Rommel's Forces Split the British in Crimea Front Action
Nazi forces reported to breach fortifications north of Sevastopol while fighting at Kharkov continued with Soviet claims of heavy enemy losses. U.S. Liberator bombers aided Sevastopol defenders as RAF raids struck U boat bases and northern French railways.
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Sevastopol
Stockholm
United States
Red Army
Crimean
Kharkov
Fedor von Bock
R.A.F
St. Nazaire
French
France
Belgium
Britain
America
Caribbean
Atlantic
Gasoline Rationing Ties to State Revenue Recovery
Price Administrator Leon Henderson argued that extending gasoline rationing would prevent a feast or famine in state revenue. Representative Ludlow reported that unrestricted travel at the current rate could render most cars out of service within two years, cutting gasoline tax and registration fee income. He urged leveling car use to sustain revenue for roads and auto services.
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Washington
Leon Henderson
Ludlow
D-Ind
Henderson
Trailer Houses Begin to Surface in Lawrence
Lawrence sees rising demand for trailer house facilities, led by the Chamber of Commerce defense housing committee. Harvey Jetmore coordinates plans while zoning allows one trailer per lot with an occupied dwelling. Interested renters should register with the Chamber of Commerce housing office for inspection by county health sanitarian Joe L. Walker.
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Lawrence
Walter Keeler
Defense Housing Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Harvey Jetmore
Joe L. Walker
Local Filings for County Commissioner and Others
Files show M N Penny of 547 Michigan filing today for county commissioner first district on the Republican ticket. Other new filings include R R Marckley Republican clerk Wa karusa township George M Snyder Republican trustee Wa karusa township Jesse Sutton Republican precinct committeeman Clinton township Frank W McDonald Democrat precinct committeeman first precinct third ward.
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M. N. Penny
Michigan
R. R. Marckley
Wakarusa Township
George M. Snyder
Jesse Sutton
Clinton Township
Frank W. McDonald
Opposed Pork Barrel Plan To Build Florida Canal
Washington reports Representative Rees of Kansas opposed the Florida barge canal as a pork barrel element in H.R. 6999. He urged defeat of the canal portion while supporting only authorization for an oil pipeline across Florida. He argued the canal could not be finished in time and would divert funds from other projects, suggesting multiple oil pipelines could be built faster and cheaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Florida
Rees
Voiland Announces Candidacy for State Printer
Ford Voiland Jr of Topeka Republican files for state printer. He owns a printing shop and served eight years as assistant state printer before resigning last year in Topeka.
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Topeka
Ford Voiland, Jr
Voiland
Kansans to graduate early from Navy academy
Pi Eta Kansas midshipmen of the Naval Academy form the first three year cohort in the wartime program. They will be commissioned tomorrow during June week exercises, with Herman Poggemeyer Jr of Leavenworth aiming for Marine Corps lieutenant and others becoming naval ensigns. The Kansas list includes Gillock, Gates, Thompson, Sedgwick, Collins, Poggemeyer, Scott, Miller, Finley, Sipe.
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Annapolis
Kansas
United States Naval Academy
Navy
Herman Poggemeyer, Jr
Leavenworth
Marine Corps
Bert Alvin Thompson
Coffeyville
John Warren Sedgwick
Emporia
John Wallace Collins
Garden City
Avenworth
Hugh Andrew Scott
Kenneth Maynard Miller
Olathe
Miles Rush Finley, Jr
Pittsburg
Harry Clyde Sipe, Jr
Wichita
Sugar Certificates Issued at Manual High Building
Twelve volunteers at Manual Junior High issue canning sugar certificates. The office opens tomorrow and Saturday until noon. No sugar rationing books are issued at the Manual building. books are available only at the Lawrence National Bank building office.
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Manual
George Wetzel
Lawrence National Bank
Two K State Coaches Go Into the Naval Reserve
Manhattan June 18 K State coaches Hobbs Adams head coach of the Kansas State college football team and Bill Schutte line coach received commissions today as lieutenants in the naval education physical education program. The entry of Adams and Schutte into the service depletes the Wildcats coaching staff. Already in service are Baskett Coach Jack Gardner B Patterson wrestling coach Cooney Mill swimming coach and Frank J. Thompson gymnastics coach and physical education instructor.
