Thornburg Spent Loot Quickly in Bank Robbery Spree
John Thornburg known as the human bomb spent $4,860 from a Chanute bank robbery in four months on girls, trips, and a cabin cruiser. Federal Judge Hopkins sentenced him to 35 years in a federal penitentiary after hearing agent Vanlandingham describe Thornburgs South travel and loot usage.
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Leavenworth
Kan
John Thornburg
Nevada
Thornburg
First National Bank
Chanute
Richard J. Hopkins
Hopkins
Z. J. Vanlandingham
Fayetteville
Ark
Little Rock
Birmingham
Dean Purcell
Atlanta
Florida
South
Mexico
Sanford
N. C
Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Robery
Joe Balch
Wyandotte
Cow's Inferiority Gone Becomes Record Producer Cow
In Oxford on August 2 W B Tobey recounted a Jersey cow raised by Herdsman Malcolm Bradbury from 350 to 2000 gallons yearly. Bradbury credited gentle handling and diet changes with removing the animal's inferiority complex and boosting milk output.
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Cow
Oxford
England
London
W. B. Tobey
Malcolm Bradbury
Jersey
Bradbury
Refugees Aid U S Labor Says Quaker Group
The American Friends Service Committee highlights refugee contributions, noting German refugees establish factories in the United States including harmonicas, gloves, and woolen goods operations employing American workers. Pickett argues refugees boost consumption and employment, with Christians and Jews both represented among arrivals, and cites 1938 net permanent residency of 31,648 in the U S.
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Philadelphia
Germany
South America
Massachusetts
American Friends’ Service Committee
Quakers
Italy
Clarence E. Pickett
The
Friends
Bost
Pickett
America
Austria
Czechoslovakia
United States
Hitler
Judge Fine Poultry at World Congress Honors 4-H Teams
Youth and 4-H club teams from Minnesota Maryland and Kansas earned top ratings in judging at the seventh world poultry congress held in Cleveland. Eighty four 4-H members from 28 states competed across six classes with individual winners led by Robert Baird 16 Cherryvale Kan. A national collegiate poultry club formed with 40 members from 18 states, aiming to foster unity among college poultry clubs, with Alexander G Warren of Texas A M College elected president.
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Cleveland
Minnesota
Maryland
Kansas
Robert Baird
Cherryvale
Kan
Alexander G. Warren
Texas A. and
M., College
Retail Sales Rise 9 Percent Across Nation in June
The commerce department reports independent retail sales in 28 states increased about 9 percent in June from a year earlier with over 21,600 stores covered. The rise was sharpest in the south and industrial east north central regions. Oklahoma and Kansas showed small declines. Total sales reached 222,654,000 compared with 204,654,000 last year.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Oklahoma
Kansas
Women Missionaries Detained in Peiping Stripped by Soldiers
Two British women missionaries arriving in Peiping said they were forced to strip in front of a man while detained by Japanese troops at Kaifeng. They traveled from Sian in Shensi province with a male missionary, stating they were held two days and questioned over July 24 and 25, with the man present described as Japanese or Korean.
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Peiping
Kaifeng
Sian
Shensi
China
Governor launches study of Kansas transportation rates
Gov. Payne Ratner has started a study of rates and transportation issues in Kansas. He aims to identify state needs and problems and pursue a systematic solution. Ratner met with Rolla Clymer and Andrew F. Schoeppel to discuss a state conference of rate experts to be scheduled soon. Railroads and other carriers would be asked to cooperate.
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Topeka
Payne Ratner
Kansas
Rolla Clymer
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Corporation Commission
Fruit Stand Watchman Gets 99 Year Sentence
Athon Papas, 55, was sentenced to 99 years for murder after a jury found him guilty for shooting Muriel Campbell, 18, at a Chicago fruit stand during a quarrel over a watermelon. Papas testified he fired to frighten the pair. The incident occurred May 30.
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Chicago
Athon Papas
Muriel Campbell
Miss Campbell
Papas
Morgenthau to Vacation. No Treasury Financing Soon
Secretary Morgenthau sails on the Normandie for a European vacation and says there will be no treasury financing until September except possibly routine farm credit financing.
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Treasury
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Normandie
Europe
Well Known Diva Puzzle Clue List and Answers
A cryptic style puzzle states WELL-KNOWN DIVA and lists across and down clues with answers like Sorrowful appropriate and various word associations. The grid includes references to opera star fame, vocal terms, and related objects, inviting completion of a themed crossword.
Price levels in slump for Kansas farmers in mid July
Kansas farmers saw their price index fall to 85 percent of the 1910-14 average on July 15, down three points from June. Grain prices dropped nine points while hog prices rose and corn fell, meat animals held steady, and dairy prices edged down. National mid July prices were unchanged from June.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal Departments of Agriculture
United States
Girard Firm Receives Funds for Rural Electrification
The Sekan Electric Cooperative Association of Girard Kansas is allotted 20000 dollars to build 212 miles of lines and serve 602 customers in Crawford and Bourbon counties.
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Girard Company
Washington
Sekan Electric Cooperative Association, Inc
Girard
Kan
Crawford
Bourbon Counties
Kansas Allocated $849 611 for Farm Tenant Purchases
Kansas has been allocated 849 611 dollars by the farm security administration from Congress 40 million dollars to finance farm tenants in purchase of farms. The amount allocated in Kansas was expected to finance purchase of 104 farms.
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Kansas
Washington
Farm Security Administration
Congress
Mackey Farm Notes and Local Socials Gathered
Farmers fill silo and discuss corn quality with fodder used for ensilage. Local guests include Mrs. John North at Farm Bureau, Ronald Robb and family and Frances Perkins at Manhattan graduation. A salmon spawning note concludes the column.
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John North
Farm Bureau
Ronald Robb
Frances Perkins
Manhattan
Noel Robb
Frances Gardner
Springfield
Raymond Gardner
Gardner
Sarah White
Otia Nutting
Ernestine
Betty Lou
Josephine Hemphill
Arthur Hemphill
Silo
H. C. Nunemaker
Will House
Eugene
Herbert Nunemaker, Jr
Kathryn House
Ruby Leonhard
Allen Kirby
Nate Pettengill
Tonganoxte State Lake
Mary Breeses
K. U
Minnie Brinkman
Dora Wilson
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