Invasion Convoy Moves on New Guinea
Eight American heavy bombers raided Salamaua harbor and left two ships sinking four afire and one beached. Australian bombers claimed seven ships sunk or damaged while invasion convoys continued toward New Guinea bases.
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New Guinea
Washington
Mar
War Department
Salamaua
Australia
R.A.A.F
Canberra
Port Moresby
Moresby
Gulf of Papua
Burma
Rap
Irrawaddy
British Forces Off Norway Meet Tirpitz First Contact
British forces reported contact with Germany s newest battleship Tirpitz off the Norwegian west coast near Trondheim. The 25000 ton ship was attacked by torpedo planes. damage unspecified as Tirpitz disappeared behind a heavy smoke screen. Admiralty noted an attempt to attack the convoy was frustrated and speculated on possible German raid plans toward Russian supply routes.
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Norway
London
Germany
Norwegian
Admiralty
Trondheim
Voy
Russia
Britain
United States
Hitler calls for 2.6 million troops to bolster spring drive
Reports from London say Hitler seeks 1,000,000 from Italy 1,500,000 from Hungary and 100,000 from Slovakia to replace Nazi losses on the Russian front. Soviet claims 6,000,000 Germans killed or missing. Russians press southern and central fronts as Britain bombs German targets and De Gaulle raids Libya. In Kansas City, reform Mayor John B. Gage is nominated with a landslide and council allies win runoff bets. $1,000,000 airport bond approved, $500,000 debt bond fails.
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Adolf Hitler
Italy
Hungary
Slovakia
Russia
London
Hitler
Germany
Ukraine
Moscow
Leningrad
Lake Ilmen
Red Army
Rzhevy
Vyazma
Stockholm
Brazzaville
Equatorial Africa
de Gaullist
Libya
Kansas City
Mar
Reform
Pendergast
John B. Gage
Tom Pendergast
Reform Council
Helen E. Templeman
Secant
Perdergast-Shannon
Gage
John M. Singer
Pendergast Organization
James M. Pendergast
Tom
Joseph Shannon
Bernard L. Glover
James M. Aylward
Council
Altho
Glover
Singer
Old City
Passuge
No Change In The Bataan Situation
Washington reports the War Department says the Bataan situation remains unchanged with no air or ground activity in the last 24 hours. Both sides’ positions appear temporarily stabilized as General MacArthur faces superior Japanese forces and no other areas report action.
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Washington
CPI
War Department
Bataan
Douglas MacArthur
Bes
Young Republican Club to Elect Officers Friday
Douglas County Young Republican club to elect new officers at a Friday meeting in the county courtroom at 7 30 pm. Chairman Robert Oyler stated other important business will be presented and all Young G O P members and others interested are invited to attend.
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Douglas County Young Republican Club
County Court
Robert Oyler
Consolidated Aircraft Announces Three-Shift War Plant Schedule
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation orders a three-shift 22 1/2 hour production schedule at its two San Diego military airplane plants starting Saturday. The bomber plants shift pattern previously used two nine-hour shifts.
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San Diego
Calif
Mar
P— Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Favors Federal Sales Tax Drills Support From Commerce Official
W J Schieffelin Jr of the New York State Chamber of Commerce told the house ways and means committee that state sales taxes had worked and Congress should try a national sales tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
W. J. Schieffelin, Jr
New York State
Amber of Commerce
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Roosevelt frames lend lease as key to UN victory
President Roosevelt told Congress that the lend lease plan has mobilized United Nations resources, with total aid valued at 2.57 billion dollars. He warned victory requires time, effort, and continued supply of equipment and transportation, including weapons, raw materials, and production support.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United Nations
Seattle M ayor Defeated After bitter campaign
Police Judge William F Devin won the Seattle mayoral race with 63 892 votes to Earl Millikin 48 541 in a contest backed by Dave Beck AFL teamsters The former Baldwin man Millikin had a Baker University background and a Baldwin connection with a sister residing there The mayor visited Baldwin recently and stopped at the Journal World office.
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Seattle
Mar
Dave Beck
West Coast
A.F.L. Teamsters’ Union
William F. Devin
Earl Millikin
Devin
Millikin
Baldwin
Baker University
Journal-World Office
Stock Market Index Brief Tracks 60 Stocks
The average of 60 stocks stood at 34.3 with a note that yesterday’s level was 35. The data reflects a small decline and summarizes market movement for the period.
