Emperor May Pay MacArthur a Call
Well informed Japanese sources say Emperor Hirohito plans a historic meeting with General Douglas MacArthur at the MacArthur residence inside the American embassy compound in Tokyo. Official confirmation is lacking but a meeting has long been anticipated and would mark a first in modern history.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
General MacArthur
Tuseel
Brines
MacArthur
Fujita
Grand Chamberlin
Altho
Hirohite Long
Allied
High Command
Japan
Three Submarines Sink Ship and Cable in Singapore Harbor
British Admiral Sir Bruce Frasier said three two man submarines entered Singapore Harbor by daylight weeks before Japan's collapse and sank a light cruiser, cut the Singapore Hongkong cable, then escaped. He added three other subs took part in the Tirpitz sinking under Rear Admiral James Fife.
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Chungking
China
Bruce Frasier
Singapore
Hongkong
Frasier
Japan
James Fife
Boy Knocks Downed by Car Receives Emergency Care
William James Holladay ten year old of R R J Oskaloosa was struck as he stepped in front of a car driven by Mrs Leroy Cramer of 1515 Perry street near 718 Massachusetts street around 9 30 last Saturday night. He suffered a forehead and leg cut and was taken to Memorial hospital for treatment but did not stay.
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William James Holladay
R.R. J. Oskaloosa
Leroy Cramer
Perry Street
Massachusetts Street
Memorial Hospital
State Department To Oversee Wartime Surplus Disposal
Washington reports President Truman will place surplus disposal under the State Department. Senate witnesses said 6 million tons of wartime materials in Europe alone are valued around $1,000 per ton, with Pacific totals unknown. The plan unifies disposal functions from the army navy liquidation commission and lend lease programs under a single department.
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Washington
Truman
State Department
John W. Snyder
Europe
Snyder
Senate
Pacific
Army-Navy Liquidation Commission
Foreign Economic Administration
Senate to trim Truman jobless pay plan amid cross party fight
Washington reports Congress braces for a weak emergency bill expanding unemployment benefits with House Ways and Means drafting a slimmer measure. Republicans may extend coverage to 400 000 maritime workers while opposing top weekly benefits and state funded 26 week payments. In France left gains in local elections shift balance toward socialists and communists as De Gaulle's ministers win most council posts.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Senate
Doughton
D.-N.c
G.O.P
Paris
France
Center
Paul Reynaud
Charles de Gaulle
Sean Blum
Socialist Party
Lille
Pas de Calais
Winter Clothing to Reach Japanese Occupation Forces
Brig. Gen. Harold F. Eastwood said thousands of units of winter clothing are en route to Japan for American troops in Japan and Korea. Soldiers could receive woolens by October 1 as supply ships bring two thirds of a ship ton per man month and daily rations of six pounds of food.
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Tokyo
Japan
Fujiyama
Harold FE. Eastwood
MacArthur
Korea
Pacific
U. S
Vinland Fair Entries Open for 37th Annual Event
Entries for the Vinland fair, to be held Thursday Friday and Saturday this week, will be accepted until 9 p.m. Thursday. T. P. Stevens chairs the fair board. The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce funds the Thursday program, Baldwin and Vinland host Friday, and Saturday closes at 5 p.m. with no program. Chicken dinners will be served Friday and Saturday at noon by the Grange women.
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Vinland
T. P. Stevens
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Baldwin and
The
Grange
Mrs Joe Traylor Home Again After Hospital Stay
Mrs Joe Traylor of 1627 Kentucky Street returned from Memorial Hospital where she had treatment for injuries from a September 2 car crash that killed her mother and grandmother. Her son Jon started at Cordley school last week and her right arm remains in a sling.
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Joe Traylor
Kentucky Street
Memorial Hospital
Jon
Cordley
Traylor
Navy
Red Cross
Great Kes
Leyte Harbor
Philippines
Okinawa
Chamber Gift Honors Haskell Institute at Native Day
Chris Kraft president of the Chamber of Commerce presented chrysanthemums to Haskell Institute during an all school assembly honoring American Indian day in Lawrence. The bouquet symbolizes ongoing friendship with plans for a permanent gift. Speaker Mark A. Danbar of the Interde esntpational Home Mission Council spoke.
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Chris Kraft
Chamber of Commerce
Haskell Institute
Haskell
Lawrence
Mark A. Danbar
New York City
Interdeesntpational Home Mission Council
Truman to submit atomic energy policy plan to Congress
The White House announced President Truman will soon send to Congress his recommendations for atomic energy development and use. He stated he alone will take final responsibility for administration policy, while seeking cabinet advice.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Henry A. Wallace
Russia
Truman
Wallace
Robert P. Patterson
Ernest Bales Freed From Japanese Prisoner of War
Mr and Mrs E E Bales of 1300 New Hampshire street announce telegrams from the war department that their son Pfc Ernest J Bales 25 was freed October 16 after over three and a half years held by the Japanese He served with the U S Marine Corps in the Manila Bay area at the outbreak of the war and was captured at the fall of Bataan The last report had him at the Tokyo POW camp He and three other sons have served overseas with two previously held POWS Lt Barnett Bales released May 19 from a German camp Sgt Joe Bales served in the Aleutians and Pvt Lawrence Bales was later in England
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E. E. Bales
New Hampshire Street
War Department
Pfc
Ernest J. Bales
Guam
Bates
U. S. Marine Corps
Manila Bay Area
Aleutians
Pvt
Lawrence Bales
England
Lurline Leads War Brides and Service Members to San Francisco
San Francisco reports the luxury liner Lurline carrying 555 Australian war brides and 201 children sails in with 2,786 armed forces on board. The armada also includes 6,000+ servicemen aboard USS General W. H. Gordon and Kota Inten, plus three freighters. Debarking vessels bring 1,084 and 1,524 men from Manila and Leyte in the Philippines.
