Allied Forces Press Volturno Push In Italy
Allied patrols push across the Volturno river north of Naples amid heavy rain and stiff resistance from the German third armored grenadiers. Allied HQ notes continued fighting along Caserta and the lower Volturno as weather worsens.
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London
Cairo
Volturno
Naples
Garigliano
Algiers
Italy
Third Armored Grenadiers
Associated Press
Relman Morin
Fifth Army
Caserta
Calore
Adriatic
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth
Termoh
Greece
Crete
Dodecanese
R.A.F
Middle East
Herakion
Calato
Rhodes
Africa
Eleusis
Athens
Heraklion
Kasteli
Maritzal
Merakli
Palata
Termoli
Isernia
Formia
Third Panzer Grenadiers
Paris
Vasto
Finest weather in the world forecast for Kansas
Weatherman S. D. Flora described today the Indian summer conditions across Kansas with temperatures rising. Mercury stayed above freezing. no frost reported. Goodland fell to 42 degrees while Phillipsburg reached 78 under sunny skies.
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Topeka
Weatherman
S. D. Flora
Kansas
Goodland
Phillipsburg
Stock Market Index Holds Steady At 60 Stocks
The stock index for sixty issues on the exchange stood at 49.9 after a slight rise from 49.7 yesterday. Market activity showed marginal gains with investors watching notable shifts in early trading.
Allied Bombers Strike Deep Into East Prussia in Long Raids
Allied heavy bombers conducted deep into Europe raids targeting Pomerania in eastern Germany Poland and East Prussia from bases around London. The operations followed earlier RAF raids on Hannover and Bremen with substantial losses reported on both sides and continued German retaliation over England.
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East Prussia
London
Europe
Pomerania
Germany
Poland
Germans Press Steady Defense as Dnieper Battles Rage
Moscow dispatch reports heavy German use of tanks bombers and troops across the Dnieper to prevent a Soviet pincers on Kiev. Russians expanded bridgeheads north and south with a third crossing between Kremenchug and Dnepropetrovsk. U.S. made trucks and planes aid Red Army efforts in defending lifelines amid critical river battles.
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Moscow
the Dnieper
Kiev
Kremenchug
Dnepropetrovsk
Dnieper
Europe
Volga
Danube
Red Army
United States
Hearing set in Wichita rent case to curb eviction suits
The Office of Price Administration seeks a temporary injunction in federal court to halt eviction actions in state courts under OPA rules. Named defendants include Roy Maltbie and other Wichita court officials, with local owners John F. and Eva Loveland. The hearing before Federal Judge Stephen S. Chandler is scheduled for Monday in Wichita.
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Wichita
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Fred J. Partridge
Kansas
Roy Maltbie
Wichita City
Clair E. Robb
Harry W. Stout
William ©. Attwater
Ralph E. Gilchrist
John F
Eva Loveland
U. S
Walter A. Haxman
Topeka
Dewey Yoke
Lovelands
Huxman
A. B. Mitchell
Stephen S. Chandler
Lahoma
Warning of Air Terror Spread Across Germany
London reports that American bombers flying over Germany toward East Prussia and Poland may have reached within 300 miles of the Russian front. The dispatch frames the potential for allied strikes linking Britain with the Soviet front against Germany’s air campaign against German cities.
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London
Germany
East Prussia
Poland
Britain
Russia
Berlin
Oil Pipeline Expansion Aims Eastward Growth
Washington reports a sixfold rise in eastern petroleum deliveries from 66 000 to 360 000 barrels daily since July 1941 with plans to reach 700 000 barrels daily by early summer 1944. The 256 million dollar program covers 18 lines, 13 completed, 5 721 miles finished, and 3 303 miles converted to reverse flow. Major projects pending include Permian basin outlets and a 250 mile east coast line, while two government lines from Houston area to Linden New Jersey and Refugio to Houston near completion.
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Washington
Eastern Seaboard
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Permian Basin
West Texas-New Mexico
Chicago
Ind
Toledo
Houston- Beaumont
Tex
Linden
N. J
Refugio
Houston
Douglas County teachers hear program after meeting
About 75 teachers and 50 pupils attended the fall meeting of the Douglas County Teachers association at Liberty Memorial high school auditorium from 10 am to noon. The program included vocal solos by Judy Richardson and Shirley Rosenal with piano accompaniment by Marguerite Phillips, plus travel photos by W C Simons.
