Testimony Clips Pressure Hindered Hughes Flying Boat Project
Senate War Investigating Subcommittee heard Charles E. Wilson say outside pressure in 1943 blocked efforts to curb Howard Hughes big flying boat and a proposed photo reconnaissance plane. He cited time limits and manpower shortages, noting Roosevelt later reversed his cancellation and approved further work.
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Washington
Charles E. Wilson
Howard Hughes
Wilson
Roosevelt
Wartime
Aircraft Production Board
War Production Board
Waleen Manneds
Henry J. Raiser
West
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hughes
WPH
Army
Ferguson
R.-Mich
Senate
Med
Govern- Wilson
General Electric Company
Hushes
Tom Slack
Hollywood Aircraft
Ten Days Left to Mail Overseas Christmas Packages
Lawrence post office warns only ten days remain to mail overseas Christmas gifts. Packages must be mailed by November five and weigh under seventy pounds with total length and width not exceeding one hundred inches. Postmaster D PF Carlos notes a rise in packages sent abroad, from six per month before the war to about two daily now.
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Onl
Lawrence
D. PF
Carlos
Gartler Family Injured in Topeka Crash
Mr and Mrs F E Gurtler and their son Robert 19 escaped serious injury when their 1947 Oldsmobile overturned near the Deer Creek bridge in Topeka. Their car collided with a vehicle driven by Mrs Jessie Roe of Topeka after another car turned a corner. All were treated at Christ Hospital for minor injuries and returned home.
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F. FE. Gurtler
Robert Gurtler
1611
Arc Street
Topeka
Deer Creek Bridge
Jessie Roe
Roe
Gartier
Christ Hospital
First Effort to Create Agency To Handle European Help Fails
Washington November 5 The special house foreign aid committee failed today to agree on creating an independent agency to handle aid to Europe. Vice Chairman Herter urged a plan for an emergency foreign reconstruction authority. The 19 member group debates tying aid to political strings while seeking early recommendations for the house and senate committees.
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Washington
Special House Foreign Aid Committee
Europe
Herter
R.-Mass
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Marshall
Capitol Hill
Turnovers Highlight Off-Year Elections Across Several States
Republicans and Democrats claim gains after a wave of mayoral turnover in Indianapolis Fort Wayne Muncie Allentown Niagara Falls Schenectady and Waterbury Democrats win Kentucky governorship and Mississippi senate race appears in focus U S Rep Earle C Clawents heads Kentucky as a Democrat and GOP wins a set of House seats in Indiana and New York
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Kentucky
Mississippi
John C. Stennis
Bilbo Bilbo
Senate
Indianapolis
Fort Wayne
Muncie
Ind
Allentown
Niagara Falls
Voughkeepale
Schenectady
Clouds in Picture Forecast Rain Across Western Kansas
Topeka reports fair skies giving way to clouds on Thursday with scattered rain in western Kansas first. S D Flora predicts moisture arriving tonight with lows 33 to 50 and tomorrow's highs near 65. Forenoon showers were recorded in Lecompton and Kansas City. highest statewide temp 64 at Anthony. Western Kansas saw a hard freeze with minimal crop damage. Garden City 23 and Coffeyville 37 marked the season’s first frost readings.
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Topeka
Kangas
S. D. Flora
U. S
Kansas
Flora
Lecompton
Kansas City
Anthony
Garden City
Coffeyville
KU students donate possessions for World Student Service Fund drive
University of Kansas students donate motorcycles record players cameras and more to boost the World Student Service Fund drive now at 1768 with a goal of 9057. Ned Linegar says funds and projects will continue through the school year as donations are auctioned and designated percentages sent to WSSF and Baptist World Mission. Blood drives and campus booths support the effort with book drives planned during Bonk week and December.
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University of Kansas
Ned Linegar
Y.M.C.A
Dale Fields
Wis.s.f
Baptist World Mission
Linegar
University Hospital
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Ralph I. Canuteson
University Health Service
W.S
Lawrence
Schoeppel
University of Nebraska
Capper
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
George J
Anna M. Schoepner
Barton County
Claflin
Kan
Ransom
Ness County
Ransom High School
Schoepner
University of
Demand Rejected as Soviet Push for Korea Withdrawal Fails
In Lake Success on November 5 the United Nations political committee voted 20 to 6 against a Soviet demand to withdraw American and Russian troops from Korea by January 2. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko rejected further UN voting on Marshall's Korea elections plan and said Russia would not join the UN observer commission. Only Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, White Russia, the Soviet Ukraine, and Egypt backed the Soviet resolution. seven abstained.
