Axis Surrenders in North Africa Fold Cap Bon Front
Allied HQ reports sweeping victory in Tunisia with Major General Krause surrendering to General Bradley unconditionally. German armor and 25,000 prisoners captured. British forces trap 25,000 more. Cap Bon peninsular fighting continues as 80,000 Axis troops are believed to be in the pocket.
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Bizerte
Cap Bon
Tunisia
Africa
Krause
Africa Corps
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
First Army
Tunis
Boroweitz
15Th Armored Division
Neuffer
Air Force
Buelouvius
Mannteuffel
von Vaerst
Fifth Armored Army
Baumsence
Medjerda
Gulf of Tunis
Seventh Armored
Sub Shells a Japanese Village British Fall in Burma War
Tokyo radio reports shelling of a Hokkaido village by a submarine, likely American, missing its mark. In Burma Japanese troops reach Buthedaung near Akyab, while New Delhi says Maungdaw and the western Burma defense are precarious. Allied air raids press Japanese targets across China and the Solomons as Bobdubi falls to Allied forces.
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Associated Press
Tokyo Radio
Japan
Hokkaido
Manute
Burma
Imperial Headquarters
Buthedaung
Akyab
Chittagong
New Delhi
Maungdaw
Bay of Bengal
India
China
Canton
Formosa
Sat
Tien Ho
Hainan Island
Cizo Island
Middle Solomons
Navy
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Millimgimbi
Darwin
Bobdubi
Salamaua
Cap Bon Front Drives Axis Defenders Toward Dunkirk-Style Exit
Allied forces press on Cap Bon Tunisia as 80,000 Axis troops are said trapped in a Bataan-like pocket. German, Italian units retreat or evacuate by sea while Tigers hide behind cover. Soliman city could break the final Axis stand with Tunis uncertain and Allied momentum growing.
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First Army
Cap Bon Front
Bataanlike Irai
Dunkerqne
Channel
Francce
Africa
Greece
Zaghouan
Tunis
Cap Bon
Tunisia
Jurgen von Arnim
Mediterranean
Porto Farina
Bizerte
First
Soliman
Hamman Lif
Eighth Army
von Arnim
Koch
Goering
Medjerda
Italian High Command Admits End in Tunisia
The Italian high command reported that German and Italian troops in the Tunisian sector southeast of Bizerte were forced to cease resistance. Allied advances from the north, west, and Tunis pinned axis forces in a shrinking salient as heavy air attacks and artillery pounded targets, with Palermo sustaining damage from a large Allied air raid.
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Bizerte
United States
Tunis
Rome
Associated Press
Palermo
Sicilian
Senate passes independent civilian supply bill for home front
The Senate sent to the House a proposal to create an independent civilian supply administration with powers to determine civilian needs and rationing quantities, aiming to match armed services in goods. The measure, 44 to 29, faces debate on duplicating WPB efforts and whether Nelson’s WPB civilian supply division should prove its capability.
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Washington
Senate
House
War Production Board
Maloney
Dconn
WPB
Donald Nelson
McNary
Nelson
Ten year old George Bernard Shaw buys defense bond
A May 10 Liverpool report notes ten year old George Bernard Shaw uses forty dollars from his father to buy a defense bond rather than change his name. The boy, admiring a Halifax bomber on a street exhibit, supports the wings for victory campaign and opts for a bond.
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Liverpool
George Bernard Shaw
GBS
Halifax
Parked Car Rolls Into Another in Lawrence Crash
John Gere parked his car at the corner of 10th and Ohio. It rolled down the hill and struck a parked car in front of 917 Ohio. Both vehicles sustained damage in the collision.
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Lawrence
John Gere
10Th
Ohio
Russians Destroy 930 Nazi Planes In Major Soviet Air Push
Soviet dispatches report 930 German planes destroyed in the last week as Red Army forces push into Novorossisk and Kuban fronts. German defenses crumble under air and ground assault while rail hubs and sea routes suffer disruption.
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Kuban
Lishchansk
Donets
Caucasus
Temyruk
Berlin
Novoroasisk
Sheriff Hale in Jail as Appeal Hangs Over Liquor Conviction
Ottawa May 10 Sheriff George W Hale of Sedgwick county remains jailed in Franklin county awaiting decision on appealing his district court liquor conviction. He received 30 days and a $125 fine on two counts possession and intoxication. His lawyers have not decided on appealing to the state supreme court as an ouster action proceeds.
