Armies Wage Epic Struggle Across Eastern Front
British wireless reports Russian forces in the Minsk region isolating German units and pressing a rear attack as the Red Army claims advances toward Minsk and Moscow. Berlin and Axis sources dispute claims, with fighting near Luck and Lwow and reports of Arctic operations against Murmansk.
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New York
Minsk
N.B.C
Istanbul
Polar
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Bessarabian
Moscow
London
Tank Corps
Luck
Lwow
DNB
High Command
Turkestan
War Dept proposes study of Missouri Kansas Oklahoma for defense plants
Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said Colonel J P Harris will inspect the Missouri Kansas Oklahoma area to evaluate its suitability for defense plants. He noted potential for ammonium nitrate and powder plants and possible aluminum plant if electric power is available from Grand River dam area and utilities in Tulsa Wichita and Oklahoma City. He cited surplus power from Grand River dam authority, Public Service Company of Tulsa, Eagle Picker, and large power by Kansas Gas and Electric and Oklahoma Gas and Electric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas
D.-Okla
J. P. Harris
War Department Ordnance Division
Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma
Harris
Oklahoma Grand River Dam
War Department
Grand River Dam
Oklahoma
Public Service Company of
Tulsa
Eagle Picker Mining and Smelting Company
Kansas Gas and Electric Company of
Wichita
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company of
Oklahoma City
British Bombing Blitz Strikes Bremen in Major Night Raid
London reports a heavy night assault by British bombers on Bremen and Vegesack in northwestern Germany, marking the seventeenth raid in succession. Twelve RAF planes were lost, traffic at Cuxhaven Oldenburg Den Helder Dunkerque Calais and Bremerhaven targeted with direct hits and major fires, as daylight raids followed over the French coast.
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London
Bremen
Germany
Air Ministry
Alwint
Vulcan
Vegesack
France
R.A.F
Bremerhaven
Cuxhaven
Oldenburg
den Helder
Dunkerque
Calais
War Bulletins Show Skirmishes Across Europe June 28
Reports from London Stockholm Helsinki and Berlin describe air battles at sea over Helsinki Soviet–Finnish clashes and British air raids in North Africa. Turkish Refah torpedoing casualties and Hungarian Soviet border actions are noted amid submarine sinkings off the English coast.
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London
Reuters
Stockholm
Helsinki
Air Ministry’news Service
North Africa
Budapest
Hungary
Berlin
English
Germans close on Minsk as Russians fall back in fight
French military dispatches report German forces pressing toward Minsk from Vilna and Baranowicze with shelling on its outskirts. Russian troops reportedly withdraw under heavy fire, inflicting notable losses as Berlin aims to trap the pocket in northern Poland.
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Red Army
Old Russia
Adolf Hitler
Siauliai
Vilna
Minsk
Luck
Poland
White Russia
Lithuania
Latvia
Ania
Vichy
France
Baranowicze
Increase in Funds for Price-Pegging Approved
Washington reports the Senate Banking Committee approved a 1.25 billion increase in funds for price pegging crop loans and a four year extension of the Commodity Credit Corporation. The panel rewrote provisions from the House, removing a mandate to keep prices at 85 percent parity for expanded foods and crops and shortened the extension from five to four years.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate Committee
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Rains Delay Harvest in Sumner County Kansas
Drenching rains across Sumner county halt wheat harvest about halfway finished. Wellington reported 1.80 inches with heavier amounts in surrounding areas. Fort Bragg notes a great grandson of Sitting Bull, a cook in the 36th field artillery, first battalion.
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Wellington
Kan
Sumner County
Fort Bragg
N. C
Sitting Bull
36Th Field Artillery
Braves topple Dodgers 3 2 on Rowell homer
In Boston on June 28 AP reports the Braves ended Kirby Higbe’s four game win streak by beating the Dodgers 3 to 2. Carvel Rowell homered to provide the decisive runs as Brooklyn failed to plate late.
