Allies close in on Aachen as Schelde actions press
United States First Army tightens its grip on Aachen while amphibious forces push on the Schelde estuary near Antwerp. Canadian troops clear the Schelde pocket and advance along the Leopold canal as Patton’s Third Army pounds toward Metz Nancy and the Rhine corridor. Berlin reports limited breaches but “sacred soil” defense remains stubborn.
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Rhine
Schelle
Antwerp
Germany
Schelde
Berlin
Leopold Canal
Aachen
George S. Patton
U. S. Third Army
Nancy-Mets
Thereich
Gerd von Rundstedt
The
Reich
von Runstedt
Siegfried Line
Nieuwlanslachemolen-Biervhet
Supreme Headquarters
Arnhem
Metz
Nancy
Fort Driant
Seventh Army
Epinal
Laveline
Herp- Elmont
Brittany
Lorient
St Nazaire
Churchill and Stalin Hold Kremlin Talks in Moscow
In a three hour session last night in the Kremlin, Prime Minister Churchill conferred with Marshal Stalin and met British diplomatic and military staff today before another meeting with the Russian premier. Ambassador Harriman was kept informed but not present. The talks focused on Europe postwar plans and Germany’s defeat, with Izvestia praising Dumbarton Oaks for a united four power security council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Churchill
Marshall Stalin
Kremlin
H. W. Averell Harriman
United States
Altho
Europe
Quebec
Roosevelt
International Security Council
Iran
Persia
Britain
Stalin
Germany
Izvestia
Dumbarton Oaks
Allies Halt Fifth Army Advance Near Po River in Italy
Rain mud and German resistance stall Allied movement toward the Po. Fifth Army artillery bombards the Bologna Rimini highway while the Eighth Army holds the Adriatic flank. Kessellring shifts troops to stabilize the line. air operations target Adriatic shipping and Greek airfields. Americans press near Bologna Imola, within ten miles of the city and within heavy artillery range of railways and highways.
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Rome
Italy
Fifth Army
Bologna-Rimini
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Albert Kesselring
Fifth
Athens
Greece
Mediterranean Air Force
Bologna
Imola
Kesselrin
Willkie Rites Held Today in New York Funeral
Floral tributes pour in from across the country for Wendell L. Willkie at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church as sixty thousand mourners pay respects. Notables including Mrs. Roosevelt and Gov. Dewey are listed among expected attendees for the 3 pm service, with the body to Rushville, Indiana for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Edward
Louisville
Col
Robert T
Charlotte Tint
Washington
Argentina Not Invited to White House Columbus Day Event
Washington reports the White House announced Argentina was not invited to the Latin American leaders event at the White House for Columbus Day. President Roosevelt will give a brief radio address. White House press secretary Stephen Early said the exclusion reflects no relations with the present Argentine regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Argentina
Roosevelt
Stephen Early
Study Plan on Annexing West Hills Area to Lawrence City
City council discussed annexing West Hills Fairfax Belmont and tracts south of Fifteenth street to Highway 10. A special committee will study costs including sewer water lines maintenance tax benefits and legal steps with mayor Russell to name members soon.
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Lawrence
Board of County Commissioners
C. B. Russell
L. H. Griffiths
Louisiana Street
West Hills
Fairfax
Belmont
Fifteenth Street
Highway 10
Wakarusa
West Hill
Russell
Special Study Committee
Surplus War Materials Sale Planned for Friday
The Defense Plant Corporation will hold a surplus sale next Friday October 13 at the Lawrence Sales Pavilion East Eleventh Street starting at 10 in the morning. Open to the public rain or shine, the sale includes electrical supplies tarpaulins rubber boots rain coats heating stoves coal heaters and hand tools among other scarce items. Clyde Coffman of Overbrook conducts the sale for the DPC. Pauline Turner resigns from University of Kansas business school staff after two years teaching secretarial training. she previously taught at various high schools and studied at Bates College and Columbia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defense Plant Corporation
Kansas City
DPC
Clyde Coffman
Overbrook
Lawrence Sales Pavilion
East Eleventh Street
Ooo
K. U
Pauline Turner
Univerversity of Kansas School of Business
Miss Turner
Lawrence
Columbia University
Bates University
Lewiston
Russians Launch A Baltic Offense Near Memel And Tilsit
Russian artillery pounded the besieged German port Memel as two Soviet armies drove toward Tilsit. Generals Bagramian and Cherniakhovsky pushed along the Baltic flank while Malinovsky advanced into northern Hungary near Debrecen, aiming to trap German and Hungarian forces and threaten Budapest from multiple axes.
