Civilian Benefits Bill Passes Senate Sent To House
The Senate approved a civilian benefits measure for war casualties and new emergency relief plans. It authorizes payments up to 85 dollars for civilians injured or captured abroad and outlines funding by the United States employed compensation commission.
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Washington
Senate
House
United States
Pepper
D-Fla
Roosevelt
George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Alboit
Education and Labor Committee
Finance Committee
LaFollette
Congress
University Street Dance Tonight in Bailey Area
The University street dance, part of Dr. F. C. Allen’s summer program, will be held tonight from 7:45 to 9:45 p.m. in front of Bailey chemical laboratories with a 13 piece band led by Russ Chambers. The event features Sidney Dawson and Jim Hammer with swing ballads and hot jazz, plus an all-star local lineup. If weather fails, dances move to Memorial Union ballroom. An activity ticket is required for entry.
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Bailey Chemical Laboratories
F. C. Allen
Department of Physical Education
Dr. Allen
Russ Chambers
Hill
Red Blackburn
Louis Kuhn
Clyde Smith
Clyde Bysom
Dale Brodie
Clayton Harbor
Sidney Dawson
Jim “Sledge” Hammer
John Pope
Bill Hunzicker
Joyce Drew
Gene Crabb
Bill Wilson
Harold Bundy
Bill Smith
Bob Douglas
Caril Bushey
Bob Carle
Memorial Union Ballroom
Car Collisions Damage Two Intersections
Police report two separate midday crashes causing damage at Seventh and Tennessee streets and at Ninth and New Jersey streets. A 1987 Ford driven by Malcolm Jones and a 1988 Pontiac driven by Dr. John Sterling collided at Seventh and Tennessee. At Ninth and New Jersey, a 1988 Chevrolet driven by City Councilman R. C. Burgert and a 1941 Chevrolet taxicab driven by Ralph Gentry damaged each other, with no extensive damage noted.
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Seventh
Tennessee
Malcolm Jones
Emporia
John. A. Sterling
Maple Wood
Jones
Dr. Sterling
Ninth
New Jersey
R. C. Burgert
Ralph Gentry
Explosion at Liberty Powder Plant Kills Three in Uniontown
An explosion at a Liberty powder plant unit near Uniontown Pennsylvania kills three men and injures two others. The blast occurred June 22 and wrecked the facility, a key wartime munitions site in a coal region south of Pittsburgh. Rescue and investigative crews cordon off the area as officials assess the cause and extent of damage.
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Uniontown
Liberty
Pennsylvania
Former U S Treasurer C A Thompson Dies at 71
Cleveland reports the death of C A Thompson longtime treasurer of the United States during Taft’s administration. He died at his home after a long illness at age 71.
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U.S
Cleveland
C A. Thompson
United States
Taft
Axis Might Hurled on Egypt in World War II Update
The article reports Axis forces capturing Tobruk with 28 000 prisoners and equipment including 100 tanks. It notes Britain’s weakened position, Rommel’s threat toward Suez, and the potential impact on Allied plans for a second front. Churchill and Wavell are mentioned amid strategic pressures in Africa and Moscow.
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Axis
Tobruk
United Nations
Alexandria
Suez
Middle East
Europe
Germany
Rommel
Russia
Caucasus
Libya
Africa
Egypt
Indian Ocean
Asia Minor
Eighth Army
Cairo
Fort Cappuzzo
London
Churchill
Roosevelt
Britain
Archibald P. Wavell
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Cordell Hull
Vyacheslav Molotov
Hitler
Teachers in Politics Would Be Free to Run
Washington senators voted to amend the Hatch Act to exempt teachers from political restrictions for those paid with federal funds. The measure, passed with no dissent, now goes to the house for consideration.
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Washington
Senate
House
Broken Wrist Suffered By Atlanta Worker Near Eudora
Walter Wade of 601 Alabama street, an employee at the Sunflower Ordnance Works near Eudora, sustained a broken wrist yesterday while on the job. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial hospital for treatment and released today.
