Edsel Ford Dies at 49 Affects Ford Family Firm
Detroit reports Edsel Bryant Ford president of Ford Motor Co died at 1 30 a m at his home in Grosse Pointe Shores after a six week illness He was 49 and survived by his wife Eleanor Lowthian Clay and three of their four children Henry and the Ford family were not present but rushed to the home upon notice The firm continues wartime production as Henry Ford and Edsel were key leaders in rapid war material output The future leadership remains unresolved with Henry Ford likely to resume management aided by Sorenson Son of Edsel served in the armed forces and daughter Josephine is married to a Detroit resident The article notes assets and internal family secrecy surrounding the fortune.
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Detroit
Edsel Bryant Ford
Ford Motor Company
Josse Pointe Shores
Eleanor Lowthian Clay
Henry Ford
Henry Ford Hospital
Edsel Ford
Lake Shore Road
Crosse Pointe Shores
Ford Company
Roscoe R. Graham
University of Toronto
Florida
Henry
Benson
William
Josephine
Armed Services
Ford River Rouge
Willow Run
Odf
Hdsel
Ford
Massachusetts
Charles E. Sorenson
Sorenson
Ford Organization
State charter granted to KU Research Foundation in Topeka
The CPI A charter authorized the University of Kansas Research Foundation a non profit to promote study and invention at KU. Dean J J Jakosky and Chancellor Deane W Malott plus Dean F J Moreau head the new body housed in the mud house with labs for aeronautical and other research. Initial projects include plastic research and extracting liquid hydrocarbons from natural gas funded at 25000 dollars each. W F O Brien of St Paul serves as resident agent for new firms Walnut Gas and Electric Company St Paul Gas Company and Southwest Builders Inc. بسرعة
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Topeka
CPI
University of Kansas Research Foundation
J. J. Jakosky
Engineering School
Deane W. Malott
F. J. Moreau
Walnut Gas and Electric Company
St. Paul Gas Company
St. Paul
W. F. O’brien
Southwest Builders, Inc
Charles Vance
Liberal
School of Engineering
War Bomber Plant Operations Interviewing at Center
The article describes the reception center and its classification department guiding new soldiers to their first duty. Roy O. Brookens and Bunny Black are noted staffers in the interviewing and clothing sections as 80 000 men pass through, with 17 refusing war bonds and many buying bonds and attending church.
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Army
Roy O. Brookens
School of Business
K.U
Bunny” Black
Lawrence
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Ickes Proposes Colloidal Fuel to Cut Oil Use
Secretary Ickes outlines a practical plan to conserve oil by using a colloidal fuel made from one third coal and two thirds oil. He estimates 15 million barrels of residual fuel oil could be saved annually if eastern and midwestern plants switch to this mix and notes larger savings with a 40 60 coal oil ratio. Plants could be installed as far west as Kansas City and St Louis.
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Washington
Ickes
East Coast
Middle West
Kansas City
St. Louis
RAF Fighters Over Burma Two Planes Lost in Day of Sweeps
British air crews conducted low level sweeps into Japanese held Burma with attacks in the upper Chindwin district and on Buthedaung in western Burma. Bombers also struck road transport. The British bulletin reported the loss of two planes during the operations.
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New Delhi
CPM
R.A.F
Burma
Upper Chindwin
Buthedaung
Lawrence Fields Dry Enough to Permit Planting
Lawrence farmers worked fields yesterday afternoon as rains eased allowing corn planting. Some replanted corn previously covered or washed out by May storms. Miss Emily Getz, nursing consultant for the volunteer nurse's aide program, visits Douglas County Red Cross chapter and is attached to the Midwestern area of the American Red Cross.
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Emily Getz
Douglas County
Red Cross
Getz
American Red Cross
Kansas
Allied air sweeps strike from North Africa to Sicily in 1943
Allied air action across Pantelleria, Sardinia, and Sicily reports heavy bombings and up to 355 enemy aircraft destroyed in a week. The Cairo force hit Preveza, while Ferocious raids target Italian island towns as invasion plans swirl. Rumors touch Mussolini, King Vittorio Emanuele, and potential U. S. administration of Italy.
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Allied
North Africa
Pantelleria
Sardinia
Sicily
R.A.F
Olbia
Italy
Cairo
Preveza
Greece
Tunisia
Terranova
Licata
Porto Empedocle
Portoscuso
Bobba di Falco
Washington
Mussolini
Germany
Vittorio Emanuele
Prince of
Naples
U. S
Berlin
Robert Wagner
Alsace
Baden
Europe
Russia
Rumania
Ankara
Transylvania
Hungary
Stalingrad
Don
Caucasus
Moscow
Warn of New Strike At Kansas City Bomber Plant
The United Auto Workers call for action warns the War Labor Board of a possible work stoppage at the North American bomber plant in Kansas City Kansas if wage adjustment demands are not addressed. UAW leader John W. Livingston accuses the board of delaying decisions, urging extension of the West Coast wage plan to the Kansas City plant.
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Kansas City
War Labor Board
U.a.w.c.lo
North American
Kan
John W. Livingston
Washington
WLB
National Board
Joseph A. Hoskins
Red tape cuts ease service furlough rations
In Washington on May 26 the Office of Price Administration announced reductions in food ration certificates for servicemen on brief furlough. After June 2 all armed forces on 72 hours or longer leave may apply before leaving camp. A furlough ration unit covers nine meals with eight points for processed foods eight for meats and fats and quarter pounds each of coffee and sugar.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
U. S
Driver Guilty of Speeding by District Court Jury
D. E. Conniff found guilty of speeding but not guilty of driving while intoxicated by a district court jury yesterday after an earlier police court conviction. He was arrested May 7 north of the Union Pacific underpass. trial spanned yesterday afternoon and jurors delivered verdicts before Judge Hugh Means dismissed the panel.
