Raid Damage Done at Cologne and Leghorn Attacks Across Axis Front
Allied air forces struck Cologne in a large raid, with Hamburg also bombed, as nine raids considered the eighth assault on the Nazi home front in 10 days. Leghorn sustained heavy damage with Italian reports noting ships hit. Italy and Germany reported many casualties and sustained bombardment across multiple fronts.
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Associated Press
R.A.F
Rhine
Cologne
Hamburg
Germany
Europe
Mediterranean
Rome
Iraq
Turkey
Paris
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Ashorn
U. S
Sardinia
Reggio Calabria
Italy
Messina
Sicily
Eisenhower
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North Africa
San Giovanni
U.I
R.A
France
Nirngs
English Channel
Pantelleria
Workman Killed at Air Base Topeka
Walter C. Hanby aged 30 of Eldon Missouri died from injuries after falling ten feet from a scaffold at the Topeka air force supply depot. He suffered a fractured skull and collar bone in the fall on a concrete floor. State Board of Health tested Jayhawk Plugh water as excellent.
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Air Base
Topeka
Walter C. Hanby
Eldon
Air Force
Allied Attacks Intensify Across Aleutians and Pacific
Allied fighters broke up an 18-plane Japanese raid on Darwin Australia as MacArthur’s bombers hit four enemy bases in the northern Pacific island arc. U S Liberators hammered Amboina and Boeroe Islands while R A F aircraft attacked Akyab and bombed inland targets in Burma.
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Associated Press
Darwin
Australia
Uglas MacArthur
Washington
Kiska
Aleutians
South Seas
Pacific
Tokyo
Ers
Japan
Navy
Little Kiska
U. S
Solomon Islands
MacArthur
High Court Reverses Treason Convictions in Nazi Sabotage Case
The United States circuit court of appeals reversed the treason convictions of Hans Haupt Otto Wergin Walter Froehling and their wives finding error in jury instructions and the denial of separate trials. The defendants were previously sentenced to death or 25 years and had been held in Cook County jail awaiting potential rehearing. The case ties to the Haupt family’s alleged role aiding Herbert Haupt and Nazi saboteurs linked to German submarines.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Herbert Haupt
Haupts
United States
Cook County
U. S
J. Albert Woll
Young’Haupt
Haupt
Washington
Government spends record sums but underspends budget
Washington reports the federal government set a new spending record for the fiscal year ending tomorrow with outlays surpassing 86 billion dollars. War costs reached about 71.5 billion while revenue fell short of targets by nearly one billion, prompting increased bond sales to cover the deficit.
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Washington
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commodity Credit Corporation
United States
England
Germany
Roosevelt
Breezes Fade as Normal Temperatures Return
Weather outline reports near normal conditions after a month of heavy rains floods and heat. Marais des Cygnes Neosho and local towns show no overflow though floods persist in the southeast. A.F. of L. urging Sunflower Ordnance Works workers to attend Thursday meetings at DeSoto Labor Hall led by J. M. Anderson-Adyv.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Kansas
Marais Des Cygnes
Ottawa
Neosho
Wichita
Geneseo
Ellis
Phillipsburg
A. F. of L
Sunflower Ordnance Works
DeSoto Labor Hall
J. M. Anderson
Adyv
Ickes May Operate Mines Until Contract Is Signed
Washington June 29 Interior Secretary Ickes hinted he might run the nation’s coal mines for the government until owners and the United Mine Workers sign a contract. He named Carl Elbridge Newton federal director of mines and began organizing a long term supervision for war vital coal diggings.
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Washington
Ickes
United Mine Workers
Carl Elbridge Newton
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
Attendance Night Planned by the Legion
Members of the Dorsey Liberty post of the American Legion will hear a double program at the Attendance Night meeting in Legion rooms on Thursday evening July 1 at 8 o clock. Legionnaire J W Murray will speak on Defense Industries in Kansas and a technicolor sound film The American Legion War Session at Kansas City or Civilian Defense will be shown. Refreshments will be served to attendees.