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San Francisco
Lurline
Golden Gate
Brisbane
W. H. Gordon
Pacific Theater
Navy
Aldermain
General Gordon
Kota Inten
Manila
Leyte
Repeal of Labor Disputes Act Looms After Auto Strike Plans
Washington reports repeal of the labor disputes act looms as CIO Auto Workers plan strikes for over 500000 members. Votes sought by 325000 General Motors workers on October 24 at 96 plants and by 120000 Chrysler workers around October 25, with Ford votes around November 1. Rep Howard Smith has introduced a repeal measure under House study.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
House Military Committee
Rainy day in Lawrence brings welcome cool, clouds, rain
Lawrence woke to the first real rainy day of fall with heavy clouds and a cool breeze. Rainfall totaled .55 inch by noon, adding to .75 inches earlier in September for a month total of 1.30 inches. Most of the moisture followed a hot September day with a 90 degree peak, then showers persisted through the night and into morning.
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Lawrence
Truman Defines MacArthur Authority Over Japan and Korea
Washington reports President Truman ordered General Douglas MacArthur to refuse any question on the scope of his powers as supreme commander. The directive, issued September 6 and released by the White House, states the emperor and Japanese government serve under MacArthur and outlines limits and enforcement of occupation policy.
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Washington
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
White House
Wherry
R.-Neb
Japan
Korea
State, War and Navy
Juan
Far East
Flame as top weapon beside atomic bomb in Pacific war
Tokyo warned that flame, next to the atomic bomb, was the most effective weapon in Pacific combat. General MacArthur's chief chemical officer Copthorne said only a fraction of flame potential was used and future incendiaries could outdo past attacks. Napalm’s discovery by Louis Fieser is noted.
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Tokyo
William A. Copthrone
MacArthur
Japan
Copthorne
Earl Harbor Day
Louis F. Fieser
Harvard University
Grass Fire Put Out East of Lawrence
A grass fire along Highway 10 about 21 miles east of Lawrence was extinguished by the fire department last Saturday evening shortly after 7 o'clock. No property damage occurred.
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Highway 10
Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Works Announces Further Rocket Powder Cutback
Col. Donald R. Hyde said Sunflower Ordnance Works will reduce the workforce to about 3,000 from 6,300 to meet a revised production schedule for rocket and smokeless powder. The cutback follows Japan's collapse and a prior September 1 reduction to half capacity. The exact manning level remains being calculated.
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Sunflower Ordnance
Japan
Col. Hyde
Heavy Rains Boost Kansas Storms End Dry Spell
Heavy rains averaging three to four inches eased drought in southeast and south central Kansas with spot totals in Paola La Cygne Independence Fort Scott and others. Temperatures rise to 91 in several cities then fall to 39 in Goodland as western areas stay drier.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flora
Wichita
Paola
la Cygne
Lebo
Independence
Fort Scott
Chanute
Climax
Emporia
Coffeyville
Columbus
Florence
Hutchinson
Winfield
Osage City
Lyndon
Ottawa
Lecompton
Lawrence
Olathe
Kansas City
Newton
Leavenworth
Centralia
Hanover
Manhattan
Fort Riley
Salina
McPherson
Anthony Wd
Concordia
Goodland
Big Enrollment Increase on the Hill This Year
By Saturday night the K U campus saw an 849 percent rise in matriculation permits for new freshmen compared with the same period last year. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary, announced. Leonard H. Axe, director of V-12 and Veterans Bureau, said by noon the first day 105 veterans had gone through the enrollment line in Robinson gymnasium. Enrollment closes at 5 p m tomorrow.
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K. U
Raymond Nichols
Leonard H. Axe
Veteran’s Bureau
Robinson Gymnasium
Capper backs voluntary enlistment for future armies
Senator Capper of Kansas opposes peacetime conscription. He says permanent armies of occupation should be raised by voluntary recruitment as Congress acts. He rejects extending demobilization for non military jobs and notes Acheson criticism of General MacArthur, suggesting MacArthur understands Orient conditions better.
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Washington
Capper
R-Kan
Congress
Kansan
Dean Acheson
General MacArthur
Orient
Acheson
Thrifty families urged to use home financing plan
The Lawrence Building and Loan Association promotes a plan where monthly payments reduce the loan portion each month. Contact details point to a local office at 800 Mass St and a phone reference 55.
