Armed forces seek higher dependency allowances and new rules
Washington report on a Senate military committee proposal to raise dependency allowances for servicemen families. The plan boosts wife with one child to 68 dollars and adds 11 per extra child, while mothers would be eligible for 50 dollars. It includes waivers for initial payments and shifts to dependency certificates, with total annual cost around 393 million dollars.
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Washington
Armed ‘Forces
Congress
Reynolds
Dn.c
Senate Military Committee
Johnson
D-Coro
Army
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Howats
Armed Services
M. G. White
War Department
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Slow Return to Mines Spurs War Effort Talks
Unofficial estimates put idle miners at about 200000 last week while more than 800000 remained at work in pits nationwide. By June 28 miners in several states resisted a policy committee order, but unions in West Virginia and other districts signaled renewed production to support wartime needs. A Kansas official noted rich iron ore near Hugoton, suggesting the region as ideal for a sponge iron plant.
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Hegan
Ilinois
Kentucky
Alabama
Ohio
West Virgi
Virginia
West Virginia
Winding Gulf
District 29
Nick Aiello
Aiello
William
District 17
Goa
W. Va
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
U.M.W
Steen
Pittsburgh
Topeka
Kansas
Hugoton Field
Kansas Industrialommission
Roosevelt Nominates Woodward and Houston for Board Posts
President Roosevelt nominates Mrs Fins Woodward of Mississippi for reappointment as a member of the Social Security Board and John M Houston of Kansas for reappointment to the National Labor Relations Board in Washington.
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Houston
Washington
Roosevelt
Mra. Fins. Woodiward
Mississippi
Assa Mem ‘Ber
The
Social Security Bard
John M. Houston
Kansas
National Labor Relations ‘Board
City Council to Meet Tonight at City Hall
The city council will meet at o'clock tonight at City Hall to discuss local matters and hear community input.
Ration News Notes Stamp Changes and New Book Launches
AP reports on changes to ration books for meats cheese and coffee with expirations and validity dates. New books will be issued for use starting July 22 with renewal procedures at filling stations and ration boards. Fuel oil and stoves rationing details include period 1 coupons and possible postponement into August.
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East
Washington
Oregon
Kentucky
Idaho
Ohio
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Midwest
Three U S Chemical Firms Indicted in Global Cartel Case
The Justice Department announced a federal indictment charging three American chemical firms with forming a world wide cartel in titanium compounds used for strategic war materials. Defendants include National Lead Company Fletcher W Rockwell and Claude Garesche of Titan Company. Co conspirators include I G Farbenindustrie Imperial Chemical Industries Montecatini and Kokusan Kokyo Kai Bushi.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Tom Clark
Justice Department
Lark
New York City
National Lead Company
Fletcher W. Rockwell
Claude F. Garesche
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and
Carl H. Rupprecht
Irebs
Titan Company, Inc
I. G. Farbenindustrie
Germany
Imperial . Chemical Industries
Great Britain
Montecatini
Italy
Kokusan Kokyo Kaibushi
Japan
Nazi Divisions Reported Ordered West for Invasion Prep
A London source with underground European ties said fifty Nazi divisions were ordered from the Russian front to bolster defenses against a potential Allied invasion of the continent. No independent confirmation in oils quarters. purport unknown. figures vary with claimed transfers across Russia France the low countries Italy Norway and the Balkans.
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London
Europe
Egun
Hitler
Russia
France
Low Countries
Italy
Norway
Balkans
Denmark
Topeka Man Treated for Minor Injuries After Accident
James M. Shields of Topeka received treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for minor injuries sustained in an accident yesterday. He was released from the hospital this afternoon.
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James M. Shields
Topeka
Lawrence Memorial
Thefts at Pool Reported by Police
Police report thefts at a swimming pool Sunday evening. A wrist watch and $100 in cash were stolen from baskets.
Bombing Campaigns Mount Across Europe and Asia
United air forces pressed raids across Europe and Asia including strikes on German rail yards and Ruhr targets, Cherbourg naval bombings, and western Germany raids. In the Pacific, repeated Allied attacks hit Japanese submarines, Solomons, New Guinea supply routes, and Aleutian Kiska advances while Burma railroads and troop quarters face US and RAF bombardment.
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Mediterranean
Cherbourg
R.A.F
Germany
Industria
Sarajevo
Churchill
England
Russia
Karelian
Suva
Fiji Islands
Coral Sea
Solomons
Australia
New Guinea
Lae
Madang
Aleutians
Kiska
Navy
Burma
U. S
Akyab Island
Drowning Tragedy Claims Mrs Agnes Turner and Son
Word reached relatives of Agnes Kelly Turner who died in Versailles Missouri after trying to save her young son John who also drowned. She was the daughter of Stella Kelly Whittier California long associated with Lawrence. She leaves a husband and three children including Mary Katherine Barber of Lawrence and William Barber at Farragut Idaho naval training station.
