Smolensk Falls to Soviet Forces in Major Advance
Soviet troops crossed the Dnieper and captured Smolensk, the German central Russian fortress, in a major push. Roslavl and other fortified towns also fell as Moscow announced the victory, with Stalin praising Smolensk as a key western defense center.
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London
Dnieper
Smolensk
Petrikova
Dnepropetrovsk
Moscow
Dnieper River
Peat
Solensk
Europe
Roslavl
Desna River
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Berlin
Ernest von Hammer
Hitler
von Hammer
Unecha
Pleasant weekend forecast for Kansas from Weather Bureau
Pleasant weekend weather expected across Kansas with no rainfall in prospect and little temperature change. Eastern areas may see slightly cooler breezes tonight while Dodge City and Goodland reported a high of 82 degrees and Ellis a low of 44 last night.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
S. D. Flora
Dodge City
Goodland
Ellis
U U i
MacArthur Near Jap New Britain With Airbase 75 Miles Off
Allied reports say Finschhafen airfield in New Guinea has fallen to MacArthur's forces, placing airpower 75 miles from New Britain. Australian troops stormed the field six miles north of Finschhafen, advancing within three quarters of a mile of the town as battles continue.
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MacArthur
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
UPI
Finschhafen
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Finschafen
Lae
New Guinea Eeeatal
Allied Contol
Naples
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Bari
Molfetta
Fifth Army
Salerno
Italy
Tyhrrhenian
Moscow views sought on postwar draft plan in Senate debate
The senate debates postwar policy and Russia’s aims as Admiral Standley may resign as ambassador to the U S S R and a Moscow meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt is eyed for shaping the peace. Nye says wait for Britain and Russia to clarify aims before pledging U S postwar policy. In Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas draft officers plan a prewar fathers draft starting next Friday while a 15 day roll inventory is taken.
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Washington
U. S. Senate
America
Moscow
Russia
William H. Standley
U.S.S.R
Hull
Standley
Senate Foreign Relations ‘Committee
England
Connally
D-Tex
Lendlease
W. Averill Harriman
Britain
Marshal Stalin
Churchill
Roosevelt
Nye
Senate
Kansas City
Army
Navy
Marine
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Bayard Shumate
Selective Service
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Shumate
James M. Cherry
William EF. Treadway
Conway EF. Yockey
Elevator Strike Ends at Rockefeller Center
A four day strike by 750 Rockefeller Center maintenance workers ended as pickets withdrew before the 10 am deadline. The Association of Maintenance Employees cites reinstatement of laid off workers and the firing of a head floor lady, while AFL officials label the action a wildcat affair.
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New York
Rockefeller Center
A.F.L
Navy Seeks Ground Corn Cobs for Engine Cleaning
Deal Six reports a federal extension service inquiry seeking sources of ground corn cobs with 15 percent moisture, passing 12‑mesh and not 20‑mesh screens. The Navy may need up to 2500 tons for cleaning carbon from aircraft engines, replacing costly previous materials.
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Navy
Deal Six
Federal Extension Service
Beet workers from Mexico to aid harvest in Kansas
In Syracuse on September 25 GPI reports beet workers from Mexico will arrive in Hamilton County next week to relieve labor shortages. While awaiting beet harvest they will cut broom corn. A test of Hamilton County bees is set for October 1 and the Garden City refinery will open October 10. County beet acreage is sharply reduced due to the labor shortage.
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Syracuse
Kan
GPI
Mexico
Hamilton County
Garden City
Funk's Mortuary and Chapel Service Notice
Funeral notice announces funeral or memorial services for the deceased with chapel arrangements and contact phone number 119 for Funk's Mortuary and Chapel.
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Funk’s
Seaisnes Service
Some Fathers Called To Take Examinations
About 125 Douglas county pre war fathers were ordered to report Wednesday for physical exams at the local selective services headquarters. The screening tests aim to secure 1 A classifications to meet October quotas. Bruce Cameron said the board finished its September inventory and is mailing copies to Sen Hershey and the Topeka selective service chairman.
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Douglas County
Selective Services
Bruce Cameron
Selective Service Board
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Ice
Philadelphia
Selective Service
Topeka
Open Tonight for War Bond Sales in Lawrence Banks
Two Lawrence banks and two building and loan associations will open tonight from 6 to 9 oclock to sell war bonds. Veterans call it a historic Saturday night as vaults stay locked and staff focus solely on bond issuance. Lobbies lit and busy with patriotic buyers mark the event.
