Allies Close In On Eastern Sicily
Allied forces push inland in eastern Sicily after a fierce battle. A combined American Canadian and British drive in the Ragusa Vizzini sector gains six to seven miles while the British Eighth Army advances toward Brucoli and Augusta.
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North Africa
Sicily
Eighth Army
Ragusa-Vizzini
George 8. Patton, Jr
Napoli
Vizzini
Augusta
Bernard L . Montgomery
Brucoli
Russian Army Steadfast in Belgorod Sector Battles
Dispatches report Red forces halting German attacks in the Belgorod sector with local counterattacks gaining momentum. Pravda cites a three day battle on a Russian highway near Belgorod where Germans lost about 80 tanks and were driven back as Soviet air and ground forces engage despite deteriorating weather.
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Moscow
Stalin
Belgorod
Saldy Toagy
Kursk
Orel
Red Air Force
Pravda
Allied Air Blitz Hits Messina and Sicily Targets
Allied air forces unleashed a massive strike against Messina and across Sicily with over 200 bombers including Flying Fortresses Mitchells and Marauders. The raid aimed at port installations rail lines and communications with nine enemy planes shot down and three Allied aircraft lost.
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North Africa
Messina
Sicily
Italy
Palermo
Gerbini
Termini
real-Friddi
Leonforte
San Giovanni
Efina
Pachino
Biscar
Gela-Farello
Gela-Porte Olivo
Licata
Syracuse
Frederick J. Carman
1812
Buchanan Street
Topeka
Kan
Fortress
Jorg P. Simonson
Madison
Minn
Thomas B. Lindahl
Indianapolis
Heat heading through Topeka area with cooler July
Topeka and nearby towns report a string of mild July days with no rain and temperatures in the high 80s. Weather official S. D. Flora notes it is the coolest mid July period since 1929. Rail wage hearings in New York concluded with unions seeking a 30 percent increase and a report to the president.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ellis
Phillipsburg
S. D. Flora
Flora
New York
Roosevelt
Battle looming in Sicily as allied advance stalls?
London observers assess today's Allied and Axis communiques and warn a major battle may form on one or both flanks of the Sicily invasion. Gen Montgomer y's Eighth Army meets German armor near the Catania plain while Axis air efforts ease. The Goering division's presence is questioned amid reports it was reconstituted after Africa.
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Augusta
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Brucoli
Melilli
Hermann Goering
Goering
Eighth Army
Catania
London
Altho
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Sicily
Gerbini
Hermann, Goering
Africa
Vichy
Allied air raid strikes hit Myingyan and Meiktila
American B 25 bombers hit railway yards barracks and warehouses at Myingyan and Meiktila. Additional hits scored on enemy facilities at both towns southwest and south of Mandalay. British Blenheim and RAF Beaufighters supported by destroying river craft on the Irrawaddy. All planes returned safely.
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New Delhi
Buma
Myingyan
Meiktila
U. S. Army Air Force
Mandalay
Smc
Manlaik
Irrawaddy
Final Concert Tomorrow by L. M. S. Summer Band
The L. M. H. S. summer band directed by Oliver Hobbs will perform its last concert of the season tomorrow evening at eight in Sons Park. The group will have completed eight concerts this season with six in South Park and two in North Lawrence. E. Thayer Gaston will conduct an additional community song, and the band also performs tonight in North Lawrence on the Woodlawn school grounds. The Friday program includes selections by His Honor, George M. Cohan medley, a U. S. Field Artillery solo by Marilyn Smart, Wayne Hird solos, The Anniversary Waltz, Washington Post March, Star Spangled Banner, and Stars and Stripes Forever with Gaston leading singing.
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Oliver Hobbs
Sons Park
South Park
North Lawrence
E. Thayer Gaston
Woodlawn
Yoder
Dorothy Mae Nelson
Stars and Stripes
Sousa
Thayer Gaston
Brown sees more beef in coolers as OPA acts
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown predicts beef supplies will rise due to a heavy livestock movement. He says the eastern pleasure driving ban will be lifted for A card holders soon, corn prices will stay steady, and no live-beef ceiling is planned. He discusses hog pricing, oil demand remains uncertain, and addresses Maxon and Bowles replacements.
