Retreat of Nazis Is Gaining Speed
Allied advances in Tunisia push Rommel toward the coast as 1,300 more Axis prisoners are taken. British Eighth Army closes on Cekhira near Sfax with Montgomery’s spearhead 50 miles south, while American columns strike from Maknassy toward Mezounah and El Guetar.
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8Th Army
Erwin Rommel
Mahares
Sfax
Morzine
Tunisian
Mezzonna
Maknassy
Thesea
el. Guetar
Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wadi el Akarit
Eighth Army
First Army
Paris
Berlin
Mediterranean
Lint
Gap
George 8
Gabes
Cekhira
Skhirra
K. A. N. Anderson
Tunis
Medijez-el-Bab
Compromise Tax Plan Advanced in the House
Representatives Newsome and Compton push a pay as you go plan to reset 1942 taxes to 1941 rates. It exempts about 7 million new taxpayers from debt before 1943 and offers a 45 percent abatement on 1942 taxes with 55 percent paid over five years. A 20 percent withholding tax would take effect July 1.
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Washington
UPA
Newsome
D-Ala
Compton
R-Conn
Stock Market Index Report Shows Decline
The stock market index Average 60 fell from 49.3 yesterday to 47.4 today. Traders watched minor shifts across sectors as the day closed with a weaker tone and slight volume changes.
Japs Claim Allies Suffer Heavy Losses in Fleet Attack
Imperial Tokyo asserted that Japanese naval and air forces sank or damaged 150 warships and transports and shot down 37 planes in an attack near Guadalcanal. U S reports differed, noting 34 Japanese planes down and listing seven American losses. Other actions included Allied strikes on Dutch New Guinea ships and airfields, and heavy Allied bombing in Burma and targets around Toungoo and Shwebo.
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Imperial Tokyo
Guadalcanal Island
Solomons
Tokyo
Navy
Washington
Act
U. S
Guadalcanal
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Aroe Islands
Imika
Saum- Jaki
Tanimbar Island
Kavieng
New Ireland
Unili
New Britain
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Burma
Bay of Bengal
Sir Archibald P. Wavell
Toungoo
Ningam
R.A.F
Shwebo
RAF Reopens Offensive Against Ruhr Valley
The Royal Air Force resumed allied aerial operations over western Europe with a heavy raid on the Ruhr last night. Twenty one bombers failed to return, and weather hindered full observation of results. RAF forces also mined enemy waters and struck at an airfield near Triqueville, with two planes reported missing.
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London
R.A.F
Europe
Ruhr
Air Ministry
Britain
Germany
Essen
Duisburg
RAF
Berlin
Triqueville
LaHarre
Roosevelt Order Triggers Heavy Stock Selling
The presidential anti inflation drive sparked the heaviest stock selling since France fell to Nazi forces. Shares tumbled $1 to $6, with near 2.7 million transfers and many closings down $3 or more. Roads weak. commodities cut losses. wheat down. hogs cotton lower.
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York
France
Stock Exchange
Chicago
Four Allied Vessels Sunk by Jap Air Attack
Four allied ships including a destroyer were sunk in a heavy Japanese air raid off Guadalcanal Island on Wednesday according to the navy. Also noted is Wendell Willkie's acceptance of an invitation to visit Australia if helpful and US government approval.
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Washington
Guadalcanal Island
Navy
Willkie
Australia
New York
Pi—Wendell L
U. S
Australian-American Association of
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
South Australia
Nazi Hope Is in Submarines Says Goebbels
German Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels writes in Das Reich that Britain holds psychological advantage from air attacks but asserts Germany’s submarine fleet will turn the tide in time.
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The
Associated Press
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Great Britain
Germany
Submarines Sunk by French Corvette in Atlantic Battle
The Admiralty announced that two Axis submarines were sunk last month in an Atlantic convoy battle. The action involved the French corvette Aconit and the relatively new British destroyer Harvester was lost.
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London
Mont
Aconit
Harvester
Admiralty
McCloy to Speak at Army Staff College Graduation
Fort Leavenworth Kansas April 9 1 200 officers will hear John J McCloy abstatan votary of war speak at the graduation exercises of the army command and general staff school The event marks the completion of the Jane Si Class academic year with 1200 officers in attendance.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
John J. McCloy
Abstatan
Army
Command and General Staff School
Gee
Jane Si
Wheat Crop Output Falls From Last Year’s Record
The Agriculture Department estimates 1943 winter wheat production at 558,651,000 bushels, down from 703,253,000 last year. Planted area last fall was 87,482,000 acres versus 38,339,000 the prior year. Rye stands at 82 percent of normal and pastures at 80 percent. Grain stocks on farms show corn and wheat levels well below last year’s. The table lists state yields, including Kansas at 16.0 bushels per acre and total 167,184,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Kansas
Quiet on the Moscow Front as German Attacks Fail
On the Russian German front the day remained generally quiet with sharp thrusts in some sectors. South of Balakleya German assaults failed with about 200 killed and no ground gained while other German claims spoke of annihilated Russian battalions and prisoner captures.
