British Trap Axis Forces East of Tobruk In Major Battle
British Tobruk and Rezegh forces pressed a junction with the garrison, trapping large axis units east of Tobruk as Rommel’s columns attempted to break out. Italy’s Balsiye ai stan reportedly wiped out, while German and Italian troops suffered heavy losses and scattered. Maryland bombers supported ground action with several direct hits on tanks and trucks.
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Cairo
Tobruk
Rezegh
Balsiye Ai Stan
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Halfaya
Hellfire
Sidi Omar
Mediterranean
Gazala
Derna
Alan Cunningham
Gambut
Altho
Tobruk-Rezegh
Ships to Pacific as U S aid strengthens British Far East Power
London reports United States aid in the Atlantic enabled Britain to send battleship strength to the Pacific to counter Japan. Churchill noted US help in the Atlantic boosted Far Eastern forces, with the Prince of Wales en route to Far East waters and Cape Town as a transit point.
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London
United States
Churchill
Japan
Atlantic
Britain
Capetown
South Africa
Far Eastern
Mediterranean
Peril to Moscow Deepens as German Forces Gain Ground
German troops push toward Moscow from the west and south, with advances near Mozhaisk 36 miles from the capital and near Tula 100 miles away. Reports say Skopin fallen as field units pierce defenses before Moscow.
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Associated Press
Russia
Moscow
Tula
Volokolamsk
Jyloscow
Mozhaisk
U.S.S.R
Adolf Hitler
Kalinin
Klin
Pravda
Communist Party
Berlin
Skopin
Stalinogorsk
Hitler
Fedor von. Bock
Ukraine
Rostov on-Don
Donets River
Freshwater jellyfish found in Lawrence lake study begins
KU zoologists Dr. A B Leonard and Claude W Hibbard report discovery of freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta ryderyi in Green Lake near the old brick ovens. About 500 specimens stocked in Potter Lake for coursework with plans to study life cycles and possible re stocking if no eggs hatch. Parallel note on Topeka highway officials seeking road by passes to Kansas City as part of Roosevelt road defense bills.
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University of Kansas Department of Zoology
Green Lake
Lawrence
A. B. Leonard
Claude W. Hibbard
Potter Lake
Ryderyi
Kansas
Rose Garden
Gage Park
Leonard
Altho
K. U
Zoology
First U S Troops Steam Up River to Paramaribo
Pi Three United States ships steamed up the Surinam river to Paramaribo with army troops and equipment for setting up barracks for larger contingents to follow. The rest of the troops will be sent here by agreement with the Netherlands and with Brazil’s approval to guard bauxite mines after camps are erected.
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Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
United States
Surinam
Netherlands
Brazil
Army Observer Captured Near Cairo Reported by Authorities
United States Army observer Captain Buckley, serving with British forces in Libya, has been captured near Cairo, authorities announced tonight. Details on his status and location were not immediately clarified.
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U.S. Army
Cairo
Buckley
United States Army
Libya
U.S. Note Weighed as Japanese Near End of Talks
Tokyo reports indicate Japanese officials weighed Secretary Hulls note with no timing for a reply while press views stressed negotiations near culmination. Namura Kurusu and Saburo Kurusu (Saburo Kurusu) conveyed Hulls note in Washington. Cabinet heard no clear next step. The Konoye government fell Oct 16.
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Tokyo
U.S
Hull
Japan
Washington
Kichisaburo
Nomura
Saburo Kurusu
Shigenori Togo
Snewal
Domei
United States
Fumimaro Konoye
Konoye
Quail Stamp Rush Sells Out in Shawnee County
Topeka dispatch reports Clerk Charles F. E. Holman placed a rush order for 1,750 quail stamps to satisfy hunters this season. All stamps were sold, compared with 1,250 sold last year.
