Heavy Bomb Load Drops on Japs in Pacific War
Allied air forces attacked Hollandia and surrounding targets in Dutch New Guinea and Kurile Islands. Eight Japanese planes were shot down, including two by Major Richard Bong, lifting his tally to 27. Hollandia endured massive bombing with over 1,300 tons dropped in two weeks, while raids extended to Timor, Caroline Islands, and Truk. Mountbatten visited Imphal as Burma fighting continued and Arakan clashes increased with seven hundred Japanese killed in a week.
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Associated Press
Japan
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Fifth Airforce
New Guinea
America
Richard S. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Bong
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Darwin
Australia
Truk
Caroline Islands
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Madang
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Kurile Islands
11Th Air Force
Matsuna Island
India
Bombay Times
Bengal-Assam
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Imphal
Burma
Mountbatten
Arakan
Akyab
CAMERA OVER EUROPE Fliers record bomb strikes in Europe
Tech Ser GT Duane Sehon of Lawrence Kansas flew 50 bombing missions with the 15th Air Force in Italy. The kidnapped fortress photographer known as the man without nerves shot pictures of bomb damage and fortress strikes across Italy France Greece Yugoslavia Bulgaria Austria and Germany to aid allied public relations and future operations. Sehon overseas since April 20 last year and promoted to technical sergeant after rising through the ranks. He studied in Lawrence and Topeka and served with Ambro Photo Service before enlisting in 1942. Ankara reports Turkey will aid the Allies within material limits following Hull's note urging neutrals to stop trading with Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifteenth Army Air Force
Duane ‘F. Sehon
Kentucky Street
Lawrence
Kan
15Th AF
Italy
Schon
Ialy
France
Greece
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Austria
Armany
Liers
I Forces
Anks
Sehon
Topeka
Liberty Memorialigh School
Ambra Photo Service
Lance
Rmg
Sheppard Field
Wich Falls
Tex
Owry Field
Denver
Colo. A
Turkey
Ankara
Numan Menemencioglu
Hull
Germany
56 Nazi Ships Downed at Cost of Nine Allied Planes
Allied Headquarters Naples reports 56 Nazi planes shot down in Mediterranean operations. Costs included 19 ships and 16 heavy bombers. Bombers targeted Gyor Duna aircraft plants near Budapest and Vecses Tokol airfields. 1,800 sorties flown with raids across Hungary Yugoslavia and Italy.
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Allied
Naples
Hungary
Gyor
Duna
Vecses
Tokol
Budapest
Yugoslavia
Corfu
Dalmatian
Italy
Ger
Man Front
Berlin Hit Again In Major Allied Bombardment
Berlin and western Germany faced a double header of daylight and night raids by nearly 3,000 U S bombers and fighters. The offensive, which included a heavy push on Augsburg Schweinfurt Oberpfaffenhofen and Lechfeld, claimed 138 German planes shot down with substantial material targets hit and significant losses on both sides.
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London
Gr—Ra.f
Berlin
Germany
U. S
Rome
Hungary
U.S
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Messerschmitt
Augsiburg
Schweifurt
Dornier
Oberpfaffenhofen
Lechfeld
15Th Air Force
Italy
Gyor
Budapest
Tokol
Yugoslavia
Marauders Relieved in Burma Mogaung Valley Action
Encircled American Marauders under Lt Col George McGee are relieved by Lt Col Charles Beach’s force in the Mogaung valley. Stilwell lauded the operation as a damned good job. Japanese losses included 210 dead as Beach’s men cleared steep hogbacks and fought uphill through jungle pockets near Wa kawag between Laban and Wararup.
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Mogaung Valley
Burma
Frank Merrill
Joseph W. Stilwell
George McGee
Denver
Colo
Charles Beach
Cincinnati
D. Beach
Beach
McGee
Mogaung
Wakawag
Laban
Wararup
Stilwell
Two Kansan Death Penalty Executions Scheduled
Fred Leroy Brady a 46 year old Kansas convict awaits execution for the murder during a robbery attempt at Arkansas City. Clark Knox 26 faces the gallows for the killing of Edward Nugent a Kansas City policeman. Both to be hanged on the same gallows used for Ernest Hoefgen in March. Governor Schoeppel expected no delay. Brady’s record spans 30 years with prior time in Arkansas Missouri and Nebraska prisons. Knox previously served in Oklahoma institutions Granite and McAlester.