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Dorsey-Liberty Pest of the
American Legion
Legion Rooms
J. W.murray
Kansas
American’ Legion
Kansas City
Orf
Keep Cool Enjoy a Daily Swim at Jayhawk Plunge
Advert says Jayhawk Plunge offers daily swimming to stay cool with admission as advertised. Wiedemann's chocolates promoted as an additional advertisement feature.
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Jayhawk Plunge
Adv
Jayhawk Plunge Adv Worth Notice
A brief market note shows the Stock Market Index for 60 stocks at 51.9 with yesterday’s level at 52. A separate line states a claim that swimming in chlorinated water is safe.
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Jayhawk Plunge
Feud Over War Buying Breaks Open in Washington
Vice President Wallace accuses Jesse Jones of obstruction in BEW stockpiling wartime strategic materials while Jones counters with charges of malice and misstatements. Dispute centers on RFC and BEW roles in procurement, stockpiling, and wartime programs during 1942.
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Wallace
Jesse Jones
The
Open Today
Secretary of Commerce
Jones
BEW
RFC
Congress
Congressional Economy Committee
Byrd D-Vu
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Pearl Harbor
SINK U-BOAT A DAY FOR TWO WEEKS
In a June 29 briefing Malcolm MacDonald stated at least 14 U boats had been sunk in the last two weeks. He called the Allied submarine losses a sign of their rising strength and suggested a new European phase may begin soon. He noted reports of a daily submarine loss rate and warned against overreacting to possible small-scale German actions.
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Congress
Wallace
Senate Banking Committee
Milo Perkins
BEW
He Jones
Wulbber
South America
Africa
Caribbean
Dtawa
Malcolm Macae
Pritehoc
Begat Bagaid
Costae Ae Ee
Europe
MacDonald
Atlantic
Churchill
London
Germany
New Store Hours and War Effort in Lawrence
Lawrence merchants vote to close early July through August with 9 to 5 30 hours and a July 5 all store closing. J H Parsons named Merchants Bureau chair and Vernon Linn vice chair for the year. Eighteen merchants pledge after hours farm work to help relieve labor shortages and the group agrees to underwrite a 15000 war stamp quota.
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Lawrence
Merchants Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
John Schrader
J. H. Parsons
William Kessick
County Food For Victory Committee
Gasoline rationing shifts to new A B C coupon sheets
The local rationing office will distribute about 4000 additional A gasoline ration applications today with new sheet form coupons 7 to 12. The changes, effective around July 21, aim to curb black market activity by front placing license numbers and regulating stamp quantities. About 1100 T books for commercial vehicles were mailed yesterday and fuel oil applications are being sent out in the coming days.
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George Wetzel
Gaseline Cortoons
Stoning Board
July Car Quota Raised by Office of Price Administration
The Office of Price Administration announced a July quota of 51 800 new passenger automobiles for rationing, up 800 from June. Potato growers urged to obtain potato picker checks now from The World Co.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
the World Co
Volunteers Help Out on the Farm During Labor Shortage
The county Food for Victory committee mobilizes city residents to volunteer for farm work amid wet fields delaying potato digging. Theatre booths will register workers with Albert I. Decker coordinating farm labor placement and Mrs. L E Rice organizing women volunteers.
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County Food For Victory Committee
Moving Picture Houses
Albert I. Decker
U. S. Employment Service
Granada
Jayhawker
Deal Six
L. E. Rice
Decker
Eudora—Ray Ogden
Baldwin—F. C. Leinaker
Lone Star
M. D. Flory
Globe Store
Everett Turner
Jeffers Enforces Conservation Rules On Tire Rationing
Washington reports OPA cuts to used and recapped tire availability for July limiting to 500000 units. Jeffers orders strict adherence to conservation during a 90 day period with eligibility based on mileage and location in the gasoline shortage area.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Office of Price’ Administration
Jeffers
OPA
Collision at Baldwin Junction
Auto truck collision at Baldwin Junction yesterday afternoon caused heavy damage to a 1942 Plymouth owned by Dr H Wig and a 1941 1/2 ton Ford driven by Harry D Hall. Occupants of both vehicles escaped injury. Burton of Washington DC drove the Plymouth, Hall of Baldwin drove the Ford.
