Off for Leavenworth Draftees Leave for Induction
A new group of draftees departed Lawrence this morning for Fort Leavenworth to be inducted into the army. The call for 87 men was filled with two enlistments, and several indicated they would decline the fur lough as the automatic policy began June 15. The next call on the list is for five men to leave on June 25. The selective service board started sending occupational questionnaires to registrants in the 45-65 age fourth registration, with all from the first three registrations already reached.
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Ft. Leavenworth
Army
Lawrence
Selective Service Board
Draft Office
Wounded Prisoner Stabbed After Kitten Dispute
In Lansing Kansas a life term inmate Jim Edwards from Wyandotte county was critically wounded by W E Stone also a Wyandotte county prisoner serving a forgery sentence. Warden Milton Amerine reported the assault stemmed from a dispute over kittens born to the prison mascot.
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Lansing
Kan
Kansas State
Jim Edwards
Wyandotte County
Milton Amerine
Edwards
W. E. Stone
Lawrence Youth Ordered to Infantry Officers School
David Harlow Scott of Lawrence has been ordered to the infantry officers' candidate school at Fort Benning Georgia from Camp Callan California. He is the son of Mrs. John Winfield Scott and a graduate of Lawrence High School the University of Kansas college and law school. He was appointed corporal upon acceptance as an officer candidate. He is a graduate of the army clerical school and has qualified as a second class gunner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Infantry Officers’ School Corp
David Harlow Scott
Lawrence
Infantry Officers’ Candidate School
Fort Benning
Camp Callan
Calif
John Winfield Scott
Louisiana Street
Lawrence High School
University of Kansas College and Law School
Army
Canning Demonstration for Red Cross Nutrition Class
A canning demonstration will be given for Red Cross Nutrition class members on Wednesday June 24 at 2 o clock in Manual junior high school. Miss Nellie Lindsay county home demonstration agent will be in charge. Former class members who wish to attend should call the Red Cross office, Phone 803.
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Red Cross
Manual
Nellie Lindsay
Civilian pilots train at Randolph Field for Army Air Forces
Public notices at Randolph Field Texas report the arrival of the second group of civilian airmen to begin a nine week conditioning course toward commissioning as army air forces lieutenants. Vets aged 21 to 42 with commercial licenses join as trainee instructors earning 300 dollars a month.
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Randolph Field
Tex
West Point
Army Air Forces
Edward K. Montgomery
Charles Montgomery
Barker
Lawrence
Kan
Army Air Force
Montgomery
University of Kansas
Santa Fe Engineer Retires topeka June 30
P H W Wagner chief engineer of Santa Fe Eastern Lines will retire June 30. He has been a railroad man since 1897.
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Santa Fe
Topeka
Land Bank Appraisal Fees Cut For Farm Loans
Kaw Valley National Farm Loan association cuts appraisal fees for land used in Federal Land Bank loans. Fees drop from 10 to 65 dollars for small loans up to 5000 dollars. 10 dollars for 5100 to 25000 under 1000 acres. 15 dollars for 5100 to 10000 on 1000 acres or more. 25 dollars for 10000+ on over 1000 acres. Fees supported by Land Bank coverage. Directors listed include George Husted and others.
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Federal Land Bank
C. C. Gerstenberger
Kaw Valley National Farm Loan Association
NFLA
Land Bank
Gerstenberger
The
Kaw Valley Association
George Husted
Ed Shaw
George A. Shuler
Will Hayden
E. S. Heaston
Rationing Board Meeting Postponed One Day
The Douglas county rationing board will meet Thursday at 9 a m in the rear office of the Lawrence National Bank building. The session was moved from Wednesday to Thursday because board members were called to Topeka for a district meeting.
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Douglas County Rationing Board
Lawrence National Bank
Topeka
Brainard Returns to Prison After Mayo Clinic Treatment
Dr. S. A. Brainard, former Coffeyville physician serving a life sentence for complicity in the 1931 murder of Mrs. Maude Martin, has been returned to the state prison in Lansing Kansas after medical treatment at the Mayo Clinic.
Tobruk Falls to Axis Drive and Surrenders
Tobruk capitulated after a three-sided axis assault northwest and west of the port in eastern Libya. British losses included thousands captured and many non fighting personnel. Rommel's 21st Panzer division pressed the defense while the harbor stores were destroyed or damaged. Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie prepared to defend the Egyptian Libyan frontier thereafter.
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Halfaya Pass
Tobruk
Libya
Erwin Rommel
21St
Neil M. Ritchie
Egypt
Kansas Gas Production Reaches 1941 High Mark
Kansas produced 93,426,773,000 cubic feet of gas in 1941, up 7,808,988,000 from 1940. The Hu goton field in Stevens and Marion counties yielded 36,410,275,000 cubic feet, about 89 percent of state output and half of the 1941 rise.
