German Reaction Closely Watched By Allied Chiefs
Washington reports intense interest in how Germany may respond to the Normandy breakthrough. Analysts say Germany’s leaders Himmler Goebbels and Goering face a choice between fighting retreat or fighting to the last man. A retreat would delay the Allied advance and fit Nazi hopes for a negotiated peace, while a stand and fight could trigger harsher terror in Germany and occupied Europe and possibly new weapons against Britain.
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Washington
Germany
Normandy
Hitler
Himmler
Goebbels
Goering
Rcmeb
Europe
Britain
Australian Wives Await Transportation to U S
Australian wives of 302 American servicemen gather at a port for transport to the United States. The group includes 78 babies requiring diapers and baby food stock. Many are wives of doughboys serving in New Guinea and other South Pacific areas. One traveler is the wife of Chief Petty Officer Gerald Moore from Goff, Kansas.
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United States
New Guinea
South Pacific Islands
Gerald Moore
Goff
Kan
University of Kansas hosts S.S.8.S. Summer Swing Session dance
The Independent Students Association invites students to a semi mixer tonight in the Memorial Union. Don Alderson leads the 18,4 group as Marilyn Smart and George Exon perform during intermission from 9 to 12. Chaperons include the Blockers and the Johnsons, with Henry Werner also in attendance.
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Independent Students’ Association
University of Kansas
Union
Don Alderson
Marilyn Smart
Lawrence
George Exon
Wichita
Deaths and Funerals Mary Ellen Lutz Worden 84
Mrs Mary Ellen Lutz of Worden aged 84 died Friday at her sister Mrs Frank Roses home in Chanute where she had stayed two months Funeral services will be at Worden Evangelical church Monday at 230 pm Rev W J Deckinker in charge Survivors include five sons Elmer Andrew Arthur Fred and Charles all in Worden area and brothers John Schoepflin Kansas City and Jacob Schoepflin Spick Mo Divorce Actions Filed Two divorce actions were filed yesterday in Douglas county district court Doris May Johnson seeks divorce from Lawrence Allen Johnson and Fayetta Brown files for divorce from John A Brown Jr
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Mary Ellen Lutz
Worden
Frank Rose
Chanute
Worden Evangelical Church
W. J. Deckinker
John Schoepflin
Jacob Schoepflin
Spick. Mo
Douglas County
Doris May Johnson
Lawrence Allen Johnson
Fayetta Brown
John A. Brown, Jr
War Ration Stamp Notices Read Like Fragmented List
AP list of ration stamps and validity dates appears garbled with scattered notes on Meats Fats processed foods sugar and gasoline. The fragment hints at indefinite validity for some stamps and specific poundage or date expirations but is incomplete and unclear.
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Associated Press
Air War Targets Manchuria and Henan Rail Yards
Giant B 29s strike Anshan industrial complex in Manchuria in daylight for first time. Heavy bombers also hit Chenghsien railway yards in northern Henan province as a diversion. Code word Mary announced honoring Col Roy Lynn Holton for the Manchuria raid.
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Japan
Greater East Asia
Yawata
Sasebo
Kyushu
Manchuria
Uge
Anshan
Manchurian
Chenghsien
Henan
Roy Lynn Holton
Kansas
20Th Bomber Command
Inhonor
Burch Visits Lawrence During Kansas Supreme Court Campaign
Allen Doc Burch Republican candidate for Kansas Supreme Court position seven spent a short Lawrence stopover en route to Wichita. He said he was ending active statewide campaigning and would rest at home after visiting more than 70 counties in six weeks. Burch is KU Law School graduate and has visited Lawrence while two daughters studied at the university.
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Allen
Doc) Burch
Kansas Supreme Court
Lawrence
Wichita
Tomorow
Burch
K. U. School of Law
Lawrence County Officials Move and Meet in August
The Douglas county treasurer will relocate to the district court room over the weekend while plastering begins Monday. The city council meets Monday at 8 pm and the Board of Education holds its August meeting August 7 at Liberty Memorial High School. Roy Flory reports 7,288 passenger car tags and 1,449 truck plates sold to date with a $0.50 penalty added August 1 raising total tag cost by $3.50 since sale began. County Clerk T. R. Gerhart says primary election supplies will be issued Monday afternoon. The Rev. Herbert C. Brockman was elected sponsor of the Commission on Community Service of the Kansas Conference Methodist Youth Fellowship at Baldwin. Delegates to the national encampment in Chicago August 22-24 were named from the Alford-Clarke auxiliary and include Mrs. Saunders, Mrs. Allen, and Mrs. Burk with alternates Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Rednour, and Mrs. Clepper.