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Manhattan
Hobbs Adams
Kansas State
Bill Schutte
Naval Education
Adams
Schutte
Wildcats
Baskett
Jack Gardner
Pat) Patterson
Danas Co
Cooney) Mill
Frank J. Thompson
Four New Buses En Route To Carlsbad For Mine Work
Four large cream and green buses parked behind the Carlsbad courthouse await service. They were built in Ohio and are destined to haul workers to and from the potash mines in Carlsbad New Mexico. George Skinner, who operates a Carlsbad garage with his brother Harry, drives one bus. Each bus seats 40 passengers and was purchased by a local Carlsbad bus operator.
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Court House
Ohio
Carlsbad
N.M
George Skinner
Harry
Skinner
R. Skinner
Paul Miller Named Chief of AP Washington Bureau
An AP announcement dated June 18 in New York states Paul Miller will become chief of the Washington bureau. Miller succeeds the late Brian Bell and has led three AP bureaus after serving as executive assistant to the general manager Kent Cooper.
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New York
Paul Miller
Washington
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Miller
Brian Bell
Devers Signals Increase in Armored Divisions
Major General Jacob L. Devers, commander of the armored forces at Fort Knox, said today that the U S army could immediately expect an increase in armored divisions. He noted eight divisions exist now and that more are coming, though final word should come from Washington.
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Dallas
Tex
Jacob L. Devers
Fort Knox
U. S. Army
Devers
Washington
War Cost Grows as U S War Expenditures Hit 1 Billion Weekly
Budget Director Harold D. Smith announced that U S war production has pushed weekly government expenditures to about 1 billion dollars, with annual war outlays for the current year projected at 28 billion and a potential 70 billion for the next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harold D. Smith
America
Ani
Smith
Treasury
Pearl Harbor
Kingsley Wood
Red Cross nutrition and first aid classes announced
The Red Cross will offer a nutrition class Monday at 7 30 in the city hall council room taught by Miss Kathryn Tissue. Two standard first aid courses run Monday Wednesday Friday 3 to 5 in the council room and the Red Cross office in the Community building. enrollment ends Friday June 19 and classes are led by Dr Parke Woodard.
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Red Cross
Kathryn_ Tissue
Council
Parke Woodard
Dance for Teens at Community Building in Lawrence
A junior and senior high school dance will be held this evening in the Community building basement from 9 to 11 30. Sponsored by the Thursday Teensters with the city recreation council. E E Larson will join the Sunflower Ordnance Works site as an engineer inspector, returning to Lawrence to live.
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E. E. Larson
Hercules Powder Company
Holton Man Injured In 1942 Chrysler Ditch Accident
Millard Brown of Holton is treated at Lawrence Memorial hospital for a mild concussion after the 1942 Chrysler sedan he rode in went into a ditch on US 24 near Williamstown. Earl Bruce, also injured, was discharged after treatment. The crash occurred about 4 o clock in the morning as they traveled from Holton toward Kansas City.
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Millard Brown
Holton
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Williamstown
Earl Bruce
Kansas City
Penny files for Douglas County commissioner seat
M N Penny well known Lawrence building contractor filed for the Douglas County first district commissioner race. He cites experience in contracting highway sewer and street work and knowledge of material costs and government operation. Penny lives at 547 Michigan Street with six children. his son Junius is a KU football prospect.
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M. N. Penny
Douglas County
Lawrence
Grant Township
University School of Engineering
Ponca City
Penny
Michigan Street
Junius
Lawrence High School
K. U
J. M. Sanderson
Chris Schaake
Schaake
Lou Griffith
Ed Johnson
Assailants of Heydrich Found Hiding in a Prague Hotel
Prague radio announced that Reinhard Heydrich’s would be assassins were found in a small Prague hotel early today after being dropped in from a British plane. They resisted arrest and were shot. several accomplices were arrested. The Hangman’s killers were discovered as the Czech deadline loomed.
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London
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Prague
Old
Czechoslovakia
Heydrich
Europe
Telephone authority Jason G. Crane dies in Kansas City
Jason George Crane aged 62, vice-president of Theodore Gary and Company and a noted telephone expert, died of a heart attack. He served with over 30 telephone companies and was formerly vice-president and general manager of the Kansas City Telephone Company before its 1926 absorption into Southwestern Bell.
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Kansas City
Jason George Crane
Theodore Gary and Company
Crane
Kansas City Telephone Company
Southwestern Bell Telephone System
Schoeppel Shifts Focus to Oil Conference Trip
Topeka June 18 Andrew Schoeppel temporarily leaves governor campaign to attend the interstate oil compact commission meeting in Lexington Kentucky. He remains Kansas representative after resigning as chairman of the state corporation commission to run.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Lexington
Schoeppel
Kansas
State Corporation Commission
Deaths and Funerals Elizabeth Cady Regal
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Regal died in New Haven Connecticut at age. She formerly lived in Springfield Massachusetts for over fifty years and visited Lawrence often. Her husband Francis E Regal died last April after a fifty year period on the Springfield Republican staff as foreign political editor.
