Italian battleships reach Malta and Palma as war moves unfold
Six of Italy’s seven battleships were accounted for, with four at Malta and the Roma seeking sanctuary at Palma de Mallorca. Reports placed Andrea Doria and Giulio Cesare at Malta alongside other cruisers and destroyers, while uncertainty surrounded Gibraltar arrivals and overall fleet readiness for coordinated action.
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London
Italy
Malta
Roma
Palma de Mallorca
Balearics
Corsica
North ‘Africa
Associated Press
Andrea Doria
Guilio Cesare
Gibraltar
la Linea
Spain
Gibraltar Bay
Palma
Bern
Switzerland
Giulio Cesare
Taranto
Cadorna
Spezia
North Atlantic Shipping Free From Nazi Sub Attacks
The August report by the joint British American Canadian sea command says U-boats showed little activity against Allied shipping in the North Atlantic and more U-boats were sunk than merchant ships. OWI called August another successful anti-submarine month with few opportunities to attack, noting many U-boats recalled for armament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
North Atlantic
Sea Command
Office of War Information
OWI
Germans Expect Major Allied Offensive Across Europe
Berlin dispatches report German military experts anticipate a larger allied drive soon. They point to western France as the likely main target after air attacks, while noting readiness in the Balkans and other fronts for any assault.
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Stockholm
Berlin
France
Balkans
Jap Air Base at Lae Nears Allied Capture in Pacific War
Allied communique reports the Japanese air base at Lae New Guinea is near falling into Allied hands as forces from Australia and the United States close in from the northeast and northwest. Australians shell Lae outskirts with 25 pounders while American and Australian troops reach Narakapur, 12 miles from the enemy position, with forward elements under 10 miles away.
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Lae
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Huongulf
Ghee
North Africa
Busu
Malahang
Markham
Owen Stanley
Narakapur
Dramatic North Africa surrender described by RAF pilot
RAF observer Rez H. Plumb of Birmingham recounts witnessing Italian ships surrender to the British fleet forming a V escort to Malta. He details sea maneuvers, flag signals, and the dramatic arrival of the fleets before departure eastward. Chicago, Sept 11. (P) also reports the 1943 World Series plan: first three games at Yankee Stadium if Yankees win the pennant, rest at Sportsman’s Park in St Louis with dates and prices.
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North Africa
Malta
R.A.F
Rez H. Plumb
Birmingham
England
Plumb
Baltimore
Chicago
Yankee Stadium
New York
Yanks
St. Louis Cardinals
Sportsman’s Park
St. Louis
Cardinals
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Office of Defense Transportation
War Relief and Service, Inc
American Red Cross
National War Fund, Inc
Judge Landis
Ford Frick
National League
Charles McManus
Yankees
Edward Barrow
Nazis claim Pola base and Mediterranean gains
Berlin said Pola on the Adriatic coast and Rhodes in the Dodecanese surrendered to German forces. The communiqué reports Milan Turin and Padua in German hands, heavy fighting around Salerno, a German counterattack recaptured some ground, and German bombers sunk a cruiser a transport and six landing craft during Salerno landings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Pola
Adriatic
Rhodes
Dodecanese
Transocean
Milan
Turin
Padua
German Troops Take Over All of Greece
Cairo reports the Hellenic news agency says German troops control all of Greece including zones previously held by Italians. The military governor of Athens issued a proclamation assuming command for Germany and Italian forces were ordered to gather in coastal towns.
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Cairo
Greece
Athens
Tokyo Reports A Quake Shakes Southwestern Japan
Tokyo based Domei dispatch notes a strong earthquake in southwestern Japan overnight. Tottori city in Inaba province suffered severe damage with a 32,600 resident capital, while Kobe Osaka and Hiroshima felt the quake with minimal damage. Rescue teams comb through collapsed houses for victims.
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New York
Office of War Information
Tokyo
Japan
Tottori
Inaba
Kobe
Osaka
Hiroshima
Domei
Suit Seeks 10000 Damages In Auto Collision Case
Robert Kyle 19 files in district court for 10000 damages against Edith Harris over a December 5 1942 motor car crash at Eighteenth street and State Line road in Kansas City Kansas. Kyle alleges injuries left him incapacitated for work and classified 4 F for the draft. mother Georgia Kyle files on his behalf.
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Robert Kyle
Georgia Kyle
Edith Harris
New Jersey Street
Lawrence
Kyle
Route 1
Kansas City
Kan
Eighteenth Street
State Line Road
Expect OPA To Fix Price On Live Hogs Next Week
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration plans a ceiling for live hog prices by day or early next week on a Chicago basis. The proposed ceiling was $14.75 per 100 pounds, but hogs rose to a top of $15.25 at Chicago yesterday with no reason given for the delay.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chicago
Ghost Voice Interrupts Berlin News Broadcast
Federal communications commission monitors report a ghost voice interrupting a Berlin news broadcast. The message claimed Hitler’s army on the eastern front is routed and Russians are driving them back. During a reading of Nazi officers, the voice shouted All candidates for death.
