Ruml plan bill heads to Senate after committee vote
Washington May 8 A 13 to 6 committee vote backed the modified Ruml skip a year plan to be folded into a new current collection tax bill. The plan would tax all income taxpayers except windfall earners on a pay as you go basis and abate 1942 liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Clark
D-Mo
House
George
D-Ga
Barkley
Kentucky
Connally
D-Tex
Byrd
D-Va
Johnson
D-Colo
LaFollette
Missouri
Gerry
Rhode Island
Radcliffe
Maryland
Walsh
Massachusetts
Lucas
Ilinois
Germans seize anti Nazi suspects in Bulgaria and Sofia unrest
In Sofia a two day purge by German forces led to mass arrests of anti Nazi suspects. Secret arsenals were unearthed as hundreds were seized while King Boris reportedly fled Ankara. Cars and roads were cut off. garrison paraded through the capital amid warnings Germany would reassess its Bulgaria policy.
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Ankara
Turkey
Sofia
Boris
London
Germany
Bulgaria
Chief of Police Warns Of Stray Dogs in City
Chief C. A. Blesner warned residents after a meeting of city officials about stray dogs. Construction workers who left Sunflower Ordnance Works abandoned dogs, raising rabies concerns this summer and prompting calls to the police department for reporting unowned animals.
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Police
D Department
C. A. Blesner
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Bliesner
Soith
Aner
Raiders Are Turned Back Over London Air Raid Event
London reports a German raid with three planes turning back after a breakfast alarm. Anti aircraft guns claimed a bomber in flames at Benfleet Essex near the Thames mouth. A second and a third Nazi aircraft were shot down during night raids over Britain and another was downed over northern France.
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London
Benfleet
Essex
Thames
Britain
Anyother
France
Funeral Services for Andrews and Victims in Iceland Crash
Funeral services were held in Iceland for Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews Bishop Adna Diek Leonard and 12 others killed in an air crash last Monday. The U S Army announced the deaths and the ceremonies conducted abroad.
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London
Frank M.andrews
Adna Ieneonard
Iceland
U.S. Army
Renee
Allied forces close on Tunis Bizerte amid heavy fighting
Allied airmen sank ships in the Gulf of Tunis while British First Army entered Tunis and Second U. S. corps pushed into Bizerte. Axis resistance included street fighting in Tunis and Bizerte as authorities reported major advances after 86 hours of combat and renewed air attacks on enemy positions and shipping.
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Bizerte
Tunis
First Army
la Goulette
Sicilian
Second U. S
Ferryville
Berlin
Rome
Associated Press
Bradley
U. S
Omar N. Bradley
George S. Patton
Gafsa-El Guetar
Eisenhower
Patton
Pont du Fahs
Bernard J. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Djebel Zaghouan
Reuters
North Africa
Bir M’cherga
Leonard McCalla Jr Elected President of Second District Press Group
Leonard McCalla Jr busi ness manager of the Andersen Countian in Garnett was elected president of the Second District Press Association in a session at the University of Kansas School of Journalism. He succeeds M C Langley of the Allen County News Journal at Iola. Speakers included Maj H O Parker of the U S Ordnance Department Ed Abels of the Lawrence Outlook and J Howard Rusco Kansas Press Association secretary. The group met for lunch at The Hearth.
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Leonard McCalla, Jr
Penai Dents
Second District Press Association
School of Journalism
K. U
Andersen Countian
Garnett
M. C. Langley
Allen County News-Journal
Iola
Maj
H. O. Parker
U. S. Ordnance Department
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Ed Abels
Lawrence Outlook
J. Howard Rusco
Atcheson to Take Post at U S Embassy in Chungking
George Atcheson Jr arrived from Washington to replace John Carter Vincent as counsellor of the United States embassy and charge d affaires in Chungking. Vincent will return home soon.
