Allies drive Germans from Sicily pace quickens
Allied forces advance across Sicily reach Milazzo near Messina with U S Seventh army overrunning a rear guard near Milazzo and British Eighth army moving toward Taormina. Germans retreat, Barcellona and Milazzo isolated as Patton and Montgomery push toward Messina.
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Sicily
Berlin
NBC
Messina
George S. Patton, Jr
Milazzo
Barcellona
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Essina
Central
Taormina
Roccalamera
Mes
Heat Spell Ends in Eastern Kansas With Weekend Showers
Scattered weekend showers and cooler northerly breezes broke a month long heat spell in eastern Kansas. The Topeka low fell under 70 for the first time since July 19, with Wichita and Phillipsburg recording cooling readings. Tonight should be cooler and comfortable, forecasters said.
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Topeka
Kansas
Wichita
Phillipsburg
Kansas City
S. D. Flora
Allied Planes Down 49 Japanese Aircraft in Southwest Pacific
Allied air forces reported by General MacArthur's headquarters destroyed 48 Japanese planes, including 23 bombers, with only five Allied planes lost. The day featured attacks on Balikpapan, Salamaua, and Kahili, plus air combats over the Solomons and New Guinea as Allied domination grows.
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Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
MacArthur
Balikpapan
Borneo
Komiatum
Lae
Salamaua
Eney
Kahili
Ougainville
Solomons
Vila
Japan
New Britain
Sankor
Airacobras
New Georgia
Bairoko
Tambu Bay
Quebec Conference Opens War Strategy Talks With Roosevelt
In Quebec on August 16 Prime Minister Churchill returns after a Hyde Park visit as President Roosevelt is expected to join the talks. Allied leaders set a four point agenda covering European and Pacific war conduct, immediate political issues, and long range collaboration among the United Nations including Russia. Discussions include Eden and Sumner Welles possibly visiting Moscow to shape postwar Europe and a defeated Germany’s fate.
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Quebec
Churchill
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
White House
Washington
White Houses
England
Europe
Pacific
Continent
United Nations
Russia
Japan
Anthony Eden
American State Department
Foreign Office
Eden
Sumner Welles
Moscow
Germany
Soldier Drowns In Camp Pool At Clay Center Kansas
Pfe Stanley C Teston age 25 from L Anse Michigan of the 94th division quartermaster company drowned Sunday in the municipal pool at Clay Center. He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Teston of L Anse.
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Phillips
Kan
Stanley C. Teston
L’anse, Mich
94Th Division Quartermaster Company
Clay Center
John Teston
L’anse
Winfield Attorney Appointed County Attorney in Snowley Case
Charles H. Quier of Winfield is named county attorney of Snowley County by District Judge Stewart S. Bloss. He replaces John A. Herlocker who resigned to join the U S Navy. Quier previously defended Fred L. Brady, condemned for an Arkansas City holdup slaying, and sought Governor’s clemency. His new appointment ends his role in Brady’s appeal and Brady’s fate now rests with Gov. Schoeppel who moved the execution date to November 10.
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Winfield
Kan
Charles H. Quier
Snowley County
Stewart S. Bloss
Quier
John A. Herlocker
U. S. Naval
Fred L. Brady
Arkansas
Brady
Herlocker
Supreme Court
the &Vernor
Andrew Schoeppel
Polio Outbreak Expands Across Kansas Records 84 New Cases
The infantile paralysis outbreak deepened in Kansas with 84 new weekend cases and 12 deaths across eight counties. Sedgwick led with 23 new cases, Marshall reported seven cases and three deaths, while cooler weather may curb spread. Several counties reported first cases, and communities began closing pools to limit contact. Douglas County reported no new weekend cases.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
Sedgwick
Marshall County
E. P. Kinnaman
Kinnaman
Clay
Ford
Linn
Ottawa
Pottawatomie
Wilson
Stevens
Ellsworth
Louisiana youth admits burglary at Santa Fe restaurant
Arlis Lee Lewis, 20, of Louisiana pled guilty in district court Saturday to burglary and larceny. Judge Hugh Means sentenced him to the state reformatory at Hutchinson for stealing $41 from a cash register after breaking into the Santa Fe restaurant at 411 East Seventh Street on the night of July 15.
