Stalingrad Battle Seen Shifting As Nazis Press South
Soviet headquarters report Russian troops breached German trenches northwest of Stalingrad and repelled four night attacks while Nazis captured two streets in an industrial suburb. Red Star described a large assault near the Volga with heavy fighting as a German objective to reach the Volga remained unfinished.
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Stalingrad
Volga
Adolf Hitler
U.S.S.R
Kalmyck
Lower Volga
Caspian Sea
Elista
Astrakhan
Berlin
Red Star
Red Army
Semeon Timoshenko
Don
Hitler
Nazi press claims Denmark pressed for forced troops
Stockholm reports Nazi pressure on Denmark to supply at least 30 000 volunteers for the eastern front and to declare war on Russia with Denmark handing over merchant ships and boosting labor and material contributions. Confirmation is lacking but new Danish demands were noted in recent days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
Germany
Christian
Denmark
London
Russia
Danish
Reich
Strike at Chrysler Plant in Detroit Over Smoking Rule
About two thousand workers at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue plant in Detroit walked out in protest during an early shift. Management said 400 men were disciplined for violating a shop rule against smoking and partial operations continued.
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Chrysler
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Jefferson Avenue
Shimmon's Shop Stock Auction Notices
Stock market brief notes a drop with index 39.6 and yesterday 39. Auction for China Glass Gifts at Shimmon's Shop located 906 N. H.
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China
Shimmon’s Shop
N. H
U S Bombers Strike Lille In Largest Allied Air Raid
London Oct 9 More than 100 U S bombers attacked the Lille region in northern France in the largest daylight bomber and fighter operation yet. Flying Fortresses led the raid with allied Spitfires and Hurricanes escorting, five enemy fighters downed as the force recrossed the Channel.
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London
United States
Lille
France
United States Army
United States Army Command
Evening News
Scrap metal drive expands as Kansas aims to top Nebraskas total
The second week of school scrap collection begins tomorrow at 8 am with county trucks and nine students aiding in the effort. University high and Haskell Institute contribute equipment and manpower as Gov Ratner announces new county field liasons to push totals beyond 65 000 tons and challenge any state in the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Redmond
Haskell Institute
Menj
George Worrall
Howard Bowman
Dick Lupier
Ralph Dagenais
Virgil Hollenbeck
Homer Hoover
Emil Hueur
Jack Pio
Bill Lakey
University High School
Miss May Gardner
Germany
Miss Gardner
Samuel Palmer
Gertrude Rodgers
Topeka
Kansas
Payne Ratner
State Defense Council
Harry Woods
State Salvage Committee
Howard Rusco
State Press Association
Ratner
Nebraska
Dwight Griswold
Lawrence
Dolph Simons
Milton Tabor
Dale Fisher
W. A. Stacey
C. C. Wright
State Teachers Association
Senate Votes to Impose Victory Levy on Incomes Over 624
The Senate approved a 5 percent victory levy on earnings above 624 yearly, adding to a 1 percent social security tax for 1943. President Roosevelt urged freezing payroll taxes and opposed expanding exemptions, while planning a broader social security expansion after the tax bill passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Downey
D-Calif
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Finance Committee
Kansas Leads In Drive For Scrap
New York report shows agricultural Kansas leading 48 states in the scrap metal drive with 72.2 pounds per person and 65,000 tons total. Utah Oregon Colorado follow in per capita and totals while Pennsylvania and New York contend in the industrial east.