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Moscow
Memel
Baltic
Tilsit
Ivan C. Bagramian
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
East Prussia
Rodion Malinovsky
Hungary
Budapest
Russians Reach Baltic Sea Near Memel Front
Report from Moscow says Russian vanguards have reached the Baltic sea south of Memel severing land routes for about 150000 Germans in Latvia and Lithuania. This signals an invasion of East Prussia as Memel territory had been incorporated into the Reich in 1939. Kremlin described the attack as a gigantic struggle with ferocity.
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London
Baltic Sea
Memel
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Moscow
East Prussia
Hitler
Kremlin
Battle of Statler inquiry status checked by Senate
Washington Oct 10 Senate investigators have made only a preliminary inquiry into the battle of Statler and will decide on a full investigation. Chairman Green of the campaign expenditures committee planned to meet with committee counsel Robert T Murphy after receiving his report. Green will then consult other members as to witnesses questioned so far in the fist-throwing incident after Roosevelt's address before the AFL.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Statler
Green
D-R.i
Campaign Expenditures Committee
Robert T. Murphy
Murphy
Roosevelt
A.F.L
White House
More Cigarettes Soon In Lawrence As Shortage Eases
Mrs. Elmer A. Pierson, owner of August J. Piersons tobacco distributorship in Lawrence, returns from Camp Livingston Louisiana after two weeks away with her husband. The store was closed during absence and she says cigarets will be distributed to local dealers Boon Funk's Mortuary and Chapelant Service shortly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Elmer A. Pierson
August J. Pierson
Prs
Camp Livingston
War stakes in China loom large in world peace
War Production Board chairman Nelson, returning from Chongqing, warned the stakes of the war in China are incredibly large and vital to future world peace. He described the situation as serious but not hopeless and said he is pursuing plans to supply more war materials to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Presa
Chicago
United States
Ya World
China
Texes War Pes Production Board
Chungking
Nelson
Nine teenth and Massachusetts traffic light rejected
City officials declined a 745-signature petition for a stop and go traffic signal at the Nine teenth and Massachusetts streets intersection. A highway department study found about 90 schoolchildren cross daily, with police officers directing traffic during peak times and stop signs controlling flow. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices conditions did not support a light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nineteenth
Massachusetts Street
Harold C. Fisher
R. C.keeling
Highway Department
Fisher
Ston
Cordley
Keeling
Massachusetts
K. W. Comfort
Comfort
Schoeppel To Speak At Public Meeting In Benson Minn
Gov Andrew Schoeppel travels by air to Benson Minnesota to support the Dewey Bricker ticket and will return to Kansas to fulfill engagements in Lawrence He will speak at the court house after 8 pm and join a Kiwanis Co Operative clubs joint meeting at Colonial Tearoom with music by Prof Joe Wilkins Judge J B Wilson Republican county chairman to preside
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Schloeppel
Court House
Benson, Minn
Dewey-Bricker
Kansas
Lawrence
Schoeppel
Kiwanis and Co-Operative Clubs
Colonial Tearoom
Joe Wilkins
Fred Montgomery
Kiwanis
Emil Heck
Co-Operative Club
J. B. Wilson
Five-Hour Funeral for Aimee Semple McPherson
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson lies in a white marble sarcophagus at Forest Lawn Memorial Park after a funeral service at Angelus Temple. Thousands of disciples observed the entombment as her immense bronze casket was placed amid reverent silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Angelus Temple
Four Square Gospel Church
New York City voter registration totals after first day
Registration in New York City reached 436,268 on the first day of the week long period, about 21,000 fewer than the 457,709 who registered on the first day of the 1946 elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
City council weighs leasing Community building for parties
Discussion over leasing the Community building to private groups dominated by calls for tighter rules and possible police patrols. A motion authorized the laws and license committee to draft a building-use policy while noting rental at 25 dollars per night. Other actions include street paving authorization, rationing office remodeling, and underground conduit permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. O. Burgert
City Property Committee
Burgert
Barker Street
Twenty-third Street
George Wetzel
War Price and Rationing Board
J. C. Hespers
Frost Not Expected in Topeka Weather Update
In Topeka on Oct 10 light frost occurred in northeastern Kansas with minimal damage. Weatherman Flora forecast continued cool, cloudy conditions. prior day readings ranged from 60 to 65 degrees, Dodge City at 72. Tonight lows expected around 35 to 40 in the northeast and 40 to 45 in the west.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flora
Dodge City
Neada
Wheat export plan divides postwar market among four nations
City officials report that Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard announced an agreement among the United States Canada Australia Argentina and the British Empire to divide the postwar wheat export market. The U S would take 16 percent of about 450 million bushels yearly, roughly 72 million bushels.
