Japanese Fighters Engage in South Pacific Hunt for Bombers
Washington reports a new Japanese tactic sending large flights of fighters to locate and drive off American units in the Solomons. A 40 to 50 plane formation near Russell Islands left several downed Japanese aircraft as U.S. Navy and Marine pilots pressed counterattacks. bombers also raided Japanese bases across the Solomons and Aleutians with multiple Mitsubishis shot down.
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Washington
South Pacific
Russell Islands
Solomon
Navy
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Marine
Army
U. S
Buka
Bougainville Island
Mitsubishi
Malaita Island
Pakific
Aleutians
Drafting of Dads May Be Postponed
War manpower projections show 1.2 million net industrial workers added by July 1 1944 with homemakers from war centers. McNutt and Hershey testifying cite 63.2 million in war effort and 64.4 million by July 1944, plus 5.4 million inducted and 2.3 million added to munitions payrolls in the year ending June 30.
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McNutt
McNutt and Hershey
Pearl Harbor
Selective Service
Hershey
Oklahoma
Kansas
Health Films Shown at Lone Star Church
Lone Star churchgoers viewed moving pictures on health topics last night presented by the Douglas County health service. Films supplied by the State Board of Health covered child care dental care TB cancer and related health subjects.
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Lone Star
Church of the Brethren
Douglas County Health Service
State Board of Health
County Health Service
H. L.chambers
Eoward Weindel
S. S. Kalter
Le compton Township Board Meeting Schedule
The Le compton township board will hold monthly meetings at 3 30 p m on the last Saturdays of June July August and September Clerk Pete Bahnmaier announced in the notice.
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le ‘Compton
Pete Bahnmaier
RAF Bombs Rhineland and Germany as US Air Force Faces Heavy Losses
London reports RAF bombing targets in the Rhineland and other German areas with mine laying in enemy waters. One British plane is missing. US Eighth Air Force suffers its heaviest single raid toll with 26 Fortresses down, while German defenses claim multiple fighter kills. British raids on Bochum and Ruhr cause extensive damage to chemical plants and armaments works.
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London
R.A.F
Rhineland
Germany
Air Ministry
Channel
United States
Bremen
Siel
U.S
Kiel
Frederick L. Anderson
Bochum
Ruhr
Civil Air Patrol Training Mission at Olathe Naval Air Base
Members of the Lawrence Civil Air Patrol squadron conducted an observation and training mission at Olathe Naval Air Base. Capt L K Zimmer Lt Howard Lindley and Lt W C Hunsinger led the group under George Berg executive officer. They toured the base met Dixie Kiefer Maj George Omer Lt L M Harvey and Lt F Collins and attended classes and flight activity before returning to Lawrence at 4 30 p m.
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Lawrence
Civil Air Patrol
Olathe Naval Air Base
L. K. Zimmer
Howard Lindley
W. C. Hunsinger
George Berg
Dixie Kiefer
George Omer
Marine Corps Reserve
L. M. Harvey
F. Collins
Navy
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Minnie Ann Miller
Mrs Minnie Ann Miller 54 died at her home in Kansas City Missouri early today. Two brothers Harry and Lee Hegeman and a sister Mrs Olive Howard live in Lawrence. Other survivors include her husband Elmer P Miller of Kansas City, two sons Sgt John Brady US Army and Harry Brady of Kansas City, and a granddaughter. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Minnie Ann Miller
Kansas City
Harry
Lee Hegeman
Olive Howard
Lawrence
Elmer P. Miller
Set
John Brady
U. S. Army
Harry Brady
Mrs Thomas B Wood Dies After Illness in Concordia
Mrs Thomas B Wood formerly Lucene Wheeler of Lawrence died yesterday morning at 9:30 in a Concordia hospital. Since Mr Wood’s death in Washington C in November she lived with sister Mrs A M Townshin of Jameston and brother Holland Wheeler of Kansas City Mo. The body travels to Lawrence arriving 2:40 Tuesday on the Union Pacific, and in state at Funk chapel until a 5 o’clock Wednesday graveside service at Oak Hill cemetery.
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Thomas B. Wood
Lucene Wheeler
Lawrence
Concordia
Mr. Wood
Washington, C
A. M. Townshin
Jameston
Holland Wheeler
Kansas City
Union Pacific
Funk Chapel
Oak Hill Cemetery
Down Three Focke Wulfes Over London June 13
CP Col. Hubert Zempke of Tampa Florida credited with two of three Focke Wulfs shot down by American fighters in morning sweep with RAF bombers. The third kill credited to Lieut Robert F Johnson of Lawton.
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Focke
Supreme Court Overrules Flag Salute Compulsion
The Supreme Court ruled that school children cannot be forced to salute the flag if it violates their religious beliefs, overturning a 1940 decision. Justices Jackson and Rutledge wrote the majority. three dissents by Roberts Reed and Frankfurter. The West Virginia pledge case involved Jehovahs Witnesses and Kanawha County students expelled for refusal.
