Reorganization Defeat shocks Administration in House vote
Washington April 9 The house rejected the administration reform plan by 204 to 194 amid party strife and claims it would create a dictatorship. 108 Democrats joined Republicans and Progressives in voting against the measure, returning it to committee for reconsideration.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Bankshead
D-Ala
United States
House Committee of Reorganization
Senate
Taber
New York
Roosevelt Says No Personal Recrimination After Reorganization Defeat
President Roosevelt stated the House defeat of his government reorganization bill leaves no occasion for personal recrimination. He described the issue as policy and stressed the bill aimed to simplify public service. The note to Rayburn signaled no plans for further action, while Byrnes and Bankhead suggested potential delays to other reforms. Ramspeck warned the loss could hinder the wage hour bill.
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Democrate
Rayburn
Tex
Sneaker Bankhead
Threeman Commission
Department of Welfare
Auditor General
Congress
O’connor
D.-N.y
Rules Committee
White House
Chamber
Bankhead
House of Representatives
United States
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Washington
House
D-Tex
Byrnes
D-S. C
Senate
Hatch
D.-N.m
Sam
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ramspeck
Dga
Labor
Daladier Seeks Strong Cabinet as France Faces Turmoil
Paris April 9 Edouard Daladier longtime defense chief urged a strong government by tomorrow to confront the unsettled international scene with Hitler Austrian plebiscite and the Spanish civil war looming. He met with Leon Blum as socialist ministers faced cabinet entry hurdles while 60 000 workers strike across 34 factories including air force suppliers.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
France
People’s Front
Chamber of Deputies
Adolf Hitler
Chamber
Leon Blum
Peoples Front
Senate
Altho
Refugees from Spain Reach France as Exodus Grows
Fifteen international brigades refugees escape into France near Perpignan led by a mixed group of six Czechs three Poles two Russians a Frenchman a Belgian a Yugoslav and an Albanian. A separate convoy of 6000 Spanish civilian and military refugees moves toward French shelter after crossing near Andorra as air raids loom.
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Perpignan
France
International
Ara Valley
Spain
Lerida
Andorra
Madrid
Tortosa
Rescue Train Finds Only Five Snowbound Need Aid
A Kansas City Southern rescue train sent from Pittsburg to aid motorists snowbound on highway 57 two miles south of Asbury Missouri found only five persons. Most stranded motorists had found shelter in farm homes or reached Asbury. By noon the highway department opened a single lane and freed cars that had been stuck over 24 hours.
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Joplin
Kansas City Southern
Pittsburg
Asbury
Highway Department
Missouri
Kansas City
Rock Island
Missouri Pacific
Kansas
Texas
Belton
Nebraska
Iowa
Michigan
Ilinois
Turner Hall Sold In Lawrence 1868 German Turn Verein
The Lawrence Turnverein property at 909 Rhode Island street sold to Philip Ernst announced by secretary A W Berger. The old hall leased to Rumsey Vehicle Co until June 1, with no definite post lease plan. Society founded 1857, one of Lawrence's oldest, once housed a German language stage and gymnasium, now diminishing after prohibition and WWI changes.
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Lawrence Uriverein
Rhode Island Street
Philip Ernst
A. W. Berger
Society
Ernst
Lawrence
Tenth and
New York Street
Guy Pettit
Union Army
F. J. Ecke
Kansas
S. Steinberg
H. Martin
J. Oesch
J. Assmann
G. Urech
P. Preisach
C. J. Walruff
C. R. Wyler
J. Haar
William Zimmerman
W. Katzune
F. Reiner
J. Planz
George Feil
W. A. Walter
W. Grundman
F. Pulvermiller
C. Pulvermiller
Henry Frey
C. Valentine
G. Harch
H. Vornholt
E. Mussell
G. Siebentist
Turnverein
National
Turner Band
Cincinnati
American Gymnastic Union
United States
Turnvereins
Mississippi River
Lawrence Society
U. S
Stouffer Elected President of North Central Colleges
A. W. Clevenger, visiting high school representative from the University of Illinois, was elected president at the closing session of the North Central Association of colleges and secondary schools. E. B. Stouffer, dean at the University of Kansas, was named to the association’s executive committee.
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E. B. Stouffer
Chicago
A. W. Clevenger
University of Illinois
North Central Association of ‘Colleges and
University of Kansas
Sunny skies spread across the middle west as floods rage
The Associated Press reports three days of severe weather left 44 dead in a wide area as floods and tornadoes claimed lives in the southeast. Snow and sleet battered the northeast while the middle west enjoyed sun and rising temps amid ongoing evacuations and damaged infrastructure.
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South
Middle West
Alabama
Whiteside
Birmingham
Ala
Pickens County
Texas
Slavers Trail Sought After Desert Killings
Authorities traced the suspected slavers of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter Nancy from Del Rio toward Sonora and San Antonio. A blonde woman with a black coach and California plates was reported leaving a recovered auto and boarding a San Antonio bus, claiming a Florida trip.
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el Paso
Tex
Weston G. Frome
Nancy
California
West Texas
Frome
Chris Fox
del Rio
Sonora
San Antonio
Fox
C. W. Taylor
Taylor
Florida
Kansas Digs Out After Severe April Snowstorm
Emergency crews cleared lines of travel and patched telegraph wires as Kansas roads opened in stages after a spring blizzard. Up to 14 inches fell Friday and Thursday, isolating areas. one man died from influenza. Rescue teams moved toward stalled trains near Marquette Junction and Scott City.
