Allied forces hold at Salerno in tough coast battle
Allied troops fend off German counterattacks at the Salerno bridgehead as heavy air and naval bombardment, plus reinforcements, intensify across the Fifth Army from Salerno to Agro Poli. Eighth Army advances toward Belvedere and Capri is reported occupied.
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Salerno
Italy
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Agropoli
Eighth Army
Belvedere
Northwest African Air Force
Hermann Goering
Salerno-Agropoli
Capri Island
U. S
Cosenza Line
Taranto
Gioia
U.S
Capri
Red Army advances amid rain bogs as Lozovaya line nears
Moscow reports a night Russian attack breaks the German line at Lozovaya in central Ukraine while tanks press toward the Dnieper. Autumn rains slow moves but Red Army advances continue. Bryansk reports unsettled status as Soviets encircle Priluki and push toward Romny. Mariupol area expands control near Mangush and Volodarskoye.
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Moscow
Red Star
Lozovaya
Ukraine
Red
Dnieper
Bryansk
Red Army
Pavlograd
Dnieperopetrovsk
Kharkov
Sea of Azov
Mariupol
Mangush
Volodarskoye
Nezhin
Kunashevka
Kiev
Allies Reach Lae Airdrome Front. Salamaua Falls
Allied jungle fighters near the Lae airdrome in New Guinea report a mile to the big Mala Hang air base while Salamaua surrenders to American and Australian troops. Soong in Washington says Tokyo offers peace proposals as Japan pushes in China. Burma air forces strike Japanese river shipping, destroying cargo steamers and numerous sampans.
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Douglas MacArthur
Lae
New Guinea
Salamaua
Malahang
China
T. V.soong
Washington
Tokyo
Soong
Japan
Chungking
Empire
Manchuria
Formosa
Backing Benito: New Mussolini regime outlined by OWI
Nazi propagandists push a new Mussolini regime to extend the war with Germany. Decrees reestablish a Fascist party under supreme direction and name Alessandro Pavolini as temporary secretary. Stefani cites Di Bergolo ordinance naming Augusto Rosso as foreign ministry commissioner replacing Raffaele Guariglia.
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New York
Upi
Benito Mussolini
Office of War Information
Germany
Pietro Badoglio
Vittorio Emanuele
OWI
U.S
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Mussolini
Fascist Party
Republican Fascist Party
Zeesen
Alessandro Pavolini
New
Stefani
di Bergolo
Augusto Rosso
United States
Foreign Ministry
Raffaele Guariglia
Badoglio
All-Star Leagues to Play for Troops Overseas
Washington announces two major league all star teams will tour the Pacific theater for troops overseas after the World Series. Major General Surles releases the plan with Baseball Commissioner Landis present. Teams depart to undisclosed Pacific destinations following the World Series.
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Washington
War Department
A. D. Surles
Kenesaw M. Landis
Lawrence Women Lead Third War Loan Bond Drive
Canvass of Lawrence homes by the women’s committee is underway to meet a county quota of 2 075 000 dollars with rural areas ahead of the city. First meetings have been held in most districts with Pinckney Cordley and Woodlawn to follow tomorrow. A resident pledged a thousand dollar bond after a long critique of the war and government. Veterans of Foreign Wars post bought a 300 dollar bond as part of the drive.
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Lawrence
Pinckney
Cordley
Woodlawn
Henry Werner
Douglas County
George Hedrick
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Post of Veterans of Foreigners
Baldwin son of Col Baldwin reports from a Philippine POW camp
Family of Col Karl F. Baldwin learns their son L. C. Baldwin is a prisoner of war in Camp 2 in the Philippine Islands after the fall of Corregidor. Cards sent in February describe him as well and uninjured and urge his wife not to worry.
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Karl F. Baldwin
R.O.T.C
University of Kansas
Australia
L. C
Chan” Baldwin
Baldwin
Corregidor
L. C. Baldwin
Camp 2
Philippine Islands
Baldwins
Air Attacks Against Burma Claim Pulverizing Nine Tenths
Brig. Gen. Caleb Haynes, directing American task forces in India, said allied air attacks have pulverized nine tenths of Burma’s facilities. He asserted Burma is not a Japanese fortress.