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Douglas County Teachers Association
Liberty Memorial High School
Eudora School
Judy Richardson
Shirley Rosenal
Marguerite Phillips
W. C. Simons
South America
Posing as OPA inspector enters Ottawa home
Frank Brown reported a man claiming OPA credentials ransacked his Ottawa home but took nothing. The suspect showed credentials to neighbors to gain entry. Mayor Geiger and Wichita inspector McKay questioned the incident and credential ownership during their checks.
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Ottawa
Kan
Frank Brown
OPA
Topeka
Tocal Police
Refugees Reached Sweden From Denmark in Week
Four thousand panic stricken Jews arrived safely in Sweden from Denmark in the past week according to Aftonbladet. A boat carrying 200 more escaped to Sweden this morning by skirting the Danish coast past German patrols.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Denmark
Aftonbladet
Allied food shipments arrive for Naples relief effort
Naples reports first allied food shipments have arrived for relief of destitute inhabitants. AMG officials disclosed the distribution is expected to begin immediately.
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Naples
AMG
Five Japanese Warships Sunk or Damaged in Solomon Islands Action
Allied forces shelled the central Solomon Islands engagement off Vella Lavella. Japanese light cruiser and destroyer were sunk, two destroyers damaged, others fled. American losses were moderate. Japan claimed evacuees reached Kolombangara and Vella Lavella. Wake raid timing noted. U S forces silent on details. Portugal moves toward war with Japan over Timor.
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Japan
U. S
Solomon Islands
Vella Lavella
U.S
Frank Robinson Walker
Alabama
South Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Central Pacific
U. S. Navy
Wake Island
Tokyo
United States
U. S. Air Force
China
Claire Chennault
Indo-China
Haiphong
Hanoi
Portugal
Portuguese Timor
Australia
Kansas Sets 185000 Ton Scrap Drive Goal
Topeka urges a year end scrap metal drive totaling 185,000 tons. Gov. Andrew Schoeppel calls for citizens to gather iron steel copper lead zinc and brass to supply steel plants for war materials and notes Kansas led the nation in a previous drive.
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Kansas
Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
Attacks on Sweden escalate in German press editorials
The American-Swedish news exchange reports Germany's press has grown more violent toward Sweden. It quotes Voelkisch er Beobachter, Hitler's newspaper, praising defense of Sweden and saying Swedes deserve to taste Bolshevism, and adds that Swedish insults will not be forgotten.
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New York
American-Swedish News Exchange
Sweden
Voelkischer Beobachter
Hitler
Lawrence Business College Night School Ad
Advertisement for shorthand typing comp tometry and bookkeeping night courses at Lawrence Business College Adv. offering practical training for office work and clerical careers. Courses run evenings to fit work schedules. Enroll now for next term.
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The
Lawrence Business College
Tension Mounts as Germans Move to Take Over France
Reports from allied and axis sources indicate Germany plans to seize control of the French government. Arrests rise as resistance to occupation intensifies. Paris radio spokesmen claim takeover if authorities fail to subdue terrorism. Free French in Algiers say seizure could occur any day. The Gazette de Lausanne notes Laval may soon leave the political scene.
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London
France
Paris
Robert de Breauplan
Radio France
Algiers
Gazette de Lausanne
Office of War Information
Pierre Laval
Stalin declares complete clearance of Taman Peninsula from Germans
London reports Stalin’s order announcing the Taman peninsula is fully recovered from Nazi control. Berlin confirms heavy Soviet losses but notes Russian advances along the Kuban and Dnieper defenses. Moscow plans 20 salvos to celebrate, signaling further southern operations.
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London
Taman
Kerch
Crimea
Hitler
Caucasus
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Sea of Azov
Black Sea
Berlin
Kuban
Moscow
Dnieper River
Kiev
Bindweed Eradication Progress in Douglas County
County and city officials inspect bindweed control efforts with sodium chlorate and cultivation. Since April 14,000 pounds of chemical have been used to treat about 18 acres, with 58 acres cultivated. work continues into late fall across Oak Hill cemetery water plant grounds Memorial hospital grounds and two farms on highway 40 west of Lawrence.
