Russians Sweep Toward Donets Basin in Major Offense
Soviet forces push into the Donets basin edging toward Rostov while claiming 43,000 German dead and more prisoners. The offensives in the Don mid front plus Rzhev and Stalingrad regions press the Germans back with heavy losses and new captures including tanks guns and matériel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Don Cossack Steppes
Don-Volga
Stalingrad
Rostov
Red Army
Don
Rzhev
Voronezh
F. I. Golikov
Dornezh
United States
Great Britain
N. F. Vatutin
Moscow-Rostov
Millerovo
DNB
Middle
Joseph Stalin
Eighly
First 1943 Draft Call For County Is Light
The 1943 draft for Douglas County opens with a light call. Two colored men are to depart January 9 and ten white men on January 11. Eighteen men left today by bus for induction at Ft. Leavenworth. Nineteen others admitted last Monday returned to Leavenworth at noon after a week in the enlisted reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Selective Service Board
Ft. Leavenworth
Leavenworth
British Patrols Engage Rommel Forces in Libyan Battle
British Eighth Army patrols engaged axis detachments near Sultan 140 miles west of El Agheila as Rommel's retreat continues along the Libyan coast from Sirte to Buerat El Hsun. Air activity declines with bombers striking Rommel transports and concentrations while mines are cleared and losses are reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rommel
Cairo
Eighth Army
Sultan
el Agheila
Tripoli
Erwin Rommel
Sirte
Buerat
Fl Haun
Detbibh Madenla Mana
Tanach
Morocco
Buerat el Hsun
Buerat Ei Hsun
Messerschmitt
Tunisia
Port Said
British troops near Akyab advance toward key Burmese port
British forces pushing south along the Bay of Bengal edge report less than 60 miles from Akyab after 40 miles through swamps and jungle. Air strikes target Rangoon and Tangoo airfield as Japan concentrates on defending Burma while strategists see Akyab as a step toward reopening the Burma road and aiding China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
Akyab
Calcutta
Bay of Bengal
Toungoo
Rangoon
Burma
China
Yunnan
Goh
Archibald P. Wavell
Forecast for 1943 winter wheat output in the United States
The agriculture department projects 1943 winter wheat production at 624,504,000 bushels. Area seeded falls to 37,482,000 acres from last year’s 38,339,000, with December 1 crop condition at 88 percent of normal. Kansas seeds 10,449,000 acres with December 1 condition at 91 percent and an anticipated 177,633,000 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Kansas
POUND A GERMAN PORT
Allied air forces pounded Duisburg in a night raid following a daylight bombing by American B 17s. Fighter planes attacked targets over France and the Low Countries. 11 Allied aircraft were reported lost. This was the 52nd strike on Duisburg since the war began and the fifth night raid on Germany this month.
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London
R.A.F
Germany
Duisberg
Rhine
Ruhr
France
Low Countries
Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for War Fraud
Federal grand jury at Fort Wayne indicted Anaconda Wire and Cable Co of Marion Indiana and five officers for conspiracy to defraud the United States by selling inferior cable for armed forces use. Defendants allegedly hid defects behind tested labels and supplied untested material for combat communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Biddle
Fort Wayne
Ind
Tom C. Clark
Justice Department
Russia
Clark
Marion Anaconda
Anaconda
Cyrus Shipp
Signal Corps
Indiana
Department
Gasoline Sales Resume Across Atlantic Coast
Washington reports a lifting of a 17 state ban on non commercial gasoline sales after a weekend without motor traffic. The Office of Price Administration reduced B and C coupon allowances from four to three gallons while A coupons stay at three. Leonard Henderson estimates a net saving of about 25 000 barrels daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Seaboard
Office of Price Administration
Leon Henderson
Prisoner of War from Kansas Inmate Reports War Wounds
From a German prison camp a former Kansas inmate Everett Oglesby writes that he is a prisoner of war and has been badly wounded. He seeks guidance on his Kansas record upon returning after the war, noting his earlier Stafford county burglary sentences and later Canadian service. His citizenship pardon in August remains uncommunicated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Everett Oglesby
Kansas Penitentiary
Germany
Kansas
Oglesby
Stafford
Allies Break Japanese Grip in Buna Pocket New Guinea
Allied tanks and infantry crushed dwindling Japanese forces in the Buna Mission pocket, reportedly killing Lieut. Gen. Tomo Horii. Australian troops seized Cape Endaradeere as MacArthur’s forces launched a general attack supported by light American Stuart tanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tralia
