Early vote shows close races in Kansas primaries
scattered unofficial returns from 16 to 199 precincts indicate tight contests for Republican senatorial and gubernatorial nominations. Clyde M Reed and Dallas Knapp lead the senator field while Payne H Ratner edges Harold McGugin in the governor race amid partial county results from Parsons Coffeyville and Wyandotte.
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Topeka
Kansas
Clyde
M. Reed
Dallas Knapp
Coffeyville
George McGill
Gerald B. Winrod
Wichita
J. C. Fisher
Ratner
Payne’ H. Ratner
Parsons
Harold McGugin
Charles W. Thompson
Carl Newcomer
Reed
McGugin
Knapp
Winrod
Fisher
McGugin Fea
Thompson
Newcomer
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte County
Payne H. Ratner
Clyde M. Reed
Gerald
C. J. Fisher
Clyde M Reed
Payne
H. Ratner
Neodesha
Leavenworth
Leavenworth County
Kelsey
Lambertson
Independence
Republican Congress
Medill
Dalton
Winter
Pratt
Winrer
Newton, Kan
Pittsburg
Senate
Hutchinson
McGurgin
Kingman
Real
Soviet Japanese border clash escalates amid new warnings
Moscow reports warn Japan of possible terrible consequences if invasion continues. Tokyo says Soviet forces repulsed a large attack at Changkufeng hill as both sides trade claims. Casualties mount with Soviet and Japanese figures varying. observers foresee heightened tension but no clear resolution.
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Tokyo
Japan
Changkufeng
War Office
Changkufeng Hill
Russia
Manchoukuo
Soviet Russia
Far East
Germany
Italy
London
Siberian-Manchoukhoan
Battle Over "Little Steel" Strike Described by Senator Report
Senate civil liberties committee testimony details a clash at Republic Steel Monroe plant where union pickets faced Vigilantes armed with clubs iron scraps and tear gas. Picket captain Andy Hraback says clubs were ripped from trees and iron gathered from a dump. police say tear gas shells were used and no firearms appeared.
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Washington
Monroe
Senate Civil Liberties
Pusiliel Be Aticeath
Wwupcys
Andy Hraback
Republic Steel Corporation
Jesse Bisher
Little Steel
Attitude of Japanese Sentries Brings Protest
Shanghai August 2 Great Britain protests to Japanese authorities over belligerent sentries guarding bridges into Shanghai controlled areas. Consul General Herbert Phillips delivers the protest after the alleged rough treatment of Miss Dorothea Lintilhae and her mother. Police detain them four hours. Separately Japanese forces raid the Po area near the river, arresting 20 suspects and seizing 30 guns and eight bombs.
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Shanghai
Great Britain
Herbert Phillips
Dorothea Lintilhae
Garden Bridge
Tha
Lintilhae
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Poo
Oo River
Jury in Harlan labor case discharged after deadlock
Federal Judge H Church Ford dismissed the eleven week mistrial in the Harlan antilabor conspiracy case after a nine hour, fifty three minute jury deadlock. The government and defense will revisit a retrial September seventeenth in Lexington as they weigh a criminal violation under the Wagner Act. Thirty nine individuals and sixteen corporations faced charges alleging a conspiracy to curb unionization in the coal fields.
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London
H. Church Ford
Ford
Lexington
Harlan
Heir Weds Hello Girl in Redchester Michigan Vacation Romance
Daniel G. Dodge 21, heir to a Dodge motor portion, married Miss Laurine MacDonald of Bay Ontario, a telephone operator. They fell in love during a north woods vacation three years ago.
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Redchester
Minn
Daniel G. Dodge
Dodge Motor 8
Eyes on Border Clash Heightens U S Interest
Secretary Hull said the State Department is watching Russo Japanese border reports with special interest. He indicated confidential reports shed little light on whether a major conflict was imminent.
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Washington
Hull
State Department
Libel Suit Filed by Insurance Agents Group
The National Association of Industrial Insurance Agents filed a $1,000,000 libel and slander suit against the CIO alleging that CIO officials have labeled the association a company union. The suit was filed in Washington with August 2 dating.
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C.I.0
Washington
National Association of Industrial Insurance ‘Agents
Contrittee For Industrial Organization:Today
C.I.O
George Rublee to head refugee relief committee
George Rublee veteran trouble shooter for the United States government was slated for election as permanent director of the inter government committee on refugee relief proposed at the Evian les Bains conference in London August 12.
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London
George Rublee
United States
Committee On
Evian-les- Bains
Steel Hats for Mexican Army to Equip 50,000 Helmets
UPI reports the Mexican Army will be supplied with 50,000 steel helmets purchased in France. The order reflects military equipment procurement during the period.