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Arlis Lee Lewis
Louisiana
Hugh Means
State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Santa Fe
East Seventh Street
Prospective Renters and Buyers Seek Classified Listings
Shoppers scan the classified page for rental offers and homes for sale. Prospective renters and buyers look for price, location, and terms across multiple listings.
Russians Capture Karachev as Destruction Rages Near Bryansk
Russian forces report capture of Karachev cutting off the Orel salient escape route for Germans. Four Red Army divisions stormed Nazi defenses on the hills near Karachev and pursued retreating troops into the burning town as Kharkov battles intensify with Red air support and advances from Chuguev.
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London
Bryansk
Zhidra
Ukraine
Malye Luki
Moscow
Kharchev
Orel
Communist Party
Pravdal
Besna
Karachev
Pravda
Tass
Kharkov
Red Army
Desna
Chuguev
Red Air Force
Kansas State Guard Mobilizes 1200 at Hutchinson
More than 1200 men from 31 Kansas localities encamped at the state fairgrounds for the first state-wide mobilization of the Kansas State Guard. Ptomaine poisoning affected members of the Iola company after arrival. four hospitalized, twelve confined to quarters, none in serious condition. Sandwiches purchased at Iola blamed.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas
State Fairgrounds
Kansas State Guard
Iola Company
Iola
Guardsmen Delay Entrainment On Santa Fe Train
The Lawrence Company of the state guard planned to entrain at 11 41 yesterday forenoon but no train was available. After waiting over an hour they departed at 1 10. The Santa Fe train carrying the guardsmen left Kansas City late.
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Lawrence
State Guard
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Two Couples Wed by Probate Judge at Court
Probate Judge Frank R. Gray married two couples at the court yesterday on special request. The first couple were Don V. Taylor and Erma La Verne Wilch of Topeka. The second pair were Omar Shrop Shire and Catherine Louise Clark of Sibley Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R
Parking Fines Named in Court Session
C. H. Black of Wyan dotte county with a state tag paid $6 in police court this morning for six accumulated parking tickets. Seventeen other individuals paid $1 fines or forfeit a $1 bond for parking violations.
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C. H. Black
Wyandotte County
Practice bombs strike tiny Nebraska town during routine flight
Six practice bombs were dropped on Tarnev Neb a Platte county village of 70 people at 4 15 am causing no casualties though one hit a house missing two children in bed by two or three feet Evacuation of 11 families was ordered while officers from the Seventh Service Command investigated the incident planes apparently overshot a bombing range Joe Zabana Jr town board member said five bombs fell inside the city limits and one outside the town. the outside hit the home of Joe Ciecor two sleeping children narrowly escaped injury
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Tarnev
Neb
Platte County
Seventh Service Command
Omaha
Command Headquarters
OCD
Joe Zabana, Jr
Joe Ciecor
Six Missouri Truck Drivers Arrested for Kansas Tag Violations
Six Missouri truck drivers were jailed on highway 59 north of Lafwrence after being charged with operating vehicles bearing Missouri tags without Kansas registrations or tags. Each pleaded guilty before Justice O. J. Law, receiving a 150 dollar fine plus 7.50 costs.
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Kansas Highway Patrol
Missouri
Union Pacific
Topeka
Muncie
Kan
Kansas
Highway 59
Lafwrence
Kansas State Vehicle Commission
Justice of the Peace O. J. Law
C. F. Flowers
Ben Perrin
Frank Bennett
Kenneth Ray Werrimer
Nick Schneider
Charles E. Barber
Kansas City
Liberty
William M. Scott
Fopeka
Harvey Schmedemann
Law- Tene
State Highway Patrol
Scott
Grove and Sons
Minneapolis
McNear criticizes Eastman over featherbed rules on railroad
Chicago August 16 George P McNear president of the Toledo Peoria and Western railroad says Joseph B Eastman director of the Office of Defense Transportation admits he cannot operate satisfactorily under featherbed rules imposed when the ODT took over in 1942 The report cites modifications allowing trains to run without yard engines and crews changing at Peoria and interchange crews handling cars across lines This admission exposes the rules as impractical amid wartime operations
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Chicago
George P. McNear
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Joseph B. Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Eastman
War Labor Board
McNear
Peosia
Father Paschel Pretz Joins Kansas University Faculty
Father Paschel Pretz head of the physics department at St Benedicts college has accepted a position on the University of Kansas staff where he will assist in army instruction and teach a general physics course for a 16 week term He is a 1917 graduate of St Benedicts and earned a 1920 MA there He attended Notre Dame summers 1922 to 1924 and earned an MS from Iowa in 1929 Also noted is Father Romuald Fox physics instructor at St Benedicts teaching mathematics at KU since last September.
