U S Bombers Hit Six Nazi Plants Across Europe
A vast Allied air assault by thousands of bombers and fighters struck aircraft plants in Poland and central Germany, plus bridges and airfields along the invasion coasts of France and Belgium. Targets included Poznan, Kreising, Leipzig, Tutow, Cottbus and Sorau, with additional raids near Vienna and Wiener Neustadt.
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London
UPA
Germany
Poland
Vienna
Wiener Neu
Europe
France
Belgium
Italy
Austria
U. S
Poznan
Kreising
Leipzig
Tutow
Cottbusa
Sorau
Lower Danube
Cottbus
Berlin
Sweden
Stockholm
Reich
Atzgerdssdorf
Wiener Nuestadt
Nord d Wollersdorf
Most of Lumber Crews Are on the Job Today
Longview Washington May 29 the worlds largest sawmills Longbell and Weyerhaeuser plants operated today with about 80 percent of their crews. A mass meeting of the Congress of Industrial Organization had voted to "go fishing" last night. G B Horrell president of International Woodworkers of America Local 536 said mills likely to close. Lumber workers protesting War Labor Board wage increases remained out in Oregon and Washington.
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Longview
Wash
Longbell
Weyerhaeuser
Congress of Industrial Organization
Horrell
International Woodworkers of America
Oregon
Washington
War Labor Board
Lw.a
A.F.L. Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union
Offensive Is Launched by Japs On Four Fronts Against China
Japanese forces drive toward Changsha along the Hankow Canton line and threaten eastern China while four columns push southward. Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault’s air force targets transport hubs and barracks as Stilwell’s forces advance toward Myitkyina to link supply routes. In the Schoutens, American troops press from Bosnek toward Mokmer as Pacific operations escalate.
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China
Associated Press
Schoutens
Chungking
Hankow-Canton
Changsa
Changsha
Pacific
Japan
Claire Chennault
14Th
U.S. Air Force
Yoyang
Puchi
Linyang
Hankow-Peiping
Henan
Loyang
Yunnan
Burma
Stilwell
Myitkyina
Ledo
Bisk Island
Bosnek
Mokmer
Germans on Edge Rising in Ecuador
London reports increased tension on the German invasion front as heatwave conditions near the Strait of Dover coincide with claimed missed invasion dates. Simultaneously in Quayaquil, Ecuador, revolting troops with tanks seized carabineros barracks after night battles, blocking Quito communications and causing casualties.
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Ecuador
Quayaquil
Carabineros
Quito
Velasco Ibarra
Colombia
Guayaquil
Senate approves postmaster pay raises in 44 for 12 vote
Washington May 29 Overriding protests by Senator Reed R Kan the senate approved salary increases of five to 20 per cent for postmasters earning up to eight thousand dollars a year by a roll call vote of 44 to 12. The conference committee report substitutes the boosts for an overtime plan and now goes to the house. Reed argued the move would reward negligent public officials for wasteful service.
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Washington
Reed R.kan
Senate
Chamber
House
Reed
Farley predicts Dewey Warren ticket for 1944 race
James A. Farley says Governor Dewey will secure the Republican nomination on the first ballot with Warren of California as running mate. He notes Roosevelt has the votes for the Democratic nomination if desired and doubts strong support for Wallace as vice president.
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Batavia
N. C
James A. Farley
Dewey
Warren
California
Farley
Roosevelt
Henry A. Wallace
Senate panel slows poll tax repeal proposal
Washington May 29 the senate judiciary committee voted 10 to 7 to refer a proposed constitutional amendment abolishing state poll taxes for voting to a subcommittee for hearings. Senator Wherry urged immediate Senate action while Senator McFarland offered to send the proposal to the subcommittee for hearings.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wherry
Nebraska
Senate
McFarland
D-Ariz
Harold Elliott Returns To Training After Leave
Harold Elliott a 2/c from Illinois street returned to Great Lakes Training Center in Illinois yesterday after a 10 day family visit. He learned last Friday of his brother Lt Donald G Elliott being injured in an army training plane crash in Lincoln Nebraska and intercepted their mother en route to western Kansas to send her to Lincoln. Donald Elliott was reported in improved condition and is in an oxygen tent at an army hospital in Lincoln.