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Atcheson
Chungking
George Atcheson, Jr
Washington
John Carter Vincent
United States
Vincent
Vent Ik Apie
Unitarian Church to Hear Dr Reese on Modern Life
Dr Curtis W Reese from Chicago will speak at 11 am on Toward a Philosophy of Modern Life at the Unitarian Church at Vermont and Twelfth. He leads the Western Unitarian Conference and is a vice president of the American Unitarian Association. A spring fellowship dinner follows, then the church annual meeting with trustee elections.
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Curtis W. Reese
Unitarian Church
Vermont
Twelfth Streets
Reese
Lawrence
Chicago
Western Unitarian Conference
American Unitarian Association
Boston
India
Abraham Lincoln Centre
Jean Bartz
John Marshall
Kuhlan
Whiting
D’albert
Rachel van Valkenburg
Delius
Quintuplets Travel Car Derails in Rail Yard
In Superior Wisconsin May 8 the car carrying the Dionne quintuplets and party derailed in the Sooline yards while being switched to shipyards for tomorrow’s launching of five cargo ships. No injuries. wrecking crew reset the Glen Eliah car as the quintuplets watched and spoke French from the windows.
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Superior
Wis
Sooline
Glen Eliah
Mussolini Orders Police Force Expanded
Swiss dispatches report Rome radio that Premier Mussolini ordered the police and Fascist militia strengthened after Allied victories in Tunis and Bizerte. The force will gain more recruits and better weapons to crush disorder.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Mussolini
Tunis
Bizerte
Army Promotions and Family News From Wartime Service
Armed Forces C E Stephens Jr promoted from first lieutenant to captain at Camp Blandings Florida. Mrs Stephens lives in St Augustine near her husband. Other notices include Lt Bert Seyler Jr at Jersey City promoted to first lieutenant. Navy promotions for Charles S Jr and William Joseph Arthur to lieutenants (jg) in active service. Jack Miller promoted to sergeant with transfers from Camp Adair Oregon.
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C. E. Stephens, Jr
Camp Blandings
Fla
Stephens
Franz Wiedemann
Bert J. Seyler, Jr
Jersey City
N. J
Fred Heck
Williamstown
C. S. Arthur
Route One
Lawrence
Charles S., Jr
William Joseph
J.g
United States Navy
Jack Miller
Camp Adair
Ore
Highways Closed Near Coffeyville by Verdigris Flood
Two highways were shut by floodwaters in Kansas. Highway 169 north of Coffeyville was closed this afternoon as the Verdigris River overflowed, and Highway 166 east of Niotaze also was closed, according to highway officials.
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Coffeyville
Kan
May &P
Niotaze
African Victory Cheered By Russians and Chinese
Moscow and Chungking reported that the fall of Tunis and Bizerte sparked enthusiasm and signaled a potential turning point in World War II. The Allied North African victory energized radio news, crowds, and Red Army members in Moscow and Chinese capital alike.
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Moscow
Bizerte
Tunis
Europe
United Nations
Africa
Axis
Chungking
China
Japan
City Council to Meet After Absent Mayor Returns
The city council convenes at 8 o'clock Monday in adjourned session with Mayor C B Russell back as presiding officer after a month away recovering from an operation. Items include stray dog control, Paul Hyatt beer license at the former Wonder Bar, and expansion needs at the airport. A service flag honoring city employees in the armed forces will be unveiled.
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C. B. Russell
Paul Hyatt
Wonder Bar
Finals and summer sessions begin at University
Finals started this morning and the regular summer term runs May 22 to September 11 with multiple programs. Naval Reserve students will resume classes in uniform and receive pay before induction, while other courses include engineering and refresher math for teachers and special medical and social work courses. Pranks involving explosive chemicals threaten sorority lawns as summer dispersal looms.
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AERC
Naval Reserve
Navy
University
Naval
Red Cross
Albert T. Wulfkuhler
Denver
Colo
Kansas
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Philip A Readio
Funeral services are set for Mrs Philip A Readio who died Wednesday at her Ithaca New York home. The service will be Monday at 3 30 p m at Funk chapel with Rev C Fosberg Hughes officiating. Interment follows privately in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Philip A. Readio
Ithaca
N. Y
Funk Chapel
C. Fosberg Hughes
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence City Engineer Visits from Omaha
Ben M. Babb former Lawrence city engineer now a senior engineer with the U S engineers district office in Omaha visited today with friends. He resigned as city engineer in 1941 to take the present job. Rainfall this week measured 1.47 inches by 7 am. A blue-footed dog belonging to neighbors caused damage in a planted flower garden this morning as a boy’s baseball rolled into the bed last summer.
