Bulldozer Added as Aid to Sherman Tanks on Anzio Beachhead
Army Ordnance officers report a bulldozer mounted at the front of Sherman tanks enhances fire fighting and ammo-dump protection by scattering burning crates and dirt. Col. Robert Sears describes depots, three-shift crews, and continuous work under sporadic fire as American forces hold Anzio since January 22, with low casualties and rapid recovery of equipment.
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Anzio
Robert Sears
Portland
Ore
Sears
Charles H. Pruden
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Powder Company
Ordnance Department
Army Service Forces
Italy
Grou
Mediterranean
Sognbe
Ordnance
Brown
Smith
Colonel Sears Linked To Sicily Invasion Role
Jgerweant notes Colonel Sears landed on Sicily on day two of the invasion and joined infantry units during the campaign. An expert marksman and West Point classmate of General Patton, Sears previously led Seventh Army forces and now serves on Eisenhower's invasion staff in London.
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Jgerweant
Sears
Sicily
West Point
Patton
Seventh Army
Eisenhower
London
University High to Award Ten Diplomas at Commencement
Ten University High School seniors will receive diplomas at the 32nd annual commencement, held Wednesday at 8 pm in the Memorial Union Kansas Room. The program includes processional, invocations, songs from The Desert Song and Oklahoma, a commencement address by Deane W. Malott, and the presentation of diplomas by Madison Coombs and RB Twente Dean.
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University High School
Kansas
Memorial Union
University of Kansan
Roll Marjory
Dean Aeschbacher Waneta
Jean Colman
Donald Forrest George Laurel Hessler
Lotte Marie House
Douglas Tom Fields Jones
Katherine Jane Kieson- Clitford
Dale Parks William David Sommerville
Philip Jerome Stockton
Ney
Harold G. Barr
Romberg
Viole
Sickles
Oklahoma
Eel Hammerstein
Rodgers
Mary Webhe
W. Malott
University of Kansas
Madison Coombs
Twente
School of Education
Lord Jesus
Della Forney
Joint Board Meeting Elects League Leader
The League of Women Voters held a joint meeting of old and new boards at Mrs. Laurel Andersons home. Mrs. C. F. Nelson was elected president and Mrs. Howard Reidy was released to lead the state league. A reorganization plan and summer pause in regular board meetings followed a seven third session.
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League of Women Voters
C. F. Nelson
Laurel Anderson
Allen Crafton
Howard Reidy
State League
Nelson
Reguasr Board
Air Commencement at Stephens College Girls Fly for Diplomas
Stephens College at Columbia Missouri held its first air school commencement. Betty Flint of Artesia New Mexico, 19, flew a 1939 Aeronca Chief to 24500 feet, a record for small planes, as graduates performed aerobatics bomb drops spot landings and precision flying to earn diplomas.
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Columbia
Stephens College For Women
Betty Flint
Artesia
N. M
Aeronca
F D R May Plan Trip to Europe
Washington says Roosevelt hints at a possible trip to meet Churchill in the summer or fall to discuss allied actions in Europe. He favors describing operations as liberation rather than invasion, noting the term encompasses postwar planning and broader aims beyond military actions.
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Hitler
Europe
Roosevelt
Churchill
Atlantic
Mr. Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
London
Gripsholm to America repatriates many soldiers from Germany
Belfast May 29 The exchange liner Gripsholm carrying scores of American and Canadian soldiers repatriated from German prison camps sailed for the United States after discharging British repatriates and 11 Canadians needing hospital care. Irish soldiers returning on the liner reported bomb damage in Berlin but said German morale remained strong amid fear of a western invasion.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Gripsholm
United States
Barcelona
Algiers
Berlin
End of Two Strikes Highlights Detroit Labor Turmoil
Detroit reports two major labor disputes easing at Chrysler Highland Park amid renewed union leadership warnings while another strike at Parke Davis and a bakery supply stoppage in Detroit alter production. Intermittent idle workers total around 2,800 with union leaders urging reinstatement of discharged staff and cautioning public opinion against obstructions to war effort.
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Michigan
Chrysler Corporation
Highland Park Lant
Chevrolet
General Motors
Saginaw
Parke Davis & Company
Chrysler
Chrysler Local 490
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C.I.0
International Union
R. J. Thomas
William Jenkins
Highland Park
Harold L DeBenham Named Mabe Sales Manager
Harold L. DeBenham of New Rochelle New York an alumnus of the University of Kansas left in 1916 to join Loose-Wiles Biscuit as a salesman. He served as an infantry lieutenant in World War I and rose to city sales manager in Kansas City in 1925 then general sales representative in 1928. In 1930 he became sales promotion manager and moved to New York headquarters and he belonged to Pi Upsilon.
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Harold L. DeBenham
New Rochelle
Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company
University of Kansas
Loose-Wiles , Company
Kansas City
New York
Pi Upsilo
Assault charge fines Johrnie Jackson in police court
Johrnie Jackson of 1305 New Jersey was fined 25 dollars on an assault and battery charge after a family dispute over bonds and papers. Judge O J Lane presided and Jackson paid the fine. Jackson’s wife Alberta was staying at her mother’s at 1324 Pennsylvania when he allegedly went to see her on the night of May 25.
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Johrnie Jackson
New Jersey
O. J. Lane
Jackson
Alberta Jackson
Pennsylvania
Bomber Crash Victims Named Witnesses Mentioned
To come back home and find his papers for him. Other witnesses besides Jackson and his wife were Mrs. Virginia Hawkins, 735 New Jersey, and Mrs. Emma Franklin, Mrs. Jackson's mother, killed in Bomber Crash New York. May 20, 4-Second Lt. John D. Logan, 20, Topeka.
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Jackson
Virginia Hawkins
New Jersey
Emma Franklin
New York
John D. Logan
Topeka
Kansas flyer among ten killed in Mount Holyoke crash
A Kansas airman was among ten army flyers killed when a four engined bomber crashed into Mount Holyoke near South Hadley Massachusetts on Saturday night. He was the son of J Glenn Logan the postmaster of Topeka.
Georgia Couple Wed After License in Douglas County
Marital union secured a Douglas county marriage license on Saturday with Judge J B Wilson officiating at the Douglas County courthouse. The couple, Thomas M Mathews of Atlante and Dolores D Scarbrough of Preston, Ga., were married by Probate Judge Wilson.
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Wilson Thomas M. Mathews
Atlante
Dolores D. Scarbrough
Preston
Douglas County Court House
J. B. Wilson
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