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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1942
Page
4
A brief devotional citation from Job 42 1 2 noting that God can do all and knows every thought. The line presents a timeless acknowledgment of divine omnipotence and knowledge. It emphasizes faith and trust rather than a narrative event or contemporary context.
American correspondents freed from axis lands via Lisbon describe how Germans fear Hitler's war act and expect loss of control. French hope for American victory while Italians see Mussolini as bungler. Readers are told Europeans currently cannot act alone, yet will welcome UN forces advancing. returnees foresee future local resistance and allied friendship.
The east enters a new Sunday under gasoline and tire rationing forcing people to abandon long drives. The shift may revive the American home as people spend more time at home and cultivate home life and hometown improvement. The nonjoyriding weekend offers new possibilities for domestic life and community pride.
The WPB ends construction of protected plants unable to produce by mid-1948. Existing and soon to be in operation plants will meet war material needs, with all raw materials redirected after new facilities are completed. Location in central geography influenced the decision among others near coastlines.
Yesterday Norway observed the 128th anniversary of its free constitution. Vikdugn Quisling, the Nazi collaborator and head of the de facto Norwegian government, ordered an extra guard around the royal palace to mark the event.
The former Communist party leader Browder Browder was freed after fourteen months of a four year sentence for tampering with U S passport laws. The piece notes pro release campaigns and discusses potential effects on U S Russia relations and American public perception.
Families review their allotments as the first sugar rationing period closes. A Lawrence housewife reports saving a small reserve and hopes future savings will grow it for emergencies. Molasses and honey supplement the sugar supply while each family remains sugar conscious.
Price ceilings on all goods impacting living costs trigger producer and distributor squeeze. Some items may exit circulation if margins for handling and profit vanish. Flexibility for adjustments is deemed essential to achieve stabilization and make the plan work.
A Douglas County farmer Frank Horrell, active in Farm Bureau and Grange, is praised for poems in local papers and a church hymn The Little White Church on the Hill set to music by Mrs Lola Learnard Lawerence highlights his devout service and family life in the Worden and Fairview communities.
Peter J. McCarten, once in harness, returns to his original craft as gas rationing boosts demand for horses. He now produces harnesses and saddles, finding the modern radio era fading while his old trade thrives again.
A local dance hall planned a Monday dance with a nationally known band after a church group protested Sunday dancing. From 9:30 to midnight a sheriff's report says there was a concert, delaying the event until 12:01 a.m.
In Ekalaka Montana nine uninvited buffaloes scramble across a southeast Montana range basin. Residents believed the area buffaloes were extinct for 50 years and only a protected Miles City herd remained, yet the intruders appear settled, tearing fences to reach crops.
J H Leonard files suit to break a five year lease on Eva Lowenstein's filling station claiming inability to pay 90 dollars monthly due to drops in tire tube and gasoline sales, down 50 percent, and war caused unusual business conditions warranting cancellation.
The article notes the senate rejected beer legalization. It also reports on a $2,333 damage suit filed by Leo G. Froeliger against the city of Lawrence going to trial in district court. Other items mention Kansas political leaders pleased with the state convention, university figures in academic and athletic roles, and local social notices.
Twenty five years ago Piickney school held a May Fete with pupils from first grade to sixth participating on Friday afternoon. The Kansas National Guard will not be called south until August 5, likely boosting Kansas University summer session enrollment. President Wilson set June 5 for the nationwide 21 to 31 draft registration. Swimming at Potter Lake on KU campus will begin next week with guards for the season. Mrs A B G Plank and family visited Harrisonville Maryland yesterday. Delta Phi Delta Art sorority plans a banquet at Raymond's Tea Room Wednesday evening. Mrs Della Reineke of Shawnee...
Lisbon dispatch reports Hitler plans to draft 10 to 18 year old German children into farm labor this summer and fall. SAuckel and Axmann organize 8,000,000 uniformed youth for potato planting, plowing, weeding, and harvesting under war labor service.
New York data shows wheat down 2,444,000 bushels and oats down 259,000 while corn up 1,348,000, rye down 43,000 and barley down 422,000, reflecting shifts in American grain stocks.
Forty years ago Harry Selig returns from Texas and Mrs M S Winter and family visit Lawrence. Sooty smoke from a sand dipper engine last night. Ed Pierson heads to Chicago. Otto Fischer and Willard Brown plan a trip to Atchison for the street fair and Fourth of July ideas. A D Weaver upgrades his residence at 615 Ohio. Will Hutson works in Ashville Arizona at a Fred Harvey eatery. Atlas Building and Loan reports strong business. People's party convention set for Saturday at 11 at the courthouse. University of Kansas senior class to present annual play June 3 at the Bowersock Opera House.
The Lawrence Scout masters training course ends tonight at 7 at the Chamber of Commerce. Camp Naish opens June 14 and runs to July 19 with five sessions. Scouts are urged to plan with parents and attend health checks, buddy swimming, and visitors night during camp.
Mrs May Rowley announces Lawrence will observe Poppy Day on Saturday May 23. Everyone will be asked to wear a poppy to honor fallen and wounded servicemen. Poppies are produced by disabled veterans at Wadsworth and sales fund Legion and Auxiliary welfare work.
Chicago reports a forthcoming system combining embargo and permit elements to curb grain movement to terminals as the 1942 wheat crop nears, with storage space required. Officials anticipate increased farm storage to avert terminal congestion, aided by Commodity Credit Corporation plans for 100 million bushels of wheat storage bins.
John W. Miller and Lucille L. Welcher of Topeka obtained a marriage license and were married by Probate Judge Frank Gray. The Journal World notes the page as the town market hub.
On a Dutch West Indian island Bill Talcott faces accusations of a serious accounts shortage as detective MacDowell, rival Halsey, and June Paterson converge. A tense night ends with a pistol drawing fire and a mysterious schooner silhouette looming near the shore, setting up further peril.
Mrs Glen Pollum and daughter Lois of Topeka visited Mrs Margaret Cole and family last Sunday. Rev Noah Gilbert, Bethany hospital agent, visited Baldwin and preached in Caney. Miss Clara Stillwell Baker University 1889 grad died in Burn Mawar Washington May 5. Dr Hiram Di Weld gave commencements at Denton and Parker high schools.
Radio schedules list programs across stations WREN KMBC WDAF WDIK WDAP and more for Monday May 18 through midnight. Entries include Lum and Abner Jack Armstrong The Lone Ranger Fred Waring World Today and Moonbeams plus orchestras and news broadcasts.
Postmistress Beulah Stewart announced that Gilbert H. Atherton will retire July 1 as rural carrier and Homer Schoepflin will succeed him. In Reeves store window two poppy posters by Theresa Berry and Mary Lou Holtom won first and second at a Fort Scott conference and will compete in Topeka on May 1.
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