Stilwell vows Burma re conquest to aid allies
In New Delhi May 25 Lieutenant General Joseph W Stilwell declares Burma must be retaken from Japan and outlines a brutal 140 mile jungle trek from Wantho to the India border. He praises Chinese forces and notes air superiority as a major hurdle while detailing allied fatigue, disease, and rescue efforts with nurses and mixed crews.
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India
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
United States Army
Cohen
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Stilwell
China
Archibald P. Wavell
Chiang Kai-shek
Flying Tigers
U.S. Air Force
Tilwell
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Indaw
Homalin
Chindwin
Imphal
Dinjan
Treasury asks Americans to invest 800 million in war bonds
Treasury quotas set for all states with 3070 counties to be fixed soon. Bond sales for the first 18 business days totaled 439,987,000, up 25 percent from April. Management and labor cooperate to reach 10 percent payroll investment. Kansas June quota 6,475,000. Congress may visit England for a war council. some call it a junket. Wright, 26, of Clinton Iowa, piloted the army transport plane that crashed near Houston Maine, killing five others.
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Associated Press
Treasury
Kansas
High School Course Enrolls for Defense Auto Mechanics
Liberty Memorial High School offers a defense training course in automobile mechanics starting June 1 for ages 17 to 25. Classes run five days a week in two sessions with travel expense support and a certificate on completion. Girls are urged to enroll as this is the first women’s course of its kind in the community.
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Liberty Memorial High Schol
Logsdon
Wherry
Liberty Memorial High School
Professor J H Taggart resigns to accept army air corps captaincy
Joseph H Taggart former economics faculty at the University of Kansas left his post as regional business consultant for the Kansas City district to join the army air corps as a captain in Washington DC. He aided small and large business in wartime shifts and advocated price ceilings and credit regulation.
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University of Kansas
Department of Commerce
Kansas City
Army Air
Harry M. Washington
Taggart
Washington, D. C
Washington
Revival Begins As Mother Zula Muldrew Speaks
Mother Zula Muldrew opens a week's revival tonight at 8 o'clock at the Pentecostal church located at Nineteenth and Tennessee streets.
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Zula Muldrew
Pentecostal Church
Nineteenth and
Tennessee Streets
Kansas old age aid payments dip in May totals
The Social Security Board reports 31,090 Kansas aged clients received an average $22.23 May check, down from $23.11 in April for 31,016 cases. Eleven counties including Barton Cheyenne Decatur Haskell Kingman Meade Morton Pratt Stanton Wallace and Wichita do not qualify for the June 1 $85,000 special old age assistance allocation.
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Topeka
Kansas
Social Security Board
Barton
Cheyenne
Decatur
Haskell
Kingman
Meade
Morton
Pratt
Stanton
Wallace
Wichita
Grain may be used in synthetic rubber plan
Topeka May 25 Sen Arthur Capper says Washington may shift from rubber and sugar cartel controls and petroleum to grain alcohols for rubber production. He questions petroleum as the base for synthetic rubber, noting grain alcohol could be produced as long as land holds out. WPB rubber coordinator favors grain alcohol, and WPB told Jesse Jones whiskey stills will be converted to industrial alcohol from grains.
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Topeka
Arthur Capper
R-Kan
WIBW
Washington
Kansas
WPB
Jesse Jones
Lawyers Hear 60th Kansas Bar Convention Actions
Wichita May 25 The Kansas Bar association ends its 60th annual convention designating Topeka as the 1943 host city. New president Charles F. Welch Coffeyville. E. C. Flood Hays advances to president elect. Everett F. Steerman Emporia becomes vice president. Robert M. Clark Topeka re-elected secretary treasurer. L. J. Bond El Dorado joins executive council. Douglas Hudson Fort Scott named official delegate to the American Bar Association meeting.
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Wichita
Kansas Bar Association
Law Group
Topeka
Charles FE. Welch
Coffeyville
E. C. Flood
Hays
Evertee FE. Steerman
Emporia
Robert M. Clark
L. J. Bond
el Dorado
Steerman
Douglas Hudson
Fort Scott
American Bar Association
Kansas Association
Mrs Carman Recovering After Home Fall Injury
Deputy clerk of the court Mrs C W Carman is reported to be getting along well at Lawrence Memorial hospital two weeks after a fall at her home. She was admitted after the injury and is listed in satisfactory condition.
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C. W. Carman
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Kansan Rep Hope urges tire rations reevaluation for Plains farms
Representative Hope asks Price Administrator Henderson to resurvey tire needs for southwest Kansas and the Great Plains and to allocate more tires for the harvest period. He cites drought 1932–40 and scarce farm labor, noting harvest demand will worsen wear on tires and machinery.
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Washington
Kansas
Great Plains
Hope
House Agriculture Committee
Leon Henderson
Haskell County
Kan
Board of Commissioners
Fight Tonight Likely Rematch Nova vs Lee Vold
Louis Nova and Lee Vold square off in a heavyweight bout delayed twice before. Nova returns eight months after a KO by Louis and is listed as about an 8-5 favorite, with a shot at Joe Louis and the world title depending on the result.
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Washington
Louis Nova-Lee Savold
Joe Louis
Nova
Louis
Savold Expected to Upset Ex-Yogi in 10 Round Bout
Promoter Mike Jacobs predicted about 20 000 fans would attend the Des Moines fight with Savold seen as the outsider but capable of a knockout. The 10 round bout would generate a gate near 45000 dollars with roughly half allocated to the Navy Relief society.
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Savold
Des Moineg
California
Mike Jacobs
Navy Relief Society
Capper Urges Midwestern Gasoline Rationing Show Evidence
Senator Capper of Kansas urged that gasoline rationing for the Midwest be shown to be necessary before any fuel orders are issued. He said daily production facts must justify wartime needs to win the war.
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Washington
Middlewest
Capper
Senator Objects to Gasoline Rationing in Midwest
The Kansas senator argues that gasoline rationing should not be imposed where supplies are ample and production is already curtailed to address rubber shortages. He cites Kansas legislative council resolutions protesting gasoline rationing and urging proof of need before action.
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Kansas
Midwest
Uise
Senate
Kansas Legislative Council
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