Allies Break German Mountain Defenses Near Naples
Allied forces report the Fifth Army driving the Germans from Salerno's surrounding mountains and advancing toward Naples. Castellammare and Nocera were seized, Avellino looms as a key junction, and Pompei is reportedly entered as the front broadens from coast to coast. The withdrawal appears orderly with no large prisoner gains.
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Castellammare
Bay of Naples
Ventura Line
Naples
London
British Press Association
Fifth Army
Pompei
Smoking Vesugius
Italy
Fifth
Eighth Army
Avellino
Albert Kesselring
Castellamimare
Audit Finds No Serious Loose Practices In Education Funds
Topeka reports a special audit of the state superintendent’s office shows no serious loose practices. State Accountant W G Hamilton suggests minor changes in handling accounts and notes some board members exceeded per diem limits. Governor Schoeppel says the audit is routine and focuses on funds, not policy.
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Topeka
Andrew Schoeppel
W. G. Hamilton
State Board of Education
Schoeppel
Hamilton
Germans Take Seaport Evacuated After Heavy Fighting
New York dispatch reports Yugoslav liberation sources via UN radio claim the Adriatic port of Split was evacuated after enemy pressure and heavy fighting. War materials in the town were saved, with Germans reporting yesterday the occupation of the seaport.
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New York
UPK
Fierce Fight for Finchafen Is Taking Heavy Toll of Defenders
Allied forces press the assault on Finschhafen in New Guinea as Australian troops batter Japanese positions on high ground and along Ilebbe Creek. Bombing from Wewak and surrounding bases, plus coastal strafing, signal a widening campaign toward encirclement.
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Finchafen
Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Wewak
Hansa Bay
Japan
New Britain
Ceiling Prices Fixed on Potatoes Through June 1944
Washington reports Office of Price Administration fixes average retail potato price 4.5 to 5.5 cents per pound for Oct 1943 to Jun 1944. Country shippers and intermediates face monthly sliding ceilings to cover storage costs. Maine Idaho areas set at 2.15 to 2.75 per 100 pounds, U S No 1 white potatoes, 1943 crop.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Maine
Idaho
U. S
Kansas
Missouri
Engineers urged to resume work at Vickers Armstrong plant
London reports union officials pressed 9,000 striking engineers at the Vickers Armstrong factory to return after a national arbitration tribunal rejected their bid for higher pay. The strike lasts two weeks as 8,000 Scottish miners also stay away for a second day over fines from an earlier unofficial walkout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Vickers-Armstrong Arms
Yugoslav King Peter Arrives in Cairo to Lead Exiled Government
King Peter of Yugoslavia arrives in Cairo from London accompanied by Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Bozhidar Puritch. The 20 year old monarch, with staff, travels from Port Said by British cruiser to a prepared Cairo villa. Government in exile shifts from London to Cairo.
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Cairo
Peter
Yugoslavia
London
Port Said
Bozhidar Puritch
Possible London venue shifts for US Britain Russia talks
Washington reports indicate the American British Russian conference may convene in London rather than Moscow to ease Hull’s travel. Secretary Hull plans to join Eden and Molotov to push wartime cooperation and postwar planning as a precursor to a later summit with Roosevelt Churchill Stalin. The Soviets favor united action but seek no separate peace with Germany, depending on the opening of a second front.
