Change in U S Naval Policy Hinted by Knox Speech
Washington July 1 The call by Secretary Knox for immediate use of the navy to clear the Atlantic of the German menace sparked talk of a possible shift in administration policy toward Nazi sea activity. Officials saw his remarks as stronger than previous public statements and tied to wartime needs and Britain's prospects in the war.
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Washington
Knox
United States Navy
Atlantic
Navy
Boston
Conference of Governors
Glass
D-Va
Pepper
D-Fla
United States
Roosevelt
Britain
Russia
Reich
S Army
Robin Moor
Berlin
State Department
Germany
Band Camp Recital Postponed to July 8
The Midwestern Music camp recital scheduled for tomorrow evening is postponed to July 8, announced by director Russell L. Wiley. The delay follows an incomplete program schedule while the camp week includes a Fourth of July holiday and several events with Lorrain E. Watters of Des Moines as guest conductor.
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Russell L. Wiley
Delta Chi House
Lorrain E. Watters
Des Moines
Willcoxon Named Coffeyville Junior High Coach
James C. Willcoxon, a former Coffeyville high school and junior college star and Colorado alumnus with all American basketball honors, will teach at the junior high and coach basketball at Coffeyville junior college next fall. He recently worked for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, starring on the Phillips 66 AAU basketball team. Warren W. Littrell will assist in basketball and continue as head football coach.
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Coffeyville
Kan
James C. Willcoxon
University of Colorado
Board of Education Today
Phillips Petroleum Company
Bartlesville
Phillips 66
Bills Are Ready as Congress Passes Record Spending
Washington reports more than 4 billion dollars in appropriations and spending authorizations approved by Congress before adjournment. Key measures sent to President Roosevelt include relief, farm parity payments, labor and security agency funding, and a two year extension of the Commodity Credit corporation.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
Commodity Credit Corporation
Roosevelt
Labor Department
The
Security Agency
District of Columbia
Congress
Althe
Hyde Park
N. Y
Works Progress Administration
Abstractors Board Formed in Topeka to Regulate Trade
Gov. Payne Ratner names Marvin Wallace Orville Bell and Jay Berryman to a new abstractors board created by the 1941 law. Terms vary by county size with two annual examinations set for January and July. licenses start next September 1 and require $5 bonds and a $25 exam fee.
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Topeka
Payne Ratner
Marvin Wallace
Kingman
Orville Bell
Wichita
Jay Berryman
Ashland
Wallace
Bell
Berryman
Selec
Farm products advance above general level for 1909-14 base
The agriculture department reports farm product prices rose 6 points from mid May to mid June reaching 118 percent of the 1909-14 general level. The mid June level is 28 points higher than a year ago with all groups except fruit markedly up. Fire damages ships at Brooklyn Navy Yard injuring one man and causing about 10000 dollars loss. no sabotage suspected.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Brooklyn Navy Yard
New York
Coast Guard
Trip Under Way From Haskell to California by Air and Auto
Grace Hess of Haskell and Ruth Orcutt of K A music department planned a California vacation by air in an Aeronca 65 but added a car leg. Hess took off yesterday, Orcutt followed by car, winds later forced Hess to land at Woodward Oklahoma and she notified Amarillo upon Orcutt’s arrival. The plane's auxiliary tank increased fuel capacity to 25 gallons.
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Grace Hess
Haskell
Ruth Orcutt
K.A
California
Miss Hess
Miss Orcutt
Woodward
Okla
Amarillo
Tex
Do You Know Demand and Time Deposits and Bank Reserves
Explains demand versus time deposits, defines bank reserves as cash held or deposited with the Federal Reserve, and notes a centralized reserve pool available to aid distressed banks. Also distinguishes commercial and investment banks by their business focus.
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Federal Reserve Banking Law
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve, Central
W.S.R
Jayhawks Beat Bearcats in Extra Inning Softball Thriller
In a junior-senior softball clash at Southpark the Jayhawks defeated the Bearcats 8 to 6 in an extended three inning finish after tying 4 4. Ralph Hubbell earned top honors with two singles and a triple supporting Jayhawks rally. Donald Wright and Dan Wright pitched for the Jayhawks while Bob Sneegas and Stan Stockton worked for the Bearcats.
