Compromise on Government Reorganization Surfaces
Washington April 2 leaders reached a compromise on the government reorganization bill with approval suspected from President Roosevelt The Special House committee would accept a majority overrule of presidential orders and keep the Education Office within the Interior Department rather than a new Department of Welfare The move aims to secure passage amid opposition and partisan debate with remarks from Warren McCormack and Speaker Bankhead signaling broad support and a call to avoid propagandist tactics in the campaign
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Washington
Roosevelt
Warren
D-N.c
Special
House
Congress
Office of Education
Interior Department
Department of Welfare
Bankhead
Fow
Warm Springs
a. _ Warren
Rep. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
Dr. Rumley
United States
Edward A. Rumley
National Committee
Russia
Germany
Spanish Militiamen Interned in France Face Cabinet Decision
Paris April 2 The cabinet will decide how to dispose of three thousand Spanish government soldiers interned in Bagneres de Luchon after fleeing insurgents. About 2,000 civilian refugees, mostly women and children, traveled into France. 450 women and children were sent to Chateau Roux, with 500 new arrivals placed in local hospitals. Twenty soldiers are wounded in French hospitals and one detained for 8 million francs worth of stocks and bonds.
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Paris
Bagneres de Luchon
France
Spain
Pyrenees
Agnon
Catalonia
Chateau Roux
Warm spell follows frost but fruit crop damage feared
Weather officials warn a warming trend will reach Kansas tonight and Sunday yet may not save the fruit crop, as a severe freeze blanketed the state last night. Minimums fell to 18 in places like Tribune and McPherson, with 28 at Coffeyville and 26 at Iola. wheat could benefit in some regions while southeast areas face potential damage.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Wichita
Sebastian Hann
Coffeyville
Kansas State Horticultural Society
Tribune
McPherson
Elkhart
Liberal
Flora
Salina
Iola
Juarez Mayor Slain in Bomb Attack at City Hall
Juarez Mexico April 2 mayor Jose Borunda killed and Domingo Barraza an office employee fatally wounded by a bomb mailed from Chihuahua City. The blast wrecked city hall. Humberto Escobar the secretary survived. Borunda had just asked about a parcel before the explosion. Governor feud linked to the attack.
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Juarez
Mexico
Jose Borunda
Domingo Barraza
Chihuahua City
Humberto Escobar
Borunda
Talamantes
Chihuahua
Rodrigo M. Quevedo
General Quevedo
Angel Posada
Juarez Hotel
Schoewe Becomes Head of Academy of Science
Dr. Harry H. Hall of Pittsburg Teachers was named president elect of the Kansas academy of science at the state convention. Dr. W. H. Schoewe of the University of Kansas became president. Hall will take office next year in Lawrence. Wichita bid for the 1940 meeting. Other officers and council members were elected including Dr. E. O. Deere Bethany College vice president and Dr. Roger Smith Kansas State College secretary.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Harry H. Hall
Kansas Academy of Science
W. H. Schoewe
University of Kansas
Doctor Hall
Lawrence
Wichita
E. O. Deere
Bethany College
Roger Smith
Kansas State College
H. A. Zinster
Fort Hays State
George Dean
Lawrence Oncley
Southwestern College
R. H. Wheeler
K. U
F. C. Gates
Seize Six Plants By Union Forces In Michigan
Workers of the Committee for Industrial Organization seized six Consumers Power plants across southern Michigan including hydro plants and substations in Flint Bay City and Lansing. Utilities continued service to about 350 000 customers with no disruption while negotiations with Governor Murphy and the company continued.
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Jackson, Mich
P— Electric and Gas Service
Consumers Power Company
Michigan
Committee For Industrial Organization
Utility Workers’ Organizing Committee
Frank Murphy
Detroit
Albert Stonkus
Murphy
Bay City
Monroe Crosley
Flint
den E. Karn
The
Power Company
Union
Milwaukee
Saginaw
Lansing
Rice Sophomore Breaks World High Hurdle Mark
Rice Institute sophomore hurdler Fred Walcott set a world best by running 13.9 seconds in the 120 yard high hurdles at the Texas Relays in Austin. Texas standout Boyce Gatewood and Rice’s Jack Patterson followed, with Oklahoma A and M and Drake also placing in relay events.
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Austin
Tex
CPI
Fred Walcott
Rice Institute
Texas Relays
Bob Osgood
University of Michigan
Rice Flyer
Boyce Gatewood
Texas
Jack Patterson
Rice
No Authority for Speech Broadcast Quietly Issued
Vatican City reports a Vatican news service assertion that a radio broadcast aired without papal secretary of state's knowledge. The voice criticized priests who align with the day’s victors and referred to an Austrian church editorial noting no Vatican knowledge of the bishops' March 27 declaration.
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Vatican City
Germany
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Split on Party Lines as House Debates Reorganization Bill
Washington April 2 The C P Kansas seven representatives split along party lines on a motion to limit debate on the reorganization bill. The house voted down the motion 191 to 149 with five Republicans Lambertson Guyer Rees Carlson and Hope opposing the motion and Kansas Democrats Patterson and Houston voting for it.
