American Planes Bomb Tokyo and Other Japanese Cities
Japan reports say U S bombers struck Tokyo and three other major cities in a daylight raid. The attack hit industrial suburbs with incendiaries and high explosives, with Tokyo denying major damage and emphasizing remained calm amid international claims of the assault.
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Tokyo
United States
Yokohama
Nagoya
Kobe
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Mamori Shigemitsu
Tokyo Foreign Office
Imperial Tokyo
U.S
Japan
Domei
Imperial Palace
Kojimachi
Washington
China
Vladivostok
Russian Siberia
Sea of
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Japanese Central Defense
Berlin
Robbery Suspects Arrested Over Stolen Ford Tug
Delbert Richardson’s abandoned 1937 Ford coupe linked by photo leads to arrest of Joe Robinson aged 19 and Pete Summers 21. Robinson bailed for 500 dollars. Summers held on grand larceny charges as investigators recover tires and accessories. County road crew plans focus on east roads ahead of Eu dora munitions traffic and 1942 program work.
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Delbert Richardson
Joe Robinson
East Fifteenth Street
Pete Norbert Summers
West Ninth Street
Snowhall
University
Everett Allison
Lawrence
Kansas River
Bismarck
Richardson
Leo Redding
Hunsinger
Robinson
Charles Banning
Wayne Owens
O. J. Lane
Justice Court
Summers
Eudora Munitions Plant
E. E. Larson
Highway 59
Eudora Blackjack
Stony Point
Hastie Bridge
Banning Corner
Larson
Allied Planes Hit Enemy At 3000 Aces Daily In World War II
Allied air power surged as roughly 3000 first line warplanes engaged targets across multiple fronts. American bombers hit Tokyo and Rangoon while Boston planes joined RAF offensives on France's invasion coast. A British analyst says the U.S. becomes a decisive factor in production and strategic reach.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
India
Rangoon
Burma
Bay of Bengal
R.A.F
United States
Bombers roll from vast southwest plant in swift wartime push
Apr 18 ceremony marks completion of first four motored bomber 100 days ahead of schedule at Consolidated Aircraft plant. Major Gen Harmon accepts facility from engineers and army air forces. Girdler praises workers and vows rapid delivery of planes to aid the war effort. Lord Halifax attends ceremony.
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Tom M. Girdler
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Austin Company, Builders
Army Corps of Engineers
Army Air Forces
Hubert R. Harmon
Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center
Bensolge Field
Corps of Engineers
Air Corps
Girdler
Consolidated
Geology Staff to Attend American Association Meeting in Denver
State Geological Survey figures head to Denver for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists conference in April 1925. Dr. R C Moore will lead sedimentation sessions while J M Jewett and M C Oakes present a paper on rock correlations. The exhibit will feature the Kansas mineral resources map and recent Bulletins.
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R. C. Moore
Messrs
J. M. Jewett
R. P. Keroher
Tom Payne
State Geological Survey
Denver
Colo
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Association
M. C. Oakes
Oklahoma Geological Survey
Des Moines
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
L. R. Landon
M. Wallace
Arthur Bowsher
Judy Dudley
S. W. Lohman
U. S. Geological Survey
Phillips to Build High Octane Gas Plant in Kansas
Gov. Payne Ratner said a high octane gasoline plant under government contract will be built in Kansas by Phillips Petroleum. Initial plans named Kansas City, Kansas, but an official called the governor’s announcement premature and said no site had been finally chosen beyond "somewhere in Kansas."
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Topeka
Kansas
Phillips Petroleum Company
Payne Ratner
Kansas City
Kan
Bartlesville
Okla
Phillips Company
Kansas A A U W elects officers at Oklahoma City section
At a sectional meeting of the American Association of University Women in Oklahoma City, Kansas officers were elected for the state division. First vice president is Miss Helen Wagstaff of Lawrence and secretary-treasurer is Mrs. G. R. Myers of Dodge City. They will serve two years. States represented include Kansas Missouri Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma.
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A.a.usw
American Association of University Women
Oklahoma City
Kansas State
Helen Wagstaff
Lawrence
G. R. Myers
Dodge City
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas PTA awards 1943 convention to Emporia
The Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers concluded its annual meeting in Hutchinson and awarded the 1943 convention to Emporia. Dates set were April 15 to 17.
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Emporia
Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas Congress’ of Parents and Teachers
Laval Forms Pro Axis Cabinet with Three Key Posts
Pierre Laval formed a new Vichy government aligned with Germany and retained three top posts foreign affairs interior and information. He pledged to operate under the chief of state and signal a push for further collaboration amid opposition and a looming Syria and Africa campaign.
