Knox Says Navy Is Ready to Deliver to Britain
Washington May 7 CPI Secretary Knox declared the navy is readier now than ever to handle delivery of war supplies to Britain if assigned the duty. He noted the navy would take over the seagoing activities of the coast guard, transferring ships and crews. He commented on Secretary Stimson's plea for naval action to guarantee Britain’s supply lines and discussed allied convoy strategy and current ship losses.
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Washington
CPI
Knox
Britain
Navy Department
War Stimson
Stimson
United States Navy
Navy
Coast Guard
Senator Vandenberg
Rmich
Emory S. Land
The
Maritime Commission
England
White House
Roosevelt
House Naval Committee of Legislation
United States
Stephen Early
Roosevelt Wardenberg
Admiral Land
Vandenberg
Land
Vandenberr
Senate Commerce Committee
War Department
Germany
North Atlantic
Congress
Greenland
U.S
Senate
Pepper
Great Britain
War Left Traces Scene of Fighting in Albania
Correspondent Richard G. Maslock reports from Berat Albania on ongoing fighting seen by locals and refugees as postwar chaos widens. Delayed May dispatch notes destroyed homes, disrupted transport, and the toll on civilians in the mountainous region near the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albania
Richard G. Maslock
Monastery Hill Key to Albania Front Staunchly Defended
A 600 mile tour through southern Albania reveals shelled forests and cemeteries as Italian and Greek forces clash for Monastero hill near Tepeleni. The hill, once topped by a monastery, was crucial to Valona and Tirana, with 15000 soldiers and 700 officers killed or wounded in January and February as Italians held firm to block a Greek advance.
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Albania
Monastero
Valona
Tirana
Sigma Xi Honors New Members At Kansas Dinner
Sigma Xi held its annual spring dinner in Memorial Union ballroom with G W Smith presiding as professor of mathematics and vice president. Twenty three new members were initiated, bringing the 51 year old chapter to 950 total members.
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G. W. Smith
Sigma Xi
University of Kansas
Memorial Union Ballroom
Kaw Valley Garden Club Holds Lawrence Convention Tour
The Kaw Valley Garden club wrapped up its annual meeting in Lawrence with a garden tour. The event opened at First Christian church with welcomes from Lawrence Flower club leaders, reports from club presidents, a talk by Wayne C. Whitney on trees and shrubs, luncheon, and visits to several local gardens including the Jacqmain and Lane homes.
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Kaw Valley Garden Club
Lawrence
Lawrence Flower Club
First Christian Church
Claude L. Scott
T. S. DeVault
Kaw Valley Club
Roy C. Landis
Scott
Dyche‘museum
K. U
Wayne C. Whitney
Wyandotte County Farm Bureau
Whitney
Martha Deeley
Fred Fuchs
Garden of Roses
Fred Hunsinger
Arthur Huddleston
Raymond Nichols
Rolland Maddox
H. H. Lane
C. B. Russell
Orin Kennedy
Bounty Paid On Coyotes in April and May Totals
County records show 97 coyotes brought in April and 30 in May with a $1 bounty per animal paid by County Clerk T R Gerhart. Most animals were young, with individuals delivering 1 to 23 scalps. The state reimburses $1 per scalp and counties may pay up to $3 per coyote under the law.
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T. R. Gerhart
Gerhart
Mothers Entertained by Vocational Agriculture Alumni
About 50 members attended a dinner at Evans Hearth hosted by the Vocational Agriculture Alumni Association to honor their mothers. Delbert Richardson presided as Wilfred Pine, Kansas State College professor of agricultural economics, spoke on the Kansas experiment station work. W. R. Essick sponsors the association.
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Vocational Agriculture
Evans Hearth
Delbert Richardson
Wilfred Pine
Kansas State College
Kansas Experiment Station
W. R. Essick
Lecompton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Events
Mrs Trowbridge hosted a party with ten guests last Wednesday. Tolbert Dunn from Fort Morgan stayed with the Worley family Wednesday evening. The Sunshine club meets May 14 at Mrs August Hildenbrand for a Mother's Day program.
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Trowbridge
Gene Boslar
Topeka
Professor Paslay
Lecompton
Paslays
Paslay
Sunshine Club
August Hildenbrand
Tolbert Dunn
Fort Morgan
Colo
Russell Worley
Red Goodrich
Birmyn
Ill
Wesley Crady
Dorothy
Phyllis Sanford
Emporia
McFarland
Fred Smith
Frank Smith
Wichita
F. C. Smith
Dean Lawson
Kansas University
United Brethren Church
John Miller
Henry Wendland
Barland
St. Clair
Big Springs
Florence Wingfield
Birthday Club
Winnie Sehon
Elmer E. Deel
Kansas City
George Mathews
al Gordon
Richard
Alvin
Holton
Deel
Lake Shawnee
United Brethren Ladies’ Aid
Red Cross
Nettie Leslie
Leslie
Wingfield
Margaret Crady
Alice Hildenbrand
Dora Worley
Mollie Smith
Gray
Nellie Cole
Norman Stanley
Jof Lafwrence
Marshall Gray
Clyde Gibbons
Ella Crouse
Local events highlight spring social scene in Lecompton
Community notes show Easter visits and Army air corps returns at Rantoul Illinois. Teens perform a playlet Easy Payments while Phillis Martin sings When April Sings. Senior play at the high school draws a large crowd.
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U. S. Navy
Romeo
NEA
Earl Lee Archer
Arkansas University
Mary Helen Singer
Archer
Priscilla Lane
Warner Bros
Atchison
Kan
Muncie
Osawatomie
Baldwin
Eudora
Ottawa
Yesterfield
Southland
Turkey
Greece
Vocational Agriculture Alumni Association Meets
Phillis Martin
April
Bill Morris
Buddy Weidler
Earl Goodrich
Army Air Corps
Rantoul, Ill
H. L. Paslay
Buddy Worley
Buddy
Wilber Hildenbrand
Stull
Hildenbrand
Mabel Rothwell
Henry Leslie
Mae Carr
Gladys. Bond
Madelyn McClanahan
Ruth Sayer
Lesenda Foree
Sutton
Harold Hodaon
Carrie Cree
Vera Jean Benton
E. J. Walter
Henry Richardson
Matt Mulkey
Albert Barton
United Brethren
C. E. Raily
Athey
Lucille Hildenbrand
Lendamood
Shackelford
B. P. C. Elks
W. C. Hunsinger
Exalted Ruler
Buick
Fisher
Whit
General Nl Motors
Flint
Mich
Parker Buick Company
New Hampshire Street
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