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Supreme Court
Roberts
Mississippi
United States
Jackson
West Virginia Board of Education
Minersville
Pennsylvania
Jehovah's Witnesses
Stone
Black
Douglas
Murphy
Justice Frankfurter
Rutledge
West Virginia
United States of America
Republic
Walter Barnette
Paul Stull
Lucy McClue
Kanawha County
Committee On the Bill of Rights
The
American Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union
American Legion
New Strange U S Disease Found By Public Health Officials
Washington reports a newly identified disease with high mortality, first detected near New Iberia Louisiana with 17 cases and eight deaths. Doctors testifying before a House committee say the agent has been isolated in animals and promise clarification with time.
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Washington
House
U. S. Public Health Service
R. E. Dyer
Appropriations Committee
Dyer
New Iberia
Radcliff college president wed Yale historian Notestein
Miss Adam L. Comstock retirement head of Radcliff college married Wallace Notestein Sterling professor of English history at Yale University. Notestein had been an assistant history professor at the University of Kansas from 1905 to 19.
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Cambridge
Mass
Adam L. Comstock
Radcliff College
Wallace Notestein
Sterling
Yale University
University of Kansas
Collision injures no one near Hayden's corner Saturday night
Harold Cone of Topeka and Henry T. Sluder of 504 Locust collided east of Hayden's corner on Highways 40 and 24 at 11 30 Saturday night. Cone drove a 1938 Nash westbound and Sluder a 1934 Chevrolet eastbound. Both cars damaged and no injuries reported.
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Harold Cone
Topeka
Henry T. Sluder
Hayden’s Corner
Cone
Sluder
Explosions at Quonset Station in Rhode Island
An UpA plane at Quonset Naval Air Station exploded today and in turn exploded a quantity of explosives. The First Naval District headquarters announced no further details were immediately available.
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Quonset Station
Quonset, R. I
UPA
Naval Air Station
First Naval District Headquarters
Rationing notes detail stamps and expirations across goods
The notice lists meat and dairy stamps, processed foods, shoes, sugar, coffee, gas and fuel oil coupons with valid thru dates and regional differences. It warns of reduced rations, limited travel, and upcoming stove rationing expectations as applications for next year are mailed back.
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East
First Kansas Wheat Arrives on Kansas City Market
On June 14 two cars of new wheat arrived in Kansas City marking the first 1943 wheat to reach the market. One car from Kiowa Oklahoma priced at 1.41 dollars per bushel with 64.2 pounds per bushel and 11.15 percent protein. the other from Yewed Oklahoma tested at 64 pounds with 11.25 percent protein. Both consignments were handled by Mensendieck Grain company and sold to Uhlmann Grain. Last year the first new wheat arrived June 17 and two years ago June 2.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Kiowa
Uhlmann Grain Company
Yewed
Okla
Mensendieck Grain Company
Red Cross Offers Summer Nutrition Class at University
The Red Cross will run an eight week summer session standard nutrition course at the University with sections for men, business and professional women, and homemakers. Classes meet starting June 15 at 8:30 in Fraser Hall room 209 and continue three times weekly, with downtown sessions on request. Nutrition aides may wear a pin after 30 hours of service annually. 46 members recently earned National Red Cross certificates.
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Fraser Hall
Red Cross Office
Red Cross
Call
National Red Cross
Frances Spencer
Haskell Institute
Kathryn Tissue
Dorothea Schroeder
Canteen Aide Certificates Awarded at Corbin Hall
Ten members of Miss Lois Ludeman's canteen course at Corbin Hall receive certificates for canteen aides in a brief ceremony.
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Lois Ludeman
Corbin Hall
Marriage Licenses Granted Over Weekend For Four Couples
Over the weekend marriage licenses were issued to Richard A. Enderle and Ninfa M. Sterner of Kansas City Kansas. Walter G. Ash and Monnie R. Freeman of Kansas City Missouri. James Robert Price of Pittsburg. and Isadora Elizabeth Sumner of Lawrence.
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Richard A. Enderle
Ninfa M. Sterner
Kansas City
Kan
Frank R. Gray
Walter G. Ash
Monnie R. Freeman
James Robert Price
Pittsburg
Isadora Elizabeth Sumner
Lawrence
Belgians Report Deportations to German Camps
The Belgian government in exile says about 52,000 Belgian Jews have been sent to concentration camps in Germany Poland and occupied Russia. Deportations began last summer with a roundup of 2,000 Belgian Jews in one night.
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London
Germany
Poland
Russia
Nazis claim 3319 planes lost in Russian air war
Moscow reports through the Red Army air force seven weeks of fierce air battles with 3319 German aircraft downed. Soviet communiques cite gains in the Orel hinge sector south of Moscow and four settlements captured by patrols. Last night near Mtsensk about 300 Germans killed, eight tanks knocked out, as German counterattacks failed. Moscow also notes heavy artillery and air activity around Sevsk and Orel while celebrations mark United Nations Day.
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Moscow
Upi
Red Army
Orel “Hinge
Mtsensk
Orel
Sevsk
Soviet Union
United Nations Ay
Birth Rate Rises as Death Rate Falls in 1942
Washington reports the 1942 death rate fell to 10.3 per 1 000, the lowest on record, and infant mortality eased to about 40 to 41 per 1 000 live births. The birth rate climbed from 18.7 to 20.7 per 1 000 population. Maternal mortality is projected to decline for the 13th straight year to about three deaths per 1 000 births.
