U S lawmakers brace for Reds over school violence
At the Inter parliamentary Union in London American delegates Keating Kefauver and Hennings warned Communist spokesmen would push propaganda on racial unrest linked to school integration in Tennessee and Arkansas. Kefauver said violence harms the nation’s prestige while law and order will prevail.
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Spok
London
U. S
United States
Interparliamentary Union
Soviet Union
Keating
Kefauver
Sen. Hennings
D-Mo
Missouri
Mennings
Indian naming proposed for college by juvenile activist
A Boys Industrial School student suggested naming a new college Locking Hall to honor two governors. Appropriation occurred under Gov Fred Hall and construction began under Gov George Docking. A committee rejected the idea, ordering cottages named after Indian tribes, with the tribe name yet to be chosen.
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Boys Industrial School
Locking Hall
Fred Hall
George Docking
Docking Breaks Ground on 18th Street Expressway
Kansas City Gov George Docking broke ground for the 1914 million dollar 18th Street Expressway linking Johnson County with the Kansas Turnpike. Rev Paul Todd, veteran evangelist and pastor, will headline a nightly evangelistic series at Friends Church starting tonight at 7 30 p m through Sept 22 with travel slides on Sept 21.
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Kansas City
Kash
George Docking
Johnson County
Friends
Paul Todd
Friends’ Church
16Th
N. H. Sts
Rev. Dd
Kasper Assigned Bar Cleaning Duty in Nashville Workhouse
Segregationist John Kasper was sent to the City Workhouse to scrub the bars as punishment for his role in protests against integrating Nashville elementary schools. He had not paid a $200 fine and faces 133 days in the workhouse if he cannot raise $450 by Friday on appeal bond.
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Nashville
Tenn
John Kasper
Kasper
Airman indicted in Whiteman bank robbery case
A federal grand jury indicted Air Force enlisted man Melvin James Stephenson, 19, of St Charles Minnesota, for the $12,225 robbery of a branch bank at Whiteman Air Force Base last Friday. He waived preliminary hearing Tuesday and bond was set at $20,000.
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Kansas City
Air Force
Whiteman Afb
Melvin James Stephenson
St. Charles
Area woman chosen Columbus president at council meeting
Mrs Verne Alden of Wellsville Kansas was elected president of the National Home Demonstration Council at the close of its 21st annual convention. The council comprises farm women.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Home Demonstration Council
Verne Alden
Wellsville
Kas
Obituary: Martha Ellen Wells 84 of Whittier California
Martha Ellen Wells died August 24 in Whittier California at age 84. Born July 26 1873 in Pleasant Grove she remained Old German Baptist her life. She married Charles W Wells February 11 1892 at Pleasant Grove and moved to Whittier in 1914 with son Kenneth and daughter Edna. Survived by daughter Edna Elmore son Kenneth Wells two granddaughters six great grandchildren one sister Mary Pearcy three brothers Frank Ire and Harry Flory Funeral services were held August 27 in Whittier.
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Martha Ellen Wells
Whittier
Calif
Pleasant Grove
Levi
Sarah Flory
Charles W. Wells
Lawrence
Kenneth
Edna
Do You Know This Lawrence Man 1895 KU Star and Banker
A photograph taken in Lawrence profiles a lifelong resident born in 1895 on the site of a later automobile jet. He was KU class of 1914 basketball star, a prominent Lawrence businessman, and married to a KA alumna. The piece notes his fashion sense and family lineage.
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Lawrence
Kansas University
K. A
Three Convicts Escaped in Minnesota Area
Widened search targets three dangerous convicts who ambushed Minneapolis officers and fled in stolen cars. A vehicle linked to the escape was found 26 miles west in Rockford, Minnesota. The men Raymond Deford James Fitch and Harold Hendrickson are identified from photos. Deford is a 21-year-old slayer, Fitch a 22-year-old with a sex crime term, Hendrickson a 35-year-old Missouri post office robber. Hendrickson reportedly checked into the Minneapolis YMCA, with a gun stolen from a disarmed officer later recovered by a maid.
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Minneapolis
Rockford, Minn
E. J. Milnes
FBI
Missouri
Raymond Deford
St. Louis
James Fitch
Kansas City
Harold Hendrickson
Menagha
Minn
Dognapping Probe Could Draw FBI In Houston Case
Houston police investigate the reported theft of Snoopy a blue blood dachshund owned by Fred Lewis with anonymous ransom calls. Authorities consider involving the FBI as the case potentially reaches federal interest.
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Houston, Tex U
Snoopy
Fred Lewis
FBI
Tax ruling on five mill high school tax for nonhigh school districts
A district that runs only a junior, not a high school, is subject to a five mill special high school equalization tax. Atty. Gen. John Anderson said the levy applies in every county to property within districts that do not maintain a high school.
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Topekam
Atty
John Anderson
Kansas State Fair Becomes Hutchinson Tradition
The Kansas State Fair began in Hutchinson in 1913 after local citizens lobbied to host the event amid state support. The first fair drew 36,000 attendees over two days with animal acts, bands, and horse racing, laying the foundation for a long-running state spectacle despite later hardships including the Depression and World War II.
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Kansas State Fair
Orval Jackson
Hutchinson
Kansas
Wichita
Wichita Farm
A. LE. Spensler
George B. Ross
Duttens
Man Monkey
Shaw
Animal Circus
Patterson Carnival
Wellington
Ninsley
Chase
Hillshorn Qyowds
Nes
Wik
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Salsbury
A. V. Phillips
G.A.C
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Viking
Aneem
Hatchinsen
Mevenrolt Midland
William Uh
Marion
Jas
Ogun
Dace Grack
Don Hutchinson Kinsas
ED Denny
9Th
Indiana
Conoco
Court House
General Appliance CO
Jerry
Cook's
Pura
Europe
Cook's Paints
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