Byrnes named super-boss of war effort in unified control
The move to appoint James F. Byrnes to oversee the war effort signals broader centralization on the home front though immediate changes may be limited. The White House remains the ultimate authority over major wartime coordination. Gage Park in Topeka opened for the summer season, and public parks nationwide are set to play a larger recreation role this year with improved maintenance. Gasoline rationing keeps residents largely at home and Lawrence parks will feature enhanced seasonal preparations.
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James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Mr. Byrnes
Superboss
White House
Gage Park
Topeka
Lawrence
Improved Diet Aims At UN Conference Insights
Hot Springs Virginia May 381 United Nations Food conference urged endorsement of government responsibility for dietary deficits of low income and undernourished people. Committees recommended social security measures and affordable protective foods, plus targeted aid for pregnant and nursing mothers infants and the aged. A second report warned war and postwar food problems must be solved before raising nutrition standards.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Injured Sailor Faces Surgery After Navy Explosion
Mrs. Joe Fowler reports her son Charles R. Fowler EM 2/c was badly injured May 17 when four depth charges exploded aboard a sub chaser in an eastern port. He lost vision, suffered severe burns and steel fragments. He expects multiple operations and plans to resume life after recovery at New River Naval Hospital.
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Joe Fowler
Grant Street
U.S. Naval Hospital
New River
N.C
Charle
Chuck” Fowler
Altho
Charles
Charles R. Fowler
Ward
Maker Of All I
A historical quotation notes divine creation by God, referencing earth and heavens and command of their hosts from Isaiah 45 3 12. The fragment highlights a theistic declaration of Maker and creator.
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Isaiah
Butter Subsidy Sparks Debate Over Price Rollback Plan
The roll back of butter prices under the OPA will cut five cents per pound starting Tuesday with a five cent subsidy to producers. Americans dispute whether consumers truly gain as the subsidy shifts the cost, and the change may set a pattern for other price reductions and subsidies across goods.
Floods Raise Three Cow Creeks In Pittsburg And Damage In Kansas
Southeast Kansas floods push three Pittsburg Cow Creeks to same name notoriety and raise high water marks on Springers and nearby streams. Jayhawk Ordnance plant lower floor flooded by 14 inches prompting highway and rail repairs across the region.
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Kansas
Pittsburg
Hutchinson
Ittsburg
Youdh
Ater
Springer
Missouri
Jayhawk Ordnance Plant
Kansas CIO Resolutions Attack Republican Party
The Issue Abides The Organized CIO in Kansas denounces the Republican party as part of a broader labor resistance to being subject to regulations like those imposed on employers. The conflict reflects nationwide fights over labor accountability while the GOP in Kansas is expected to defend measures holding all groups responsible for policy and action.
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C.so
Kansas
Republican Party
C.I.O
G.O.P
C.I.0
Americans Provide Planes for Arsenal of Democracy Praise
Russia and other powers offer praise for American planes and equipment. The article credits American engineering and technical skill for turning the country into the arsenal of democracy.
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Democracy
Pity for Overseas Leaders Behind War Plant Moves
An observer glimpsing wartime plants and camps in Kansas felt pity for overseas totalitarian leaders who sparked the activity. The observer thinks they pondered before launching schemes but evidence shows they chose the wrong path.
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Kansas
Good Growing Year Impresses Eastern Kan Bas Community
The eastern half of Kan Bas shows a hopeful outlook as a favorable growing season benefits farms and communities. Despite new industrial developments, the year remains of supreme importance to the state for agriculture and rural progress.
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Kan- Bas
Chickens Come Home to Roast Not Writ by Housewife Says Proverb
An old proverb about chickens returning to roast is attributed not to a housewife or poultry man but discussed as a saying with regional origins and anecdotal provenance.
Ickes Praises Lewis For Fifteen Day Coal Truce
Independence Reporter notes Ickes a hard boiled cabinet member praises John L. Lewis for granting a fifteen days truce amid wartime fuel needs. The piece argues against dual governments and urges unity under a single wartime administration.
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Ickes
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Washington
Late salary life sparks nudge from Scott City News
A columnist notes that people living on monthly salaries seem born 30 days too late, reflecting on financial constraints and time-pressured routines. The remark appears in the Scott City News Chronicle.
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Scott City
Dinner party turns to measles scare in Liberty
A nurse working in a doctor’s office attended a gala in Liberty Missouri with 30 guests. She suddenly declared she had the measles prompting concerns and likely public health notes.
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Liberty
Family Men No Doubt St Joseph Thieves Steal 866 Items
In St Joseph Missouri thieves struck a railroad freight house stealing 866 articles. Among the loot were five automobile tires and 864 diapers.
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St. Joseph
Flood Drama in Warsaw Cabin Drawer Rescue
Sam Bishop fought rising flood waters in his Warsaw cabin he was moving items from a dresser drawer. He paused to light a cigarette, then returned to the task as the dresser floated from the room.