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UPI
France
Troop deployment averted in Memphis primary voting
Memphis avoided military patrols at voting booths as National Guard units were redirected to south Mississippi training. Missouri primary reports showed disturbances and heavy voting with 58 000 votes cast in five hours. Authorities denied WPA coercion claims while Stark clashed with Pendergast over the Billings Douglas race and Clark backed by Stark faced 100 percent new deal challengers.
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Nashville
Tenn
Memphis
National Guard
Tennessee
Mississippi
Adj
R. O. Smith
Jackson
Browning
Jefferson City
Missouri
Lloyd C. Stark
T. J. Pendergast
Kansas City
Sam Hunter
New Madrid
St. Louis
Supreme Court
James M. Douglas
Pendergast
Pendergastek
Billings
Kennett
Douglas
Poplar Bluff
Springfield
Hunter
New Madrid County
J. V. Conran
Young Democratic Clubs of
WPA
U. S
Maurice Milligan
Harry Hopkins
Stark
United States
Bennett Champ i Clark
Clark
White House
Joseph T. Davis
Willis H. Meredith
Missouri House
Mexico Finds German Market for Expropriated Oil
The bureau of mines confirms reports that Mexico has found a German market for American and British expropriated oil. German firms have fitted several tankers to export the oil, after Mexico seized control of wells under President Cardenas.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Germany
London
Cardenas
Two men linked to Missouri crime spree in chase
Sheriff Floyd Bone said two jailed men confessed to staging three stickups in Kansas City last weekend and stealing four cars in Missouri. Fingerprints sent to Washington. identified as Woodrow Elkins, an escaped Oklahoma convict, and Jack Wilson. They seized a car in Joplin and fled toward Arkansas with a pistol and large knife taken. Kalousek case tied to a trio of holdups and a kidnapping near Kansas City, ending near Boonville.
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Pineville
Floyd Bone
Missouri
Bone
Kansas City
Joplin
Washington, D. C
F.B.I
Springfield
Woodrow Elkins
Oklahoma
Jack Wilson
Wilson
Arkansas
Ted Rodgers
Here
Highway 71
Robert Kalousek
Greenwood
Boonville
Clouds of War Loom Over Europe on Mobilization Day
Paris reports mark the 24th anniversary of the WWI mobilization as Bonnet meets diplomats amid new war clouds. Sudeten German veto on Czechoslovakia talks and rising Japanese Soviet border clashes heighten tensions. Blondel arrives to discuss a possible Italy France friendship pact. Viscount Runciman set to travel to Praha to assume duties as mediator. Some papers link Russian Japanese fighting to Nazi aims in Czechoslovakia.
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Georges Bonnet
Siberian
Europe
Jules. Blondel
Rome
Bonnet
Viscount Runciman
Praha
Czechoslovakia
L’ordre
le Figaro
Russia
Matagorda Flood Lines Town With Highest Water Since Record
Matagorda Texas faces its worst flood in history as eight inches to several feet of water submerge the town. Motorboats move groceries to homes while upstream points report improving conditions. Bay City sees rise in the Colorado. Wharton towns still largely underwater.
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Matagorda
Tex
Colorado River
Bay City
Colorado
St At. Wharton
Tight City Sheriff Race Amid Primary Vote Totals
A calm primary day drew moderate turnout as 2 557 votes were cast in 12 city precincts with 9 485 registered. Early tallies show Price leading for sheriff while Reed and Ratner hold early leads in U S Senate and Governor races with Ratner ahead by 179 over McGugin.
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Payne Ratner
Clyde Reed
U.S
George “Game” Price
Ratner
McGugin
Reeds
Knapp
Price
Charles Banning
Chinese drive threatens Japanese control in occupied areas
A Shanghai survey indicates Japan could lose effective control of territories seized since July 7, with Chinese resistance, ambushes, and Han kow offensives pressing the line. Reports show reoccupations ongoing but scattered, casting doubt on if China can press a decisive advance or merely harass and disrupt supply routes.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Boston PWA Grants Trimmed In Weeding Out Drive
Washington reports the Public Works Administration revoked Boston's $1 125 million allotment for a new city hall as the city did not accept funds. PWA approved 175 more non federal projects totaling about $34.57 million with loans of $201 thousand and grants of $15.56 million. Cities listed include Carbondale Kansas Cherryvale Ellsworth and Hoisington with school waterworks and sewerage projects and amounts from $20 250 to $135 000.
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Washington
Public Works ‘Administration
Boston
Carbondale
Kan
Cherryvale
Ellsworth
Hoisington
School
Stowaway Stap Located Aboard Grace Line Cruiser
Freckled faced 18 year old Robert Stowaway Stap the sea roving youth who has twice ridden free across the Atlantic and once to Savannah Ga was found today aboard the Grace line cruiser Santa Elena at sea.
