Weather Devastates Kaw Valley as Floods Rise
Eastern Kansas endures heavy rains and high winds with the Kaw river at Topeka rising toward 27 feet. Tornadoes damage towns including Kipp and Hutchinson while rivers threaten Saline, Marais des Cygnes, and Blue systems. Power lines to an army air base are cut. packing plant damage and rail detours follow.
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Army Air Base
Topeka
Kansas
Kaw River
Weather Bureau
Kaw Valley
Kipp
Salina
Hutchinson
S. D. Flora
Iuch Falls
Western
Dodge City
Wichita
Goodland
Elipsthe
Ellis
Geneseo
Leavenworth
Horton
Manhattan
Emporia
Lebo
Garnett
Olthe
Hanover
Twister damages Perry neighborhoods overnight
A small twister hit Perry last evening around 9 o'clock causing severe damage. Trees were blown down in nearly every yard and the Walter Brown home suffered a large tree on the garage and a smashed late model car. A metal grain way and a large hole in the Dave Metzger kitchen were reported. The storm lasted about 20 minutes.
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Perry
Walter Brown
Ede
Dave Metzger
Stock Market Index Report Summary
The article notes a stock market index for 60 stocks closing at 50.4 yesterday. It references BOS and aaa but provides minimal readable data and no clear events or entities beyond the index value.
Allied Bombing Blitz Hits Sicily Airfields in Round-the-Clock Operation
Huge Allied air forces resumed after a two day rest with a round the clock mission against five Sicily airfields and other targets. Combat left 16 enemy planes downed to seven Allied losses, while RAF bombers and US heavy fighters struck Sciacca Bocca di Falco near Palermo Castelvetrano Borizio Milo and radio stations near Marsala. Eleven enemy aircraft were shot down and at least twelve damaged in the air with six Messerschmitt 109s among them.
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North Africa
Mediterranean
Telvetrano
Borizo
Milo
Marsala
Riot-torn Beaumont Under Guard After Night of Violence
In Beaumont Texas troops state police and local guards patrolled the city after rioting left eleven hospitalized. A white woman reported an attack by a black man sparked violence that burned a black resident's home and disrupted services including mail and laundry. Businesses paused work while posts and dispensaries closed.
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Beaumont
Tex
M. W. McMasters
Pennsylvania Shipyards
McMatters
Ogden Johnson
Washington
George Gary
Ross Dickey
Dickey
Dallas
Rich Donovan
Army
Rumanians reportedly extend peace feelers amid war weariness
Delayed U P report says Romania, an axis satellite, sought to test Allied reception of withdrawal from the war through a neutral diplomat. London Washington and Moscow reportedly weighing its offer to keep parts of Bessarabia Bukovina Transylvania, conditional on capitulation before Hungarians. No Allied confirmation.
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Ankara
Turkey
Rumania
Soviet Russia
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Russia
Transylvania
London
Washington
Mscow
Reuters
Stockholm
Allehanda
Germany
Stockolm
Flood Threat Grows as Missouri Kaw Rivers Sweep Northeastern Kansas
Northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri face renewed floods as the Missouri and Kaw rivers rise. Weather officials predict the Missouri could reach levels not seen since 1915 and 1935, inundating farms and threatening Kansas City area. convicts and state crews race to shore up dikes and protect penitentiary lands along the flooded channels.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
The
Weather Bureau
Kaw
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Althe
Walter A. Hunter
Federal
Platte County
M. F. Amrine
Kansas State Penitentiary
Kansas Penitentiary Island
Big Muddy
Osage
Mississippi
Huge sums asked in economic war budget
Washington June 16 A $2 921 441 504 omnibus appropriation bill bundles the needs of 18 war agencies as top officials describe progress in the economic war. The 1944-45 allocations drew praise and criticism from the house appropriations committee and detail staff expansions, carbon paper use, and other budget questions.
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Washington
Congress
Office of Price Administration
War Production, Board, Censorship
Office of War Information
Worshipping Administration
House Appropriations Committee
OPA
Appropriations Subcommittee
Board of Economic Warfare
Eettmeepennses
Ene
Eee Meemannetseteeetness
Office of Censorship
War Petroleum Administration
Arenerenes
Office of Strategic Services
Office For Emergency Management
Defense Transportation
Ace
Office of Economic Stabilization
Pane Sanewneeanss Seonensseneeneeen
National War Labor Board
Office of Scientific Research
Office of War Information Eee
War Production Board
War Relocation Authority
Irae
War Shipping Administration
Peoria Ergy Ee Wee
Eeeccsesseeeecsersetees
Webyiagpieteam
Ann Bienionene
Late Rush as Shoe Stamp Deadline Sparks Big Lawrence Trade
Lawrence merchants report the last day for stamp 17 brought the largest daily shoe business in the city’s history. Otto Fischer notes the rush caused by rationing, with stores closing late and customers packed in as clerks worked overtime.
