Labor leader proposes new political party for workers
Joplin Missouri August 5 labor union head Reid Robinson president of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers urges formation of a labor farmer professional worker and small business party. He cites lack of labor representation in defense efforts and backs allied nations while warning against fascist threats and wartime policy risks. He highlights gains in dues contracts wage increases and successful labor board elections.
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Joplin
P—Reid Robinson
Denver
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
International Union
Robinson
America
Defense Mediation Board
North American Aviation Company
Inglewood
Calif
Britain
Russia
Germany
China
Ethiopia
Spain
Soviet Union
United States
NLRB
Nateva Labor Relations Board
Fuller vows to settle score with Nazis after Paris fall
Brig. Gen. Horace H. Fuller, commandant at Ft. Leavenworth, recalled his wife being bombed five times and machine-gunned three times during the Paris occupation. He praised the German army despite personal losses and teased enforcing a Berlin curfew when he reaches Germany.
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Kansas City
Horace H. Fuller
Command and General Staff School
Ft. Leavenworth
Service Men’s Club
Paris
Hitler
Berlin
Fisherman Drowns at Tonganoxie Lake
John Louis Olson, 22, of Lancaster Kansas, drowned early Sunday when he fell from a boat into the Tonganoxie state lake. Eyewitnesses say he stood to cast, overbalanced, and could not swim. His body was recovered in 15 minutes despite efforts to revive him. He leaves wife Isla-June Olson and parents Mr and Mrs John Olson Sr.
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John Louis Olson
Lancaster
Kan
Tonganoxie State Lake
Olson
Alvin Lord
Hedsell
Isla-June Olson
John Olson, Sr
Treasury Tax Savings Plan Starts August First
The Treasury Department launches a Tax Savings Plan to help taxpayers set aside money during the year to cover income tax bills next year. It works by buyers purchasing special notes to be used for paying federal income taxes, with details available from bankers or the Treasury in Washington D C.
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Treasury Department
Washington,d. C
Lawrence School Board Hires and Budget Actions Detailed
The Lawrence school board approved staff hires including Herbert Miller to replace Harold Cotner and Miss Edith A. Smith to fill vacancies. It validated existing employment contracts for 1941-42, set salary payments on the fifteenth and last day of each month, and delayed the auditor’s report to next month. The next meeting is scheduled for September 2.
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Cuts
Tee
Margaret Dart
Miss McDermond
Trenton
University of Kansas
Herbert Miller
Pittsburg
Harold Cotner
Miller
Florence
Kan
Pittsburg Teachers
Kansas
Lawrence
Board of Education
Oaly
C. C. Stewart
League of Women Voters
Axis air raid kills ninety in Suez area report
Cairo officials announce 90 killed and 106 injured in an axis air raid on the Suez canal area last night. The German high command says planes raided British bases and destroyed two merchant ships totaling 18,000 tons in the Seuz roadstead.
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Suez Canal
Cairo
Egypt
Sez
Hammer marks long service on Lawrence monument work
Heard in Lawrence mentions Geiler an employee of the Lawrence monument works with a small hammer in use since 1896 for lettering stone monuments. The wooden handle shows wear from grip. Capt Chet Shore publisher of the Augusta Gazette now at Camp Robinson has been reassigned to personnel adjutant of the 137th Infantry. He is a University of Kansas graduate and brother of Lieut Schiller Shore Company M 137th Infantry.
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B. E. Geiler
Lawrence Monument Works
Geiler
Chet Shore
Augusta Gazette
Camp Robinson
137Th Infantry
Captain Shore
University of Kansas
Lieut
Schiller Shore
127Th Field Artillery
Biglow
Ark
Biglow Nine
Battery E
Ask for road funds to aid defense highway plan
Governor Payne Ratner urged Kansas lawmakers to press for a defense highway bill after Roosevelt vetoed a 320 million dollar measure. He said Kansas lacks funds to meet defense needs and demanded legislation to fund fort and defense industry traffic along with commercial travel. Plans include a new eastward U S 40 route from Junction City toward north of Alma with federal cost share on a 3.5 million dollar project.