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Warsaw
Sam Bishop
Mary New Visits Baldwin Gardens in Iris Hobby Tale
Miss Mary New of Emporia spent last Thursday in Baldwin visiting her uncle and aunt, the Evanses, and toured several iris gardens. The Past Noble Grands hold their monthly meeting at Mrs. W. C. Harper's home Tuesday evening. Dr. Nelson P. Horn attended a dinner in Emporia honoring retiring State Teachers College president Dr. Thomar Butcher after thirty years. Mrs. FE. C. Wright visited her son Prof. LeRoy Wright in Kansas City. he heads to Evanston for summer school at Northwestern. Rev. Clyde W. Brewster gave the Mercial address at Vinland Cemetery Sunday afternoon. Misses Ch, wie Reb and Nolen Hunt joined Dean Grace Irwin to Kansas City Friday. Dean Irwin entered Beth-
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Mary New
Emporia
Baldwin
Thomas A. Evans
Miss New
W. C. Harper
Nelson P. Horn
Thomar Butcher
State Teachers College
FE. C. Wright
LeRoy Wright
Kansas City
Professor Wright
Evanstomn
Northwestern
Clyde W. Brewster
Vinland Cemety
Wie Reb
Nolen Hunt
Dean Grace Irwin
Dean Irwin
Beth
University of Kansas clocked yearend events and awards
Architectural awards were presented at KU while classes wrap for the year and finals week begins. Edwin Fenstemaker had an appendectomy and is in satisfactory condition. Swarthout received an honorary LLD from Southwestern College. The engineering school paused summer sessions as Army instructors are redeployed. University reps attend the Western Conference Track Meet in Chicago.
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University of Kansas
Memorial Union
Edwin Fenstemaker
Memorial Hospital
Donald M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
Southwestern College
R. L. Robinson
Leavenworth
Chambers of Commerce
Topeka
Lawrence
Kansas City
Federal
Theodore Frank Crowder
War Department
Army
Carl Rice
Marshall Haddock
University
Chicago
Haskell Institute Graduates Amid War Draft Surge
Twenty five years ago three men completed four classes at Haskell Institute as the rest joined the armed forces. Fifteen men departed for Fort Logan Colorado a clearing station for army recruits. The war department announced.
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Haskell Institute
Fort Logan
Colo
War Department
New Santa Fe Time Card Takes Effect Tomorrow
Fort y years ago report notes a time card change set for Santa Fe tomorrow. Porter Bell of Palmyra township, a wealthy stockman, was seen in town buying clothing for workers during a gale. The Clerks Union plans a dance and supper next Wednesday at Labor Hall. A house warming is planned for Griesa barn tomorrow night. Mrs. J. C. Banta of Topeka visits her mother Mrs. Morrison. The clerks union will not ask merchants to close on Decoration Day or the Fourth of July as they fall on Saturday. The Haskell Institute junior class reports their annual program tomorrow. A Sunday school convention will meet at First M. E. church Sunday afternoon and evening.
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Santa Fe
Porter Bell
Palmyra Township
Clerks’ Union
Labor Hall
New Griesa Barn
J.C. Banta
Topeka
Methodist Brotherhood Heard Ayers At Baldwin Meeting
The First Methodist church Brotherhood in Baldwin met for a covered dish supper in Fellowship hall with Solon G. Ayers of Haskell Institute as guest speaker. Ayers, a noted entertainer, told stories and memory feats. The gathering marked the last meeting until September.
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Methodist Brotherhood of the First Methodist Church
Fellowship Hall
Solon G. Ayers
Haskell Institute
Ayers
A. E. Ayers
Brotherhood
Baldwin
Sam Hedrick
Board of Religious Education
Kansas Methodist Conference
Edward Staples
Board of Education
Nashville
John Sinclair
James Hadley
Baker
Harold W. Guest
Baldwin Ledger
American Association of State Highway Officials
Webb Fenton
Hale Steele
Topeka
Edna Mane O'Hare
Loveland
Colo
W. M. O'Hare
Grandson Gets Fortune After Oil Rivalry Deaths
Houston may 31 Robert Woodward, 15, will inherit a fortune from E F and Grace Woodward. Wills filed for probate name the boy as independent executor at 30 and place estates in trust for his benefit. The Woodwards built a multimillion oil fortune. his father Harley Woodward was killed years earlier in an airplane crash.
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Houston
Tex
E. F. Woodward
Robert Woodward
Grace Woodward
Harley E. Woodward
E. F. Woodwards
Oil business dollars and noted racehorse breeder
A prominent figure known for substantial earnings in the oil sector in recent years also gained recognition as a widely known race horse breeder.
