Coal contract talks stall as Lewis demands welfare fund
John L. Lewis declares no new soft coal contract until operators agree to a seven percent payroll levy for a miners welfare fund aimed at medical, hospitalization, life and disability services. Operators privately mock the plan while Truman calls for a quick settlement.
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Truman
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Mdé
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Reposal
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Q Lewis
Ian Chie
Stajvation
Chester Bowles
Wen
Coal Miners Return to Work Amid Truce Efforts
AP reports most coal miners resume work as John L. Lewis calls for a 12 day truce. About 139,006 of 468,004 bituminous miners returned or prepared to return, with Pennsylvania showing heavy idleness despite spillover efficacy. States vary as unions report back to work and others hold out.
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U.M.W
John L. Lewis
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Ohio
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Iowa
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Arkansas
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New Mexico
Gallup
Foreign ministers clash over Trieste and Italy deals
Paris talks on Germany resume as Byrnes Bevin and Molotov clash over Bulgaria Romania and Italy. Disputes center on Trieste status and Austrian peace while US Britain and France push for boundary or internationalization options. Byrnes maintains firm stance but hints at accepting an Italian Yugoslav border compromise.
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Italy
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Romania
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Trieste
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Russia
Lucius Clay
Germany
Robert D. Murphy
Tend
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Mediterranean
France
Yugoslavia
James F. Byrnes
Istrian
Truman summons Big Five to White House rail strike talks
Washington May 14 President Truman called a White House conference with leaders of the Big Five railroad brotherhoods and railroad operators to avert a strike by about 250000 engineers and trainmen that could halt national rail service. The meeting at 3 45 p m EST would include Association of American Railroads officials and industry negotiators, with a strong hint of possible government seizure if needed.
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Truman
White House
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Association of American Railroads
J. J. Pelley
Railroad Association
D. P. Loomis
W. T. Forby
H. A. Enochs
J. P
Order of Railway Conductors of America
Population Loss Hits Hays and Ellis County
Ellis county reports a 1,413 drop in population for the year, with Hays losing the most residents from 7,242 to 7,152. County clerk Rich Dreiling cites Walker army air base civilian workers and Walker Field's recent closure as key factors, noting 880 people rented at the field previously vs 561 listed this year.
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Ellis County
Rich Dreiling
Dreisling
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Walker Field
Dreil Ing
House Tables Knutson's British Loan Resolution
Washington May 14 The House pigeoned Knutson R Minn resolution that would nullify Senate approval of a 3 730 000 British loan The measure was referred to the judiciary committee by voice vote effectively killing it Knutson argued the loan bill was a revenue measure and the Senate infringed House prerogatives by acting first Adoption would have set aside the Senate bill and allowed the House to advance its own proposal
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House
Knutson R-Minn
Senate
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Knutson
Judiciary Committee
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Galesburg Votes to Sell Electric System to Kansas Electric Power
The town of Galesburg voted to sell its electric light distribution to Kansas Electric Power Company. The company will assume retail distribution after 21 years of wholesale service. The sale includes a 20 year franchise with 84 voting in favor and 3 against.
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Parsons
Kansas Electric Power Company
Senate to Accept Draft Provisions Amid Expiring Act
Washington May 14 Senate leaders agree to accept House prohibitions on drafting fathers and 18 19 year olds to extend the draft to July 1. President Truman prepared an emergency order to preserve selective service machinery if Congress fails to act.
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Tee
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Edwin C. Johnson
D.celo
White House
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Congress
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Senate Military Committee
Thomas
House Representatives
Caravan Air Force Recruiting Caravan to Visit Lawrence
Lt W M McCarty of San Diego announces an Army Air Force Mobile Recruiting caravan will visit Lawrence for a two day stand next Monday and Tuesday. The display between Eighth and Ninth on Massachusetts Street will feature 35 officers and men and equipment including a Norden bombsight and a 2000 pound bomb. The staff are veterans, many former POWs, led by Lebanes. The caravan will travel from Hutchinson after the Diamond Pow Wow, arriving Sunday afternoon. Also mentions a stock market index with a 60 stock average noted as 70.5.
