Underground war plan to last five years revealed
Plan outlines threefold Nazi strategy open warfare from Alpine HQ sabotage by partisan bands and propaganda through 200000 Nazi followers across Europe and beyond. SS troops and party members to use Alpine strongholds double identities and fake records to hinder Allies and sow chaos while a head propaganda office coordinates global efforts and builds a Hitler legend.
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Aldsdorf
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Gestapo
Hein
Himmler
Hitler
Europe
S.S
Nazi Party
Alpine
Black Forest
Himmiler
European
South America
Bae
White Candle chosen for Journal-World Christmas Eve tale
Maud C. Jackson’s modern Christmas story A White Candle is elected as this year’s Christmas Eve feature for the Journal-World. Published in the last edition before Christmas, December 23, it marks her second time as author of the Christmas Eve story.
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Maud C. Jackson
Journal-World
Canada
Our
Peter
Well Baby Clinic Registration Set at Lawrence Site
The well baby clinic will be held all morning at the Lawrence site with registration from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Mothers will use the west side entrance. Elizabeth Bradley is the nurse in charge.
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Well Baby
Well
Lawrence Meeeae Haelie Roma
Fairy Boyden
Elizabeth Bradley i
Meats and Staples Stamp Details in Sagatin Italy
The report lists various wartime stamp values and validity dates for Meats, Fats, Sugar, Shoes, and Gasoline. It notes stamps AS through Z8 and AS through G5 valid in Sagatin Italy until December 31, with indefinite validity for some and January 1 for others. Sugar stamps 30 through a od remain valid for five pounds until February 28, 1945. Shoe stamps 1, 2, and 3 valid indefinitely. Gasoline stamps 13-A and related coups valid until December 13 with replacements offered.
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Presa
Gosk
Vale
Sagatin
Italy
Big Three meeting hoped as war aims clash
London reports growing belief that Roosevelt Churchill and possibly Stalin may soon meet in Britain. Diplomatic tension rises as aims on Germany de Nazification war coordination and postwar order test unity among the United States Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
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London
Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Britain
Anthony Eden
Church
Italy
Areece
Sddon
Edward Stettinius
Germany
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Poland
Lublin Committee
Christmas seal sale reaches $184.25 total
Mrs. Carl Graeber chaired the station raising 184.25 for the Tuberculosis and Health Association with help from Mrs. timer, Mrs. Alice Brockele Elam, Mrs. W. B. Snee, Ronald Kimber, Mrs. R. M. Sulters, and Phil Ernst. Seals available at the Outlook office and at K U this week. Keene chairman aims for 3500 for the 1945 Douglas County program amid ongoing drives and costs.
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Outlook
K. U
Baldwin
A . Keene
Douglas County Tuberculogis and Health Association
Douglas County
Flood control program sent to FDR for action
Washington reports Congress sent a postwar flood control package worth 1 billion dollars to President Roosevelt. A companion rivers and harbors bill totals about 500 million, with actions on the St Lawrence seaway and a waterway list spanning the Missouri valley and Beaver-Mahoning projects shaping the postwar construction plan. Aiken pressed for quick seaway action. Bailey and Overton urged delay for the new Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
St. Lawrence Seaway
Aiken
Seaway
Overton
D-Ea
Bailey
D-N.c
Commerce Committee
Canada
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Interior
Missouri River Valley
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
Conference
Turtle Creek Reservoir
Big Blue River
Manhattan
Kan
Turtle Creek
Army
Deaths and Funerals Delbert Foster
Funeral services for Delbert Foster who died December 5 at his Lawrence home will be held tomorrow at 2 PM from Rumsey funeral home. Capt. Robert Getz to conduct. burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Norma Fay Denney aged four of Pueblo died yesterday at Lawrence Memorial hospital while visiting. Ship date set for burial in Pueblo. Survived by C A Denney of Pueblo and four sisters and two brothers.