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Moscow
Balakleya
Chuguev
Izyum
Donets
Berlin
Associated Press
Donets River
Leningrad
TCU Cancels Football Opener With Kansas University
Texas Christian University cancels its September 25 football opener with Kansas University. This wartime schedule change marks the first alteration in TCU's 10948 season plans.
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K. U. Fort Worth
Tex
Texas Christian University Today
Kansas University
T.C.U
Ceiling Price On More Foodstuffs
President Roosevelt said ceiling prices likely will cover all food items affecting living costs. Byrnes, head of stabilization, said plans must be ready tomorrow for additional ceilings after those on meals. The plan aims to stabilize prices across four legs: food costs wages rationing and taxes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Chester C. Davis
Byrnes
French Camel Corps Repels German Armored Column
On April 6 near Gafsa in southern Tunisia, 200 Mehari fighters with French Foreign Legion support repelled a German armor column after a 3.5 hour battle. The camel corps knocked out a leading armored car. 25 camels died, no casualties among French and Algerian troops.
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French Camel Corps
Desert
French Foreign Legion
Camel Corps
Meharistes
Gafsa
Dice game halts Ford strike at Detroit plants
Spontaneous work stoppages at two Ford Motor plants in Detroit affect nearly 6,000 workers after a dice game in a lavatory was broken up by plant protection men. About 2,700 day shift and 1,000 in another unit halted, with 341 transporting division workers at Rouge plant also stopping over a wage dispute. Company officials report most workers returned by noon. union leaders sought to persuade resumption.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
High and Park
Ford
Rouge
W. G. Grant
United Automobile Workers
C.I.O
Frank Newman
Meat price ceilings a hot potato in Congress clash
Washington reports that Price Administrator Prentiss Brown and Food Administrator Chester Davis told the House Small Business Committee the meat price ceiling squeeze is serious and untenable. They warned of possible livestock ceilings and urged rationing and black market prosecutions to ease the crisis.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Chester Davis
House
Small Business Committee
Patman
D-Tex
Brown
Davis
Altho Davis
Rain Freshens Kansas Crops Across State
Central Kansas received generous rains with lighter showers elsewhere improving early gardens lawns and growing vegetables. 24 hour totals ranged from .21 to .97 inches with Topeka 0.22 and Goodland 44 degrees. Weather clues show more scattered showers likely today and tonight.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Phillipsburg
Geneseo
Hutchinson
Wichita
Ellis
Hays
Goodland
Anniversary of Bataan Remembered by MacArthur
In Australia on April 9 General Douglas MacArthur marks the first anniversary of the fall of Bataan. He notes sorrow for the Philippines under Japanese rule and speaks of divine mercy delaying redemption. Soldiers prayed as they fought, their cries for daily bread echoing as Bataan collapsed.
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Australia
Douglas’ MacArthur
Bataan
Philippines
Norwegians Await Liberation As Haakon VII Speaks
King Haakon VII addressed a London broadcast on the third anniversary of the German invasion. He said Norwegian forces had already engaged the enemy several times and looked forward to liberation. He prayed freedom and justice would soon be restored to occupied nations.
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London
Haakon VII
Norway
Red Cross collects 177 pints of blood in local drive
A Red Cross mobile unit drew 177 pints yesterday at the Community building, with 212 donors. Donor turnout was strong but rejections ran about their usual 10 to 15 percent for low hemoglobin or abnormal blood pressure. The program included staff from Kansas City and local nurses, and donors received certificates noting their contribution. Blood is cooled and sent to Chicago for processing into plasma.
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Red Cross
A. M. Torrance
Torrance
Chicago
Kansas City
S. S. Scholpp
C. F. Stewart
Doris Lane
Virginia Holder
Pat Weichowsti
Maxine Martin
Dorothy Scott
Vicky Altice
Violet Gray
Lenora Huey
Rheva Spitkaufsky
Motor Corps
Ray Lowman
Herbert Baker
Colonial
Yesteray
Hovey Hanna
C. C. Stewart
Fred Ellsworth
M. S Winter
Susie Johnson
Angeline Gamba
C. W. Amidon
H. B. Chubb
The
OPA Increases Potatoes and Dry Onions Prices Apr 9
Washington AP OPA raises May and June prices on white potatoes by 20 cents per 100 pounds and dry onions by 20 cents per 50 pounds to spread shipments and deter early selling. Net effect is a 20 cent higher cost versus current prices, with country shippers price set and wholesalers and jobbers allowed to pass extra costs to consumers.
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Washington
CPA Opa
Atom scare at Fowler shops sparks rumor mill
A small can of black powder discarded behind Fowler shops by a janitor led to rumors of a bomb. A second janitor found the container and alerted authorities, though the janitor who disposed of it had no knowledge of its contents.