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Washington
London
Moscow
Hull
Anthony Eden
Britain
Molotov
Russia
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
State Department
Germany
Europe
Soviet Union
This Is the Army premiere benefit at Jayhawker
A special features a lobby display of equipment used by U S fighting forces and a ten voice army chorus directed by Lt Elgin T Fuller. Capt B H Eversmeyer of the Ordnance department talks. Proceeds from reserved seats go to Army Emergency Relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jayhawker
U. S
Elgin T. Fuller
B. H. Eversmeyer
Ordnance Department
Army Emergency Relief
South Pacific
Aleutians
Kansas City
Stanley Schwahn
Few Kansas Fathers in October Drafts
Topeka Sept. 29 State selective service headquarters said today that not many pre Pearl Harbor fathers will be included in the October quota of inductees Brig Gen M R McLean director asserted Thats the way the situation stands today but it might change tomorrow He said the October call would be about normal and would be filled largely by young men in the draft age bracket single and married men in non essential occupations and those who have given up deferrable positions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Selective Service
Pearl Harbor
M. R. McLean
Kansan Killed in Crash at Fort Benning Training Flight
Second Lieut. Melvin Lloyd Jenkinson, 26, of Girard Kansas, based at Lawson Field near Fort Benning, was one of four service members killed when their army transport crashed during routine training near Seale Alabama. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jenkinson of Girard, are noted.
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Kansan
Fort Benning
Melvin Lloyd Jenkinson
Girard
Kan
Seale
Ala
Lawson Field
Here
Jenkinson
Arthur Jenkinson
Nazis Counterattack In Russia Reported On Dnieper Front
Soviet dispatches describe German forces unleashing multiple counterattacks daily along the Dnieper as Red Army artillery and air support push to hold and expand bridgeheads. Reports note gains near Gomel and Mogilev in White Russia and German efforts to defend key rail junctions.
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Communist Party
Pravda
Red
Zaporozhe
Dnepropetrovsk
Dnieper
Berlin
Constanta
Red Army
White Russia
Gomel
Mogilev
Chernigov
Bad Beer Red
Gremvy
Unechakrichev
Krichev
Nosovichi
Red Star
Kremenchug
Poltava
Globino
Gradizhsk
Temryuk
Kuban
Caucasus
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Furloughed KU Instructor Visited Old Haunts in Lawrence
Staff Sgt. Raymond Eastwood, formerly a University of Kansas painting instructor, is on one week of detached service furlough in Lawrence. He is noted for sand dune paintings and stopped by the university fine arts department this morning to visit familiar scenes.
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Raymond Eastwood
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Eastwood
Fine Arts
University
Congress to Hold Purse Strings in Foreign Aid Oversight
Roosevelt assigns four foreign economic agencies to Leo Crowley to streamline congressional appropriations for relief and rehabilitation. Byrnes argues consolidated control will ease funding for international operations and potential UN led efforts, as critics cite overlapping efforts and oversight.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Leo T. Crowley
Congress
High Administration
Crowley
Office of Economic Warfare
Truman War Investigating Committee
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation
OEW
Lend-Lease
State Department
Office of Foreign Economic Coordination
Byrnes
Administration
United Nations
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Health advisory council formed for Baldwin area
Eva M Bourne public health nurse organized a Baldwin area health advisory council last night. Members from Farm Bureau Girl Scouts American Legion Baker University Red Cross Baldwin schools Boy Scouts and city officials attended. The group will hold regular meetings on health maintenance and disease prevention with special sessions as needed led by chair Mrs John Heaton vice chair Yale Wells and secretary Emma Wall.
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Baldwin
Eva M. Bourne
Frank Kerns
Farm Bureau
R. F. Miller
Girl Scouts
Stanley Flickinger
American Legion
Muriel Dayhoff
Baker University
Baker University; Drs. Wise and Yates
Douglas County Medical Society
John Salit
American Red Cross
Nannie Gander
Baldwin High School
Nannie Steele
Baldwin Grade School
Yale Wells
Boy Scouts
Emma C. Hall
John Heaton
Emma Wall
Southeast Kansas Rains Boost Pastures and Crops
Creaking rains across eastern and south central Kansas improved fall pastures and late sorghum crops. Totals ranged from 0.42 inches in Topeka to 3.60 inches in Independence, with light rain lingering in the east and extreme south. Western areas saw minimal moisture as wheat sowing proceeds in dry conditions.