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Topeka
Shawnee County
Charles FE. Holman
Congress takes steps to seize defense plants in strikes
Senate and house committees move to empower the government to seize defense plants if strikes disrupt production. Bills would freeze open or closed shop status and create voluntary arbitration with a 60 day cooling off period before seizure. Senate and House actions reflect mood to curb defense labor disputes despite labor opposition.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Connally
House Labor Committee
Ramspeck
Dga
Senator Connally
D-Tex
National Defense
Senate Labor Committee
Herring
D.-Sa
William S. Knudsen
House
Senate
Knudsen
John L. Lewis
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Special Railroad Factfinding Board
National Defense Mediation Board
Congress
C.I.O
A.F.L
The
National Association of Manufacturers
House Rejects Wage Controls in Price Legislation
The House today defeated a plan to limit wage increases through price control and kept agriculture price provisions. A voice vote refused to strike ceilings for farm prices below the 1919-29 average, allowing cotton to rise to about 21.6 cents per pound amid surplus fears. The body also rejected a modified wage-control amendment 102 to 53, despite Farm Bureau support.
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Washington
House
Representative Robertson
D.-Va
American Farm Bureau Federation
Robertson
Egyptian Liner to Port After a Bizarre Voyage
New York dispatch reports the Egyptian passenger liner El Nil arrived in port after an 84 day voyage from Alexandria filled with knife fights over a pretty Englishwoman, bombings in Suez and submarine scares. The 7,769 ton ship faced quarantine delays and water and fuel shortages that impeded calls at West African ports. One officer said a passenger was threatened, and Richard C. Watson described danger aboard after a sandstorm incident in Nigeria.
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UPI
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Alexandria
Suez
Egypt
Richard C. Watson
Halifax
N. 8
Royal Canadians
Air Force
Nigeria
Watson
H. G. Walton
Russian Battleship Alleges Exchange With Turkish Guns
Nazi controlled Radio Huizen reports a Russian battleship exchanged broadsides with Turkish coastal batteries and patrol ships at the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus. The Parishkaya Kommuna was cited as cruising near the straits seeking passage. Negotiations with Turkey and possible Soviet requests to move ships toward Alexandria are also noted.
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New York
Huizen
Netherlands
Black Sea
Bosporus
N.B.C
Pariskaya-Kommuna
Istanbul
Alexandria
Parishkaya Kommuna
Russia
Ancient Hatchet Found In Lawrence Attic
Otto Schott discovered a cast iron hatchet in a Lawrence residence attic at 1023 Pennsylvania Street. The red white and blue hatchet bears Washingtons inscription and a bust, likely a commemorative novelty from his 1789 inauguration.
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Washington
U.S
Otto Schott
Lawrence
Pennsylvania Street
Schott
Hesis
Forces Quit Shanghai U S Marine Garrison Ends 14 Year Stay
In Shanghai thousands bid farewell to the last U S marine garrison ending a 14 year stay as detachments at Peiping and Tientsin depart. Washington warns no compromise with Japan on China war and contemplates arming merchant ships in the Pacific amid rising Far East tension.
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United States
Japan
Pacific
Canberra
Australia
Advisory War Council
Hong Kong
Hongkong
Shanghai
S. S
Harrison
U. S
Orient
Peiping
Tientsin
North China
China
Roosevelt
Thailand
Washington
Burma
Malaya
Tokyo
Hull
Saburo Kurusu
Domei
Japanese War and Navy Ministry
Hideki Tojo
Nichi Nichi
Britain
Indo-China
Kansas Retail Sales Rise in October 1941
Washington reports Kansas retail stores rose 12 percent in October from a year earlier, with a 20 percent gain for the first ten months of 1941. Men's clothing led the upturn at 84 percent, followed by hardware 28 percent and jewelry 27 percent. car dealers fell 17 percent. Kansas City Kansas up eight percent, Wichita 20 percent, Topeka five percent.
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Washington
Kansas
Census Bureau
Kansas City
Kan
Wichita
Topeka
Big Six Officials Set Winter Meeting in Kansas City
The Big Six conference athletic directors coaches and faculty representatives will meet in Kansas City December 5 and 6. Dr. W W Davis says there is no major business item on the agenda. A basketball rules interpretation meeting will be held and coaches will draft the 1942 conference cage schedule.
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Big Six
Kansas City
W.W. Davis
K. U
Farmers to get refunds on wheat penalty payments
In Kansas, farmers who could not seed their allotted wheat due to wet weather will be refunded penalties paid last summer for excess production. The Agriculture Department told Representative E. H. Rees that county conservation committees hold the funds and will begin refunds after winter seeding passes, with payments starting in about a month. Over 4 million dollars was paid in penalties on 1941 crop excess.
