Fighting in Iraq Over Large Area
Fighting in Iraq widens as British planes bomb Diwaniya and Al Falluja targets amid four day shelling of Habbaniyah airfield. The RAF says bombardments hit barracks and gun positions while Basra remains quiet. Turkey’s mediation efforts fail as Britain escalates air and ground campaigns in the oil region.
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Cairo
Egypt
Iraq
Diwaniya
al Falluja
Middle East
Habbaniyah
Baghdad
Euphrates River
Dhibban
R.A.F
Habbaniyah R.A.F
British Middle East Command
Basra
Persian Gulf
London
Turkey
Middle ,East
Kingidom
Britain
Rashid Ali al Gailani
Iran
Lake’ Habbaniyah
Rashid Ali
Lake Habbaniyah
War Department to call 8000 young officers this summer
Washington May 6 The war department announced more than 8000 young officers will be called to active duty as second lieutenants this summer upon college graduation and completion of R O T C training. Underscoring unprecedented demand undergraduates completing training will join 11 391 cadets in camps across the Seventh corps area Fort Leavenworth Fort Leonard Wood Fort Snelling and more. Stalin Becomes Premier in Moscow.
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Washington
War Department
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Seventh Corps
Fort Leavenworth
Jane
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Snelling
Minn
Infantry
Bombing Blitz Hits Rhine Industries and British Isles
Allied and German reports detail RAF raids on Frankfurt Mannheim and other Rhine industrial centers while Heidelberg is cited by Berlin. British forces strike Boulogne Cherbourg and Belfast shares heavy losses with 79 dead in Sunday night raid. Clyde shipyards hit as Merseyside docks endure fifth night of bombing.
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Associated Press
Germany
Rhineland
England
R.A.F
Frankfurt-Am-Main
Mannheim
Rhine
French
Berlin
Heidelberg
Boulogne
Cherbourg
Hitler
Luftwaffe
British Isles
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Clyde River
Glasgow
Liverpool
Merseyside
Relocation Considered for University Road at K U Site
State Architect Roy W. Stookey seeks moving the campus road west of the mineral industries building site near the K U observatory to gain a level plot. The road currently runs along the edge of the campus tract and into the county road beyond Seventeenth street. Douglas County draft board chairman Bruce Cameron announces immediate mass classification with 25 to 50 questionnaires mailed daily. 2,714 registrants total. The lowest 200 draft numbers have already been classified.
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Mineral Industries
K. U
K. U. Observatory
Crescent Road
Chi Omega House
Roy W. Stookey
University
Douglas County
Bruce Cameron
Cameron
Missing at Sea List Gathers 12 American Ferry Pilots
Ottawa reported 12 Americans among 122 missing at sea from civilian and armed services. The list includes R W Lowell and J S Wright with kin in Oklahoma. Navy Minister Angus MacDonald announced 75 military men feared lost in connection to a ship’s loss.
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Ottawa
Ont
Army
Navy
Royal Air Force
Royal Norwegian Air Force
United Kingdom
Canadian Inspection Board
R. W. Lowell
Lida Lowell
Chickasha
Okla
J. S. Wright
Sam Wright
Medford
Okio
England
Sam Robertson
London
Angus MacDonald
MacDonald
Carnival Shows Delayed To Tomorrow Night
The Reynolds and Wells shows, sponsored by the American Legion, will open tomorrow night due to late delivery of heavy equipment. All gear is now on hand and the show will start at Twenty first and Louisiana streets. A rainstorm at Junction City trapped trucks in mud.
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Reynolds
Giants Rally To Top Cubs 5 3 Behind Hubbell Four-Hit Win
New York Giants comeback victory over Chicago Cubs 5 to 3 as Carl Hubbell limits them to four hits for his first win. Mel Ott and Babe Young homer for the Giants. Hank Leiber homers for the Cubs.