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New Delhi
Caleb Haynes
India
Burma
Bomber Crashes in Meadow Near Topeka Air Base
A B-24 bomber of the Army ferry command crashed in a meadow one mile west of the Topeka air base today. None of the three crew members was hurt.
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Meadow Topeka
Army Ferry Command
Topeka Air Base
Army Rejects Delay in Draft Fathers Plan
Army leaders told Congress that delaying the induction of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers would disrupt war production. McNarney and Patterson warned that a 7.7 million army is needed this year and that plane output would collapse if fathers are deferred. About 1.5 million married men serve, including 700,000 fathers, as high officials press to widen manpower.
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Washington
Army High Command
Joseph T. McNarney
Senate
House
Patterson
McNarney
Millikin
R-Colp
High Command
Reynolds
D-N.c
Austin
R-Vt
Army
Navy
Senate Military Committee
George C. Marshall
Italy
United States
Welcome for famed bombers lands at Washington airport
Three battle-scarred B 24 Lib erator bombers and a B 25 Mitchell with veteran crews arrived at Washington National Airport after operations over North Africa Sicily Romania oil fields and the Middle East. The planes from the U S 9th air force will spend three days in the capital then three weeks furlough before a nationwide tour. The Squaw dropped 180 tons and aided the Ploesti raid destroying six enemy aircraft as navigator Lieut Grover A Zink is among the crew.
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Washington
North Africa
Sicily
Middle East
Washington National Airport
U. S. Army
9Th Air Force
Florida
Riese Lieut
Grover A
Zink
Ra, Kan
Classified cattle and farm goods sales in Journal World
Every month farmers sell thousands of dollars of live stock and farm products in the Journal-World classifieds. Farmers and buyers participate in ongoing market activity showcasing livestock and farm commodities with steady activity across the year.
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Journal-World
National ration book 4 registration set for late October
Washington reports a nationwide registration for ration book No 4 planned in the last ten days of October. The OPA aims for a three year book life and will distribute with book No 3 and glass or plastic tokens after January 1. Registration will be at schools to speed distribution. Local officials will set exact dates and places.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chamber of Commerce to Host Football Kickoff Luncheon
The annual luncheon set for September 22 at Hotel Eldridge will feature coaches from the University of Kansas Haskell Institute and Lawrence High. Tickets cost 60 cents and reservations due by Tuesday noon.
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Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge
Clifford D. Dean
Chamber
University of Kansas
Haskell Institute
Lawrence High
Dean
Paola High
Haskell
Marvin Vandaveer
K. U
Lawrence High School
Kansas University
Henry Shhenk
Elmer Schaake
Jayhawkers
Washburn Ichabods
Moore Bowl
Chalmer Woodard
Lions
Manhattan
Fulbright foreign policy plan stirs Capitol dispute
Washington notes report a House foreign affairs committee backs Representative Fulbright in seeking a floor vote on postwar international collaboration to keep a just peace. The plan faces GOP reservations about amendments and secret commitments as constitutional safeguards are debated amid Mackinac Island precedents.
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Washington
Case Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Congress
Mackinac Island
Fulbright
D-Ark
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Bloom
D-N.y
Cole
R.-N.y
Martin
Massachusetts
Women to inhabit Jolliffe Hall at University of Kansas
Overflow of applications for University of Kansas housing forces the school to convert Jolliffe Hall from a men’s residence to a women’s dormitory. Chancellor Malott announced the plan as Marie Miller noted the dorm will house 24 to 28 women starting September 23. Mrs. Byrd Forsythe to serve as housemother.
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University of Kansas
Jolliffe
Deane W. Malott
University
Peabody Stockman and Banker
Marie Miller
Byrd Forsythe
Jolliffe Hall
Miller
Malott
Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Henry Werner
Mt. Oread
Cooler weather moves into Kansas with light southern showers
Topeka reports much cooler conditions across Kansas with no frost forecast. Ellis reaches 96 degrees while Goodland drops to 46 as western areas cool overnight. The weekly crop report notes delayed winter wheat seeding, start of winter barley, and rye plantings for pasture. Prospects for wheat pasture grazing are poor with few cattle and lamb grazing contracts.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Ellis
Mercury
Goodland
Abilene Teacher Enlists in Navy as Radiologist
ENLISTS IN THE No. Earl Endacott, longtime Abilene high school teacher, receives release for the duration and reenters the navy as an electrical radiologist. A Harvard and Dunwoody Institute graduate, he earned A B and M A degrees at the University of Kansas and is praised for training as a radiologist in the last war. Endacott, visiting his father in Lawrence, plans to depart for Williamsburg, Virginia, tomorrow. He began radiology study as a Lawrence high school student under the late Heine Riggs, who also taught radio logy to Abilene students.
