Russians claim taganrog battle yields 120000 Nazi rout
Soviet bulletin reports 35 000 Germans killed 5 100 captured and eight divisions totaling 120 000 routed in the Taganrog battle. Russians advance four to seven and a half miles along the Donets front engulfing hundreds of villages. Stalin says Sumy captured as fronts press toward Kiev. Berlin admits retreat while Russians mass forces for Smolensk Bryansk push.
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Stalin
Sumy
Kharkov
Ukraine Stal
Kiev
Smolensk
Taganrog
Smolensk-Bryansk
Tag- Shrop
Stalingrad
Donets
Sea of Azov
Ukraine
Berlin
Stalino
Axis Radio Sees Allied Invasion Preparations
Allied invasion armadas reportedly massing in the Mediterranean and Britain with two directional thrusts toward France and the UK. Paris and Berlin broadcasts claim ships, transports, and landing craft converging for a major assault amid German troop movements.
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London
UPI
Axis
Mediterranean
Britain
Whathar Hoeed
FI Scwalg
Lally
Paris
la Linea
Spain
Gibraltar
DNB
Berlin
Personal Tax Warrant Collections Are Good
The sheriff turned in to the county treasurer a check for $521.45 for August personal tax warrant collections. The county treasurer handed over 1942 delinquent warrants totaling $6,895.00 to the sheriff on August 15 for collection or return by October 15 under the new state law.
Air Traffic Resumes Stockholm Copenhagen Berlin Link
Air traffic between Stockholm and Copenhagen, suspended since Sunday, was resumed today. Flights between Stockholm and Berlin are also back on, with Stockholm to Berlin routes now flying via Copenhagen.
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Stockholm
Copenhagen
Berlin
Allied Pincer Tightens Around Salamaua Airfield
Allied forces push toward Salamaua from the southeast as Japanese defenses crack. MacArthur’s spokesman calls the foe’s resistance a rear guard retreat while Australians approach the Wrandeco River mouth and Kila Ridge fights. In the Solomons, Santa Isabel Island may be evacuated. Vella Lavella and Kolombangara remain contested.
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Southwest Pacific
Salamaua
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Francisco River
Roosevelt Ridge
Stout Ridge
Scout Ridge
Gapantss
Oath Bank
Wrandeco
Bayern Bay
Airatain Bay
Kila Ridge
Solomons
Kiska
Aleutians
Santa Isabel Island
Rekata Bay
Liberator
New Georgia
Santa Isabel
Vella Lavella
Kolombangara
Tve
New Britain
New Ireland
Registration Books in City to Close Tomorrow
City registration closes tomorrow for the September 14 special election. City Clerk Harold C. Fisher will keep City Hall open tonight until 9 and tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. to aid registrants. The election will fill the unexpired U S Guyer term for Congress and Charles D. Stough’s seat on the council.
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Harold C. Fisher
Fisher
U. S. Guyer
Charles D. Stough
Navy
Dr Frederick C Narr Dies After Illness
Dr Frederick C Narr a widely known midwest pathologist died after several months of illness at age 56 in Kansas City. The respected medical authority was recognized across the region for his contributions to pathology and medical research.
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Kansas City
Frederick C. Narr
Midwest
Income Tax Estimates Mailed to Many Citizens
Internal revenue deputies Nathan W. McGrew and T. Murl Beal visited Tonganoxie to assist residents in preparing their tax estimates due September 15. They will aid Baldwin residents Friday and Saturday and return to Lawrence next Monday for daily consultations through September 15.
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Internal Revenue
Nathan W. McGrew
T. Murl Beal
Tonganoxie
Baldwin
Lawrence
Calls Upon Negroes to Vote Republican Ticket
National Negro Council director Edgar G Brown urged Negroes to back Republicans in protest of what he called Jim Crow policies in the military and on the home front. He said repudiating Democratic office seekers would advance the fight against disenfranchisement and segregation of the colored race.
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Washington
Edgar G. Brown
National Negro Council
Brown
CATTLEMEN HAVE A NEW MEAT PLAN
Kansas City dispatch reports 1200 cattlemen from 24 states urged Congress to back a flexible meat management plan to restore confidence in the industry. Abbott attacked wartime price ceilings and warned of shrinking cattle on feed while Boice pressed for stabilized prices and fewer controls.