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Washington
Kansas
House
Lambertson
Guyer
Rees
Carlson
Hope
Kansas Democrats
Patterson
Houston
Insurgent Forces Near the Sea After Gandesa Takeover
Insurgent Navarrese troops under General Garcia Valino seized Gandesa, 21 miles from the coast, claiming 2,000 prisoners. The aim is to breach Lerida and trap government forces, with Moors under General Juan Yague sealing Lerida from the west. The drive would open the Ebro valley toward Tortosa and Tarragona.
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Zaragoza
Garcia Valino
Gandesa
Tarragona
Mediterranean
Tortosa
Barcelona
Spain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Ebro
Lerida
Villalba
Valino
Villalaba
Juan Yague
Catalonia
U S Embassy to Move From Barcelona Tomorrow
The United States embassy and consulate will be transferred tomorrow to San Vicente de Llevaneras near the coast, about 20 miles northeast of Barcelona. It will be one of the last embassies moved from this war-threatened capital of government Spain.
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U. S
Barcelona
United States
San Vicente de Llevaneras
Spain
New Chinese Units Enter Taierchwang Battle Front
Shanghai reports new mechanized Chinese units join the fight at Taierchwang on the south Shantung front. Taierchwang walls lie in ruins as Chinese defenders, 20 days blocking the Lunghai railway, hold despite Japanese claims of village seizures and air drops.
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Shanghai
Taierchwang
Tungchow
Fankow
Yihsien
Tsaochwang
Taicherchwang
Tsingtao
Shantune
Lini
Immediate Driver's Test Now Available locally
J S St Clair, Douglas county agent for the state vehicle commissioner, announced that all department examiners are relieved of duty and county agents will conduct driving tests. An eye test will be given at his office in the Insurance Building basement at Seventh and New Hampshire streets, and driving tests will be provided when needed.
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J. S. St. Clair
Douglas County
St. Clair
Insurance Building
Seventh and
New Hampshire Street
Stock Market Index Report From Yesterday
The index for 60 stocks rose to 36.4 against 25.2 previously. Market activity showed gains across sectors with investors noting improved confidence and narrowing losses in late trading.
Matriculation Law for Germans Takes Effect This Month
German embassy officials announced a new matriculation law requiring all Germans abroad to register at consulates, effective this month. No exact date was set, but consuls in the United States were already processing forms from Germans and Austrians living here. The rule marks a return to tight citizen registration since before World War II, with earlier lapse in enforcement. Estimates of Germans in the United States vary, with New York alone put at 100,000 to 200,000, and Austria estimated at about 6,000.
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Washington
Germany
United States
New York
Cay
Austria
Frost Damage Review Finds Limited Impact on Fruit and Vegetables
Orchardist A F Baker notes peaches apricots pears and some plums in bloom may suffer up to 25 percent damage while apples and cherries show little harm. Kansas City forecaster A M Hamrick cites about 15 percent peach crop loss. Vegetables including beets carrots parsley cabbage and lettuce appear largely unscathed with peas spinach and potatoes showing resilience and wheat and oats likely safe unless more frost occurs.
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A. F. Baker
Baldwin Orchard
A. M. Hamrick
Kansas City
Baker
R. H. Rogers
North Lawrence
Kaw Valley
Miss Wilma Orr Out Of Danger After Highway 40 Crash
Miss Wilma Orr 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Will J Orr 626 Maine Street has recovered from a fractured skull and body injuries after a Tuesday night crash on highway 40 west of Kansas City Kansas. Her father mother and aunt Hazel Orr from Lawrence have stayed with her at Providence Hospital in Kansas City Kansas. Also injured were Robert Kemp 20 of near Lawrence and Mr Orr who suffered facial cuts while Emmett Harris 37 of Edwardsville Kan owned the stalled car involved in the collision.
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Wilma Orr
Will J. Orr
Maine Street
Providence Hospital
Kansas City
Kan
Hazel Orr
Lawrence
Highway 40
Orr
Carl Whitesel
Emmett Harris
Edwardsville
Robert Kemp
Charter Granted to Green Brothers Ban Johnson Club
The state charter board granted a charter to the Green Brothers Ban Johnson baseball club. The five member group will sponsor the Lawrence entry in the Ban Johnson league of Kansas this season with Al Green as president and N F Thome as vice president.
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Green Brothers Ban Johnson Baseball Club
Lawrnce
Ban Johnson League of Kansas
al Green
N. F. Thome
H W. Craig
J. J. Wilson
C. C. Carl
City Dog Licenses Due April First 1938
Police warn that all dogs without city licenses will be picked up after April 1 1938. Licenses must be bought at the city clerk's office and a rabies certificate shown to obtain the license. Jude Anderson Chief of Police.
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Jude Anderson
Adv
Special election to decide bonding for city improvements
Voters will choose on two general improvement bond questions next Tuesday. One for up to 16000 to widen Massachusetts street with federal funds, and another up to 3500 to build a comfort station near the old Quincy school grounds at South Park. Contests exist in the first, second and fourth wards for city council seats.