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Washington
Prentiss. Brown
Brown
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
OPA
Marvin Jones
Lou R. Maxon
Houdini
Detroit
Maxon
Michigan
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Bowles
F “Bowles
Benton and Bowles
New York
John Hamm
Hamm
Léon Henderson
Midwest
East
Atlantic Seaboard
Government Is Building Boys Dorms at Oklahoma
Norman Oklahoma July 15 GP Construction crews excavate foundations for eight government financed buildings on the University of Oklahoma campus costing 650000 dollars to be completed in 90 days. Seven two story dormitories and a central recreation structure will sit east of Owen stadium to house about 900 military students in training. Joe McBride president of the university board of regents turned the first spadeful dirt. President Joseph A Brandt noted postwar use of the buildings for regular students. The dorms address housing needs from influx to local naval bases.
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Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
University
Owen Stadium
Joe McBride
University Board of Regents
Joseph A. Brandt
Hitler Returns to Berlin Amid Russian Offensive Halt
An unidentified foreign diplomat reported that Adolf Hitler relinquished direct control of the Belgorod Orel push and flew to Berlin for talks with his staff. The claim says he directed operations from Castle Binzanska near Bydgoszcz and hints the offensive may pause.
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London
Soutte
Adolf Hitler
Belgorod-Orel
Berlin
Germany
Hitler
Bninzka
Bydgoscze
Red Army Pushes from Orel Front in Three Day Offensive
Moscow reports the Red Army crossed a 25 mile front north of Orel and gained 12 to 15 miles with over 50 towns seized. A second eastern drive widened to an 18 mile front with 60 localities captured. German losses include 12,000 killed and 2,000 captured. 40 tanks and 210 guns taken, 109 tanks and 294 planes destroyed. Military actions span Orel Kursk and Belgorod sectors with continued Russian pressure on southern Orel Kursk.
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London
Red Army
Orel
Moscow
Ulyanovo
Staritsa
Sorokino
Molnovo
Budorovsky
Lukmily
Protivno
Shvanovo
Yagodnaya
Yelensk
Elen
Yazhik
Orlovka
Vysokoye
Pobednoye
Lyuhka
Brezovykh
Orel-Kursk
Belgorod
Army Production Lags for June and Faces Long Path to 1943 Schedule
Washington reports June production for the army fell substantially below schedule for the second straight month. About three-fifths of 1943 supply needs remain unmet, with total planes June output only slightly above May and below plan. Air frame weight rose 3 percent, while tactical planes reached 70 percent of the total. 100 octane gasoline remains tight, though higher priority may speed output.
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Washington
Army
Robert P. Patterson
Patterson
Violent Air Fighting Over Northern France And England
London reports heavy aerial combat tonight over northern France and the English coast. Allied planes including bombers and a large RAF escort launched harassing strikes, with Mosquito flights ranging from Boulogne to Strasbourg damaging locomotives.
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London
UPI
Associated Press
France
Capees --Folkestone
Eng
English Channel
R.A.F
Boulogne
LeTouquet
Europe
Germany
Air Ministry
Strasbourg
City farm hands prove hardy help in harvest drive
City volunteers aiding farm labor beat expectations in shocking oats and wheat across multiple fields. Albert I. Decker of the U S Employment Service notes workers ready to continue through summer evenings and Saturdays, boosting output at Nine Mile Ranch and other area farms while food ration concerns arise.
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Albert I. Decker
U.S. Employment Service Office
Postwar Resolution Prompts Senate Debate on Peace Obligations
Washington July 15 Democratic Leader Barkley said the Senate will be asked this fall to act on a general resolution asserting the United States will meet any international obligations to preserve peace after war ends. He did not forecast the foreign relations committee’s handling of several lasting peace proposals but voiced skepticism about drafting a postwar blueprint now.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Altho Barkley
Foreign Relations Committee
Blood Donors Needed For Red Cross Mobile Unit Visit
Citizens are urged to donate blood for wounded servicemen. Those willing to give a pint should call 640 tomorrow to schedule during the Monday Tuesday Red Cross Mobile Blood Donor unit visit. About 60 more volunteers are sought.