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New York
May
New York Giants
Cubs
Ithree
Carl Hubbell
Mel Oit
Babe Young
Giants
Hank Leiber
Chicago
Passeau
McCullough Klubtell
Danning
Brooklyn
Dilly Herman
Dixie Walker
Dodgers
Pittsburgh, Pirates
Pittsburgh
Sewell
Wilk
Lopez
Wyatt
Owen
Philadelphia
Johnny Vander Meer
Cy Blanton
Phillies
Cincinnati Reds
Blanton
Ernie Lambardt
Harry Craft
Vander Meer
Nick Eden
Bobby Bragan
Cincinnati
Lombardi
Warren
St. Louis
Boston
Grodzicki
Nahem
Lanier
Krist
Mancuso
Ferrell
Sullivan
Lamanna
Berres
Mass
Greenberg's Induction Deferred and Homer Swing
Detroit May 6 report. Hank Greenberg's army induction was pushed from Wednesday to Thursday by draft board No. 23. He hit home runs in the Tigers versus Yankees game in the second and third innings, his first of the season.
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Detroit
Hank Greenberg
Greenberg
Detroit Tigers
New York Yankees
Stimson to Deliver Radio Address on National Defense Progress
Secretary Stimson will speak by radio tonight from 8:30 to 9 o'clock Central Standard Time. The War Department says the address will report on national defense preparations and progress. The speech will air on Mutual and NBC broadcasting systems.
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Stimson
Washington
War Department
Mutual
Napou Broadcasting Company Sysems
Detroit Strike Stops Work on Tools for Defense Plans
United Automobile Workers strike at three Ex-Cell-O Detroit plants halts tool production for defense orders. About 95 percent of Ex-Cell-O’s tool work goes to defense contracts, affecting roughly 3 000 workers. Union seeks a 10 cent wage raise. tentative five cent hike rejected. Other labor actions involve General Motors and Minneapolis Honeywell as defense orders loom.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers (Cio
Ex-Cell-O Corporation
T. F. Avet
Ne Reen Nase Avre
General Motors Corporation
Minneapolis-Honeywell Company
Labor Department
Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines
General Motors
C.I.0
Minneapolis- Honeywell Company
Minneapolis
Congress Defeats Move to Bar Transfer of Captured Ships
Washington May 6 The House rejected by 161 to 131 a Culkin amendment to a bill authorizing Roosevelt to take idle foreign flag ships for national defense. The vote followed heated debate on convoys and fears that transferring axis ships to Britain could be seen as an act of war.
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Washington
House
United States
Representative Culkin
Great Britain
Representative Ramspeck
Dga
Representative Short
R-Mo
Ramspeck
Short
U. S
Joe Louis
Pati
D-Ala
Patrick
England
Bradley
R-Mich
Roosevelt
Senate
Fish
R.-N.y
Representative Cox
D.-Ga
Vinson
Naval Committee
D.-Amn
Coronado Entrada casts 550 for Memorial Day pageant
Director John W Judd announces a telephone recruitment blitz to assemble 550 performers for the Coronado Entrada. Rehearsals begin Wednesday at the Armory with daily drills through opening night June 5 and 6 at Memorial Stadium.
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Coronado Entrada
Blitzkrieg
John W. Judd
Armory
Memorial Stadium
Paul Smart
Ivan Rowe
George Melvin
R. R. Jackman
Deal Six
Rolland Maddox
Jerry Noak
Cargill
Judd
Army Orders Start Construction of Roads to Training Areas
The War Department ordered an immediate start on a 2,616,049 program to build access roads to training areas and firing centers for summer maneuvers. The plan covers 29 camps with 436,008 for contingencies, and notes future authorizations. Fort Riley, Kansas, gets 1,000 for completing present roads.
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Washington
War Department
Fort Riley
Kan
Stock Market Index Closes Lower After Mixed Day
A broad market index of 60 stocks slipped on yesterday trading as investors weighed 39 and a half points of losses amid uneven gains across sectors. Traders awaited further economic signals to guide direction.