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Lawrence
Otto
A. Fischer
Paul Watson
Miller-Jones Shoe
Air Terminal Evacuated Over Missouri River Flood Threat
Kansas City reports a precautionary partial evacuation of the municipal air terminal as Missouri River floods push to within eight feet of the 88 foot levee. Col R E M Des Islets, district engineer, says danger is unlikely before tomorrow.
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Kansas City
R. E. M. Des Islets
Ready for Flood Duty by Lawrence CAP Unit
Lawrence Civil Air Patrol prepares plane and motor boat and first aid squad for flood duty. Lt. Gerald Pipes, intelligence officer, monitors developments and maintains close contact with ongoing flood relief efforts.
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Lawrence
Civil Air Patrol
Gerald Pipes
City Warns of Weed Cutting On All Lots
Notice states the City Council will cut weeds on all necessary lots and bill the costs to affected property owners if not done within ten days, under Ordinance No. 1777. City Clerk-Adv. H. C. Fisher signs the notice.
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H. C. Fisher
Adv
Propaganda Campaign Details Touted by OWI
Washington reports outline a vast propaganda drive by the Office of War Information with a 34 million dollar budget for next year. Elmer Davis, head of OWI, says the effort is frank propaganda but aims to tell the truth abroad and at home, tailoring messages to each area.
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Washington
Africa
House Appropriations Committee
Office of War Information
OWI
Elmer Davis
Davis
Chaplin Gets License for Santa Barbara Marriage
Charles Chaplin the motion picture comedian and Oona O Neill obtained a marriage license in Santa Barbara. Deputy County Clerk Ira Altschul said the license was issued at 8 40 a m and the couple left the courthouse a few minutes later without announcing plans. Chaplin gave his age as 54 and Miss O Neill said she was 18.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Charles Chaplin
Oona O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Ira Altschul
Chaplin
Miss O'Neill
French Delay Persists Over Giraud De Gaulle Clash
In Algiers on June 16 the French crisis persisted as Gen. Henri Giraud did not accept Gen. Charles De Gaulle’s request for a full plenary session of the committee of national liberation and its commissioners to resolve differences.
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Algiers
Henri Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
Giraud
de Gaulle
Committee of National Liberation
Japanese Aircraft Losses In Pacific Reach 1337 Since July
South Pacific force headquarters says 1,337 Japanese planes have been destroyed in this war theater since July 31. The tally covers only reported losses and excludes damaged planes. Over half were Zeros with many dive bombers and torpedo bombers among the rest.
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South Pacific
South Pacific Force
United States
U. S
Guadalcanal
Narrow Escape At Lone Star Lake
Mr and Mrs D Drisko of Kansas City Missouri edged toward drowning at Lone Star Lake when their boat capsized as Drisko slipped. The water ran about 18 feet deep and four feet from shore. Two other men in the party saved them from a fatal outcome.
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D. Drisko
Kansas City
Lone Star Lake
Drisko
Flood Blockages Hit Northeastern Kansas Highways
Floods blocked many roads across northeastern Kansas on June 16. U S 24 40 near Manhattan carried about a foot of water and remained open to one way traffic with caution. bridges on U S 59 near Shaw and K 18 at Bogue were out. Numerous U S and K routes across the region were blocked or threatened, with closures reported near Topeka Randolph Lawrence Waterville and Junction City among others.
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Topeka
Kansas
These Highway Department
Manhattan
U. S
Larkinburg
Gar- Ena
Barnes
Clyde
Irving
Monrovia
Netawaka
Junction City
Haddam
Jamestown
White City
Atchison
Severance
Burlingame
Born
Topeka Newsman Clark J. Cross Dies at 57
Clark J. Cross former city and telegraph editor for the Topeka Daily Capital died at his home after a long illness. He served as state editor for 14 years and joined the staff in 2016. A native of Iowa, he lived in Kansas since 1900, taught school, and worked at the Salina Journal before Topeka. Survived by widow a daughter a sister and a brother. Funeral set for Friday.
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Topeka
Clark J. Cross
City and Telegraph
Stand by for parts of Sunflower Ordnance Works
Officials announced that due to fluid war needs certain sections of the smoke less powder plant are placed on standby while others operate normally. No job cuts are planned, and more workers may be needed as production speeds up. as completion nears, construction staff may decline gradually. Similar stand by steps have affected munitions plants in Kansas including Pittsburg and Parsons.
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William Jeffers
Cannon
OPA
Louis J. Kroeger
Board of Economic Warfare
BEW
Milo Perkins
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Emil E. Taylor
Taylor
Kansas
Pittsburg
Parsons
Small Twister Hits Farms Southeast of Ottawa Kansas
A small twister struck several farms southeast of Ottawa on June 16 injuring one person and damaging farm buildings. The A. S. Allen Co, Co A Foushee and Fred Lowrance farms were affected. At the Lowrance farm Mr and Mrs Lowrance were milking when a barn door struck Mrs Lowrance on the head causing minor injuries.