Buna Mission
New Guinea
Tomatore Horii
Cape Endaiadere
MacArthur
Stuarts
Mandang
Buna
Vitiaz Straits
Finschafen
Papuan
Gona
Cape Endaradere
Cape Sanananda
Ice Glare Over State As Kansas Faces Icy Roads
Weather officials warned of continued sleet and freezing rain across eastern and southern Kansas with roads slick from coast to coast. Maintenance crews split road hazards while forecasters noted December’s cold spell and a slight warming trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Highway Department
E. E. Marsh
S. D
Flora
Phillipsburg
Goodland
Winter Deluge of Ice Grips Eastern Cities
A frigid Arctic blast presses into the eastern United States as winter begins unofficially. Temperatures fall across major cities from New York to Cincinnati with double digit below readings in several areas. Officials warn of intensified fuel use as households ration oil amid the cold snap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
Westchester County
Mt. Kosco
Yorktown Heights
Albany
Boston
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Duluth
Owl
eHad
N. Y
Kansas University Debates Vacation Schedule Reconsideration
University of Kansas officials and senate committees meet to review the four day break amid army reservist orders. A student demonstration prompted a petition urging a vacation shift while a plan seeks a reopening next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
University Senate
Senate
Hercules Powder Company Earns Treasury T Award
Wilmington Delaware December 21 Hercules Powder company received a Treasury T sign for payroll deductions to the war savings plan. Don ald P Ross Treasury official noted the award reflects company wide participation across 66 plants and 30 000 employees. By November 95 percent of workers joined, contributing over 10 percent of payroll. The T will fly on the Minute Man flag, honoring enrolling over 90 percent in September. Bond drives ran through plant committees, company papers, and the Mixer magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Hercules Powder Company
Treasury
Donald P. Ross
Treasury Department
War Savings
W. R. Stevens
Hercules
Ross
Minute Man
First 1943 Douglas county car tags sold for armed forces
The initial 1943 automobile license tags went on sale at the county treasurer’s office in Douglas county. Capt. Lathrop Read Jr., commander of the military police school at Ft. Omaha, bought the first tag. Ten tags were sold in two hours, mostly for trucks. A new federal rule requires applicants to state occupation, noted on extra space if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Lathrop Read, Jr
Ft. Omaha
State OPA Extends Period 3 Fuel Oil Coupons
Wichita announces that period 3 fuel oil coupons become valid December 23 in all Kar fas zones. Previously users could not buy oil with period 3 coupons until January 6 in northern Kansas and January 5 in southern Kansas. The extension follows OPA weather studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Kar Fas
OPA
Kansas
Howard R Marshall
Ralph C. Kanaar
Marshall
Miss Evans Dislocates Elbow in Morning Fall
Miss Erna Evans suffered a dislocation of her left elbow after a fall this morning at Tenth and Ohio street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erna Evans
Tenth
Ohio Street
Ice causes many minor accidents on slick area
A morning rain and sleet slicked area roads causing numerous minor accidents. A 117 passenger Santa Reyes Trailways bus skidded into a ditch near Highway 10 with driver Dewey West unhurt except a foot bruise. Injured include Mrs. Nettie Teter with leg fracture and lacerations, and Marilyn Maloney with an ankle injury. Postal workers faced added difficulty handling mail as routes slowed.
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Memorial Hospital
Highway 10
Santa Rey
Dewey West
Kansas City
West
Nettie Teter
New Hampshire Street
Lawrence
Topeka
Laverne Arnold
Route One
L. G. Bates
Sunflower Ordnance Plant
West Ninth Street
Whitcomb
Marilyn Maloney
West Twenty-Third Street
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Mrs. Rankin Dies After Long Lawrence Life
Mrs. Robert C. Rankin a Lawrence resident for 30 years died Saturday at home aged 72 after months of illness. Active in social affairs she belonged to the Music club Daughters of the American Revolution and Colonial Dames. Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 pm at Trinity Episcopal church with Bishop Goodrich Fenner officiating burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Survived by husband state senator Robert C. Rankin a daughter Mrs. Robert A. Haggart two grandsons and a brother Walter H. Comstock.