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Vichy
France
Pierre Laval
Germany
Laval
Washington
Casablanca
French Morocco
Naval
Syria
French Equatorial Africa
Charles de Gaulle
Adolf Hitler
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
U.S
William D. Leahy
Fifteen Draftees Leave Monday for Fort Leavenworth
Fifteen draftees are to depart Monday for induction at Fort Leavenworth. A dinner at the Armory will honor them with about twenty civic leaders attending. The junior high band will play, Rev. John Bowers will speak, and a Rapid Transit bus will take the group to the bus station for a 1 34 p.m. departure. The Massachusetts street parade previously planned for April contingents is canceled for this departure.
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Army Induction Center
Ft. Leavenworth
Armory
John Bowers
Selective Service Board
Rapid Transit Company
Massachusetts Street
McNutt Heads New Nine Man War Power Commission
President Roosevelt created a nine member war manpower commission led by Paul V. McNutt with sweeping powers to mobilize and maximize U.S. manpower for the war effort. The order also reorganized the WPB labor division into a labor production division and named Sidney Hillman as special assistant on labor matters.
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Paul V. McNutt
9 Man War Power Commission
Washington
Roosevelt
War Production Board
WPB
Donald Nelson
Sidney Hillman
Harry Hopkins
McNutt
Manpower Commission
War, Navy, Agriculture, and Labor Departments
New Labor Production Division
Nelson
Selective Service System
Civil Service Commission
Housing Survey Planned Near Sunflower Ordnance Works
Broderick and Gordon will survey housing in cities near the Sunflower Ordnance Works to plan for workers. About half the staff may come from within 30 to 40 miles, with others from farther districts requiring new living quarters.
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Broderick and Gordon
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Lawrence Realtors
Home Registration Bureau
Kansas City
DeSoto
Eudora
Lawrence
Time For Action Is Near Says Marshall in Ireland
General George C. Marshall, U S chief of staff, told reporters in Northern Ireland during an inspection of the second A E F that American troops will inevitably join the commandos raiding Nazi-occupied Europe from Britain. He said U S air units will be established across the British Isles, and urged that the time for action is near.
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U. S. Army
Northern Ireland
George C. Marshall
U. S
A.E.F
Britain
U.S. Air Force
British Isles
Marshall
Survivors Landed At Eastern Canadian Port
Pi-Thirty eight survivors of an allied merchantman torpedoed and sunk in the western Atlantic were landed at an eastern coast Canadian port today by another merchant ship. They were picked up after drifting two days and a night in a crowded lifeboat.
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Atlantic
Eudora Prepares for Busier Time
Residents see changes due to Sunflower Ordnance works as properties change hands and new developments begin in Eudora. Hallam and Hall of St Joseph plan to convert a rock house into an apartment building while George Lothholz remodels the Bismarck hotel into a ten room hotel. Stanley Schwahn reports a contract for remodeling Fuller Hardware into a modern theatre.
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Eudora
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Rock House
Santa Fe
George Schubert
Gardner
Hallam and Hall
St. Joseph
Bismarck
George Lothholz
Kaw Valley State Bank
Fred Sweineke
John Miller
Highway 10
Lawrence
Fuller Hardware
Commonwealth Theatres of
Alumni Meeting To Be Held in 4 Kansas Towns
K A alumni plan meetings Sunday and Monday in Wichita El Dorado Eureka and Chanute. Chancellor Deane W Malott and Kansas Supreme Court Justice Hugo T Wedell will attend. Wedell will be honored at the Chanute homecoming. meetings move in sequence across the four cities.
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K.A
Kansas Cities
Wichita
el Dorado
Eureka
Chanute
Fred Ellsworth
Alumni Association
Deane W. Malott
Hugo T. Wedell
Kansas Supreme Court
E. T. Gaston
Ellsworth
O. J. Connell
Lawrence
Wedell
Gaston
Clay Carper
Justice Wedell
Corregidor Guns Silence Jap Batteries on Bataan
The war department reported Corregidor’s guns silenced several enemy batteries and damaged roads and bridges on Bataan peninsula, disrupting Japanese communications. Cebu was reported occupied and burning as fierce fighting raged on Panay with defenders vigorously opposing invaders.
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Washington
War Department
Corregidor
Philippines
Bataan
Cebu
Panay
Health official meets Douglas County on unit plan
Dr. Henry Asher Jr. conferred with the Douglas County commissioners for two hours this morning on the county health plan. The plan has been endorsed by the Lawrence city council. He is a director for the state board of health and will meet again at the commissioners next Wednesday.