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Washington
United States
Thomas Parran
House
Service News Notes Promotions And Training Updates
Armed Forces Sgt Clarence L Henderson promoted from corporal and serving as morning reports and personnel clerk at Fresno Basic Training Center. Howard Bond Fox begins recruit training at Faragut Naval Training Station. Privates Ralph Pine and Fount LeRoy assigned to Medical Replacement Training Center at Camp Robinson for 11 weeks. Clifford Reynolds in officer candidate school at Camp Davis. Harold Longenecker promoted from captain to major with quartermaster corps at Fort Worth. Lt Lewis W Beurmann promoted to first pilot on B17F at Tinker Field. Sgt T Willis Bond returns to Fort Bragg after furlough. Capt F S Olmstead reports from Alaska Army Transport corps. Captain John H White writes from northern Africa en route to base after two day Algiers furlough.
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Clarence L. Henderson
Jessa T. Henderson
Rhode Island Street
Armed Service
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Fresno
Cal
Ralph Pine
Elm Street
Fount LeRoy
Oread
Camp Robinson
Ark
John H. White
Africa
Louise H. White
Haskell Institute
Algiers
Lend lease aid to Russia praised for weapons and materials
Washington reports on 19 months of lend lease to the Soviet Union show thousands of tanks planes and guns shipped and major contributions in raw materials and food. It notes 725000 tons of steel 145000 tons of copper and 1 077000 tons of food plus 67726 miles of telephone wire, enough to circle the earth 27 times.
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Washington
Lendlease
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
Russia
Stettinius
Lend-Lease
Urals
Spanish War Veterans to Join Elks Flag Day Program
The Spanish War Veterans will march to the Elks lodge in Lawrence this evening at 7 45 to attend the Flag Day program with their colors. George Baker of the KU caretakers sold 200 dollars worth of strawberries from an acre in North Lawrence. Vernon H. Bing Smith has been named president of the Omaha Advertising Club after leaving Lawrence.
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Elks
Elks Lodge
George Baker
K. U
North Lawrence
Vernon H. “Bing” Smith
WREN
The
Omaha World-Herald
KOWH
Lawrence
Omaha Advertising Club
Dempsey Divorce Goes to Referee In White Plains Case
Jack Dempsey and his wife reached a supreme court referee in White Plains N Y for divorce and separation suits after he denied assault claims. Referee J Addison Young pledged to decide as promptly as possible following a trial that began in May.
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Dempsey
White Plains
N. Y
Jack Dempsey
Supreme Court
J. Addison Young
Carotene Products Chartered In Topeka
Carotene Products Inc of Independence received a state charter to operate a dehydration plant for alfalfa and other grain with 300000 dollars capital. Paul R. Johnson is resident agent and incorporator. Miss Enola Ledbetter, a Milwaukee teacher, is visiting her niece at Haskell Institute with the Dahler family.
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Carotene Products
Topeka
Carotene Products, Inc
Independence
Paul R. Johnson
Enola Ledbetter
Milwaukee, Wis
H. W. Dahler
Haskell Institute
Traffic Fines in Court for Weekend Parking Violations
Police court collected twenty five fines of one dollar or forfeited bonds for overparking or wrong parking from weekend violators. Wesley Hutchinson paid ten dollars for careless driving and Leonard Holladay five dollars for reckless driving.
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Wesley Hutchinson
Leonard Holladay
President Roosevelts Subsidy Plan Faces Party Split
President Roosevelt urged Congress to authorize 1.5 to 2 billion dollars in subsidies to roll back agricultural prices. Democrats largely supported the plan while Republicans led by Senate Minority Leader McNary opposed it. BYRNES warned subsidies would be hard to apply here versus Britain and Canada. Edward A. ONeal condemned wage subsidies and urged rolling back wages instead of prices. Nearby, Edna volunteers battled a fire in Bartlett, Kansas, saving the business district.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Senate
McNary
Oregon
Great Britain
Canada
England
James F. Byrnes
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Senate Banking Committee
O’neal
Lawrence shows patriotic party despite heat for 1812 event
In Lawrence on Saturday the St Thomas Blair chapter of the United Daughters of 1812 and the Iota Nu Book Review Club held a late night party at the Community Building. Over 120 junior hostesses helped with badges and activities while darts ran dry forcing rivals to seek darts elsewhere. Bingo and ping pong entertained as a community sing and performances by Miss June Evans and Irene LaFayette provided intermission highlights.
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Kansas
Lawrence
St. Thomas Blair
United Daughters of 1812
Iota Ny Book Review Club
Wayne’ F. Shaw
W. C. Boardman
Navy Boys
Paris Expert Foresees Allied Invasion This Week
A Paris radio military commentator, broadcast tonight and recorded by Reuters, siad the allied invasion is likely to begin this week as Allied forces build up around Europe.
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Paris
London
Reuters
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Ted” Olmstead
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