Schoeppel Attacks Interior Chief in Senate Speech
Senator Schoeppel charges Secretary Oscar L. Chapman with close ties to the Russian Soviet cause and allies him with communist front groups. Senator O Mahoney orders a Senate Interior Committee inquiry with Chapman aimed to testify. The debate links Alaska statehood lobbying to a Kremlin connection and seeks broader probes of Formosa aid and bureau of reclamation chief Michael Straus.
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Washington
Oscar L. Chapman
Senate
Schoeppel
R.-Kan
O'Mahoney
D.wyo
Senate Interior Committee
Chapman
O’mahoney
House Labor
Alaska
Hawaii
Department of Interior
Russia
Ernest Gruening
E. L. Bartlett
Congress
Alaska Statehood
Poland
John Hampton Randolph Feltus
Kremlin
Warsaw
Pik
Bartlett
Michael Straus
Bureau of Reclamation
Interior Dpartment
Straus
Formosa
Dougherty
Straua
Department
Man Murders Wife and Shoots Self in Leavenworth
In Leavenworth Kansas Thomas Gambrell and his wife Maude Gambrell were fatally shot last night in a case police called murder and suicide. Authorities said Gambrell shot his wife and then turned the pistol on himself, leaving the region shaken by the tragedy as investigators review the scene and motive.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Cph
Thomas Gambrell
Maude Gambrell
Whide
A. C. Mistlar
FBI Story Involves Mrs Mildred Gordon Co Author Of New Book
Mrs Mildred Gordon former K U student and sister of Earl Niz on 1737 Mississippi Street is co author with her husband Gordon Gordon of a new book FBI Story to be published by Doubleday Part of the background is set in Chanute near Eureka Mrs Gordon educated at Burlington High School studied at K U and the University of Arizona She and Gordon formerly in Los Angeles lived there during the war Gordon worked in counter espionage for the FBI The Gordons last book Make Hate to Live set in Arizona was also a Doubleday selection The couple visited Lawrence last summer and Mrs Gordon visits the Earl Nixon family there periodically The story notes a connection to the Nixon family and Lawrence events.
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K. U
Earl Nizon
Mississippi Street
Gordon Gordon
Chanute
Gordon
Los Angeles
FBI
Nixons
Record GI loan surge sets new monthly high in Midwest
The Veterans Administration regional office in Kansas City reports a total of 1,121 GI loan applications in August from WWII veterans in western Missouri and northeastern Kansas, topping the prior September 1946 high of 982. The 60 percent guaranty now allows up to 37,500 for home loans, with 718 requests under the new 69 percent guaranty. Since inception, the VA has guaranteed or insured 26,743 home loans totaling over 119 million dollars, plus 2,445 farm loans and 2,148 business loans, moving the overall total to 31,336 loans worth 135,151,989 dollars. Only 291 claims totaling 256,000 dollars have been paid, including 61 on GI home loans, 62 on farm loans, and 178 on business loans.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Augusta Wiley C. Crawford
Crawford
V.A
Sad Sacks in Cleveland For Sixth Amvet Meeting
Cleveland on September 6 reports the Sad Sacks arriving for a two day scrimmage ahead of the Amvets national convention. The group, a fan-made auxiliary of American Veterans of World War II, vows no rough tactics. Leader is Misa Eva Manchester of Washington, D C, titled Saddest Sad Sack. National Commander Harold Russell will lead the six by fourth annual convention with the ladies’ auxiliary. President Truman notes the Korean situation keeps him in Washington.
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Amvets
Veterans’ Organization
Misa Eva E. Manchester
Washington, D. C
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Harold Russell
Truman
Washington
Highwayman with a plea robs store and begs police call
In Memphis on September 6 a bandit robbed a clothing store, counting out 25 from the register and leaving the rest. He pleaded for police, telling manager Fred Murphy he would pay it back, but Mrs. Murphy refused and the bandit fled in a taxicab.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fred Murphy
Home Grown Apples Enjoying Good Luck On Local Market
Lawrence shoppers face higher prices as northwest freezes cut fruit supply. Local Jonathan apples are plentiful enough for Kellogg era, with Red Delicious and Grimes Golden appearing as Bartlett pears and other fruits also reach stores. Growers report light pear crops due to high picking costs and variable weather impacts.
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Nora Temple
Lawrence
United States
Northwest
Jonathan
Colorado
Michigan
Coloado
Oregon
Rocky Ford
California
Bartlett
Mid-West
Roy L. Davis
Baldwin
Wichita approves 5.5 percent water rate hike
Wichita commissioners vote to raise city water rates by five and a half percent, effective October 1, boosting privately owned Wichita Water's annual revenue by about 225,000 dollars and generating six percent on capital improvements under the 1941 franchise.
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Wichita Water Company
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