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San Diego
Sdvascem
Army Air Force
Lawrence
Air Force
Massachusetts Street
Lebanes
Hutchinson
Army Upgrade Slogan From Eisenhower in Japan
In Kyoto on May 14 General Eisenhower said the Eighth Army in Japan is under improvement. He told reporters there is no weakness in armament or efficiency and noted drafted men feel entitled to go home. He toured Kobe and Osaka docks and spoke with soldiers during unscheduled stops.
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Eighth Army
Eisenhower
Ete
Robert L. Eichelberger
Freenhower
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Osaka
May Food Rationing Considered By U S Director
Washington reports Stabilization Director Chester Bowles will back restoring food rationing if world supplies tighten. He cited meat butter cheese and possibly bread as ration candidates to assure fair shares, while former President Hoover urged waiting for crop results and favored voluntary conservation over new coupons.
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Chester Bowles
Bowles
Herbert Honver
Hoover
Tauman
Clinton P. Anderson
Truman
South America
Post Office To Close Saturday Afternoons
Roger Williams postmaster announced that starting Saturday May 18 the Lawrence post office will close at noon on Saturdays. Saturday window service ends, but regular Sunday and holiday dispatch and special delivery continue. The office had stayed open during wartime to meet demand.
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Noold
Transports Set to Reach New York and West Coast Ports
Three transports with 5 918 service personnel to arrive in New York today while six ships carrying 217 troops expected at San Francisco and Seattle Washington. Over a thousand rooms apartments and houses rented through Journal World classified ads in the last year.
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San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Journal-World
Haskell Pageant Tour Promotes Indian War Memorial
A 26 member Indian troupe will tour nine towns in a rapid one day promotional run for the national Indian war memorial pageant at Haskell Stadium next Monday. The group travels in three buses with 72 Lawrence business leaders, passing out handbills and staging a ten minute show in each stop. Tickets cost 3 dollars with limited seating. the tour emphasizes community support for the non profit pageant featuring more than a thousand costumed Indians from 70 tribes.
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Haskell Athletic Teams
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Oskaloosa
McLouth
Tonzanoxie
Bonner Springs
Olathe
Gardner
Baldwin
Ottawa
Yelock
Chamber of Commerce
G. H. “Dinty” Moore
George Meyn
Leland Lay
Haskell
Phil Cato
Eudora
Sunflower
DeSoto
Stokely Foods Cannery Seeks 250 Workers for May Start
Stokely Foods cannery seeks 200 men and 50 women to work four to five weeks in May for the 1946 pea crop. No experience needed. Reports to the U employment service for referral to the cannery. Harry R Barnard USFS manager said the crop must be conserved amid world famine.
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Stokely Foods
U. Employment Service Office
Harry R Barnard
Canery
Veterans training reach in Kansas schools and firms
May Monypeny, director of the esnas office of veterans affairs, said 7,076 veterans are receiving vocational or educational benefits at Kansas colleges and universities and about 10,000 more are in on-the-job training with Kansas business leaders.
KU to honor Rev Joseph F King as 7th annual commence speaker
The Rev Joseph F King former minister of the Mymouth Congregational Church Lawrence now pastor of the First Church Oberlin Ohio will deliver the baccalaureate address at the University of Kansas seventh annual commencement exercises on the 16th and 17th He is a long time KU friend popular Lawrence minister and former religion school instructor from 1939 to 1942 King born in Philadelphia earned BA from Park College 1928 BD from Chicago Theological Seminary 1931 studied at Edinburgh University and University of Marburg and earned a PhD from Edinburgh in 1938.
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Mymouth
Lawrence
First
Oberlin
Ohio
University of Kansas
Klu. Stuents
King
Congregational Church
University of Kansas School of Religion
Oberling
Philadelphia
Dr. King
Park College
Chicago Theological Seminary
Edinburgh University
Edinburgh Scotland
University of Marburg
Frankfort
Germany
West Needs Moisture as Rain Pushes East Across Kansas
Weather summary reports light to moderate eastern rains with the west staying dry. Forecaster S D Flora predicts rain in eastern Kansas today tonight and tomorrow while western areas stay largely dry until a chance of heavier rain returns in the east Friday. Temperatures span 72 to 78 statewide with cool downs and scattered 0 23 inch readings in several towns.