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Ottawa
George W. Hale
Sedgwick
Franklin County
Supreme Court
Hale
Hugh Means
Halifax cites Nazi oppression of Polish people in wartime report
The British ambassador Lord Halifax told Chicago leaders that over 8 million Poles suffered barbaric punishment or death under Nazi rule. He cited 150,000 Poles killed in combat, about 400,000 more killed or maltreated, 1.5 million Polish Jews dead, 2 million sent to German labor, 3 million displaced, and 1 million in camps or prisons.
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Chicago
United States
Lord Halifax
Germany
Chicago Association of Commerce
Chicago Council of Foreign Relations
Kansas Floods Close Several Highways Across Eastern Counties
Heavy weekend rains in eastern Kansas worsened flooding on the Neosho and Verdigris rivers. U.S. 166, U.S. 169, and U- 160 near Coffeyville and Elk City were blocked while K-96 near Neodesha remained closed. Total rainfall reached 7.13 inches in Coffeyville area, with rising river levels and forecast additional showers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Neosho
Iola
Oklahoma Line
Parsons
Oswego
S. D. Flora
Coffeyville
Highway Department
U.S. 166
Niotaze
U.S. 169
U.S. 160
Elk City
la Fontaine
E. E. Marsh
Neodesha
Wichita
Geneseo
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Dodge City
Flora
Victory Gardens
Purple Heart Award for Yorktown Sailor
Chief Pharmacist Mate J. E. Wilson of the Naval Training Station received the Purple Heart today for wounds sustained in action aboard the Yorktown during the Battle of Midway. Lieut. A. H. Buhl presented the medal to Wilson in an officers and crew assembly as the Yorktown and Hammond were sunk. Wilson served 16 years in the Navy with 84 of those at sea.
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Yorktown
J. E. Wilson
Naval Training Station
A. H. Buhl
Wilson
Hammond
Midway
Honolulu
Hawaii
Navy
George Washington
Welfare Institute Attendance By County Officials
Miss Cecelia Robinson Mrs Lilian Bliesner and Mrs Margaret Broadwell from the county welfare department attended a welfare institute in Topeka today. Tomorrow Mildred D Watson welfare director will accompany them. The group will attend the welfare conference on Wednesday and Thursday. County commissioners may attend a conference of fellow officers at 1 45 p m Wednesday.
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Cecelia Robinson
Lilian Bliesner
Margaret Broadwell
County Welfare Department
Topeka
Mildred D. Watson
Eva G Brown Appointed Ceiling Price Clerk at Local Rationing Office
Mrs Eva G Brown of 227 Mississippi becomes the new ceiling price clerk at the Douglas county rationing office. The position is created by the OPA to handle rising ceiling price regulations. The ceiling price panel includes Corlett J Cotton Karl Kreider and K W Davidson.
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Eva G. Brown
Mississippi
Douglas County
Arry Brown
OPA
Rationing Board
Corlett J. Cotton
Karl Kreider
K. W. Davidson
Change in Beer License Applications at Wonder Bar Site
Paul Hyatt withdrew his April 29 beer license application for 846 Massachusetts. Robinson L. Carter filed a new application for a license at the Wonder Bar location, to be called the Muehlebach Grill. The Wonder Bar was closed after the April 27 city council revocation of Orville K. Getty's license amid gambling arrests. Carter, of 728 Rhode Island, has lived in Douglas County 45 years and Lawrence six years, and claims W. S. Russell of Olathe owns the building with Hyatt owning the fixtures. Hyatt offered no stated reason for withdrawing. Council consideration of Carter’s application is unclear for tonight’s meeting.
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Paul Hyatt
Massachusetts
Robinson L. Carter
Hyatt
Orville K. Getty
Getty
Carter
Rhode Island
Douglas County
Lawrence
Muehlebach Grill
W. S. Russell
Olathe
Harold Fisher
Supreme Court backs FCC chain broadcasting rules
The Supreme Court in a 5 to 2 decision upholds Federal Communications Commission chain broadcasting restrictions. The ruling rejects NBC and CBS challenges to prohibitions on network option grants and exclusive contracts with affiliates, with Justices Murphy and Roberts dissenting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Communications Commission
Chain Broadcasting
Justice Frankfurter
National Broadcasting Company, Inc
Columbia Broadcasting System
Murphy
Roberts
Black
Rutledge
Frankfurter
Commission
Congress
Tin Tube Collections in U S Slumped Last Month
Newark reports tin salvage collections fell in April to 438 609 pounds from 522 359 pounds in March. The tin salvage institute notes April yield should provide about 135 000 pounds of pure tin. Consumers must return a used tube with each purchase of shaving cream or toothpaste. Kansas and Oklahoma show April pounds and cumulative totals through April 30.