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Topeka
Payne ‘Ratner
Kansas
Fort
Roosevelt
Ratner
Junction City
Kaw River
D. J. Fair
Alma
Possible British visitor to meet Roosevelt in Washington
The Daily Mail reports Washington circles expect a high British figure to fly to see President Roosevelt. It names Churchill or Lord Beaverbrook as possibilities to discuss closer Anglo American collaboration, though no substantiation was found in Washington.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Washington
Duke of Kent
Roosevelt
Churchill
Lord Beaverbrook
Deaths and Funerals Thomas Joseph Hinton
Thomas Joseph Hinton died Saturday morning in Onawa Iowa. He was a brother of W H Hinton of Lawrence and a KU engineering alumnus. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at Oak Grove cemetery Kansas City Kansas with John Stine funeral parlors in charge.
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Thomas Joseph Hinton
Onawa
W. H. Hinton
Lawrence
University of Kansas
School of Engineering
Oak Grove
Kansas City
Kan
John Stine
Junior World Series set for September in Indianapolis
American Legion officials announced the 1941 junior world series will be a best three of five games held September 1 to 5. The exact site will be decided later and the event will pair the section B Midwestern champion with the winner of a semi final road, matching titleholders from sections A West and C East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Homer L. Chaillaux
American Legion National Americanism
Legion
Three New Jeeps Assigned to Company H
Camp J. T. Robinson reports three more reconnaissance cars, bringing Company H to four jeeps and twelve trucks. The 35th Division's maneuvers will test these units as the entire division prepares for summer field exercises and future war games.
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J. T. Robinson
137Th Infantry
69Th
69Th Infantry
165Th
Arkansas
Louisiana
Per Ramee
137Th Infantry Regiment
134Th Infantry
Nebraska
Ramee
Herbert
Jimmy Seiwald
Pfc
Carl Seiwald
Carl Brown
Harper, Kan
Clifton Brown
Charles Todd
Wichita
Topeka
Pearl Brohammer
Harold Brohammer
Baldwin City
Howard Schneider
E. E. Hazelton
Lawrence
Doris Frye
Opal Gatliff
Dorothy Stover
G. Frye
Columbus
R. Boyer
California
Clarence L. Gleason
Kenneth Richardson
Olive Flory
Elane Hershell
Robert Street
Eugene Stewart
Oskaloosa
Red Sox sweep Athletics as Fox leads with three doubles
Pete Fox powered Boston with three doubles as the Red Sox beat Philadelphia 6 to 5 to take the two game set. Cronin drove in the decisive run with a sixth inning single scoring Fox from second. Other AL action included night games in Detroit at Cleveland and Chicago at St. Louis. In the NL, Boston and Philadelphia split a short series while Pittsburgh and Cincinnati split.
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Boston
Pete Fox
Boston Red Sox
Athletics
Philadelphia
Joe Cronin
Fox
Knott
Ihaeners Dobson
C. Wagner
Pyt
New York
Washington
Russo
Dickey
Evans
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
St. Louis
Errickson
Javery
A. Johnson
Masi
Berres
Podgajny
Beck
Lamanna
Hughes
Earley
Pearson
Warren
Livingston
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Butcher
Lopez
Turner
Beggs
West
Lanier
Krist
Shoun
W. Cooper
Olsen
McCullough
War Extension Plans Of U S Watched by Axis
Berlin reports the German comment service Dienst beobachtet U S and British Far East plans, including French Indochina and steps toward encirclement of Japan. It says Britain aims to open a new front while masking aims and cites Iran and Afghanistan rumors, plus Petoskey raid as sign of Finland as a landing ground.
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Berlin
Dienst’ Aus Deutschland
Germany
Italy
Japan
United States
Britain
Far East
Dienst
Middle East
Europe
Iran
Persia
Afghanistan
Petsamo
British move intensifies Far East buildup amid Burma threat
British and Indian troops and RAF personnel arrive in Singapore as reports cite a large well equipped Chinese army massed on the Burma border. Manila circles say Britain plans swift moves to control Thai land and possibly seize Bangkok as R A F bases are reinforced and troops shifted to the Thailand Malaya frontier.
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R.A.F
Singapore
Saigon
Indo-China
Burma
Malaya
Far East
Dorter
Elief
Manila
Britain
Thailand
Japan
Bangkok
Kra Isthmus Poe
India
Germans Claim to Hold Two Important Towns
Berlin reports German forces have captured the towns of Kholm on the Lovat river 250 miles northwest of Moscow and Bel Tserkoy 50 miles south of Kiev. The claim notes Kholm’s advance about 70 miles from the prior front as Bel Tserkoy forms a southern arm toward Kiev.
