Kiev Falls to Victorious Russians in Major Breakthrough
London dispatch reports Premier Stalin announcing Kiev has fallen to Soviet forces after weeks of siege. Russian columns broke German defenses on the Dnieper and outflanked the city, prompting a swift evacuation. Stalin commended 41 infantry divisions, nine air divisions, and other units, with 324 cannons firing a victory salute. The fall marks a strategic blow to German resistance in western Ukraine.
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Kiev
Joseph Stalin
Dnieper
Sausiye
Bar
Berlin
Kerch
Crimea
Perekop Isthmus
Stalin
Ukraine
Moscow
Kansas farm bureau calls to end subsidy program
The Kansas farm bureau at its annual convention urged Congress to discontinue subsidies and oppose expansion. The group said subsidies require higher taxes and that returning soldiers should help cover costs. Other resolutions urged curb on price-lowering policies, reduced government spending, and post war adjustments to aid farmers and industry. District officers were reelected except in the third and fifth districts with Forrest Featherin gill of Independence named third district director and C. F. Leckrone of Abilene fifth district director. Mrs. M. Hendrikson of Atchison named vice chair of the home and community committee.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas Farm Bureau
Congress
Forrest Featheringill
Independence
C. F. Leckrone
Abilene
Teachers Commended For Returning To Classrooms
Gov Andrew Schoeppel praised former teachers who returned to work to relieve a shortage. He spoke at the Topeka convention of the Kansas State Teachers association saying you are handling the situation well.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
Kansas State Teachers Association
League Board Meeting at Mrs Allen Crafton’s Home
The League of Women Voters announces its regular monthly board meeting at the home of president Mrs Allen Crafton on Tuesday November 9 at 7 30 p m Policies to be determined at the state board meeting in Manhattan November 11 will be discussed at this meeting.
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League Board
League of Women Voters
Allen Crafton
Manhattan
Night Raids Follow Heaviest Air Blows on West Germany
British Mosquito bombers joined a follow up to a huge American daylight attack on Ruhr targets and western Germany last night. The US heavy force, totalling about 1000 planes with fighter escort, pounded Gelsenkirchen and Muenster while German air defenses fired back intensely.
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West Germany
London
Ruhr
Germany
Air Ministry
Annomea Taday
Aiuuset Souage
Gelsenkirchen
Muenster
Wilhelmshaven
France
Belgium
Ploesti
Romania
Dortmund-Hamm
Dortmund
Duesseldorf
R.A.F
Archibald Sinclair
Sinclair
United States Air Force
R.A.F. Bomber Command
Berlin
Stalin praises ally effort after Kiev victory and second front pledge
Premier Joseph Stalin told Moscow party leaders that Kiev had fallen and a real second front is not far off. He praised allied collaboration with the United States and Britain, urged continued production of planes tanks and guns, and warned Germany faces catastrophe while promising freedom for occupied nations and a stronger Red Army.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Kiev
Marshal Stalin
Moscow
United States
Britain
Russia
Soviet Monitor
Germany
Stalingrad
Stalin
Red Army
Ukraine
Donets
Bolshevik Party
France
Yugoslavia
Europe
Knights Templar Commandery Plans Inspection
DeMolay Commandery No 4 will hold its annual inspection at the Masonic Temple next Tuesday evening November 9. Eminent Sir Edwin S Nellis grand generalissimo of the Grand Commandery of Kansas will conduct the inspection. Dinner begins at 6 30 oclock served by the Ladies of the Beauceant.
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Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Edwin S. Nellis
Kansagi
Coal on the Way Brightens Lawrence Winter Shortage
The U S Solid Fuels Administration announced five carloads of coal will arrive in Lawrence next week to ease a severe shortage. Roy Martin of University Coal said dealers may not know who gets the cars but most coal is for homeowners with empty bins. The delivery comes after local dealers reported only 31 percent of the season's needs met, with Lawrence requiring over 22 000 more tons to keep homes and businesses warm. Only three cars reached Lawrence in the past week.
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Kansas City
U. S. Solid Fuels Administration
Lawrence
Roy Martin
University Coal Company
Martin
Solid Fuels Administration
Bombs Ravage Akyab Burma Base In 36 Hour Raids
Allied air forces from America Britain and the RAF carried out an extended assault on Akyab a key Japanese supply base in Burma. Liberators Mitchell bombers and fighters struck the west coast target dropping hundreds of tons of bombs and causing widespread fires and damage.
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New Delhi
Akyab
Burma
R.A.F
Othermerican
Garigliano
Tyrhenian
Berat Kucoy
Balkans
Split
Yuoslavia
Liberators
U. S
15Th Airforce
Falconara-Marittima
Ancona
Protein is Promised for Kansas Livestock Feed
William E. Long director of the Kansas industrial development commission said after returning from Washington that larger supplies of protein cake and meal for livestock are promised. Rep. Clifford Hope assured Kansas stock men they will receive bigger shipments in about 60 days, though not as much as feeders want. The aim is relief for feeders facing difficulty keeping livestock through the winter.