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Elizabeth Cady Regal
H. P. Cady
Kentucky Street
New Haven
Conn
Regal
Lawrence
Springfield
Mass
Francis E. Regal
Tax Collections Good Deadline Near For Penalty Free Payment
County Treasurer Roy Flory reports strong tax collections with many taxpayers using the noon hour office hours and mail payments. The deadline for the last half 1941 taxes is Saturday, June 20.
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Roy Flory
Soviet Ratifies Pact and Support for Policy
The Supreme Soviet ratified the British mutual assistance pact and voiced support for the government's foreign policy. Premier Joseph Stalin was cheered as he appeared before the body during the Moscow radio broadcast tonight.
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Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Polish Officers Arrested by Germans in Mass Roundup
The Polish government in exile announced that 13 500 Polish officers were arrested by German forces in a series of self protection measures following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in old Czechoslovakia.
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London
Reinhard Heydrich
Old
Czechoslovakia
Hinshaw Pleads Guilty to Reckless Driving in Court
S C Hinshaw pleaded guilty in O J Lane's justice court to reckless driving after being arrested by highway patrol on April 29 Massachusetts street for driving while intoxicated. He was fined $25 plus $10.50 costs after the county attorney said patrolmen sought prosecution but Topeka patrol officials did not.
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S. C. Hinshaw
O. J. Lane
Justice Court
Hinshaw
Massachusetts
Milton Beach
Naval transport squadron to be based at Gardner Kansas
A new naval air transport squadron, No. 38, will be based at the naval aviation training base near Gardner Kansas. Lieut Vernon A Dorrell commands the unit one of three in the nation and the first fleet planes are due this month with several hundred men assigned to the operation.
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Will Zurbucken
Ian
R.A.F
Mediterranean
Tobruk
U. S
Pantelleria
Taranto
Joint Amer
New Gardner Airport
Kansas City
Naval Air Transport
Vernon A. Dorrell
Naval Aviation Training Base
Gardner
Kan
Dorrell
Mid-Continent Airlines
Musical at Church of God in Christ by Kansas City group
Mrs. Thomas of Kansas City Missouri presents a children's orchestra in a program at the Church of God in Christ 824 New Jersey Street. Everyone is invited to attend the performance beginning at 7 p m Friday June 19.
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Church of God In Christ
New Jersey Street
Market News Chicago Potato Market June 18
Potatoes arrivals 110 on track 320 total U S shipments 1 163 supplies liberal demand light southern Triumphs strongest for best quality California long whites barely steady Missouri Cobblers unsettled Government Bonds No quotations today The Day In Wall Street Stocks see modest buying with light profit taking as war news from Africa and China weighs on gains Transfers about 360 000 shares WPB claims excess profits tax bullish but traders seek clarity American Can hits new 1942 high
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Chicago
Ap-Usda
U. S
California
Misouri
Arkansas Bliss
Alabama Bliss
Missouri Cobblers
Wall Street
New York
Libya
China
WPB
Nelson
Éemerican Can
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Kharkov Front
U.S
OPA Heatethinks
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Carter Davidson
Knox College
Galesburg
Ill
Hoch Auditorium
Kansans
U.S. Naval Academy
Naval Reserve
A.P
National Capital
Kaser Construction Company
Topken Air Base
Billy Ulrich
Eldon Ulrich
Journal-World Office
Journal-World
Mildred LeSner
Memorial Hospital
Twenty-Third Street
Sheriff's Office
Morris Sandvng
Ratners
New Orleans
Payne Ratner
Asheville
N.C
Ratner
John.a. Billingsley
Italy
Waalta
Mediterranean Sea
Bulgaria
Reece
Etobruk
Black Sea
Alexandru
Egypi
Highway Patrol
Tel & Teiles Ewe
Atch Tesf
Beth Steel
Tm Chrysler
Wee Ging Con Oil du Pont
General Electric
General Foods
General Motors
Int Harvester
Kennecott Woven
A Aviation
He North Am Co
Penney J C Wares Reense
Wensgeneae Phillips Pet
Sreseeen
Sears
Roebuc
Standard Oil
United Airlines
United Aircraft
US Steel Acnance
Lawrence Memorial Co
Norman Endacott
South
Central America
War Production Board
Hills Bros
Hills Bros Coffee
INE
San Francisco
Calif
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