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Robert C. Rankin
Lawrence
Music Club
Daughters of the American Revolution
The
Colonial Dames
Trinity ‘Episcopal Church
Ballston Spa
N. Y
Abijah
Adelaide Hyde Comstock
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Local Defense Transportation Office Opens in Chamber
Royal E. Gordon of the Federal Office of Defense Transportation opens a temporary office at the Chamber of Commerce rooms to aid commercial truck operators with gasoline allowances appeals and related matters. Hours 8:30 to 12 and 1 to 5 this week with appointments via 485.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal E. Gordon
Federal Office of Defense Transportation
Office of Defense Transportation
Chamber of Commerce
Gordon
County Defense Transportation Committee
Cities Service argues fair value at 100 million for rates
Kansas City Dec 21 Cities Service Gas company today asserted a fair value of its properties at 100 million dollars not 42 913 648 as set by the Federal Power Commission staff for rate base. The hearing before Edward B Marsh seeks to determine value for rate setting in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Cities Service Gas Company
Federal Power Commission
Edward B. Marsh
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Rober D. Garver
Commission
City Considers Grade C Milk In Pasteurized Mix
Sanitation officer Wein del urged citizens to use Grade C milk for cooking only as the city allows more than one grade to be pasteurized in the same equipment. He noted Grade C requires only pasteurization and proper labeling, with caps to be used for Grade C and a price differential under OPA rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Weindel
Lawrence
Harold Fisher
OPA
Weindel
Rotary club meeting audience with young guests
Sons of Rotarians attended as guests at the club meeting. Each boy received a repeater pencil from the organization. Dean Paul B. Lawson gave a talk split between a Christmas celebration appeal and a parenting quiz for the fathers. He warned the season is a mockery without faith in future goodness amid today’s gloom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sons of Rotarians
Dean Paul B. Lawson
Dean Lawson
Inclement Weather Closes Bundle Room This Week
Weather and Christmas holiday force closure of the suresea workroom in the Community building. Stockings are edging toward full salvage, with silk used for powder bags and nylon for parachutes. Large 100 pound lots demand 1500 silk stockings or 2300 nylon pairs. Fur stock has arrived and will ship early. Woolen pieces drive planned next week for patchwork quilts for convalescent service men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suresea
Fever in College Survey Shows 9 Percent Drop in Enrollment
A nationwide survey of 667 approved colleges reports 746,922 full-time students, a 9 percent decline from last year. President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati authored the study for School and Society, noting the drop across institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign
Ill
Raymond Walters
University of Cincinnati
School and Society
Red Cross Rooms Closed This Week Over Weather
City officials announce closure of all Red Cross rooms this week due to weather. Sewing knitting and surgical dressing rooms are included in the order.
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Red Cross
Housing Units Planned Near Sunflower Plant for On Call Workers
H W Aronson of the National Housing agency announced a Washington approved project for 852 housing units costing 2 800 000 near the Sunflower Ordnance plant at DeSoto Kaw to house essential on call workers. Location to be set by the Federal Public Housing Authority likely near the DeSoto Eudora region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
H. W. Aronson
National Housing Agency
Washington
Aronson
DeSoto-Eudera
Federal
Public Housing Authority
Drug does the trick with United States forces in New Guinea
Major Parker Hardin, a Charleston, Illinois born former Arkansas City Kansas physician, praises sulfanilamide as a miracle drug in a New Guinea base. He reports few infections despite brutal jungle conditions and limited supplies. He notes his unit has been bombed four times, including attacks on a coastal boat and front line hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Guinea
Parker Hardin
Charleston
Arkansas City
Kan
Hardin
Garden City Dairies Threaten Milk Sellout Tonight
Garden City dairies warn they will stop selling milk at closing time unless the Dallas OPA office breaks its silence on the milk price crisis. Dairymen say a 40 percent rise in producer costs and higher labor expenses make the 11 cent a quart ceiling untenable and plead for a hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garden City
Kan
Dallas
OPA
Rental Car Use Restricted for Bowl Trips
The Office of Defense Transportation ruled rental cars cannot be used to travel to football bowl games or for holiday social trips. It called such use a definite violation of rubber conservation policies.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
No Clinic Friday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
No crippled children's clinic will be held at Lawrence Memorial Hospital Friday as scheduled due to Christmas. The next clinic will be held on the last Friday in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Memorial Hospal
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Madang
Vitiaz Strait
Alleghways
Associated Press
K. U
Bonda
Roger M. Williams
R. C. Rankin
ODT
Royal Gordon
Cities Service
MUST
Dean Paul Lawson
Rotary Club
U. S
Reuters
Stockholm
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Berlin
Middle Don
Sunflower Plant
Nance Plant
DeSoto, Kaw
Dairies
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