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Kansas City
Christ J. Abbott
Hyannis
Neb
F. H. la Guardia
New York
Frank S. Boice
Sonoita
Ariz
American National Livestock Association
Abbott
Congress
Boston
Philadelphia
Boice
Office of Price Administration
McCan
Chris L. Abbott
Hyannis, Neb
War Food Administration
New Kansas Polio Cases Signal Upswing in Early September
Topeka reports 84 new infantile paralysis cases for the first three days of last week, with total 62 for the period. State epidemiologist Dr. C H Kinnaman warns against crowding, notes local officials may decide school openings in hard-hit areas, as Sedgwick, Reno, and Ellis counties report cases.
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Topeka
State Board of Health
Kansas
C. H. Kinnaman
Kinnaman
Sedgwick County
Reno
Ellis County
Roosevelt to Aid Bond Drive With Radio Address
President Roosevelt will deliver a 10 minute radio speech in a Sept 8 program launching the treasury third war loan drive. The broadcast at 8 40 p m central time will include James Cagney and other actors while theatres halt performances to hear appeals for bond purchases.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
White House
James Cagney
Morgenthau
Ted Gamble
Gasoline Shortage Warned by Ickes Across Nation
Interior Secretary Ickes warned of a gasoline shortage as supplies lag demand. He noted the east uses more coupons than its quota, with civilian consumption exceeding 342,000 barrels daily while military needs rise toward 30 to 35 percent of production and driving curbs are urged nationwide. The west faces similar strain, the Pacific coast sees comfort, and the armed forces consume about 600,000 barrels daily requiring careful conservation.
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Washington
Ickes
East
Southwest
Middlewest
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Draft Registrant Inventory Underway Nationwide
The Douglas county selective service board prepares to inventory 5200 registrants aged 18 to 45 as part of a national effort. From September 1 to 15 boards stop classifications, then inventory runs September 16 to 30, collecting birth dates marital status and number of group 4 children.
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United States
National Selective Service Board
Bruce Cameron
Douglas County Selective Service Board
Hesell
Warm spell expected across Kansas today and tonight
Upset by a cool front last night Topeka reports a comfortable chill in blankets. Forecaster predicts warmer weather continues with heat unlikely to exceed seasonal limits. Concordia and Phillipsburg registered a low of 59 degrees, Ellis and Geneseo hit 92, with no rainfall in the past 24 hours.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flora
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Geneseo
Worker Gives His Life To Save 2 Companions
Earl Hamilton a 39 year old construction worker died after saving two companions from a Caterpillar tractor on a Paola Kansas pipeline site. He threw the men clear as the machine started but his legs were caught and pinned. He died in a Kansas City hospital. He leaves a widow Dorothy and two children Louisville Kentucky and James Hamilton.
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Kansas City
Earl Hamilton
Persis
Hamilton
Paola
Kan
Latpena
Dorothy Hamilton
Louisville
James Hamilton
Rural plan announced for Third War Loan drive in Douglas county
Organizing of the rural setup for the Third War Loan begins in Douglas county with county chairman Chris Kraft naming nine township chairmen to run the drive. The combined Lawrence-Douglas quota is 2 075 000 dollars and a meeting will form committees for 78 school districts to mobilize rural solicitors to urge bonds through the month.
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Douglas County
Chris Kraft
Lawrence
Kraft
Grant
Emil
Heck
Lecompton
Pete Bahnmaier
Kanwaka
August Walter
Clinton
Charlie Banning
Marion
Hugh Boyce
Willow Springs
Otto Hack
Palmyra
Wilson Counts
Eudora—Gideon
Neil, Wakarusa
Frank Topping
Chamber of Commerce
Boyd
Iatricts
Seven coal dealers named to regional delivery committee
The Office of Defense Transportation and Missouri Retail Coal Association recommend seven coal dealers to form a regional committee across Kansas City St. Louis Springfield Jefferson City Mo Wichita and Topeka and Quincy. Local panels will assess distribution and may request declaration of the solid fuel industry as locally needed. Names to be approved by ODT in Washington.
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Kansas City
Sept
Office of Defense Transportation
Missouri, Retail Coal Association, Inc
St. Louis
Springfield
Jefferson City
Wichita
Toneka
Kan
Quincy
R. C. Coleman
George W. West
Motor Transport
ODT
Burdette Yeo
Missouri Retail Association
Regional Manpower Commission
U. S. Employment Service
Coleman
American Planes Bombard Japanese Shipping Near Hong Kong
Allied air forces attacked Japanese shipping off Hong Kong and swept the Yangtze region. A communique said a freighter was left sinking, another badly damaged, a submarine chaser set afire, and two gunboats and a river craft left sinking. all planes returned safely.