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Conservation Division
The
Kansas Corporation Commission
State Geological Survey
Kansas
Hugoton
Stevens
Marion
Cunningham
Pratt
Kingman
Otis
Rush County
Medicine Lodge
Barber County
Burrton
Reno
Harvey Counties
McPherson County
Thurber
Alden
Rice County
Lyons
New McLouth
Jefferson County
Gas for Synthetic Rubber To Be Processed in State
Gas from southwestern Kansas will be processed in a new unit at Ryus in Grant county for use in manufacturing synthetic rubber. Final plans were set at a meeting of United Producing company officials H W Engstrom and S I Bennett. The unit will crack gas and ship it to manufacturing centers once in production.
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Satanta
Kan
Kansas
Ryus
Grant County
H. W. Engstrom
Monroe
United Producing Company
S. I. Bennett
Schoeppel Returns to Campaign Trail After Oil Meeting
Former governor candidate Andrew J. Schoeppel resumes campaigning after attending the interstate oil compact commission meeting in Lexington. He plans a tour of central western Kansas to seek the Republican nomination, noting discussions favored relaxing gas and oil drilling rules in shallow eastern Kansas and western Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Andrew J. Schoeppel
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Lexington
Kansas
Schoeppel
Kentucky
Office of the Petroleum Co-Ordinator
Missouri
Machinists’ Course Starts for Sherlock at Great Lakes
Earnest P. Sherlock son of Mrs. Gladys Sherlock of 1016 Connecticut street begins a 16 week machinist mates course at the Navy Service Schools Great Lakes after selection through aptitude tests given to all recruits.
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Earnest P. Sherlock
Gladys Sherlock
Connecticut Street
Navy Service Schools
Great Lakes
Welfare payments fall for first time in state history
Toneka June 22. An average of 22.20 was paid in June to Kansas Old Age Assistance cases, marking the first reduction in the state welfare program. Payments went to 31,068 cases, fewer than May and 2,252 more than June 1941, per Fay N. Seaton welfare board chairman. The average payment was 22.23 in May and 19.29 in June 1941.
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Toneka
Kansas
Fay N. ‘Seaton
Welfare Board
Doreen Shook Enters 150th Week of Unbroken Sleep
Albany reports seven year old Doreen Shook remains in a deathlike sleep from an unknown encephalitis since August 14, 1939. Physicians say there is no hope she will awaken as nurses maintain she still eats meals and seems to hear faint voices while her parents, now widowed mother and visiting father, hold out for any sign of recovery.
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Albany
N. Y
Doreen Shook
Doreen
Altho
Grain Company Head Dies
Fred L. Ferguson 71 president of the Root Grain company died yesterday at his home in Kansas City He earlier served as deputy county clerk of Republic county and was a grain dealer at Burr Oak Kansas
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Kansas City
Fred L. Ferguson
The
Root Grain Company
Republic County
Burr Oak
Kan
Libyan Timetable: Axis and Allied Moves in World War II
A chronology of North Africa in 1940–1942 showing Rommel’s Africa corps, British advances and retreats, sieges of Tobruk, and the capture of Bengasi and Bengali with high prisoner counts. Entries cover Sidi Barrani, Tobruk, Bengasi, and the Egyptian frontier through June 1942.
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Europe
Africa
Rhine-Ruhr
Germany
Balkans
U. S
Rumania
Exis
North Africa
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Egypt
Sidi Barrani
Tobruk
Bengali
Rommel
New Douglas County War Price Board to Meet Saturday
The first regular meeting of the reconstituted Douglas County war price and rationing board will be held Saturday morning June 27 at 10 o clock in the rationing office behind the Lawrence National Bank building. John Brand serves as chairman and C B Holmes as secretary of the new organization.
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Douglas County War Price and Rationing Board
Lawrence National Bank
John Brand
C. B. Holmes
Oklahoma Girl to Prison
New York reports Pia Made line Webb a 29 year old model from a Oklahoma town began a life sentence for participating in the murder of Flora nson Reich, a wealthy refugee. She departed under escort, transported by auto to Greenwich Village and Grand Central for a one hour ride to the Westfield state prison.
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New York
Pia Madeline Webb
Feme
Floranson Reich
Greenwich Village
Stillwater, Okla
Grand Central Station
Westfield State Prison
Beford Hills
Tax collections good as county office stays open Saturday
County Treasurer Roy Flory reported strong tax receipts on the final day for paying the last half 1941 taxes without interest. The office remained open all day to serve taxpayers and residents are urged to pay delinquent personal taxes soon before delinquencies are turned over to the sheriff in August.
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Roy Flory
Flory
Classified page offers quick options for homes and rooms
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Paris
Brussels
France
Roosevelt
Churchill
Midway Island
U. S. Navy Dept
Bureau of Public Relations
Washington, D.C
NEA
Leavenworth
Hugoton Field
Will
Norway
Finland
Italy
Tripoli
Sweden
Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Turkey
Rostov
Caucasus
Syria
Iraq
Arabia
Senate
Philip D. Reed
War Production Board
Bureau of Industry
Reed
General Electric Co
Erial Technnics
Lawrence Hardware
Elms Hotels
Associated Press
Madeline Webb
Navy
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