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New York
Federal Communications Commission
Berlin
Hitler
Rooster Sells for War Bonds at Kansas Reception
Isabel Kansas September 11 May or El Hamm attended a teachers reception and sold a rooster to raise funds in the war bond drive. By end of event he had sold six thousand dollars in war bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel
Kan
el Hamm
Fifth Army Seizes Salerno Port Amid Naples Advance
Allied forces under Lt Gen Mark W Clark report the 5th Army capturing Salerno port 20 miles south of Naples and pushing deeper into the Naples area amid German resistance. Bombers target Nazi communications while German convoys north toward Naples and Salerno suffer heavy losses. reports also claim landings on Sardinia and Sicily with political upheaval in Rome.
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5Th Army
Salerno
Naples
Berlin
Sorrento
Bay of Naples
Fifth Army
Ostia
Rome
Italy
U. S
Malta
Mediterranean
Spanish Balearics
Gibraltar
London
Madrid
Sardinia
Corsica
King
Sicily
Enrollment Drop Hits Lawrence City Schools In 1943 Start
Enrollment in Lawrence city schools stood at 2930 after the first week, down from 3331 a year earlier, with breakdowns by Lincoln New York Pinckney Woodlawn Cottey McAllaster and junior and senior high. Two local men Lloydee Daniels and Walter North were accepted for army induction from the county selective service.
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Lawrence City
Clifford BD. Dean
Felows
Cotte Yances
Lincoln
McAllaster
New York
Pinckney
Woodlawn
Selective Service Board
Fut Leavenworth
Lloycee
Daniels
Michigan Street
Walter Robert North
Illinois Street
L. N. Lewis
Lawrence National
C. C. Stewart
First National
Orville Stone
George Frazier
R. W. Pickett
Harry Gregg
BE. Messenger
James Fultz
William Lefford
H. Mc
Battlefield of Italy Report Sees German Control Deepening
Dispatches from Africa on September 11 describe German gains in northern and central Italy with Milan and Rome reportedly under Nazi control after battles with Italian forces. Turin reportedly held by Italians against German shock troops, while a puppet government may be forming without popular backing.
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Berlin
Italy
Vittorio Emanuele III
Umberto
Pietro Badoglio
Sicily
Rome
Stockholm
Badoglio
Palermo
Mussolini
Hitler
Pola
Adriatic Sea
Rhodes
Dodecanese
Milan
Turin
Padua
Eighth Army
8Th Army
Calabria
Balkans
Allied
North Africa
Germany
Iitaly
New Community Price Posters Set Ceiling on Groceries
Douglas county announces new government price posters to guide top legal prices on dry groceries and canned goods. The posters, issued by the War Price and Rationing Board, help shoppers and protect grocers from overcharging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Corlett Cotton
County Price Panel
Kansas
U.S
KU Hospital Receives Cadet Nurse Corps Grant
Chancellor Deane W. Malott and Dr. H. R. Wahl announce that University of Kansas Hospitals are granted 49377.83 for cadet nurse corps training for the period ending June 6, 1944. Nationwide funds total 3749630 for 10175 student nurses across 58 approved schools. The program, government sponsored, aims to ease military hospital nurse shortages. A telegram has beenHalo by.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deane W. Malott
H. R. Wahl
University School of Medicine
Kansas City
Surgeon General
Washington, D. C
University of Kansas
U. S
Cadet Nurse Corps
Officials Check Motorists for Gas Ration Books
OPA field representative CG Sparks from Topeka joined Sheriff R Skinner on county highways to verify motorists carried gasoline ration books and coupons and to warn those exceeding 35 miles per hour. No arrests were made, according to Sheriff Skinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CG. R. Sparks
OPA
Topeka
R. Skinner
Skinner
Miss Constance Leatherock Joins U S Geological Survey
Miss Leatherock a longtime geologist with Tidewater Oil Tulsa arrived yesterday to take a sub surface geology role in an expanded U S geological survey program in cooperation with the state survey.
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Geological Survey
Constance Leatherock
Tidewater Oil Company
Tulsa
Leatherock
U. S. Geological Survey
State Survey
Hammer Nazis on a 400 Mile Front Pushes Back Germans
Soviet forces battered German legions along a 400 mile front from the Sea of Azov to Bryansk. The advance imperiled the Dnieper defense and threatened the Crimean garrisons escape. Russians reportedly killed 6,800 enemy troops and captured Mariupol Volnovakha and Barvenkovo amid a widening encirclement toward Kiev.
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Moscow
Sea of Azov
Bryansk
Ukraine
Red Army
Dnieper
Crimean
Mariupol
Sea of, Azov
Chaplino
Dnieperopetrovsk
Volnovakha
Stalino- Mariupol
Barvenkovo
Stalino
Kharkov
Desna River
Novgorod Seversky
Gomel
Kiev
Berlin
Baruch urges manpower and cost reforms for war effort
Bernard M. Baruch sent a memorandum to War Mobilization Director James Byrnes proposing removal of unnecessary government employees and regular reviews of farm draft deferments to curb draft dodging. He favors fixed price contracting over cost plus fixed fee to prevent labor hoarding and asks for limited investigations of plant managers. Byrnes' office said the text was prepared for guidance and will not be published.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Baruch
Kansas River Baptists Meet in Lawrence
The Kansas River Baptist Association holds its annual meeting at First Baptist Church in Lawrence on Tuesday September 14 starting at 10 00 a m with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Prominent ministers and educators participate. Supper at 6 30 priced 25 cents for men women and youth in separate rooms. Advance reservations at the church office.
