Graduation Week Assembly at University Stadium
An elaborate wartime commencement will honor the graduating class of college seniors, machinists mates, and naval corps graduates at 7:30 p.m. Monday in University Stadium. Gov Schoeppel and Capt Lofquist will give greetings. Malott and Gov Washington will present diplomas and certificates. musical selections and benediction finish the program.
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Military Science
University Stadium
University of Kansas
C. Fosberg Hughes
Plymouth Congregational Church
Andrew F. Schoeppel
E.A. Lofquist
Ninth Naval District
Malott
Deane W. Malott
William C. Washington
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Arthur H. Buh
United States Naval Training School
E. A. Lofquist
Fred M. Harris
Board of Regents
Rocessioner
Weinberger
Russell L. Wiley
Star Spangied Banner
Joseph F. Wilkins
Department of ‘Voice
Andrew S. Schoeppel
State of
Kansas
Naval
la Verne B. Spake
Farwell
Deane
Reserve Officers Training Reemeees
C. Washington
United Sates Naval Training School
Machinsts
Arthur H. Buhl
Machin- Jats
Peane W. Malott
Board of
Regents
Herbert Crockman
GM Methodist
Joeph F. Wilkins
Holmes
Axis Forces Head for Last Roundup
Axis units push toward final operations in Tunisia as air and ground actions target Marsala Pantelleria Catania and Cap Bon. Allied raids strike Sicily and southern Italy while reports claim Axis counterattacks and surrenders amid heavy destruction and prisoner gains.
Allied push seals Axis in Tunisia at Hammamet
Allied naval and air pressure trapped Axis remnants on a narrow medina tongue of land as the First Army reached Hammamet at dawn. 20,000 prisoners were captured at Cap Bon and Grombalia, while northern Tunisia held 35,000 Axis inmates in two camps. Large quantities of 88 millimeter guns and tanks were seized for future transfer to French units.
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Mediterranean
Hammamet
Cap Bon
Grombalia
Daniel de Luce
Associated Press
Tunisia
U. S. Army
Allies aim to crack European fortress and strike Japan
War council planners expect a summer offensive to punch through Hitler's European defenses while mounting a major Pacific campaign. North Africa cleanup opens Mediterranean shipping, shortens routes by about 5,000 miles, and frees oil supplies. air power could push toward Kiska and Attu to target Kuriles and Tokyo. Roosevelt touted record plane output and focus on long range bombers and cargo planes for combined offensives.
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Hitler
Japan
Pacific
North
Africa
Europe
Mediterranean
United Nations
Middle East
Russia
India
Sardinia
Sicily
Tunisia
North Atlantic
Middle Fist
North Africa
U. S. East Coast
Engand
Kiska
Attu Islands
Aleutians
Kuriles Islands
Tokyo
China
Roosevelt
United States
South Pacific
Burma Road
Southwest Pacific
MacArthur
Australia
Solomon and Ellice Islands
Navy
Conference rumors hover as wartime plans unfold near Cairo
The piece notes air activity against Kiska may mask a main attack elsewhere and discusses the fifth meeting of American and British leaders amid anxiety in Tokyo and Berlin. Two hours before the White House statement, German radio claimed Churchill attended a large Cairo conference of prominent military and civilian leaders in the Near East.
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Kiska
Hitler
Berlin
White House
Churchill
Near East
Cairo
1942 Tags Shipped for Topeka License Plates
Roy Flory and A M Gardner from the treasurer's office learned in Topeka that steel has been shipped to manufacture the 1942 automobile license plates at the state reformatory. A supply is expected in four to six weeks. They also reviewed Shawnee county's tax receipt system by address ahead of changes in Douglas county system.
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Topeka
Roy Flory
A. M. Gardner
State Reformatory
Flory
Gardner
Shawnee
Douglas County
Local service members update from Lawrence area families
Mrs. Cecil Duver reports a V mail from Cpl Cecil Duver still at sea after duty on the west coast. Lieut Robert H Price leaves Laurinburg NC after a 10 day Lawrence visit with wife son and parents. Jimmie Roper, petty officer second class, is in the Pacific while Wayne Roper serves at Camp Rucker and Eugene plans to join the armed forces. Ben A Moore, now corporal at Chanute Field, completed Link trainer instruction after celestial navigation training. Lloyd Purcell Jr. transfers from Harding Field to Bartow Air Base in Florida.