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Lawrence
Mass
Flowers of Distinction Call Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Advertisement notes contact for Flowers of Distinction with Allison-Thomas Flower Shop and phone 363.-Adv.
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Allison-Thomas Flower Shop
Thanksgiving Day Observed In Kansas On Nov 22
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel announced Kansas will observe Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November, November 22, to align with the federal date and avoid confusion over two holidays for federal workers.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
Schoeppel
Congress
Youth Killed in U S 24 Collision at Midland Curve
A 17 year old Salina student Harry A Harrell Jr was killed and Bruce Robinson an 18 year old Topeka sailor injured when a pickup bed timber struck Harrell in the stomach during a crash on U S 24 near Midland. Burton of Rock Creek drove the truck away with minor injuries to passengers.
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Harry A. Harrell, Jr
Salina
Bruce Robinson
Topeka
San Francisco
Midland
U. S. Highway 24
Robinson
Harrell
Lawrence
Frank B. Burton
Rock Creek
Burton
City Folks Walk Up in New York Strike Hits Office Buildings
Eleven thousand elevator operators and maintenance workers in 975 mid Manhattan buildings walk off at 8:30 a.m. Local 32-B and 164 AFL Building Service Employees International union activate the action led by David Sullivan. The walkout aims to pressure Midtown Realty Owners Association and advisory board on labor relations to meet demands, threatening wider disruption across Manhattan if unresolved. The strike follows a War Labor Board settlement offering $2.50 weekly raises and shorter hours but denying union security severance pay holiday and vacation provisions.
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New York
mid-Manhattan
Empire State Building
AFL Building Service
Midtown Realty Owners Association
The
Realty Advisory Board On Labor Relations
Manhattan
War Labor Board
WLB
Four to Leavenworth for Induction This Morning
Charles LeRoy Dunn of 805 Tennessee Street led a group leaving Lawrence for Fort Leavenworth for induction into the armed forces. Also reported were Myron Elton Westgate of route 1 Baldwin Eugene Drexel Hatcher of 312 Perry Street and Robert Eldon Harrell of route 2 Rich and.
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Charles LeRoy Dunn
Tennessee Street
Lawrence
Fort Leavenworth
Myron Elton
Westgate
Baldwin
Eugene Drexel Hatcher
Perry Street
Robert Eldon Harrell
Richand
Elevator death of hotel operator in Wichita
Mildred Vivian Kelly 17, an elevator operator for a Wichita hotel, was killed when crushed between the shaft and the car she operated. Coroner Dr Lang F Bowman found the body lodged in the shaft between the third and fourth floors. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Kelly who had moved from Butte Montana two months earlier.
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Wichita
Kan
Mildred Vivian Kelly
Lang F. Bowman
Seabees Return Home From Okinawa With Third Fleet
NBC correspondent reports that Seabee battalions 86th 36th 101st 12th and 11th are returning home from Okinawa aboard ships with the U S Third Fleet as of September 24.
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San Francisco
Pi— National Broadcasting Company
Joe Hainline
86Th
Seabee
Okinawa
U. S. Third Fleet
Japanese Cut Down Over One Million Rubber Trees in Malaya
New Delhi radio cited by the New York press says Japanese troops destroyed more than 1,000,000 rubber trees in southern Malaya to clear land for farming during their occupation, as part of a survey of British rubber resources.
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London
Malaya
New Delhi Radio
Two More Dorms for KU Women
KU adds two dormitories to ease housing for women students. The 20 room 1420 Ohio Street residence leased to the university will house 30 women with meals, while 1941 Massachusetts Street known as The Hearth will house 20 girls with breakfast. Miss Elizabeth Meguiar dean of women said girls already moved in. Mrs J W Whipple will direct the Massachusetts Street dormitory with a new director to be named soon.
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University of Kansas
University
K. U. Housing Association
Ohio Street
Clyde Morris
The
Massachusetts Street
Hearth
Lawrence Woman’s Club
Elizabeth Meguiar
J. W. Whipple
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas University
Aggressive action planned on condemned tires in Kansas
The OPA district office in Wichitr Kansas promises strict enforcement of the rule that condemned tires must be turned in when replacements are bought by certified holders. H M Moorhouse warns dealers to keep turned in tires for 30 days for inspection and cites misuses where substitutes or repaired tires are substituted or buyers use condemned tires to justify a second new tire. Local war price and rationing boards will closely check tire applications and prompt action will follow violators.
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Wichitr
Kan
Office of Price Administration
Kansans
OPA
H. M. Moorhouse
Weather Update for Kansas and Nearby Regions
Kansas forecast shows mainly cloudy skies with thundershowers in the southeast and cooler readings in the northeast tonight. Tuesday brings partial to full cloud cover with showers in the southeast and warmer conditions in the north and west, highs 70 to 75.
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Kansas
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Oskaloosa
Surplus Commodity Administration
W. Stuart Symington
United States
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Vinland Fair
Kraft
Ernest Bales Freed
Bataan
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Chamber of Commerce Housing Committee
George Hedrick
Martha Peterson
Henry Werner
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