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Red Cross
Army
Navy
Investigation into Lewis finances linked to United Mine Workers
Washington reports Secretary Morgenthau said the treasury forwarded results of a six year old inquiry into John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers to the attorney general for action. The probe centered on relations between Lewis' union and a Springfield area mine and alleged financial manipulations tied to an AFL affiliated group.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
United Mine Workers Union
John L. Lewis
Tothtorney General
Lewis’ Union
Soie B
Springfield
Chicago Daily News
Biddle
Illinois
Daily News
Lewis
Union
Progressive
Erie of America
A.F.L. Out
Eight to One: American Airmen Rout Japanese In Solomons
South Pacific headquarters says American airmen defeated Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands at more than an eight to one ratio during June 380 to July 13. Japanese losses included 211 aircraft with 101 down on June 30. Allied losses not officially listed. A small sea action off Batuna saw two U S LCTs sink a Japanese landing craft with 50 crew killed. Ground forces report satisfactory progress toward Munda airstrip with no reinforcement.
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South Pacific
Solomon Islands
William F. Halsey, Jr
Solomons
Munda
Batuna
Vangunu Island
Naval officers visit University of Kansas campus
Rear Admiral E G Morsell and a small group of Ninth Naval District officers from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station conducted a routine inspection of Naval Training units at the University of Kansas campus today.
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E. G. Morsell
Ninth Naval District
R. G. Cook
A. von Gontard
D. W. Davis
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
University of Kansas
Twenty two inductees report for 21 day furlough after Leavenworth
Twenty two selectees sent to Leavenworth from this county July 5 have been inducted into the army and are on a 21 day furlough. They will re port back to Fort Leavenworth July 27. Inductees include Vincent Chirafisi Alma Henry Shemamy Ft. Cobb Kenneth Chelf Topeka and others listed with addresses across Kansas Missouri and Nebraska.
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Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
Vincent Leo Chirafisi
Alma
Henry Shemamy
Ft. Cobb
Okla
Kenneth Wilson Chelf
Topeka
Kenneth Dwaine Maxwell
Kentucky Street
Frank George Ireland
North Seventh
William Walter Russell
Massachusetts
Nacho Ornelas
New Jersey
Charles Leo Staus
Pennsylvania
Chester James J Beerbower
Laura Avenue
Elmer Primeau
Ponca City
Okio
Dale Lervis
Mickels
Alabama
Leonard Frank Trapp
Eudora
Harry Elmer Mortenson
Ohio Street
Edward Herman Kapelle
Five Fliers Killed In Amity Plane Crash Near St Joseph
Five Army Air Force crew members aboard a bomber training plane from Rosecrans Field were killed in a crash near Amity Missouri. The incident occurred during a routine flight while authorities also reported a separate alert for a 13 year old boy who escaped from a Topeka juvenile facility. The youth is described in blue overalls and shirt, bareheaded.
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St. Joseph
Gpi
Army Air Force Transport Command
Rosecrans Field
Amity
Topeka
Booker
Kellogg Bequest Funds KU Medical Technology Scholarship
A $4,000 Kellogg Foundation bequest to the University of Kansas creates a scholarship and loan fund for medical technology students. Chancellor Malott announced the grant and named a six member committee to administer it. Dr. Sherwood highlighted rising demand for medical technologists and predicted strong female enrollment this fall in bacteriology and nurses training.
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University of Kansas
Kellogg Foundation
Deane W. Malott
N. P. Sherwood
Cora. M. Downs
C. F. Nelson
Lawrence
C. J. Weber
Kansas City
Sherwood
Hawaii
Kellogg
Health unit commends local press and WREN station
Douglas county health unit boards pass a resolution praising the Lawrence Journal-World the Outlook and Baldwin Ledger along with radio station WREN for quiet cooperation during flood emergencies. The resolution notes timely announcements and direct guidance and directs copies to the named outlets.
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Douglas County Health Unit
Lawrence Journal- World
Outlook
Baldwin Ledger
WREN
Journal-World
The
Flood damage heavy in Kansas river basins
Flood loss in Kaw Solomon Blue Neosho and Marais des Cygnes basins totaled 1 510 663 with property crops livestock and business losses broken down by river area. Federal meteorologist S D Flora released preliminary figures noting 883 219 along the Kaw 870 000 along the Blue 146 644 along the Neosho 79 650 on the Marais des Cygnes and 31 150 on the Solomon.
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Topeka
Kaw
Solomon
Blue
Neosho
Marins Des Cygnes
S. D. Flora
Marais Des Cygnes
Lawrence
Kansas City
Republican
Stock Market Index Dips to 52.9 After Yesterday’s Rise
The index averaging 600 stocks falls to 52.9 after yesterday’s 53.3 reading, signaling a retreat in overall market performance. Investors monitor notable shifts in major sectors and price movements across the broad index.
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