Japanese Attack Hits Corregidor and Cebu Invasion
Washington reports Japanese air and naval bombardment of Corregidor and Fort Hughes as a 12 000 strong invasion force lands on Cebu island. American Filipino defenders resist with limited gains for the attackers while Tokyo cites a possible Bataan surrender offer and King’s leadership amid the fighting in the Philippines.
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Washington
Corregidor
Cebu
Philippines
War Department
Tokyo
Cebu City
Bataan
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Favor All Out for War
A concerted petition from Hiawatha Kansas businessmen and Brown County farmers asks Congress to remove all obstacles to a 100 percent war effort. They seek end to excess profits, halting strikes in defense plants, suspending the 40 hour week, regulating labor unions, and cutting nondefense government spending.
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Washington
Businss
Hiawatha
Kan
Brown County
Congress
Capper R.kan
Stock Market Index Shows 34.1 Point Rise
The average of 60 stocks posts a 34.1 point gain. A separate indicator lists $4.2 as the value of a related metric, reflecting market momentum and investor activity.
Heaviest Allied Bombing Targets Ruhr and France Coast
RAF night raids blasted Ruhr armament works including Krupp and hit Le Havre in one of the war’s fiercest attacks. UK losses counted 13 bombers with civilian casualties reported as houses were damaged. daylight raids pursued Boulogne directions while invasion plans reportedly moved beyond production.
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France
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Krupp
London Air Ministry
R.A.F
le Havre
Boulogne
London Daily Sketch
George C. Marshall
U.S. Army
Harry Hopkins
Britain
Adolf Hitler
War rally in Wichita stresses full mobilization and duty
Kansas Republicans gather for statewide Young Republican rally in Wichita. Lieutenant Governor Carl E. Friend urges all citizens to support war effort beyond the draft, including ex servicemen and production, while Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska to speak. Event features speeches by A. B. Mitchell Melvin Moss and W. C. Jones with receptions for Ed L. Rees and women delegates.
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Wichita
Kan
G.O.P
Carl E. Friend
America
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
W. C. Jones
Olathe
Kansas Young Republican Club
Arthur Capper
R-Kan
A. B. Mitchell
Kansas
Melvin Moss
Hebron
Neb
Young Republican Clubs
Ed L. Rees
Emporia Republican
Violence reports from Europe dominate news lines
New York wire reports a widespread wave of violence and unrest in European countries controlled by Germany. BBC accounts note four Poles sentenced to death over attacks on German transports at the Poland East Prussia border and Greek guerrillas killing or injuring many as hostages.
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New York
Germany
Poland
East Prussia
BBC
Luxemburg
London
France
Vilna
Lithuania
Kaunas
CBS
Lyon
Quezon vows Filipino defiance after Bataan
President Manuel Quezon declared the loss of Bataan had not ended the war in the Philippines. He said the Filipino people will stand by America and our allies to the bitter end.
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Quezon
Melbourne
Bataan
Philippines
Manuel Quezon
America
Wheat referendum set for May 2 in Douglas county
About 600 Douglas county farmers with more than 15 acres of wheat will vote on May 2 in a nationwide wheat quota referendum. If approved, quotas and penalties arise. wheat loans would be available next fall. If rejected, the loan program is not activated.
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Douglas County
George Butell
County Agricultural Conservation Program
ACP
Washington
Indiana
Third Streets
Lloyd Purcell
Library Board
Richard Barber
C. B. Russell
Lawrence National Bank
Merchant ships sunk near Brunswick with 54 survivors
Two medium merchant ships were sunk by a submarine off the Atlantic coast near Brunswick, Georgia. Fifty four men reached port after fighting their way from wreckage, while twenty were missing and feared lost and one died en route to shore in a lifeboat. Captains Davenport and Roche reported drownings and trapped crewmen, but most survivors were rescued within hours.
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Brunswick
Atlantic
T. P. Davenport
Port Arthur
Tex
James S. Roche
New York
Roche
Bombing Hits Ruhr and Rhineland in Four Night RAF Assault
London reports RAF air raids on western Germany during four nights this week. The air ministry news service said thousands of tons were dropped on the Ruhr valley and Rhineland with an average rate well over a ton per minute. The bulletin called the raids heavy bombing.
