Army fuel savings highlight impact on war effort
The Ordnance Department reports saving about 366 million gallons of fuel oil in the past year with further 24 million gallons saved by ongoing conversions. Reducing burner fuel use and optimizing production kept invasion forces, aircraft, and Allied operations moving, underscoring fuel as essential to victory and ongoing mobilization.
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Ordnance Department
Army Service Forces
Philadelphia
Boston
Berlin
Charles H. Pruden, Jr
Sunflower Ordnance Works
United States
Tunisia
United Nation
Europe
Far East
China
Doolittle
Tokyo
Orient
European
Near
Middle East
United Nations
Japan
Americas
Army Ordnance
Ordnance Department Plate
Pennsylvania Players to Wear Opponents Uniforms
Philadelphia reports that top Penn athletes will don rival uniforms this fall. Cleo Calcagni heads to Cornell as a Marine trainee. Larry Davis and Bill Miller also head to Cornell and Princeton respectively. The Navy-Marine program sends midshipmen to Columbia with a Franklin Field opener against Columbia on October 2 and a return October 23.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Navy
Marine Corps
Franklin Field
Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Cleo Calcagni
Husky
Red and Blue
Ithaca
N. Y
Penn
George Munger
Larry Davis
Tigers
Franklin
Munger
Midshipmen
Columbia University
Quakers
Threa
Regulars and Cornell Players Align for Nearby Contest
Penn regulars Wingback Jackie Welsh Center Walt Weismuller and Fullback Bert Stiff form a six man unit trained by Mun ger likely to return home and challenge him. The piece notes possible Cornell Columbia and Eumcetan players joining the fray for enn.
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Penn
Jackie Welsh
Walt Weismuller
Bert Stiff
Munger
Cornell
Columbia
Eumcetan
Enn
New Machinery Sought for Synthetic Rubber Tires Supply
Washington reports the War Production Board may authorize large scale new machinery for tires and rubber goods as synthetic rubber arrives. Rubber Director Jeffers notes current plants lack capacity and estimates 250,000 tons of synthetic processing needs, with 5 million civilian fires and 30 million total in an optimistic year.
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Washington
War Production Board
William M. Jeffers
Pearl Harbor
Jeffers
WPB
Red Cross Surgical Dressing Rooms Reopen
The Red Cross surgical dressing rooms will reopen Monday morning June 21 at 9 o clock in the Central junior high building. The room has been closed for two weeks due to material shortage and the new quota is larger, requiring many workers. The work room operates Monday Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9 to 12 30 and Monday evenings 7 to 9.
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Red Cross
I Si
French Agree on Procedure Plans for National Liberation
Algiers June 17 The French national liberation committee chaired by General Giraud reached agreement on methods of work and collective responsibility in an 80 minute plenary. Massigli reported communications from foreign governments on recognition while the committee began steps toward a consultative assembly and discussed organization of French forces resolving friction with De Gaulle.
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Algiers
H Giraud
Rene Massign
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Committee of National Liberation
Henri Bonnet
United States
France
Massigli
Navy recruiting push targets men and women in Topeka
Chester E. Norris, navy recruiter from Topeka, interviews ages 17 to 50 men and 20 to 50 women at the Lawrence post office for naval reserve service. Construction battalions seek men 18 to 88 with good ratings. Waves and Spars enlistment for women 20 to 36, with sworn applications due in Topeka June 21 to 23 as Kansas City Naval Procurement officers interview locally.
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Chester E. Norris
Navy
Topeka
Lawrence Post Office
Naval Reserve
Naval
Naval Procurement Office
Kansas City
Summer Band Concert Planned for South Park
The Summer Band directed by Oliver Hobbs will perform tomorrow at 8 PM in South Park with master of ceremonies Will Yearout. The program includes Star Spangled Banner, Abide With Me When the Lights Go On Again, Day Die, The Thunderer, and America. Performers cited include AMMIVERSAry Walt Z, O. R. Farrar, Charles Roberts, Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjemen, Dave Franklin, and Robert Crawford.
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Oliver Hobbs
South Park
Ammiversary
Walt
Eddie Seiler
Sol Marcus
Bennie Benjemen
Indiana State
Isece
Food costs rise 17.4 percent in Kansas year
Kansas food costs rose 17.4 per cent over the past year. Assistant labor commissioner J. Herb Wilson said May prices edged up 2 per cent from April. Of 41 staple items, 12 fell, 20 rose or stayed unchanged, with potatoes up 17 percent as the highest priced item.
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Topeka
Kansas
J. Herb Wilson
State Labor Department
Secret hoards of food found at Heart Mountain camp
Earl A. Best testifies to a Dies subcommittee that at Heart Mountain Wyoming 86 of 42 kitchens hid storerooms with canned goods and lard. He reports secret pantries under walls and a stage area filled with food. He says supplies were traded for whisky and chickens, with no money involved.
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Los Angeles
Dies Congressional
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
Wyoming
Earl A. Best
Dunkirk
Clifford
Africa
Heart Mountain
Poston, Arizi
Heart Mountain Camp
Best
United States Army
Backache and leg pains may signal kidney trouble
The ad warns that backache and leg pains may indicate kidney trouble and urges consulting a druggist for Deans Pills to support the kidneys. It claims kidneys remove wastes, notes symptoms like swelling, night urination, and energy loss, and advertises Deans Pills as effective for over 40 years.
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Nature
Dean
Glassford Arrives in Dakar as Roosevelt Aide
Vice Admiral William A. Glassford landed in Dakar to assume the role of President Roosevelt's personal representative in French West Africa. He led a U S military mission to arrange Allied use of Dakar facilities last December and returned to the United States last February.
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London
Akers Radio
William A. Glassford
Dakar
Roosevelt
French West Africa
Glassford
U. S
United States
Lawrence Hardware Window Smashed for $115 Tool Theft
A break in at Lawrence Hardware on 724 Massachusetts Street damaged the north plate window between 11 p m and morning. About $115 worth of socket and crescent wrenches were stolen, with a hole large enough for a hand. Jack Vincent, owner, was notified around 8 a m. Other tools remained untouched.
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Lawrenceardware
Massachusetts Street
Jack Vincent
Postmaster Diggs Confirmed for Lorraine Kansas
The senate confirmed Glenn Harold Diggs as postmaster at Lorraine Kansas. Trainloads of livestock and used farm implements have been sold through Journal-World classified ads.
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Kansas
Washington
Senate
Glenn Harold Diggs
Lorraine
Kan
Journal-World
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