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Harold Elliott
Illinois Street
Great Lakes Training Center
Illinois
Kroger
Donald G. Elliott
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
Kansas
Elliott
Skirmishes on Eastern Front Bark Moscow Report Quiet Front
May 29 London reports bursts of fighting on the lower Dnestr and White Russian fronts where localized German attacks were repulsed. Moscow announced the general situation on the eastern front remained unchanged. The Soviet communiqué said 14 enemy planes were shot down yesterday and a Baltic fleet patrol ship sank a Nazi submarine in the Gulf of Finland.
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London
Lps
Dnestr
Moscow
Gulf of Finland
Behind on munitions production two per cent under quota
Washington May 28 P- Chairman Donald M Nelson of the War Production board disclosed that munitions production in April was 3 per cent behind schedule and 2 per cent under the March quota. He said 1944 output has been cut from 82 billion to somewhat less than 69 billion, but most military items remained well up on the production schedule, including aircraft landing craft heavy artillery ammunition tractors and trucks.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
WPB
Farm Fire Near Eudora Destroys Garage and Implements
Fire broke out in the Walter Schimmel farm garage four miles south of Eudora Saturday night around 11 30. Neighbors formed a bucket brigade and prevented spread to the house and other buildings. The garage and several farm implements stored inside were destroyed.
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Walter Schimmel
Eudora
Sound of Battle Rolls Into Rome Amid Allied Push
Allied forces drive toward Rome as tanks strike Alban hills near the capital and German divisions are said to be largely destroyed along the front. Fifth and Eighth armies advance from Lanuvio Campoleone Velletri and Valmontone, while French and British units seize Ceprano and push toward the Liri valley.
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Naples
Alban Hills
Rome
Fifth Army
Lanuvio
Campoleone
Associated Press
Daniel de Luce
Lanugio
Via
Casilina
Campoleone- Valmontone
Velletri
Appian Way
Lanuvia
Alban
Pontine
Edward Kennedy
Eighth Army
Liri
Sacco
Valmontone
Sermoneta
Bassiano
Norma
Ville Santo Stefano
Monte Siserno
Weekend Rain Douses Kansas Soils Across State
Rain swept across Kansas with Topeka reporting 1.02 inches and several towns recording notable totals. Weatherman S D Flora forecast showers in the east today and tonight while noting moisture good for cultivation and moisture shortfalls for corn and wheat. Temperatures ranged 71 to 88 yesterday, with Topeka at 88 the high.
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Topeka
LPI
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Wamega
Manhattan
Blue Rapids
Kansas City
Phillipsburg
Concordia
Beloit
Lincoln
Ellsworth
Salina
Enterprise
Wichita
Goodland
Flora
Topeke
Rocket equipped fighter planes used against Japanese targets
U S fighter planes fired rockets in combat against Japan in the Pacific and China Burma India theaters. Launchers under wings on P-40, P-47, P-38, P-39 and P-61 counted on land targets such as bivouac areas bridges and dumps and on sea targets like barges and light shipping. The Air Forces reported accurate results.
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Washington
Army Air Forces
Europe
Department
Royal Air Force
United States
Eighteen Local Men Headed for Fort Leavenworth Induction
Eighteen white men under 26 from this county and transfers left Lawrence by bus for pre induction physicals at Fort Leavenworth after a Topeka directive capped ages at 26. Names and addresses of the group are listed, with two waivers for 21 day extensions. County induction dates include June 2, June 5, June 7 for army and navy calls. Red Cross workers provided coffee and doughnuts for the send off.