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Topeka
Kansas
William E. Long
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Washington
Clifford
Parent-Teachers Meeting Set at Junior High Library
The Parent Teachers Association will hold its regular meeting in the Junior High School library Monday evening. The business session starts at 7 30. at 8 00 the council adjourns to a study group with a round table discussion of postwar plans for the junior high.
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Parent-Teachers Association
Allied Push Breaks German Lines Near Trigno and Vasto
Allied forces in Italy shattered the Massico Trigno line, seizing Vasto and Venafro as Fifth Army patrols crossed the Garigliano. American units advanced in the Volturno region while air raids hit Berat Kucov field in Albania.
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Massico Ridge
Trigno
Vasto
Adriatic
Venafro
Vol
Albania
Berat Kucov
Balkans
Fifth Army
Eighth Army
Pietracupa
Sessano
Duronia
Pescara
Rome
San Salvo
Stock Market Index Report
The average of 60 stocks stands at 49.2 points. Yesterday the figure was 49.3 points. Market activity appears subdued with minor fluctuation across sectors.
Governor seeks release of coke for fuel relief
Topeka reports Governor Andrew F. Schoppel aims to free thousands of tons of coke held by refineries under a 1942 government order. He cites Neodesha Stanolind refinery stock of 10 000 to 12 000 tons and hopes to reach 25 000 tons total for home use, as mayor surveys show widespread coal shortages.
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Topeka
Andrew F. Schoppel
Kansas
Stanolind Oil Company
Neodesha
Schoppel
Neodesha Company
Iowa crew completes two day husk and shell on Carlson seed farm
A 31 man Iowa crew finished a two day husk ing and shelling of hybrid seed corn on George Donaldson’s farm northwest of Clinton. They harvested about 1,200 bushels for seed corn to be processed in Iowa and sold later. Some rows remained for pollination and about 400 bushels of ear corn were left for feeding.
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Iowa
George Donaldson
Clinton
Carlson
Donaldson
Carlson Hybrid Corn Seed Company
Audubon
Kansas
Committee Revokes Plan to Change Postal Rates
Washington November 6 The house ways and means committee revoked its plan to double second class postal rates and kept them at current levels. It also voted to end certain tax allowances on strategic materials and extend other tax relief rules to gas pipelines and graphite industries.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Red Cross
The
Boy Scouts
D.A.R
Germans Claim Vatican City Bombed by Allies
The German high command said enemy aircraft attacked Vatican City in Rome and damaged the moasic factory and governor's palace, but the Associated Press has no confirmation of any such attack. Berlin broadcasts cited Allied bombings and warned of possible axis claims.
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London
High Command
Berlin
Rome
Vatican City
Associated Press
Ehmiarmnigne
Benin
Transocean
Reuters
Outbreaks in Joliet Prison
About 500 of the 3,500 inmates at Joliet Stateville Prison were confined to cells and stripped of privileges after dining hall outbreaks earlier in the week, officials disclosed.
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Joliet
Ill
Stateville Prison
Football scores from today across multiple college games
Oklahoma leads Kansas at halftime 13 13 tied. Nebraska Kansas State trailing 0 0 at half. Michigan leads Indiana 14 0 at halftime. Northwestern stops Wisconsin 21 0 at halftime. Notre Dame ahead Army 6 0 at halftime. Ohio State dominates Pittsburgh 46 0. Dartmouth 20 Columbia 7 at half. Pennsylvania 6 Navy 6 remaining.
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Oklahoma
Kan-sa
Nebraska
Kansas State
Michigan
Indiana
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Notre Dame
Army
Ohio State
Pittsburgh
Dartmouth
Columbia
WLB Approves Coal Pay Plan With Conditions
The War Labor Board grants conditional approval to the Ickes-Lewis wage scale for coal miners after seven months of strikes. Anthracite provisions are approved. piecework pay formula remains a sticking point. UMW President Lewis and officials anticipate a production drive despite dissent.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Ickes-Lewis
United Mine
WLB
U.M.W
John L. Lewis
Fuels
Harold Ickes
WLE
Wayne L. Morse
Edward R. Burke
Southern Coal Operators’ Association
Freezing Temperatures Move Into Kansas Today
A weather forecast says a cold front will drop the mercury to freezing in nearly all areas of Kansas tonight, with colder conditions and clouds tomorrow. Snow from eastern Colorado may spill into Kansas, while Goodland reported 70 and 35 degree extremes yesterday.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
S. D. Flora
Colorado
Flora
Dakotas
Wyoming
Goodland
Guerrillas Launch Offensive on Peljesac Peninsula
Yugoslav guerrillas announced a Liberation Army communique that they have begun an offensive to drive German forces from the Peljesac peninsula off the Dalmatian coast.
