Bitter Rhine Crossing Battle Shifts Allied Drive
Wartime bulletin reports a fierce cross Rhine clash as British airborne and Polish units hold Arnhem amid German counterattacks. American Third Army drives toward Nancy and Arrancourt, while Nijmegen bridge remains pivotal for Waal crossing enabling an armored push toward Stolberg and Epinal as Epinal effort stalls near the Moselle.
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London
Holland
Germany
Arnheim
Ruhr
Siegfried Line
Rhine
Dempsey
Nijmegen
Lower Rhine
Waal
George S. Patton
Third Army
Nancy
Arrancourt
Normandy
Ernest Johnson Dies After Randolph Residence
Ernest J. Johnson aged 76 died yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs E G Vernon where they were visiting Mrs Johnson is Mrs Vernons sister Graveside services were held this afternoon at 130 conducted by Rev Edwin F Price in Memorial Park cemetery Mr and Mrs Johnson had just purchased the Howard McConnell home at 1929 Ohio street where they planned to reside They had been here ten days
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest J. Johnson
Randolph
E. G. Vernon
Johnson
Veteran Attorney Guthrie Dies After Ill Health
Kansas City Kansas veteran attorney William Fowler Guthrie 79 died at home in Kansas City after two years of ill health following a stroke. Born in Atchison he was son of Warren W Guthrie an early Kansas attorney general. He graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced with his father and later with brother Warren W Guthrie Jr in Atchison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
William Fowler Guthrie
Atchison,Kan
Warren W. Guthrie
Kansas
Columbia University Law School
Warren W. Guthrie, Jr
Atchi- Bon
Russians Near Tallinn and Frontline Movements Escalate
Russian armies breached German defenses and closed to within 40 miles of Tallinn while advancing near the Hungarian frontier. Reports claim Riga and Rakvere fell or were besieged as Red Army groups push from the Baltic to entrap Axis forces in Transylvania and northern Estonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Tallinn
Bor
Warsaw
Vistula
Estonia
Arad
Hungary
Tapa
Latvia
Riga
Baltic States
Red Army
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Dukla Pass
Kremlin
Rakvere
Gulf of Finland
Gulf
Lake
Peipus
Leningrad
Helsinki
Budapest
Transylvania
Govorov
Baltic
Valga
Estonia-Latvia
Ivan Maslennikov
Third Baltic Army
Germany
Schoeppel Rejects Missouri Valley Authority Plan
Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel opposed a Missouri Valley Authority like TVA. He urged a basin compact with up river and down river state reps and federal agency input, not a TVA. He favored benefiting all hydroelectric development and respecting private power interests.
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Topeka
Upi
Andrew Schoeppel
Missouri Valley Authority
TVA
Congress
Roosevelt
Omaha
Kansas
Missouri River ‘States Committee
Schoeppel
Up River
Down River
Army
Department of Agriculture
University of Kansas Publishes Veterans Aid Booklet
The University of Kansas announces a 12 page pamphlet to explain the G I Bill of Rights and the Vocational Rehabilitation Bill and their KU application. It outlines eligibility, education benefits, financial support, and eligible fields of study along with general courses and credit policies for veterans including non graduates and those with prior college experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
K. U
Kansas
Armed Forces Institute
Dodge to Make Browder's Wife Legal U. S. Resident
The Justice Department announced Raissa Browder wife of Earl Browder has returned to the United States from Canada on a visa in what authorities call a technical move to secure her lawful residency. Deportation ordered in 1940 for entry illegally was withdrawn by the immigration board which also allowed her to leave and reenter by visa stamp through an American consul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Raissa Berkman’ Browder
Earl Browder
Communist Party of the
United States
Canada
Mrs. Browder
Shen
Lenanty
War Dead: Pvt Edward L Thomas Killed in Action
Mrs E L Thomas was informed by the war department that her husband Pvt Edward L Thomas died of wounds received in action in France on August 9. He had been overseas since May after three years in the infantry. Son of Mr and Mrs R A Thomas of Wamego he trained at Camp Robinson and entered the army from Lawrence with Company H National Guard. Mrs Thomas is living with her parents, Mr and Mrs Martin Miller, Route 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Thomas
War Department
Edward L. Thomas
France
Thomasiis
Adelia Miller
Martin Miller
Route 1
Thomas
R.A. Thomas
Wamego
Infantry
Lawrence
National Guard
Camp Robinson
Chinese Announce Loss of Wuchow Amid War News
Chungking reports a Chinese army spokesman announcing Japanese forces have captured Wuchow, a key Siang river port in eastern Kwangsi. Wuchow lies about 190 miles west of Canton and 170 southeast of Kwellin, where American air bases were once located.