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Delbert Foster
Lawrence
Rumsey Funeral
Capt
Robert Getz
Oak Hill Cemetery
Norma Fay Denney
Pueblo
Colo
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
W. L. Landreth
Newetmer
Re Bowi
C. A. Denney
Tobacco for K U Coeds Five G I s Send Smoke Aid
Kansas University coeds received two packages of tobacco and a letter from five U S soldiers in France. They joked about coed smoking corncob pipes and offered to quit to ease the soldiers' distress. Acting dean Marie Miller dismissed the piece as misinformed wartime humor and praised women’s broader war efforts.
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G.I
France
Kansas University
Lucky
Joe
Eddie
Johnny
Leo
Marie Miller
E. U
Hollingsworth brothers win bronze stars in France service
Army Cpls Alvin J. and Leo J. Hollingsworth receive bronze star for heroic service in France. Their parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hollingsworth of McLouth. Also noted are S. 1/c Orville Puckett awaiting overseas assignment in Miami, Pvt. L. M. Detwiler nephew of Mrs. Jess Hamilton in Wichita, and Pvt. Kent H. Rhodes from McLouth killed in a Sioux Falls crash last Thursday. Vernon L. Plant promoted to chief machinist mate in the navy.
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Cpl
Alvin J. Hollingsworth
Pfc
Leo J. Hollingsworth
Army Medical Battalion
France
Albert Hollingsworth
McLouth
L. M. Detwiler
Jess Hamilton
Wichita
Kent H. Rhodes
Lawrence
Rhodes
Sioux Falls
S. C
Vernon L. Plant
G. Planz
Vermont Street
Navy
Dover in Half Light
Mr and Mrs C J Mann report their son Pfc Keith Mann arrived safely in England. Their other son Lt Bernard Mann, after a 30 day leave in Lawrence, heads back to his unit in the South Pacific. London blackout rules were eased for the first time since the war began, extending to coastal towns and rural areas in a moon glow modification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Mann
Pfc
Keith Mann
England
Bernard Mann
Lawrence
London
Electrician Mate Blakes Graduates, Awaiting Orders
Robert A. Blakes, filed E. M., has graduated from an electrician mate's school at Farragut Idaho and is now at the receiving barracks at Shoemaker California awaiting orders.
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Robert A. Blakes
E. M
Farragut
Ida
Shoemaker
Calif. i
Parents receive posthumous Purple Heart for Ray Eberhart
Mr and Mrs George Eberhart of 1046 Pennsylvania Street received a posthumous Purple Heart for their son S Sergeant Raymond Eberhart who died in combat north of Rome in October He was a former Journal World carrier and enrolled at the University of Kansas when he enlisted in 1942.
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J. W. Calvert
Mlinois Street
Cpl
Calvert
Nancy
France
Lawrence
Lawrence National Guard
Patton
Birth of Hemera Heralded by Roy Gillum Family
Mrs Roy Gillum of 7 ges City Missouri announces the birth of Hemera, a daughter, at the local hospital. The family requests friends to share congratulations and best wishes during the joyful occasion.
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Mance
Roy Gillum
Ges City
Hemera
Laren
Woman Injured After Fall On Ice Near Trinity Episcopal
Mrs Roy Linley slipped on an icy 800 block Ninth Street near Trinity Episcopal and fractured her leg. She received first aid on scene before an ambulance arrived and was taken to hospital. A neighbor, Mrs James E Clark, aided her and awaited news on her condition For the time being the report mentions a serious visit by Clark's husband and plans for further treatment tomorrow.
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Roy Linley
Missouri
Ninth Street
Trinity Episcopal Church
James E. Clark
Tt Tithe Hospital
American Armies Press Ahead in German Front
Allied forces push toward the Roer and Saarland as Seventh and Third armies close on Karlsruhe and Saarlautern. U.S. units advance inside German frontier, capturing Habkirchen and engaging pillboxes while German rear areas face renewed bombing. The drive negates Siegfried Line portions and targets key border towns including Wissembourg.