Brazil Moves to Declare War State Amid Axis Threats
President Getulio Vargas issued a decree granting power to declare a state of war or emergency across Brazil over axis menace and internal threats. The order authorizes imprisonment of axis subjects and seizure of axis property as shipping losses rise from submarine attacks off the U S coast.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
United States
Atlantic
Lloyd Brasileiro
North American
Germany
Summerfield Tests Set for 240 Kansas Seniors
About 240 Kansas high school senior men will take the district Summerfield scholarship tests in six cities. The tests will be given in Wichita Salina Dodge City Colby Chanute and Lawrence. Applicants here will take the examination in Marvin Hall. Thirty or eighty five high ranking men will be selected to take the final exam April 20 and 21. A dozen finalists will receive four year scholarships to the University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Summerfield
Olin Templin
University of Kansas Endowment Association
Wichita
Salina
Dodge City
Colby
Chanute
Lawrence
Marvin Hall
Finalists Chosen in KU Speech Contest
Six finalists were selected in three KU preliminaries of the district Inter American affairs discussion. Two winners from each prelim will compete at Fraser theater at 8 15 tonight for honors. The final winner advances to the April regional contest in Kansas City. Schools represented include Ottawa University Bethany Pittsburg Ft. Hays State Washburn and Kansas.
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University of Kansas
Fraser Theater
Kansas City
Ottawa University
Bethany
Pittsburg
Ft. Hays State
Washburn
Kansas
Woman Escaping From Hong Kong Confirms Atrocities Accounts
Chungking March 11 CP Phyllis Harrop first foreign woman to escape Japanese occupied Hong Kong testifies to atrocities. She confirms reports reviewed by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the Commons. She describes killings by bayonet and brutal attacks on Chinese and Europeans, including her houseboy and amah.
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Chungking
Phyllis Harrop
Hong Kong
Britain
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Miss Harrop
Dewey
Amah
Alumni roundup to be held at Union building
Fred Ellsworth reports KU alumni roundup events in Ottawa Osawatomie Olathe Paola and Kansas City inviting graduates and former students from Douglas Wyandotte Franklin Osage Johnson and Miami counties. A 6 pm barbecue a 8 pm reception and 7 30 pm program at the Union include talks by Chancellor Deane Malott and President Hugo Wedell with musical numbers and a Yellowstone travel talk for children.
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Fred Ellsworth
K.U. Alumni Association
Ottawa
Osawatomie
Olathe
Paola
Kansas City
Kan
Douglas
Wyandotte
Franklin
Osage
Johnson
Miami Counties
Hugo Wedell
Alumni Association
K.U. Wahlsted
John Outland
Wayne Replogle
Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone
Sam Anderson
K.U
Florence Black
Olga Hoeslay
J. O. Jones
J. Allen Reese
Fred Elisworth
Ellis Withdraws Zoning Petition For Vermont Street Property
W. C. Ellis withdrew his petition to rezone the southeast corner of Tenth and Vermont streets. He said materials shortages during the war halted his plans for a drive in grocery store and will wait until after the war to reconsider. He favors keeping the lots residential to prevent an attractive business from replacing two houses.
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W. C. Ellis
Tenth
Vermont
Ellis
Two Lawrence Residents Die in Pacific War
Two former Lawrence residents are reported to have died in the Pacific theater. Lieut Malcolm J Bramwell, 30, died December 14 from injuries after the Pearl Harbor attack. Lieut Max Louk was killed in action in the Philippines on December 8. Bramwell lived with his daughter at 2118 Tennessee Street and had worked at Dyche museum.
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Lawrence
Malcolm J. Bramwell
Pearl Harbor
Altho
Max Louk
Philippines
Brumwell
Dyche Museum
Bramwell
Tennessee Street
Dam Appropriation Rejected for Missouri Project
The Missouri Table Rock Dam construction appropriation of 2.106 million dollars was voted down in the house. The loaned funding failed by 126 to 80 in today’s vote.
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Washington
Table Rock
Missouri
House
Internment Orders Expand for Enemy Aliens
Attorney General Biddle announced that 318 more enemy aliens are ordered interned while 166 are paroled and 0 released. The statement came March 11 in Washington as part of wartime security actions.
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Washington
Mar
Biddle
Dicker Resigns as Chief of Police to join air service
Lawrence police chief Ralph Dicker will resign to accept a civil service post as associate inspector of air corps radio equipment. He reports April 1 to Wright Field Ohio and will work with factories making radio gear for the air service. He served in World War I and on the Mexican border in 1916.
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Ralph Dicker
Lawrence
Civil Service
Charles B. Russell
Dicker
Army Air Base
Wrightfield
Dayton
Air Corps
Air Service
Police Department
Jude Anderson
St Louis
Martha Ann
Jane
137Th Infantry
A. W. Berger
Kaw River
J. C. Harper
C. B. Russell
Willard Brown
Water Department
PWR
Department
Gus” Wulfkuhle
North Sixth Street
Wulfkuhle
Eles
Roy Bushey
Board of Education
Woodlawn School
Robert Lloyd
Miss McManis
Erma McManis
Berger
Miss McManus
American Way Threatened By the War Warns Capper
Senator Capper warns that without congressional action to support private business the government may be the only business left after the war. He cites auto sales decline and urges protecting free enterprise and aiding unemployed as peace comes. He notes higher taxes and continued war contributions.
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Capper
Washington
Mar
R-Kan
Congress
Donald Nelson
WPB
United States
Blum Claims Axis Ready War Responsibility
Leon Blum, former French premier and defendant, told the war responsibility trial that the axis nations started the war. He argued that the world public conscience knows where lies the responsibility of war without need for a supreme court.