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Ottawa
Kan
A. S. Allen, Co
Delays in Kansas field work amid heavy rains
Heavy rains in the week ended yesterday delayed field work across Kansas with floods in northeastern counties and severe soil erosion. The Kansas weather and crop report notes a critical farm labor situation due to planting delays, later harvests, and widespread replanting of corn and grain sorghums. Harvest of barley begins in southern counties as oat harvest nears.
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Topeka
Kansas Weather and Crop Report
Kansas
North Central
War food admin sets wheat feed prices for 50 million bushels
The War Food Administration announced prices for an additional 50 million bushels of wheat for feeding livestock, at 95 cents to 1.11 dollars vary by region. Prices match those set for 100 million bushels earlier, with total feeding authorizations reaching 275 million bushels since last July 1.
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Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Minnesota
New England
Florida
California
Pacific Northwest
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Stop a Nazi Getaway
U S marines and coast guard units hunted eight Nazi war prisoners who escaped a prison ship by squeezing through a porthole off the New York west side dock area. A sentry sighted a swimmer, fired, and signals spread to sailors, police, and soldiers.
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New York
U. S
West Side
Too Late to Classify column delights daily readers
Readers enjoy the daily Too Late to Classify column with its varied brief items and quick notices, offering a lighter glimpse into everyday life and local happenings.
Plan to Deal with Flood Emergency
The Chamber of Commerce office will operate around the clock to collect manpower and equipment for flood response. George Hedrick announces 485 is the main contact line for flood calls and calls for volunteers to patrol Kaw river levees. They seek twenty five gasoline lanterns and ask lenders to mark and return them. County crews, farmers and Jevee neighborhood workers patrol the levees and seek Lawrence volunteers for relief tonight.
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Chamber of Commerce
George Hedrick
Hedrick
Kaw
Jevee
Lakeview
Kaw Valley
Lawrence
Tojo Warns War Situation Tense as Allied Offense Looms
Tokyo reports Premier Hideki Tojo tells parliament the war is growing increasingly tense with mounting signs of a large scale British American push. Allied gains press Chinese front along the Yangtze while MacArthur says forces near Lae and bombers hit Rabaul as Chiang Kai-shek’s troops advance toward Yochow. Burma air strikes hit Akyab and targets along the Arakan front.
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Japan
Hideki Tojo
Yangtze River
South Seas
Tojo
Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Lae
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Lakunai
Bena Bena
Salamaua
Huon Peninsul
China
Chiang Kaishek
Yochow
Burma
Arakan
Mandalay
Bengal
Akyab
City Crew Bolsters First Street Levee
Workmen sandbagging a le by near First Street monitor river rise at 2 45 p m City Engineer Jd CG Harper says effort targets the area behind business blocks at First and Locust Farther north the river sits about a foot below the dike top The area near the Union Pacific tracks includes about a dozen homes and the interurban terminal.
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First Street
Jd. CG
Harper
First and
Locust
North Lawrence
Union Pacific
Vacation trips condoned for travel to a single point
Washington reports that vacation travel is considered unessential but will be allowed if travelers stay at one destination until departure time. The office of defense transportation warns against aimless travel as troop movements rise and civilian tourism could face difficulties.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
DDT
Cameron Pool Opening Delayed by Flood Water
Cameron residents learn the community pool opening is postponed after floodwaters from Shoal, Brush, and Grindstone creeks fill the pool with muddy water. The pool had just been cleared for the season when the rise arrived.
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Cameron, Mo
Cameron Peroumine
River Up Fast to A New High Stage
The Kaw river at Lawrence stood 21.7 feet at 3 pm rising 1.5 feet since 7 am with more increases expected. The Wakarusa at Dutton bridge was 28 feet at noon and rising. North Lawrence residents moved stock and goods to higher ground as floods threaten. Water covered roads near Eudora and near the Kaw and Wakarusa confluence. The Santa Fe railroad halted traffic between here and Topeka. through trains rerouted via Ottawa to Emporia. Crest expected to exceed last week's 32 inches as wind gusts reach 80 mph.
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Topeka
Flora
Lawrence
Republican
Clay Center
Fort Riley
Solomon
Smoky Hill
Salina
Randolph
Blue Rapids
Manhattan
Kaw
Dutton Bridge
North Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Weaver
Eudora
Wakarusa
Santa Fe Railroad
Here
Kansas Electric Power
Cameron’s Bluff
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Ottawa
Thru
Emporia
Kansas Electric
R. S. Ward
Delaware
Valley Falls
Holton
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Palermo
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Axis
War Plants Corporation
Donald Nelson
Prentiss M. Brown
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Associated Press
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