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Ay Srare
Justice Hughes Calls American Way Pathway of the Just
Chief Justice Hughes told the American Law Institute that the United States defends its way of life by the path of the just. He urged strengthening democracy through justice institutions and noted courts must remain free of special pressure groups.
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Justice Hughes
Washington
Hughes
United States
American Law Institute
Law Institute
Measles Epidemic Subside and Tuberculin Tests Arrive
Health board report shows measles subsided, diseases under control. Tuberculin tests completed in elementary schools with 34 positive children and 22 positive adults among 899 children and 51 adults tested. School totals include Pinckney Cordley McAllaster Woodlawn and New York groups with several positive cases.
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Pinckney
New York
Cordley
McAllaster
Woodlawn
Ratner Signs Oil Compact In Kansas Pact Extension
Gov. Payne Ratner signed the interstate oil compact securing Kansas as the second state to approve a two year extension. The 1941 legislature ratified the pact for another two years.
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Ratner
Topeka
Payne Ratner
Kansas
Youth on bicycle killed by truck near Lawrence
Carl Jones, 17, of 1243 New Jersey Street, was killed early today when a bicycle he rode was hit by a 1941 Ford truck on Highway 59, six and a half miles south of Lawrence. He died at Memorial hospital after the crash between 2:40 and 2:50 a.m. A coroner’s inquest is set for Thursday at 9 a.m. Ed Holestine of Independence, driver of the truck, was not arrested but will testify. Howe, 16, who was with Jones, says they were riding single file toward Baldwin when Jones’s wheel swerved and the truck’s right front fender struck Jones’s wheel. Jones was employed as a Crown drug store porter and delivery boy. He died from a fractured skull. funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Carl Jones
New Jersey Street
Highway 59
Lawrence
Ross Howe
Rhode Island Street
Baldwin
Ed Holestine
Independence
Kaw
Holestine
Jones
L. B. Read
Howe
Celestine
Read
Memorial Hospital
Crown Drug Store
Florence Jones
Fred Jones
Port Arthur
Tex
Mary Johnson
Kansas Sunshine Ends Wet Spell With Forecast Warm Turn
Topeka reports the first sun in over a week as scattered showers ease. The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and tomorrow with temperatures near 75 to 80 degrees and lows around 45 to 55.
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Topeka
Kansas
S&s
Geneseo
Tribune
New Head of Exchange Named for Reconstruction Finance Corp
Earl Schram, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp, won board approval as the New York Stock Exchange’s next president. He will succeed William McC. Martin Jr., who left last month for one year under the selective service act.
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New York
Earl Schram
Reconstruction Finance Corp
New York Str « Exchange
Schram
William Mcc. Martin, Jr
Exchange
Constitutional Question Raised on Kansas Relief Not Considered
Topeka May 6 Attorney General Jay S Parker said a constitutional question raised by John Herlocker Cowley county attorney had not been considered in the search for a solution to Kansas relief funds crisis Gov Payne Ratner and Parker have been studying changes in social welfare laws to keep federal matching funds from being cut off The money will stop July 1 if relief data publication continues Herlocker ruled counties social welfare director could cease publications without new legislation basing his view on the Supremacy Clause Parker will not announce conclusions until research is complete.
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Topeka
Jay S. Parker
John Herlocker
Cowley
Kansas
Payne Ratner
Parker
Washington
Herlocker
Walton Wins KU Seventy Fifth Anniversary Song Contest
Wirh D Walton of St Louis Missouri wins the University of Kansas seventy fifth anniversary song contest with Mount Dread We Love Thee. Honorable mention goes to William Ward Norton for Alma Mater. Judges include W Otto Miessner and Dean Swarthout. Plans call for a public hearing during commencement events.