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London
Ruhr
Rhineland
Germany
R.A.F
Air Ministry
Sees Purchases Edd Wood Home on Louisiana Street
John V. Lees of Standard Life Insurance Co buys the Edd Wood residence at 12 Louisiana Street. Mr and Mrs Sees plan to move by May 1. Mrs Wood departs Monday to join her husband at Parsons.
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Sees
Edd Wood
John V. Lees
The
Standard Life Insurance Co
Louisiana Street
Mrs. Sees
Mrs.Wood
Parsons
German Tank Division Defeated in Crimea Sector
Moscow report by Svenska Dagbladet says a large German tank division under General von Appel suffered a heavy defeat in the Crimea sector. The loss comes as allied forces push across occupied territories.
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Stockholm
Moscow
Svenska Dagbladet
von Appel
Crimea
Cripps Offer to India Withdrawn After Talks Fail
New Delhi Apr 11 British war cabinet envoy Sir Stafford Cripps announced that the proposal for Indian dominion status after the war had been withdrawn. All-India Congress and the Muslim League rejected London terms, leaving India under existing British administration as war tensions rise. Cripps said discussions are over and India must unite to defend itself with Britain and the United States aiding efforts.
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New Delhi
India
Britain
Sir Stafford Cripps
War Cabinet
Sir Stafford
All-India Congress Party
Cripps
London
Great Britain
America
Maulana Abul Karan Azad
Congress Party
Eyes Closed to Danger Editorial Critique on India
London editorial page derides the All-India Congress for ignoring the invasion threat and hints that support from India will be sporadic and personal. It laments strategic weaknesses shown by recent weeks’ events and criticizes Sir Stafford Cripps’s mission.
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London
The
Evening News
Stafford Cripp
Real Estate Ads Urge Lawrence Owners
Notice to property owners notes dozens of Lawrence homes and apartments rented recently and more rentals and sales planned via Journal-World classified advertising. It advertises a low rate of 96 cents for two words or less per week and urges calling an Ad-Taker at phone 22 to place a sales message read by hundreds of prospective tenants.
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Journal-World
Production Is Rolling Knudsen Tells Newsmen
Wichita April 11 General Knudsen army production chief says there is no nationwide labor shortage. Women rapidly fill vacancies as men join armed forces. He notes war production is rolling and emphasizes supplying troops over personal cost.
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Wichita
William S. Knudsen
Army
Knudsen
Sleeping Beauty Opens Lawrence Children's Theater Season
A packed Liberty Memorial High School auditorium saw the Lawrence Children's Theater open with Sleeping Beauty presented by the American Association of University Women. The sixth annual show drew praise for Miss Lois Elaine Willcats as Primrose and Prof Waldemar Gelich as the King, with proceeds supporting AAUW summer recreation programs.
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Lawrence Children’s Theater
Liberty Memorial High School
Good House
Children’s Theater
American Association of University Women
A.A.U.W
Melba Schilling
Paul Smart
Primrose
Lois Elaine Willcats
Waldemar Gelich
Tubbington
Schubert
Earl Patton
Carl Drake
Charles Springer
Prince al
No News Today on Plant Boundaries at Sunflower Works
No announcement from Washington regarding the boundary area for the Sunflower Ordinance Works near Eudora. Maj. W C Strecker, area engineer for the army, told a Journal World reporter that after a meeting yesterday he hoped for a boundary announcement last night or today.
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Washington
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Eudora
W. C. Strecker
Army
Journal-World
Strecker
Ottawa University declines Japenese student request
Ottawa Kansas April 11 Ottawa University refused a California Baptist institution’s request to enroll six American born Japanese students from Redlands University. President Andrew B Martin said after public opinion that the board found it unwise to grant permission.
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Ottawa
Kan
Ottawa University
Redlands University
California
California Baptist Institution
Andrew B. Martin
Council Approves Health Unit Plan in Lawrence
Lawrence city council backed adopting the county health unit plan citing sanitation and health needs from Sunflower Ordinance Works. The body amended the milk and zoning ordinances to curb Bangs disease in cattle and to name trailer camps, plus ordered flood-control piling along Brewery brook pending priority funds.
