Nazis Push Dual Routes Through Balkans To Reach Greece
Belgrade reports Germany pressing Yugoslavia to open the Vardar river corridor to Greece and extend beyond Bulgaria for more access to the eastern Med. Talks at a tense conference between Dragisa Cvetkovic and Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic and Nazi leaders, including Hitler, weigh in on routes via Nis rail and the Vardar valley toward Salonika.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Germany
Danube
Vardar River
Greece
Mediterranean
Bulgaria
Europe
Yaroslavia
Dragila Cvetkovic
Alesander Cinenr- Markovic
Adolf Hitler
Nis
Yugoeslavia
Vardar
Aegean
Salonika
Sofia
Boris
Hitler
Turkey
Lnst
Romania
Russia
Ankara
Cvetkovic
Cincar-Markovic
Francisco Franco
Spain
Mussolini
Italy
Marshal Petain
France
Axis
Britain
Franco
North
Africa
Far East tensions rise as ships move homeward amid war rumors
From Manila to Saigon and Shanghai reports describe mounting fears in the Far East. Americans seek repatriation as Dutch ship returns to neutral harbor and arm officers are recalled. observers warn of Japanese pressure, possible attacks on Singapore and Indo-China coast patrols amid looming German-Raiders supply links.
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Manila
Philippines
United States
Shanghai
Australia
Far East
South Pacific
Singapore
Far Eastern
Kobe
Mandated
Mide
Japan
Saigon
Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Bangkok
Janan
Germany
England
Tanan
Orient
Dutch Fast Indies
Bucharest Blackout Report From the Romanian Capital
Long German convoys moved through blackout streets of Bucharest as Nazi and Romanian planes patrolled the skies. Civilian radio instructions advised behavior during air raids while newspapers printed wound care guidance. A British ship train cargo faced weighing issues at the Black Sea port. Representatives from occupied countries in London depart with the British. Two American citizens given permission to join the voyage. The British barge carried 160 British owned automobiles and other vehicles.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Black Sea
London
Lucien van Voort
Henry Wat
Maginot Line
Greeks Claim 7000 Prisoners in Albanian Front Offensive
CBS reported Athens claims 7000 Italian prisoners captured as Greece launches a combined air and ground assault on the Albanian front. The Greek offensive, aided by heavy RAF bombing, drove Italians from fortified positions north of Klisura.
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New York
Columbia’ Broadcasting System
Athens
CBS
Royal Air Force
R.A.F
Tirana
Durazzo
Tepeleni
Buzi
Klisura
Six ships in convoy sunk near Madeira
Report from Funchal Madeira dated February 14 says six British convoy ships are believed sunk by a German raider, possibly a pocket battleship, as over 100 survivors are landed on Madeira. Survivors describe shell bombardment for about half an hour before the raider vanished.
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Funchal
Madeira
Azores
Kansas Supreme Court history discussed at Phi Delta Phi banquet
John S. Dawson chief justice spoke at the KU Memorial Union Kansas room last evening on the history of Kansas legal principles shaped by court personalities. Richard J. Hopkins and many judges and lawyers attended as guests. eighty covers were laid.
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Kansas Supreme Court
John S. Dawson
Phi Delta Phi
Kansas Room
Memorial Union Building
University of Kansas
Richard J. Hopkins
Kansas City
Supreme Court
Lawrence Bar Association
Dawson
Kansas
Kansas Court
O. J. Lane
Milton Beach
Hugh Means
Charles Rankin
Richard Barber
Lawrence
William M. Balch
Baldwin
Leonard C. Thomas
Lee E. Weeks
Don Foss
Herman Smith
Wichita
Robert T. Price
Osage City
Malcolm McNaughton
Leaven
Phillip Dawson
Wilbur Leonard
Charles Arthur
William Langworthy
Milton Allen
Robert Busler
Harry Waite
Donald Boardman
Fart Hubbard
Robert Nicholson
Howard Roberts
Daniel Hopkins
Thomas Singer
William Overton
Shell Wingert
Maurice Lock
Morris Moon
Charles Case
Alan Asher
KU Welcomes Coast Artillery Instructor Fuqua
Lieut. Charles F. E. Fuqua of the Coast Artillery reserve arrives to teach in the University of Kansas military science department. He is transferred from Ft. Sheridan Illinois where he served with the 61st anti aircraft regiment, which demonstrated at Haskell two years ago. Mrs. Fuqua, Ella Jeffords, was a KU liberal arts student last year and is daughter of Lieut. Col. Jeffords formerly with the Ft. Leavenworth coast artillery unit.