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Kansas
Missouri Pacific
Ralph E. Allen
Pueblo
Marquette Junction
Kan
Colorado Limited
Scott City
Allen
Pratt
Walter Scarbrough
Cullison
Pratt Hospital
M. E. Chrismann
Independence
Wellington
Ottawa
Coffeyville
U. S. 169
Chanute
U. S. 166
Kansas State College Agriculturists
Dean L. E. Call
Kansas Experiment Station
Feu
Man Bowers Injured On Kaw River Bridge
James Bowers a 48 year old colored employee of the street department suffered a fractured left arm late yesterday afternoon on the Kaw river bridge. He was operating a small snow plow clearing sidewalks on the ridge when the plow struck an obstruction and threw him into the air onto the snow covered walk resulting in the fracture.
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James Bowers
Street Department
Kaw River
Bowers
Stock Market Index Report Update
The stock index for 60 stocks shows an average of 9.9 points. Yesterday the index stood at 37.8 points.
Mexico Considers Bond Issue to Ease Strained Finances
Mexico City April 9 The federal district may float economic redemption bonds to relieve finances after the expropriation of foreign oil. A committee led by Dr. Jose Siurob drafted plans urging federal district employers and workers to subscribe. Congress planned a 100 million peso bond issue to compensate 17 oil firms nationalized by President Lazaro Cardenas. Britain demanded the return of its oil properties and the Mexican reply would be issued early next week.
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Mexico City
Federal District
Jose Siurob
Federal District Department
Congress
Lazaro Cardenas
Great Britain
Arrest May Solve Series of Thefts in Kansas Town
Lawrence police arrested Herbert Spaur alias Sparr and Carl Meyers of Iola 29, ending a spree that hit two Manhattan robberies and multiple Lawrence sites. Spaur admitted the Lawrence robberies, with over $200 looted, and faces burglary and larceny charges.
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Lawrence
Manhattan
Ottawa
Salina
Junction City
Herbert Spaur
Herbert Sparr
Carl Meyers
Iola
Jude Anderson
Charles Springer Spaur
Springer
Spaur
Massachusetts Street
Benny
East Ninth Street
New Hampshire Street
Federal Board Studies Health Insurance Plan
The social security board is studying a federal health insurance program. The plan would pay benefits to wage earners and low salaried workers during sickness, with the federal or state governments not providing medical service or hospitalization. Costs would be covered by a payroll tax split between employers and employees.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Lone survivor regains consciousness after fatal oil field asphyxiation
The lone survivor of a mass asphyxiation in a snowbound oil field home near Pampa Texas yesterday regained consciousness and doctors expect recovery. Seven people died in the incident and the survivor was reported improving after initial collapse.
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Pampa
Tex
Here
Snow Melt Quickens After Four Inch April Storm
The 4.5 inch snowfall yesterday boosted melt with sun and rising temperatures. By 3:30 p.m. the thermometer reached 50 degrees as water drained into gutters and streets dried. Officials note prior heavy April snows and expect minimal crop damage as soil absorbs melt.
Baiting Business and Piling Up Debt Freezes Confidence
Representative Guyer of Kansas denounces obstructive funding as halting growth. He says congress must pass necessary appropriations or only laws that restore confidence. He cites five years of failed aims to restore jobs and claims taxes and debt freeze business, urging action to stabilize payrolls and solvency.
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Guyer
Washington
Kan
Congress
Lawrence Adopts Special Summer Water Rate
City council approves a summer water rate to start after April meter readings and end after September. Rates differ by consumption groups with excess over group usage billed at 20 cents per thousand gallons. High-volume users above 75,000 gallons stay on regular rates.
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Lawrence
Water Works Committee
Water Committee
F. A. Russell
Drouth
Russell
Insurgent Forces Storm Catalonia Front Near Tortosa
From Hendaye France insurgent bombing planes struck Tortosa as 40 000 Garcia Valino legionnaires moved to cut the Ebro delta road and trap government troops. A second column neared San Mateo while insurgents pressed toward Villarez and the coast in western Spain.
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Hendaye
France
Tortosa
Franco
Mediterranean
Catalonia
Garcia Valino
Ebro
Barcelona-Valencia
Sierras
San Mateo
Castellan
Villarez
Madrid
Spain
Missing Driver Found Dead in Oklahoma Truck
Er nest Hawkins, 50, a truck driver missing since a heavy snowstorm began Thursday, was found dead in the cab of his truck today. It was not yet determined if he froze to death or suffocated.
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Woodard
Okla
Ernest Hawkins
Weather forecast and road conditions report
Kansas forecast calls for fair tonight and Sunday with warmer temperatures on Sunday. Morning conditions show generally clear skies. Dirt roads vary with Coffeyville area blocked in both directions while Ottawa Pittsburg and Salina are blocked. other locations snow covered. Temperatures show 7 pm yesterday at 34 and 7 am today likely around 43 with noon higher. yesterday's maximum 37 and today's minimum 29. Precipitation measured as 0.04 inch from 7 am yesterday to 7 am today.
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C. J. Posey
Massachusetts Street
Posey
Lawrence Weather Station
Kansas
Coffeyville
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Salina
Council approves paving petitions in Lawrence
Three paving petitions were approved by the city council and sent to the county for joint action. The plan covers Barker avenue segments and Nineteenth street, with one stretch not acted on due to city-only authority. Residents urged the work citing dust and mud. WPA funding would set about 112 dollars per 50 foot lot front, or more depending on valuation.
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Board of County Commissioners
Barker Avenue
Fifteenth
Maple Lawn Addition
Nineteenth
Twentieth Street
Barker
Learnard
Nineteenth Street
Ben Babb
County Commission
Police Committee
Police Department
B. M. Howard
East Ninth Street
No Change in City Vote After April 5 Elections
City council last night canvassed the vote from city and special elections held April 5. Six changes were found in unofficial totals announced the day after voting. The total vote cast was 1,238.
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Willard Brown
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