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Cecil Duver
Cpl
States
Robert H. Price
Laurinburg
N. C
Lawrence
R. M. Price
Lucille Roper
Jimmie Roper
Naval Reserve
Pacific
Wayne Roper
Camp Rucker
Ala
Eugene
Armed Forces
Ben A. Moore
Chanute Field
Ill
Lloyd Purcell, Jr
Lloyd Purcell Jr
Louisiana Street
Harding Field
Bartow Air Base
Bartow, Fla
Adams House history and local events in Lawrence
Old Lawrence rumor cites John T. Place as builder of the Adams House and tracks its later operators up to Fred J. Boyles. Douglas County buys a health projector for 635 dollars, split by city and county. Local notes include school schedules, university commencements by Dr. F C Allen, and World of Today carnival reports with a 112 foot dive.
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Adams House
John T. Place
Windsor Hotel
Seventh and
Connecticut Streets
C. Patterson
Place
Place House
Jones and Stevens
Fred J. Boyles
Adams
Patterson
Douglas County
Lawrence
Twenty-third
Louisiana
Suicide Simone
American Legion Post
Landon to Speak on Our Foreign Relations in Minneapolis
Former Kansas governor and 1936 Republican nominee Alf M Landon will deliver an address titled Our Foreign Relations in Minneapolis Minn tomorrow night The talk may be heard on radio station WREN at 6 30 o clock
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Minneapolis
Minn
WREN
Kansas Mine Strike Tests 1943 Labor Law
Topeka reports a threatened coal strike may test a 1943 Kansas labor law requiring a majority employee vote to authorize stoppages. United Mine Workers in district 14 say no work in the Kansas-Missouri field after May 18, with five day cancellations extending shifts to May 18. No strike vote was held. operators offer no immediate comment.
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Topeka
Kansas
United Mine Workers
Allai
Government to keep mines open in regional area
Kansas City May 12 government signified its plan to keep coal mines open in the six state area where a work stoppage was called by United Mine Workers officials. Ernest N. Ahlfeldt said the strike call would be ignored. All 500 mines producing 50 tons daily or more are under government control with owners operating as government managers. About 1,600 union miners work in these mines, plus 4,000 in smaller properties. about 200 workers in Town’s two small mines are affected by local grievances.
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Kansas City
United Mine Workers Union
C.I.C
Ernest N. Ahlfeldt
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Department of Interior
Ahlfeldt
Albert Washington Funeral Services Set at Ninth Street Baptist
Funeral services for Albert Washington, who died Monday night, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ninth Street Baptist Church with Rev. G. N. Jackson officiating. The body lies in state at Bowser-Gleed Mortuary from 6 p.m. tonight. Burial will be in Clinton Cemetery.
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Albert Washington
Ninth Street Baptist Church
G. N. Jackson
Bowser-Gleed
Clinton Cemetery
Dance to be Held in Tonganoxie by Army Mothers Post
U S Army Mothers Post No 5 will sponsor a dance on Friday evening at the I O O F hall in Tonganoxie. Local orchestra will provide both square and modern dancing.
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Tonga
U. S. Army Mothers Post No. 5
Tonganoxie
The Emperor Claudius and the Roman Aqueduct
Aque duct built during the Roman Empire required a tunnel three and a half miles long and employed thirty thousand workers for eleven years to complete.
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Claudius
Classified ads drive sales of hundreds of homes and farms
The Journal-World classifieds sold hundreds of homes and farms over the past year, offering low costs and quick results for sellers and buyers.
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Journal-World
Mass surrender on Cap Bon peninsula shocks war front
World War II dispatch from Cap Bon Tunisia reports tens of thousands of German troops surrendering to British armored cars near Haouaria and Kelibia. The narrator details shattered morale, discarded weapons, and the swift collapse of German defenses along the peninsula with Italian soldiers also seeking to evacuate.
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Cap Bon
Tunisia
Lighthouse Hill
Haouaria
Neck
Bon
Tunis
Cape
Kelibia
el Haouaria
Hitler
Tommis
Rommel
Africa Corps
von Arnim
Europe
Goebbels
Talingrad
Gerand
Oskaloosa Community News Highlights and Events
Oskaloosa residents attend A Mother's Day service at the Methodist church and host Rev. and Mrs. Homer Wroten for dinner. Eastern Star members confer degrees and discuss Topeka meeting as Nelle Kimmel visits from McLouth. Community arrivals include families from Kansas City and Fort Riley, with local socials, church programs, and school plans shaping the week.
