London Hears Of 3 Way Conference In The Middle East
The London Star reports a Roosevelt Stalin Churchill tripartite meeting in the Middle East. Notes vary on location Tehran or Tabriz with talks toward an unconditional surrender threat to Germany. Polls and dispatches cite Fort Worth comments and the aim of shaping postwar Germany.
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Middle East
Germany
Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Tom Connally
U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fort Worth
Tex
United Nations
London Star
Teheran
Tabriz
Persia
Connally
Washington
London
Joseph Stalin
Tran
Destrucon
Paris
Iran
Russia
Bern
Vichy
Turkey
Cos
Cairo
Chang Kai-shek
Cumbhuriet
Soviet War News Weekly
No Short Cut to Victory in Pacific War Curtin Says
Prime Minister John Curtin declared there is no shortcut to victory in the Pacific and that heavy Allied air strikes highlight the task ahead. Allied bombers sank a 10,000 ton transport and a large tanker, damaged two destroyers, and shot down 21 Japanese planes from the Marshalls to the Solomons.
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John Curtin
Australia
Pacific
Marshalls
Bougainville
Solomons
Saverage Credit
United States
Liscome Bay
Gilbert Islands
Curtin
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Cairo
Japan
Europe
Rabaul
New Britain
Kavieng
New Ireland
Wewak
New Guinea
Taroa
Maloelap Atoll
Gilberts
Red Army Captures Eighty Towns North West of Gomel
Soviet dispatches report Red Army gains north west of Gomel with captures of more than 80 towns and substantial military equipment. Fighting on the front continues amid rain, snow, and heavy losses on both sides as German efforts falter.
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Red Army
Moscow
Europe
Cherkasy
Dnieper
Gomel
Pripet River
Zhlobin
Znamenka
Kremenchug
Kiev Bulge
Break in Big Inch pipeline hits Ohio area
A large oil line break in Hamilton Ohio allowed an estimated 40 miles of oil to escape into Dry Creek near a Chesapeake & Ohio trestle. The 24 inch line once carried about 500000 barrels daily and was stopped at Greensburg Indiana. Emergency crews and farmers dammed the stream to salvage fuel.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Pipline Corporation
Cincinnati
Greensburg
Ind
LaGuardia Warns Subsidy Abolition Hits Cities
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia warned that ending food subsidies could raise living costs and spark inflation, risking the financial stability of every city in the United States. He spoke in Washington on December 3.
Medicos Move In At U S Army China Branch Hq
U S Army field hospitals moved into the snowbound Chinese mountains to aid Chinese forces. American physicians and surgeons staff the units with Chinese Americans making up about one third. Maj J R H Johnston and Lt Col Virgil Fish command the hospitals. Ninety Chinese nurses join the staff, with Chinese Red Cross assigning replacements for Indian-based nurses. The Chinese nurses teach in Mandarin and adapt to army rations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
China
United States Army
J. R. H. Johnston
Clarksville
Ark
Ozark Country
Virgil Fish
University City
Maj
Theodore Oltman
Newton
Kan
Japan
India
Chinese Red Cross
Mission Hospitals
Hoffmann on Gripsholm Repatriation from Ja pan to U S
William Hoffmann brother of Harry W Hoffmann a Charlton Insurance special agent is reported among those repatriated on the Gripsholm returning Americans from Japan. He spent twenty years in China where he directed the National History Museum at Lingnan University Canton. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1918 and began his career in China. Mrs. Hoffmann is believed held prisoner in Manila by the Japanese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William ©. Hoffmann
Harry W. Hoffmann
Charlton Insurance Agency
Gripsholm
Japan
United States
Hoffmann
China
National History Museum
Lingnan University
Canton
University of Kansas
Manila
Runaway Horses Kill Farm Wife Near Chetopa Kansas
Mrs. Lucinda Jett, 62, died after a runaway team of horses overturned a wagon near Chetopa. Calvin Jett and daughter Evelyn Jett, 24, escaped with minor injuries while Evelyn drove the horses. Mrs. Jett died six hours later from a skull fracture.
