Victory by Allies Over the Volturno River Crossing
Allied forces push across the Volturno as American and British troops seize five villages on the eastern Fifth Army sector and breach river barriers at all points near Capua. Montgomery’s Eighth Army seizes Santo Stefano and Montecilfone, while air power targets rail yards and enemy positions across the region.
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Algiers
Volturno
Fifth Army
Capua
Sea
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Santo Stefano
Montecilfone
Adriatic
Titerno
Gioia
Lib‘xi
Falccho
Piontelatone
Albignano
Bressa
Wkoplje
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Athens
R.A.F
Maritza
Calato
Rhodes
Kastel
Heraklion
Crete
Skyros
Aegean
Albert Kesselring
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mahntty
Tierno
Wis
Kesselring
Oklahoma premiere draws Washington glitter crowd
Washington reports Oklahoma, the musical, staged a complete success with a reception at the Willard honoring Gov. Kerr. Attendees included Sam Rayburn Clare Boothe Luce George Marshall Justices Murphy and Jackson and military leaders Admiral Hepburn Woodward, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Guara
Oklahoma
Army
Navy
Robert 8
Clare ‘Boothe ~ Luce
Phrane-Alinger
Congress
George Marshall
Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Robert Jackson
H. E. Hepburn
Clark Woodward
Frank Walker
Pat Hurley
Republicans Kill Ten Billion Tax Proposal In Congress
Washington reports say Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee rejected the administration plan for a 10.5 billion-dollar tax program. Ren Knutson announced a government economy program and opposed further income tax increases, suggesting excise hikes only as a possibility. The statement warned higher taxes could fuel inflation and hinder war and reconversion, while urging payroll cuts and military-expenditure reductions to avoid borrowing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ren
Knutson
R.-Minn
Statent
Treasury
Congress
Byrd
D.-Va
Joint Committee On
Hull Arrives in Moscow for Tri-Partite War Conference
Secretary of State Cordell Hull arrived in Moscow to join Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov for the first full dress tri-partite talks. The discussions focus on wartime and postwar military political and economic matters as the Allies seek a unified approach to the war. Hull met Molotov and Litvinov at the airport and praised allied fighting efforts while plans for the Kremlin sessions were laid out.
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Moscow
Cordell Hull
United States
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Europe
Hull
Eden
Molotov
United Nations
Moscow Press
U. S
Kremlin
Maxim Litvinoff
Litvinoff
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Soviet Union
Green Hackworth
U.S. State Department
James Dunn
John Dean
U. S. Army
William Strang
Hastings Isway
Defense
Harriman
Kathleen
Kansas Peace Officers Meet in Topeka convention opens
The Kansas State Peace Officers association opened its annual three day convention in Topeka with about 400 expected attendees. A tomorrow demonstration by Camp Phillips soldiers and business sessions are planned. Governor Schoeppel and Attorney General Mitchell are scheduled speakers tomorrow morning. Dr. Karl Menninger of Topeka will speak at the banquet Thursday night.
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Topeka
Kansas State Peace Officers Association
Camp Philips
Andrew Schoeppel
A. B. Mitchell
Karl Menninger
Loring Campbell to Perform at PTA Benefit Night
Magician Loring Campbell headlines a PTA benefit at LMHS Auditorium Lat on October 23. Admission details list a 2 o'clock start with 2 and D. m-Adv, offering an entertainment outing for community supporters.
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Loring Campbell
P.T.A. Benefit
LMHS
D. m
United States Plans Close Military Ties With Russia
Washington reports reveal new lend lease to Russia and expanded Allied cooperation as the Anglo American Soviet conference begins in Moscow. Maj. Gen. John R. Deane will head a revived US military mission, with Brig. Gen. Sidney Spalding as top supply expert and Brig. Gen. Michela recalled.
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Washington
Russia
Moscow
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Germany
John R. Deane
Joint
Combined Chiefs of Staff
Hull
Joseph A. Michela
Deane
Sidney Spalding
Philip R. Faymonville
Agreement Reaches Higher Service Family Allowances
Washington reports a swift biparti san approval of larger monthly servic e family allowances. The measure sets 50 dollars for a wife 30 dollars for the first child and 20 dollars for each additional child bringing a family of a wife and two children to 100 dollars monthly from the prior 72. The bill returns to the Senate for concurrence before the President signs it and the serviceman’s own paycheck remains unchanged at 22 dollars monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
More 3A Registrants Face Reclassification Ahead
Douglas County selective service board received an order for 15 percent more 3A registrants to be reclassified by October 31. Notices of review are being mailed to affected 3A men. Most are pre Pearl Harbor fathers. Reclassification up to order 1000 was completed in September. none of the 1A group called in October.
