Franklin carrier disaster remembered on WWI anniversary
Twenty years after the Franklin disaster, veterans recall the damage from the March 19 1945 attack off Japan. Lt. Carroll Faught, listed as lost, survived with severe injuries and now serves as a government official. He describes the blast, crawl to safety, and heroic efforts to rescue survivors aboard the burning Essex-class carrier.
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Washington
Franklin
New York Harbor
Pacific
Navy
Japan
Big Ben
Carroll 4. Faught
Faught
Mare Island
Calif
Commerce
Office of Emergency Transportation
Bay of Japan
U.S. Navy
Wichitan: Kansas Union Denies KU Musicians Jobs
Kansans for the Right to Work says KU student musicians lose work in Lawrence due to agreements with the AFL-CIO Musicians Protective Union Local 512. Governor and state senators are blamed. attorney general says no statute bars the practice, civil remedies only.
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Wichita
Kansas University
Avery
State Senate
Kansas Right To Work
Lawrence
Afl-Cio Musicians Protective Union
Newton E. Jerome
Musicians Protective Union
Harlow
Kansas
R. G. Sonderholm
Karl Zetmeier
Kansan
Zetmeier
KU and
Senate
Zetmeir
Laurence C. Woodruff
Panhellenic
Interfraternity Council
Associated University
Dean Woodruff
Renowned Kansas City Reporter Hurt in Wreck
Ray Morgan a leading Kansas City Star correspondent sustained chest neck and head injuries in a traffic crash near Country Club Plaza. Police said his car was rammed from behind after he stopped for equipment at an interchange under construction near List and Ward Parkway.
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Kansas City
Ray Morgan
Kansas
The
Kansas City Star
Country Club Plaza
Morgan
List and Ward Parkway
Indictment Roster Includes Banker In Neodesha Case
A federal grand jury returned 36 indictments including Neodesha banker Paul Earl Shepard charged with four counts of bank embezzlement and four counts of making false entries. Also named were Butcher of Altoona for mail fraud, a Topeka private detective for intercepting calls, and multiple Kansas City and Emporia figures in tax, loan, and counterfeit schemes.
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Neodesha
Topeka
Paul Earl Shepard
First National Bank of
Shepard
Austin V. Butcher Jr
Altoona
Butcher
Altoona Tribune
Kansas City
Kan
John Dale Miller
Emporia
Betty Jean Miller
Ramona Cooperative Elevator Co
Ramona
Donald E. Richmond
Marion
Commodity Credit Corporation
Richmond
Dillon Farmer's Cooperative Association of
Dillon
Thomas J. Dreiling
Liberty
W. H. Ransopher
Clyde
Norman Cleveland
Ames
Ralph L. Braman
Leavenworth
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Vern Haugland
Laramie
Wyo
Mar
Wichitan
Music Union
Dread
Lawrence Ice Paper CO
Westinghouse
Jack Harris
Pontiac
Tempest
Scharke Pontiac-Cadillac, Inc
Vermont
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