Chest Drive Slows Amid Stalled Community Fund Total
The Lawrence Community Chest reports a progress update with a current total of 16711.67 dollars far from the 20275 goal. Advanced gifts have boosted the fund with several donations including a 25 dollar contribution and a 35 dollar gift from A P grocery, while the Pipecinese district canvass shows 630 in receipts.
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Lawrence
Saeed
Pipecinese
A&p
Schoeppel Enters GOP Senate Fight in Kansas
Former Kansas Governor Andrew F Schoeppel announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for United States senator in the 1948 primary. He vows to discuss national issues with Kansans after the new year, while Senator Arthur Capper also plans to run for reelection.
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Wichita
Kan
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Kansas Today
United States
Arthur Capper
R.-Kan
Kansas
Senate
Schoeppel
Ratner
United States Senate
Andy Schoeppel
Kansas Corporation Commission
Alf Landen Backs Capper in Kansas Senate Race
Topeka Nov 5 Alf Landen endorsements Capper for Senate. The incumbent Republican Arthur Capper gains support from Landen citing a voting record that suits him. Comment notes Landen’s view on Capper’s performance.
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Alf Landen
Capper
Topeka
Kan
Alfe
Arthur Capper
wtnCans
Election results at a glance across several states
The results show Mississippi Senate race lead by John A. Stennis in the wake of Theodore Bilbo s death, Kentucky Democrats regaining control with Earle Clements as governor candidate, New York backing a $400 million veterans bonus and a Brooklyn congressional seat for Abraham Multer, Ohio approving a $300 million veterans bonus, Pennsylvania re electing Judge John S Fine and Bernard Samuel, Indiana voting Ralph Harvey into Congress amid mayoral reversals.
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Mississippi
John A. Stennis
U.S Senate
Theodore G. Bilbo
John Rankin
Kentucky
Earle C. Clements
Clements
New York
Abraham J. Multer
Brooklyn
Ohio
William M. McCulloch
Pennsylvania
Kansas Jayhawkers to play Nebraska before sellout in Lincoln
A sellout crowd of nearly 36 000 is expected in Lincoln as the Kansas Jayhawkers face the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday. Festivities include eight special groups, three charter trains from Kansas City, and a pregame rally in Lawrence.
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University of Kansas Jayhawkers
Lawrence
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Lincoln
Earl Falkenatien
Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority
Jay Janes
Ku Ku
Dinty Moore
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Hoch Auditorium
Russell Wiley
Topeka
Wiley
Altho
Missouri-Kansas
Robinson Germnasium
Dick Wintermore
Funeral for John G. Winant in Concord NH
Thousands gathered as wartime ambassador John G. Winant is laid to rest at St. Pauls Episcopal Church Concord New Hampshire his funeral honors included a color guard firing squad and a bugler with a Blossom Hill cemetery burial. tributes arrived from leaders including Truman and royalty.
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Concord
N. H
John G. Winant
Great Britain
New Hampshire
Friends
E.S.T
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
John T. Dallas
Charles F. Hall
Locat Ion Fost
Blossom Hill Cemetery
Winant
J. Bernard Teyfon
Thurman Eddy
War Department
Norman Armour
Marshall
Truman
Mg George
Elizabeth
Queen Mother Ary
England
Voice Recital Postponed at Byrns Peabody Notes
The Wednesday November voice recital by late November was postponed to later in the year. Dean D. M. Swarthout announced the delay from Byrns Peabody where the mezzo-soprano students studied.
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Byrns Peabody
Mezzo-Sopran
Han Heed
D. M. Swarthout
Geday
Educators from Kansas Convene at Six Cities
Lawrence public schools and the University of Kansas send educators to three of six Kansas State Teachers Association convention sections in Topeka Salina Independence Wichita Hays and Dodge City. University and public school representatives discuss guidance personnel Latin math social studies and language topics with lectures roundtables and a Friday evening band and banquet.