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American Association
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Heafner
Giuliana
Gearhauser
Hendrickson
Kearse
Boston
Braves
Kirby Highe
Brooklyns
Dodgers
Carvel
Rowell
Brooklyn
Brown
Franks
Errickson
Berres
Philadelphia
New York
Blanton
Hughes
Warren
Livingston
Wittig
Danning
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Butcher
Barry
Olsen and Lopez
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Joe DiMaggio
New York Yankees
Athletics
Charley Keller
Yanks
Donald
Murphy
Dickey
Babich
Harris
Hayes
Senate approves monetary extension and army funding
Washington reports the senate sent to the White House the 10.3847 billion army supply bill and extended Roosevelt monetary powers for two more years. The measure also expands the 1.25 billion crop loan funds and preserves the 2 billion currency stabilization fund, with House concurrence expected.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
Congress
Roosevelt
Commodity Credit Corporation
Adams
D-Colo
Chamber
Taft
Rohio
Capper
R.-Kan
Reed
Bilbo
D.-Miss
Norris
la Follette
Byrd
Tydings
Farmers Protest Wheat Penalty Petitions Circulated
May sign petitions protesting the wheat marketing penalty. Douglas county elevators will receive printed petitions asking to protest the government penalty on the 1941 wheat crop. The protest cites due process, lack of notice, and alleged quota irregularities plus penalties on sown wheat that was killed by frost or not harvested.
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Douglas County
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Library Summer Hours Take Effect July 1
The city library will switch to summer hours starting Monday July 1. The adult department will operate 10:00 to 12:30 and 18:00 to 21:00 daily, with one day extended 10:00 to 21:00. The children’s department will run 10:00 to 12:30 on weekdays and 10:00 to 18:00 Saturdays. Closed all day July 4.
Agreement Forestalls a Transit Strike in New York
Mayor La Guardia said a deal with the transit workers union forestalled a strike by 32 000 workers on the city owned system. The union led by Philip Murray agreed to current contracts while courts decide if future city union contracts are lawful. The threat had called for action after contract expiry at midnight Monday.
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New York
F. H. la Guardia
Transport Workers Union
C.I.0
Philip Murray
C.so
Reading Institute Ends With Lectures And Banquet Highlights
The third annual Reading Institute closed in the Memorial Union after a week of sessions led by KU educators. Dr. Bert A. Nash summarized the program while speakers from Columbus Ohio and Columbia University discussed developmental reading and spelling difficulties. A banquet featured baton twirlers, dancers, music, and quirky prize drawings, including a live chicken and a white rat.
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Reading iInstitute
Memorial Union
School of Education
University of Kansas
Bert A. Nash
University
Reading Institute
Florence Hughes
My Weekly Reader
Columbus
Arthur ©. Traxler
Educational Records Bureau
Columbia University
Louise Farwell Davis
National College of Education
Evanston
Ill
Memorial Union Building
The
Institute
Guy Keeler
Billie Sears
Sears
Neverly
Jean Mott
Kansas City
Maxine Lindley
Lawrence
Robert Cater
Austin Mutz
Donald Diehl
Trou
Frof. Gastor
Multiple Rail Accidents Kill Four and Injure Two Passengers
Four rail accidents across three states claim four railroaders and injure at least two women. A Wabash freight collision near Jacksonville Illinois kills two engineers and a fireman and injures two brakemen as fuel catches fire. In Massillon Ohio a Manhattan Limited derails, injuring two passengers, while a freight locomotive derails elsewhere injuring none. A New York Central freight wreck near Herkimer New York disrupts traffic but costs no lives.
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Jacksonville
Herman L. Schultz
Harry L. Bailey
Decatur, Jr
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York-Chicago Manhattan Limited
Massillon
Frances Degostina
Milwaukee
Wis
Rose Wolman
New York
Ifty
C. G. Brown
New Castle
K. Fe, Forester
Youngstown
Thrifty Habit Reading the Daily Page
A concise note describes a thrifty practice of reading the daily page every day, focusing on frugal habits and routine usage. The brief entry highlights habit formation and daily engagement with available print.