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Lawrence
Fort Leavenworth
Selective Service Board
Topeka
Jack David McCall
William Arthur Stacey III
Wixth Calvert Johnson Winter
Afasa
John Frederick Williams
Tenn
John Robert Marshall
Charles Mass
Vernon Dale James
Ala
Bernard Carl Moorman
Learnard Eherd
Ralph Potter
Emery Ond
Bernard Joseph Dillon
Edmund Raymond Fredrick
Mass
Joe Carmichael Funderburk
Eldridge Hotel
James Joseph High
N. H
Robert Earle Moore
David Hideo Saita
Baldwin
Wayne Willard Taylor
Summit Innes
William Benefield
Charles Robert Hopper
Ohio
Benefield
Hopper
Army
Navy
Red Cross
R. H. Wilson
Wilma Miller
Leavenworth
Airline loses money in first quarter of 1944
UP-Trans continental and Western Air, Inc. reported a net loss of 92 419 55 in the first quarter of 1944. President Jack Frye said weather limited flights to 88.2 percent and higher operating costs offset increased revenue, with total period revenue of 4 449 121 77. The intercontinental division logged 15 411 479 miles under the army transport command linking five continents and 24 countries.
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Kansas City
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Jack Frye
Frye
Army
Transport Command
Low volunteer turnout for Red Cross mobile unit visit
Registration says response weak as 29 call for appointments in first three hours. Memorial Day closure noted. office reopens 9 to 12 mornings and 1:30 to 5 afternoons for the rest of the week. Minimum 148 donors needed daily for Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. Unit operates 10 to 12 morning and 1 to 2 afternoon.
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Red Cross
Pastor Dr Edward Hislop Dies at 71 in Topeka
Edward Hislop 71 longtime Methodist pastor in Topeka and Lawrence died after a heart attack. Born February 14 1878 in Steubenville Ohio he served many churches from Lawrence to Kansas City and helped unite Methodist denominations. Survived by widow Viola Hawkins and a brother in Oregon. Funeral at First Methodist Topeka Wednesday 2 PM. Burial Baldwin.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Edward Hislop
Oakland Methodist Church
Hislop
Methodist Church
Thomas Hislop
Pennsylvania Street
North
Steubenville
Abilene
Kan
First Methodist
Western Union
Northwestern
Oskaloosa
Union Pacific
Burlington
Baker University
Boston University School of Theology
Methodist University of Oklahoma
Colorado Springs
Old and New Club
Masonic Blue Lodge
Scottish Rite
Lebanon
N. H
Mass
Omaha
Neb
Salina
Broadway Methodist Church
Kansas City
Broadway Church
Methodist Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Bethany Hospital
Hisson
Violat Hawkins
Baldwin
Baker
Oregon
First Methodist Church
Toneka
New Commanding Officer of Sunflower Arrives
Lt. Col. Donald Hyde arrives with family to assume command of Sunflower Ordnance Works. He comes from Chattanooga where he led the Volunteer Ordnance Works. The Hydes stay at the Eldridge Hotel while seeking occupancy. Major Charles Pruden leaves Sunflower to become Field Director of Ammunition Plants in St. Louis.
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Donald Hyde
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Eldridge Hotel
Chattanooga
Tenn
Colonel Hyde
Volunteer Ordnance Works
Hercules Powder Company
Hyde
Sally
Charles Pruden
Sunflower
St. Louis
Kansans among 568 held POWs named by War Department
Washington May 29 These Kansans were listed among 568 soldiers held prisoners of war by Germany by the War Department T/Sgt Richard O Bellerive Coll yer 2nd Lt John V Boehm Hutchinson 2nd Lt Merwin J Combest Ransom S/Sgt Richard V Kelier Hutchinson Sgt Richard R Wheeler Wellington T/Sgt Herbert N Welch Topeka.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
Richard O. Bellerive
Collyer
John V. Boehm
Hutchinson
Merwin J. Combest
Ransom
Richard V. Kelier
Richard R. Wheeler
Wellington
Herbert N. Welch
Topeka
Two Kansans Among 60 Naval Casualties
Washington May 29 60 U S naval forces casualties announced by the navy department include Topeka's George Willis Boland gunner's mate third class USNR missing and Atchison's Elmer Leroy Pennington Seaman first class USCG wounded.
