Battle Rages as Cassino Ruins Seal Off German Forces
Allied and German forces clash in savage hand to hand fighting around Cassino Italy with New Zealand troops in bitter street battles and Castle Hill defense. Allied advances slow but steady as German reinforcements and artillery challenge the town and Monte Cassino slopes. Prisoners total 258 as combat widens with renewed German counterattacks and Allied bombardment.
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Cassino
Fifth
Mar
Castle Hill
Fifth Army
Pall
Monastery Hill
New
New Zealand
Monte Cassino
Germans Change Pattern Of Broadcasting War News
United States government monitors reported a dramatic shift in German radio output. The Nazi plan to broadcast hourly updates on the air situation began four hours after an official 3 pm German time announcement. Evening programs feature air situation reports as top news and lead-in notices.
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New York
Mar
United States
Reich
Office of War Information
Germans Move to Place Balkans Under Single Military Command
London reports German troops push to extend occupation over Bulgaria and Romania while Hungary remains under complete Nazi control. Ankara radios claim a single German commander will direct Hungary Bulgaria Romania and news of postal and telegraph seizure.
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Balkans
London
Mar
Hungary
Bulgaria
Rumania
Hitler
Europe
Ankara
Russia
Britain
United States
Ion Antonescu
Bessarabia
Ione
Sit
Budapest
Berlin
Altho
Foreign Office
London Daily Mail
Romania
Bucharest
Berlin raids and KU robberies reported in one dispatch
A military air raid on Berlin by U S Liberators and Fortresses is detailed along with RAF mine laying and Mustang sorties over France and Germany, noting 1500 tons of bombs and several hundred aircraft, with no losses. Separately at the University of Kansas Foster and Miller Halls report a second Monday theft totaling 55 dollars and 151 50 respectively, eight Foster Hall residents listed as victims and 12 Miller Hall residents also affected. City police investigate with no leads yet.
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London
Berlin
U. S
Germany
U.S
R.A.F
Air Ministry
France
Paris
Pas de Calais
University of Kansas
Foster Hall
Louisiana Street
R. H. Wilson
Miller Hall
Janet Anne Willson
Neodesha
Patricia
Arlene Graham
Winfield
Beverly Reitz
Olathe
Charliete Bartley
Horton
Aldine Pfaff Hazelton
Miller
Tojo warns Japan faces grave war turning point
Premier Hideki Tojo told the Japanese diet that the war situation has become grave and battles in the coming days could decide the empire's fate. He warned renewed American attacks would be stronger and stressed nationwide mobilization and ruthless strategic measures for final victory.
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London
Hideki Tojo
Japan
Berlin
Associated Press
Tojo
Diet
Jack Kelsey Dies at 63 in Lawrence After Illness
John H. Jack Kelsey 63 a Lawrence livestock businessman and longtime resident died after a long illness at Lawrence Memorial hospital. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Harold G. Barr at the First Christian church Friday at 2 40 p m. He was born January 14 1881 in Jefferson county and lived in Lawrence most of his life. He is survived by his wife Rosa belle Kelsey a daughter Mrs E C Stimpson and a grandson Edwin Stimpson two sisters a nephew two nieces and a cousin. The body will lie in state at Funk chapel until 1 p m Friday. No flowers requested.
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John H
Jack) Kelsey
Atotkman
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Harold G. Barr
First Christian Church
Funk Chapel
Mr. Kelsey
Jefferson County
Lawrence
Route 1
City
Rosabelle Kelsey
E. C. Stimpson
Edwin Stimpson
Vermont
Kansans on Oahu Hold Fifteenth Reunion in Hawaii
About 450 Kansans gathered on Oahu for the fifteenth annual reunion with 90 percent veterans. The event featured a buffet, a short program, and a business meeting. Col Adna Clarke praised William Allen White in a tribute during the gathering.
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Oahu
Hawaiian Islands
William Allen White
Col
Adna Clarke
White
May close Lecompton station under Santa Fe plan
The State Corporation Commission is weighing the Santa Fe Railway's bid to discontinue the Lecompton station. Counsel Richard McEntire said a recent hearing showed maintenance costs exceed railway business. An order on the decision was expected later in the week. Lecompton has historic ties as Kansas capital and Lane University site.