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Lawrence Public
University of Kansas
Kansas State Teachers Association
Topeka
Salina
Independence
Wichita
Hays
Dodge City
Lawrence
Ruth Wood
K. E. Wood
Round Table
Hazel Featherston
Booth
American Childhood Association
Ruth Salveson
Chalmer Woodard
L RK. Perry
Wayne Replogle
G. L. Penner
Winnie D. Lawrance
Gilbert Ulmer
H. B. Latimer
Domenico Gagliardo
John C. Frye
Kansas State Geological Survey
J. O. Maloney
Chemical Engineering Research Foundation
Walter M. Kollmorgan
Ruth Litchen
National Council For Social Studies
John Ise
E. F. Bayles
Allen Crafton
Department of
Speech
Richard Strawn
Lancuater
War plants in American zone dismantled, Berlin reports
Berlin reports German laborers have dismantled nearly all war plants in the American occupation zone. Orren R. McJunkins, head of the reparations section, said about 0 percent remains. In October 7,235 tons of general purpose equipment were sent to 13 countries for reparations, including Albania, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, the USSR, Poland, India and the United States.
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Berlin
Orren R. McJunkins
Albania
Australia
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
France
Greece
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Yugoslavia
U.S.S.R
Poland
India
United States
Public meeting on education week at Liberty Memorial High
A panel discussion on problems facing school administrators and taxpayers will mark Education Week at Liberty Memorial High School next Tuesday evening. The event features leaders from the University of Kansas and local teachers, with tours, a band concert, and speeches preceding the discussion.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Lawrence
Frank Stockton
American Association of University Women
Educational Council of Lawrence
Ell
Novotny
George B. Smith
University of Kansas School of Education
Helen
Surprise visit from Montgomery Ward leader to Lawrence store
Sewell Avery chair of Montgomery Ward visited the Lawrence Ward store at 10 am with several officers. He praised the neat display and efficient staff and said Lawrence appears to be a thriving community. The tour, part of stops in Kansas City Leavenworth and Topeka, included W H Norton Beside Don Severson and other Ward executives.
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Sewell Avery
Montgomery Ward and Company
Lawrence
Ward
High Ward
Avery
Lee Hemmerling
Hemmerling
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Topeka
W. H. Norton
Don Severson
A. O. Steffey
Art H. Field
M. A. Pegram
E. C. Schlag
Opening Day Duck Season Brings Fair Lawrence Hunt Results
Lawrence duck hunters reported just fair success on opening afternoon. A 35 day season with a late start and four duck bag limit kept many at home, though some shooters earned limits of eight ducks including mallards and teal. Notable marksmen like Ernie Pontius and Harold Johnson limited out, while others watched flocks along the Kaw River hopeful for better days ahead.
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Lawrence Duck Hunters
Lawrence
Phil Ernst, Jr
Budge Reusch
Paul Coker
Harold Skinner
Jack Vincent
John Andrews
Oliver Hobbs
Ernie Feler
Ernie Pontius
Harold Johnson
Leo Eller
Clayton Stone
Conrad McGrew
Clarence Bliesner
McGrew
Kaw
William Cox
Cliff Ramsey
Ramsey
Risk Files Appeal in District Court
Lowell EL Risk appeals the appraisers valuation of 7.071 acres in the 37.5 acre tract west of Louisiana Street for the new senior high school. Five of eight property owners accepted board offers but retain occupancy until August 1949. The Log Cabin on Reynolds tract slated for sale. GIS trailer camp likely to continue. Board reports condemnation results and discusses design firms for the new high school with Topeka architect representatives.
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Lowell EL Risk
Twenty-First
Louisiana Street
Douglas County
Boant of Education
Ole
District Court
Fred Reynolds
H. W. Olmstead
Olmstead
Reynolds Tract
J. S. Fobler
John H. Hill
W. Reynolds
C. Stewart
Corlett Cotton
Henry Shenk
E. Russell Carter
Dick Wagstaff
Ralph Pine
E. L. Novotny
A. E. Woestemeyer
W. Quakenbush
Stewart
Keys, Heizer and Metcalfe
Topeka
Freshmen Football Team To Visit Nebraska Game
Kansas University revived the freshman football trip with Director E C Quigley announcing the 1947 squad would attend the KU at Nebraska game in Lincoln Saturday. Head Coach George Sauer says the trip rewards the hard working freshmen. They depart by bus at 7 p m Saturday.
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Kansas Athletic Department
E. C. Quigley
Lincoln
George Sauer
Weather outlook for Kansae area with rain and rain turning to snow
Clouds increase and temperatures rise tonight with light rain beginning in the west. Thursday brings rain in the east and possible snow in western regions. Lows range from 38 to 43 as colder air moves in.
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Kansae
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