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New York
Kansas
United Scrap Metal Drive
Nebraska
Utah
Oregon
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Richard W. Slocum
General Committee
National Committee
University Editors Roundtables Featured Speakers at KU
Basil Walters executive editor of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune and Frank Clough from the Washington censorship office will speak at the University of Kansas Editors Roundtables on October 17. Attending editors will join a luncheon and attend the Kansas Oklahoma game that afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil “Stuffy” Walters
Minneapolis - Star- Journal and Tribune
Frank C. Clough
Office of Censorship
Wasington
D.C
Emporia Gazette
University of Kansas
Kansas- Oklahoma
Bulky Pay Envelopes Warn Springfield Plant Workers
At Baker Manufacturing war plant in Springfield Tl President W C Staley included in some pay envelopes a 1000 mark German note with a note condemningabsences. The message urged full time employment for war material production and warned that not working aids the enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Baker Manufacturing Company
War Plant
W. C. Staley
Staley
President Roosevelt to give radio speech Monday at 9 pm
President Roosevelt announced his radio address for next Monday at 9 p m Central war time lasting about half an hour. He reiterated he has not fixed the talk subjects and may cover many topics he has considered or received suggestions about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Surprise U S Air Raids Destroy Planes and Ships
Allied air strikes across the Pacific severely hampered Japanese forces. In the Solomons Shortland island area an American carrier task force destroyed ships and planes with no American losses. MacArthur’s bombers hit airbases on nearby islands, aiding the offensive push toward New Guinea and the Aleutians.
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Washington
Qct
Pacific War
Solomon Islands
New Guinea
Aleutian Islands
North Solomons
Shortland Island
Navy
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas county freezes fuel oil and rationing begins
Fuel oil heating is frozen in Douglas county effective October 1 1942. All sales must use coupons and registration details will be announced soon. John Brand chairs the war price and rationing board which will add three members to manage fuel oil rationing. Home heating units converted from coal must revert within 380 days or face losing fuel oil access. OPA officials say oil usage will drop about one third from last winter and advise insulation and weatherproofing to keep homes warm.
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Douglas County
John Brand
OPA
Kansas City
Scrap and Fire Prevention Program At Liberty Memorial High
Liberty Memorial High School held a chapel program on scrap and fire prevention. Stan Stockton led the event as master of ceremonies with speeches by Doris Anderson Bob Ellsworth and Annette Bigelow. Doris Marrotte performed a violin solo with Shirley Nan Hargiss at the piano. Principal Neal Wherry announced the 100 Pound Club where students must bring 100 pounds of scrap weighed by the auto mechanics class. Several classes challenged each other in scrap contests amid enthusiastic participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Memorial High School
Stan Stockton
Doris Anderson
Bob Ellsworth
Annette Bigelow
Doris Marrotte
Shirley Nan Hargiss
Neal
Wherry
Auto Mechanics
Pleasant Indian summer continues in Kansas
Topeka reports warm fall weather as Phillipsburg records 89 for yesterday and Goodland sees a 43 overnight low. Southern and eastern Kansas cool to 55 last night with no strong cooling in sight. Featherman A D Robb calls conditions ideal for farmers to finish work and notes no city complaints.
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Topeka
Kansas
Phillipsburg
Goodland
Featherman
A. D. Robb
Rice County Claims Top Scrap Metal Drive
Rice County residents collected 1385 tons of metal after an all day campaign in Lyons Kansas, claiming the national scrap metal championship. They plan another drive Sunday. Investors insured up to 5000 dollars by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation through The Lawrence Building and Loan Association. Phone 55. 800 Mass. Street. Ad.
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Lyons
Kan
Rice County
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Lawrence ‘Building and Loan Association
Mass
Adyv
Lawrence Firms pledge to aid scrap drive for war effort
In Lawrence a Sunday scrap drive draws 223 participating businesses pledging to gather metal for the war effort. Stores plan front sidewalk piles or direct haul to the yard with Red Cross trucks aiding. Four volunteer trucks meet at 2 pm at the police station to clear donated piles and load trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Red Cross
McConnell Lumber Company
American Service Company
Yoy Civic Clubs
Dick Zimmerman
Rotary Club
Marion Barlow
Lions
C. W. Pollom
Kiwanis
Charles Banning
Ernest Pontius
Journal-World
Chi Omega Scrap Drive Debuts With Persephone Ford
Chi Omega sorority members push the decayed Persephone Ford down University drive as part of a campus scrap drive run by the Coed Volunteer Corps directed by Major Jill Peck. Phi Kappa Psi volunteers help load the car onto the scrap heap to raise funds for Christmas gifts for former KU men in service. The drive targets about 35,000 pounds of scrap from every student, with collections ending next Friday.