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Douglas County Selective Service Board
Pearl Harbor
Bruce Semeten
Yoo
Cameron
Man Finds Two Jobs After Being Labeled Unemployable
Des Moines note shows James Rhodes, 62, rebutting a US employment service label and securing two jobs. He also buys two $25 war bonds monthly as part of his efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
James Rhodes
United States Employment Service
Wordy Warfare Not for Churchill in Commons Record
London and Washington dispatches detail Prime Minister Churchill declining to answer in the House of Commons to charges about British actions raised by U S senators. He said a full factual statement would be kept for the record and possible publication. Senators touring allied fronts expressed no anger toward Britain and emphasized close Anglo American ties.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Britain
U. S
Commons
Peter MacDonald
Congress
U. S. Senate
Senate
United States
Royal Air Force
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Germany
Washington
Russell
Scrap piles drive fuels war effort in Douglas county
Lawrence school children have gathered many tons of old metal for wartime use. Myrl N. Penny says the large city scrap piles in school yards symbolize local patriotism. Sixty volunteers from the Legion and PTA will sort the metal 6:30 pm, with Sunday removal by volunteer trucks. Nine grade students will canvass downtown Friday seeking old metal for Sunday haul.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Myrl N. Penny
Uncle Sam
Army
Navy
Logsdon
J. J. Simmonds
Pinckney
Maxwell Cooper
McAliister
Worthy Hoar
Cordley
C. A. McGinnis
Woodlawn
Lincoln
New York
Burgner-Matthews
Logan-Moore
Shaw Lumber
McConnell, Lumber
Columbus Foods Corporation
Kansas
Electric Power
Kraft & Starr
Green Brothers
Winter Chevrolet
Cecil Hough
City Salvage
Americans Glad to Board Gripsholm After Internment
About 1,500 Americans and other western nationals leave Mormugao in Portuguese India aboard the Gripsholm. They walk from the Japanese ship Teia Maru to the liner, cheered by freedom and jokes as they head home after months in internment. A line of Japanese guards watches nearby while consuls coordinate the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mormugao
Portuguese India
Gripsholm
New Coal Crisis Shuts In On UMW Struggle Over Contracts
Washington reports a renewed coal crisis as operators split over terms and United Mine Workers push a no work stance in some mines. The government withdrew mine control, Alabama miners strike, and Ickes orders 1 800 mines to ship 300 000 to 400 000 tons to retailers to ease shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
Ickes
Alabama
John L. Lewis
Lewis
WLB
Illinois
Illinois Soft Coal Producers Association
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
William H. Davis
Mississippi
Willkie Heads to Capitol for GOP Closed Session
Wendell Willkie arrives in Washington for an off the record talk with Republican members of Congress. He is to address a dinner of the 78th club, a GOP group of freshmen and older lawmakers, with possible discussion on his One World ideas and chances for a 1944 presidential bid. He is not limited to freshmen attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wendell Willkie
Capital
Congress
Indianan
St. Louis
G.O.P
78Th Club
Unsettled weather to ease with showers along Colorado border
Topeka reports unsettled weather will ease into Kansas late tonight with occasional showers near the Colorado border. Temperatures remain above normal and are expected to stay warm through tonight. Goodland reported a low of 46 degrees, while Dodge City reached 89 yesterday.
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Topeka
Upi
Kansas
Colorado
S. D. Flora
Mercury
Goodlands
Dodge City
Lawrence Council PTA Benefit Show by Magician Loring Campbell
Lawrence Council PTA presents magician Loring Campbell in performances at 2 and 8 p m on Saturday October 23 with advance ticket information available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Council
P.T.A
Loring Campbell
L.m.hls
No. 4 ration books issued in Lawrence amid smooth process
The issuance of No. 4 ration books began today in Lawrence at the Community Building basement and will run thru Friday. About 150 people waited for doors at 9 am, then were served quickly. 33 women volunteers assisted with processing and checking applications. A sailor needed a No. 3 book for a baby before a No. 4 could be issued.