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Duren
Dericks- Weiler and Gey
U.S
Cologne
Hasso Eckardt von Manteuffel
Bizerte
North Africa
Volksgrenadier
Roer
U.S. First Army
Derichweiler
Gey
Mariaweiler
U. S. Seventh Army
Karlsruhe
Saarland
U. S
Third Army
Fraulautern
Saarlautern
Dillingen
Blies
Habkirchen
Sarreguemines
First
Schophoven
Pommernich
Germany
Hurtgen Forest
Alexander M. Patch
Palatinate
Bavaria
Rhine
Seventh Army
Wissembourg
Maginot Line
Patch
Fraulatern
95Th
Tee
Ensdorf
Saarlautern-Roden
Third
Patton, Jr
Siegfried Line
Tax deadline shift for 1944 estimated taxes announced
Lynn R. Brodrick announces a change in final dates for 1944 estimated tax declarations to January 16 1945. Farmers and others may file 1944 returns on Form 1040 by January 15 and have them serve as both return and declaration, potentially avoiding the final estimated tax installment. If 1944 returns are filed by January 15, the 1945 declaration remains due March 15. Taxpayers missing the January 15 deadline must file by March.
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Lynn R. Brodrick
U. S
Asl
Brodrick
From Prison to Jobs Cleared for 28 Clemency Grants
Topeka December 13. The Kansas administration approved 28 of 67 clemency applications from the state penitentiary and industrial farm at Lansing. All released prisoners had jobs lined up and completed minimum sentences. Those on second terms had served one year beyond their minimum.
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Topeka
Kansas of Administration
State Penitentiary
Lansing
New German Device Reported Over Western Front
Paris reports allied forces advancing on the western front as German troops reveal a new device: silvery balls floating in the air. Pilots sight these orbs individually and in clusters during patrols over the Reich, with unclear purpose. It may be an anti aircraft defense or weapon system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Reich
Finney Seeks Parole At Lansing After Bond Scandal
Ronald Finney, a central figure in a Kansas bond scandal a decade ago, says he will seek parole at the February 6 meeting of the state board of administration at Lansing penitentiary. His original 31 to 451 year forgery sentence was amended by Gov. Schoep pel last January to 18 to 36 years, making him eligible for parole. In aviation exams, 55 boys aged 17 from Liberty Memorial high school and others at University and KU preparatory groups took a two hour naval combat aircrewman exam at Liberty Memorial High School conducted by Yeoman G. D. Sullivan of Kansas City.
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Topeka
Ronald Finney
Kansas
State Board of Administration
Lansing
Finney
Andrew Schoeppel
Liberty
Memorial High School
Lawrence inquiry about Freedom's House coverlet legend
Lawrence readers are asked to verify if an institution named Freedom's House exists in Lawrence Kansas and if a Celia Lillie associated with the bed coverlet has local ties. The note follows a letter from R H Hill of Goshen Connecticut seeking historical color. Douglas county commissioners were in session handling routine business. A Riding Academy display featured a cutter at Pinckney school and children sang at a kindergarten scene.
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Lawrence
R. H. Hill
Goshen
Conn
Freedom's House
Celia Lillie
Kansas
Lillie
Journal-World
Gayle Mott
Riding Academy
Pinckney School
Bernice Nash
Jean Bauer
Mott pupil Zedith Pinckney highlighted in class notes
Fragmentary OCR recalls Mott School pupil Zedith Pinckney as a highlighted name in a brief school note or caption.
Wheat and livestock markets ease after steady grain start
Chicago and Kansas City markets show wheat steady with broad grain losses led by corn. Cash wheat ceiling changes minimal, corn heavy selling prompts by local traders. Cattle and hogs see mixed, with declines on steer bids and steady to weaker hogs, while sheep trading remains slow with few lambs sold.
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New York
Chicago
Cter
Office of Price, Administration
Kansas City
Outaide
Edadan
Ap-Wfa
Livestock Receipts and Market Figures From Kansas City
Kansas City reports estimated livestock receipts with cattle calves hogs and sheep totals. Wheat and corn prices shown for Kansas City futures with bid quotes and Chicago potato market notes. Wall Street closes with mixed activity as specialties led gains while the broad list drifted lower.
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Kansas City
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