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Ben M. Babb
Lawrence
United States Engineers
Omaha
Babb
Cain
Want Extra Cash Sell Attic Basement Items in Classifieds
Readers can place four lines of classified ads in Journal World for a week at 96 cents. Promote sale items from attics and basements to attract buyers using affordable small ad space.
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Journal- World
Carlson assails OPA over meat shortages in Salina
Rep. Frank Carlson urged allowing central Kansas packers to slaughter and sell meat using ration coupons to curb shortages. He charged the CPA seeks to force meat processing into large centers, complicating transport and distribution. Carlson referenced the Ruml tax plan and urged House action by May 16 to enable pay as you go by July 15.
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Salina
Kan
OPA
Frank Carlson
Kansas
CPA
Senate Finance Committee
Carlson
House
Internal Revenue Department
U S Troops Advance to Eliminate Last Tunisian Salients
Allied Headquarters reports United States troops occupy Chouvigui near Tebourba and push toward the Tunisian front to clear the last enemy salient. British forces seize Creteville near Tunis and capture Ain El Aswer, broadening advances in central Tunisia.
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North Africa
United States
Chouvigui
Tunis
Tebourba
Creteville
Ain el Aswer
Miss Ann Cherry to Spend Mother's Day at Mt Vernon
Local notices list Miss Ann Cherry from Sunflower Ordnance Works traveling home to Mt Vernon Missouri for Mother's Day. Other brief items include Edwin Hildenbrand's hospital admission in Topeka and various travel or family updates across Kansas and nearby states.
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Ann Cherry
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Mt. Vernon
Edwin Hildenbrand
Lecomston
Security Benefit Association
Topeka
Margaret Hurley
Bob Allphin
H.C. Allphin
Plainview
Tex
Charles Lindell
Omaha
Neb
Cpl
Middle River
Lucille Robertson
Anna Olinger
Walcott
N. Y
V. Leigh
Memorial Hospital
Jeanette Wheeler
Clyde Miller
Wallace Corder
Faye Woodring
Hercules Powder Company
Kansas City
W. Otto Miessner
Chicago
Lecompton
H. W. Hargiss
Pratt and Whitney
Paul Smart
Minneapolis
Army Air Forces
Lawrence E. Leigh
Carlyle Barracks
Lawrence
Camp Howze
Leigh
Valley garden clubs meet at Memorial Union
Monday meeting of Raw Valley Garden clubs held in Memorial Union with Mrs. C. E. Franks and Past Presidents club members including Mrs. Charles Starkweather and Mrs. J. Fred Broeker. Luncheon at Colonial. Also notes on contract club luncheon and a Tuesday event at the Montgomery home plus golf at the country club.
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Raw Valley
Memorial Union
Jota Nu
C. E. Franks
Charles Starkweather
J. Fred Broeker
Colonial
Rs. C. B
Pi Kappa Lambda Banquet Initiates New Members
The annual Pi Kappa Lambda banquet at the Memorial Union heard Prof. W. Otto Miessner preside and Prof. John E. Hawkins deliver the Heritage of Our American Folk Song. Mary Louise Beltz sang two solos with Ruth Orcutt as accompanist. five members were initiated and new officers elected. Out‑of‑town guests attended from Esler Field La Kansas City Mo and Topeka.