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S. D. Flora
Flora
Manhattan
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Kanaan City
Wamega
Hanover
Winfield
Herington
Florence and
Coffeyville
Fort Scott
Climax
Wichita, Anthony
Independence
Columbus
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Dodge City
Goodland
Mishandling of Trials Questioned by U S General
Frankfurt May 14 General McNarney commander of US forces in Europe said an army investigation revealed instances of mishandling in trials. He ordered the inspector general to review all phases of the Lichfield cases from the first complaint of irregularities regarding brutality toward American soldiers at the detention barracks.
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Germany
Joseph T. McNarney
United States
Europe
Lichfield
England
McNamey
Texas Health Official Downgrades Polio Spread
State health epidemiologist Dr. J V Irons said eight infantile paralysis cases exist in Bexar county and earlier counts were inflated. A San Antonio patient Miss Jean Detcher died in a polio ward, the county's fourth victim, with county estimates previously as high as fifteen. Time is extended on Pearl Harbor inquiry.
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J. V. Irons
State Health Department
Bexar County
Jother Ee
Jean Detcher
San Antonio Hospital
Irons
George W. Cox
A. Antonio
Washington faces murder trial in Douglas county court
George Washington aged 82, living at 1645 West St Street, stands charged with first degree murder for the stabbing of his wife Ernestine Washington and wounding William Nelson at the Wright Taxi Cab office on New Hampshire street April 15. The trial opened with jury sworn at 9 50 this morning. The state seeks life or death. defense claims self defense. Washington pleaded not guilty yesterday. Jury panel listed. A separate case saw H R Morris convicted of possession and transport of intoxicating liquor, fined 200 and 60 days jail. Walter Kirby Jr. case postponed after defendant failed to appear. bond forfeited. The Washington trial likely to continue tomorrow. Hula Allen charged with first degree murder may go to trial then.
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West St Street
Douglas County
Washington
Ernestine Washington
William Nelson
Wright Taxi Cab Company
New Hampshire Street
Robert Oyler
Elf
John Linn
Sam Elliott
August Walter
M. R. Gill
Ernest Erim
I. W. Hartley
F. K. Buckminster
Carl Hughes
Ed E. Beal
Clarence Wilson
Fred M. Baldwin
Henry McConnell
H. R. Morris
Walter Kirby, Jr
Hugh Means
Hula Allen
Thin Casa May
Wichita May 14 Forming UPA Kansas chapter panel
Form organization meeting in Wichita for a Kansas chapter of the National Home and Property Owners foundation. Charles M. Hillary of Hutchinson named chairman with a slate of temporary trustees from Wichita Topeka Salina Emporia Liberal Kansas City Manhattan and Philadelphia. Arthur W. Binns, president of the national group, urged retaining OPA despite war end, while Schoeppel reassigned state cosmetologist regent Erman R. Hoffman of Eureka to a new term.
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Kan
UPA
Kansas
National Home and Property Owners Foundation
Charles M. Hillary
Hutchinson
Henry, Lamborn
Don York
J. Bliss McCormick
Ray Laferite
Topeka
Frank C. Clayton
Ittsburg
L. A. Wood
Salina
Jim Dwelle
Emporia
Earl Cooper
Jim Lobaugh
Kansas City
U. B
Schoeppel Eka
Mre
Erman R. Hoffman
Eureka
Kansas State Board of Registration For
Andrew Schoeppel
Weather Outlook for Kansas and Surrounding States
Weather summary reports cooler spells across Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma with warmth returning later in the week. Showers and thunderstorms expected southeastern Nebraska eastern Kansas western Missouri eastern Oklahoma and parts of central Oklahoma with heavier activity in southeastern Nebraska. Temperature readings show a wide range from the 40s to the 60s Fahrenheit across regions, with yesterday highs around 76 and lows near 61.
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Nebraska
Karete
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Nebrowke
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