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Douglas County
District Court Room
Court House
Roy Flory
Herbert C. Brockman
Centenary Methodist Church
Commission On Community Service
Kansas Conference
Methodist
Baldwin
Keith Brecheisen
K. U
Alford-Clarke
W. T. Allen
Haskell Grounds
Chicago
J. H. Saunders
P. QO. Burk
John Clarke
Harold Rednour
Bruce Clepper
J. H
Friend Declares Six Year Window For Statesmanship
Topeka July 29 Carl E Friend of Lawrence Republican candidate for the senate says his opponent offered no affirmative plan to solve problems. He predicts Tom Dewey will be elected president and calls for a senate willing to accept ideas with compromise to aid national welfare and provide jobs for fighting men and women. He criticizes inciting group hatreds for political gain but offers no further detail.
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Topeka
Carl E. Friend
Lawrence
Senate
Friend
Clyde M. Reed
Parsons
Tom Dewey
Washington
Study Tropical Ills Course At University Of Kansas
Twenty one laboratory technicians from Kansas hospitals attended a four day course on tropical diseases at the University of Kansas. Prof Mary Larson led lectures and labs with a fungus disease lecture by Dr Charles B Drake. Attendees from Lawrence include Mary Blood Virginia Brand Virginia Detler and others. the course will repeat in October.
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Kansas
University of Kansas
Mary Larson
Zoology
Charles B. Drake
Lawrence Hospitals
Mary Blood
Watkins Memorial. Hospital
Virginia Brand
Mary S. Boyden
Eugene Liddy
Virginia Detler
Watkins Memorial Hospital
German Radio Says Break With Turkey Is Imminent
German radio reports a rupture in Turkish relations is near with a full suspension of Turkish shipping and drafts of men into the army. Turkish summer maneuvers are described as close military secrets as Bulgaria presses for German division withdrawals amid rumored talks with the Allies.
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Turkey
Associated Press
Bulgaria
Transocean
Car Into Ditch Injures F. H. Dawson Family Near Lawrence
The Dawson family of Salina sustained slight injuries when their car hit a mud hole on highway 24 seven miles from Lawrence and overturned into a ditch. Dorothy 18 drove. Janet five and Dawson were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial hospital. John 13 and Mrs John Wilt of Sterling also suffered bruises and were staying at a hotel awaiting car repair. Meanwhile Imogene Herriman Webster will start as secretary to Chancellor Malott at the University of Kansas Monday. her daughter is in the Nurse Corps in the South Pacific and her son in Normandy.
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F. H. Dawson
Salina
Highway
Lawrence
Dorothy
Dawson
Janet
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
John
John Wilt
Sterling
Kansas City
Imogene Herriman Webster
Malott
University’ of Kansas
Retaking Normandy pushes Nazis toward Caen to Avranches
Allied forces pressed a fifth day of offensives in Normandy forcing German pockets toward the Caen Avranches line. Reports say Rommel moved reinforcements westward while U S Ninth Air Force claimed over 180 tanks destroyed and prisoners swelled past 5 000 as fighters and naval units disrupted landings near Coutances and Tessy sur Vire.
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Normandy
Caen
Brest
Sean Rommel
Atlantic
Janville
Coutances
Grumman Avengers
U. S
NBC
John McVane
France
Tessy-sur-Vire
Vire
Ninth Air Force
Rommel
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Omar N. Bradley
St. Lo
Berigny
Bayeux
St. Jean-des-Bassaints
St. Lo-Caumont
Vidouville
Lessay
Periers
Siennne River
Montpichon
Cpen
Avranches
Defense plan hinges on Avranches hold near Avranches
The report notes the defense relies on holding Avranches with an American spearhead at St. Denis-le-Gast only 18 miles away. German forces on the Gaen front were feverishly digging in as operations intensified.
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Avranches
St. Denis-le-Gast
Gaen
Douglas County approves August tire quotas and certificates
The county reports an August passenger car tire quota of 864, up 28 from July. Small truck tires under 50 have a quota of 86 casings, and no Saree truck casings were allocated. The county board issued certificates for 54 grade one passenger casings and four grade three tires.
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Douglas
OPA
Wichita
County Board
Missing Lt Dick Goheen, KU Pharmacy Grad 1942
Lieutenant Dick Goheen, a 1942 University of Kansas School of Pharmacy graduate, is reported missing after a lane crash at sea 35 miles off Honolulu. No survivors. He was a Delta Tau Delta member and Kappa Psi honor society, a dean's list student, and active in the YMCA.