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Henry Asher, Jr
Douglas County
Lawrence
Asher
State Board of Health
Henderson says new car rules eased to hit dealer quotas
Price Administrator Leon Henderson told Representative Woodrum that changes in new car regulations are being issued to ease restrictions so dealers can meet near term quotas. The letter, dated April 15 and released by the Virginian, notes the changes have been studied for days and will go out in a few days.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Woodrum
D.-Va
Virginian
Government Takes Over Control of Vessels in U S Merchant Marine
Washington reports the government has requisitioned all remaining privately owned vessels in the American merchant marine. Admiral Emory Land says hundreds of ships, including tankers and dry cargo vessels, will come under direct government control while remaining operated by original owners as agents. Compensation will be provided.
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Washington
Emory Land
War Shipping
Land
War Shipping Administration
Campus day elects Howell and Keck as queen and brave
George Howell of Pawnee Oklahoma and Rebecca Keck of Nome Alaska were chosen as brave and queen for Campus day at Haskell. Miss Cecile Dailey announced winners and presented the bouquet and wreath. Campus day is set for Saturday April 25 with next year’s student council named.
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George Howell
Pawnee
Okla
Rebecca Keck
Nome
Alaska
Haskell
Cecile Dailey
Institute
Pocahontas Halls
Louise Ridge
Jo Ann Carey
Barbara Fielder
Winona Hall
Juanita Gilliland
Clydine Prebble
Orietta Martin
Osceola Hall
George Carpenter
Richard Hunter
Albin Jake
Keokuk Hall
George Wallace
Harry Coons
John Waukechon
Solon G. Ayers
Cecelia Cadotte
Evelyn Ridley
Arthur Coons
Charke Wicks
Lorraine Brown
Rains Fall in West topeka Apr 18
Western Kansas wheat fields were rain soaked as moisture moved east. More heavy rains risk flooding Neosho. Garden City 1.03 inches Goodland 1.13 Dodge City .12 Phillipsburg .26 Ellis .44 Geneseo .10 Chanute 1.02 inches. Wichita high 75. Goodland low 48.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden City
Goodland
Dodge City
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Geneseo
Chanute
D. Flora
Neosho
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Wichita
Gooodland
Still Registering Houses in Lawrence for Workers
Lawrence landlords continue registering housing at the Chamber of Commerce office to accommodate workers at Sunflower Ordnance works. By closing time last night 489 rooms 75 apartments and 21 houses had been listed with 11 applications from prospective residents already received.
Rain Lifts Crop Prospects in Scott County Kansas
A-inch rain over Scott county yesterday boosted western Kansas crop prospects, marking one of the finest early-season outlooks in the area. Farmers report abundant moisture improving soil conditions and potential yields. The rainfall comes amid a growing season start that has residents hopeful for strong harvests.
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Scott County
Scott City
Kan
Kansas
Big Six Dominates Early Kansas Relays Crowds Reach 3500
Big Six conference schools led the opening events at Memorial Stadium as Indiana University also claimed a win. Nebraska’s Bull Smutz won the 120 yard high hurdles, Oklahoma’s Ory Mathews won the 100 yard dash, Missouri claimed the 880 yard relay, and Oklahoma Sooners topped the sprint medley. A crowd of about 3,500 watched as weather stayed bright and wind gusts kept marks from counting for records.
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Memorial Stadium
Indiana University
Bull Smutz
Nebraska
Ory Mathews
Oklahoma
Missouri Tigers
Oklahoma Sooners
Bill Smutz
Nebraska Cornhuskers
Ralph King
Ralph Schaake
Kansas
Big Six
Orv Mathews
Paul Kendall
Indiana
Forrest Jamieson
Drake
University
Kendall
Bill Lyda
Bobby Ginn
Sooner
Stadium Bowl
Virginia McGill
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kansas City
Clint Kanaga
K.U. Band
Reunion for KU Class of 1917 Plans Twenty Fifth Anniversary
The University of Kansas 1917 graduating class organizes a twenty fifth anniversary reunion linked to spring commencement. Committee includes Oscar Brownlee Marie Woodruff Fred Deardorff Hilmar Appel Mona Huffman Miller Margaret Heizer O'Neil and Harold Miller. Main event is a dinner at 1 p.m. Sunday May 31 at the Hill. Letters go to all class members inviting attendance.
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University of Kansas
Oscar Brownlee
Marie Woodruff
Lawrence
Fred Deardorff
Kansas City
Kan
Hilmar Appel
Mona Clare Huffman Miller
Margaret Heizer O’neil
Topeka
Harold Miller
Chanuteigh
Weather Outlook for Kansas Tonight and Sunday
Showers and scattered thunderstorms affect central and east portions tonight with an extreme east area fore noon. Cooler air moves in behind the system, especially in southeast and central portions tonight.
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Kansas
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