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Massachusetts Street
Twenty-third Street
Quincy School
South Park
South Parks
Douglas County WPA library seeks donations and expansion
The Douglas County WPA library project requests adult books and magazines for its 2,500 volumes and 25 scrapbooks used by 35 to 40 rural schools. A traveling library is planned, with books rotated every two weeks and summer rural stores handling the collection. Four women run the program across several towns, coordinating through the Lawrence office’s travel bureau and WPA sewing room at 634 New Hampshire Street.
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Douglas County
WPA
W. O. Hamilton
Hazel Henderson
Ruth Mitchell
Clinton
Addie Jennings
Baldwin
Anna Goodyear
Eudora
Lawrence
New Hampshire Street
Snow Boosts Liberal Wheat Prospects
Liberal Kansas April 2 The Liberal area wheat outlook, said to be the best since 1931, received a light wet snow last night. The snow melted as it fell and provided about .09 inch of moisture for the fields.
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Kan
Liberal
Sumners Calls for a Return to Fundamental Government Principles
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee warned against dictatorships urging a return to fundamental government principles. He said free governments are disappearing as people fail in self government and cautioned that without action the nation could follow dictatorial examples.
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Washington
Sumners
D-Tex
House Judiciary Committee
Summers
Bar Conference
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Man hunts leads to arrest in Crescent son murder case
Sam Shore of Crescent mobilized a nationwide search for Russell Shore’s killers. Charles Schott, also known as Charles Bretches, was arrested in Portland, Oregon, on a Missouri highway robbery case and faces questioning in the Archie Missouri shooting. Shore had offered rewards totaling 700 dollars and distributed hundreds of wanted notices.
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Crescent
Okla
Sam FE
Shore
Portland
Ore
Charles Schott
Charles S. Bretches
Schott
Russell Shore
Kansas City Credit Company Adjuster
Archie
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Harrisonville
Five Convicted in Kansas City Vote Fraud Trial
In the latest KC vote fraud prosecutions, five defendants in the thirteenth trial were found guilty after a short deliberation. William J. McMahon, 57, a city building inspector and precinct captain, led the group along with Morris Stephens, Grace B. Clark, Leo Gilliam, and J. P. Bailey. Judge Reeves set sentencing for April 18. jurors asked clemency for Mrs. Clark and Bailey.
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Kansas City
Albert L. Reeves
William J. McMahon
Pendergast
Morris Stephens
Grace B. Clark
Leo Gilliam
J. P. Bailey
Roosevelt to return from Warm Springs after Pine Mountain stay
President Roosevelt leaves Warm Springs Georgia by special train this afternoon ending a ten day stay at Pine Mountain. On return he will chair Monday conference with railroad executives and unions to discuss carriers finances and possible legislation. He will not release the interstate commerce report until after the meeting. Billy Sunday Jr dies in Los Angeles pneumonia attack at Queen of the Angels hospital.
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Warm Springs
CPE
Roosevelt
Pine Mountain
Washington
John J. Pelley
Association of Railway Executives
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Congress
Billy Sunday, Jr
Los Angeles
Billy, Sunday
Queen of the Angels Hospital
Sunday
Messed Up by Facts Education Critique At Conference
Dr. William Chandler Bagley of Columbia University denounces curriculum revision as undermining American education. He cites 33 000 curricula, student mobility, and repeated schooling across districts as causing lack of uniformity and poorer preparation compared to English speaking nations.
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Columbia University
William Chandler Bagley
K. U
Bagley
California
Two New Streamliners Will Go Thru Lawrence
Two modern diesel electric streamliners will operate daily between Chicago and Oklahoma City via Lawrence starting this month. The Kansas City bound train leaves Chicago and reaches Lawrence in late afternoon, while the Chicago bound service departs Oklahoma City and arrives in Lawrence in early afternoon. Each train includes baggage mail diner parlor car and three coaches with 300 passenger capacity drawn by 1800 hp locomotives. Chicago to Kansas City travel time is seven and a half hours.
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Santa Fe
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Lawrence
F. A. Lehman
Eastern Lines
Kansas Cition
Chicagoan
L. H. Cote
Kansas City
County Receives First Quarter Gas Tax Share
A. M. Gardner, Douglas County treasurer, reported receipt of $11,183.24 from the state as the first quarter share of the 1938 gasoline tax. Funds are split 50 percent to the county road fund and 50 percent to township road funds in proportion to township road mileage.
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A. M. Gardner
Douglas County
Weather Forecast for Kansas Light frost expected tonight
Forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions tonight and Sunday with light frost in places. Morning outlook shows generally clear skies, and road conditions vary from frozen dirt roads near Arkansas City to fair at Coffeyville with good elsewhere. Temperature readings from the Gas Office Record note a high of 39 yesterday and a low around today.
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Kansas
Arkansas City
Coffeyville
Fein
Aostis Neaininamn
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