Senate panel warns on rubber supply for war effort
The Senate defense investigating committee criticized the army and navy for not cutting rubber needs to the bone. It warned that if synthetic production misses schedules, U S forces may be without rubber in the near future and urged rationing, centralized control, and use of grain alcohol to boost synthetic output.
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Washington
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Army
Navy
United Nations
Leon Henderson
Donald M. Nelson
Arthur Newhall
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Die Trust
I. G. Farbenindustrie
Standard
I. G. Farben
United States
Truman
D-Mo
Axis Move To Seize French Fleet Frightens Allies
Soviet dispatches describe German attacks in the Kharkov region while Nazi communiques claim Red armies hold the initiative elsewhere. Admiral Cunningham warns Hitler may seize the French fleet if pressure fails, calling such a move very nasty for the Allies. he expresses hope for decisive Allied victory once air and naval forces meet on equal terms.
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Hitler
Kharkov
Andrew Browne Cunningham
Britain
Mediterranean
United States
Transient family seeks work aid as welfare rules cited
In Lawrence a head of a transient family applied for aid at the county welfare office with the department noting it may send applicants back to their legal residence or forward if proof of a job at the destination exists. A May welfare reimbursement of 9 578.50 was paid to the Douglas county treasurer. Also mentioned are 80 year old S Spotts of Oberlin visiting Lawrence with grandson Victor Spotts in engineering school, and M A Gorrill longtime Lawrence lawyer under hospital observation. University carnival crowds remained large despite finals, with police reporting all quiet and new green light only signs installed at Massachusetts street intersections.
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Spotts
Oberlin
Lawrence
Victor Spotts
School of Engineering
M. A. Gorrill
Kansas
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
K. U. Law School
Douglas County
Deaths and Funerals Geraldine Hicks
Funeral services for Miss Geraldine Hicks will be held at 2 30 PM Wednesday at St Luke s AME church. The body lies in state at Bowser Gleed mortuary until 10 AM and from then at the home 733 New Jersey Street. Burial follows at Oak Hill cemetery.
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Geraldine Hicks
St. Luke’s A.M. E
Bowser-Gleed
New Jersey Street
Oak Hill Cemetery
Faith Baldwin seeks divorce from Hugh H. Cuthrell in Conn court
Faith Baldwin a New Canaan resident filed divorce proceedings in superior court at Bridgeport Conn accusing desertion by Hugh H. Cuthrell of Brooklyn N Y whom she married on November 5 1920. She seeks custody of their four children and states he left in October 1928.
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Faith Baldwin
Winding Up Canvass by University Co-eds in Lawrence
The volunteer corps of University coeds have nearly finished a pledge campaign for war bonds in Lawrence. They plan one or two more afternoons next week to complete the effort. If anyone was missed they may leave a pledge at the Chamber of Commerce office or provide a phone number for a caller.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
C. E. Decker
Institutions not entitled to sugar allotments under new ruling
Local rationing board reports Washington guidance that churches lodges and clubs serving meals cannot register as institutional sugar users unless they run a regular meal service of four meals weekly. May and June certificates stay valid but no new registrations will be issued. Renewed stamp turn in dates announced.
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Washington
George Wetzel
Laborers quit at K U building amid power dispute
In a Bayles office meeting 29 laborers demanded wage talks and threatened to abandon work. Sheriff Ban ning and County Attorney Beach joined a committee from the power plant as talks considered cutting off power and water. Attorney General Parker advised legal action to stop that move, and service was restored. Chancellor Malott addressed events while Topeka officials reported 86 employees signed a wage petition.
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Bayles
Charles Banning
Milton P. Beach
Jay Parker
Deane W. Malott
Malott
Northwest Missouri State Teachers College
Maryville
Ottawa High School
Topeka
Hubert Brighton
State Board of Regents
Hedrick Says County Trap Set by State in Bribery Case
Former Johnson county attorney Hedrick testifies a horse racing book was established near Kansas City to entrap him. He says the setup involved the state's attorney general office and Frank Dugan to raid him while he gathered evidence to clean up the county. Hedrick's resignation followed his arrest last fall.
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Olathe
Kan
Frank D. Hedrick, Jr
Johnson County
Hedrick
Kansas City
Frank Dugan
Dugan
Charles Fisher
State Line Place
A. B. Mitchell
Book Place
Homer Demming
Demming
al the Fisher
Frank D. Hedrick
Mitchell
Attorney General’s
Charles Dicken
DeSoto
Kansas April payroll gains exceed March by small margin
Kansas industries report small increases in employment and payrolls for April over March, according to the state labor department. The data show modest gains across industries as the economy edges up in spring.
