Unified Command Proposed To Merge War Departments
Secretary of War Stimpson urges Congress to create a single armed forces department after the war, not during. He says unified command would improve planning and execution amid manpower limits and modern warfare.Lt. Gen. McNarney supports a joint chiefs of staff model under a secretary for the armed forces with undersecretaries for each service and a fourth branch for common supplies.
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Washington
Departments of War and Navy
Congress
Stimazon
J . Stimson
House
Stimson
United States
Joseph T. McNarney
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Armed Forces
Enviable KU record set by Ralph May in engineering
Ralph Waldo May of Oskaloosa has a near perfect 2.96 GPA in his senior year at the University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture with 125 A credits and 5 B credits. He majors in aeronautical engineering and leads Sigma Tau and Tau Beta Pi, edits the Kansas Engineer, and is a Summerfield scholar. The Civil Aeronautics Administration has chosen him for research at Langley Field after graduation in June.
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Ralph Waldo May
Oskaloosa
University of Kansas
J. O. Jones
Ralph May
K. U
Sigma Tau
Tau Beta Pi
Kansas Engineer
Summerfield
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Langley Field
Two-Vehicle Crash Injures Woman and Baby in Richland
Mrs. Margaret Steele of Richland is hospitalized with a fractured leg after a collision at Seventh and Tennessee streets yesterday afternoon. Involved were a small truck carrying her family and the Kennedy couple and child, a car driven by Ralph Russell of 511 Ohio street, and a Hemphill car at a stop sign. No others were reported injured and vehicles were damaged. A New York School program titled Stage Door Canteen will be held April 27 at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. all children will participate as the final program of the year and parents are urged to attend.
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Margaret Steele
Delbert Steele
Richland
Memorial Hospital
Seventh
Tennessee Streets
Seventh Street
Francis Kennedy
Baby
Tennessee Street
Ralph Russell
Ohio Street
New York
New York School
Ration Calendar Updates on Stamp Validity and Limits
The notice lists changes to ration stamps and their validity periods. Red stamps AB through Q become valid indefinitely from May 7, with Aa S8 and TA also valid indefinitely. Blue Book four stamps A8 through NS PB and 98 take effect May 1 indefinitely. Sugar stamps 30 and 31 allow five pounds indefinitely. Stamp 40 allows five pounds for canning through February 28, 1945. Shoes stamps and airplane stamps shift validity dates. Gasoline coupons 9-A and 11-A vary by region with five gallons limits. Fuel Oil period four and five coupons valid through August 31 with ten gallons per unit.
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Associated Press
Owith
Soldiers Search Woods After Plane Crash Kills Nine
Seek a tenth flier in the woods after an army transport plane crashed near Epsom New Hampshire. Nine bodies were recovered last night and officials from Grenier Field said ten men were aboard. One victim identified is Second Lt. Marvin M. Rupp 26 of Winfield Kansas husband of Mrs Maxine L Rupp.
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Epsom
N. H
Air Transport Command
Grenier Field
Marvin M. Rupp
Winfield, Kan
Maxine L. Rupp
Denmark Isolated as Nazi Move Against Danish Saboteurs
Stockholm reports Werner Best pledges swift action against sabotage as Denmark is cut off from Sweden. Germans forbid travel from Sweden to Denmark by ferry, rail tickets halted, and telephone links severed except for official use. Rumors of Copenhagen disturbances persist, but details remain scarce.
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Stockholm
Hitler
Denmark
Werner Best
Sweden
Best
Germany
Copenhagen
Aftonbladet
MacArthur Heads New Guinea Invasion Press Coverage
The Associated Press deploys a record 11 to 12 correspondents and photographers for the Hollandia Aitape invasion as Marlin Spencer, Asahel Bush, Spencer Davis, and Robert Bunson report from beaches inland airfields and staging points. Photographers Dan King and Joseph Rosenthal chronicle landings and general MacArthur’s trip while editors C Y McDaniel and Charles McMurty coordinate from Australia and Honolulu.
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MacArthur
New Guinea
Associated Press
Hollandia-Aitape
Marlin Spencer
Tucaneran Bay
Asahel Bush
Humboldt Bay
Hollandia
Spencer Davis
Aitape
Padii
Robert Bunson
Fred Hampson
Olen Clements
U.S. Fifth Air Force Base
Charles H. McMurty
Honolulu
Australia
C. Yates McDaniel
al Cooking
William L. Worden
Ernest King
Den
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph Rosenthal
Deaths and Funerals This Week
Mrs. Ed Rousell Ward, former Lawrence resident, died in Newton and will be buried there. Mrs. K C Evans notified. Frank Joseph Blechel died at his Eudora home. Funeral moved to Thursday morning at 9 o clock at Holy Family Catholic church in Eudora, with Rev. Lawrenz Reith in charge.
