Tojo Relieved as Chief of Staff in Japanese Shakeup
New York July 18 UPi Gen Hideki Tojo, now premier and war minister, has been relieved of the post of chief of the army general staff amid a sweeping high command reshuffle. Gen Yoshijiro Umezu named chief of the staff, with Lt. Gen. Kunihiko Kaya joined to army aviation HQs and other senior posts filled as Japan recalibrates for the grave war crisis. Tojo warned of an unprecedented national effort as Saipan fell and urged the nation to calm the emperor’s mind.
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Hideki Tojo
Army General Staff
Tojo
Saipan
Yoshijiro Umezu
Japan
Kwantung Army
Manchuria
Domei
Japanese ‘Agency
Naokuni Nomura
Navy
Domein
Tsunenori Kaya
Imperial Japanese Family
Army Aviation General Headquarters
Supreme War Council
Military General Staff
Prince Kaya
Nagoya
Tokyo
Suigyama
Otozo Yamada
Umezu
Michio Sugawara
Army Education
Jun Ushirogu
High Command
Sugiyama
Beko
BUY COAL THIS SUMMER
Kansas City July 18 Senators Clyde M Reed and Kenneth S Wherry heard pleas for summer purchase and delivery of winter fuels as petroleum and coal industries testified before the senate investigating committee. The briefing painted a brighter overall picture than last year but warned of possible distillate shortages for home use. Oil producers urged higher prices over subsidies to spur more output while gas was expected to be plentiful in the midwest except parts of Iowa and Nebraska.
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Kansas City
Clyde M. Reed
R-Kan
Kenneth S. Wherry
R-Neb
Petroleum and Coal Industries
Senate Investigating Committee
Reed
Wherry
Mid-West
Iowa
Nebraska
Successful Party for Servicemen by Local Club
The Review club hosted a well attended dance and game room party for servicemen at the Community building Saturday night from 9 to 12. Herbert Price funded a dance band for the gala event, praised by hundreds in uniform and 185 junior hostesses. flower clubs provided giant zinnias for both floors. Hosts, hostesses, and volunteers from multiple clubs organized ballroom activities, game room supervision, and a Saturday afternoon setup by United Home Service members.
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Herbert Price
H. W. Sherman
Elizabeth R. Cook
S. Hagerman
Ella Rudier
Ruth Porter
Floyd H. Hanson
Review Club
Price
Flower Club
J. Homer King
J. F. Harris
Carl Graeber
Harry Deneciler
Will Torgenson
G. E. Cadwell
Fred Harris
Graeber
Torgenson
United Home Service Club
Karl Todd
Betty Mole
Emmett Williams
A. H. Dyer
C V. Leigh
F. P. Stapleton
E. L. Haynes
Stapleton
Virginia Wilder
J. Q. Rick
Heady Commissioned in Naval Reserve Former KU instructor joins reserves
Raymond A. Heady of Independence a former journalism instructor at the University of Kansas was commissioned a lieutenant junior grade in the naval reserves last month and sworn in at the naval office in Kansas City. Heady taught at KU from 1939 to 1941 then moved to Oklahoma University before joining the Kansas City Star last year.
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Naval Reserve
K. U
Raymond A. Heady
Independence
University of Kansas
Naval Reserves
Naval Office
Kansas City
Oklahoma U
Kansas City Star
Flying Association Planned in Kansas State Meet
Plan for a permanent statewide flying association to be organized akin to a Chamber of Commerce was announced for a meeting here on July 19 and 20 by Gene Raddon who serves as temporary chairman.
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Plan Flying Association
Wichita
Kansas Flight Operators Association
Chamber of Commerce
Gene Rawdon
Counter Drive by Chinese Reported Across Rail Lines
Chungking July 18 Chinese press reports say the counter drive along the Peiping Hankow railway has begun and a campaign to push the Japanese back along the Canton Hankow line in Hunan province. Advices claim Chinese offensives northward toward Kioshan and Leiyang near Hengyang. American liaison counters Japanese air claims, noting fliers turned back raids and shot down enemy planes with no American losses.
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Peiping-Hankow
Canton-Hankow
Hunan
Hese
Kioshan
Hankow
Honan
Hengyang
Lei- Yang
Kweilin
Kwangsi Province
Joseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Liberator bombers strike Changsha and Hunan capital
American air units claim heavy fires and explosions after two waves of medium and heavy bombers hit Changsha, a key Japanese supply base in Hunan. The raids followed by strafing sweeps supporting encircled Chinese troops Engyang. Bronze Star awarded to Lt. UP Bert Johnson Gilliland of Kansas.
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Changsha
Hunan
Changshe
Canton-Hankow
Fonan Province
Engyang
Kansan Hutchinson
T.C. Kinkaid
Seventh Fleet
Orbert Johnson
Gilliland
James F. G. Gilliland
Hotehin
Heroic Service Acknowledged in WWII Naval Action
Gilliland cited for heroic meritorious service in combat while commanding a tanker in a convoy resupplying New Britain in December 1617. The award notes leadership under enemy threat during critical supply runs.
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Gilliland
Cert Newritain
Colorado's forests exceed a million acres each
Colorado features 16 national forests, each surpassing one million acres. In U.S. education news, five of every hundred schoolchildren suffer uncorrected eyesight problems.
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Fie
U. S
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