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Parsons, Kan
UPA
Lucinda Jett
Chetopa
Three French Executed for Terrorism in Southern France
Barcelona reports Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt announced the execution of three Frenchmen for acts of terrorism. German authorities also reported the death of Dr. Rourke, chief civil administrator for the army in Dijon, killed November 21 while attempting to arrest a poacher.
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Barcelona
Karl von Rundstedt
France
Dr. Rourke
Dijon
Tax Refunds Possible For Oklahoma City Couples
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Denver allows husbands and wives to file separate federal income tax returns under Oklahoma community property law. About 5 000 state married couples could see refunds or reduced future payments based on past income taxes and reductions for others.
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Oklahoma City
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Denver
Oklahoma
Fifth Army Push Opens Nazi Lines
Allied reports say the Fifth and Eighth Armies pressed forward in Italy after a stalemate. Clark’s Fifth Army cracked through Calabritto amid machine gun fire and barbed wire, while Montgomery’s Eighth Army advanced toward San Vito and Castel Frontano. Luftwaffe resistance remained strong. air battles raged with losses on both sides. German use of refugees to hinder progress was noted as bridges were blown behind advancing troops. General Clark faced shellfire during a tour of the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiev
Zhitomir
Koroster
Smolensk
Orsha
Minsk
White Russia
Moscow-Warsaw
Libau-Kharkov
Berlin
Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Calabritto
Eighth Army
Sangro
Castel Frontano
Lanciano
San Vito
Adriatic
Bernard L. Montgomery
Fifth
Eighth
San Giorgio
Rocca
Cervano
Rome
Bolzano
Brenner Pass
Italy
Queensborough
Raider
Duraz
Mignano
Clark
France
Salerno
Depot Expansion Nears End at Air Force Depot
Topeka December 3 UPI an expansion program at the air forces supply depot adds four new buildings encloses two warehouses and builds paved roads and facilities Lt Col Emory R Baxter commander said projects include paved outdoor storage for an additional one and a half million square feet with a railroad spur to serve the area and is set for completion next month
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
UPI
Air Forces
Emory R. Baxter
Mountbatten Returns to India After Middle East Conference
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived in New Delhi from the Middle East tri power talks and met with his Southeast Asia military commanders for an immediate briefing.
Senate rejects proxy vote plan for service members
Washington reports the senate rejected a proposed proxy voting arrangement for armed service members by 50 to 30. Senator Danaher of Connecticut urged substituting an absentee ballot with home proxies for next year. Senator Lucas of Illinois criticized the plan as inviting votes by proxy hunters targeting the forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Today
Danaher
R-Conn
Lucas
D-Ill
4H Annual Dinner Honors Achievement Banquet
The Sixteenth Annual 4 H Club and Vocational Agriculture Achievement banquet is set for this evening in the Crystal Room of Hotel Eldridge at 6 15. Douglas county bankers association hosts with E B Martin presiding. Dr R A Schwegler of the University of Kansas education faculty will deliver the address. County agent Deal Six and Miss Dorothea Schroeder will announce year awards. Vocational instructor W R Essick and performers Miss Maxine Lindley Clarence Wilson Jim Holyfield Clarence Stewart provide entertainment.