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Ed Rousell Ward
K. C. Evans
Ed Rousell
Lawrence
Newton
Newton Wednesay
Frank Joseph Blechel
Eudora
Holy Family ‘Catholic Church
Eudord
Lawrenz| Reith
Invasion Advance at Hollandia Stalled by Mud and Terrain
MacArthur and Nimitz report American and Dutch forces tightening the noose around Hollandia New Guinea as airfields fall under Allied control. Strong Japanese resistance is not observed, with terrain and mud slowing advancing columns and supply lines near Aitape and Humoldt Bay.
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MacArthur
New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea
Hollandia
Aitape
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Associated Press
Philippines
Iollandia
Mindanao
Hollandian
Marlin Spencer
Tanahmeran Bay
Humboldt Bay
Hollandia Village
Asahel Bush
Pim
Tami
Geelvink Bay
Hurdboldt Bay
Bus Driver’s Tulsa Trip Halted by Flooded Roads
John Ulm started from Lawrence for Tulsa at 1 a.m. traveling by bus. He looped through Iola and Ottawa, then back toward Lawrence as detours and rising water blocked the route. Another bus from Tulsa reached Chanute but flood conditions left Santa Fe tracks and hotel plumbing flooded.
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Lawrence
Tulsa
John Ulm
Iola
Ottawa
Baldwin Junction
Tola
Chanute
Santa Fe
Forty Attend Session of Congregational Churches
Forty representatives from Congregational churches in Topeka Kansas City Kan and Lawrence attended an all day educational institute yesterday at Plymouth Congregational church. Miss Mildred Widber and Mrs Norman Erb of Boston led the sessions with a panel including Rev C Fosberg Hughes Prof John E Hawkins Mrs Wyman Storer and Mrs Cornelia Bigelow.
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Topeka
Ansas City
Kan
Lawrence
Plymouth Congregational Church
Kansas City
Mildred Widber
Norman Erb
Boston
Division of Christian Education
Congregational Christian Church
Erb
Widber
C. Fosberg Hughes
John E. Hawkins
Wyman Storer
Cornelia Bigelow
Weather hampers corn layoffs under CCC plan in 1944
Weather Bureau reports show heavy moisture delaying seeding and hindering marketings in the Midwest. Receipts at interior markets dropped sharply from a year earlier as farmers resist CCC loans and war needs push production toward explosives and other war materials.
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Chicago
UPI
Commodity Credit Corporation
Midwest
Weather Bureau
War Food Administration
CCC
Plane Crash in City Leaves Nine Dead in Montreal
A twin-engine bomber crashed in Montreal downtown today killing nine and injuring others. The fuselage rested among wreckage where bodies lay, with flames igniting about six buildings. Eyewitnesses split on whether the plane exploded midair or upon impact. a crew member parachuted away injured and was hospitalized. Firefighters battled the blaze as two hundred soldiers secured the area and residents mourned.
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Montreal
Shannon Street
Soldiers Hold A Dike Near Arkansas City Flooded
Soldiers from Strother field dumped 6000 sandbags into a soft spot to shore up the Arkansas river dike west of Arkansas City Kansas easing a tense flood situation. The river stood at 22.93 feet this morning down nearly three feet from yesterday's crest but six feet above flood level. The Walnut overflowed the eastern edge of town yesterday and water remained in that section.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Strotherfield
University of Kansas design students praised by Vermont firm
Lawrence report notes the KU department of design earned high marks from Benmont Papers in Vermont. E L Chadbourne praised student work as the best the company had ever received from any art school. Clinton township trustees completed 1944 assessments with an unofficial enumeration of 406, eleven less than last year. Yourdine want ad to run over 49 000 times for 96 cents. Phone 22.
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Department of Design
University of Kansas
Benmont Papers Corporation
Vermont
E. L. Chadbourne
Marjorie Whitney
University Art Department
Lestis Demeritt
Clinton Township
Letter from a general to a Lawrence mother on her son’s Air Medal honor
A three star general, George C. Kenney of Fifth Air Force, writes to Mrs. F. G. Jolly of 1920 Tennessee St in Lawrence praising her son Flight Officer David G Jelly for receiving the Air Medal for meritorious aerial missions in the Southwest Pacific between October and December 1943. The letter notes his crewed flights dropping supplies and moving troops near Japanese bases and comments on the nation’s sacrifice and victory efforts.