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Dick Goheen
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
Goeen
Honolulu
Goheen
Delta
Tau Delta
Kappa Psi
Y.M.C.A
Armed Forces News Highlights Naval Reserve Training Updates
Multiple service members are profiled: Charles Love Jr enters Notre Dame midshipman school as apprentice seaman and aims for ensign after a four month course. Corporal Jack White on 14 day Fort Bragg furlough. Joe Fritzel promoted to staff sergeant after months in the South Pacific. Yeoman Irene Flory, Spars, now works in Washington DC Coast Guard offices after basic training at West Palm Beach. George Ward reports shrapnel injury in the left leg from July 3 and hospital care. Sergeant Carl Hunsinger promoted to staff sergeant, welding chief in Ninth Air Force unit in France. Floyd Ott, 19, from Eudora Kansas, joins Merchant Marine Cadet Corps for six to eight months sea duty, then Academy at Kings Point for commission.
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Charles Love, Jr
Charles Love
New Hampshire Street
U.S. Naval Reserve Midshipman’s School
University of Notre Dame
U.S. Naval Reserve
Yeoman
Irene E. Flory
The
Spars
Fred C. Flory
Route 6
Coast Guard
Washington, D. C
West Palm Beach
Flat
Carl F. Hunsinger
Ninth Air Force Service Command
Hunsinger
George
France
Floyd.l. Ott
R.F.C
Eudora
Kan
U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps
Annapolis
Merchant Marine
Ott
San Mateo
Calif
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
N. Y
U. 8. Naval Reserve
United States Maritime Service
Cushing Memorial Nursing School Affiliates With Park College
Cushing Memorial Hospital announces an affiliation with Park College Parkville Missouri for nursing instruction. Students spend a semester at Park College earning fifteen college credits toward a degree. Clinical work continues at Mercy Hospital and St Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Cadet Nurse Corps enrollment offers no cost for the Park College semester. First class under the program starts early September 1944 with vacancies remaining.
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Cushing
Memorial School of Nursing
Park College
Parkville
Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
St. Luke’s Hospital
U. S. Public Health Service
Kansas State Board of Nurse Examiners
American Red Cross
Boens
Cushing Memorial Hospital
Enworth
Kan-Adv
Robbery Hits Salvation Army Couple in Fayette City
Captain Robert J Getz and his wife from the Salvation Army report theft of about 60 dollars worth of clothing and merchandise from their car on Twenty second street near Brooklyn Avenue in Fayette City Missouri. The robbers took the Salvation Army tunic, blue and white uniforms, a pair of shoes and hose with no trace found.
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Robert J. Getz
Salvation Army
Twenty-second Street
Brooklyn
Fanna City
Th Stretton
Nevada
Getz
Wave of petty theft hits county with two tarpaulins stolen
Sheriff Rody Skinner said a wave of petty thefts has begun as two tarpaulins were stolen from a bale pile of Cleve Dunigan near Hill View golf course. Earlier, Harold Whalen reported a power washing machine taken from his East Twenty-third Street garage on Thursday night.
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Rody Skinner
Cleve Dunigan
Hill View
Harold Whalen
East Twenty-third Street
Sheriff's Office
Markets at a Glance in New York July 29
Market news reports stocks mixed with slow drift and narrow changes in bonds. Cotton steady while wheat futures show limited trade as mills buy to cover flour sales and hedging for cash. Hog and cattle markets vary by weight, with prices fluctuating and overall softness in some fat cattle grades. Kansas City hogs and cattle show mixed gains and losses, with good to choice beef advancing while lighter weights rise or fall by modest margins.
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New York
Chicago
Kansas City
Wheat and grain market report with mixed prices
The market shows mixed grain and livestock quotes with wheat futures at Chicago steady to higher, corn and oats varied, potatoes firm on demand. Prices for butter, eggs, and poultry reflect a cautious trading mood, while regional markets list note cattle and sheep movement and local grain values.
Trading session ends amid weak buying and mixed signals
The market shows little lift with many leaders unable to climb out of losses. Trading activity cools as incentives fade and ticker tape moves slowly. Transfers of around 250 000 shares appear among the smallest lately. References to General Mot Chrysler San Standard Old Southern Hall way Du Pont and Annecott appear in a card of thanks section.
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Chrysler
San Standard Old Southern
du Pont and
Annecott
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Jack Fritzel
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