Defense of Italy Will Be Difficult
Italian leadership tightens defenses as Mussolini seeks to bolster morale after Tunisia defeat. Reports from neutral sources discuss potential abdication rumors, German troop movements, and Italy’s strained air and naval forces facing Allied threats in Africa and beyond.
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Bern
Italy
Mediterranean
Mussolini
Switzerland
Morocco
Kine
Vittorio Emanuele
Umberto
Rome
Federal Communications Commission
London
King Emanuele
Tunisia
Dakar
Moscow
Die Nation
Germany
Hitler
Brenner Pass
Baid
High Command
Theorth
Po Valley
Genoaz
Venice
North
Africa
Sicily
Sardinia
Britain
Refuge in Basement as Tornado Hits Kansas Farm
Willard Kansas May 17 Members of the Ralph Page family huddled in a basement as a tornado lifted their farm home and scattered it across fields. Mrs Page and children Dean and Phillis escaped with minor scratches. Page planned to rebuild while living with relatives Roy Taber. A Sunday school promotion certificate was found in a nearby pasture. The farm suffered heavy losses with bedding and furniture blown miles away.
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Willard, Kan
Ralph Page
Here
Mrs. Page
Dean
Phillis
Page
Rossville
D. C
Silver Lake
Page Farm
Roy Taber
Rubber program moving along with tire and supply notes
Washington May 17 The rubber program will finish all synthetic plants by year end Rubber Director William Jeffers says essential drivers will get 12 million new tires this year five million synthetics seven million pre Pearl Harbor tires and 30 million in 1944 He warns drastic gasoline steps may come as Ickes Brown urge reduced use with no extra gasoline for vacations or war workers Jeffers projects 1944 tire replacement at 50 million and notes stockpile up about 40 600 tons to 142 000 tons by year end He expects all synthetic plants in production in 1944 with 750 000 long tons and imports of 74 000 tons of crude rubber in 1944.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Jeffers
D Petroleum
Ickes
Price
Prentiss Brown
Brown
Family of Tornadoes Hit Kaw Valley Near Topeka
Federal meteorologist S D Flora reported a “family of tornadoes” in the Kaw valley Saturday near Topeka. He described two distinct funnels near Fort Riley and a south of the river storm crossing Highway 40 east of Manhattan. Willard and Rossville area storms caused heavy water spouts and damage while a new radar service warned eastern Kansas bases.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Kaw Valley
Flora
Fort Riley
Highway 40
Manhattan
Willard
Paxico
Maplehill
Rossville
Kansas
Fines Collected in Police Court for Parking Violations
Twenty eight people paid fines or forfeited bonds of one dollar each this morning for parking violations. Noble Lathrom paid five dollars for failure to observe a stop sign.
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Noble Lathrom
Interneships in Medicine for Kansas medical school graduates
A list of 60 plus graduates from the University of Kansas School of Medicine awarded internships at diverse U S hospitals and medical centers. Names include Frances Ann Allen, Samuel Glen Ashley, Willard Beahm, Edward Earl Barnhardt, and many others, with placements at University of Iowa Hospitals, U S Naval Hospitals in San Diego and Great Lakes, St. Luke's in Kansas City, and facilities across the country.
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School of Medicine
University of Kansas
Frances Ann Allen
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Talande
Elias Arnett, Jr
U. S. Naval Hospital
San Diego
Calif
Samuel Glen Ashley
Kansas City
Kan
Howard ¥. Blair
St. Luke's Hosmed
Lowell Beal Baker
St. John's Hospital
Tulsa
Ukla
SC. & Naval Hospital
Charleston
S.C
Robert & Kolinger
Ben Harold Boltjes
St. Margaret's Hospital
Robert Miles Brooker
Great Lakes
Robert Wright Brooks
University of Oregon Medical School
Portland
Ure
Harry J. Brown
Treasure Island
San Francisco
Francis Taylor Collins
San Diego County General Hospital
Robert Cram
State of Wisconsin General Hospital
Aladison
Quentin Cramer
Orange County General Hospital
Orange
John Elwin Crary
St. Louis City Hospital
St. Louis
Roy Francis Drake
Kansas City General Hospital
Henry Samuel Dreher
Cook County Hospital
Chicago
Melchior D¢ Enna
Marine Hospital
Usph Service
Bertha Evalyn
Ewing
University of Kansas Hospitals
Stanley Richard Friesen
University Hospitals
Minneapolis
Stanley Lyle "Goldman
Michael Reese
Crcbes
Max
Graves
Margaret's Hospital
Kansas
City
Sian
John A A. Griffith, Jr
Albany Hospital
Albany
Herbért Rt ‘Harding
Garfield Memorial Hospital
Washington
D. C
Clemens Maximilian Hartig
Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles
James Louis Hoppingarner
B. Green Memorial Hospital
San Antonio
Tex
David C. Humphrey
Cincinnati General Hospital
Cincinnati
Harold Houston Jones
Brooklyn
Walter S. Keifer, Jr
Long Beach
Lewis Andrew Kidder
John Sealy Hospital
John Charles MacQueen
Swedish Hospital
Seattle
Wash
Edwin Robert’ Maier
Akron Cit Hospital
Akron
St. Luke's Hospital
Winston Rivard Miller
Mare Island
Robert’ James Morton
Donald Spencer Myers
Kanaaz City
Robert William Myers
Harry B. Neils
Charlea Monroe Nice
Medical staff list of hospital associations across the United States
A compiled roster names numerous doctors and administrators tied to U S hospital facilities including Marine Hospital New Orleans Grasslands Valhalla and San Francisco affiliations. Entries cover William Powers Merrill Roller Joseph Smelser Ellsworth Smiley VanderVelde Susan Ufford and others with institutions in New York California Iowa Oregon Washington Minnesota and Kansas.