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Walter Wade
Alabama Street
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Eudora
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Brother of Mrs Bruce Cameron Dies in St Louis
Mrs Bruce Cameron will leave tomorrow for St Louis after receiving word that her brother Edgar F Broomhall 62 an auditor for the M K T railroad has died after a four year illness in St Louis Funeral arrangements are not announced.
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Bruce Cameron
St. Louis
Edgar F. Broomhall
M-K-T Railroad
Battles of Midway Turned Tide Against Japanese Armada
The article recounts Japan s massive armada heading for Pearl Harbor and the U S west coast as it advanced toward Midway. American counterattack crippled ships and carriers while fighters and bombers repelled repeated assaults, leaving the Japanese force scattered with uncertain return.
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Midway
America
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Hawaiian Island
Pacific
Japan
Floods ravage eastern Kansas as storms kill four in Mulvane
The article reports widespread flooding across eastern Kansas with rivers overflowing their banks from Coffeyville to Salina. The Kaw remains out of its channel between Lawrence and Kansas City, while a deadly windstorm in Mulvane kills four in one family. Recovery crews find C. W. Rivers’s body hours after the Mulvane storm. Surviving relatives include a son and a daughter.
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Shaw
Chanute
Coffeyville
Niotaze
Lawrence
Kansas City
East
Salina
Weather Bureau
Smoky Hill
Lindsborg
S. D. Flora
Republican
Junction City
Blue Rapids
Wichita Weather Bureau
Arkansas River
Hutchinson
Oxford
Wichita
Victor Phillips
State Line
Ninnescah
Cowskin Creek
Colwich
Kansas
Kaw
Mulvane
Killin
C. W. Rivers
Virgelina
Charles
Help Wanted Classified Ad Note
Short notice seeking extra help at home or office. Classified style prompt result mentions phone number 22 for contact.
Welsh in Challenge to First Degree Murder Charge
Kansas City reports George W. Welsh Jr challenges the state’s right to prosecute him for murder of his sister Leila Adele Welsh. A hearing on defense arguments about the second complaint will occur within 30 days before Circuit Judge John F. Cook.
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Kansas City
George W. Welsh, Jr
Leila
James J. Hurley
John F. Cook
Cook
John T. Barker
Welsh
Barker
Michael W. O’hern
Hurley
Leila Adele Welsh
Criminal Division
Circuit Court
London Reports North Sea Patrols Cut Enemy Threat
The admiralty said three nights of patrols in the English Channel and southern North Sea inflicted loss and damage on the enemy. ACanvo supply ships were torpedoed, E-boats hit by gunfire, a patrol boat burned, and Polish coastal craft damaged six E-boats in last night action.
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London
Admiralty
English Channel
North Sea
Canadians Return To U S Flag To Serve In Marine Reserve
Forty eight former Canadian army air force personnel have been commissioned in the Marine Corps Reserve in a move linked to a Canadian American naval mission. The group includes four captains and 44 lieutenants. Officers are being indoctrinated at Corpus Christi Texas and Quantico Virginia. One named officer is First Lieutenant Jack Wittman Julian of Neodesha Kansas.
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Washington
United States
Air Force
Marine Corps Reserve
Marine
Canada
Corpus Christi
Tex
Quantico
Jack Wittman Julian
Iowa Street
Neodesha
Kan
Czech Flier Kuttelwascher Claims Twelfth Night Bomber
Czech flying ace Pi Karel Kuttelwascher, 27, who has flown for three air forces, shot down his twelfth German night bomber over a French airfield last night. He began in the Czech air force, fled to France after the invasion, joined the French Foreign Legion, and later transferred to the French air force before joining Britain.
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London
Pi—Karel Kuttelwascher
France
Kuttelwascher
Germany
Czecho-Slovakia
French Foreign Legion
Britain
Whirlaway Wins At Aqueduct In Warm-Up for Brooklyn
War ren Wright's Whirlaway narrowly defeats Mrs Parker Corning's Attention by a nose in a mile and an eighth race at Aqueduct. Swing and Sway finished third as a tune-up for Saturday's $25 000 Brooklyn handicap.