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Kappa Chapter
Pi Kappa Lambda
National Scholastic Music Society
Memorial Union Building
W. Otto Miessner
John E. Hawkins
Kansas Room
Mary Louise Beltz
Home
Cadman
Miss Beltz
Hero
Victor Herbert
Ruth Orcutt
Margaret Fultz
Maxine McGranahan
Winifred Hargrove
Jean Scott
David T. Lawson
Melvin Zack
J. Lynn Bishop
Alberta
Marie Everett
Harold Thompson
Warren Wilson
E. Thayer. Gaston
Russell L. Wiley
Gene Burnett Heir to Local Families Named
Mrs. Alda DeWitt and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burnett of this city announce that their first grandson is David Gene, formerly Miss Barbara Ann Knott of Lawrence, a connection tying Law rence to local families through the Burnetts.
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Arthur H. White
John White
Alabama Street
Seabees
Camp Peary
Williamsburg
Jim White
E. S. Walker
Route Two
Annabell
Pvt
Virgil Huntsman
Linwood
Huntsman
Texas
Gene Burnett
Kansas City
Kan
David
Gene
Burnett
Barbara Ann Knott
Lawrence
David Gene
Alda DeWitt
Frank Burnett
Marriage Licenses Issued To Several Kansas Couples
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Wayne Redford and Anna Arlene Miller of Lawrence, Gordon Osborn and Pauline De Graff of Topeka, Edward Lee Brush of Kansas City Missouri and Velma F. Cook of Emporia, and this morning to John Addison Wolcott of Oceanport New Jersey and Gloria Joan Smith of Low Branch New Jersey, and Richard Josep Riedel of Studley and Juanita Maxine Smith of Lawrence.
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Wayne Redford
Anna Arlene Miller
Lawrence
Gordon Osborn
Pauline DeGraff
Topeka
Frank R. Gray
Edward Lee Brush
Kansas City
Velma F. Cook
Emporia
John Addison Wolcott
Oceanport
N. J
Gloria Joan Smith
Low Branch
Richard Josep Riedel
Studley
Juanita Maxine Smith
Gardner Farmer Dies in Farm Accident
Thomas W. Moore age 71, a Gardner area farmer, died in a hospital from injuries after a Thursday farm accident. He was found unconscious in a field at Hix farm west of Gardner, apparently thrown from his corn planter.
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Gardner
Thomas W. Moore
Hix Farm
Chinese Drive Japanese From Tungting Lake Shore
Chinese central news agency reported that Japanese forces landed two days earlier on the southern shore of Tungting lake were completely driven away by a vigorous counterattack launched yesterday morning. The landing near Changsha was seen as an attempt to seize the city.
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Chungking
Tungting Lake
Changsha
Hunan
Kansas U. athletes place in Big Six track meet
Bill Haines of Kansas finishes fifth in the mile at the Big Six meet in Omaha Nebraska where Richardson of Iowa State wins. Vale Schloesser also places fifth in the 100 yard dash as Shy of Missouri takes the event. Scofield of Kansas wins the high jump.
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Bill Haines
Kansas
Ameaha
Neb
Richardson
Iowa State
Vale Schloesser
K. U
Shy
Missouri
Scofield
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Cap Bon
Associated ‘Press
Straits of
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DR. Reese
Unitarians
Otis Holcomb
Cam Rucker
Ala
Tom Holcomb
Fred Williams
Beulah Holcomb
Powhattan
Ernest Moser
Holton
George Heal
Los Angeles
George Beal
Calif
Journal-World
Kansas Electric Power Company
Gwynne Kyle
Jewell Smith
Kyle
Kyla
Marjorie Fox
Opal Laswell
Mayme
Mildred Corcoran Snider
Mabel
Swomen
L. E. Rice
W. C.hunsinger
Earle Patton
Fuhn
Ruese
Zimmerman
Rathbun
Hunsinger
C. R. Allen
M. Allen
van Noy
McCreight
Brice
F. Barteldes
Nelson
Perry
Hesse
Jakosky
Riling
Schrader
Hutson
Stone
B. Gustafson
Pfc
Gilbert Wayne Knight
Gary
Knight
Ardytha Plant
Ft. Louis, Wash
F. S
Rumsey
Fred Rumsey
Oscar Rumsey
Ind. St
Gardner Farmer
KE. U
Lincoln
Schubert Funeral Home
N. H. St
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
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