Summer Play Program enrollment grows across six elementary playgrounds
The summer program reports 225 participants across six playgrounds as Challenge week drives new member signups. Preschool groups at Cordley and Pinckney show strong turnout with 16 and 23 children respectively, while teens join drama and music activities. Swimming starts July first after cool mornings.
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Dorothy Jane
D.J
Cannady
Cordiey
June McMillan
Pinckney
Ralph Wolfson
Serepta Ostrum
Maude Ellsworth
Elizabeth le Suer
Edith Cottom
Beatrice Buehler
Georgia Sue Reuter
Abilene
Portugal Bans Shipment of Wolfram to Nazi Germany
Portugal became the first neutral to fully comply with Allied requests by banning both export and production of wolfram. The ban, issued Monday ahead of Allied landings in France, targets the critical resource used in high grade steel and armor piercing shells, threatening German war production.
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Washington
Portugal
France
Europe
Navy Induction Move for Local Graduate Leslie Newman
Leslie E. Newman, 28, of Walnut street and a 1944 Liberty Memorial high school graduate, left Lawrence this morning for Kansas City to enter United States Navy induction procedures.
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Us. Navy
Leslie E. Newman
Walnut Street
Liberty Memorial High School
Lawrence
Kansas City
United States
Navy
Pilot Sees Frontline Calm Behind French Roads
St James Crawley of Springfield Illinois piloted a C 47 over the beachhead and reported good prospects. American soldiers rested along their rifles observing the area with no enemy planes or anti aircraft fire. The pilot noted crater depths and favorable conditions as Allied forces hold the line.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
St. James Crawley
Springfield
Ill
Eads in Kahili Raid Highlighted by Airman
Staff Sgt. John R. Eads of Lawrence turret gunner on a Liberator describes a Kahili raid in Bougainville where nearly 200 Japanese planes were grounded and a cruiser was ship bombed from 75 feet. He earned Air Medal and nine clusters after 53 missions. He received a special commendation for the attack and is on furlough at home after serving in the Southwest Pacific.
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Kahili
John R. Eads
Lawrence
Southwest Pacific
No. 9
Jefferson Barracks
Eads
Haskell Institute
National Guard
Air Corps
Bougainville
Kula Gulf
Landing in Greece Reported by Ankara Several Claims
Reports from Ankara say allied troops may have landed in Greece with Turkish sources locating the action in the Peloponnesus south of the Isthmus of Corinth and UN radio in Algiers noting a Berlin broadcast naming Patras on Greece northwest coast.
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London
Greece
Ankara
Peloponnesus
Corinth
United Nations Radio
Algiers
Berlin
Patras
Bomb training officer leads Alexandria setup at hangar
Captain W. W. Anderson, son of Mr and Mrs A L Anderson of 827 Arkansas street, heads bombing training in Alexandria Louisiana. The trainer simulates real flight with an electrically powered ground-level bombardier setup and a pilot behind. Anderson, a former B 17 bombardier in the first American raid over Germany, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. His brother Cpl Wayne E Anderson serves in Iceland. The piece notes a marriage in Court House between John F Gray of Kansas City and Emma Lou Hughes of Oklahoma.
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W. W. Anderson
A. L. Anderson
Arkansas Street
Alexandria
Anderson
Germany
Cpl
Wayne E. Anderson
Iceland
Kansans listed among 824 POWs by War Department
Washington June 7 Kansans are among 824 soldiers held as prisoners of war per the war department ledger. Include Capt. Benjamin H. Albertson Sylvia S Sgt Alfred L. Brawner Enterprise Pfc Joe A Busse Pittsburg in the roster.
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Washington
War Department
Benjamin H. Albertson
Sylvia
Alfred L. Brawner
Enter-prise
Joe A. Busse
Pittsburg
Military personnel names listed from city area
Pfc George J Goodsheller and S/Sgt Karl Grisby from Olathe are joined by Sgt Anthoni Kolich, S/Sgt Jen E Mary, and others in a city listing. Included are 5 Set. Harry J Reece and S/Set J G Wilson among the names.
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George J. Goodsheller
McPherason
Karl ¥ Grisby
Olathe
Anthoni Kolicheinen
Jen E Mary
Hope
Harry J._Reece
J. G. Wilson
Tennessee police court fines posted for early morning incidents
Larry Merkle was fined five dollars in June for leaving the scene of an accident. Phillip Dergance, 1529 Kenicky Street, charged similarly. Eight others paid fines for parking violations in the 1500 block.
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Tennessee
Larry Merkle
Alr
Phillip Dergance
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Caen
UNION
San Francisco
Natioal Martime Union
Ralph D. Rogers
N.M.U
Roosevelt
Rogers
National Maritime Union
Sage
American Amusement CO
Officer
Alexandria, la
Court House
John F. Gray
Emma Lou Hughes
Oklahoma
Deus Standard Service
Leo H. Percival
Vermont
Journal-World
George
Geolgo
Standard Oil
Dobbs —Truss
Rankin Drug CO
Robbins
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Hercules News
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Sunflower
Hercules Employment Office
Highway 10
Eudora
U. S. Employment Service
7Th
Kan
America
U. S. Treasury
Hitler
Hirchito
Greyhound
Union Bus Depot
Greyhound Lines
Uncle Sam
U. S
Sam
Columbus Foods Corporation
East 10Th St
Bouget
American Radio Service
East 9Th
Jayhawk
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