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D. E. Conniff
Conniff
O. J. Lane
Conniiff
Union Pacific
Lawrence
Kansas City
Hugh Means
Protest Plowing Up The Dust Bowl Again
Congressmen from the dust bowl region opposed a United Nations food conference plan to expand cereal crop production in the plains. They warned that reversing soil improving practices could revive the Dust Bowl dust storms of the 1930s.
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Washington
Great Plains
Army air corps corporal phones California on furlough
Cpl Boyd Lawrence, bombarder in the Army Air Corps, called his uncle Dennis Lawrence in Lawrence from San Francisco yesterday morning. He has been overseas in the South Pacific 13 months and is on an 80 day furlough may not visit. Pvt Eli Jones promoted to staff sergeant at Camp Millard Ohio. Five former University of Kansas juniors from Lawrence reported to Ft Leavenworth for officer candidate schools. Greever Allan, former postmaster of Tonganoxie, commissioned as second lieutenant in Washington Army postal service.
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Cpl
Boyd Lawrence
Army Air Corps
Dennis Lawrence
Maine
San Francisco
Calif
Lawrence
South Pacific
California
Eli C. Jones
Arkansas Street
Pvt
Eli Jones
Camp Millard
Ohio
University of Kansas
Bill Hough
Howard Sutherland, Jr
Kentucky
Delbert Perkins
Massachusetts
Clare Coleman
Lloyd Svoboda
Tennessee
Coast Artillery
Ft Leavenworth
George Lawrence
Greever Allan
Tonganoxie
Adjutant General's Department of the
Army Postal Service
Washington
W. C. Allan
Maine Street
Three Callers Challenge County Valuations
Three residents spoke to county commissioners yesterday about property valuations. One owns a new house, another represents an oil company, and the third has four new houses.
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O!l Company
Topeka Artist Seeks Bible Murals for Statehouse
Topeka May 26 The executive council rejected a proposal by A L Tice Topeka artist to add biblical paintings to the Kansas statehouse walls. Council members said only the legislature can appropriate funds and took no action on the plan.
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Topeka
Executive Council
John Steuart Curry
Kansas Statehouse
A. L. Tice
Acacia Lodge Special Communication Slated May 27
Acacia lodge No. 9 A F and A M announces a special communication on Thursday May 27 opening at 7 30 o'clock for work in the Fellow Craft Degree. Visitors welcome. W M Smith and E J Coy secretary adv.
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Acacia Lodge
A.M
W. M. Smith
W.M. E. J. Coy
Adv
Plan State Funeral for Yamamoto Asks Nationwide Tribute
The Tokyo radio said Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto will receive a state funeral on June 5, the ninth anniversary of Admiral Togo’s burial. Yamamoto, 49, planned the Pearl Harbor attack and boasted of dictating peace terms, becoming the second navy officer with a state funeral in Japan.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
Togo
Tokyo
Associated Press
High Command
Yamamoto
Fears Harbor
White House
South Pacific
Washington
Italy to come later in Allied invasion plans
Washington observers doubt a summer invasion of Italy by the Allies. They say the main push will target Germany with Italy a secondary factor, and that bombings may aim to force Italy out of the war while invasion of the continent unfolds elsewhere.
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Washington
CP4
Italy
Altho
Euste
Berlin
Europe
France
Balkans
Alps
Memorial Day Shifted May Meeting Date
Regular questing for May at o clock this evening. The regular meeting date is the last Monday of the month, but Monday has been designated as the Memorial day holiday by the mayor.
Flood damage hits farms in southeastern Kansas
Governor Schoeppel tours Kansas flood zones reporting farmers face waterlogged bottomlands and seed shortages. He notes lack of meat, machinery, and repair parts, with some workers moved from fields. calls on OPA and WPS for equipment and relief as crews assess wrecked fencing and damaged cattle.
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Iola
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas
OPA
WPS
Joseph G. O'Srvan
Joseph G. O'Srvan, Slacies
Farm Labor Commission
Tresit
Hotton
A Meeks
Concordia
Maverick Division Head Says Many To Lose Jobs
Omaha May 25 Maverick director of ermmiienta division Liv 7 says the end of the war will force many workers out of jobs and outlines expected layoffs as economies shift.
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Qmaha
Maverick
Ermmienta! Division
Liv
Postwar plans urged to build productive public programs
A speech before the National Association of Young Officials urged postwar programs to be constructive and worthwhile. The speaker claimed 20 million people would be mobilized and millions would take part in rebuilding efforts.
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Cne Nadena
Payroll Collections Less Under New Law
Washington reports changes to payroll collections under a new law with the victory tax set to drop from July 1. Senate Finance Chair George J. D-Gali says the bill increases advance collections but reduces the overall tax burden. final figures will reflect a shift in withholding and income tax brackets.
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Washington
George J D-Gali
Senate Finance Committee
City Council Meeting Tonight
The city council will hold its session tonight to discuss local issues and formalize agendas. Officials invite public attendance as members review budgets and zoning items.
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