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Lansing State
Kan
Kansas
Fred Leroy Brady
Joe Williams
Arkansas City
Clark Knox
Edward Nugent
Kansas City
Andrew Schoeppel
Brady
Knox
Ernest Hoefgen
Bruce Smoll
Kansas State
Colege
Smoll
Manhattan
Wichita
Arkansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma Reformatory
Granite
Oklahoma
McAlester
Rain forecast for Topeka and state wide floods update
Cloudy unsettled weather was forecast across Kansas with thunderstorms possible in the east. Showers were reported overnight as Weatherman Flora noted no heavy rains causing further floods. River stages remained high but may fall with limited rainfall, while temperatures varied 55 to 70 statewide. Striking workers at Montgomery Ward were ordered back to their jobs by union officials.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flora
St. Francie
Russell
Marais Des Cygnes
Pomona
Ottawa
la Cygne
Missouri Line
Trading Post
Coffeyville
Neosho
Emporia
Parsone
Dodge City
Mercury
Goodland
Kansas City
Montgomery-Ward & Co
United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees of America
C.I.0
Reds Rush to Sevastopol as Axis Crumbles in Crimea
Soviet dispatches report German and Romanian forces collapsing under Red Army pressure near Sevastopol. Tolbukhin and Yeremenko push toward the Black Sea naval base, with battalions surrendering, retreats under way, and prisoners counted as Axis troops abandon arms and supplies.
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London
Red Army
Dnesh Gulf
Odessa
Bakhchisarai
Sevastopol
Crimean Black Sea
Moscow
Red Star
Vasily Ignatiev
Axia
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Andrei I. Yeremenko
Crimean
Wolfgang Roat
Simferopol
Sevastoncol
Izvestia
Sognatiev
Andrei I
Yeremenko
Crimea
Feodosiya
Martial law in Hawaii ruled invalid by federal judge
Federal Judge Metzeer ruled martial law in Hawaii invalid though military leaders said it remains in force with provost court authority for violations. The decision followed a trial over a navy yard worker Lloyd Duncan and assault charges against two Marines. Judge Metzger cited that civilian government was capable in 1943 and that martial law authority ceases when civil government resumes normal functions. The War Department planned an immediate appeal.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
War Department
Delbert EB. Metzeer
Navy Yard
Robert C. Richardson
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Tremaine
Metzger
Lloyd ©. Duncan
General Richardson
Admiral Nimitz
House Votes Record Navy Bill Passes Senate Action
The House approved a record high 32.647 billion dollar Navy appropriation for the year starting July 1 on a 257 to 0 roll call after a debate on naval power postwar. The measure precedes an expected 50 billion dollar Army supply bill, with Patman pressing for a full roll call.
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Associated Press
Washington
P.A
House
Senate
United States
Patman
D-Tex
Mass of claims filed for excess profits tax refunds
Washington reports about thirty thousand corporate claims totaling nearly two billion dollars for refunds on excess profits taxes paid 1940 to 1942 under a relief provision. Officials say many claims may overstate recoverable amounts. Helvering warned postwar refunds could pose a grave national financing problem.
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Washington
Treasury
Tohn L. Sullivan
Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering
Morgenthau
Helvering
Veteran Senator Files for Fifth Term in Sixth District
Topeka April 14 CPI veteran Senator Rolla W. Coleman Republican filed today to renominate for a fifth term from the sixth district covering Johnson and Miami counties. Coleman chairs the senate taxation committee and has sponsored proposals to modernize the state's fiscal system.
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Topeka
CPI
Rolla W. Coleman
Mission Republican
Johnson
Miami
Coleman
Senate Taxation Committee
Japanese Threat to India Grows Amid Frontline Moves
New Delhi reports Japanese invasion parties near the Bishempore Silchar jungle track southwest of Imphal threatening the Manipur plain and Assam bases. Mountbatten’s command says a Tokyo broadcast claims the last escape gap out of Imphal basin is cut. Allied road-clear progress around Kohima continues as Chinese and American forces advance north of Mandalay alongside heavy air activity.