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Agnes Kelly Turner
Versailles
John
William H Beatty Former Lawrence resident dies in Michigan
William Herbert Beatty former Lawrence resident died Saturday morning June 26 in St. Joseph Michigan He was born in 1857 at St Peters Clarksboro New Jersey and lived in Wyandotte Kansas from 1866 to 1908 He survived by daughter Mary Leeds Beatty granddaughter Carol Ann Wigdell sister Mrs Anna Beatty Oliver and two nieces and a nephew.
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William Herbert Beattty
William Herbert Beatty
Lawrence
Board of Regents
Mary
Leeds Beatty
Carol Ann Wigdell
St. Joseph
Mich
Anna Beatty Oliver
Alice Oliver Campbell
Denver
Colo
Ralph L
Brown
Montclair
N. J
Heavy blows expected on Japan says Chennault in China
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, at his first press conference since returning from Washington, says Japan will receive very heavy blows within a reasonable time. He declines to define the period but says he is encouraged by the attitude of the people and authorities back home.
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U.S
A.A.F
China
Claire L. Chennault
Washington
Japan
Guests of Granada to view Assignment in Brittany at Granada
The Lawrence company of the Kansas State Guard will attend tonight's Granada theater showing of Assignment in Brittany, the motion picture version of a Saturday Evening Post serial. Guardsmen will be at the set at 9 15. Captain Gilbert A. Francis announced that the unit can accept a few more enlistments and seeks a full company for the State Guard camp planned in Hutchinson in August.
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Lawrence
Kansas State Guard
Granada Theater
Britttany
Saturday Evening Post
Gilbert A. Francis
State Guard
Hutchinson
Marriage License Issued to Turner and Winkelman in Linwood
A marriage license was issued Saturday afternoon to Harold E. Turner and Betty Winkelman, both of Linwood. The couple was married by Probate Judge Serene Hollingsworth.
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Harold E. Turner
Betty Winkelman
Linwood
Sérene Hollingsworth
Brooklyn Air Wardens Role in Nazi Spy Ring
Ernest Lehmitz 57 pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to FBI charges of gathering troop movements convoy and armament production data for German intelligence while serving as a Tompkinsville air raid warden. He faces wartime espionage act penalties and $50 000 bail.
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Washington
Ernest Frederick Lehmitz
U. S
Martin C. Epstein
Brooklyn
FBI
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Lehmitz
Epstein
E. E. Conroy
Europe
Conroy
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Norfolk
Newport News
Shortage of T ration books hits county vehicles
About 1100 commercial vehicles in the county receive third quarter T books mailed today. Applications to obtain the books before July 1 are due. George Wetzel says the books will be valid until September 1. The board has few blanks left at many service stations and is seeking more forms from the district office.
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George Wetzel
Kansas
A.M. Gardner
Local Lawrence items mix odd egg prints to naval news
Lawson residents report colored lettering on boiled eggs at a market. Vivian Hunsinger brings magnolia blossoms to the Journal-World office from a yard tree in Lawrence. Stephen Karnowski, 1026 Ohio, is commissioned Ensign in the U S Navy Reserve dating from June 25. Walter Schwarz notes .98 inch rainfall in Worden neighborhood. Hutson management faces no beef for weekend menus. Johnson family visits from Ardmore Okla. Miss Alice Finley aids county nursing service reorganization. Probate Judge Gray departs. Lorene Hollingsworth acts as probate judge pro tem in his absence.
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Alice Hailey
Maine Street
Journal-World
Fred Hunsinger
Journal- World Office
Lawrence
Stephen Karnowski
Ohio
U. S. Naval Reserve
Granada theater to host US Engineers film on Brittany combat
Members of the State Guard under Captain Herbert Francis will attend a Granada theater screening after drill to view Assignment in Brittany. Elks lodge hosts a special sound film at 8 30 pm presented by the U S Corps of Engineers. The program features training films on engineers methods and a British booby trap detection film with an invitation to construction workers who may enlist.
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the Elks Lodge
U. S. Corps of Engineers
U. S
Corps’ of Engineers
Last list of gifts for KU sailors and soldiers relief
Final detailed record of $75.80 in contributions to the Service Men’s Fund for KU river dikes workers. The committee reports $4,767.12 total and expects near-term final accounting within weeks. list includes numerous individual donors with small amounts.
Big Time at Woodlawn Community Night Draws Crowd
Woodlawn patrons packed the community night with soft drinks and popcorn quickly depleted. Rev. and Mrs. Brockman hosted the event as games like softball shuffleboard and ping pong drew strong interest. Plans for a girls softball team were discussed with a meeting set for Tuesday at 7 80 PM at the school house.
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Woodlawn
H. C. Brockman
Julie Fox
Becky Pickens
John Hagan
Leonard Wymore
Ethel Woods
Irene Lafayette
McAllaster
Pinckney
Lincoln
New York
Cordley
Military implausible: service updates and assignments
Armed Forces notes detail personnel moves and training assignments. Donald Eugene Messer completes fleet service schooling at San Diego base and receives unit reassignment. Pvt George T. Elston visits family at 900 Pennsylvania Street. Seba Eldridge Jr. is named aviation cadet in pre flight school at Santa Ana. Bruce F Harrell stationed in San Diego and promoted Wes petty officer, with overseas deployment. Eugene W Nunemaker serves at Lowry Field after prior dreadnaught training. James R Colgan in Lawrence promoted to technician fifth grade at AAF basic training center, St Petersburg Florida.