Plane ferried to Canada damaged in Lawrence landing
North American BT-9 trainer flown by Armistead from Los Angeles to Windsor Ont. nosed over at Lawrence airport after fuel and weather forced an emergency landing. Damage estimated at 5000 dollars with the pilot unhurt aside from scratches and bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Armistead
Los Angeles
Calif
Royal Canadian Air Force
Lawrence
Kansas City
Armistead
Cineder
Frank H. Lyons
North American Aviation, Inc
Inglewood
Edward Truxal
TWA
Lyons
Canada
Windsor
Ont
North American
Mrs Haskell Named Missouri Board Curator
Mrs Henry J Haskell wife of the Kansas City Star editor is appointed a member of the University of Missouri board of curators by Governor Donnell She is Agnes Lee KU 1899 former Lawrence World society editor wife of the late Gov Herbert Hadley and mother to Herbert Hadley Jr and John Hadley She is the second woman to serve on the board.
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Henry J. Haskell
Kansas City Star
University of Missouri
Donnell
Haskell
Agnes Lee
University of Kansas
Lawrence World
Herbert Hadley
Missouri
John Hadley
K. U
Drowned brakeman dies in Nebraska train wreck
Ray Woods Alliance brakeman drowned when a Burlington locomotive and four steel bi-level cars plunged through a culvert weakened by a flash flood from torrential overnight rains in Alliance Nebraska.
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Alliance
Neb
P— Ray Woods
Burlington
Congress Urged To Seek Formal National Emergency Declaration
Washington June 28 The administration plans to ask Congress for a formal declaration of a national emergency to grant President Roosevelt broader defense powers. The War Department favors the move to permit indefinite retention of selective service trainees and reserve officers and to lift limits on deploying troops beyond the western hemisphere.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
War Department
National Guard
Floods Halt Cars and Trains Near Williams town and Lawrence
Flash floods from heavy rain blocked Highway 24 and 40, marooned sixty vehicles between Midland and Williams town, and idleed Union Pacific City of Salina for 105 minutes. An eastbound Rock Island train waited west of Williams town, while the Kaw Valley potato harvest paused. The 6.78 inch monthly total at Worden exceeded normal by 2.05 inches.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Union Pacific
Williamstown
Midland
Gieseman Farm
Buck Creek
Kanwaka
City of Salina
Rock Island
Williamsown
Sheriff’s Office
Indian Village
Kaw Valley
Worden
Drought Cycle Ends as Rains Sweep Kansas Plains
Wide rains over three days break a decade old drought pattern in Kansas. Federal meteorologist S D Flora notes ground is barely soaked statewide and showers may continue. Reports from Lecompton to Winfield show varying rainfall, with temperatures easing after a heat wave, while some harvesters resume work. Adv: Lawrence Building and Loan Association offers prompt home loan service.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Lecompton
Leavenworth
Wamega
Kansas City
Hutchinson
McFarland
Carbondale
Worden
Reading
Osage City
Pomona
Quenemno
Ottawa
Neosho Rapids
Lebo
Wichita
Centralia
Horton
Garnett
Columbus
Eureka
Chanute
Independence
Coffeyville
Florence
Cassaday
Winfield
Ellis
Russell
Geneseo
McPherson
Larned
Anthony
Liberal
Defense plant eyed near Eudora in expanded plan
A huge bomb loading plant may be built near Eudora as part of a broader U S defense push. Officials say the site odds are at least 50 50 with Washington announcements expected soon. The project would employ about 4800 workers and cover more than 5000 acres, with Lawrence Ott awa and Kansas City area towns to house many workers.
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Eudora
U. S. Army
Journal-World Today
Washington
Army
Office of Production Management
DuPont Company
Lawrence
Ottawa
Olathe
Kansas City
Journal-World
United States Senate
Selective Service Orders Exempt Married Men with Dependents
Washington June 28 The selective service headquarters instructs local boards to exempt from the draft men with dependents whose support they provide. The memo covers those in class 1-A and those who recently married and seeks to ensure husbands continue legal support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Convict escape search abandoned near Topeka
Police suspended the southwest Jackson county search for two of five convicts who fled the state prison on May 26 after an exchange of gunfire with highway patrolmen north of Topeka last Thursday.
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Topeka
Jackson County
Stock Market Index Stays at 41.7 After Day
The index for sixty stocks averaged 41.7 points, unchanged from yesterday as traders held steady amid light volume and mixed earnings signals.
Kansas Weather Forecast with Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy to cloudy across Kansas with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers mainly in the east. Little temperature change expected tonight and Sunday. Weather data include daily readings and yesterday’s high and low, rainfall to 7 am.
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Kansas
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