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Father Paschel Pretz
St. Benedict’s College
University of Kansas
Father Paschel
Notre Dame University
University of Iowa
Romuald Fox
St. Benedicts
K. U
Don t Love a Single Day s Rent Ad Notice
A compact rental ad fragment offers a single day rate and directs readers to call 22 for an ad taker. The brief implies a terse classified insertion for a short term leasing need.
Fatal electrocution in Lone Star farm home
Miss Ida E. Murr, 38, was electrocuted at the Fred McKinney farm near Lone Star while moving a lit floor lamp and contacting an iron floor register. Present were Mrs. Lydia Tidrow and Ralph McNeese. She had worked at the house two years and is survived by her father Rep. Henry Murr. Funeral set for the Friends church in Tonganoxie tomorrow at 2 PM with burial at Eagle cemetery.
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Ida E. Murr
Fred McKinney
Lone Star
Lydia Tidrow
Miss Murr
McKinney
Henry Murr
Tonganoxie
Friends Church
Eagle Cemetery
Bombers Strike Six French Airfields Including Le Bourget
Allied air forces attacked six French airfields today including Le Bourget near Paris. Large formations of USAF RAF and VSB bombers with Thunderbolts faced strong fighter resistance. Bombers claimed about 17 enemy planes destroyed with preliminary claims near 20 more.
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London
France
le Bourget
Paris
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Poix
Abbeville
Thunderbolt
Lindley Hall remodeling team vows swift completion
A crew of 30 to 40 men is installing kitchen facilities toilets and showers in Lindley Hall under the A-12 program. Bert Nash says work should finish this week and meals begin at the hall next week while trainees sleep in the hall and eat at the west stadium section.
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Lindley Hall
Bert Nash
Nash
Nazis Claim Sinking of Brooklyn Class Cruiser
London reports Berlin radio said a German submarine sank a United States cruiser of the Brooklyn class off Sicily’s north coast. Allied ships had not confirmed the loss, though US navy acknowledged two warships lost in Sicilian waters since the invasion, including the destroyer Maddox.
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London
Berlin
Sicily
U. S. Navy
Sicilian
Maddox
Court Grants Divorces in District Court
Judge Hugh Means grants several divorces on Saturday. Cleo Blackman awarded custody of a minor to Mrs. Blackman, Errma Minnie Trowbridge gains custody of a daughter to Mrs. Trowbridge, and Dolores goes to the father Elmer George Trowbridge. Thomas H. Jones divorces from Mary Ellen Jones due to gross neglect of duty.
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Hugh Means
Cleo Blackman
Donald Blackman
Sweden halts Nazi supply trains to Norway and Finland
Stockholm reports no trains carried German war materials to Norway and Finland via Sweden for the first time in three years. The last such supply train rolled yesterday, and transport of Nazi troops through Sweden, about 250,000 soldiers annually, will end next Friday under the new policy announced August 5.
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Stockholm
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Drownings Reported at Lake Wabaunsee Training Camp
Pvt. Ervin QC Zarnoth 20 son of Mrs Elsie Zarnoth Seymour Wis drowned yesterday in Lake Wabaunsee near Eskridge during cavalry replacement training center recreation camp incidents. The tragedy occurred August 16 at Junction City Kansas.
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Lake Wabaunsee Junction City
Kan
Pvt
Ervin QC
Zarnoth
Elsie Zarnoth
Seymour
Wis
Lake Wabaunsee
Cavalry Replacement Training Center
Eskridge
Open City Move Seen as Trick in Rome Declared
London observers doubt Italy’s Rome open city pledge as a ruse by Badoglio to deter bombardment. British papers urge continued air attacks until Italy quits the war, amid reports of civilian relocations and strategic supply concerns.