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New York City
N. Y
Shirley Ruth Page
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Fred Edward Patrick, Jr
Marine Hospital
USPH
New Orleans
Worth Payton
Grasslands Hospital
Valhalla
Gerald B. Pees
Trinity Lutheran Hospital
Katherine Pennington
University Hospitals
Minneapolis
Birger Esping Peterson
Broadlawns
Polk County General Hospital
Des Moines
William Fred Powers
San Francisco
John Edwin Tilly
Orange County General
Orange
Calif
Elizabeth Louise Ufford
Albany
Stanley Leroy VanderVelde
Harper Hospital
Detroit
George von Leonrod, Jr
St. Joseph
Randal Weed
Gerald Frnest Winelager
Scholarships for Women at Kansas Honor Freshmen 1943 44
The University of Kansas awards honor scholarships for freshmen women for 1943 1944. Sadie A Lawson Scholarship goes to Mary Arlene Wisner Howard. Women's Self Governing Association honors Phoebe Carol Hunter Labette. Donnelly Scholarships are Patricia Ann Creel Lawrence Wilda Horton Blue Mound Lois Kauffman Abilene Joyce McCoy Oskaloosa Marjorie Skeen Eskridge Joyce Ann Staley Kingman Muriel St ember Ozawkie Marilyn Vath Goessel.
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University of Kansas
Sadie A. Lawson
Mary Arlene Wisner
Howard
Women's Self-Governing Association
Phoebe Carol Hunter
Labette
Donnelly
Patricia Ann Creel
Lawrence
Wilda Horton
Blue Mound
Lois Kauffman
Abilene
Joyce McCoy
Oskaloosa
Marjorie Skeen
Eskridge
Joyce Ann Staley
Kingman
Submarines Sink Six Enemies Ships in Pacific Raids
American submarines operating in Pacific waters have sunk six enemy vessels including a destroyer and damaged another Japanese ship. The navy reported a torpedo bomber strike against four Japanese cargo ships off Buin in the northern Solomons, with one cargo ship set afire.
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Washington
Pacific
Navy
Buin
Solomons
Ameri
Navy reports submarine sunk Japanese ships in Pacific war
The Navy announces 232 Japanese ships sunk or damaged by submarine actions since the war began. Of these, 162 were reported sunk, 26 probably sunk, and 46 damaged.
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Can
Pacific
New Ruling on Used Truck Tires Issued
Douglas county war price and ration board allows used tires for List A vehicles to be issued outside quotas. John W. Brand, chairman, announced the action. List A covers most trucks not delivering to final consumers. District OPA issued the order.
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Douglas County War Price and Ration Board
John W. Brand
OPA
Board issues tire certificates for used tires in Wichita
The Wichita office will issue used truck tire certificates outside the regular quota once the applicant proves the needed tire is located. The Douglas county board authorizes the new policy effective immediately, with certificates not covering new tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Douglas County Board
Brand
Elliott Roosevelt Escapes Injury in Plane Crash
Allied Headquarters in North Africa reports Col. Elliott Roosevelt son of the President narrowly escaped serious injury after his plane collided with another on an airfield near the front yesterday.
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Elliott Roosevelt
Allied
North Africa
Elliot Roosevelt
Could Peter Be Pumpkin Eater With Stomach Ulcer Pains
Those with stomach or ulcer pains indigestion gas pains heart burn burning sensation and bloat caused by excess acid should try Udga. Get a 25e box of Uda Tablets from your druggist. First dose must convince or return box and Ret DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK from Round Corner Drug Co. and drug stores everywhere.
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Peter
Round Corner Drug Co
Roosevelt and pilot crash in Algiers cross wind
In Algiers a plane and a transport were damaged after a cross wind drove the fighter off course. Roosevelt and the pilot were shaken but not seriously hurt. The transport carried AP correspondent George Tucker and UP journalist George Palmer, both injured.
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Algiers
Roosevelt
George Tucker
Associated Press
George Palmer
United Press
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