Allied Air Offense Presses Germany and Libya Offensive
The British launch a massive aerial campaign to weaken Nazi Germany with aiding American support anticipated. In Libya Axis forces fall back as Cruewell is captured, boosting Allied morale and signaling possible invasion of Italy. The Cologne raid with 1,250 planes marks the largest air operation to date, while U S and RAF leaders discuss joint action and the Pacific and European fronts.
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Russia
Germany
United Nations
China
Rhineland
Libya
Italy
Hitler
Ludwig Cruewell
Afrika Korps
Cologne
Henry H. Arnold
United States Air Forces
R. A. F. Command
R.A.F
A. T. Harris
R. A. F. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
Arnold
London
Brehon Somervell
United States Army
John H. Towers
United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Europe
RAF
United States
Hhe R.A.F
Air Ministry
Kansas University 70th commencement at Memorial Stadium
The 70th annual KU commencement at Memorial Stadium awards 1014 degrees and certificates at 7 30 pm. Gov Payne Ratner and Mrs Elizabeth Haughey greet. Chancellor Malott bids graduates farewell and confers degrees. Flying Jayhawk Squadron inducted into USNR Air Corps by Governor Ratner. Diplomas by Fred M Harris. ROTC commissions by Col James S Dusenbury. Invocation by Rev Alfred J Beil. Benediction by Rev Harold G Barr. Processional Grand Processional March by William Ward. Recessional Lohengrin by Wagner. National anthem and alma mater sung.
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University of Kansas
Memorial Stadium
Payne Ratner
Elizabeth Stephens Haughey
State Board of Regents
Deane W. Malott
United States Naval Reserve Air Corps
Ratner
Fred M. Harris
Reserve Officers Training Corps
James. S. Dusenbury
P.M. S&t
University
R.C.T.C
Alfred J. Beil
Trinity Episcopal Church
Harold G. Barr
First Christian Church
William Ward
Wagner
Joseph F. Wilkins
Department of Voice
Steps To Place Manpower In Every Field Of War Effort
Washington reports the labor mobilization program of the war manpower commission becomes effective. It orders deferment of irreplaceable craftsmen and directs draft boards to consult federal employment service before calling skilled workers into the army. The war production board will prioritize workers by urgency and the farm security administration increases mobile labor camps to meet food goals. By November there should be 15 million workers in war factories and 17 million by next year, with about 9.5 million in farm work.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Selective Service
Federal
Army
McNutt
War Production Board
Federal Employment Service
Farm Security Administration
The
Manpower Commission
Pearl Harbor
Senator La Follette Pushes 50 Dollar Army Pay Bill
Washington June 1 Senator La Follette announced plans to discharge the senate conference committee and push a vote on raising army privates pay from 21 to 50 dollars a month. The measure also boosts pay through all ranks to 50. The move comes as conferees failed to settle differences with the house over the 50 figure amid broader draft age debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
la Follette
Wis
Senate Conference Committee
House
Senate
Johnson
D-Coro
Lafollette
Austin
Vermont
Reynolds
Hill
D-Ala
Gurney
R-S.d
Congress
Fall Under Restrictions For Truckers Warned In Topeka
Topeka June 1 War Production Board advised trucking firms fall under same restrictions as other truckers Floyd D Strong director motor carrier division said in response to a question from Boge Iron Metal Co of Wichita about compliance and policy changes
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Topeka
War Production Board
Floyd D. Strong
State Corporation Commission
Motor Carrier Division
Strong
Boge Iron & Metal Company
Wichita
Endowment Trustees Report At Kansas University
The annual meeting of KU Endowment Association trustees at Eldridge hotel reviewed yearly activities including trust supervision and new gifts. Major actions include acquiring Jolliffe hall, accepting real estate gifts from Foster and Lawrence Paper Co, establishing several scholarships and fellowships, and confirming officer reelections and by law changes. Ex officio members include Gov Ratner and KU leaders.
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Kansas University Endowment Association
Eldridge Hotel
Jolliffe Hall
Acacia Fraternity
O, Jolliffe
Peabody
George O. Foster
H. P. Cady
Olin Templin
Lawrence Paper Company
Summerfield
Elizabeth Watkins
C. C. Stewart
Carl Friend
Irving Hill
Maurice Ll. Breidenthal
Kansas City
Kan
Frank L. Carson
Wichita
Thornton Cooke
Frank G. Crowell
John A. Edwards
Paola
Robert C. Foulston
Carl E. Friend
Lawrence
Fred . Harris
Cittawa
Henry J. Haskell
New York
N. Y
William Allen White
Emporia
Gov
Payne Ratner
Supreme Court
John S. Dawson
Deane Malott
Hugo Wedell
K. U. Alumni Association
May Was Cool and Wet in the Month
May showed normal rainfall with 4.80 inches and a cooler trend than average. The mean temperature was 63.87 degrees, marking the coolest May since 1935, with a high of 89 and a low of 36. Rain fell on 10 days, and cloudiness averaged 53.22 percent.
