Japs Attack Panay. Bulkeley’s PT Boats Sink Cruiser
Washington reports intensified Japanese assaults on Panay forcing Filipino and American troops to withdraw from Lambunao while defenses near San Remigio and Valderrama strain. Bulkeley’s motor torpedo boats T41 and T34 damaged a light cruiser near Cebu, with PT-34 ashore and PT-41 escaping. PT-35 believed destroyed at Cebu.
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Washington
War Department
Panay
Lambunao
Antique
San Jose
San Remigio
Valderrama
Philippine Islands
Negros
Cebu
Manila Bay
Fort Hughes
Fort Drum
John J. Bulkeley
Philippine Archipelago
Bulkeley
Manila
Subic Bays
New Car Purchases Ration Rules Discussed by Local Leaders
Bill Bodine and Warren Parker spoke at the Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting on war time auto policy. Essential service workers may still buy new cars even if their old ones are usable. Dealers note trucks are harder to obtain and have sold to welfare workers nurses and police since rationing began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Bodine
Warren Parker
Lawrence Junior Chamber of Commerce
Wiedemann's
Lawrence
Bound Over For Trial In Mayhem Case At Johnson County
Bound over for trial in Johnson County District Court after a preliminary hearing. P. My. and Mrs. George Bunch face charges of mayhem for allegedly mutilating Dillar J. Thomas, 48, former mayor of Yarkio, Mo., on April 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clathe
Kan
P. My
George Bunch
Johnson County
Dillar J. Thomas
Yarkio
Junior Chamber of Commerce Forms War Time Unit
In Winfield Kansas on April 22, Pi-City officials checked civic defense committees and learned the Junior Chamber of Commerce president claimed none existed. He then explained they organized one but members have gone to war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Winfield
Kan
Chamber of Commerce
House Approves War Dept Civil Functions Bill
The House approved the war department civil functions appropriations bill authorizing $500000 for initial work on Bull Shoals dam on the White River in Arkansas.
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Arkansas Dam
Washington
House
War Department
Bull Shoals Dam
White River
Arkansas
Allies Down Jap Planes at Port Moresby In New Guinea
Allied air forces claimed a 4-0 victory over Japanese Zero planes at Port Moresby while U S torpedo boats damaged a Japanese light cruiser near Dhilinnin. British and Chinese troops retreated under pressure in Yenangyaung oil fields Western Burma amid Japanese reinforcements before the monsoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Moresby
Burma
Associated Press
Australia
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
Rabaul
New Britain
Yenangyaung
New Delhi
Pinchaun River
Bataan
Mandalay
Joseph W. Stilwell
Pyinmana
Toungoo
Rangoon
British commandos strike at Boulogne coast defenses
British commandos penetrated the French coast near Boulogne in a two hour reconnaissance raid driving German troops back and surveying fortifications. A naval force damaged two German trawlers with light British casualties. The action followed Runstedt taking command in northern France and signaled continued pressure on the western front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Boulogne
Europe
Adolf
St. Nazaire
Strait of Dover
Kent
England
Ministry of Economic Warfare
France
Louis ‘Mountbatten
King George
R.A.F
Bruneval
le Havre
Rumor of Axis Peace Move Circles Round Italy as War Seesaw
Dispatches from Ankara and Tokyo claim talks of a separate Italian peace amid stalled Axis progress. Reports cite Mussolini prestige and the summer window, while Soviet fronts show gains near Leningrad and Karelia. Berlin denies April offensives, and German Air losses mount as North Africa sees no major actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Italy
Ankara
Turkey
London News Chronicle
Rome
Britain
Mussolini
Tokyo
Toyohiko Kagawa
Red Army
Karelia
Leningrad
Associated Press
Soviet
Caucasus
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Fuehrer
Hitler
R.A.F
Germany
Reich
Donets‘river
Ukraine
Moscow
North African
Leahy to Return from Vichy After Death of Wife
Admiral William D. Leahy United States ambassador to Vichy will depart Unoccupied France around May 1 if arrangements can be made to ship Mrs. Leahy’s body to the United States. She died yesterday and no local funeral is planned. services expected in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vichy
France
William D. Leahy
United States
Douglas County to Send More Draftees on May 13
Douglas County selective service board to induct 17 men on May 13 following orders from state headquarters. Local board instructed to provide additional eligible registrants if available. Several registrants underwent physical examinations at the Armory today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Selective Service Board
Commander at Fort Riley trains unruly soldiers
Fort Riley报道 Apr 22 reports Col. William H. Maglin leads replacement training center. Maglin, former West Point light heavyweight boxing champion, emphasizes discipline for trainees to avoid military police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Riley