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Douglas County
T. F. Yost
Topeka
Ebon Anderson
M. N. Penny
T. R. Gerhart
Deal Six
H. E. Eustace
City Council
A. F. Shields
City Street Department
Oak Hill Cemetery
Memorial Hospital
Highway 40
Lawrence
Anderson
Regents Meet At K U For Fall Board Session
The Kansas State Board of Regents held its fall meeting this morning in Chancellor Deane Malott's KU office in Lawrence. Members include Lester McCoy from Garden City as chairman, Willis N. Kelly of Hutchinson, L. B. Spake of Kansas City, J. B. Driscoll of Russell, Drew McLaughlin of Paola, Oscar Stauffer of Topeka, and secretary Hubert Brighton of Topeka. They were guests at the KU Iowa State football game this afternoon.
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Kansas State Board of Regents
Deane Malott
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Lester McCoy
Garden City
Willis N. Kelly
Hutchinson
L. B. Spake
Kansas City
J. B. Driscoll
Russell
Drew McLaughlin
Paola
Oscar Stauffer
Topeka
Hubert Brighton
War outlook bleak from Pacific reporters at Michigan
Lieutenant General William S. Knudsen Navy Captain Lawrence A. Abercrombie and AP correspondent J Norman Lodge, all back from the South Pacific, warned the war against Japan would be long in addresses to the University of Michigan Press club in Ann Arbor.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
William S. Knudsen
Navy
Lawrence A. Abercrombie
Associated Press
J. Norman Lodge
South Pacific War Area
Japan
University of Michigan Press Club
Fire damages Wichita laundry plant. losses about $60,000
Fire swept through the Economy Laundry and Dry Cleaners plant in Wichita Kansas causing damage to the building and machinery estimated at $60,000 by company officials. Cause of the blaze was not determined immediately.
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Wichita
Kan
Iowa State and Kansas Battle to Scoreless First Quarter
Iowa State and Kansas played a scoreless first period on Stadium Field in the Big Six clash. Iowa State led 7 0 after a second quarter drive started by Tippee to Crisler with an extra point. The crowd of about 2 000 watched the lengthy defensive battle amid ideal weather.
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Iowa State
Tippee
Crisler
Kansas
University of Kansas
Iowa State Cyclones
Stadium Field
Gast
Cyclones
Jayhawkers
Wagner
Carafiel
Husky Cyclones
Bergin
Penny
Keller
Seibold
Lambert
Leaeiones
Jayhawker
Russell Wiley
Artists for Victory Exhibit at Spooner-Thayer Museum
October exhibit at the Spooner Thayer Museum of the University of Kansas presents original national defense poster designs in oil water color chalk pencil and photographs. Themes include Victory thru production buy more war bonds and stamps enemy nature loose talk free world and people on the act deliver us from evil. Shown after Metropolitan Museum New York, the display aims to provoke thought.
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Spooner-Thayer Museum
University of Kansas
Artists For
National Defense
Lawrence
Metropolitan Museum
New York City
German Rockets Fire From Planes During Bremen Raid
German fighters armed with rocket guns under each wing attacked a Thunderbolt fighter screen protecting American bombers in the Bremen raid. Initial reports suggested rocket propulsion but intelligence confirms standard rocket guns used since August. The Bremen action downed three American fighters.
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London
Bremen
Regensburg-Schweinfurt
Contract Awarded for Fort Riley Internment Camp
A P A contract to build a military internment camp at Fort Riley for less than $100,000 has been awarded to Martin K. Eby of Wichita. The Army Engineers' area office announced the award and said work will start immediately.
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Fort Riley
Opeka
Martin K. Eby
Wichita
Army Engineers
British Destroyer Intrepid Loss Reported
An admiralty communiqué announced the loss of the British destroyer Intrepid. The wartime vessel had helped rescue 300 Britons from the Nazi prison ship Altmark in February 1940 off Norway.