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Chungking
UPR
Wuchow
Siang River
Kwangsi Province
Canton
Kwellin
Heavy U S Raids Strike Philippines Second Day
United States and Japanese forces clash as a massive carrier air strike targets Manila and surrounding bases. Allied fleets claim multiple ships sunk or damaged, with pilots saved, while operations press toward Peleliu and the Palau Islands as MacArthur details new explosives drops near Halmahera and Ceram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Manila
Corregidor
Clark Field
Nichola Field
Cavite Naval Base
Subic
Philippines
United States
William F. Halsey, Jr
Marc A. Mitsther
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Mitscher-Halsey
Mindanao
Tokyo Radio
Palaus
Pacific
Nimitz
Peleliu
Pelliu
William Ewing
Blue Net
Umurbrogoi
Palaua
Jeleli
Angaur Island
81St
Southwest Pacific
Ougias MacArthur
Morotai
Halmahera Island
Ceram
Célebes
All Time High in Bank Deposits in Kansas
Deposits in 623 state and national banks reached a record 1 107 621 886 at year end June 30. The total rose 200 million from the prior year with 176 national and 447 state banks covered. Loans and discounts climbed to 163 326 319 as deposits swelled. Government obligations totaled 564 374 075 with reserves of 2 759 928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Fred M. Bowman
Tona Association
Bowman
Kansas
U.S
Honor Navy Men At KU Electricians Mate Graduation
The final graduating class of Navy electricians mates at the University of Kansas was honored at a banquet in the Memorial Union building. The 117 students will finish the course October 3, after training began in February on Mt Oread and was shifted from machinist mates to electricians mates in 1942. Wives families and friends attended along with officers ships company and guests including Chancellor Deane W Malott and several local figures. The entertainment featured Navy men delivering song and specialty acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Electricians
University of Kansas
Memorial Unon
Naval
Navy
Mt. Oread
University
Deane W. Malott
Fred S. Montgomery
Raymond Nichols
W. P. Hessler
C. B. Althaus
R. P. Stringham
Harry O’kane
Eee
Russians Reach Vistula as Polish Patriots Link Up
London reports Russian units crossed the Vistula and established contact with Polish patriots in the Zoliborz and Mokotow districts. The Polish government said RAF Liberators flew 1750 miles from Italy dropping supplies and arms to underground forces led by Gen. Bor. Five German divisions were pinned down in the Warsaw battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vistula
Ra.f. Liberators
Italy
Bor
Warsaw
Mediterranean
Zoliborz
Mokotow
Arrest High Officials in Bulgaria Signals Soviet Action
London reports Moscow radio says Red Army troops in Bulgaria arrested two former premiers Bogdan Philov and Dobri Bosilov and the former Regent Prince Cyril and the German envoy to Sofia. Also detained were Lt. Gen. Nikola Mikhov former regent and war minister N. Vasiliev Dr. A Mohrmann and other envoys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bulgaria
Bogdan Philov
Dobri Bosilov
Cyril
Sofia
Moscow
Red Army
Nelson on way home from China talks with Roosevelt
War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson is en route to Washington with a report on his Chinese conferences for President Roosevelt. He has already arrived in India after leaving Chungking September 6 where he conferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and other Chinese leaders on the Chinese military effort and American aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Upi—War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Washington
Roosevelt
India
Nelson
Eralissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Siegfried Line Busy A Village On Siegfried Line
In a Siegfried Line village on Sept 22 a line across streets marks the battle zone. A photo shows a Hitler image near a Siegfried Line sign. General C. H. Danielson orders all Seventh Service commands to hold memorial services, first to be held Sunday in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siegfried Line
Germany
Hiter
Pi Ij
C. H. Danielson
8th Army Forces Enter Po Valley in Major Drive
Allied forces push deep into the Po valley capturing Rimini and Firenzuola as Fifth Army seizes a key road junction in the Gothic line. Brazilians advance toward Pietrasanta helping a Ligurian coast push while German manpower suffers heavy losses in the crumbling line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8Th Army
Po Valley
Fifth Army
Heart of Gothic Line
Firenzuola
Albert Kesselring
Rimini
Bologna
San Nicola al Porto
Italy
U. S
Pietrasanta
Pisa
Lucca-Camaiore
Ligurian
Jamaicans to Arrive to Aid Sun Flower Ordnance Works
One hundred Jamaican workers will arrive Monday to help fill a wartime manpower shortage at the Sun Flower Ordnance Works. They will live at the plant barracks and work for Hercules Powder Company as part of a government led effort coordinated by the War Manpower Commission and the state department. The Jamaicans, British subjects with English accents, are expected to return to Jamaica after the war per a U S Great Britain treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Hercules Powder Company
State Department
United States
War Manpower Commission
Jamaica
U. S
Great Britain
Two 1943 Champions Meet On Haskell Field Tonight
Lawrence high school opens the season at Haskell stadium against Manhattan high school in a clash of 1943 champions. North West Kansas League winner Lawrence versus a Manhattan squad that went undefeated last season. Kickoff at 8 o clock. They will be aided by a Lawrence high 100 piece band under Prof Thayer Gaston. Admission 60 cents for adults, 10 cents for children. Season tickets for five home games sell at gate for 2.25. E award to North American aviation plant and modification center October 6 with Army and Navy officers present. Lawrence High on Manhattan Friday night at 8 o'clock. Ride the Bus.