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Biom
France
Leon Blum
Popular Front
Supreme Court
Japs Win First Campaign But Suffer Heavy Loss
Admiral Thomas Hart announced that Japan won the first great Pacific campaign due to air superiority but paid a high price in ships sunk and damaged. He warned the ABDA area now under Japanese control faces future concern, noting many wars are won after initial losses.
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Washington
Mar
Thomas €. Hart
Pacific
Java
Abda
Transportation Plan Aids Defense Workers in Wichita
A plan to move defense workers using buses and commuter trains was sent to Washington on March 11 with a request for funding. Paul H. White, chairman of the Wichita defense council executive committee, announced the proposal as a practical solution to the transportation problem for workers serving defense needs.
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Wichita
Kan
PHA
Washington
Paul H. White
Wichita Defense Council Executive Committee
White
National Intercollegiate Basketball Result Summary
Indiana State Teachers at Terre Haute faced Bimnsen College Indianola Iowa Hamline University St Paul Minn and Southwestern College Winfield Kan in the second round. Scores listed as 37 for one side.
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Indiana State Teachers
Terre Haute
Bimnsen College
Indianola
Iowa
Hamline University
St. Paul
Spring opening in Lawrence promises trimmed windows and prizes
Lawrence merchants host a spring opening tonight with newly trimmed windows and new merchandise. Bands from KU Haskell and the high school will parade up Massachusetts street at 7 30 p m. Sixty firms offer prizes in a big window guessing contest. A defense bond will be awarded at Ninth and Massachusetts streets at 9 p m.
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Lawrence
K. U
Haskell
Massachusetts Street
Ninth
Massachusetts Streets
National Lottery Draft Set March 17 in War Time
Washington officials announced a national draft lottery to determine the order of liability for about 9 000 000 men registered February 16. The event, at 6 p m eastern war time on March 17, will see serial numbers drawn from a goldfish bowl with Secretary Stimson expected to draw the first capsule. President Roosevelt will not attend. Further details to follow.
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Washington
Mar
Selective Service
War Stimson
Roosevelt
Spring window unveiling promises improved crowds and prizes
Tonight downtown features a spring window unveiling with a defense bond prize of 25 to 30 dollars? The event includes a parade by four bands from South Park to Sixth and Massachusetts, a window guessing contest, and a 9 p.m. drawing for a 25 defense bond. Merchants prepared displays and 25 000 guessing blanks were distributed by the Chamber of Commerce.
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Chamber of Commerce
K. U
High School
Haskell
Junior Kich
South Park
Sixth
Massachusetts
Ninth
W. G. Beougher
M. P. Watson
Ralph Campbell
Tee Boyles
R. L. Tubbs
Homer Allison
Cooler Breezes Bring Lower Temps Across Kansas
Northerly cooling spread over northern Kansas with Topeka at 76 yesterday, 15 degrees above normal. Tonight expected 25 to 30 degrees, light rain in the west, ongoing winter wheat greening statewide. Eastern counties report Hes sian fly damage and thinning stands, with ample cattle feed and volunteer grain grazing noted.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas
North Central
North- Western
Ellis
S. D. Flora
Tires and Tubes Issued by Douglas County Rationing Board
The Douglas County rationing board issued tires and tubes today to residents including Ariey Harris Clark Lawrence C D Reber inspector Frank Ernest Brune Lawrence three truck tires Herman Cohen inspector William H Lucas Baldwin one truck tire and one truck tube Ted Brown inspector Pete Edelbreck Eudora one truck tire and truck tube Delmar Gravitt inspector Thurman Spencer Lecompton one truck tire and one truck tube Gilbert Francis inspector Walter W Willis Eudora three truck tires and three tubes G R Allen inspector Benjamin Nets Eudora one retread truck tire C D Reber inspector Carl F Miller Lawrence three retreaded truck tires Gilbert Francis inspector Clarence H Hausman Eudora passenger car tires and one passenger car tube Delmar Gravitt inspector Emil John Reigner Lawrence passenger car tires and two passenger car tubes H B Towney inspector.
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Douglas County Rationing Board
Ariey Harris Clark
Lawrence
C. D. ‘Reber
Frank Ernest Brune
Herman Cohen
William H. Lucas
Baldwin
Ted Brown
Pete Edelbreck
Eudora
Delmar Gravitt
Thurman Spencer
Lecompton
Delmar
Gravitt
Emil John Reigner
H. B. Towney
City Council Faces Rationing Hurdles For Two Police Cars
Lawrence city council reports federal auto rationing blocks purchasing two new police sedans. The police committee will instead seek authorization to buy tires for the two Ford cars in service while considering future trade ins.
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Lawrence
Boy Scout Drive
Free French Capture Axis Outpost Temega in Libya
Free French forces from Central Africa advance into southern Libya and capture the axis outpost Temega, about 125 miles northeast of Murzuk, according to Free French headquarters.
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London
Mar
Central Africa
Libya
Temega
Murzuk
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