Kan
William H. Maglin
West Point
Mary Astor Injured in Car Collision with Workmen
Movie actress Mary Astor suffered a bruised back when her car collided with a vehicle carrying five carpenters en route to a job in Hollywood. The accident occurred today and no serious injuries were reported among the workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Astor
Hollywood
Sugar Rationing Starts May 5 Nationwide
The office of price administration announced that the first food rationing by stamps begins May 5 with a one pound sugar stamp valid May 5 to May 16. Registrations for households run May 4–7. high schools host retail registrations April 28–29. restaurants and producers face reductions of 50 to 70 percent of prior use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Gasoline Rationing Planned For Eastern Seaboard
Washington reports officials said a plan to ration gasoline on the eastern seaboard would be announced soon and take effect in May. Motorists would be limited to about five gallons weekly, with ration cards to be used. The district includes 17 states from Maine to Florida. A one third cut in deliveries to service stations was ordered last week amid tanker shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eastern Seaboard
OPA
District of Columbia
Maine
Florida
Finnish Front Battles Driven by Russian Attacks
Helsinki reports 150 Russian assaults on Finnish lines along the Svir river in Karelia over two weeks. Casualties exceed 14,000 dead with 440 Finnish officers and men killed repelling thrusts. Russians allegedly committed six divisions four brigades an armored regiment and ski battalions. Finns remain in defensive positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Svir
Karelia
French Staff Members Resign as Laval Seizes Power
Apr 22 Washington reports Pi-Four French embassy staff resign in protest against Laval backed government in Vichy. Leon Marchal Baron James Baeyens refused to serve under Laval. Other resignations followed including Andre Fiot and Charles Benoit as Hull questions the Laval regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vichy
Pierre Laval
Leon Marchal
Baron James Baeyens
Gaston Henry-Haye
Laval
Andre Fiot
Charles Benoit
Code Section
Henry Haye
Hull
Hitler
Europe
Storage crunch looms for Kansas City wheat market
Secretary Wickard heard from Senators Capper and Reed and Walter Scott of the Kansas City board of trade about the acute grain storage shortage in the Kansas City marketing area. Only 38 million bushels of unfilled space exist, risking wet wheat from the coming crop without moving surplus grain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wickard
Capper and
Reed
Kansas
Kansas City
Enid
Okla
Scott
Great Britain
Russia
Canada
United Nations
Michigan
House
Department
Senate
Corn Belt
Hillman Dangles as WPB Labor Boss May Lose Post
Washington reports a large bloc of top labor division personnel offered resignations to WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson who refused. Sidney Hillman, whose post was abolished with the division, plans a three week to month away due to ill health before re joining duties and may resign to return to the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Roosevelt
Nelson
Sidney Hillman
Hillman
White House
Harry L. Hopkins
C.I.0
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Martin targets Roosevelt non war spending in fall push
Chicago April 22 The GOP national committee chairman Joseph W. Martin says non war spending by the Roosevelt administration will be the main target of Republican big guns in the upcoming fall campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joseph W. Martin
G.O.P. National Committee
Roosevelt
County Units Health Plan Approved by Douglas County Commission
Douglas County Commissioners adopted a resolution supporting a county unit health plan. Participants from the Chamber of Commerce city health board state health and welfare offices, and school officials discussed governance and budgeting. The proposed governing body would include two county, two city, one medical society, one school board representative, and a lay member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
C. D. Young
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
W. C. Simons
City Board of Health
Henry Asher, Jr
State Board of Health
C. D. Clerk
Lawrence Board of Education
Mildred LeSner
Milton Beach
Clarence Gorrill
Mildred D. Watson
A. J. Anderson
County Medical Society
County Unit Board
Altho
Clark
Medical Society
Eudora Area Will Have Plenty of Bus Service
The state corporation commission will hold additional hearings tomorrow on bus service franchises for Eudora. Applications come from Scott Wahle and Puffer of Topeka, H H Mack of Mosby Mack Motor, Milo Hewitt of Ottawa, W A Cornalison and Dennis and Nolan of Kansas City. Rapid Transit and M S Winter of Lawrence had hearings last week and await commission decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Corporation Commission
Eudora
Topeka
Kansas City
Ottawa
Scott, Wahle and Puffer
