morrow
Catile L
Cashy
Howe
Kansas
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