Government to requisition idle farm machinery for food goals
The Wart Food Administration launches a nationwide drive to take idle farm equipment for use where needed to boost production. Owners receive ceiling prices or fair value, with sales to farmers in need. county boards list owned status, availability, and exact location to state headquarters for action.
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Washington
Wart Food Administration
WPA
Pearl Harbor
County War Boards
State
State War Board
War Board
Lawrence Flood of 1908 Retold in Local Reminiscence
The piece recalls the 1908 Kaw River flood in Lawrence Kansas. Dolly Graeber and others operated to save life and property for six weeks while bridges failed and a ferry served residents. The flood caused major damage to the north side, with a relief fund raised, ferries operated by Fort Leavenworth engineers, and a temporary bridge built.
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Dolly Graeber
G. A. Graeber
Massachusetts Street
Carl
Albert
North Lawrence
South
Lawrence
Kansas
Bowersock
J. D. Bowersock
Will Parsons
Bridge Street
Union Pacific
August L. Selig
E. E. Myers
Engineer Corps of
Fort Leavenworth
Santa Fe
Unionacific
New North Channel
Kaw Valley
Kaw River
Lawrence National Bank
Dave M. Horkmans
Boener Cigar Factory
Horkmans
University of Kansas
Haskell Institute
Postal Service
County Board Cuts Seventeen Assessments During Ten Day Session
During a ten day session the county board of equalization reduced seventeen assessments. One notable reduction applied to a personal property valuation, adjusting the tax burden for the property owner.
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Board of Equalization
Slim Chance for Men in Army to Play Football
Washington reports little chance that army personnel will join collegiate football this fall. The Army maintains soldiers in its specialized training program will have no time for athletics. Secretary of War Stimson notes no change in prospects despite congressmen' s requests to adjust schedules for college sports participation.
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Washington
Army
Stimson
Congress
Taken To Lansing Lonnie Johnson Sentencing Start
Lonnie Johnson who pleaded guilty to grand larceny was taken to Lansing today to begin his penitentiary sentence. Dr. H L Chambers spent this forenoon in Ottawa on business.
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Lansing
Lonnie Johnson
Lancing
H. L. Chambers
Ottawa
County War Boards Set Requisition Sale of Machinery
Localities will post notices stating machinery to be requisitioned by county war boards and sold at a specified time and place to responsible purchasers.
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County War Boards
Senate criticizes lend lease spend on foreign airports and labor
Washington May 28 Senator Tydings says the government has spent 2 billion beyond the lend lease program on airports and other construction in foreign nations with army and navy labor costs. He cites Australia where 100 million dollars were spent on buildings airports and housing using 85 percent Australian labor. He questions whether Australia could have supplied the labor and notes permanent air fields were being built there. The comments accompany questioning of Edward R Stettinius Jr lend-lease administrator at closed hearings and come with a report backing a 278,629,000 lend-lease appropriation.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Promoted to Major Arthur E Inman at SOW
Maj Arthur E Inman of the Sunflower Ordnance Works was promoted from captain to major, the executive officer of the ordnance department at SOW. He began as a first lieutenant on September 22 1940 and was promoted to captain in October 1941. Mrs Inman is Eunice Hults daughter of Dr and Mrs A P Hults of Route 6 Lawrence.
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A. A. Blaas
Donna
Patricia
Evanston
Wyo
Lee Colman
Lawrence
Blaas
Colman
W. R. Colman
Will Mertz
Kansas City
Belle Waugh
Minerva Rebekah Lodge No
Irene Roberts
Noble Grand
Ruth Kazmaier
Margaret Westerhouse
Alma Gerstenberger
Harold Daugherty
Lorene
Topeka
Katherine Rothberger
Sunflower Ordnance Plant
Leslie Kindred
Oscar Lothholz
Ralph James
Spencer McCoy
W. B. Roberts
Menn
Jones
Douglas
William Seaver
Dorothy
Tulsa
Okla
Eudora
Jack Mertz
Leslie
T. T. Grabske
Mr. Grabske
Parsons
William Mercier
Ward
Valley Falls
Mercier
Patrick Mercier
Jack Essex
Springfield
Navy
Faragut
Ida
Gertie Stieffen
Beatrice
Otto Altenbernd
Kaw Valley
Memorial Hospital
Circle Number One
W.S.C.S
Methodist Church
Ben Neis
W. O. Watson
Arthur E. Inman
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Inman
Ordnance Department
Sow
Major Inman
Army
Eunice Hults
A. P. Hults
Route 6
Mexiana Skin Soothing Powder for Irritated Rash
Product claim promoting Mexiana powder to protect abrased skin and soothe heat rash. Describes relief of burning and irritation, presenting as a topical solution for sensitive skin conditions.
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George Hoggatt
Baldwin
George Lothholz
Tongandxie
Mabel Cain
Edward Hoskins
John K. Schellack
Grace Musick
Harvey Schellack
Robert Schellack
Paul Becker
Hutchinson
Marjorie Folkers
Wichita
Jean Henderson
Alice Kindred
Phillips University
Enid
Rose Hill
Fred Rothberger
Medicine Lodge
Emma R. Winter
George Born
Pete Edelbrock
Paul Frazier
Ed Diedrich
Circle Number Two
G. M. Wolfe
Minnie Jones
Elton Jones
Homer Abbott
Kan
Robert Stanley
Lawrence Wilson
Louie Kindred
Claude Williams
Dolly” Graeber
Chungking
Wangchow On
Hong Kong
East China Sea
Tanghai
Osa
China
Yangtze River
Dobbs
Wilson
Wilson Bros
Summer Pajamas
Jantzen
Arrow Summer
Chafe
Parmak
Baker Machinery and Supply
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