H. H. Mack
Mosby Mack Motor Company
Milo Hewitt
W. A. Cornalison
Dennis and Nolan
Rapid Transit Company
M. S. Winter
Lawrence
Commission
Senate Banking Committee backs RFC auto purchase plan
The proposal directs the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy cars from dealers who hold vehicles 18 months after the February 1 freezing order and want to dispose. The RFC would also offer financial aid to dealers during the storage period. The House Banking Committee heard that OPA would soon ease restrictions on new car sales to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
House ‘Banking Committee
Thomas F. Ford
D.-Cal
Office’of Price Administration
War Boom Areas Require Close Watching Says Health Board Official
Dr. F C Beelman of the Kansas state board of health warned swift action in Parsons Wichita Eudora and other war boom cities to enforce emergency health rules. He cited water sewage building and food handling controls as essential to maintaining public health amid rapid population shifts for the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Health Board
Topeka
Kansas
F. C. Beelman
State Board of Health
Parsons
Wichita
Eudora
State Board
Beeman
Roosevelt tightens schedule on anti inflation plans this week
Washington April 22 President Roosevelt ordered this week’s appointments be limited to must actions to free him for final anti inflation decisions to be sent to Congress within a week. Early said much of the program remains undecided and a message to Congress and a national radio address may come Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Stephen Early
Early
Congressional
Altho
Treasury
Warm Kansas spring boosts crops as floods recede
Topeka reports warm drying weather aiding spring crops across Kansas. Federal meteorologist S D Flora notes weekend rains have eased and sunshine should raise temperatures. Smoky Hill and Republican rivers rise. Salina flood levels near but not exceeding banks, while Cimarron and Neosho flood activity fades. Job ads invite workers via Ad-Taker.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Smoky Hill
Lindsborg
Salina
Republican
Concordia
Clay Center
Flora
Neosho
Phillipsburg
To Make Book Review At City Library Friday
Domenico Gagliardo will review Our Miss Book by M. L. Rumbeck Friday morning at 10 o clock in the directors room of the city library. The event is open to any one interested. The review is part of a series given during the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Domenico Gagliardo
M. L. Rumbeck
Dies Committee Receives $110000 For Continuance
Washington April 22 The House Committee on Accounts approved a $110000 allotment to fund the continued investigation of un American activities led by Representative Dies of Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Accounts
House
Representative Dies
D-Tex
Stock Market Index Zips To 33.3 On 60-Stock Average
The index tracking 60 stocks rose to 33.3, signaling a notable advance in overall market performance. Analysts cite broad participation across major sectors and ongoing investor optimism.
ROTC summer session expands to twelve weeks at KU
University of Kansas officials arrange a winter ROTC program to continue through a new twelve week summer term enabling students to complete a three year degree while preparing for army commissions. Col. Briggs and KU officials review plan details with Chancellor Malott during the inspection week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
R.O.T.C. Prosgram
Col
R. W. Briggs
R.O.T.C
Seventh Corps Area
Omaha
Lawrence
Deane W. Malott
Malott
H.u. R.O.T.C
R. J. Halpin
Creighton University
Infantry
Col. H . King
The
University of Minnesota
Sunflower ordnance plant to employ 15000 workers near Eudora
Kansas City April 22 Lieut Col Francis H Oxx said 15000 men would be used at the Sunflower ordnance plant near Eudora Kansas at peak. Maj W C Strecher will direct the project with surveys under way and values appraised for 150 farms affected. The plant may cover much of 17 sections and cost $5,000,000 or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Francis H. Oxx
Sunflower Ordnance
Eudora
Kan
Oxx
W. C. Strecher
Johnson County
Douglas County
Althe
Nation Wide Census of Students for Farm Work
Washington April 22 a nation wide census of high school and college students for farm work during vacations was started under the new war manpower commission led by Paul V McNutt. Offices of the United States employment service conduct the survey with city school superintendents. Students both boys and girls may be recruited where farm workers cannot handle crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIM
New War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
United States Employment Service
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Philippines
Torpedo Boats
Lieut
Jobin Bulkeley
Navy
Corregidor
Legation
Hillman Dangles
Colonel Briggs
K. U
Union Building
James Dusenbury
Col. Briggs
Halpin
Col. King
J.allen Reece
John J. Jakosky
C. G. Bayles
George Baxter Smith
Jack R. Gage
Capt
Elverson Baker
Charles FE. Fuqua
Dow
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