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Cpl
Max Smith
Fort Leavenworth
Methodist
Homer Wroten
Beattie
Eastern Star
Agnes Kueny
Paul Alexander
Myrtle Kimmel
Eva Barker
Lela Goss
Land Chapter
Topeka
Edith Morris
Nelle Kimmel
McLouth
Arizona
Jesse Buster
Kansas City
John Sutton
Gertrude Goldman
Jesale Huddleston
Jean Clark
Esther Davies
Miss Davies
Ned Rice
Fort Riley
D. L. Harcourt
Randolph
Merle Whitlow
Harcourt
Whitlow
Harcourts
Oskaloosa
Whitlows
Homer Metzger
Beale
Cal
Homer
Claude Kimmel
Winifred
Wilmer
Henry Kimmel
Doris Kimmel
George Fowler
Milford
Africa
Kenneth Phillips
Inzie Lacey
Mary Frances
Formosa
Martha Dockhorn
Andrae
South Liberty Street
Sanfords
Nevins
C. S
May Flowers
Fellowship Hall
Jacquemin
Bert Casebler
Wroten
B. Davis
Henry van Dyke
Mesdames Basebier
Ahrens
O' Brien
Nickum
Lytton
Meredith
Heckman
Tenpenny
Hazel Ahrens
Virginia Anderson
Dale Gibson
Mildred Baer
Mary Roberts
Laura Betty
Althea Wright
Marlin Dorei
Sarah Dorei
Dorei
Presbyterian Missionary Society
H. T. Phinney
Albert Harvey
George Sands
M. S. McCreight
Charles Barker
A. J. Simon
Frances McClellan
James Blevins
Manhattan
Jesse
David Blevins
Kansas State College
David
Rock Creek
Presbyterian Church
Earl Markwell
Tulsa
Okla
J. H. Johnson
Fairview Club Guests Report Varied Social Gatherings
Mrs. Chester Howard attended the Year Around club at Mrs. Fred Love's Lawrence home Tuesday afternoon. The W.S.C.S. met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. I. E. Williamson.
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Chester Howard
Fred Love
Lawrence
W.S.C.S
I. E. Williamson
Mother's Day Visiting Lists Family Guests Across Town
Stony Point notes show Homer Hird of Lawrence visiting the Alva Rockhold home and a large circle of relatives gathered in Columbia for Mother's Day. Attendees include the Wray, Cripe, Ring, Shuck, Brohammer, and Shuck families from Excelsior High Prairie and other locales, with nine mothers present among them. Patrick McAlearney of Wichita visited Clarence Griffis’ home during a business trip to Lawrence, then Griffis hosted visits to the Martin Holcom home.
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Homer Hird
Lawrence
Alva Rockhold
Mr. Hird
Rockhold
D. A. Wray
Anna Cripe
I. D. Wray
Milton Ring
Excelsior
Byron Shuck
Diana Sue
High Prairie
Charlie Brohammer
Oscar Shuck
Shuck Brothers
Columbia
Patrick McAlearney
Wichita
Clarence Griffis
Martin Holcom
Family Visits and Hospital Baby News Near Overbrook
Noon report notes Mr. and Mrs. Solon Tucker and son DeWayne visiting Mrs. Tucker’s brother Walter Lassen and family near Overbrook. Another brother and family from Oskaloosa were present as were Mrs. Anna Cripe and Mrs. E. D. Wray visiting Ronald Bernard Norris born May 1 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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Solon Tucker
DeWayne
E. D. Wray
Dale McMullen
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Marsala
Volcanic Island
Pantelleria
Ise
Alta
Desert Air Force
Catania
Malta
Porto
Italy
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Cap Bon Peninsula
London
Rome
Giovanni Messe
Bernard Freyberg
New Zealand
Messe
Jurgen von Arnim
Erwin Rommel
K. U
A. E. Lofquist
WAR Council OF Allied Heads
A.M. Gardner
H. H. Morton
New Jersey Street
F. C. Allen
Winchester
Lane
Roseland
M. N. Penny
L. H. Griffith
Ed Johnson
Court House
Dorsey-Liberty Post
The
American Legion
Community Building
Brush Creek Boys
KMBC
Desert Victor
Fernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Egypt
Libya
U.S
Acacia Lodge No
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Frank Harrell
Paul Koehler
Harvey
Howard
Martha Koehler
Lucill Nisely
Mabel Peters
Will Freese
Ethel Cowles
Dorothy Leary
James Denham
Elmer Beatty
Williamson
Marie Howard
Glenice Cox
Clinton
Floyd Nisely
C. L. Penny
Effingham
Harry Oakes
Portland
Ore
Ernest Leary
William
Alaskan
Altho
Vinland Farm Bureau Unit
Colonial Tea Room
Mr. Peebles
Mollie Schwartz
Corbin Penny
Ed Howard
Ernest Ralston
Fred Pratt
Charles Southard
Fairview
Stony Point
New York
Tel & Tel
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LDS Arch
T&s
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Beth
Steel
Wwe
Lenene du Pont
Eteesene Nat Dairy Stwasees
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