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Baldwin Junction
Dr. H. Wig
Vincent F. Burton
Washington, D. C
Baldwin
Harry D. Hall
War Strikes Heavy Blow at Schools
Indianapolis June 29 The NEA 23rd annual meeting warned a severe hit to education as thousands of teachers quit for war jobs and others join the armed forces An official NEA report forecasts a 75000 teacher shortage by fall Dr Alonzo F Myers NYU cites a looming quality gap with 100000 of 250000 new hires possibly underqualified to fill vacancies The article notes 30 million students face return to new teachers next September and a vast hiring surge with limited trained applicants.
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Indianapolis
No- Lees ‘Education Association
NEA
Alonzo F. Myers
Department of Higher Education of
New York University
Hold up at Ton Fulton’s cafe ends with escape from building
Tom Fulton proprietor of Fulton’s cafe on 709 Massachusetts street fought a coatless intruder who struck him with a hard object and fled by leaping from a third floor window to a roof then into an alley. Police searched nearby with no suspect found. Fulton’s injuries were a deep cut but his resistance thwarted the robbery.
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Tom Fulton
Fulton
Massachusetts Street
Eldridge Hotel
Kansas University Opens July Semester for Navy V-12 and Liberal Arts
University of Kansas announces a July 1 start for a special summer term. V-12 navy programs run alongside full college offerings in liberal arts and sciences with courses from chemistry economics English history mathematics physics and psychology. Registration occurs Monday 8 to 5 and again Monday and Tuesday enrollment hours.
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University of Kansas
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Sixteen Douglas County Men Accepted for Army
Sixteen Douglas County men were inducted at Fort Leavenworth on June 21 and will report back July 5. Names include John Howard Jones Baldwin Ines Horace Frame Jr Kenneth Eugene Daniels Wayne B Traynor Dean Stultz Jr Phil Ross Cato Jr Merle Emery McClure Leonard Marshall Mayhugh Jr John William Popham James Donald Jones Lindell Kenneth Chappell Ashi Donald Glenn Lindley Gerald Leonard Lindenberger William Edward Way Karl Clifford Kappelman Robert Wayne Adkisson.
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Armed Services
Fort Leavenworth
Army
Leavenworth
John Howard Jones
Baldwin
Ines Horace Frame, Jr
North Th
Kenneth Eugene Daniels
Lawrence
Wayne Bernard Traynor
Elm
Dean Stultz, Jr
Richland
Phil Ross Cato, Jr
Haskell Institute
Merle Emery McClure
Leonard Marshall Mayhugh, Jr
Pennsylvania
John William Popham
Eudora
James Donald Jones
Indiana
Lindell Kenneth Chappell
California
Ashi Donald Glenn Lindley
Rhode Island
Gerald Leonard Lindenberger
Massachusetts
Wiliam Edward Way
Karl Clifford Kappelman
Two Bridges Out Reported in County
County engineer C. E. Redmond says two bridges are out: one 1.5 miles southwest of Eudora in Eudora township and another by school house 56 in Palmyra township. A further carload of coal for the welfare department is being unloaded at the county farm today. the county shovel has been returned to the gravel pit after bridge repairs.
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C. E. Redmond
Eudora
Eudora Township
Palmyra Township
City Council Tackles East Eighth Sewer Cracks and Trash Plan
City officials discussed flooding damage on East Eighth Street sewers, equipment shortages, and cave-ins as J C Harper cited 16 foot depth. They debated district trash collection and contracted hauling changes while approving bonds and electrical equipment purchases.
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East Eighth Street
East Ee Street
J. ¢. Harper
McCoy Company of
Emporia
Italians Expect Attack Said in Lausanne Telegram
The Gazette de Lausanne reports Italy preparing for battle with a possible surprise attack on Sicily. It says Italian opinion is uneasy and fears are evident as allied fleet may be ready to strike.
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Bern
Switzerland
Gazette de Lausanne
Italy
Sicily
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Gilbert Francis
Lawrence Company
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Frank Brune
K. U
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Funk’s. Mortuary and Chapel
Peanelente Service
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R. L. Webster
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