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City
Assa Retary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
United States
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Great Britain
War News HQ Moves to Paris Amid Front Shifts
London dispatch says allied press heads relocate to Paris hotel headquarters to shorten lines of communication and speed official news relay. SHAEF notes initial move limits two correspondents per service. AP is represented by James M. Long and Lewis E. Fi.
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Associated Press
London
Britain
Mae
France
Press
Paris
An Shaef
James Mi. Long
Lewis E. Fi
War Department telegram confirms Col. Crowder killed in action
Col Robert T Crowder commanding officer of a Liberator group died April 15 during a flight over Romania. A telegram to his wife Mrs Crowder of 740 Louisiana St said he was killed when his plane was hit by enemy fire and went down in thick undercast. He previously was reported missing May 5, later believed not to have survived. Survived by two sons from a prior marriage and his mother, with homes listed in New York City and at 940 Rhode Island St.
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Robert T. Crowder
Romania
War Department
Crowder
Louisiana Street
U.S
Iliera
Italy
Mra. Crowder
Colonel Crowder
Robert
Thomas Crowder, Jr
Thomas Lawrence Crowder
New York City
Fred Rliesner
Rhode Island Street
Drive on hill begins for World Student Service Fund
University drive by YWCA and YMCA sees $1,199.87 cash and $336 pledges toward a $2,525.25 goal. Funds will be split between the War Fund and the World Student Service Fund aiding students and prisoners of war. Student chairs Martha Ellen Woodward of Cincinnati and Robert Gibbon of Howard lead the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Student Service Fund
Y.W.C.A
Y.M.C.A
Calvin VanderWerf
YM. C.A
Watson Library
War Fund
Martha Ellen Woodward
Cincinnati
Robert Gibbon
Howard
The
Drive
Swiss Paper Reports German Killing Of Etobon Males
The Gazette de Lausanne claims the German forces killed or imprisoned Etobon’s male population after sheltering French forces. It states 40 men aged 16 to 40 were shot in groups of ten before a church, with others aged 40 to 60 sent to Friedrich prison at Belfort.
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Gazette de Lausanne
Etobon
Belfort
Diageich
Office of War Information
Friedrich
Stock Market Index Rises to 55.2 on 60 Stocks
The stock market index for 60 major stocks stood at 55.2, unchanged from yesterday. Market observers note stability with no major sector shifts and traders awaiting economic data for direction.
Lawrence drives advance in war fund campaign
Lawrence and Douglas county push to raise 30143 for the National War Fund and Community Chest. By noon donations reached 6640.75 as he adquarters report broad participation from business, university faculty, and KEU students. District 2 Kaw Valley teacher Alice Springer and pupil Bobby Schaake led a strong rural showing with $100.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
National Ar Fond
Community Chest
Chamber of Commerce
Advanced
George’ K. Melvin
KE. U
Y.M.C.A
W.ca
Speci
Hill
Forrest Allen
Dr. Allen
Kaw Valley
Mra
Alice Springer
Bobby Schaake
Selective Service Board Calls 30 Men for Physical Examinations
The Douglas County selective service board received a state call to send 30 white men to Fort Leavenworth for preinduction physicals. The local board already has 10 induction calls scheduled with 0 induction notices forthcoming, and 20 men are due to report for induction on Monday, October 23.
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Douglas County Selective Service Board
Topeka
Fort Leavenworth
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Doughboys
Hidward D. Ball
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Fresnes-en-Saulnois
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Julich
Dusseldorf
Hodges
Charlemagne
Marshal Stalin
Dewey
School of Business
Transylvania
Debrecen
Rodion
Malinovsky
Ivan Petrov
Tisza
Yugoslavia
Subotica
Belgrade
Prospecta
Pierson’s
Funk
Ant Bervica
State Highway Commission
Council
Southwestern Bell Telephone Peonure
Eighth
Vermont Streets
Seventh Street
Florida Street
F. A. Russell
Layne Western Company
Ruby Lindell
Colorado
A. W. Berger
Carl Graeber
Frank Willer
Emporia
Wickard
WAR News
U.S.C
Lawrence Drive
Hotel Eldridge
Chi
G. Quigley
J. Parsons
F.C. Allen
Selective Service Board
Lasa
Pete
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