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C. J. Posey
Rehearing Sought on Bridges Deportation Order
Mrs. Carol King, Bridges’ attorney, presents to the Department of Justice a petition for a rehearing before Attorney General Francis Biddle on his order for the deportation of Harry R. Bridges, West Coast leader of the C.I.C., announced in Washington on June 1.
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Bridges
Washington
Francis Biddle
Harry R. Bridges
C.I.C
Department of Justice
Carol King
War in Pacific sees raids across Australia to China
Allied forces press a wide front in the Pacific with Japanese midget submarines at Sydney repelled, raids from Burma to the Solomon Islands, and strikes on Timor and Dili. US bombers sink a Japanese tanker near Rangoon and hit airfields. In China, Chiang Kai-shek contests a Japanese advance with diversions and fresh landings near Chekiang and Canton.
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Sydney Harbor
China
Kwangtung
Chekiang Province
Burma
Solomon Islands
United States
New Delhi
India
Rangoon
Myitkyina
Australia
Sydney
MacArthur
Curtin
Melbourne
Lyndey
Pearl Harbor
Australian
Timor
New Guinea
Lae
Koepang
Dutch Timor
Dili
Tulagi
Tanamoga
Ganvatu
Solomons
Chiang Kai-shek
Anhwei
Kinhwa
Lanchi
Yuhwan Island
Chekiang
Nankin
Yangtze River
Kunming
Broderick Nomination Confirmed as IRS Collector
The Senate confirmed Lynn R. Broderick to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Kansas succeeding William H. Burke who resigned. The action was announced in Washington on June 1.
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Broderick
Washington
Senate
Lynn R. Broderick
Internal Revenue
District of
Kansas
William H. Burke
Allied and Neutral Ships Hit by Submarines in May Gulf Attacks
In May the Gulf Caribbean area saw 17 sinkings as U boats focused on allied and neutral shipping. Across the western Atlantic 281 ships were sunk, with four more casualties reported, including two American merchantmen near the Caribbean and a Norwegian cargo ship in the Gulf.
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New York
Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean
Atlantic
Canada
South America
Gulf- Caribbean
Caribbean
Gulf
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Blakeley
Brazil
Commandante Lyra
County draft quota rises to 127 men for June calls
Douglas county receives a tentative call for 45 more draftees in late June with 127 to be inducted. The first group leaves Ft Leavenworth today, including ten colored men, after a Community building breakfast. Follow up calls: 37 on June 6 and 35 on June 11, with a long list of names and addresses scheduled to depart June 11.
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Douglas County
Ft. Leavenworth
Selective Service Board
Leah Pettibone
Gertrude Halberg
Harold Leslie Brecheisen
Baldwin
Henry Russell Roche, Jr
Kansas City
Kan
Eudora
Donald Robert Wetzel
Missouri
Wesley Jerry Tallchief, Jr
Buffalo
N.Y
Haskell Institute
Raymond Arthur Atkinson
Kentucky
Floyd Fliott Carpenter
West Ninth
Clarence Ivon Bradley
Howard Vernon Dornon
Lawrence
John William Stone
Tennessee
Max Everett Fessler
Ohio
Lester Lfoyd Williams
Princeton
Seneetae Eugene Scott
Girard
Virgil Glenn Shaffer
Elm
Earl Richards
Maine
Lauren Keith McClure
Sheldon Welth
Louisiana
Ray Emerson Sayre
Ralph Kennedy
Thomas Albert Barlow
Michigan
Raymond
Howard Lee
West Eighth
Harry Lee Schwinley
Alabama
Ledward Ralph Liese
Massachusetts
Clyde Kenneth Hyder
West Sixteenth
Age Leeford Flory
Andy Miracle
North Second
Joe Allen Bear
Alexandria City
Orval Dale Thomas
Rhode Island
State Rationing Office Moves to Wichita Today
Topeka June 1 Pi State rationing headquarters moved from Topeka to Wichita where new OPA administrator H O Davis is setting up offices in the York Rite building. L G Gabbert will be state organizing officer supervising 20 executive secretaries spread across local boards. Locals will handle war price boards plus rationing and receive price schedules filed by dealers on ceilinged commodities.
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Topeka
Wichita
OPA
H. O. Davis
York Rite
L. G. Gabbert
Gabbert
KU Summer Session Opens June 3 at KU
Enrollment begins tomorrow with classes set to start Wednesday. The extended eight to fifteen week program speeds degree progress, adding more engineering courses and a first time for ROTC military science in summer. Dean George B. Smith to direct the session amid higher enrollment hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Medical School
Law
R.O.T.C
K. U
Texas
Michigan
Rains Hit Western Kansas With Tornadoes And Lightning
Soaking weekend rains spread across a wide Kansas area with reports of damaging wind and hail. A tornado touched down near Delphos and a 14 year old boy, Carl Lee Scott, was killed by lightning near Hiawatha. Temperatures cooled after the storms, with Topeka noting its wettest May in four years and forecasters predicting limited fieldwork as crops benefit from moisture.