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Allied
North Africa
Italy
Aversa
Naples
Iglesias
Sardinia
Sicily
Middle East
Grottaglie
Taranto
Cairo
Cape Spartivento
Olivera
la Marina Gambrie
Bova Marina
Theodore Broman
West Duluth
Inn
Robert T. Veitch
Chungking
Hong Hong
Joseph W. Stilwell
Yangtze River
Canton-Hankow
Kingmen
Yangtze
Ichang
Hong Kong
Germans Lost Sixty Five Thousand Invasion Costs
London reports Rear Admiral Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen states Germany suffered 65 000 dead or disabled in the 1940 Norway invasion. Norwegians were pressed to pay pensions for Nazis casualties but Hitler claimed only 1 163 killed and wounded. Germany dropped the pension demand.
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London
Norway
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
Hitler
Riiser-Larsen
Soldier Elmer Bird Killed in Action in North Africa
Private Elmer L. Bird, 22, of Wichita Kansas, serving with a radio detachment in the North African and Sicilian theater, was killed in action on September 2. His parents Mr and Mrs Frank A Bird have been notified by the War Department. He was a native of Mooreland Oklahoma and a graduate of Alva High School.
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Wichita
Kan
Elmer L. Bird
Frank A. Bird
War Department
Mooreland
Okla
Alva High School
AWAIT SOME WORD FROM RUSSIA
In Washington the President and Prime Minister Roosevelt discuss war generated political problems while awaiting Russia’s on the record response to Anglo American overtures for a three power conference this year. No clear Moscow stance or plans for a preliminary three way diplomatic meeting had emerged.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Russia
Moscow
Quebec
Danish PM declines Nazi bid to form new Danish government
Stockholm reports Danish prime minister Eric Scavenius who resigned after the German takeover refused an offer from Gen. von Hannecken to head a new cabinet. Refugees say other ministers also refused meeting the Germans as martial law aims to curb sabotage.
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Stockholm
Eric Scavenius
Germany
Denmark
Scavenius
Hermann von Hannecken
von Hannecken
Dzia
Copenhagen
Helsingoer
Elsinore
Sweden
Gripsholm Sailed Today to Meet Jap Exchange Ship
The Gripsholm departed to rendezvous with the Japanese Teia Maru to swap and return about 1,250 Americans interned in Japan China and the Philippines. The voyage includes 1,330 Japanese civilians and cargo for prisoners of war and will visit Rio de Janeiro Montevideo and Mormugao.
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Washington
Gripsholm
America
United States
Japan
China
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Mormugao
Portuguese East India
State and War Departments
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Montevideo
Uruguay
War Department
Army
Navy
Red Cross
Department of State
Pilot killed in trainer crash near Bennington Kansas
Second Lieut. Pius M. Davis aviation student at Smoky Hill air base died when his single engine trainer crashed north of Bennington. Officers at the base do not know the cause. Davis widow, Maree Davis, resides in Rio Hondo ex. Open for Business advertising text included.
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Salina
Kan
Pius M. Davis
Smoky Hill Air Base
Bennington
Davis
Maree Davis
Rio Hondo
Exterior completion of KU military science building reported
Basil Green the Lawrence contractor said exterior work on the University of Kansas military science building is finished with interior work near completion. The project funded by state federal and private sources totals about 285000 and should be completed ahead of the November 1 contract deadline.
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University of Kansas
Basil Green
Lawrence
Ees
Bunlds
University
Whic
NYA
Green
New three judge panel formed to hear Kansas labor law suit
U S circuit Judge Walter A Huxman said he would create a new three judge court with himself as a member to try the Kansas labor union control law case. He named Circuit Judge Alfred Murray and District Judge Eugene V Rice to assist, replacing the late Judge Hopkins. Trial date unspecified until the court is constituted.
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Topeka
U. S
Walter A. Huxman
Kansas Labor Union Control
Richard J. Hopkins
Haxman
Alfred Murray
Eugene V. Rice
Hopkins
14 Year Old Boy Gets Letter From Eisenhower
Topeka reports fourteen year old Milton McGee wrote two months earlier asking General Dwight Eisenhower for a war memento. Eisenhower replied he cannot send captured material while much fighting remains, and urged the Kansas boy to support war bonds and scrap drives at home.
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Topeka
Milton McGee
Dwight Eisenhower
Milton
Eisenhower
Reece
Big Springs Fair Opens With Horse Display And Free Show
The Big Springs fair opens with a five gaited saddle horse display owned by AE Messheimer near Overbrook, followed by a free picture show sponsored by the fair board. No entertainment is planned for Friday night.
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Big Springs Fair
Big Springs
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