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Lawrence
New Tire Regulation Tightens OPA Eligibility
Washington September 25 The Office of Price Administration halted issuance of grade one tire rationing certificates for A and B gasoline buyers to bridge dwindling pre war tires and synthetic rubber tire production. New rule requires motorists to log at least 601 essential miles monthly to qualify for one tire. Previously 241 miles were sufficient.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Yugoslav Patriots Repel Assault Near Split
The Moracss radio said a campaign broadcast reported tank supported German formations were repulsed in an attack on Yugoslav patriots near Split. The report claimed German losses of 300 killed and two tanks destroyed.
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New York
Moracss
Free Yugos Av Ree Eee
Split
Allies Reach Hills Overlooking Naples in Fierce Push
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark fight onto hills above Naples in a day and night assault with heavy artillery. In Corsica and Elba air battles, 19 Junkers 52 transports are shot down and more damaged as RAF Beaufighters hinder German evacuations.
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Allied
North Africa
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Naples
Corsica
Elba
Tunisia
Sicily
Clark
Vesuvius
Pompei
Salerno
Health and sanitation leaders meet in Douglas county
County farm bureau leaders gather at Spanley building from 10 a m to 3 p m to hear W Pearl Martin a Kansas State College specialist lecture on Mental Attitudes and Developments of Adolescence The session moves to Baldwin tomorrow at the Methodist church fellowship room same hours
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Douglas County Farm ‘Bureau
Spanley
W. Pearl Martin
Kansas State College
Smolensk Gate Opens as Key to Western Front
The city Smolensk, long called the key to the door of Russia, stands as a potential springboard for Soviet advances into northern White Russia Poland and the Baltic states. Located on the upper Dnieper, Smolensk figures in history from Napoleon to Nazi defenses, with rail lines converging and Adolf Hitler deeming it among Europe’s strongest fortifications.
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Russia
Moscow
Smolensk
White Russia
Poland
Baltic States
Dnieper
Napoleon
Altho
Boris Godunov
Europe
Adolf Hitler
MacArthur eyed for broader Pacific command in editorial
The Army and Navy Journal editorial says Gen. Douglas MacArthur should lead a larger Pacific war role, potentially supreme command of allied forces against Japan. It notes Senator Chandler will push in Congress for unified command, but Quebec's plan creates Southeast Asia command under Admiral Mountbatten. The piece praises MacArthur’s team for recent victories and argues for expanded duties in the Pacific theater.
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Washington
Army and Navy Journal
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Chandler
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Senate
MacArthur
Japan
Africa
Europe
Churchill
Si¢H
Quebec
Southeast Asia
Mountbatten
US Air Force in China repels major Jap bombing raid
Brig. Gen. Edgar Glenn reports the 14th U S A A F headquarters near Hankow was attacked by 27 Japanese bombers. Fifteen shot down, seven probably destroyed, three damaged. Two Zeros confirmed down, four damaged. One P-40 downed with pilot safe. Japanese retaliate with periodic raids on American airfields in eastern and southeastern China.
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United States
Air Force
China
U.S.A.A.F
Edgar Glenn
Glenn
Claire L. Chennault
Ion
USAAF
Hankow
Fourteenth
Yangtze
Missing Lake City flight instructor among six still unaccounted
Lieut. Richard Campbell of Garden City Kansas is one of six men missing after a training flight that began September 21 over the Gulf of Mexico from an auxiliary air field of the Lake City naval air station. One crew member was rescued and another body recovered.
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Lake City
Fla
Richard Campbell
Garden City
Kan
Lake City Naval Air Station
Gulf of Mexic
Opposes Building of Big Gas Line Across Nation
Dr. Eugene A. Stephenson argues the United States may exhaust its known natural gas reserves by 1960 without urgent measures. He criticizes a proposed Kansas-Oklahoma-Texas to Pittsburgh gas pipeline, urges coal gas methods and regional development, and suggests severance taxes if the line proceeds. He warns rail and industrial costs, proposes stimulating local plants and tax relief to keep gas resources local.
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United States
Eugene A. Stephenson
University of Kansas
Kansas
Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Stephenson
Commission
Santa Fe
N.M
KU Man Dies in New Hampshire Hospital
Lieut. Allan H. Barstow aged 36 USNR died in a Portsmouth New Hampshire hospital on Thursday. He had served as chief radio engineer for the National Youth Administration in Topeka before his August 1942 commission and was formerly on the engineering staff of WIBW. He was stationed at Brunswick Maine at the time of death.