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Charles FE. Fuqua
Coast Artillery Reserve
University of Kansas
Ft. Sheridan
Ill
61St
Haskell
K. U
Ilinois
Fuqua
Ella Jeffords
College of Liberal Arts
Col. Jeffords
Coast Artillery
Ft. Leavenworth
Youngest Grandmother in Nation Revealed at 29
Eva Emory of 29 Logan West Virginia was identified as one of the nation’s youngest grandmothers after her daughter Mrs. Joe Scott gave birth recently. Emory, a native of Putnam County Tennessee, is 29 and surprised by the designation. Scott will turn 15 on February 21.
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Logan
W. Va
Eva Emory
Joe Scott
Emory
Putnam County
Tenn
Senate approves debt limit hike amid tax talk
Washington report says the Senate backed raising the national debt limit from 49 to 65 billion dollars and sent the measure to the House. Senator Taft urged a federal tax plan totaling 10 to 11 billion annually as part of funding, warning of unpopular burdens. Senator Byrd predicted a future debt around 100 billion and a larger hike within a year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Taft
Kansas workers compensation bill announced in Topeka
A bill to overhaul Kansas workmen compensation proposes state ownership of the fund, higher total disability and death benefits to $7,000, and broader coverage for all workers. The measure aims to reduce unemployment trust fund reserves, lower payroll taxes, and accelerate the merit rating plan using earlier experience years.
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Topeka
Kansas
John McManus
Cherokee
McManus
Washington
Payne Ratner
Congress
Railroad Retirement Board
Six Kansas grads pass state pharmacy board exams
Six Kansans earned pharmacist certificates after passing the state board examinations held February 4 and 5 in Pittsburg. All are Kansas University graduates. recipients include Roy R. Beyer, Theodore R. Foster, Alf Olson, Harry Caldwell Jr., Harold N. Nyman, and Richard H. Rudorf, with certificates issued by board secretary Gene Cook in Tela, Kansas.
University of Kansas Anniversary Committee Reshuffles Leadership
Prof. T J Marshall resigns as head of the seventy fifth anniversary operating committee. Prof Leonard H Axe becomes chair as Marshall leaves for possible active duty. The group orders an instruction guide for the celebration and plans guides and costumes from Sachem and Mortar Board.
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T. J. Marshall
Chemical Engineering
University of Kansas
Leonard H. Axe
Frank Strong Hall
Axe
Arious
Bert A. Nash
Sachem
Mortar Board
Leslie Waters
Kansas
Geology
Bernard Frazier
Design
Fred Ellsworth
State Chamber of Commerce
Ellsworth
Marshall
Waters
Nash
Fred Montgomery
Bureau of Visual Instruction
Dean TD. M. Swarth
School of Fine Arts
Ray Wright
Housing and Registration Committee
Seven Billion Dollars May Be Available for Use in Aiding Britain
Open debate on house approved legislation to raise the national debt limit to 65 billion dollars. Senators were told that as much as 7 billion dollars might be available to aid Britain with war materials. Senator Brown said a 7 billion dollar leeway exists for federal financing under the plan, and cited Treasury officials as authority. Senator Vandenberg asked if expenditures under the loan lease bill would run near 7 billion through July 1, 1942. Brown said a reasonable conclusion could be drawn but did not want to be quoted as stating the secretary’s estimate.
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Kansas
Washington
Britain
Brown
D-Mich
Morgenthau
Treasury
Vandenberg
R-Mich
University of Kansas Football Coach Calls Varsity to Report
Gwinn Henry, Kansas University football coach, asked all varsity candidates to report at the stadium Monday afternoon at 4 15. Players will receive shoes and warmup suits. Conditioning work at the stadium will continue for two weeks with workouts three times weekly. Regular outdoor drills begin March 3.
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Gwinn Henry
University of Kansas
Henry
Britain Bans Trade With Romania As Enemy Territory
London announced that Romania will be treated as enemy occupied territory beginning Saturday. The Ministry of Economic Warfare said Romania hosts about 600,000 German troops and will be regarded as an enemy destination for contraband. This follows an earlier Trading with the Enemy Act ban.
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London
Britain
Rumania
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Board of Trade
Romania
Senators Call Closed Session for Hull Report
Washington Feb 14 The senate may hold a closed executive session next week to hear from Secretary Hull and aides a report on world conditions The foreign relations committee backed the aid bill and the floor debate is set to begin Monday with leaders predicting a two to one victory The minority plans to issue a report defending their opposition and seek restrictive amendments
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Washington
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate
Hull
George C. Marshall
Army
Britain
Marshall
Altho
Willkie
Weyland
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Barkley
Nazi Bombs Beat at Britain in Major Raid
London reports a growing raid by German bombers striking many areas of the capital and East Anglia amid heavy explosions and anti-aircraft bursts. RAF daylight sorties targeted invasion ports on the French coast as Spitfires supported a defense over the Channel.