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Donald Eugene Messer
GM Sc
James Messer
Rhode Island Street
Fleet Service Schools
U.S
San Diego
Calif
Seba Eldridge
Seba, Jr
Santa Ana
Bruce F. Harrell
Wes
Fleet Air Photographic Squadron
Harrell
Lawrence
James R. Colgan
A.A.F. Hasic Training Center
St. Petersburg
Fla
Local Army News Highlights Promotions and Training
Leroy W. Walker of Connecticut street has been promoted to staff sergeant at Blytheville Arkansas army air field and serves as assistant mess sergeant. Lieut Harry W Edmondson of 936 Pennsylvania street trains at Randolph Field Texas and will become an aviation cadet instructor after completion. Pvt William Lefford arrived from Kerns Utah for a 21 day convalescence furlough with his parents. Pvt Wilbur Rothwell of Camp McCain Mississippi left after a ten day furlough with his parents and is attached to the signal corps.
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Leroy W. Walker
W. O. Walker
Connecticut Street
Blytheville, Ark
Harry W. Edmondson
Pennsylvania Street
Randolph Field
Tex
Pvt
William Lefford
Kerns
Utah
Mrs
W. S. Lefford
Wilbur Rothwell
Camp McCain
Miss
Thurma Rothwell
Lecompton
Rothwell
Signal Corps
Veteran Sgt Harold Tuttle Reports Health From Overseas
A letter from Sergeant Harold Tuttle in the southwest Pacific to Mr and Mrs George Tuttle states he is in good health after spending three and a half years on foreign service. The missive highlights his long overseas duty and continues to reassure loved ones.
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Harold Tuttle
Southwest Pacific
George Tuttle
Sergeant Tuttle
Flood aftermath and community relief in Lawrence Kansas
Floodwaters receded as crop losses hover near 100000 dollars, mostly in potatoes. Rail damage spurred temporary repairs and potential full rebuilding of U P roadbeds. A plan for a permanent river dike grows amid civic effort, service men’s picnic raises over 4600 dollars, and a busy community supports soldiers and war effort with grants, blood drives, and awards.
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Union Pacific
Santa Fe
U. P
Labor lawyers challenge Kansas union control law in court
In Kansas City Kansas labor advocates argued the labor union control law infringes free speech assembly and interstate commerce. Lee Pressman led the U M W A AFL Building Trades Council team with six hours of arguments to go before a three judge panel as state officials, and county attorneys, see the case. Mrs Kermit Myers and three Sheldon Iowa children visit their Perkins relatives.
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Kansas City
Kan
Organized Labor Today
Kansas Labor Union
U. S. District Court
Lee Pressman
Washington, D.I.C
Pressman
A.F.L
U.M.W.A
Building Trades Council
Harry Clark
Cliff Langsdale
Clyde Taylor
James H. Barnes
Louis R. Gates
Patrick W. Croker
Herbert Thatcher
B. Mitchell
Alfred P. Murrah
Oklahoma City
Eugene Rice
Muskogee
Richard J. Hopkins
Collision Damages at Fourteenth and Tennessee Streets
A collision occurred at Fourteenth and Tennessee as a southbound car driven by Damon Jameson of 1202 Kentucky Street struck a westbound car driven by W. D. Allen of Richland Kansas. Damage to both cars was reported Sunday at about six o'clock.
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Fourteenth and
Tennessee Streets
Jafout
Tennessee
Damon Jameson
Kentucky Street
Fourteenth Street
W. D. Allen
Richland
Kan
Statehouse Flags at Half Mast for Former Governor Davis
Flags at the Statehouse in Topeka flew at half mast today to honor former Governor Jonathan M. Davis who died yesterday at Fort Scott.
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J. M. Davis
Kansas
Fort Scott
Topeka
Jonathan M. Davis
Ft. Scott
150 Jews Reported Shot in Nazi Deportation
London dispatch cites Aneta reporting that 150 Jews deported from the Netherlands to Poland by German authorities were shot. The claim emphasizes mass execution tied to Nazi wartime actions and continues to surface in Allied war reporting through June.
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London
Aneta
Netherlands
Holland
Poland
Mrs Hazel Kauffmanee Visits Indiana Relative
Mrs Hazel Kauffmanee of Indiana Pennsylvania arrives today for a brief visit with her cousin Mrs George F Humphrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Kauffmanee
Indiana, Pa
George F. Humphrey
Mason Couple Welcome Son Thomas Mitchell
Mr and Mrs Ralph Mason of Superior Wisconsin announce the birth of a son named Thomas Mitchell. Mrs Mason formerly Miss Bettie Temple. The couple are graduates of Springfield College.
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Ralph Mason
Superior
Wis
Thomas Mitchell
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Lowry Field
Dread
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