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Lawrence
W. C. Boardman
Arrval
Journal-World
Charles E. Decker
OPA
Wichita
Hannover is Raidied by Royal Air Force Bombers
London reports a strong RAF assault on Hannover with Mosquito aircraft targeting Berlin and western Germany. Seventeen bombers were lost as clouds hid results while German raids reached East Anglia and southeast England. London endured a third alert in three nights with casualties and damage from raids.
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London
Royal Air Force
Germany
Hannover
Berlin
Air Ministry
East Anglia
England
WAC Recruiting Officer In Lawrence This Week
Cpl Hazel Broten from the Kansas City WAC headquarters interviews Lawrence women this week about joining the Kansas state WAC. Her office is in the Jayhawker theater building at Seventh and Massachusetts. She notes women can enlist in over 155 vital jobs and gain postwar training and skills helping speed victory and lasting peace.
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Cpl
Hazel Broten
Kansas City
Women’s Army Corps
Lawrence
Kansas State Company
Jayhawker Theater
Seventh
Massachusetts
Corporal Broten
Stock Averages and Rent Offer Notice
Average 60 stocks at 50.7, yesterday 50.4. Do not lose a single Band 5 rent, price only 96 cents. For details call phone 22.
Smuts Sees US Role in Final War Climax
London reports Field Marshal Jan Smuts predicting a grand assault on Hitler’s fortress Europe next year. He says American manpower may play the decisive part in the ultimate act, justifying the U S role in postwar peace talks and global reconstruction.
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London
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Union of South Africa
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Lemon Guildhall
U.S.A
Plan Rural Issue War Ration Book No 4 Dates Set
Douglas County announces rural issuance of War Ration Book No 4 following a trustees meeting at the county rationing office. Townships will issue Thursday to Saturday at high schools or township halls with varying hours. Residents must bring No 3 book and a family at the same address may apply for all.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Marion
Cinton
Willow Springs
Kanwaka
Wakarusa
Grant
Lecompton Township
Lecompton High School
Eudora Township
Eudora High School
Palmyra Township
Baldwin
Vinland High
Baldwin High
Vinand High School
Reed to Run Again on 72nd Birthday
Sen Clyde M Reed of Kansas announced on his 72nd birthday that he will seek re election next year. He said health is good now and better than 20 years ago, and that experience and knowledge aid his mental work.
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Washington
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
Reed
Protest A Nazi Decree Sparks French Protest in Color
Paris residents defy the Nazi order by adopting a black and yellow pocket handkerchief as a symbol of protest. The gesture spreads through Paris with hundreds embracing the colors to oppose anti Semitic policy, reported from Barcelona by La Vanguardia Espanola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barcelona
Spain
Paris
la Vanguardia Espanola
Classified Ad Copy Deadline Reminder and Event Notice
Readers are urged to submit classified ads before 11 a.m. to publish the same day. An event at L.M.H.S. auditorium on Saturday October 28 offers a magic mystery show with a benefit, priced 15 and 35 cents including tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World Adv
L.M.H.S. Auditorium
War Fund Total Reaches 8285 in Lawrence Campaign
At noon the War Fund Community Chest total in Lawrence stood at 8285, about a third of the city quota. Fritz Elvig, general chairman, praised worker enthusiasm and said donations from the Police Department and Local Painters Union No. 2 supported the drive as organizers urge more gifts and a fresh shipment of red feathers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Fund Community Chest
Lawrence
Fritz Elvig
War Fund
Department
Painters Union No. 2
WREN
One Produce Check Spread In State During War Effort
The One Produce Check suggestion from Phillips county spreads statewide with many farmers and wage earners adopting it. Cream and egg checks are endorsed for the War Fund while business firm quotas are not inflated and must be met or exceeded to hit the Douglas county goal. Art Weaver notes residential canvassers are told the advance committee totals exceed combined firm quotas, and many employers and employees in the early list have surpassed theirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips County
War Fund
Douglas County
Art Weaver
War Fund drive quotas and beneficiary groups in Douglas County
Older residents recall the Armistice Day 1918 drive for organizations now part of the USO. This year the county quota is 29617 dollars covering the USO, Lawrence Community Chest, and 16 other war agencies. Donors living outside Lawrence should give to the National War Fund only.
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USO
Lawrence
Douglas County
National War Fund
Lawrence Community Chest
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