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Earl Endacott
Abilene
Navy
Harvard
Dunwoody Institute
Minnesota
Endacott
Frank Endacott
Lawrence
Williamsburg
University of Kansas
Lawrence High School
Mrs Roosevelt Leaves Australia After South Pacific Tour
The Melbourne radio quoted by the Office of War Information says Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt departed for the United States last night from an airfield described as somewhere in Australia after an 11 day tour of South Pacific air bases.
British Ninth Army Reported Moving to Balkan Front
London reports from Stockholm via Ankara say Britain's Ninth Army under Lt Gen W H Holmes may have left Middle East bases for an unknown destination amid Balkan guerrilla advances against German and Italian troops. The Algiers radio projected imminent developments as the Italian navy surrender reshapes the Mediterranean.
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London
Stockholm
Ankara
Britain
Ninth Army
Balkans
Middle East
Greece
Howver
Dodecanese
Algiers
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Europe
Syria
Transjordania
Rhodes
Crete
Cairo
Balkan
Kans River Baptist delegates urge ban on alcohol in military life
Delegates at the Kansas River Baptist convention call for government action to ban alcohol and vice from military environments to protect youth and national welfare. The meeting drew 156 delegates including 88 women and 24 men, with Rev. M. Ray McKay delivering the closing address. Resolutions urged cooperation with state and national Baptists, emphasized Bible study, and stressed understanding across races while maintaining faith. The next assembly will meet in Topeka.
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Kansas River Baptist Convention
George W. Wise
Kansas Baptist Convention
M. Ray McKay
Topeka
Ted Schubach
Christian Brotherhood
Carmelo Santiago
A. A. van Sickle
First Baptist Church of
Lawrence
Revenue Officials See Rush For Tax Help At Post Office
Deputy collectors Nathan W. McGrew and C. Murl Beal in the post office building report heavy demand for income tax information. A long line formed outside as the quarterly federal tax payment deadline neared midnight, and they planned to stay open as long as visitors remained.
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Internal Revenue
Nathan W. McGrew
C. Murl Beal
McGrew
Beal
Polio Cases Near 800 in Cook County
Chicago records show 798 infantile paralysis cases statewide with 631 in the city and 167 in suburban Cook County. A total of 76 deaths attributed to the disease.
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Chicago
Cook County
Scrivner Wins Difficult Victory in Kansas Special Election
Erretl P. Scrivner, Republican attorney, defeated Heather L. Drake in the second Kansas district special election to fill the late U. S. Cuyer’s seat. Scrivner carried Douglas County by 1334 and won about 13,727 votes to 5,798 as only three of 407 precincts remained uncounted.
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Heathers L. Draka
Bethel
Kan
U. S. Cuyer
Iseries
Ony
Scrivner
Drake
Douglas
Dover
Draxs
Guyer
American Legion
Wvnsdota
J. HL
More Planes Is Cry on All Allied War Fronts
Fragmentary wartime report notes heightened calls for more aircraft for Allied fronts. A senator cites whispers from generals including MacArthur about needs in the Pacific and other theaters.
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Washington
Robert P. Paterson
Senate
Macar
Patterson
Stock Market Brief Tracks Mixed Indexes
The report shows a stagnant market with the index at 0 stovas and another reading of 37.1. A separate figure lists Yessex Gay at 49.3, indicating uneven price movements across sectors.
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Can Attorney
Scrinner
Kansas City
Nurea
Thas
Tocal
Bae
Firth
Ath Ward
Clinton Anon Ciamenal
Eudora
Kanwalta
L Lecompton Preeiner
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Grant
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Vinland
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Tenia Neni
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Ow Springs
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