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Whirly
New York
Warren Wright
Whirlaway
Parker Corning
Aqueduct
Brooklyn
Swing and Sway
Prisoners Seek Outward Mission In Rubber Drive
James V. Bennett visits Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary as inmates propose forming a work corps to aid rubber production in Brazil. At the facility 950 of 2044 inmates toil daily in three factories. 15 500 pairs of Army Navy footwear were produced last week by 550 workers. Bennett notes easier employment reduces theft. He is joined by Warden Hudspeth and other officials.
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Leavenworth
Kan
James V. Bennett
Federal
Bennett
Brasilian
Robert H. Hudspeth
David B. Smith
Oscar N. Shelton
Federal Prison Industries, Inc
Army
Navy
Armed Service
Submarines Shell Estevan Point on Vancouver Island
Defense Minister J. L. Ralston said in the house of commons that two enemy submarines probably took part in the Saturday night shelling of Estevan Point on Vancouver Island. The report notes the action occurred near Vancouver and places the incident in wartime context.
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Vancouver
Ottawa
Estevan Point
Vancouver Island
J. L. Ralston
House of Commons
Miss Betty Singley Attends Girls State Visits Plains Home
Miss Betty Singley of Plains Kansas spent last week with Mrs H M Hawk at 810 Alabama Street while attending Girls State and left for home today.
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Betty Singley
Plains
Kan
H. M. Hawk
Alabama Street
Girls’ State
Journal World Classifieds Spotlight the Town Market
The Journal World calls its classified page the busiest marketplace in town, highlighting a lively array of ads and notices that fill the page with commerce and community needs.
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Journal-World
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Lucille Strothers
Mrs Lucille Strothers former Lawrence resident died Friday night in Chicago Illinois She is survived by her husband Joseph Strothers two sisters Mrs Farinda Lambkin Lawrence and Mrs Lu cretia Stewart Chicago Illinois and one brother Rolla Crouch Osawatomie She was a member of the Lawrence Ninth Street Baptist Church The body will be brought to Lawrence for burial in Oak Hill cemetery Services time and place will be announced later.
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Lucille Strothers
Lawrence
Chicago
Ill
Joseph Strothers
Farinda Lambkin
Lucretia Stewart
Rolla Crouch
Osawatomie
Lawrence Ninth Street Baptist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Francis H Jeltz 38 dies in Kansas City funeral set
Francis H Jeltz died Friday morning in Kansas City at age 38 after 26 years in Lawrence He is survived by his wife Mrs Dorav Louise Jeltz of Kansas City, his mother and stepfather Mr and Mrs Pearl Jackson of Lawrence his father Rev Nathaniel Jeltz Jackson Mississippi a step mother Mrs Nathaniel Jeltz Jackson Mississippi and one brother William T Jeltz Kansas City Funeral services will be at 10 oclock tomorrow at Ebenezer A M E church Kansas City with burial in Mt Hope cemetery Topeka
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Francis H. Jeltz
Lawrence
Kansas City
Dorav Louise Jeltz
Pearl Jackson
Maplestreet
Nathaniel Jeltz
Jackson
Miss
William T. Jeltz
Ebenezer A. M. E
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Topeka
Funeral services for Mrs Stella Lashley in Chicago
Funeral services for Mrs Stella Lutchia Lashley who died in Chicago Illinois on June 19 will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from the St Luke AME church. The body lies in state at 817 Pennsylvania Street from 5 30 Tuesday afternoon until services. Rev Gerald Woods will preside with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Stella Lutchia Lashley
Chicago
Ill
St. Luke A. M. E
Pennsylvania Street
Gerald Woods
Oak Hill Cemetery
Dies at 82 Mrs Bishoff Cremated After Services
Mrs. Julia Jeanette Bishoff aged 82 died at her home 11384 Ohio street Saturday evening. Funeral services were held at 10 this morning at Schubert funeral home with Rev. Harold G. Barr in charge. Cremation followed. She left three sons Dr. F. I. Wilson Kansas City Mo Dr. March Bishoff Topeka and Roger Bishoff Modesto Calif and two daughters Mrs Olive King Honolulu and Mrs D R Kohler Eureka.
