Drive wedge thru government Spain advances toward Barcelona
Insurgent forces push north and east from Tortosa and Lerida severing government links to Catalonia. Franco's troops aim to encircle Barcelona from three sides while Madrid Valencia defenses retreat toward fortifications near Balaguer. Morella captures 1900 prisoners as civilians evacuate.
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Hendaye
France
Catalonia
Spain
Barcelona
Valencia
Estarany
Ortosa
Mediterranean
Tortosa
Madrid
Franco
Tarragona
Lerida
Barcelond
Castellon de la Plana
Morella
San Mateo
Solechaga
Moscardo
Noguera Ribagorza
Rain Expected Across Kansas Tonight and Wednesday
Topeka forecasts show more rain with a low pressure system from Utah and western Colorado moving east. Light mist and sprinkles were reported in Dode City Goodland Elkhart Ennoria Salina Topeka with overcast skies continuing. Temperatures in the east near 45 yesterday and 40 in the west with 50 to 55 degree highs projected for Wednesday.
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Topeka
Apr.l
Kansas
Middlewest
Flora
Andwest
Kansas Tax Deadlines Near: 1937 Returns Due Soon
After tomorrow there is one week left to file 1937 Kansas income tax returns without penalty. Filing thresholds apply to single, married, and gross income levels. Returns and remittances go to the Income Tax Department in Topeka with options for partial or full payment by dates.
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Kansas
Department
State House
Topeka
Kan
Domestic airlines fly more passenger miles than Europe
Passenger miles flown by American airlines are more than double the mileage flown in all Europe. Germany ranks second to the United States in air travel and the British Empire is third.
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American Airlines
Europe
Germany
United States
British Empire
French Premier Blum Seeks Decree Powers Amid Chamber Turmoil
In Paris on April 5 Premier Leon Blum demanded sweeping decree powers to control France’s economy, triggering a chaotic clash in the chamber as rightists shouted Down with Hitler and leftists pressed toward a fight. Blum warned of bankruptcy unless drastic measures are taken, while thousands of workers in metal plants displayed red flags in support.
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Blum
Paris
Leon Blum
Frante
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Herriot
Susmand
Saccian
Ppenucy
Hitler
Ushers Kent
Montigny
France
Senate
Chamber
Bank of France
General Confederation of Labor
Senators Decline TVA Investigation Panel Roles
Two Republican senators Borah and McNary declined seats on a ten member joint congressional committee to probe the Tennessee Valley Authority. They cited time constraints and opposition to town meeting style investigations while other members were named by Speaker Bankhead and Vice President Garner. The panel was authorized after board dissension and Roosevelt's firing of TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Borah
Rida
McNary
Rore
Garner
Donahey
D-O
Brown
D-N.h
Schwartz
Bankhead
Mead
D-N.y
Driver
D-Ark
Thomason
D-Tex
Jenkins
The
Oregonian
Senate
House
Snell
New York
Joint
TVA
Congress
Roosevelt
Arthur E. Morgan
Woodrum
D-Va
Appropriations Committee
Representatives
Tax Bill to the Senate
The finance committee sent to the senate a revised five billion dollar tax bill intended to spur business growth. It removes the administration undistributed profits tax and other changes were made by the senate committee. Senate debate is set to begin at noon tomorrow.
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Washington
Finance Committee
Senate
House
Publisher Harold Hammond Buys Great Bend Herald
Harold A. Hammond publisher of the Daily Messenger buys the Great Bend Herald weekly from Louis G. Nixon. He also sells his interests in the News-Review and Record of Kiowa and becomes manager in the Great Bend paper starting April 1. Hammond, former Kansas Press Association president, resides in Great Bend.
Tornado destroys farm as security card case emerges
Carl Hendrickson of Poplar Bluff Missouri, whose home was wrecked by a tornado, received a letter from a neighbor near Alva Newfoundland returning his Social Security card found in a field. The Journal-World classified page notes reader tips and misread names.
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Poplar Bluff, Mo
Carl Hendrickson
Here
Alva
Pete Farmer
Quiet City Election with Limited Turnout Across Six Wards
A rainy day kept voter turnout low as 698 ballots were cast by 3 PM in six city wards of a mayoral election cycle. Contests for six council seats and two bond measures dominated the quiet day, with bids for a $16 000 street paving project and $3 500 for a Southpark comfort station drawing the most interest despite reduced polling activity.
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Massachusetts Street
Twenty-third Street
Southpark
Strikers Turn Back 13 Power Plants to Owners
Detroit April 5 The Consumers Power company regained control of plants seized by CIO strikers. Mediators cleared remaining issues from the strike settlement as 18 plants in large Michigan cities were relinquished, reviving a four month expired agreement. Three unions claims to bargaining rights were sent to the National Labor Relations Board.
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Detroit
Consumers Power Company
C.I.0
Michigan
National Labor Relations Board
Five Die In Explosion At New Orleans Grain Elevator
A blast at the New Orleans public grain elevator killed five workers and seriously injured 17 others. About 60 men were trapped as a fire followed the explosion. Assistant Elevator Superintendent Y W Cahall blamed spontaneous combustion. The $4 million elevator suffered little damage.
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New Orleans
Y. W. Cahall
Russia denies sending troops to China
Moscow reports a formal denial from the Soviet Union that it is dispatching army units and officers to China. Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov says Moscow also supplied planes and munitions to China in line with international rules.
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Moscow
Foreign Ministry
Russia
China
Maxim Litvinoff
May Riddle Bill With Amendments
Washington April 5 Republicans and revolting Democrats sought to hinder the government reorganization bill by offering amendments while delaying passage. Proposals would create a welfare department replace a three member civil service commission and establish an auditor general. The compromise allows congressional override of presidential orders.