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Berlin
Kholm
Bel Tserkoy
DNB
Lovat River
Moscow
Bel Tserkov
Kiev
Ukraine
Hess and Orcutt to Speak on California Flying Trip
Grace Hess and Ruth Orcutt will address the Lutheran Brotherhood at a chicken dinner tomorrow evening at 6 45 at the Emil Heck home. They will describe their experiences on the recent flying trip to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Hess
Ruth Orcutt
Lutheran Brotherhood
Emil Heck
California
Lieutenant Governor Named to Succeed O'Daniel in U S Senate
The 58 year old lieutenant governor was selected to fill the vacancy in the U S Senate following the departure of W Lee O'Daniel. The appointment shifts the political lineup and advances the ongoing federal legislative session.
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W. Lee O’daniel
U. S. Senate
Kansas Weather Relief Helps Northeastern Kansas Amid Heat
Clouds and a cool north wind brought relief in Topeka and northeastern Kansas. most of the state remained hot with upper ninety temperatures. Rain fell in limited areas, with Topeka at 75, Atchison 70, Lawrence 75, and Pittsburg 97.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Atchison
Mercury
Lawrence
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Arkansas City
Kansas Points
Garden City
Salina
Wichita
S. D. Flora
Weather Bureau
Manhattan
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Concordia
McPherson
Geneseo
Flora
Clash on Manchoukuo Siberia frontier reported
Japanese and Soviet forces clashed near the Manchoukuo Siberia frontier according to a Japanese army spokesman. Lon don sources say Japan has substantially reinforced its Manchukuo garrison. Shanghai dispatches describe Dairen crowded with Japanese troops and supplies moving toward Manchukuo. Lieutenant Colonel Kunio Akiyama claimed the incident involved minor skirmishes with no protests from either side. One Japanese soldier was wounded. Soviet casualties were undeclared.
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Manchoukuo-Siberia
London
Japan
Manchoukuo
Shanghai
Yellow Sea
Dairen
Manchukuo
Siberian
Kunio Akiyama
China
Akiyama
Manchuk
Power Saving Plan Aimed at Wider Curtailments
Washington Aug 5 X-Leland Olds chairman of the federal power commission said the daylight saving time measure to authorize President Roosevelt to set defense time would conserve power and ready the public for broader power curtailments.
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Washington
Leland Olds
Federal Power Commission
Roosevelt
Free Farmers in Harrisburg Form Statewide Wheat Growers Group
In Harrisburg on August 5, more than 100 wheat growers claiming representation of about 400,000 of Pennsylvania’s 907,000 wheat acres organize a statewide body to oppose what a spokesman calls federal regimentation of agriculture.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Fast talking thief swindles Oskaloosa woman out of electric sweeper
An unidentified man visited Mrs. Isa J. Worswick of Oskaloosa last Thursday and persuaded her to hand over an electric sweeper and a ten dollar check. He claimed aluminum is needed for defense and cashed the check at an Oskaloosa bank before the loss was reported to the sheriff.
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Isa J. Worswick
Oskaloosa
Aluminum Plant Strike Hits Cleveland and Ohio Projects
Four hundred AFL and non union workers were kept from Aluminum Company of America plants in Cleveland by a CIO blockade. Officials said defense metal production was not seriously curtailed. In Sandusky half of Plum Brook ordnance plant construction halted by AFL carpenters wage dispute. Over half of TNT plant reconstruction workers idle.
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Associated Press
A.F.L
Aluminum Company of America
Cleveland
C.I.0
Plum Brook
Sandusky
Ohio
TNT
Thunderstorm Brings Heat Drop in Kansas City
A late afternoon storm cooled Kansas City temperatures from 84 to 75 within 45 minutes. The brief relief ended the heat wave as crews reported a sharp drop and regional advisory updates.
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Kansas City
Texas Inaugural Friday Austin Plans Simple Ceremonies
Pi A sun tanned ranchman Coke R. Stevenson hung his hat in the gubernatorial suite today but will not be inaugurated until Friday. Simple ceremonies have been planned for the occasion in Austin.
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Texas
Austin
Tex
Coke R. Stevenson
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Julius Zigler
Henry J. Allen
Save the Children” Federation of the
Beaverbrook
Journal- World
U. S
Miss Hess
Miss Orcutt
Man
Bankers Securities Co., Inc
Mass
Allison
Armstrong
Tops IN Entertainment
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Ula Ace Ya
Garey
Palace Clothing
H. W. Emick
Rumsey Funeral Home
Indiana
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