Dance Orchestra Leader Knapp Killed in Beverly Plane Crash
Orville Knapp, renowned dance orchestra leader born 1908 in Kansas City, died after his open cockpit Stearman crashed near Beverly airport while attempting a landing. He had recently married Gloria Grafton of the stage production Jumbo. Knapp had performed across major cities including Dallas Denver Chicago and New York and was in Boston at the Ritz-Carlton when the accident occurred.
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Beverly
Mass
Orville Knapp
New York
Knapp
Gloria Grafton
East Boston
Kansas City
University of Missouri
Coon- Sanders
Hollywood
Evelyn Knapp
Beverly- Wilshire
Dallas
Denver
Chicago
Waldorf-Astoria
Boston
Harrison
N. Y
Food supplies forecast one percent below 1934 35 levels
The Agriculture Department released a national food survey showing prospects for total supplies about three percent below 1935 36 and one percent below 1934 35. Despite drought curbs, Dr A G Black says total food stocks for the year ending June 1937 should meet domestic needs with higher butter cheese eggs cattle prices and lower potato hogs and wool prices foreseen. Wheat prices likely to stay near Liverpool levels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
A. G. Black
Bureau
Miss Samuelson Seeks Rural School Aid From Governor Landon
Agnes Samuelson of Des Moines, vice president of the National Education Association, met with Governor Alf Landon in Topeka to discuss rural education. She praised Landon for prioritizing rural schools and equal opportunity, noting school funding cuts during the economic crisis and reliance on local support. she did not know Kansas teachers pay details.
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Topeka
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Agnes Samuelson
Des Moines
National Education Association
Kansas
Iowa
Samuelson
Gravel Crews Stage Snowball Battle Amid Heat
Gravel crews on highway 212 between Montevideo and Granite Falls paused work to battle a snowball snow pile uncovered in a gravel pit. The scene occurred as temperatures neared 100 degrees. The snow had drifted there last winter and been covered by spring gravel.
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Montevideo
Minn
Here
Granite Falls
Radio Schedule Fragments Link NBC CBS Networks and Orchestras
Radio listings show Irene Rich Jessica Dragonette and many orchestras on NBC CBS and ABC stations. Programs span morning to late evening with operatic solos, talk of voting, and multiple scheduled concerts across WJZ WEAF WABC WBBM WCCO and other outlets.
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Irene Rich
NBC
WJZ Chain
Jessica Dragonette
Jane
WEAF
WOW
CBS
WABC
WBBM
Oscar Shaw
WCCO
WGST
Ene Munn
Pred Waring Orch
WJZ
WLW
WLS
Dick Powell
Frances Langford
KMOX
Marion Tall
Anaes Orch
W3sz
Chain
Navarro Orch
Olvite Knapp Orch
Wabc Aox
Crawford
Fisher Orch
Weaf Chain
Shandor
George Givot
Radio Circus
WACO
Don_ Bestor orch
Pollock's
Irving Aaronson Orch
Eddie House
Joseph Cherniavsky Orch
WOC
WERBM
Robers Rissling
Fred Feibel
Vaughn de Leath
WJZ_ chain
Enhatters Orch
Bill Krenz Orch
Columbia’s
Genia Fonariova
WJZ Chain Girls
Wabc Tweco
WGS
Meee Chain
George Hall Orch
Wocaco
Grange
Jimmy Littlefield Orch
Paul Burton Orch
Al 8
Orch
Ae Smith
Wcco Kmox
Central City
Colo
Charles Barnet Orch
Waco Woc
Joan and Escorts
Weaf Ain
Angelo Vitale
Wow Wlw
Hearnen Peveman
Jesse Crawford
Get Thurn Orch
Noble Cain
Chail Roth Orch
King’s Jesters
Connie Gates
Patti Chapin
Don Ferdi Orch
Wabc Chain
Meredith Willson Orch
Weaf Chaine Court of the Air
Brons Castagna
A. Garber
Henry King
One Beecher
Genny Goodman
Joseph Cherniavsky
From Alice to Tugwell Farm Policy in Drought Era
A 1936 letter condemns Tugwell and the rural resettlement program amid western droughts. The piece argues experts should handle soil and grass restoration, not weather politics, and critiques the program as nearing collapse.
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Tugwell
New York City
Rural Resettlement Administration
Alice Longworth
Abducted Child Found Unharmed At Spirit Lake
A mysterious abduction at Spirit Lake ends with 18 month old Bobby Dare safe behind a garage two hours after two men seized him from the Dare home. Merub Jean Warner aided the kidnapper, was frightened but unharmed. Authorities tracked the infant by a pet dog, with the child sleeping throughout.
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Spirit Lake
Dickinson County
Bobby Dare
Frank Dare
Dare
Spiritlake
Merub Jean Warner
Merub Jean
Bobby
Iowa Farm Worker Beheaded by Train
Bedford Iowa AP Emmet Savage a 50 year old farm hand was beheaded when he leaped from a small truck to escape a Burlington train at the northeast crossing The truck and two others crossed safely as Savage died at 6 20 pm near Whittington and Underwood while returning from work The employer said he did not see the train due to blinding glare
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Underwood
Bedford
Emmet Savage
Burlington
Savage
R. L. Whittington
Will Underwood
Whittington
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LACE
Sir Silk
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Minneapolis
Ason
FBI
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