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Washington
House
Welfare Department
Threeman Civil Service Commission
White House
Congress
Veterans Bureau
Ready for Fair Plans for Lawrence Hobby Fair
Plans completed for the Lawrence Hobby Fair to be held Friday and Saturday April 8 and 9 in the Old High building. Exhibits enter between 3 and 6 pm Friday and display until 9 pm Saturday. Competition divisions include elementary, Junior high, high school, men and women with handicrafts, collections, arts and crafts. An amateur contest and program feature singing, dancing and music Friday evening through Saturday evening with certificates and ribbons awarded.
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Ninth and
Kentucky Street
Army Day talk frames army as people’s protection
Lt Col Freeman W Bowley at the Chamber of Commerce Army Day lunch argues the U S Army serves the people and links defense to diplomacy and domestic protection. He cites engineers doctors aviators and disaster response as proof and warns pacifist views that undermine national security.
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Hotel Eldridge
Freeman W. Bowley
Command and General Staff School
Ft. Leavenworth
Bowley
Panama Canal
Army
Navy
State Department
Colonel Bowley
Army of the
United States
Col
Karl F. Baldwin
University of Kansas
Plan in Schools A Board Approves Curriculum Advisory Council
The board of education unanimously approves a plan to form an advisory council to coordinate curriculum across Law rence schools. The plan includes vertical committees, a mastery testing program, and studies to adapt the curriculum to varied student abilities and college plans.
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Lawrence A
Board of Education
Education Committee
Paul B. Lawson
C. E. Birch
Roosevelt Signs Resolution To Open TVA Probe
President Roosevelt signed a congressional resolution clearing the way for a twofold investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority and a broad slice of the private utilities sector. The move enables a joint five senator and five representative panel to be named, with committee personnel described as unprejudiced.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Garner
Bankhead
Car Crash Victim Dies After Four Days of Wire Support
Mrs. Thomas W. Edwards, 34, of Kansas City, died after four days of life support using a thin wire to hold up her crushed breastbone following a car crash.
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Kansas City
Thomas W. Edwards
France braces for possible 100000 Catalan refugees
Perpignan France Apr 5 French frontier officials prepared for a potential influx of Catalonians fleeing Spain's civil war. Prefect Raoul Didkowski said measures are ready to channel refugees to camps and mobile guardsmen may reinforce the border.
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Perpignan
France
Spain
Raoul Didkowski
Eastern
Pyrenees
Toulouse
Bagneres de Lunchon
Didkowski
Stubborn Chinese Troops Slow Japanese Drive at Taierhchwang
Chinese forces again slowed the Japanese advance toward the Lunghai railway as night relief lessened artillery and air pressure. In Taierhchwang, near center of a 17 day battle, Chinese dug patchwork defenses along the Grand canal while denying Japanese occupation of the city and claiming ongoing attacks at Yih sien Hanchwang and Tsaochwang keep the Japanese in a rearguard fight.
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Shanghai
Taierhchwang
Lunghai Railway
China
Grand Canal
Yihsien
Hanchwang
Tsaochwang
Stock Market Index Edges Up After Mixed Trades
Daily index shows 60 stocks averaging 37.4 points against 36.5 yesterday. Weighing stocks include Washek Repairing, Green Rees, and Ady among movers.
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Washek
Green Rees
Ady
Roosevelt Says Government Cannot Afford Rail Subsidies
President Roosevelt told reporters that without a fixed policy Congress cannot authorize subsidies to railroads. He noted subsidies, once started, would be hard to end and said a message to Congress on the railroad problem would go next Tuesday along with a report from his three-member railroad committee.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Two Men and Two Women Suspected in Texas Slaying
El Paso reports a murder of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter Nancy with four suspects, two men and two women, tied to a desert crime scene along U S Highway 80. Witness accounts mention dark haired individuals seen near the Frome car, with bodies found near Balmorhea in Culberson County.
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Tex
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Weston G. Frome
Berkeley
Calif
Society
Nancy
Roy Jackson
van Horn
San Francisco
Frome
U. S. Highway 80
Kent
Jackson
South Carolina
Albert Anderson
Culberson County
Pecos
Dallas
James Milam
Everett Harmon
el Paso Greyhound
E. M. Wells
Wells
Balmorhea
Here
Changes in Lawrence School Board Actions on Staff and Finances
The Lawrence board of education met at the high school to reemploy staff, accept seven resignations including Kate Riggs after 43 years, and discuss salary increases of about 3500 dollars. They reviewed July 1 1937 to March 31 1938 finances, and decided seniors may wear caps and gowns with final approval by Birch and Wherry and student vote counts.
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Board of Education
Kate Riggs
Lawrence
Martson McCluggage
University of Kansas
B. C. Shipley
Edna Norrington
Pinckney
Forrest Frease
Juanita Collins
Cordley
Marion Wilson
Birch
Neal M. Wherry
Senate approves army officer boost to 14 859 strength
The Senate authorized an increase of 2 285 commissioned officers in the regular army bringing total officer strength to 14 859. The air corps would gain 442 officers to 2 092 with smaller increases in other branches.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Air Corps
Weather Outlook for Kansas Tonight and Wednesday
Occasional rains expected tonight and Wednesday with warmer conditions in the east and cooler readings in the center and west. Ottawa and Emporia report cloudy conditions with light rain or mist. dirt roads soft at Ottawa, good elsewhere.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Emporia
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Adele K Bief
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