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New York
Robert
Stap
Atlantic
Savannah
Grace Line
Santa Elena
Toledo News Bee suspends publication after final edition
The Toledo News Bee, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, announced that its final edition today marks the suspension of publication in Toledo Ohio.
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Toledo News Bee
Toledo, O
Scripps-Howard
Americans Safe in Kiukiang Amid Sino Japanese Clash
U P Nelson T Johnson American ambassador to China relays a Japanese report that all Americans are safe in Kiukiang on the Yangtze river where heavy fighting is reported. The gunboat Monocacy is cited. 27 Americans are said to be in Kiukiang plus others at Kuling. Johnson departs Hankow with embassy staff for Chungking.
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Washington
Nelson T. Johnson
China
State Department
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
Summer finals loom at University after broad campus program
Students brace for final examinations tomorrow except the law school which ends August 13 after two days of finals. A wide summer program dominated evenings with Union open houses, forums, junkets, recitals, and fine arts events. The Fowler grove playground hosted games and Miss Elizabeth Dunkel led Community Recreation, as sixty men joined the Big Six softball league.
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School of Law
Union
Lawrence
School of Fine Arts
Fowler Grove
Elizabeth Dunkel
Clipper Hunt Expands to Pacific Telegraph Stations
All telegraph and radio stations on the Pacific side of eight Philippine islands were ordered to pursue clues as the Hawaii clipper, carrying 15 men, remains missing. The Philippine post office department urged reliable witnesses to report any plane sighting from July 29 and to alert authorities immediately. Stations were told to reach out to remote areas for information.
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Manila
Hawaii
Pacific Ocean
Philippine Islands
Philippine Post Office Department
Island Telegraph and Radio Service
Viscount Runcimen Heads to Praha as Unofficial Mediator
Viscount Runcimen departed London for Praha to act as an unofficial mediator in resolving the Czech problem and its tense minority issues amid efforts for a peaceful settlement.
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London
Viscount Runcimen
Praha
Chinese Cut Yangtze Dikes to Slow Japanese Drive
Shanghai reports Chinese troops along the Yangtze cut dikes above Kiukiang flooding a vast farm area to slow the Japanese advance on Hankow. The breach near Kiukiang, 185 miles from Hankow, halts a major push and recalls prior Yellow River floods that checked attacks. The survey shows Japanese forces at risk of losing control of vast areas since the 1937 war began.
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Yangtze
Hankow
Shanghai
Yangtze River
Kiukiang
China
Lunghai
Yellow River
Jun
Lawrence School Budget Approved At August Meeting
The Lawrence city school budget totaling 339 658 30 dollars for the year ending June 30 1939 was formally adopted after a public hearing at Liberty Memorial High School. The 15 96 mill levy, reorganization of the board, and contracts for heating Woodlawn School with Kansas Heat Service were approved. The board also authorized a first grade experiment and bids on a station wagon for the vocational agriculture department. Resignations of several staff members were accepted and Dorothy Raines was hired to fill a vacancy.
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Lawrence City
Board of Education
Liberty Memorial High School
Chamber of Commerce
Henry Asher
I. J. Meade
W. E. Spalding
R. B. Stevens
I. C. Stevenson
George Hedrick
F. C. Whipple
Lloyd Purcell
Lloyd Purscell
Paul B. Lawsson
H. L. Sutherland
Kansas Heat Service Company
Woodlawn School
C. E. Birch
Superintendent of Schools
Bireh
Oae
Swagon
Vocational Agriculture Department
Neal M. Wherry
W. R. Essick
Roger McPhail
Ruth Messenger
Cordley
Helen Chandler
Dorothy Raines
DeSoto
Meail
Heat Wave Grips Kansas With 108 Degree High
Topeka reports a heat wave across Kansas with a 108 degree high at Phillipsburg and widespread highs to 100 or more in the middle west. A cooler southerly change is forecast for tomorrow night with possible northwest and northcentral thundershowers. Local rain in 24 hours is absent. minimums tonight range 65 to 75.
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Topeka
Kansas
Middle Western
S. D. Flora
Flora
Phillipsburg
Middlewest
Rocky Mountain
Plane Found After Crashed Flight in Orleans Forest
A French forest search by soldiers in Orleans led to the recovery of an army pursuit plane that had crashed. Two army captains were found dead at the scene, officials said, with both occupants killed instantly.
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Orleans
France
Stock Market Index Rises to 49.2 on 60 Stocks
The stock market index for sixty stocks closed at 49.2, up from 48.7 yesterday as investors gauge gains. Analysts note momentum alongside cautious trading and potential sector rotations amid mixed earnings signals.
Weather forecast and conditions with regional notes
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with local thundershowers and cooler air in northwest and north central areas. Morning outlook shows Manhattan partly cloudy while other areas stay clear. Dirt roads listed as good with temperatures near 92 at noon today, and high 102 yesterday with low report incomplete.
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Kansas
Manhattan
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