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Jayhawks
Bearcats
Southpark
Donald Wright
Dan Wright
Bob Sneegas
Stan Stockton
Ralph Hubbell
Jayhawk
Senators Washington Pay Oath Tied to Government-Overthrow Stance
July 1 report notes a clause in the legislative appropriation act barring salary payments to any person who advocates overthrow of the government by force or violence. Senators must swear an oath confirming they do not advocate such actions to receive pay.
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Washington
United States
500 Bombers a Month Pledged by Major U S Manufacturers
American airplane builders announce a cooperative plan to produce 500 four engine heavy bombers monthly in 1942. Boeing Douglas Vega Consolidated plan new plants and upgrades to boost Boeing B 17E and B 24 output with auto industry sub assemblies.
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Los Angeles
United States
Britain
Aviation News Committee
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America
John H. Jouett
The
Aeronautical Chamber
America
England
Pacific Coast
Boeing
Seattle
Douglas
Santa Monica
Calif
Vega
Burbank
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Consolidated
Fort Worth
Tex
Tulsa
Okla
Glenn L. Martin Company
North American Aviation, Inc
Omaha
Neb
Kansas City
Stearman
Wichita
Kan
Long Beach
Jouett
F D R Reaffirms Hope U S Can Stay Out of War
President Roosevelt in Hyde Park reaffirms hope that America can avoid entering the war. He differentiates between hope and belief and notes voters would likely oppose active participation against the axis powers. He says nearly everyone is against war, as against sin.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
America
Europe
United States
Soviet and German forces clash as Balkans and Baltic drive intensifies
Soviet and German actions dominate reports as Lwow falls and battles rage near Dvinsk and the Daugava river. The Soviet defense counsels to Stalin oversee a critical war effort amid Finnish incursions toward Hango and renewed pressure near Minsk and Leningrad.
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Baltic States
Dvinsk
Daugava River
Leningrad
Lwow
Ukraine
Kiev
U.S.S.R
Poland
Carpathian
Hungary
Germany
Minsk
Murmansk
Red Army
London
Hango
Soviet Russia
Joseph Stalin
Lawrence Men Among 23 Pharmacists Certified
Twenty three men earned pharmacist certificates after passing the state board exam held June 17 and 18 in Lawrence. Named from Lawrence and nearby areas include Aubrey Paul Bryant Max Laverne Cole Rueben W Klayder and Raymond Glenn Elliott. Other graduates hail from Pittsburg Kansas City Smith Center Lindsburg St Marys and Topeka with several students from K U and the University.
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Lawrence
State Board of Pharmacy
Gene Cook
K. U
Paul R. Hunter
Wichita
Lyle B. Lathrop
Topeka
Joe Wise
Aubrey Paul Bryant
Max Laverne Cole
Rueben W. Klayder
Neodesha
Raymond Glenn Elliott
Clay Center
Build Kansas boosts highway beautification drive
Topeka July 1 Secretary Director Rolla A. Clymer of the Kansas industrial development commission announced formation of "build Kansas" to promote highway beautification and related projects. Forty three heads of state organizations including highway associations join the board. The group aims to improve the Kansas scene for visitors by improving approaches to towns, restoring historic sites, developing trails to points of interest, and aiding roadside parks.
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Topeka
Rolla A. Clymer
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Build
Kansas
Clymer
May Increase Her Taxes on Duchess Cromwell
The Somerset county tax board is asked to add Doris Duke Cromwell's supposed intangible wealth of 222 426 438 to 1940 and 1941 tax listings. If approved, she would owe about 13 834 924 in extra taxes, largely to Hillsborough township and Somerset County for her Somerville area home.
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Somerville
N. J
Doris Duke Cromwell
Hillsborough Township
Somerset County Tax Board
Somerset County
Kellys on Honeymoon Ends Glamour Heiress Wedding Pair
The couple John Simms Kelly and his bride Brenda Diana Duff Frazier known as Shipwreck Kelly departed New York on a honeymoon flight toward Honolulu. The bride, a 20-year-old heiress to 3.5 million dollars, wed a 31-year-old Kentucky athlete yesterday.