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Crystal Room
Hotel
Eldridge
Douglas County Banker’s Association
E. B. Martin
Banker’s Association
R. A. Schwegler
School of Education
University of Kansas
Deal Six
Dorothea Schroeder
W. R. Essick
Liberty Memorial High School
Maxine Lindley
Clarence Wilson
Jim Holyfield
Clarence Stewart
Ike Schellenberg
Naomi Schellenberg
Plot to assassinate Roosevelt thwarted by Secret Service
Detroit reported that Walter Best, 38, a Pontiac man, planned to kill President Roosevelt last month. He was deemed sane on November 23 and is held at Gallinger hospital awaiting transfer to a Michigan mental facility. Best talked of electrodes in his brain and was said to have gained a spot near the White House guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
William A. Carlson
Secret Service
Michigan-Ohio
Detroit News Today
Pontiac, Mich
Roosevelt
Walter Best
Pontiac
Carlson
Gallinger Hospital
Washington
Michigan
Best
Oakland County
White House
Nelson
Wis
United States Army
Italy
Notables Banquet Ends Before Roof Tumbles In
Seven hours after Chiang Kai-shek and Mrs Chiang Kai-shek dined with Admiral Mountbatten and other officials at a U S Chinese base in Eastern India the dining room roof collapsed burying the table they sat at An investigation was ordered by Brig Gen Frederick McCabe but there was no evidence of sabotage Mountbatten and the Changs had paused here en route to New Delhi and Chungking after the Cairo conference The Chiang Kai-sheks reportedly arrived in Chungking safely the day before
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Chiang Kai-shek
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Frederick McCabe
Portland
Ore
Altho
Mountbatten
Chiang Kaisheks
New Delhi
Chungking
Cairo
Chiang
Red Cross to Send 1 Million Garments to Italy
The American Red Cross announced that over 1,000,000 clothing articles made by U S Red Cross chapters will be distributed to the needy in Italy within the next month. Field director William Giblin said the clothing will go mainly to refugees left destitute by German actions in North Africa and Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
North Africa
American Red Cross
Red Cross
United States
Italy
William Giblin
Red Cross War Relief
AMC
Chancellor Malott Heads to Fort Worth Air Corps Event
Chancellor Deane W. Malott of the University of Kansas leaves tonight for Fort Worth Texas to attend the Air Corps training command charters. He proceeds in his role as educational adviser to the Air Corps for the weekend duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Deane W. Malott
University of Kansas
Tex
Air Corps
Heavy Bombers Strike Berlin in Fifth Raid in Two Weeks
British heavy bombers attacked Berlin in a major raid last night, the fifth in two weeks, drawing large fires and heavy anti-aircraft action. German reports claim 30 British planes were shot down while American Fortresses set a new monthly bombing record in Europe, with high losses on both sides.
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London
P—R.a.f
Berlin
Air Ministry
Germany
Sweden
Marseille
Mediterranean
Elbe
Greater
R.A.F
Britain
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Weather Outlook Trails Mild Windy Weekend Across Kansas
Forecast indicates a mild conditions today with wind increasing and a colder front approaching from the northwest late in the day. Light moisture is unlikely with clear skies, though western counties reported more snow yesterday and Phillipsburg saw a low of 17 degrees.
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Kanoas
Phillipsburg
Dodge City
Wetherman
Flora
Stock Market Index Rises to 48.4 on Stronger Session
The average of 60 stocks climbs to 48.4 after yesterday's values at 47.8 as traders reacted to gains in key sectors. Investors monitored momentum and broader market directions throughout the session.
Bulgarians Revolt Amid Rommel Forces on Balkan Front
Bulgarian troops allied with Nazi units on the Bosnian Serbian border have revolted and been disarmed. Yugoslav Liberation forces report a two week clash halting Rommel’s push into Serbia, with Partisans gaining the initiative and striking German and Chetnik units across Bosnia and Croatia.
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London
Erwin Rommel
Yugoslav Army of Liberation
Rommel
Serbia
Bosnia
Croatia
Pryjepolje-Sjenica
Nova Varos
Sarajevo
Communiqtie
Uvac
Lawrence high school football banquet honors 1948 squad
About 125 attended a banquet for the Lawrence high school football squad at the Community building. David L. Scotty MacFarlane of Topeka spoke, praising American privilege and life lessons from football. Toastmaster F C Allen and Coach Chalmer Woodard introduced guests and the 1948 team.