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Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Waterworks Committee
Kansas River
Brewery Brook
State Water Resources Board
Water Department
Willard Brown
Brown
Employment Plan Outlined For Sunflower Ordnance Works
Speakers at the area meeting discussed employing through the U S Employment Service with offices across Kansas. Dr Henry Asher urged county unit health plans to prevent disease among influxes of workers and Maj W C Strecker described hospital and safety measures behind a safety zone with pre employment exams likely.
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Philip T. Lawlor
U. S. Employment Service
Kansas
Sunflower Ordnance Works
E. B. Tuttle
Broderick and Gordon
Lawlor
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Ottawa
Topeka
Kansas City
Kan
Henry Asher
State Board of Health
Asher
Johnson
Douglas
Douglas County
Strecker
Tax Program Increase Might Trigger Sales Levy Declared
House leaders and Ways and Means Committee members argued that any administration request to raise the seven billion dollar tax program would force a form of sales tax. They noted President Roosevelt could revise his request to curb inflation, with consumer tax favored by a majority, while Morgenthau stood by his request for 7.61 billion dollars more revenue.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Knutson
R.-Minn
Treadway
R.-Mass
Disney
D.okla
Congress
State warms up as frost returns in eastern Kansas
Sunshine lifted temperatures across Kansas with higher readings in central and western counties. light frost was forecast for the eastern edge. Rivers at Oswego and Chanute remained near flood levels, while La Cygne’s Marais des Cygnes crest neared bankfull. No major flood threat expected.
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Topeka
Kansas
Neosho
Oswego
Chanute
S. D. Flora
la Cygne
Marais Des Cygnes
Flora
Goodland
Ellis
Phillipsburg
Indians Enlisting For War Service Says British Broadcaster
A British radio commentator stated that despite political disagreements Indians remain united against fascist dictatorship and are enlisting for war service at about 50,000 a month. He claimed about a million Indians were under arms.
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New York
Haskell chief to take new federal post in Indian Service
Warren Spaulding, superintendent at Haskell Institute, will depart soon for a wide ranging assignment in the Education division of the Indian Service, Interior Department. He will oversee defense training in Indian schools and visit schools across the Dakotas, Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and other western states. Solon G. Ayers will act as superintendent in his absence. Spaulding returned from Washington after two weeks of conferences on defense training and later discussed education for Japanese removals. Indian youths are already entering war industries. hundreds have been trained and placed, with many Indians enlisting in the armed forces. The Spaulding family will keep residence at Haskell, with Mrs. Spaulding accompanying him on some trips.
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War Department
Seong
Roosevelt
Wainwright
Bataan
Tokyo
Edward P. King, Jr
E. P. William
Limay
William
Samao
Warren Spaulding
Haskell Institute
Indian Service
Department of the Interior
Dakotas
Nebraska
Colorado
Idaho
Oregon
Lawrence
Washington
Spaulding
Solon G. Ayers
Haskell
Colorado River
Arizon
United States
Trouble Brewing at Brittany Port Amid Nazi Repairs
A Free French source says trouble grows at the Brittany port after the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau dock for repairs. French workers labored under RAF attack risk while Britons bombed Brest 112 times, with ships slipping to German havens. Residents angered by lack of shelters and aid for victims’ families as German troop withdrawals from Brittany raise tensions.
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London
Brest
Brittany
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
R.A.F
FBI Roundup Nets 64 German Aliens in Metro Arrests
Pi Percival Foxworth announced federal agents struck the Kyffhaeuser bund in Brooklyn and Manhattan and seized 64 German aliens in the largest wartime enemy alien arrest in the metropolitan area. The aliens were sent to Ellis Island for internment for the war.
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New York
Percy Foxworth
FBI
Kyffhaeuser Bund
Brooklyn
Manhattan
United States
Foxworth
Ellis Island
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King
Fort Hughes
Manila Bay
Atlanta
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Mindanao
Ferdinand Magellan
Globe
Mactan
Senator Capper
Disroe
Bryansk
Hitler
Red Army
Leningrad
Erwin Rommel
Egypt
Middle East
Russia
Tobruk
Carl Friend
Western Germany
London News
University
Maple Grove
Harlan
Skylux
Olson Plumbing Company
Carter
Harold Emick
Chicago
Defense Public Works Agency
R. C. Burgert
J.C. Harper
Ayers
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