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Lawrence High School
Haskell Stadium
Manhattan High School
Lawrence
Manhattan
Thayer Gaston
North American Plant
Kansas City
Kan
North American Aviation
Army Air Forces
Charles E. Smith
Navy
Baresy
Monograms On Your Post War Waffles Sep
Washington reports the Postwar Gazette notes civilian patents alongside defense innovations. Giovanni Frova and Ernest Allred receive patents for consumer gadgets while William Gar standalone monogram waffles feature a ribbed lower plate and insertable plugs. Seth Barker proposes a wax removal device for dressed poultry using rotating fingers. Watch your necktie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Patent Office
Giovanni Frova
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Ernest Allred
San Francisco
Calif
William W. Garstand
Indianapolis
Seth S. Barker
Ottumwa
Citywide rat control drive planned in Douglas County
Sanitary officer Howard Weindel announces a county health unit campaign to map rat harborage in Douglas city business districts. He cites rats’ destruction of merchandise and disease risks including typhus and food poisoning, urging stores to remove trash and trap, poison under health supervision, and rat proof buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Weindel
Douglas County Health Unit
Weindel
Tater
United States
Savannah
Georgia
Alabama
Texas
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
New York
Virginia
Kentucky
Kansas
Health Department
Cool night forecast ends summer in Topeka
Weather forecaster D Flora predicted fair conditions and a cooler night as summer ends at 11 02 p m central war time. No rain was reported yesterday and none expected today with clear skies statewide. Yesterday's high reached 91 in Dodge City, while lows ranged from 54 at Concordia and Phillipsburg to 55 in the northwest tonight, with 65 in the southeast Kansas area expected tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Flora
Oity
Pathe
Joffeyville
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Kansas
Dewey Broadcast Tonight in Los Angeles
Governor Thomas E Dewey speaks in Los Angeles with NBC coverage at 10 pm under Republican National Committee sponsorship. President Roosevelt urged disclosure of any undisclosed information about the Pearl Harbor attack to committees investigating the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas &. Dewey
Los Angeles
NBC
Republican National Committee
Ae F. D. R
Noted Artists on Concert Program
University of Kansas Concert Course announces its 42nd season with Grace Moore Bronislaw Huberman Lauritz Melchior Alec Templeton and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess among highlights. Season tickets offer savings with prices seven six and five dollars plus tax. Etta Moten stars in Bess with an 80 member company and full orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Grace Moore
Bronislaw Huberman
Philadelphia Opera Company
Dean Swarthout
San Francisco Ballet
Lauritz Melchior
Metropolitan Opera
New York City
K. U
Alec Templeton
Bess
Etta Moten
Migs Moten
K.A
Swing Shift Crew Sets New Sunflower Can Packing Record
Can Pack Crew on B Line at Sunflower Ordnance Works, ten women and nine men under foremen Cliff Gaswint and Ernie Zimmerman, packed 20 percent more cans than any prior shift. The swing crew worked to midnight with Edward C. Beal as government inspector, driven by cooperation and a push to meet powder orders for the fighting forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Cliff Gaswint
Ernie Simmerman
Edward C. Beal
Four Years Ago Today Haifa Mosque Raid and London Bombing
On September 22, 1940 Italian air raids killed 40 Arabs in a Haifa mosque and damaged a British museum during a Nazi raid on London, marking a tense wartime day with targets in the Middle East and the British capital.
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Haifa
London
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Vosges
Europe
Arnhem
OWL
Dwight D. Eigenhower
Supreme Headquarters
Sir Miles C. Dempsey
Second Army
Tanka
Eindhoven
Waal Rhine
Stolberg
Aachen
Associated Press
Hal Boyle
U. S. Seventh Army
George Tucker
Epinal
Moselle River
Ernest Johnson
United Nations
Montreal
United Nations of Europe
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Poland
T. T. Scott
Displaced Persons Committee
European Council of
UNRRA
Scott
Norway
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
Greece
Yugoslavia
Unrera
Altho
Herbert Lehman
Venezuela
Dodge
Browder
U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
America
Court House
Clgco
Salif
Margaret Cuono
Arthur Robinson
Doris Williams
Douglas County Court House
Yeaterday
Lorena
Hollingsworth
The
Yanks Grab Junction
Rome
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Hercules
Haskell Field
Lawrence High On
Weindle
Dewey
Kansas University
Fine Arts
Dean D. M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arta
Sunflower
Bootheanut
Walmo
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