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Chi Omega
Persephone
Chi O
University Drive
Fowler
Tokyo
Phi Kappa Psi
Chio
Ku Kus
K. U
Ledford Waives Hearing in Burglary Case at Phi Gamma Delta
Elizabeth Ledford waived a preliminary hearing in Robert Oyler's justice court on burglary charges from the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. She was bound over to district court with a $1,000 bond, which she could not meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Ledford
Phi. Gamma Delta
Robert Oyler
Justice Court
Eldridge Forty hosts Kansas Building and Loan meeting
Last evening the Northeast group of the Kansas Building and Loan league met at the Hotel Eldridge. Officials attended from Kansas City Newton Bonner Springs Tonganoxie Topeka and Lawrence.
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Eldridge
Building and Loan
Kansas Building and Loan League
Kansas City
Newton
Bonner Springs
Tonganoxie
Topeka
Lawrence
Legion Commander Urges AFL to End Wartime Strikes
Roane, head of the American Legion, told the AFL convention in Toronto that wartime strikes threaten organized labor. He urged leaders to stop unauthorized activity and warned that continued sabatoge could ruin the legitimate labor movement and provoke a popular backlash.
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Toronto
Roane Waring
American Legion
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
A.F.L
Legion
America
Organize Labor
Survey praises Kernahan directed Lawrence survey
Pastors praise the Kernahan survey completed in Lawrence under Dr. A Earl Kernahan and secretary Anne Gurley. Clergy from First Methodist First Christian Trinity Episcopal First Baptist United Brethren and others call it the most complete and strategic survey, with high expectations for spiritual progress and community impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kernahan
Lawrence
A. Earl Kernahan
Anne Gurley
O. E.allison
First Methodist Church
Emporia
Kansas City
H. G. Barr
First Christian Church
Alfred P. Smith
Ministerial Alliance
Alfred J. Beil
John E. Bowers
Trinity Episcopal Church
Howard E. Koelb
First Baptist Church
Dr. Kernahan
Ev. Lawrence Deever
United Brethren Church
Dr W H Webster Dies In Baldwin At 83
Dr W H Webster a Baldwin dentist for 50 years died after a three week illness. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 2 30 p m from Barnett funeral home Baldwin with Dr C W Bailey in charge. He will be buried in Oakwood cemetery. Survived by his wife a son Dr Harry R Webster of Ottawa and a granddaughter Dorothy Jean Webster. He was an uncle of the late Dr F H Bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Webster
Baldwin
Barnett
C. W. Bailey
Oakwood
Webster
Kansas City Dental College
Harry R. Webster
Ottawa
Dorothy Jean Webster
F. H. Bell
Taft proposes manpower director to recruit for armed forces and essentials
Senator Taft introduces a bill to establish a new office of manpower director with broad authority over recruiting for the armed forces agriculture industry and essential civilian occupations. The article notes manpower as the nation’s most serious problem and mentions dates for local events in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Rqhio
Rezoning Denied for Lawrence Housing Project on Main Block
Lawrence planning commission rejected a rezoning request for a block between eighteenth and nineteenth streets and Louisiana and Ohio, proposed by Ernest Klooz and Kansas City developer William Shackelford to build 54 small family units in 18 buildings aimed at war plant workers and faculty. Six residents protested, citing crowded schools and property values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Planning Commission
Louisiana
Ohio
Ernest Klooz
William H. Shackelford, Jr
Kansas City
Klooz
George Docking
Lawrence
Kanesaa
Defense
Laiwrence
Board of Zoning Appeals
Planning Commission
Wheat and corn crop estimates issued by agriculture department
The department's early forecast places this year’s wheat crop at 9,243,946,000 bushels and corn at 3,132,002,000 bushels. For Kansas, wheat yield is estimated at 18.5 bushels per acre with total production at 196,177,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Kansas
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FORD
11Th and
N.H
Paul D. Haney
Parke Woodard
Fritzel
New Hampeshire
Paul B. Harnar
New Hampshire
M. F. Lienard
Little Changa
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