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London
Intrepid
Admiralty
Norway
Rome May Soon Be a Battleground
Dispatches from Bern report Rome could become a battleground as Fascist Republican government vaults move to Bolzano in the Italian Alps. Tanks and motorized units assay the city while blackouts and apathy mask unrest amid internments and missing youths.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Bolzano
Italian Alps
Italy
Piazza del Popolo
Corso
Die Tat
Berliner Boersen Zeitung
Germany
Topeka Woman Dies at Sunflower Ordnance Works Hospital
Mrs. Mary E. Keesis of Topeka aged 20 died at 6 10 PM at the Sunflower Ordnance Works hospital. She was found unconscious this morning in a mix house while milk was being delivered to workers. Plant officials investigate cause. Her husband Michael Keesis also works at the plant. she had studied at Haskell Institute in 1938 and 1939 where she met him. he is Chippewa.
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Mary E. Keesis
Topeka
Sunflower Ordnance Works
C. H. Pruden, Jr
Laura Goldsmith
M. C. Frazier
Keesis
Michael Keesis
Explosion injures three at Sunflower Ordnance Works plant
An 8 53 p m blast in the nitro cotton building at Sunflower Ordnance Works injured three workers. Frank S Clark suffered facial and upper body burns and was taken to University of Kansas hospital. Emerson J Bennett inhaled fumes and remained under observation at the plant hospital. David J Heston received minor facial and leg lacerations and was released after treatment. Officials have not yet determined the cause or damage.
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Sunflower Ordnance Works
Frank S. Clark
Kentucky Street
Plant Hospital
University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City
Emerson J. Bennett
Leavenworth
Hercules
William Carruth to Name Liberty Ship by Maritime Commission
The Maritime Commission selected the name William Carruth for a Liberty ship under construction at California Ship Building Corporation in Wilmington California. Dr. Carruth, a Kansas born linguist and author, taught at the University of Kansas and Stanford University and wrote the poem Each in His Own Tongue.
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Maritime Commission
William Carruth
California Ship Building Corporation
Wilmington
Calif
Dr. Carruth
Kansas
University of Kansas
Stanford University
Jaszi to Address KU Students on United Nations and Russia
Dr. Oscar Jaszi, Russia expert, will speak at the University of Kansas in Lawrence on Monday at 10 o'clock at the second all student convocation. He has lectured at the University of Kansas City for the past month.
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Oscar Jaszi
Russia
Lawrence
United Nations
University of Kansas
Jaszi
University of Kansas City
Americans Bomb Indo China Bombers Hit Hanoi Saturday
The Associated Press reports about 20 American bombers attacked Hanoi the capital of Indo China on Saturday morning. The German radio relay from Tokyo described civilian losses in the bombardment.
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The
Associated Press
Hanoi
Indo- China
Tokyo
Lawrence Red Cross Blood Bank third visit nets 876 pints
Douglas County and Lawrence donors gave 876 pints to the Red Cross Mobile Blood Bank during its Lawrence visit. Registrants reached 443 with 67 rejections over two days, including 194 donors yesterday of which 105 were first timers and 89 were repeats. Jo Lee Abbott topped donors with six trips, aided by loyal volunteers and local supporters.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Red Cross Blood Bank
Kansas City
Red Cross Mobile Blood Donor Unit
Mobile Blood Unit
Jo Lee Abbott
Delta Gamma Sorority
K. U
Depauw University
St. Louis
Macon Abbott
Miss Abbot
Red Cross
Miss Abbott
R. I. Canutsen
Red Cross Mobile Blood Bank
Press
Wren
Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Company
The
University
Kansas Electric Power Company
War Board restricts newsprint appeals for 1943 fourth quarter
Washington reports the War Production Board warns publishers that appeals for extra newsprint beyond quota in the Q4 1943 period face slim odds. Harold Boeschenstein says pulp and paper shortages have tightened recommendations and urges restraint in using reserve stocks before final board action.
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Washington
War Production Board
W.P.B
Harold Boeschenstein
Appeals Board
Ris
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Domei
O.W.L
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Tamen Peninsula
State Board
Penny Game
Junius Penny
Crimson
Iowa State Reighe Ee
Ens Wagner Penny
Tollenaere Keller
EL Crisler
Barrington
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Spooner-Thayer
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Sunflower Mix House
Dr. Canuteson
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