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Topeka
Kansas Industries
State Labor Department
Wartime Wheat Harvest to Begin as Storage Snags Loom
Chicago May 26 Grain men report the first U S wartime harvest since 1918 will begin in southwestern fields within days as reapers move north. The crop valued by government action faces storage shortages and an embargo on market shipments. Prices hover around 1.20 a bushel for July delivery with government loans and controls shaping the market.
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Chicago
U.S
Texas
Oklahoma
Europe
Uncle Sam
Sinking of German Sub Surfaces Near Brazil Coast
The Brazilian northeast coast saw aggressive anti submarine actions with US planes sinking a German submarine off Aracaty near Fortaleza during a Saturday battle. A second submarine was reported sunk near Recife after a dawn raid by a B 18 bomber and subsequent air attack. Pilot Harry Schwane and Sgt J G Yates described sighting and bombarding the Uboat between Fernando Noronha and the Azores.
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Fortaleza
Brazil
Recife
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Aracaty
Harry Schwane
J. G. Yates
Fernando Noronha
Azores
Sub Hits Destroyer Blakeley Near Martinique in Caribbean
A SPI A torpedo from waters near Martinique damaged the US destroyer Blakeley but she reached Fort de France under her own power. Casualties were light with ten missing and six injured. The attacker’s identity was not known, though German and Italian subs have been active in the Caribbean.
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St. Lucia
British West Indies
SPI
Martinique
United States
Blakeley
Fort de France
Unite States
Georges Robert
Caribbean
House Backs War Contract Help for Small Firms
Washington May 26 By roll call 344 to 0 the House passed legislation to speed war contracts to small businesses. The bill creates a War Plants Corporation within the WPB with 200 million working capital to help independents obtain and fulfill contracts and allows prime bidding with sub contractors. A Patman amendment requires federal agencies to award contracts to small concerns certified competent for a given procurement.
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Washington
House
Senate
Patman
D-Tex
Special
Small Business Committee
Congress
War Production Board
WPB
No Strikes In Mexico and Canner Guidance
Mexico on verge of war with the axis pledges no strikes for the duration and armed forces take steps against sabotage. Police ordered to arrest rumors about war plans. In Topeka sugar rationing headquarters urge Kansas canners to wait for actual needs. allotments available all summer.
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Mexico
City
Confederation of Mexican Workers
Topeka
Kansas
Local Notes From Williamstown And Vicinity
Mrs Anne Beaty of Lenape visits daughter Elizabeth Johnson and grandchildren Jacquelin and Virginia Lee. Plans to repair the east crossroad bridge from the J S Dick farm after flood loss. Gov Payne Ratner awards patriotic service certificates in Kansas victory garden program. Numerous local visits include Patricia Keeling Joann Allen at W H Allen home and Topeka visitor Lyle Green. n/a
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Anne Beaty
Lenape
Elizabeth Johnson
Jacquelin
Virginia Lee
Charles Fike
Fike
Ethel Graham
Oskaloosa
Williamstown Baptist Church
Ralph Baker
Ed Holmes
Topeka
J. S. Dick
Payne Ratner
Kansas
Kansas Victory Garden Program. Patricia Keeling and Joann Allen, of Oskaloosa
W. H. Allen
Lyle Green
Virgil Green
Leonard Page
Los Angeles
Cal
R. W. Amerinaé
Charles Johnson
Matt Stallard
J. B. Evans
Homer Cronk
Eugene Orrimbloe
W. H
Allen and
Gracie
Harold Graham
A. E. Messenhimmer
Overbrook
George Brown
Senator Smith Attacks WPB On Rubber Effort
Senator Smith of South Carolina says WPB stands for we passed the buck. He offered the interpretation during a subcommittee hearing on synthetic rubber production after a witness described fruitless efforts to interest the War Production Board in grain alcohol plant projects as rubber bases.
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Washington
Smith
D-S.c
War Production Board
WPB
Pi Highways Plans Short Detour Near DeSoto
Pi Highways Director D. J. Fair said a short reroute on K110 near Eudora will be built at the west edge of DeSoto this week. The detour accompanies Santa Fe railway overpass and spur line construction to serve the Sunflower Ordnance area.
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Topeka
D. J. Fair
Sunflower
Eudora
DeSoto
Santa Fe Railway
Yale Coach Winslow Lovejoy Training at Fort Riley
Winslow M. Lovejoy, Yale football center captain in 1924 and later Yale Law School graduate, is in training at Fort Riley cavalry replacement training center in Fort Riley Kansas.
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Fort Riley
Ft. Riley
Kan
Winslow M. Lovejoy
Yale University
New Haven
Cavalry
Yale Law School
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U. S
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