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London
Peljespe
Dalmatian
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Germany feels loss of manpower
Washington reports that Germany faces severe manpower shortages from the Russian campaign. U S observers note German losses are enormous and largely irreplaceable. The Nazi drive to mobilize 2,000,000 men yielded about 1,500,000, with many divisions under strength.
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Washington
Germany
U. S
Reich
Four Franklin county men gain U.S. citizenship at district court ceremony
In Ottawa and Lawrence residents seven men earned citizenship certificates at a 2 PM ceremony in the district court room. Judge Hugh Means administered oaths after examiner Miss T. F. Lester reviewed and interviewed the applicants. Recipients included John Koch of 1616 Vermont Street and four Franklin county residents, all born in Europe and naturalized in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Lawrence
Franklin County
United States
District Court Room
Hugh Means
T. F. Lester
Court House
John Callahan
John Koch
Vermont Street
Germany
New York
Wenzel Frank Wittmann
Ottawa
Kan
Austria
Baltimore
Fred Valentine Gephart
Route 2
Charles Severine Williamson
Denmark
Force Is Used to Quiet Tule Lake Uprising
Tule Lake California faced a large scale security operation as tanks armored cars machine guns and fixed bayonets backed by the army to quell the first major uprising at the internment camp. Twenty internees and at least one civilian were injured in the violence that prompted military control after the War Relocation Authority requested aid.
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Tule Lake
Calif
America
United States
War Relocation Authority Codes Retain
Bomber Crash Lands After Fire Warned By Sister Ship
A 56 24 bomber from Topeka Army Air Base dumped fuel, the engine caught fire, but the crew extinguished it and escaped with no serious injuries after crashing eight miles south of Hiawatha. Five men aboard. The second plane circled to aid the crew as the disabled aircraft ground-looped on a wheat field knoll.
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Hiawatha
Topeka Army Air Base
First Novel by Clark Duncan Published in Missouri Hills Tale
Clark Duncan publishes Light on a Hill his first novel a Christian fiction set in a Missouri hill town He lives at 1247 Tennessee Street works as a telegrapher for Union Pacific in Kansas City The volume is displayed at the Book Nook now on sale here.
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Clark Duncan
Tennessee Street
Duncan
Union Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Missouri
Marion stock auction raises war bonds total
A Marion sale drew 2,300 people as 80 head of stock sold for $4,000 with buyers paying in war bonds and stamps. About 36,000 more in war bonds were purchased. Barbecued beef and coffee were served. Event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the Production Credit corporation.
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Marion Marion
Marion
Chamber of Commerce
Production Credit Corporation
Jayhawk Nursery Gains National War Fund Support
The Jayhawk Nursery near Rugby England will receive 3500 from the National War Fund for the coming year matching by the British government. The Kansas University community has raised over 7000 for maintenance since its two year operation aiding German child sufferers. Local workers welcome inclusion in a single campaign with the War Fund and Community Chest effort. The Douglas County War Chest exceeded its quota by over 25 percent, aiding the national decision.
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Jayhawk Nursery
Germany
England
National War Fund
Deane W. Malott
University of Kansas
Winthrop W. Aldrich
New York
Rugby
Lawrence
National War Fund Committee
Douglas County
Moe
Record Hog Receipts Hit Seven Year Peak at Kansas City
Receipts of salable hogs at the Kansas City stockyards last week totaled 24,000 head, the highest in seven years and above the 1942 peak week. The figure trails the 1933 record week of 169,580 during the government hog slaughter program, with the seasonal peak still to come.
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Kansas City
Arraignment Dates Set For Federal Defendants
Defendants in federal criminal cases will be arraigned in Topeka on November 15 and in Kansas City Kansas on November 22, as ordered by Judge Guy T. Helvering. Most defendants were indicted by a grand jury last week. Helvering will sit with Judge Bower Broadyus of Muskogee Oklahoma at the fall term opening in Fort Scott to familiarize himself with the work.
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Topeka
Federal District Court
Kansas City
Kan
Guy T. Helvering
Helvering
Bower Broaddus
Muskogee
Okla
Fort Scott
Azores Consulates Closed Amid Neutrality Move
All Azores consulates including US and UK and German offices have been closed by Portuguese authorities to protect Portugal's neutrality after it leased lands to Britain. The action was reported today in Washington.
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Azores
Washington
United States
Portugal
Britain
Lawrence Couple Weds at Court House Yesterday
Married by Probate Judge Harry M. Childers and Nellie Nadine Pieratt of Lawrence were wed at the court house yesterday by Probate Judge Frank R. Gray.
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Harry M. Childers
Nellie Nadine Pieratt
Lawrence
Court House
Frank R. Gray
Weather Outlook and Temperature Readings
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with lows near 25 to 30 degrees across the state. Sunday remains cool with highs in the 40s and winds 25 to 30 mph diminishing later. Temperature readings list yesterday and current highs and lows for local areas.
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Kansas
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