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Newark
N. J
Tin Salvage Institute
Kansas
Oklahoma
Status of U S Soldiers Changes in Fall i Tunis
Liberated Tunis hums with joy as American soldiers freed from prison camps near the city outskirts watch British tanks arrive. German and Italian guards surrender, declaring the prisoners now in American hands as bombers threaten ships bound for Italy off Tunis harbor.
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U. S
Tunis
Italy
United States
Sicilian
Dhatrore
Allied report claims end of resistance in southern sector
London reports a Reuters broadcast stating that in the southern sector enemy resistance ceased soon after midday. No further details or precise definition of the southern sector were provided. The British Eighth Army, north of Enfidaville, forms the southeastern Tunisian front, with French forces to its west.
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London
Algiers
Reuters
Eighth Army
Enfidaville
Axis African Losses Reach 750000 Troops Reported
London reports British authorities estimate Axis casualties in Africa at about 750000, with 280000 in East Africa and 426000 in North Africa. The totals include killed wounded and prisoners, along with 50000 captured near Biverte and Tunis.
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London
Bat
Africa
Ethiopia
East Africa
Axis
North Africa
Biverte
Tunis
Mediterranean
Sugar canning limit set at 25 pounds per person
The Office of Price Administration fixes a 25 pound sugar limit per person for home canning and freezing this year. One pound sugar per four quarts of finished product applies, five pounds per person for jams and jellies. Beginning May 15 rationing boards will accept applications. gifts limited to 50 quarts. blue stamps govern excess sales.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Back to stand trial for bank robbery case
Kansas City May 10 John Richard Bayless 27 year Alcatraz convict who won release on two habeas corpus writs from a 25 year sentence is on his way back to Kansas City to be tried on the bank robbery charge to which he pleaded guilty before Bayless formerly of Wichita Kan pleaded guilty in 1938 to robbery of a Mansfield Mo bank Later his writ for release from custody was sustained on the ground he was not properly represented by counsel Otto Schmid an assistant U S district attorney said Bayless probably would be tried before a jury this time Orville Simms 29 Wichita also was sentenced to 25 years and Harry LeRoy Clark 22 to a two year term after pleading guilty to charges of aiding Bayless in the robbery.
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Kansas City
John Richard Bayless
Alcatraz
Bayless
Wichita
Kan
Mansfield
Unson
Otto Schmid
U. S
Orville Simms
Harry LeRoy ‘Clark
Bombers Hit Messina Harbor and Rail Targets in Sicily
Cairo reports United States Liberator bombers attacked Messina harbor in daylight, striking the ferry slip a locomotive roundhouse and other targets. Enemy fighters challenged the formation and several enemy planes were damaged. all U S planes returned safely. Local selectees scheduled for Fort Leavenworth induction were held over due to impairment in the physical examination.
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Cairo
Sicilian
Messina
United States
U. S
Fort Leavenworth
Ottawa attorney and former legislator W. S. Jenks dies at 82
W. S. Jenks 82, a longtime Ottawa attorney and former state legislator, died today. He had lived in Ottawa 55 years and is survived by his widow and three children.
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W. S. Jenks
Ottawa
Kan
CPI
W.S. Jenks
Mieride
Lawrence Pilots In Big Air Fight
Two Lawrence army pilots shot down five Junkers 52 German transport planes in the so called Greatest Sky Battle of the War. The clash occurred Sunday April 18 above Tunis and Cape Bon as U S fighter pilots totaled 74 enemy aircraft. Lieutenant Edward L Stout was officially credited with bagging one of the victories.
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Lawrence
Tunis
Cape Bon
U. S
Tunisian Air Battle Over Axis Convoy Reported
The 824th fighter group led by Lt Col William K McNown and Lt Stout engaged a large Junkers convoy near Tunisia. Spitfires provided altitude, and the battle destroyed many German aircraft, described as the greatest sky battle of the war by British observers.
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U. S
Tunisia
Sicily
Stout
England
McNown
Egypt
Palestine
Lawrence
W. C. McNown
Earl
Weather forecast and temperature readings for Kansas
Weather forecast notes rain moving into southeast tonight and extreme northeast portions by Tuesday forenoon. Temperatures rise slowly in the west half and in the north Tuesday forenoon with little change elsewhere. Gas office report at 5:35 a.m. records high 14 and low 41. year ago today high 72 and low 60. Rainfall at 7 a.m. measured 0.73 inch.
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Kansas
Gas Ofice
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