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Wirh D. Walton
St. Louis
University of Kansas
Walton
Mount Dread
William Ward Norton
School of Fine Arts
Kansas State College
Manhattan
W. Otto Miessner
University Department of
Public School Music
Waldemar Gelich
Allen Crafton
D. M. Swarthout
Damages Sought From C I O and Communist Party Over Ford Strike
Detroit May 6 Paul J Padgett a drill press operator and Melvin E Bartling a timekeeper filed federal suits seeking damages from the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Communist party over beatings during the Ford Motor company strike Both men Ford employees seek at least 3000 dollars each and restraining orders to stop interference with their right to work at Ford Rouge Plant and Padgett and Bartling claim Communist activity within the United Automobile Workers during the Rouge Plant strike
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Detroit
Paul J. Padgett
Melvin E. Bartling
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Communist Party
Ford Motor Company
C.I.C
Ford
Roure
Bartling
United Automobile Workers (C I. O
Rouge
Kansas Fire Chiefs Elect New State Leaders
Harry Lindenmier of Beloit was elected president of the Kansas Association of Fire Chiefs. Hobart Lindgren of McPherson became vice president and secretary treasurer post filled. Trustees named Otto Gisler Leavenworth Olander Linn Kansas City Kan and A C Bloom Clay Center. Mrs Ida Vaughn of Cherokee leads the Women’s Auxiliary with Mrs H H McCall Wichita as first vice president and Mrs Bess Lindenmier as second vice president and Mrs Jane Geisler Leavenworth as secretary treasurer.
Greeks Report Losses as Allied Vessels Bombed and Sunk
The Greek government states that over 30 auxiliary ships were savagely bombed and sunk by Nazis during their Greece advance. Submarines reached Alexandria. three of ten destroyers and two of thirteen torpedo boats survived. Hospital ships Hesperos Poli cos Attiki Socrates Hellenis were sunk despite red cross markings.
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Canoa
Crete
Greece
Minalaaware
Ee Seewrenenen
Casa Staa Y Tad
Alexandria
Egypt
Hesperos
Policos
Attiki
Socrates
Hellenis
School board hires new staff and approves budget
The Lawrence board accepted a resignation, hired two teachers, and approved an $8,000 maintenance budget down from last year. Eugene Crabb, a KU fine arts student, will join as a music instructor. Alex Daughtry fills the social studies and debate role at Liberty Memorial high. Roofing and painting projects at several schools are planned, with new roof work at McAllaster and Old High.
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Board of Education
William Leech
Leech
Lawrence
Perry
Oskaloosa
Eugene Crabb
McPherson
School of Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Crabb
K.U
Methodist Church
McAllaster
Kingman
Alex Alfred Daughtry
Bonner Springs
Kenneth Weaver
Liberty Memorial High School
Daughtry
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Burr Oak
Walter Myer
Washington, D. C
Myer
Daughrty
Kappa Delta Pi
Phi Kappa Delta
Phi Sigma Epsilor
Cordley
Pinckney
Old High
Bane
Germany Aims to Cut Off Retreat of Vichy Regime
German agents increase activity in French Morocco with the aim of preventing any retreat of the Vichy government to French North Africa. Marshal Philippe Pétain is reported to have left for his Riviera estate, possibly to be joined by Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan in Paris as German talks continue.
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Germany
London
French Morocco
French North Africa
Vichy
France
Philippe Petain
Riviera
Villeneuve-Louchet
Jean Derlan
Paris
Quick action home loan offer from Lawrence Building and Loan
The Lawrence Building and Loan Association promotes a rapid home loan option this week. Prospective buyers are directed to call 55. 800 Mass. St for details and application steps.
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Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Mass
Adv
Weather Outlook for Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma
Five day extended forecast from May 6 to May 10 shows no major temperature change across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma with temperatures near normal and little rainfall. Readings include 73 at 7 pm and 69 at 3 pm with evening lows around the mid 60s.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
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