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Washington
Kansas
Agriculture Department
E. H. Rees
R.-Kan
County Conservation Committees
Rees
Douglas District Boy Scouts elect leaders and plan 1941 events
A. B. Martin of Lawrence was reelected chairman with F. Marshall of Baldwin as vice chairman. Nominated were A. E. Woes temeyer Wade Pierce and Robert Oyler subject to Kaw Council board approval. Incoming committee heads include J. J. Lavery Van K. Bruner Fred Brown Ralph Graber Lyle Gibbon and Wray Enders. Plans include a Scout Circus in Haskell stadium next spring a winter camp at Camp Naish December 28 to 31 and hosting the 1941 Kaw Council annual meeting with eleven northeast Kansas counties participating.
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A. B. Martin
Lawrence
Douglas
J. J. Lavery
van K. Bruner
Fred Brown
Ralph E. Graber
Lyle Gibbon
Wray Enders
Kaw Council
Kansas
Haskell Stadium
Camp Naish
Dwight Hawk Killed in Hunting Accident Near Grove
Dwight L. Hawk 33 son of Mrs. Maud Hawk and brother of Mrs. Fay Brown of Lawrence died after a shotgun discharged while he crawled through a barbed wire fence on the John Shenk farm near Grove in Shawnee county. A state highway engineer, he lived in Tonganoxie. Accompanied by brother in law Daryl Bliss of Topeka and Bliss's son Donald 11 he died an hour after the accident. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 from the Presbyterian church of Oskaloosa with the body lying in state at Gabel funeral home until 1 p.m. then at the church.
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Dwight L. Hawk
Maud Hawk
Fay Brown
Lawrence
Hawk
Tonganoxie
John Shenk
Grove
Shawnee County
Daryl Bliss
Topeka
Bliss
Donald
Ruth
Presbyterian Church
Oskaloosa
Gabel Funeral Home
New Auto Licenses Go On Sale Here Monday
1942 automobile and truck license plates will go on sale at the office of County Treasurer Roy Flory Monday morning. Purchasers must present auto title and 1941 registration receipt. If receipt unavailable an extra 25 cents will be charged. New tags feature white numerals on a green background with two yellow sun flowers.
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Roy Flory
Attack on Dueseldorf as British bombers sweep east
London reports a large scale air attack on Dueseldorf with railways and industrial areas heavily bombed. Ostend docks and German airfields in the Low Countries attacked as British bombers advance into Germany. Some injuries and damage noted in English coastal districts.
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London
Duesseldorf
Air Ministry
Ostend
Low Countries
Germany
Air and
Home Security
Anglia
Engan
Christmas Lights Turned On Across Lawrence Streets Tonight
Lawrence plans a festive Christmas display with hundreds of colored lights and large silver bells at intersections. Santa broadcasts Monday at 5 16 pm over WREN. The parade moves to 3 10 pm next week to allow city students to attend.
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Lawrence
Santa Claus
Wren
Harold Fisher
W. B. Dalton
Dalton
Record Thanksgiving warmth to give way to cold front
In Kansas mild Indian summer weather continues through the weekend with highs near 69 in Topeka and Goodland. A western Canada cold front is expected to sweep south next week bringing cold rain and possible snow, with eastern Kansas not freezing tonight and lows 35 to 40.
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Topeka
Kansas
Goodland
S. D. Flora
Canada
Drastic Change in French Attitude Toward Nazis
New York reports a sharp shift in French outlook toward Germany after a week of credible dispatches. Previously confident talks of collaboration between Germany and Vichy have cooled with indications that a Petain meeting with German leaders may be postponed indefinitely.
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New York
CUPRA
Germany
Associated Press
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Weather outlook for Kansas Missouri Oklahoma national forecast
Extended forecast from 6 30 p m November 28 to 6 30 p m December 3 shows mostly fair unseasonably warm weekend with a slow downward temperature trend. Scattered showers begin Monday followed by sharp cooling and moderate to locally heavy rains, with snow in Kansas.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
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Fairfax
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Junction City
Fort Riley Military Reservation
Charles M. Hay
St. Louis
McCormack
Massachusetts
Bill Isi
U.S. Marine
Journal-World
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DeSoto
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University of Kansas, Haskell
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