Allies Hound Rommel Through Kasserine Pass in Tunisia
Allied forces pressed Rommel from two fronts in Tunisia as American and British troops stormed into the Kasserine pass and pressed his retreat. French and Italian rearguards faced losses while Eighth Army patrols pushed near Mareth as Montgomery’s troops moved on the Mareth line.
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Eighth Army
Mareth Line
Tunisia
Rommel
Kasserine Pass
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pap
U.S
Sbeitla
Kasserine
Sbiba
Thala
Ousseltia
Faid Pass
Kasserine Gap
Bernard L. Montgomery
Mareth
Little Maginot
Chott Djerid
U S Fighter Planes Beat Back Six Jap Bombers Over Burma
U S tenth air force f ighters clashed with 30 Japanese bombers and fighters over the Burmese mountains. They downed six aircraft, probably destroyed 12 more, and damaged others. No American losses were reported. The raids targeted key air fields and bridges near Myitkyina and Pin baw, as part of daily air and ground strikes against Japanese forces in Burma.
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New Delhi
U. S
10Th Air Force
Assam
United States
Myitkyina
Pinbaw
Tenth Air Force
India
Burma
Ina
Oil Lease Brokers May Secure Extra Gasoline
Wichita Kans February 25 The PA opened the way for some oil lease brokers to apply for supplemental gasoline rations State erate H O Davis reported to Governor Schoeppel last week protested to Davis that brokers in some instances were being denied additional gasoline to carry on their work Davis notified by the regional OPA office at Dallas that Washington rules persons engaged in buying leases and blocking acreage for the purpose of disposing of same to producers in connection with the production of oil and other minerals may establish eligibility for preferred mileage rations Title curative work in connection with such leasing activities is not an eligible activity
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Wichita
Kan
Erate H. O. Davis
Schoeppel
Davis
Avis
OPA
Dallas
Washington
Emporia State Drops Track Program For Aviation Cadet Training
Emporia Kansas February 25 University announces the decision to drop its track program at Emporia State Teachers College a Central Conference winner and host for spring field events The move follows two factors aviation cadet training use of the college and the loss of many track men to the armed forces The central conference plans disruption remains to be resolved
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Emporia
Kan
Emporia State Teachers ‘College
Soviet Front Advances Amid Heavy Winter Attrition
Soviet troops push along the front despite deep snows in Orel and Kursk and mud in Ukraine and the northern Caucasus. Air battles intensify as both sides fly in the south. Kharkov area sees major land fighting with two large towns captured as the Red Army drives towardPoltava Knotap and the Dnieper valley.
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Moscow
Orel
Kursk
Ukraine
Caucasus
Rostov
Berlin
Kharkov
Dnieper
Poltava
Knotop
Kiev
Kremenchug
Dnieperopetrovsk
Zaporozhe
Red Army
Izvestia
Pravda
Communist Party
Offan
Donets
Voroshiloverod
Stalino
Snow Falls Across Western Kansas Storm Still Lingering
Snow totals varied across the state with Goodland at three inches and Dodge City Ellis Geneseo and Wichita reporting an inch. Weather signals continued light flurries in western Kansas and possible eastern extension tonight as temperatures crept to 47 at Wichita and 20 at Concordia with little change expected.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
Ellis
Dodge City
Geneseo
Wichita
S. D. Flora
Concordia
Sailors Triumph Over Sigma Alpha Epsilon in League Play
The Naval Training Station defeated Sigma Alpha Epsilon 44 to 29 at Haskell Gym. Wakeford led with 13 points, Venus 12, and Compton 11. In the nightcap, the Draftees won 67 to 17 as Stowits led with 25, joined by Penney 19 and Patee 11.
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Naval Training Station
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Lawrence
Haskell Gymnasium
Wakeford
Venus
Compton
Bill Stowits
Township Assessors Plan Meetings At Courthouse
Township assessors are to meet tomorrow at the courthouse for a discussion of assessment problems. Assessors will meet Saturday. Supplies will be distributed at the meetings. They will begin the 1943 evaluation of personal property and the census on Monday March 1.
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Ity
Downtown War Fund Drive With 16 Member Team Starts Monday
Sixteen members of the Business and Professional Women's club prepare a major Red Cross solicitation in downtown areas. A 52 man work crew will canvass stores and industries while captains lead east and west side districts and a separate downtown women’s corps. The county goal is 17 150 dollars with emphasis on higher gifts to support service men.