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Co-Operative Club
Lawrence High School
David L
Scotty” MacFarlane
Topeka
F. C. Allen
Allen
Chalmer Woodard
George Watson
Henry Schenk
K. U
Elmer Scha
License Revoked for Kansas City Accounting Firm in 1941 Audit
The state municipal accounting board revoked or sanctioned J. D. M. Crockett and company of Kansas City Kansas in connection with the 1941 Franklin county social welfare funds audit showing a shortfall of 34 965. Charles B. Reigle, former Franklin county welfare fiscal officer, faces embezzlement charges. Governor Schoeppel ordered an inquiry into why the shortage remained undetected. The board said Crockett may finish audits already started and on file with the state accountant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
State Municipal Accounting Board
J. D. M. Crockett and Company
Kansas City
Kan
Franklin County Social Welfare
Charles B. Reigle
Franklin Courty Welfare
Schoeppel
Municipal Accounting Board
Crockett
Franklin County
Office of State Accountant
Tulsa OPA Issues Sugar Bowl Ration Notice to Team
The Tulsa OPA served a ration notice to the football team ahead of the Sugar Bowl urging adherence to government regulations on pork products. It advised precise safe kicking, careful ball handling, and keeping rationed footballs in Tulsa, noting points and a humorous Georgia cracker reference.
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Tulsa Opa
Tulsa
Okla
Tulsa Office of Price Administration
Georgia Tech
Georgia
OPA
Christmas Basket Drive Coordinated by Welfare Office
Christmas season programs begin as county welfare office lists family needs to prevent duplication. The Salvation Army, Kiwanis, and Co-Operative Club reallocate funds and plan baskets, meals, and activities while welfare director Mildred Watson notes many families remain in need. Salvation Army booths reopen on Massachusetts Street to collect donations and coordinate with welfare officials. Capt Robert Getz urged anyone seeking a basket to contact the Salvation Army office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Welfare Office
Mildred Watson
Salvation Army
Welafre
Watson
Kiwanis Club
Co-Operative Club
Douglas County
Isle Eby
Harold G. Barr
Massachussett Street
Robert Getz
Welfare Department
Eight Colored Men Leave for Fort Leavenworth Induction
The Douglas County selective service board schedules eight colored men to depart by bus at 4 04 this afternoon for the Fort Leavenworth induction center. The group includes two fathers, Eugene Matthew Wallace of 446 Arkansas street and Jessie Jackson of 1805 New Jersey street transferred from Coahoma Miss. Also listed are Milton Maurice Moore 519 Elm street Alan Howard Patterson 223 North Sixth Leon Daniel Kidd 605 North Second Arthur William Thompson 1910 Kentucky street Nolan Spencer Johnson Jr Eudora Normal Palmer Barksdale 1906 Tennessee street transferred from Denver Colorado.
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Pearl Harbor
Fort Leavenworth
Douglas County
Selective Service Board
Eugene Matthew Wallace
Arkansas Street
Jessie Jackson
New Jersey Street
Coahoma, Miss
Milton Maurice Moore
Elm Street
Alan Howard Patterson
North Sixth Street
Leon Daniel Kidd
North Second Street
Arthur William Thompson
Kentucky Street
Nolan Spencer Johnson, Jr
Eudora
Palmer Barksdale
Tennessee Street
Denver, Colo
Explosion at Fairfax plant kills one in Kansas City
Miss Irene Freestone a 20 year old, was killed and Earl Weant 50 and James Nothstine 35 were seriously injured at North American Aviation Fairfax plant in Kansas City Kansas. Officials believe an electric spark from a fluorescent light ignited fumes from coating material inside a gasoline tank, as the trio searched for leaks. All three victims resided in Kansas City Missouri.
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Kansas City
Kan
Irene Freestone
Earl Weant
James S. Nothstine
Fairfax
North American Aviation, Inc
Weant
Nothstine
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Lawrence Pan
Bulletin
New York
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Pescara
U.S
Ters
Schwegler
U. S
Greater Berlin
Grid Squad
No Children’s Party
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