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Julia Jeanette Bishoff
Jeanette Bishoff
Ohio Street
Schubert Funeral Home
Harold G. Barr
F. I. Wilson
Kansas City
March Bishoff
Topeka
Roger Bishoff
Modesto
Calif
Olive King
Honoralus
D. R. Kohler
Euora
Harris infant graveside service at Oak Hill
Graveside services were held at Oak Hill Cemetery for Martha Harris the two month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ernest Harris of 928 New Jersey. She died yesterday morning at home with Rev Harold G Barr presiding.
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Martha Harris
Oak Hill Cemetery
Ernest Harris
New Jersey
Harold G. Barr
Compromise Legislation Funds Independent Executive Boards
The House passed and sent to the Senate a compromise bill appropriating 2,090,885,128 dollars for various independent executive boards and commissions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943. The House had approved 2,096,048,000 dollars and the Senate 2,126,042,000.
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Washington
House
Senate
Lawrence Local Notes Chronicle Summer Start and Weather
Reports from Lawrence detail Bill Stone aiding Fort Leavenworth draftees, and a rain week with 4.47 inches at Worden. Bulletin No 27 for merchants is available at the Chamber of Commerce. Canning sugar certificates are issued from the Lawrence rationing office. County Attorney Milton Beach takes a vacation. Sheriff’s staff found assorted items in a Baldwin Junction fireplace, possibly from a purse. Sunrise 5:57 a.m., sunset 8:52 p.m., first day of summer celebrated. Rotarians viewed tire conservation film. Verl Bratton becomes WREN member. Town Hall’s George Denny Jr. stayed in town. Fishermen admire historic large catfish pictures at Weaver’s window from 1908 and 1896 with large old hooks on display.
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Dug Smith
Abe Burns
Jake Washington
L. B. Read
Tennessee
Treasury uncovers 10 million in securities tied to Tea Pot Dome fugitive
Secretary Morgenthau announced a $10,000,000 cache of securities and cash belonging to Henry M. Blackmer, who fled during the Tea Pot Dome scandal twenty years ago, found in a wartime examination of foreign bank accounts.
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Washington
the Treasury
Morgenthau
Henry M. Blackmer
Subcribers Read Classific Page Daily Claim
A reader notes that about 76 percent of subscribers look at the classific page every day highlighting strong engagement with the listings and notices.
Senate approves Western Union Postal telegraph merger
Washington reports the Senate backed a bill to consolidate Western Union and Postal Telegraph into a single domestic system. Senator McFarland said the merger would fix losses at Postal and deficits at Western Union, improve wartime communications, and enable faster delivery of critical materials to the war department.
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Washington
Senate
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
McFarland
D.-Ariz
Postal Telegraph Company
House
War Department
Postal
Lexington Cemetery to Be Moved to DeSoto
The old Lexington cemetery in the Sunflower Ordnance Works area will be relocated to DeSoto to allow war plant expansion. About 60 graves will be moved at government expense with options for relatives to choose another cemetery within 10 miles at no cost. Completion is hoped by July 15.
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Lexington
Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto
SEND JAP MEDALS BACK
The navy announced the receipt of three more Japanese medals from private owners with requests they be returned to Japan. Donors include Harry Wade of Emporia Kansas Joseph Johnston of Bellmore New York and R A Beison of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Last week it was disclosed two medals sent for proper delivery had been returned to the emperor during the April 18 bomber visit.
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Washington
Japan
Navy
Harry Wade
Arundel Street
Emporia
Kan
Joseph Johnston
Bellmore
N.Y
R. A. Beison
Pittsburgh
Russian Fascist Leader Sentenced in Espionage Case
Anastase A. Vonsiatsky, 42, head of the Russian National Fascist party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the 1916 espionage act. Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith sentenced him to five years in prison and fined $5,000 for conspiring with four German Americans to send military information to Germany and Japan.
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Hartford
Conn
Anastase A. Vonsiatsky
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