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Topeka
Kansas
Delphos
Manhattan
Carl Lee Scott
Hiawatha
Hays
Scott County
McFarland
Wamega
Emmett
Minneapolis
Beloit
Cawker City
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Geneseo
Concordia
S. D. Flora
Wichita
Goodland
Flora
Ray Pierson Elected President of KU Alumni
Ray Pierson of Burlington was named president of the University of Kansas Alumni Association at the annual meeting. He succeeds Justice Hugo T. Wedell. Senator Lloyd Ruvrenthal of McPherson was chosen as vice president, succeeding Mrs Bertha Luckan Mc Coy of Emporia. Wedell and Mc Coy joined the board of directors, replacing Bruce Hurd of Topeka and John Boyer of Wichita.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Pierson
Burlington
American Legion
University of Kansas Alumni Association
K.U
Pierson
Hugo T. Wedell
Lloyd Ruvrenthal
McPherson
Bertha Luckan McCoy
Emporia
Wedell
McCoy
Bruce Hurd
Topeka
John Boyer
Wichita
Orders Case Reargued in Wheat Penalty Suit
The Supreme Court ordered a reargument on October 12 over the constitutionality of raising the wheat penalty from 15 to 49 cents per bushel for grain sold beyond AAA quotas. Montgomery county Ohio farmers brought the suit after an earlier hearing left the justices unable to decide.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Montgomery County
Ohio
New WPB Director for Kansas Sets Plans on Foot
Wade T. Childress becomes WPB regional director for Missouri Kansas Arkansas Nebraska. He reorganizes to cut red tape and gains authority to decide locally while Washington handles policy. Deputy L F E Crandall named. Childress meets district managers and Edward Scriven in St Louis.
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WPB
Kansas
Kansas City
Wade T. Childress
War Production Board
Missouri
Arkansas
Nebraska
Childress
Washington
L. FE. Crandall
St. Louis Hardware Company
Edward Scriven
Opened Kansas mineral industries building signals new era
Governor Ratners opened a new era with the dedication of the University of Kansas mineral industries building. He praised wartime and postwar potential such as aluminum from Kansas clay magnesium from brine asphalt rock chat salt and volcanic ash and warned discoveries here could influence future battles and America’s final victory.
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University of Kansas
Ratners
Kansas
America
Open Branch Office for Canning Sugar Registration
A temporary registration office will open Wednesday morning at Manual Junior High at Ninth and Kentucky to distribute canning sugar for one week. Warren Smith will supervise from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. as demand exceeds the regular rationing office. Applicants must provide family names, ration book serials, past and current canning quantities, and excess sugar data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manual
Ninth
Kentucky
Warren Smith
Lawrence National Bank
County crews upgrade roads and pour bridge slab
One of the county's power shovels is operating in Lecompton township raising the grade of a township road northwest of Lecompton. County workmen expect to start pouring the slab on the Pumping Station bridge south of Eudora on Thursday.
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Lecompton
Eudora
Prague Radio Says 27 More Czechs Executed
Prague radio reports 27 additional Czechs executed in retaliation for the attempted assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. The toll rises to 109 since the attack last week, four of the victims women.
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London
Prague Radio Tonight
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Heydrich
Stock Market Index Report Highlights Gains on Friday
The stock market index rose as 60 stocks traded higher, with an overall gain of 34.6 points on Friday, signaling positive momentum for investors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raee
Meekness as Hope in Dr Tittle's KU Baccalaureate Sermon
In Memorial Stadium Evanston pastor Dr Ernest Fremont Tittle urged that meekness humility and cooperative effort can end war and build civilization. Citing the beatitude and Francis Bacon he warned that greed fuels conflict and urged youth to value production for the common good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Fremont Tittle
First Methodist Church
Evanston, Ill
Memorial Stadium
University of Kansas
Dr. Tittle
Goa
Tittle
T Tittle
Francis Bacon
Bailey Wins 2 to 1 Margin in North Carolina Primary
Senator Josiah W. Bailey held a better than two to one margin over his opponent for the Democratic nomination for a third term in the upcoming Saturday primary. Similar strong showings were noted for other incumbents with opposition and for Cameron Morrison in the new tenth district.
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Leigh
N. C
UMP
Josiah W. Bailey
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
U. S
Bombers Talk With Germany Says Hull
Secretary Hull observed that bombers are currently in discussions with Germany and using a language that requires no translation. The exchange reflects ongoing diplomatic maneuvering amid global tensions in June.
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Washington
Germany
Hull
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Malta
U.S
Senator la Follette
Japan
Chekiang Line
Far Pacific
Gulf Caribbean
Kansas State College
Watkins Memorial Hospital
George B. Smith
School of Education
K. U. Alumni
Deag Ee
K. U. Mineral Industries
Lecompton Township
Prague
Illinois
Nietzsche
League of Nations
Napoleon
Bailey
Eeseemaarten
Costanere
Areveersisereen
Ilam
A. Lane
High
Low
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