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Washington
Gpi
U. S. Naval
Navy Department
George Willis Boland
USNR
Topeka
Elmer Leroy. Pennington
USCG
Atchison
War heroes hail tough fight ahead in Kansas City
Two Medal of Honor recipients Set. Charles Edward Kelly of Pittsburgh and Lt. Ernest Childers of Broken Arrow said the war’s battle has just started. They spoke in Kansas City before talks and a Memorial Day program with Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker as principal speaker.
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Kansas City
Charles Edward
Commando) Kelly
Pittsburgh
Ernest Childers
Broken Arrow
Okla
Kelley
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Harvest office to track Kansas farm labor supply
Great Bend Kansas May 29 a state farm labor office to release harvest information and direct movements of workers will be set up June 10 Director H Umberger Kansas State College extension service at Manhattan told Barton county agent W E McAdams The office will serve as a clearing house for reports on labor shortages and surpluses statewide with county agents sending daily updates Harold B Lewis will coordinate and direct movement of workers and machinery If Kansas cannot meet demand efforts will bring in labor from neighboring states The office is not a placement agency but aims to use available labor efficiently
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Great Bend
Kan
H. Umberger
Kansas State College Extension Service
Manhattan
W. E. McAdams
Barton County
Kansas
Umberger
Harold B. Lewis
Extension Service
Kansas Farm Labor Commission
Rotary program features magic and blood donor appeal
Rex R Kendall demonstrated tricks and mind reading at a Rotary event arranged by Rev Father Cowell O Neill. Ogden S Jones, now Douglas County Draft board chair and former athlete, was inducted by Dr F C Allen. Dr Allen urged extra blood donations as Lawrence has contributed 1611 units. H T Jones urged use of available TB tests at the City Building and for employers to involve workers.
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Rotary
Rex R. Kendall
Father Cowell O'Neill
Ogden S. Jones
Douglas County Draft Board
F. C. Allen
17 Year Old Veteran Seeks Naval Aviation Career
Peoria Illinois May 29 A 17 year old veteran of the army air forces who retired last June after more than 100 combat hours and 21 missions as a gunner now seeks a naval aviation career. He applied for enlistment on Saturday and plans to begin hoot training if medically cleared. He earned four decorations for action as a turret gunner in a B 26 Marauder over Tunisia Pantelleria Sicily and Sardinia.
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Peoria
Ill
Army Air Forces
Clifford R. Wherley
Yates City
Wherley
Navy
Army
North Africa
Tunisia
Pantelleria
Sicily
Sardinia
Death toll hits 118 during four day Memorial holiday
The Associated Press reports a nationwide death toll of 118 on the holiday's third day. Aut accidents accounted for 83 deaths, 61 from other causes, and 34 from drownings in the weekend tally.
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Associated Press
Memorial Day Services Honor Heroes in Robinson Park
Memorial day services for sailors and marines will be held in Robinson Park at 9 o'clock with Rev. Harold G. Barr speaker. Patriotic groups invited. Taps by Boy Scouts. University of Kansas law professor Robert McNair Davis to speak in evening program. Church services and car rides for flowers planned. Many civic offices and stores closed tomorrow. some offices open as usual. Summer hours for Lawrence stores set.
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Robinson Park
Harold G. Barr
First Christian Church
G.A.R
Davis
Robert McNair Davis
School of Law
University of Kansas
A. I. Decker
Joseph A. Wahl
Span
Boy Scouts
Court House
Selective Service
Lawrence
Noted sportsman Thiele dies at Junction City
Junction City May 29 JP Henry Thiele 35 first white child born here died after a 10 day illness born October 6 1859 when seven homes stood in Junction City Survivors include his widow and a son Leater of Tacoma Wash Active in tire store operations at time of death Also note War Food Administration plans large cuts to 1945 farm production quotas and continued high field crop production targets.
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Junction City
Henry Thiele
Leater
Tacoma
Wash
Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
Weather forecast for Kansas with warm, muggy pattern
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunder showers in the east this afternoon and early tonight. Continued warm and muggy with Tuesday's highs near 90. Temperatures record shows Saturday high 82, low 66. rainfall 0.01 inch from Saturday 7 am to Sunday 7 am.
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Kansas
Smtwitfs
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