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New Delhi
Bishempore - Silchar
Imphal
Manipur
Assam
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia Command
Comei
Tokyo
Imphal-Hachhong
Mountbatten
Beran
Kohima
Dimapur
Silchar
Bishempur
Arakan
Buthedaung
Mayu Range
Akyab
Romance blooms as two Air Force nurses wed pilots
At a U S Marauder base in England two aerial evacuation nurses announce engagements. Lt Marion Hemmesch of New Rockford N D will marry Capt Jerold Wendt of Napoleon O after official permission. Florence de Luca of Boston becomes engaged to Capt Earl Abbott of Erie Pa after nursing him through spinal meningitis in 1942.
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Associated Press
U.S
England
United States Airforce
Marion Hemmesch
New Rockford
N. D
Jerold Wendt
Napoleon
London Red Cross Club
Marion
Wendt
Danny Boy
Florence de Luca
Stoughton
Mass
Boston City Hospital
Earl Abbott
Erie
Westover Field
Six Hundred Turkeys Burn In Farm Fire Near Dutton
Early today a fire destroyed two 20 by 2 foot brooder houses on the country home of Mr and Mrs Harry Broers Route 2 south of Dutton bridge on highway 59. Six hundred week old turkeys perished and Mrs Broers, Vernon 21 and Bill Koehler were at home. She reported two new fuel oil brooder stoves may have caused the blaze and that insurance covered the brooder houses and turkeys.
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Harry Broers
Dutton Bridge
Highway 59
Veterans’ Hospital
Danville
Father and Son Banquet At The Colonial Heard By About 100
Rev H C Brockman of Centenary Methodist delivered a fine address at the Co Operative club annual father and son banquet last evening. He substituted for Rev Alfred J Beil who was called to Emporia. The club plans a dad daughter banquet in mid May with Ed Ivey and Lloyd Darnell welcomed as new members.
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H. C. Brockman
Centenary Methodist Church
Co- Operative Club
Colonial
Brockman
Alfred J. Beil
Emporia
Ed Ivey
Lloyd Darnell
Stock Market Index at 60 Stocks Stands 51.8
The index covering 60 stocks finished at 51.8, matching yesterday's level of 51.8. Market observers noted steady activity across sectors with no major swings in the session. Traders monitored price movements and volume as gains and losses balanced the index.
County purchases old Perkins home for convalescent use
The county buys the 25 room three story Afton Court at 1004 West Fourth Street from Louis Lowenstein for 3500 dollars and plans a convalescent hospital run pending abstract approval by County Attorney J J Riling. Inmates from the burned county home will be rehoused in temporary facilities as a farm house is erected from salvage materials under County Engineer E E Larson.
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Alpha Tau Omega
West
Fourth Street
J. J. Riling
L. H. Perkins
John G. Haskell
Lawrence
Afton Court
Perkins
England
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity
Block 21
West Lawrence
Louis Lowenstein
Kansas City
E. E. Larson
The
Red Cross
Alva (Buck) Hodges
County Road Crew
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Pacific
Europe
Duane Sehon
R.A.F. Mosquitos
State Prison
Boy Scouts
Reds
Crimean Port
Rolla Coleman
Manipur Plain
Asam Front
Palel Tamu
Nhpumga
Mandalay-Myitkyina
Pumsim
Kora Gantawng
AIR Force
Brooder
Broers Farm
County
Old Perkins
West Fourth
Welfare Department
Mildred Watson
George Johnson
Lecompton
Andrew Lee
Jacobena Luzius
Alvin Puckett
Tizzie Randolph
Hoskinsons
Frank Rockefeller
Joseph Adair
North Lawrence
Mack Anderson
John Baker
Charles Barton
Joseph Buford
Thomas Campbell
John Chance
Albert Dunn
Lawence
Margaret Erwin
Charles Geelan
Beulah Goff
Hoskinson
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Elva
Christy
State
Mattin Warren
Emma Drender
Oxawatomie
Martin White
Muncie
Willam Miller
March
Westernh
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