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Lawrence
George C. Kenney
Fifth Air Force
Southwest Pacific
F. G. Jolly
Tennessee Street
Southwest
Pacific
Easter gifts and servicemen updates from the community
Belated Easter pins and pillow tops reach Mrs. Leroy Puckett from her son Corporal Kenneth L. Puckett stationed at Camp Butner North Carolina. Seaman 2/c Gerald Melvin Puckett is now stationed in the Pacific as of January 11 1944. Ensign Bill Overton has enlisted in the naval reserve training at the University of Arizona. Corporal Frank S Harbaugh promoted to corporal in a prison camp quartermaster unit at Douglas Wyoming. Private first class Eugene Nunemaker recovering from malaria in North Africa with the Army Air Forces ground crew. his wife Mrs. Nunemaker lives with her parents on Route 5.
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Leroy Puckett
Cpl
Kenneth L. Puckett
Camp Butner
N. C
Puckett
Stanley Harris
Fred H. Harris
Washington State College
Pullman
Wash
Gerald Puckett
Gerald Melvin Puckett
Pacific
The
D. W
Bill) Overton
Naval Reserve
University of Arizona
Frank S. Harbaugh
Corporal Harbaugh
Douglas
Wyo
Eugene Nunemaker
North Africa
Army Air Force
Rommel Spotted Spring Spirit and Mines Tale
A German war correspondent with Rommel described the field marshal admiring spring flowers while noting 80,000 mines beneath them. Berlin said Rommel typically spends five days weekly inspecting western regions. The item also mentions the Pacific coast’s largest land salamander, a 10 inch male.
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London
CPH
Erwin Rommel
Berlin
Rommel
Pacific Coast
McLean Reelected AP President. Harte and Chandler Named VP
Robert McLean, publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, was reelected president of the Associated Press by the AP board. Houston Harte of the San Angelo Standard was named first vice president, and Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times was elected second vice president. Frank B. Noyes remains honorary president, Kent Cooper continues as executive director and general manager, with Lloyd Stratton as secretary, F. J. Starzel and Claude A. Jagger as assistant secretaries, L. F. Curtis as treasurer, and Alan J. Gould as assistant treasurer.
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New York
Robert McLean
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Associated Press
AP Board of
Houston Harte
San Angelo
Tex
Standard
Norman Chandler
Los Angeles Times
Frank B. Noyes
Kent Cooper
Lloyd Stratton
F. J. Starzel
Claude A. Jagger
L. F. Curtis
Alan J. Gould
Market News Highlights From New York and Chicago Apr 25
Stocks uneven as invasion selling wanes and rails lag. Wheat and rye rise on milling demand. OPA ceiling talks buoy oats and barley. cotton quiet. Chicago grains edge higher on short covering and milling demand amid ceiling talk. Kansas City hogs and cattle mixed with firm top bids. lambs strong early. Estimated livestock receipts show gains across cattle and hogs.
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New York
Chicago
Office of Price Administration
Qats
OPA
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Ap-Wfa
Kansas City Cash Grain and Market Report Apr 25
Kansas City markets report wheat at 41, with No 2 dark hard nominal and No 3 nominal. Corn and oats figures listed, with futures showing May and July prices. Wheat receipts at smaller southwest markets and multiple city grain and produce listings included. Wall Street notes summarize mixed trading, with several leaders gaining modestly then retreating. Also obituaries for Emma Artman and bereavement notices from the Warmker family.
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Kansas City
Wichita
Hutchinson
Salina
Atchison
St. Joseph
Amarillo
Enid
Fort Worth
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Department For Armed Forces
Jured
Tennessee
NEW Drive
A.P
E. Birch
Zerbal Lodge
Warren Zimmerman
V.M
Ady
Jayhawk Taxi CO
Mass
Varsity
Asby
Mgr
the Rapid Transit CO
McLean
Philadelphia
Til & Tel
Atch Tel&sf
Beth Steel
Cont Motors
du Pont
Eastman Kodak General, Electric
General Foods and
BAY General Motors Hercules
Johns-Mansville
Heldreena
Mo-Kan-Texas
North Am
Iast Penney J Cc Ict
Phillipe
U. S
Idaho
Texas Bliss Triumphs
Kansas
Wall Street
Europe
Zemington Rand
Great Northern
Texasco
U. Steel
General Motors
Sears
Roebu
Anaconda
North American
Harry Warmker
Dolores
George Warmker
Memoriam
Emma Artman
John Artman
R. C. Jensen
I. J. Pierson
G. Carleton Howell
Studebaker
Civil Air Patrol
J. E. McGuiggan
Squadron 3
Universal Studios
St. Paul
Minnesota
Buddy Gallagher Motors
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