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Red Cross
War Fund
Roger Allen
Fritz Elvig
Massachusetts Street
Cliff Calvin
Hazel Dawson
Allen
Light in the Camps Fulton Addresses Kiwanis on World Student Service Fund
R Frank Fulton, Yale graduate and Yale-in-China teacher visiting the University, told Kiwanis members the World Student Service Fund now draws support from nine countries and aids students in sixteen nations including those in internment and prison camps in Germany Italy Canada and Tokyo. He described Chinese students walking 2000 miles to study and noted 68 million Chinese refugees caused by the Japanese invasion. A British prisoner in Italy sent a letter of thanks for the fund’s relief efforts.
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Frank Fulton
World Student Service Fund
Kiwanis Club
Canada
Wiedemann’s
Fulton
China
Yale University
Yale
Student Service Fund
Germany
Italy
Tokyo
Beveridge Plans U.S. Visit On Social Security Proposal
Sir William Beveridge announced a non government trip to the United States and perhaps Canada to discuss his cradle to grave social security plan which has sparked a wide rift in the British parliament.
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Beveridge
U.S
London
Sir William R. Beveridge
United States
Canada
Kansas House kills lien clause bill amid welfare debate
Topeka February 25 The house public welfare committee killed a bill reviving a 1941 recovery clause allowing the state to recover public aid funds from estates of decedent assistance clients. The panel also moved two measures giving the welfare board control over Norton tuberculosis sanatorium and the ability to recover hospital costs from paying patients.
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Topeka
House Public Welfare Committee
State Welfare Board
Norton Tuberculosis Sanatorium
State Board of Administration
Welfare Board
Norton
Schoeppel to Launch Kansas Red Cross War Fund Drive
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel will join the 1943 Red Cross war fund launch on March 1 at 9:30 to 10:00 p m on KU radio station KFKU. Harold G. Ingham announced the program Kansas on Mercy Fronts is a live variety show from the University of Kansas. The broadcast concludes a series of Red Cross dramatizations directed by Prof. Robert Calderwood.
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Andrew Schoeppel
University of Kansas
Harold G. Ingham
University
KFKU
Red Cross War Fund
State of Kansas
Kansas
Robert Calderwood
Department of Speech
American Red Cross
Congress Told to End Bickering for War Effort
Rep Frances Bolton of Ohio urged House members to set aside party fights and back effective war measures. She said the two million men in the armed forces face brutal realities and that Congress must provide the tools of war and protect the economy without partisan distractions.
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Washington
Congress
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Rev Robert Nelson Spencer to Deliver Kan sas 71st Commencement Talk
The Rev Robert Nelsom Spencer Bishop of Western Missouri will give the baccalaureate at the University of Kansas 71st commencement on May 16 announced by Chancellor Deane W. Malott. Spencer, longtime Kansas City clergyman and civic figure, has served as bishop since 1930 and held various church and public roles. Final exams run May 8 to 12 with seniors’ weekend activities and commencement on May 17. Summer session start date not set.
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Robert Nelsom Spencer
Western Missouri
University of Kansas
Deane W. Malott
Nelson
Grace
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Kansas City
Spencer
Knsas Theological School
Dickinson College
Church
St. Luke's Hospital
Missouri State Council of Defense
Lambeth
England
Bill to complete military buildings eyed in Kansas
Topeka February bill proposes $69,000 to finish University of Kansas military science buildings and $14,500 for Kansas State College Manhattan. Also a tax reform bill aims to align the state income tax with federal rules, adjust capital gains definitions, and boost enlisted men exemptions. a judiciary measure would allow 10 jurors to render civil verdicts.
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Topeka
University of Kansas
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Senate
Kansas State Building
Rolla W. Coleman
R-Mission
Assessment and Taxation Committee
Coleman
Judiciary Committee
Look to the Midwest for Food to Feed the World
Representative Murray of Wisconsin declares the Midwest holds the world’s food hope. He urges the House to prioritize manpower transportation farm machinery and equipment to maximize acres and ensure necessary food production.
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Midwest
Washington
Murray
R-Wis
Air Force Installations Planned in Pratt and Morris Counties
Kansas congressmen announce War Department authorization to enlarge army air force facilities in Pratt and Morris counties at about 2 million dollars each. Projects to be supervised by the Army Engineer Office in Kansas City with details not released.
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Air Force
Pratt and
Morris Counties
Washington
Kansas
Congress
War Department
Army Airforce
Pratt
Morris
Capper
Hope
Army Engineer Office
Kansas City
Many Sign Up at Night for Book 2
Approximately 17 000 No 2 ration books issued in the basement of the Community building by close of business last night. W C Boardman civilian defense coordinator notes hundreds waited in line in evening and about 2 000 books issued. Registration will resume tomorrow evening. Outlying areas report supply drop and 898 books issued in Grant township.