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Kansas River Baptist Association
First Baptist Church
Lawrence
Keeler Elected to International Lyceum Association Board
Guy V. Keeler of the University Extension Division was elected to the board of directors of the International Lyceum Association. He recently returned from the association's international convention with more than 2,000 delegates in attendance. The Lyceum Association comprises professionals who provide public entertainment across lectures, drama, music, and the arts.
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Guy V. Keeler
International Lyceum Association
Keller
Lyceum Association
Son listed as slightly wounded in action in North Africa
Mr and Mrs Glen Spitzer received a telegram from the war department stating their son Pfc Paul Spitzer was slightly wounded in action on August 11 in the North African area. They were assured further reports would be sent as received.
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Glen Spitzer
The
War, Department Today
Pfc
Paul Spitzer
Ration Book Three in Use With New A Stamps
Washington reports meat buyers will use brown A stamps from ration book No 3 starting Monday while red X Y Z stamps from book No 2 remain valid until October 2. Values match previous red stamps and other books retain their authorized stamps for sugar shoes and processed foods.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Boughton resigns from KU pharmacy faculty to join Cramer Chemical
Dr. L. L. Boughton leaves the University of Kansas after 15 years as state drug lab analyst and five years in the medical school. He will head research and promotion at Gardner based Cramer Chemical, maker of athletic first aids and trainer supplies, as the firm marks its 25th anniversary. The Boughton family plans to move to Gardner this fall.
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L. L. Boughton
School of Pharmacy
University of Kansas
Cramer Chemical Company
Gardner
Boughton
University
University of Iowa
State Drug Laboratory
Dorsey-Liberty Post
American Legion
Army Relief Fund to benefit from September film premiere
Lawrence will host a second patriotic show at the Jayhawk with This Is the Army, a film by Warner Bros. Proceeds go to the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Earlier So Proudly We Hail opened with War Bond purchasers allowed. Berlin donated stage and film rights profits to the army fund. Capt Archie Morris chairs the military committee with M S Winter heading civilian promotion.
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Lawrence
Warner Bros
Army Relief Organization
Russel Borg
Don Walker
Archie Morris
K. U
M. S. Winter
Chamber of Commerce
Banks and Post Offices Report Strong Bond Sales
Topeka reports the first day of the third war loan drive shows Kansans buying bonds and stamps totaling over 10 million dollars. Kansas’ quota is 112 million. Evan Griffith, state war finance manager, said banks and post offices led the biggest rush since Pearl Harbor, with Downs first to exceed its quota in four hours.
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Topeka
Kansas
Evan Griffith
Pearl Harbor
Griffith
Downs
Gas Rate Case Begins in Topeka
Kansas Corporation Commission opens inquiry into Gas Service Company and Wyandotte Gas Company rates. Richard B. McEntire alleges current rates are unjust and excessive with a hearing set for October 19. Both gas providers are Cities Service subsidiaries serving Topeka Wichita and Kansas City area.
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Topeka
Kansas Corporation Commission
Gas Service Company
Wyandotte County Gas Company
Commission
Richard B. McEntire
Wichita
Kansas
Wyandotte_ company
Kansas City
Kan
Vicinity
Cities Service Company
McEntire
Cities Service Gas Company
Federal Power Commission
Women Lead Third War Bond Drive Campaign
The third war bond drive gains early momentum with a women’s campaign led by Mrs. Henry Werner and a schedule of captain and zone leader meetings. Booth collections show strong demand with totals at Woolworth’s Weaver’s and Penney’s and Kress powering early sales.
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Henry Werner
George Varner
Booth
Woolworth’s
Weaver’s
Penney’ S
Kress
Weaver's
H. Frink
George Hedrick
Roy Mooge
T. D. Olmstead
E. Owen
John Schrader
Winfield Scott
H. A. Jet<more
E. H. Elbel
F. B
Carl Graeber
Hugh Means
C. J. Topping
A. S. Peck
B. P. Deicher
William Zweifel
W. C. Hamilton
K. C. Evans
Ralph Tripp
Erna Corey
Henry Allphin
Robert Price
Walter Johns
Minnie Rockford
Robert Junkins
Charles Ziesenis
Light Local Showers Hit Kansas Map
Light local showers spattered the Kansas weather map with moderate temperatures. Concordia reported .46 inch rainfall, Topeka .17 and others less. showers likely in eastern Kansas today and forecast for northern and western sections. Woodland tied at 90 degrees, others in the eighties. Goodland fell to 55 overnight.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Concordia
Woodland
Goodland
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Mark W. Clark
K.U. Hospital
Russia
Kansas River Baptists
Keeler
K.U
Army Relief Fund
Stover
Wiedemann
Adv
W. C. Boardman
Riley Burcham
Cordley
Gos Ot & Kerard
Meeeneeveners
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