Lawrence visitors and KU alumni take notable jobs
Bo McMillin and Mrs. McMillin with daughter traveled through Lawrence en route to Manhattan. Robert L. Cummings, son of W. J. Cummings, soloed as a flying cadet at Rankin Aero Nautical Academy in Tulare California. Alan Asher, KU law graduate, 1938, joins Stearman Aircraft Wichita as a writer editor for a house magazine and relocates to Kansas. He will start Monday after leaving Journal-World. he will live at the Y M C A due to Wichita housing.
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A. N
Bo) McMillin
University of Indiana
McMillin
Mike Getto
Manhattan
Kansas State
Robert L. Cummings
W. J. Cummings
Barker
Rankin Aeronautical Academy
United States Army Air Corps
Tulare
Calif
Alan Asher
University of Kansas, School of Law
Stearman Aircraft Company
Wichita
Asher
Journal-World
The
Y.M.C.A
Need More Workers for Red Cross Sewing Room
The Red Cross production committee calls for more workers in the sewing room to operate machines and prepare garments. The basement Central building junior high room is open weekdays 10 to 12 and 1 to 4, excluding next Friday July 4. The Junior group meets Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9 to 12 under Mrs. Alfred Seelye. all senior and junior high girls are invited.
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Red Cross Production Committee
Red Cross
Alfred Seelye
Tax Proposals Target Office Equipment and Automobiles
A treasury estimate outlines a one cent tax on office equipment and a seven percent excise tax on new automobiles, expected to raise about 132.5 million and 79.9 million dollars respectively. The plan also raises liquor and wine taxes, limits beer and tobacco increases, and expands levies on phones jewelry sporting goods and various consumer goods, while rejecting taxes on coffee tea sugar and fuel oil.
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Treasury
Doughton
Roof Fire Extinguished at Barn by Learnard Avenue
Firefighters put out a roof blaze at a large barn near Morris Cohen’s new home at 1630 Learnard Avenue. Sparks from burning trash started the fire, according to Fire Chief Paul Ingels.
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Morris Cohen
Learnard Avenue
Paul Ingels
Braves Beat Giants 6 4 In Third Inning Rally
Boston Braves pushed six hits for six runs in the third inning to defeat the New York Giants 6 to 4 behind Frank Lamanna and Johnny Hutchings. Johnny Mize homered and St Louis beat Pittsburgh 11 to 7 in a 17 hit attack. Keeler record tied by DiMaggio as Yankees take both ends of a doubleheader 7 2 and 4 2. no gravy policy announced for 150 million defense program by Carmody with new works plan.
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New York
Boston Braves
New York Giants
Frank Lamanna
Johnny
Sewell
Wilkie
Baker
Philadelphia
Brooklyn Oo
Grissom
Warren
Fitzsimmons
Brown
Casey
Pearson
Franks
Joel DiMaggio
Willie Keeler
Yankee Red Sox
Boston
Harris
Ryba
Potter
Pytlak
Russo
Chandler
Silvestri
Wison
Dobson
Peacock
Bonham
Dickey
Detroit
Chicago
Trout
Tebbetts
Smith
Tresh
Washington
Cleveland
St. Louis
Defense
John M. Carmody
Federal Works
O'Daniel Seizes Texas Senate Lead Over Johnson
W Lee O'Daniel advances to a narrow edge in the Texas United States Senate race as results from 250 of 254 counties show O'Daniel 174 350 and Lyndon Johnson 173 971 with 200 300 ballots left to count and Gerald C Mann and Martin Dies trailing.
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Dallas
W. Lee O’daniel
United States
Texas
Lyndon Johnson
Rep
Martin Dies
O’daniel
Johnson
Gerald C. Mann
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Jim Willcoxon
Colorado
U. Grad
Nab
Frederick Joubert Duquesne
Duquesne
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
NEA
Abstractors’ Board
Ratner
Farm Products Advance
South Park
U. S
F.D.R
Soviet
Japan
Siberian
Vladivostok
Sakhalin
Mukden
Port Arthur
Crar
Tsushime
Tsushima' Strait
Pacific Ocean
Tapan
Far
Doris Cromwell
Darnell Electric
Mass
Evangelist I. R. Wall
Ben Underwood
Eriksen Hall
Olson Bros
Fritz CO
Our Service Tryat
Vala
H. W. Emick
Rumsey Funeral Home
Indiana
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