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Topeka
Kansas
Saunels
Coffeyville
Flora
Independence
Pittsburg
Oswego
Parsons
Chanute
Yola
Burlington
Elmdale
Wichita
Genesee
Arkansas City
Fifteen Recruits Sent to Fort Leavenworth for Induction
Douglas county selective service board reports fifteen men from here departed September 20 for Fort Leavenworth induction. Names include Stanley Bryce Hansen, Robert Lanius Mendenhall, Kenneth Eugene Riley, Joe Fred Ford, Jay Sutton, Alfred Dicker, Paul Sommer, Reed McBee, Harold Belt, Herman Kuester, Fred Jaedicke Jr, Russell Mount, Arthur Hastert, Travis Glass, Roger Stanley. Gerald Reinhold inducted into the Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County Selective Service Board
Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth
Stanley Bryce Hansen
Robert Lanius Mendenhall
Kenneth Eugene Riley
Joe Fred Ford
Jay Sangster Sutton
Alfred James Dicker
Paul Charles Sommer
Reed Monroe McBee
Harold Frederick Belt
Herman Calvin Kuester
Fred William Jaedicke, Jr
Russell Mount
Arthur Louis Leo Hastert
Travis Eugene Glass
Roger Edmund
Kansas City Dairy Technology Society Meet Held
Howard M. Weindel Kansas City sanitary official attended a Dairy Technology Society meeting in Kansas City Missouri. Dairymen in the area debated postwar plans for the dairy industry focusing on higher quality milk and more highly trained personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Howard M. Weindel
City Sanitarian
Kansas City
Dairy Technology Society
Pacific War Council Meets Roosevelt on Pacific Situation
Members of the Pacific war council from nations active in the Pacific war met with President Roosevelt and reviewed the general situation. British chargé d’affaires Sir Ronald Campbell said it looked all right after the talks in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific War Council
Washington
Pacific
Roosevelt
Ronald Campbell
Douglas County Seeks Bond Goal With Augmented Drive
Douglas County reports show bond sales at 1 626 387 25 with 448 612 75 still needed to reach 2 075 000 quota. George Hedrick and Irving Hill urge continuation through September if over the top, noting 22 counties already met or exceeded goals and stressing confidence in bank deposits and government security value. Totals on the women's front remain brisk as the drive progresses.
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Douglas County
George Hedrick
Irving Hill
Help Douglas County meet its war bond quota
Urges timely purchase of war bonds to boost Douglas County totals and requests consideration of Certificates of Indebtedness for surplus checking funds. Recommends speaking with a banker tomorrow for a quick, flexible investment that supports government needs.
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Douglas County
Bond Sales Drive For Districts Faces Gaps In Reports
In Pinckney district a $10 000 purchase boosts totals though returns remain incomplete. Woodlawn reports eight $100 bonds sold, teachers buying in full. Canvassers seek uncontacted buyers and praise includes Milton Moore and W A Strode. Grace Porter leads colored groups with six bonds sold and aims for more. Chamber of Commerce headquarters monitor canvassers effort and adherence to boundaries.
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Pinckney
Earl Patton
Woodlawn
al Hunter
Hunter
Grace Porter
Henry Werner
Porter
Chamber of Commerce
Helvering defers Kansas HQ decision after survey
Washington reports Guy T. Helvering will not decide where to locate his new federal district court headquarters in Kansas until after surveying the state. Confirmed as judge yesterday, he will wind up as internal revenue commissioner and live in Topeka temporarily, with swearing-in upon his return to Kansas.
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Washington
Gpi
Guy T. Helvering
Whee
Kansas
Helvering
Senate
Internal Revenue
Topeka
Body Taken to St Marys After Tragic Death
Alford Louis McElvain, who killed himself by stepping in front of a train at the Santa Fe station, was taken to St Marys yesterday afternoon by a local funeral director. Officers found he spent Monday night at the Hotel Eldridge and his suitcase remained in the occupied room. His wife and daughter were living with the former's mother in St Marys.
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Alford Louis McElvain
Santa Fe
St. Marys
McElwain
Eldridge
Stock Market Index Holds At 60-Stock Average
The 60-stock index stands at 50.8 today, up from yesterday's 50.7. Investors watched mixed trading with modest gains across several sectors as market activity stabilized.