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Santa Fe Railway Company
Lecompton
State Corporation Commission
Topeka
Richard McEntire
Kansas
Bank deposits rise in Kansas banks for year
Topeka reports Kansas bank deposits increased nearly 250000 last year. Fred Bowman, secretary of the Kansas Bankers Association, said deposits in 454 state and 177 national banks rose from 785,471,706 to 1,029,822,160 while loans declined from 233,701,575 to 166,085,830. No coal rationing set for 1944 1945 wheat season as War Production Board opts against it.
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Topeka
Mar
Uph-Kansas
Fred Bowman
The
Kansas Bankers Association
Move to Make Rome an Open City
The German controlled Rome radio said Germany would withdraw all military installations and divert traffic from Rome to declare the city open. The move would place bombing responsibility on the allies, though such a declaration has no effect without Allied acceptance.
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Associated Press
London
Mar
Rome Radio Today
Rome
Badoglio
Italy
Dairymen Hear Promo At Chamber Of Commerce
A meeting to promote dairy interests was held this afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Harold Chamney led the agricultural committee with Union Pacific and Douglas county farm bureau sponsorship. H W Benn showed Along the Milky Way, with input from R I Stover and Karl Shoemaker of Kansas State College.
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Chamber of Commerce
Agricultural Committee
Harold Chamney
Union Pacific Railroad
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Along the Milky Way
H. W. Benn
R. I. Stover
Kansas State College
Karl Shoemaker
Liberty Memorial Hich School
Fellowship Hall
Baldwin
Churchill signals renewed consultations among allies on Atlantic Charter
London reports quote Prime Minister Churchill saying there will be renewed consultation between the principal allies as war phases shift. He noted the Atlantic Charter may require clarifications, but stressed it is a declaration of purpose, not a pact with enemies. He refused to elaborate on a Big Three meeting or changes to prewar boundaries.
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London
Mar
Churchill
Commons
Daniel Lipson
Lipson
Red Cross War Fund Drive Extends to March 31
The Red Cross War Fund campaign continues through March with additional appeals nationwide. Lawrence and Douglas County have met their quota, but extra donations will fund ongoing Red Cross work. untaxed individuals are urged to contribute at the Community building office. Campaign directors hope to exceed the $29,100 Douglas County target by $5,000.
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Red Cross War Fund
Red Cross
Lawrence
Douglas County
Russians in New Threat to Odessa
Russian forces push toward Odessa as Stalin reports the capture of Pervomaisk on the Bug river. Podgorodnoye falls, boosting the southern front while Soviet armies strike near Tarnopol Proskurov and advance toward the Prut and Dniester greenery. Military actions include near Lwow and within reach of escape routes for German forces in the Odessa region.
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London
Pervomaisk
Bug River
Nikolaev
Stalin
Odessa
Russia
Podgorodnoye
Bug
Berlin
Tarnopol
Proskurov
Bessarabia
Lwow
Dniester
Moscow
Prut River
Romania
Cernauti-Baltsky
Prut
Odessa- Tiraspollasi
Old Poland
Black Sea
Twenty-Eight Japanese Americans Refuse Army Training
Fort McClellan Ala Mar 22 CP Brig Gen Wallace C Philpon announced 28 Japanese Americans who refused military training at the camp replacement center have been placed in the camp stockade awaiting court martial Most had been inducted recently and others in the battalion accepted training while these men had lived in Japan and chosen indoctrination with that country's military philosophy They refused to accept training under the American flag and await action.
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Fort McClellan
Ala
Recital at KU School of Fine Arts Features Four Soloists
A student recital will be presented tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. in Fraser Theater, KU. Eleanor Brown performs Brahms Rhap sody in E Flat Major, Margaret Dunn Scriabin Sonata-Fantasie, Norma Antone Brahms In Summer Fields, Ruth Russell Rossini Una Voce Fa. Atchison names Mrs Fred Johnson as county treasurer succeeding Fred Needham who resigned to become cashier at Lancaster State Bank, post vacated by L L Hadsell now in the army.