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London
Britain
East Anglia
Midlands
R.A.F
Germany
Channel
Calais
Strait of Dover
Royal Air Force
English Channel
Dover Strait
Iowa State Names New Football Line Coach
The appointment of Douglas Kerr of Gary Indiana as football line coach at Iowa State College was announced today by President Charles E Friley.
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Towa
Ames
Douglas Kerr
Gary
Ind
Iowa State College
Charles E. Friley
Ratner Signs Birth Certification Bill for 1911 Cutoff in Kansas
Gov. Payne Ratner signed a bill to aid defense industry workers by legalizing birth certifications before 1911. The measure allows affidavits from physicians, family members, or family Bible records to prove birth date for citizenship, with a $1 fee and 75 percent kept by the health department for administration. Proponents say it aligns with federal citizenship requirements for plant workers.
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Topeka
Payne Ratner
Kansas
National Defense Industries
Sedgwick
Wyandotte
Health Department
Minstrel Show Planned for Crippled Children Clinic Benefit
A local group in Lawrence organizes a two night minstrel show at Jayhawker theater on March 13 and 14 to benefit the crippled children's clinic. A 70 member cast with a 50 voice chorus will perform with local talent, directed by Oliver Hobbs and featuring Charles Radcliffe as interlocutor. Proceeds after expenses go to the clinic fund.
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Henry “Slewfoot
Asher
van “Web Toe” Bruner
Carl “Ducky
Drake
Theodore
Snowball
Chariton
Robert Oyler
Allan Crafton
Alpha Gamma Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Sorority For Women In Business
Douglas County Takes First Step for Stamp Plan
The Douglas County Board of County Commissioners moved to establish a surplus commodity food stamp plan by applying to Paul H. Jordan regional director of the surplus marketing administration Milwaukee. They filed resolutions from four local groups including the city council Chamber of Commerce Merchants Bureau and Food Dealers endorsing the plan after visiting Topeka to study Shawnee County's operation.
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Board of County Commissioners
Douglas County
Paul H. Jordan
Surplus Marketing Administration
Millwaukee
Topeka
Shawnee County
City Council
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Bureau
Food Dealers
Thompson's Condition Unchanged as KU Student Burns
Marvin Thompson of Paola a University of Kansas student remains in Watkins Memorial Hospital with second degree burns reported as unchanged.
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Thompson
Marvin Thompson
Paola
University of Kansas
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Nation ready to fight if Nazis move into Bulgaria
The Turkish press declares Turkey prepared to fight as Bulgaria sits in German hands. Ikdam says Turkey will act to block Balkan expansion while ensuring no excuse for attack. Yepi Sahah warns there is no trust in German promises and Turkey will do its duty. Istanbul graduates and others over 20 are being called for military registration.
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Turkey
Ankara
Bulgaria
Greece
Mediterranean
Balkan
Thrace
Aegean
Ikdam
Italy
Germany
Britain
Balkans
Yepi Sahah
Instanbul
Medical cost estimates under new welfare setup trend higher
January figures show the county would pay about 12 484 44 from tax funds in a full year under the new medical setup. The new plan increases total welfare costs to 25 440 with higher reimbursements from federal and state programs.
Eleven Babies Arrive At Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence Memorial Hospital reports a record crowd with eleven newborns and forty seven occupied beds, the most since opening. Five babies arrived yesterday and sixteen births this month average over one per day. The newborns include seven boys and four girls, with several parents named. Oldest is a girl, born February 8 to the Walden family. others include children of Barton, Lisher, Rogers, Hank, Emick, Williams, Welch, Tockwood, Morse Jr., and Westbrook.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital
W. C. Walden
Otto Barton
Ralph Lisher
Paul Rogers
Walter Hank
John Emick
C. C. Williams
Lincoln
St. Valentine
Vernon Welch
R. H. Tockwood
Jared Morse, Jr
Perry Westbrook
Stock Market Index Rises to 39.8 on 60-Stock Average
The index for a 60 stock average stands at 39.8 as of yesterday’s close, indicating a modest advance in the market. Traders watched key shares and measured gains across sectors with cautious optimism.
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T. C
Lieut
Charles E. Fuqua
University
Byrd
D-Va
Kansas Grads
State Pharmacy Board
Elser
Peters
Atchison, Kan
Don Elser
Marty Peters
St. Benedict's College
Cuthbert McDonald
T. H. Marshall
British Board of Trade
Wendell L. Willkie
China
Weygand
Great Britain
Man
Ratner
Istanbul
Memorial ‘Hospital
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