Senate Puts Fulbright Plan Aside in Postwar Debate
Washington action rolls to study a senate backed postwar policy. A foreign relations subcommittee will draft its own declaration of attitude and refer the measure to the full committee. Chairman Connally signaled delay beyond the Moscow conference period, while the House approved plan urged U S participation through constitutional processes in international peace machinery.
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Washington
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
Subcommittee
George
D-Ga
Moscow
Congress
Red Cross Seeks New Donors for Mobile Unit Visit
Hundreds register at the Community building for a two day Red Cross blood drive on October 7 and 8. The drive aims to fill 440 appointments with many first time donors, while recalling how prior donors saved lives. Volunteers can register at the basement office or by calling 640.
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Red Cross
Judge Helvering Confirmed as Kansas District Judge
Washington reports former internal revenue commissioner Pi Guy Helvering won Senate confirmation as district judge for Kansas. Senators Reed Capper and Frank Carlson praised the pick, noting his long ten year tenure as commissioner and predicting a strong performance on the bench. Helvering will depart Washington for Topeka in two weeks.
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Washington
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Kansas
Senate
Roosevelt
Helvering
Reed
R-Kan
Capper
Democrats
Frank Carlson
Congress
Clifford Hope
Topeka
Injured youth in collision near Memorial Hospital
Arthur Ray aged 16 of route 2 Lawrence sustained head and facial cuts after a motor car collided with a Kansas City Kaw Valley Western interurban train at Second and Locust streets around 5 pm. Ray’s injuries were not considered dangerous. Bennie Newall of 518 North Eighth Street drove a Ford coupe that struck the interurban as it moved east on Locust Street. The car was badly wrecked.
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Arthur Ray
Route 2
Lawrence
Kansas City
Kaw Valley Western Railroad
Second and Locust Streets
Ray
Memorial Hospital
Bennie Newall
North Eighth Street
Second Street
Former Kiwanis President Shot in Atlanta Home Invasion
Pi Henry C. Heinz aged 63 a prominent Atlanta banker and past Kiwanis International president was shot to death by a masked intruder at his home. His son in law Dr Bryant K Vann a 40 year old dentist was seriously wounded during a gun battle with police as he answered the alarm. The fleeing intruder a likely Negro disappeared.
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Kiwanis
Atlanta
Henry C. Heinz
Kiwanis International
Bryant K. Vann
Heinz
Fathers' Day Tests at Draft Office Screen 118 Men
On Fathers Day at the selective service board HQ nine local physicians and dentists screened 118 men with medical exams ahead of induction. No fathers called in early October. later calls depend on quotas and non fathers.
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Selective Service Board
Pearl Harbor
Bruce Cameron
Coal shortage feared in Kansas this winter
Gov. Andrew Schoeppel warns of a likely coal shortage as reports from across Kansas show dealers cannot supply sufficient coal. He cites Kansas University and other state institutions in need while noting possible increased production at the state penitentiary mine.
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Topeka
Kansas
Andrew Schoeppel
Schoeppel
Charles Kincaid
Kansas University
Kincaid
State Penitentiary
Bad Shooting Eye Not Barrier for Sgt at British Bomber Base
Thomas Dye of Steubenville Ohio left air gunnery school after officials cited an unskilled shooting eye. Despite this, Dye had already shot down eight enemy planes in five missions aboard the Fortress Snow Ball and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross plus three clusters with the Air Medal.
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Wewak
Drysdale
Darwin
Vella Layete
Solomons
U. S
Britain
Thomas Dye
Steubenville
Ohio
Dye
United States
Congress to Probe Gasoline Rationing Flaws
Midwest lawmakers demanded a full congressional investigation into the rationing program citing bureaucratic bungling and anticipating new midwest gasoline coupon cuts. They blamed shortages on administration handling and called for oversight.
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Washington
Midwest
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