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School of Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Fraser Theater
Eleanor Brown
Brahms
Margaret Dunn
Scriabin
Summer Fields
Norma Antone
Rossini
Ruth Russell
Atchison County
Atchison
Fred Johnson
Fred Needham
Lancaster State Bank
L. L. Hadsell
ISERVICE VOTE BILL BEFORE F D R
President Roosevelt weighed options on the service vote bill after receiving telegraphs from state governors. States like Texas and Vermont pledged to count federal ballots as a fallback if absentee ballots fail to reach service members. Fourteen states oppose federal ballots, several others uncertain, with Roosevelt having until March 31 to sign veto or let it become law.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Texas
Vermont
Congress
Alabama
New Zoology Head at Berkeley Named
Dr. E Raymond Hall associate professor of zoology and curator of mammals at the University of California Berkeley named chairman of the department of zoology and curator of Dyche Museum of Natural History effective July 1 Chancellor Deane W Malott announced Lane the current department head and museum curator will retire at the retirement age but remain professor Hall is KU graduate PhD UC member Guggenheim Fellow 1942 and in charge of the UC zoological farm.
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E. Raymond Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Zoology
Dyche Museum of Natural History
Deane W. Malott
Hall
Henry Higgins Lane
Museum
Lane
University of Kansas
Phillips University
Enid
Okla
Phillips
University of Oklahoma
de Pauw University
Indiana
Princeton
American Society of Naturalists
American Society of Zoologists
American Microscopic Society
Phi eBta Kappa
Sigma Chi
University of California
Guggenheim Foundation
University Zoological Farm
Flood threat fades as Kansas rivers recede
Toneka March weather bulletin reports rain across central and eastern Kansas with several towns recording over an inch. Rivers like Neosho and Cottonwood near flood stage but easing. Wichita Little Arkansas expected to flood but no large overflow. Temperatures rising in east, cooler west, with freezing tonight. Highway routes reopen as flood waters recede. heavy snows in the northwest reduce road access. Four-line classified ad offers a fruit week for 96 cents.
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Toneka
Middle
Kansas
S. D
Emporia
Cottonwood Falls
Augusta
ElDorado
Newton
Sedgwick
Marion
Elmdale
Wichita
Salina Herington
Junction City
Wamego
Concordia
Goocland
Herington
Neosho
Flora
Parsons
Oswego
Maraisdeg Cypnes
Little Ar
Dodge City
Mercury
Goodland
State Highway Patrol
Coffeyville
Gee
Gas Office
Sam Aril
Students to Rule City for One Day
Liberty Memorial high school students will take over city offices on Tuesday March 28 in a Boys and Girls City Day. Sponsored by the American Legion and the Chamber of Commerce with the city council, the event includes a noon luncheon at Hotel Eldridge and a mock city council meeting chaired by junior student officials. Lawrence Morgan named mayor. other officials include Frank Davis Howard Price Bryce Stallard Dick Wagstatt ah Lowell Bailey and Jerre Lyons with staffers and a full list of city roles.
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Liberty Memorial High School
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge
High School
Lawrence Morgan
J. F. Morgan
Lawrence
Frank Davis
Howard Price
Bryce Stallard
Dick Wagstatt
Ah Lowell Bailey
John Ewing
Elsie Lemon
Jerre Lyons
Elizabeth Ashton
Sallie Rowe
Esther Jost Harley Yoder
Jim_ Selig
David Seamans
Marian Wiley
Betty van Llew
Jim Black
Stanley Penny
Delbert Letsman
Edith Cotton
John Frost
Rachael Cooper
Mildred Ice
Charles Svobéda
Pete Allen
Jim Mason
David Jones
Shirley Myers
Margaret Fisher
Martha Ringler
Barbara Bfiler
Draft boards struggle to fill calls for 18 to 26 year olds
Draft boards nationwide lag behind by about 240000 men in meeting army needs. Douglas county selective service chair Ayden S. Jones says notices of review go to men with occupational deferments. If no reply within ten days, a man becomes 1-A. Employers can submit a 42 form to argue essential status.
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United States
Army
Ayden S. Jones
Douglas County
Selective Service Board
Jones
Selective Service
Britain and U S Did Not Consult On Recognition
London reports Foreign Secretary Eden said Britain was not consulted before the Soviet recognition of the Badoglio government in Italy and seeks an explanation from Moscow. Secretary Hull indicated the U S had not been consulted either and would not recognize Badoglio. Russian planes over Hungary dropped no bombs per MTI. U S. monitors heard the broadcast.
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London
Anthony Eden
Commons
Badoglio
Italy
Moscow
Hull
U.S.S.R
U. S
United States
Eden
Hungary
New York
MTI
Stock Market Index Edges Up Then Falls
A brief market note shows the average of 60 stocks at 52.0 with yesterday's level at 53.1. The change indicates a slight decline from the prior close. Investors watched fluctuations in the broad market.
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