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Fowler Shops
Suit Will Not Be Heard At Start of April Term
Topeka April 9 The inform er suit of William V Ryan engineer charging contractors with defrauding the government in constructing the Sunflower Ordnance Works at Eudora will not be called to trial at the opening of the April term of federal court here next week Clerk Howard McCue said defendants have not filed their answer due April 20 He noted once the answer is filed and the case is at issue it may be called for trial anytime thereafter
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Topeka
William V. Ryan
Eudora
Howard McCue
Sunflower Ordnance Works Publishes Larger Weekly Netspaper
The Sunflower Sentinel announces a size increase for its weekly employee publication. The five column four page issue now measures 121 percent by lit inches, up from the former four column four page format of 10 by 14 inches.
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Sunflower Sentinel
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Wage Price Order Aimed at Stabilizing Postwar Costs
Washington April 9 President Roosevelt issues a terse wage and price order to hold the line on wages not to exceed the Little Steel formula except for sub standard living conditions. Ceiling prices will cover all cost of living items and will roll back unfair or high prices. No new rises in ceilings beyond legal minimum and no increases in transportation power and utility rates. Byrnes empowered with anti inflationary powers to act quickly to stabilize the economy boost production and aid war prosecution.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Kansas university to offer five week engineering crash course
The University of Kansas will run a five week intensive engineering short course starting May 24 to align with the navy college training program for engineers. Freshmen and other qualified students may enroll. five hours of engineering credit will be awarded if admission requirements are met.
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University of Kansas
Navy College
University
Deane W. Malott
School ‘of Engineering
School of Engineering and Architecture
Malott
Laurence,c. Woodruff
Strong Earthquake Recorded Near Weston Mass
A very strong earthquake lasting two hours was recorded at 5:07:02 a m on the Weston college seismograph. Seismologist Rev Daniel F Linehan S J said the disturbance was about 100 miles beneath the earths surface and occurred about 5 520 miles in an undetermined direction from Weston.
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Weston
Mass
Weston College
Daniel F. Linehan
S. J
Order Eliminates Class 3 A and Reclassifies 3 B
The local selective service board reports an order eliminating Class 3 A yesterday and directing immediate reclassification of all men in 3 B. It also creates Class 3 D for cases of hardship to a wife child or parent and retains Class 8 B for those in essential industries with dependents.
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Selective Service Board
State of emergency in Brussels under German occupation
Moscow Radio quoted Stockholm reports saying German authorities declared a state of emergency in Brussels after the killing of three high ranking German officers. The Soviet monitor here heard the broadcast.
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Brussels
London
Moscow Radio
Stockholm
Belgium
Eudora School Board Elects Walter Gerstenberger To Fifth Term
At yesterday's annual school meeting for the Eudora rural high school district only three patrons attended besides board members. Walter Gerstenberger was re elected to his fifth term as director of the board.
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Eudora
Walter Gerstenberger
Eudora Rural High School Board of Education
Appraisers Named in Vinland Condemnation Case
The Appraisers Named Fred Wills O. T. York and George Kelley were appointed appraisers in the county's condemnation proceedings against a small tract at Vinland. A fuel oil tank and a small building are to be placed on the tract to serve as headquarters for a county road maintainer.
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Fred Wills
O. T. York
George Kelley
Vinland
Organization Meeting of Chamber of Commerce Directors
The Chamber of Commerce holds an organization meeting to elect officers for the year and install seven newly elected board members at Hotel Eldridge next Wednesday at 12 20. Retiring officers and new directors will attend the luncheon.
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Chamber , of Commerce Board of Directors
Eldridge
German embassy attache Von Hanack hanged at Hitler demand
A Reuters dispatch from Zurich reports that Von Hanack, a German embassy attache in Paris, was hanged in February at Adolf Hitler s request. The reason was not stated.
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Hitler
London
Reuters
Zurich
Paris
von Hanack
Adolf Hitler
Bond Drive Rally At Liberty Memorial High
A morning assembly at Liberty Memorial High School promoted Douglas county's part in the national war bond drive. The 13 billion dollar effort runs April 12 to May 1, with a county quota of 800000 exclusive of banks.
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Liberty Memorial High
War Bond Committee
Douglas County
Department of Music
R D McKay Tours Douglas County Rationing Office Move
R D McKay, field representative of the state rationing office, visited Lawrence to inspect the Douglas county office. The local office will be closed all day tomorrow during its move to new quarters at the south end of the Community building basement with entrance from the park side.
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R. D. McKay
Lawrence
Douglas County
Tomonth
Canvass Vote This Evening City Council Adjourns
City council met to canvass the city election votes but adjourned due to lack of a quorum. The session resumes this evening at 8 o clock to continue the tally.
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OPA
War Labor Board
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Keeler's
Adv
K. U
Irving Hill
War Bond
Oliver P. Hobbs
WREN
George M. Cohan
Ralph E. Graber
Kerry Memorial High School
Graber
James Wilson
Yorktown
Naval Training School
Wilson
Tojo
Joe’ Williams
Duglas MacArthur
John Phillip Sousa
Dorothy Mae Nelson
Marilyn Smart
Carol Buhler
Army Air Corps
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Taim
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