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Topeka
Allan H. Barstow
USNR
Portsmouth
N. H
Edmond T. Barstow
Barstow
National Youth Administration
WIBW
Brunswick
Barstow’s KU Attendance Marks Non Graduation
Lieutenant Barstow attended the University of Kansas for two or three years but did not graduate, a detail noted in the record.
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Barstow
University of Kansas
Stock Market Index Report
The stock index averaged 60 stocks at 51.1 yesterday, marking a slight rise over the prior session. Investors watched key shares. traders noted modest gains across several sectors despite mixed earnings signals.
Milk Subsidy Plan Announced by War Food Administration
The War Food Administration outlines an emergency milk subsidy through the Commodity Credit Corporation paying dairymen 25 to 50 cents per 100 pounds of milk sold October through December. The plan does not alter current wholesale or retail milk prices and is projected to cost about 65 million dollars for the three months. Payments reflect increased dairy feed costs since September 1942, with higher subsidies in regions where feed costs and milk price increases are greatest.
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Washington
Sept
War Food Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
W.F.A
Douglas County Bond Sales Rise During War Drive
Total bonds sold by Douglas county at close last evening reached 1 351 808 25 dollars as solicitors push to exceed targets. Zone workers report individual sales from Mrs C E Dicker five thousand eight hundred dollars and Mrs Earl Patton one thousand dollars, with Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary endorsing and buying a hundred dollar bond.
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Douglas County
C. E. Dicker
Pinckney
Earl Patton
Alford-Clarke Post
Jall
W. T. Allen
U S War Production Sees Planes Every Five Minutes
London reports U S War Production Board chairman Donald M. Nelson told an Allied dinner that American industry will soon finish a military plane every five minutes. He said 110000 planes have been built since Jan 1 1942 and that output will outpace Germany and Japan, with 1944 possibly bringing even greater totals.
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London
UPI
Donald M. Nelson
U. S. War Production Board
Allies
Axis
United States War Industry
Nelson
Germany
Japan
United States
Directors to Meet at Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce board of directors will meet Wednesday at 12 20 PM at the Hotel Eldridge.
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The
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Hotel
Eldridge
Meat Committee Completes Work in Douglas County
The Douglas County War Meat Committee, formed by the Douglas County USDA War Board on June 19 to review slaughter permits before August 15, has been discharged. Chairman David Noe announced the termination and letters of thanks are being mailed. The shift of permit issuance to the Food Distribution Administration ended the committee’s duties. original members included George Frazier, Roger Williams, W R West, George Beal, Mrs LeaRoy Hurley, Harvey Booth, and Henry Bell.
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Douglas County War Meat Committee
Douglas County
Usda War Board
David Noe
County War Board
Noe
Food Distribution Administration
George Frazier
Lawrence
County Meat Committee
Roger M. Williams
W. R. West
George Beal
LeaRoy Hurley
Harvey Booth
Henry Bell
Baldwin
KU Student Registration Opens in Frank Stronghall
First day at the University of Kansas for short term registration runs 1 to 5 PM in Frank Stronghall. Liberal arts students meet at 1 30 with Dean Lawson. professional schools gather at 4 30 with Deans Twente Reece and Swarthout. A 6 PM freshmen free feed in the Union sponsored by Memorial Union and All-Student Council.
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University of Kansas
Frank Stronghall
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Lawson
School of Education
J. W. Twente
School of Pharmacy
Allen Reece
School of Fine Arts
Swarthout
Jayhawk
Memorial Union
All-Student Council
Civil Air Patrol Sunday Afternoon Program At Lawrence
Civil Air Patrol plans a 2 PM Sunday program at Lawrence Municipal Airport to recruit men 17 to 26 for the army air cadet program. Noted fliers attend and bombers from the Topeka base will fly over before 2. Local boys who have passed exams will be sworn into the reserve and receive wings from army officers.
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Civil Air Patrol
Lawrence Municipal
Topeka
Seven American Planes Interned After Kamchatka Flight
U S planes landed on Kamchatka on September 12 the date of the last bombing of the Kurile islands and were interned by Soviet authorities. An intelligence officer said five planes were presumed lost five may have reached land while the Russian report cited engine trouble as the cause.
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Moscow
Kamchatka
Kurile Islands
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Lake Ladoga
Leningrad
Murmansk
Gerank
Isses
Cherkasi
Red
Stalingrad
Sovie
Cape Gloucester
Gasmata
Rabaul
Salamaua
ASK Moscow
Smolensk Gate
Associated Press
Wiedemann’s—Ady
K. U
Nation
Portsmouth, N. A
U. S
Meat Committee
FDA
Jap Island
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