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London
Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Great Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
London Daily Express
Italy
Winston Churchill
Canada
London Daily Mail
Badoglio
Sicily
London Express
Hitler
County Commission Adopts 1944 Budget Without Change
The Lawrence county commissioners held a public hearing on the proposed 1943 levy and 1944 budget, and adopted the budget with no changes after no objections were raised. The 1944 expenditures total 508 081.27 dollars with 142 403.69 dollars in taxes, at 3.757 mills. The levy is lower than prior years and offsets by cash balances and state and federal participation. The city of Lawrence plans a 10.3263 mill levy, down from 12.3162 last year, with overall tax levy down nearly 5 mills to about 31 mills.
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Board of County ‘Commissioners
State Tax’ Commission
Board of Equalization
Lawrence City
Lawrence
Death of Local Soldier Reported to His Parents
Corporal Roy S. Dissinger age 37, son of Mr and Mrs David C Dissinger of 130 Michigan street, died August 6 somewhere in the North American area, telegram from war department to his parents today. Inducted April 6, 1942, stationed in Alaska last year, letter from him dated August 4. Before service he worked at the Hotel Eldridge.
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Roy S. Dissinger
David C. Dissinger
Michigan Street
North American
War Department
Corporal Dissinger
Alaska
Eldridge
Four Kansas Officers Promoted in War Department Orders
Washington August 16 temporary promotions announced for four Kansas officers by the war department. Captain Lewis Alric Young becomes major Lawrence. James Wesley Putnam of Emporia Myron G Wilson of Gardner and Donald Manning Fulton of Lyons rise from second to first lieutenant. Major Young had been commissioned captain in the sanitation corps in February and served in Bolivia after entering service as acting director of KU sanitation division.
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Washington
Kansas
War Department
Lewis Alric Young
Lawrence
James Wesley Putnam
Emporia
Myron G. Wilson
Gardner
Donald Manning Fulton
Lyons
Young
United States Army Sanitation Corps
Bolivia
South America
Division of Sanitation
University of Kansas
Chimney Burns at Ice Plant Draws Crowd
A chimney fire at the ice plant on Sixth and Vermont last night drew a large crowd and lit up the area. The fire department arrived but the blaze caused no damage and subsided as the chimney burned itself out.
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Sixth
Vermont
Stock Market Index Report Shows 60-Stock Pace
A stock market index tracked 60 stocks with a level near 50.0 as of Saturday session close. Traders noted mixed activity across sectors with modest gains in industrials and declines in technology stocks amid uncertain conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corate
University of Kansas Establishes Research Foundation
Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced the University of Kansas founded a Research Foundation to promote and aid scientific investigation. Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson will serve as executive director with a board including Roy A. Roberts and J. C. Nichols, among others, merging the Engineering Experiment Station into the new group.
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University of Kansas Research Foundation
University of Kansas
Deane W. Malott
Eugene A. Stephenson
Pestroleum Engineering
University
Malott
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Roy Cross
Kansas City, Testing Laboratories
Kenneth Spencer
Pittsburg and Midway Coal Mining Co
J. C. Nichols
J. C. Nichols, Inc
Deane Ackers
Kansas Power and Light Co
Ernest Reed
Reesearch
Union Carbide and Carboy Corp
Oscar Stauffer
State Board of Regents
J. O. Jones
School of Engineering and Architecture
Art
Sai University
Univaresity
Service Stations Report Good Gasoline Business
Motorists rushed to use four gallon coupons, boosting Saturday sales at Lawrence area stations. Operators said one day’s volume rivaled what they’d usually see in three. Some stations open Sunday saw steady business as the public adjusted to the three gallon per coupon rule reportedly announced by federal officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Altho
Althe
CPA
Washington
Swiss Italy telegraph and phone link broken on frontier
Swiss telegraphic agency reports all telephone and telegraphic communications between Italy and Switzerland disrupted at Chiasso on the Italian Swiss frontier. The outage affects cross border lines and UPI notes the incident occurred in mid afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bern
Switzerland
Chiasso
Italy
Blue Stamp U V W Set Ready for Processed Foods
The Office of Price Administration announced blue stamps U V and W in narration book two, valid September 1, allowing purchases of processed foods through October 20. The notice notes these stamps extend the rationing program in effect in Washington on August 16.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Weather Update Kansas Cooler South and East with Showers
Kansas weather notes a somewhat cooler trend in the south and east, little temperature change in the north tonight and Tuesday morning, with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the southern quarter. Gas office readings show highs near 90s and lows around 70s, yesterday’s high 90, low 77.
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Kansas
Northstern
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St. Benedict
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