Army Air Forces offers training at Kansas State College
The army air forces announces a training program for men and women to become air force inspectors at midwestern airplane plants. Trainees attend a 90 day course at Kansas State college in Manhattan, earning 1440 dollars yearly plus overtime and 2 dollars daily expenses, with potential advancement. Interviews are scheduled for June 4 and 5 at the Engineering building shop office. applicants must file civil service form 57 and bring it.
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Midwest
Army Air Forces
Midwestern
Air Forces
Air Force
Kansas State College
Air Forces and Civil Service Commission
Engineering
Manhattan
Nations urged to act in concert for postwar security
A conference report states freedom from fear requires broad cooperation among nations. Aggression fears have wasted manpower and materials and raised trade barriers. Nations at the conference must affirm mutual responsibility and act together to establish postwar security and a growing balanced world economy.
Flowers Aid Memorial Day Graves In Lawrence
The American Legion received a strong response to a Saturday appeal for flowers to decorate 500 soldiers' graves in Lawrence cemeteries. Donated flowers covered several acres of peonies and iris, delivered to the courthouse. Boy Scout pickers helped gather the blooms under A. E. Woestemeyer's direction. Post Commander Ivan Rowe expressed thanks for the emergency funding and support.
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American’ Legion
Lawrence
Court House
Dorsey-Liberty Post
Willard Brown
Will Green
Frank Henry
A. E. Woesteme
Geodetic Institute finds continents drift slowly
Spanish press reports Potsdam scientists say North America is moving away from Europe about 12 inches per year, South America slower at eight inches, Greenland shown as having moved 600 meters west toward Canada in the last decade, with unclear wartime impact.
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Madrid
Geodetic Institute
Potsdam
North America
Europe
South America
Africa
Greenland
Canada
Labor Election Ordered for Wilson & Co. Atchison Workers
The labor relations board ordered an election to determine if production and maintenance employees at Wilson & Co. in Atchison Kansas want representation by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters AFL. The Journal World classified page notes it as the town's busiest market place.
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Washington
Labor Relations Board
Wilson & Co
Atchison, Kan
Amalgamated Meat Cutters
A.F.L
Journal-World
Beth Leads Defenses Under Japanese Air Attack on Never Never Wrong
A wounded Beth directs anti aircraft fire from a field telephone as a 20 plane Japanese bombing force approaches from the northwest. She witnesses balloon barrage action, air crafts dives, and a balloon tether trapping a bomber before collapse wounds her. The scene ends with her concussion and the battle continuing.
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Beth
Mulvane men among two killed in El Dorado crash
Garnett M. Bails 32 of Mulvane died in a car accident west of Couglass El Dorado last night. Clifton G Holland Jr 19 also of Mulvane escaped injury when the car sideswiped a bridge and went into a ditch. Bails is survived by his widow.
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el Dorado
Kan
Garnett M. Bails
Mulvane
Couglass
Clifford G. Holland, Jr
Bails
Radio Schedule Highlights From May 31 to June 1
A detailed list of radio programs across stations WREN KMBC WDAF IKX and IKX for Monday evening May 31 and Tuesday evening June 1. Programs include Armstrong Waring Lone Ranger Blondie Newsroom Vox Pop True or False Information Please and various orchestral and variety shows with times ranging from 6:00 to 11:45 PM.
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Ees Armstrong
MBC
DAF
Landon Laird
u_WREN
KMBC
Western Echoes
WDAF
Fred Waring
Wren
Earl Godwin
Vox Pop
Cavalcads of America
Lum
Abner
Voice of Firestone
Radio Theatre
Dr. I.Q. Wren
Screen Guild Players
George Fielding Eliot
Gracie Fields
Bennis King
Ikx3nbc
Gabriel Heatter
Phil Brito
Gordon McRae
Texas Rangers
Leo Reisman
Orch
Ikmbc—Cooperative League
Lou Breeze
Russ Morgan
Office of War Inf
Muehelbach
Neil Bondshu
Jack Armstrong
KMSBC
Joseph Harsch
Africa
KMBRC
Joe Rines
Earrl Godwin
John B. Kennedy
Johnny Presents
Tas
Heart of America
al Jolson
Wren—Duffy
Burns and Allen
Fibber McGee
Bob Hope
Red Skelton
KMBEC
Frazier Hunt
Harry James
Charlie Spivak
Betty McGuire
Eddie Fen
Classified ads sell hundreds of homes and farms fast
The Journal-World reports hundreds of homes and farms sold in the past year through its classified advertising. It touts low costs and prompt results for sellers seeking quick transactions.
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Journal-World
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Lily Fucci
Rutland
Frances Cox
Woodland
United States
Ife
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Independence Reporter
The
Baldwin News
Texas Oil
U. S. Navy
NEA
E. State
Carter, Waad
NEA Service. Inc
American Legion
America
Brit
O. K
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Optometrist
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