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W. C. Boardman
Boardman
Lawrence
Akarusa Township
Grant Township
Will Sell Delinquent Tax Properties in County Auction
County officials plan to auction about 75 delinquent tax properties at the courthouse next Monday at 9 a.m. Thomas Brothers will conduct. Listings include four improved properties in Lawrence and Baldwin, several building lots, and three rural tracts in Palmyra and Willow Springs townships.
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Thomas Brothers
Lawrence
Baldwin
Palmyra
Willow Springs
Ernest Klooz
Germans Report Fire in Jap-Occupied Thailand
A German radio broadcast via AP said a five hour Bangkok fire in Japanese Thailand destroyed about a quarter of the city. More than 500 wooden and corrugated iron houses burned, largely in a Chinese neighborhood. A weaving works owner was reported to have died.
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New York
Associated Press
Bangkok
Thailand
Roosevelt Homebound With Mild Illness in White House
President Roosevelt was confined to his White House quarters with a slight intestinal disturbance and canceled all appointments. Aides said he has little fever and will remain quiet for two or three days. Veterans Administration head Frank T. Hines announced armed forces personnel have taken out 45 billion dollars in national service insurance and more applications are arriving.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
William D. Hassett
Frank T. Hines
Hines
Stock Market Index Reaches 1943 Highs Amid Gains
The stock market index for 80 stocks closed at 486.1, a new 1942 1943 high, showing yesterday’s gains with the average up 45.7 points.
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Erage
U S Forces Repulse Rommel in Central Tunisia
Washington reports a clear repulse of Marshal Rommel's Nazi armored forces in central Tunisia. Secretary Stimson notes heavier equipment losses than men but says much of it has been replaced and ground troops showed renewed vigor despite Axis pressure.
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Washington
UPI
Tunisia
Erwin Rommel
Stinson
Stimson
Eisenhower
Deserter and wife jailed after forging checks in Lawrence
Charles Glick 24 and Cleo Glick 19 living at 721 Rhode Island street were arrested after police say they passed forged checks totaling 65.50 in Lawrence and 25.30 in Kansas City. Glick, a former Army radio technician, deserted in July last year from Fort Riley.
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Lawrence
U. S. Army
Charles Glick
Cleo Click
Rhode Island Street
C. A. Bliesner
Kansas City
Glick
Darnell Electric Company
Massachusetts Street
Rhode Island
Bliesner
Blackwater
Army
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Riley
Ken
Signal Corps
Second Armored Signal Company
Ninth Armored Division
Camp Funston
Cooper County
Missouri
Boonville
Manhattan
Kan
S.O.W
Golden Gate
Massachusetts
Flory
New Yorks
Hurst Des
Schoeppel Opposes Gulf to East Oil Line Plan
Topeka February 25 Governor Schoeppel telegraphed President Roosevelt and Harold L Ickes protesting a proposal to start a second Gulf coast to east oil pipeline He supported extending the existing line to Norris City Illinois before initiating a new eastern leg He noted rail tank cars in the east could be used to transport products from 228 middle west refineries with the eastern leg completed.
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Topeka
Schoeppel
Roosevelt
Harold L. Ickes
Gulf Coast
Norris City
Gulf
Middle West
Man Injured at Plant by Project Bus Incident
Jim Harrison a 60 year old Sunflower Ord nance Works project worker suffered a severe head injury when struck by a project bus at about 7 this morning. He received emergency care at the area hospital and was later moved to a Leavenworth hospital. His home is in Leavenworth. Will Hitler Follow Napoleon will be the topic of Dr Walter L Wilsons address in the Community building auditorium on Tuesday March 2 at 7 30 p m.
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Jim Harrison
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Leavenworth
Hi&xhome
Hitler
Napoleon
Walter L. Wison
Merchants Bureau
Charles Long
Massachusetts
Blue Mill
Laws and Licenses Committee
Daniel W. Marks
George’s Market
Maple Grove Cemetery
War Production Board
Advisory ballot on meters approved by city council
The council adopted a resolution for a special election advisory ballot on parking meters to be held April 6. City attorney Gorrill noted the advisory nature while the meter service by Skinner continues under city payment. Other actions included licensing, building, and planning items with bids sought for pumps and a tentative Arbor Day date.
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Clarence Gorrill
Chet Skinner
Skinner
Dual Parking Meter Company
Gorrill
State School Fund Share for Douglas County
Douglas county today received 1936 dollars and 64 cents as its share of the semi annual distribution of the state school fund derived from fines.
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Douglas County
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