New Deal appeal tested in three state primaries
In Ohio Arkansas Idaho voters weighed pro Roosevelt loyalties in primary races. Idaho featured Senator James Pope versus Rep D Worth Clark in a direct test of New Deal appeal. Also contested were Bulkley and Caraway seats in Ohio and Arkansas with anti administration challengers.
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Washington
Ohio
Arkansas
Idaho
James P. Pope
D. Worth Clark
White House
Robert J. Bulkley
Hattie Caraway
Pope
State cash balance rises in unencumbered funds
Topeka, Aug 9 CP The unencumbered general fund cash balance rose to 1 739 063 47 on July 31 from 1 005 888 14 a year earlier, state treasurer J J Rhodes reported. Fee funds including highway cash increased from 7 691 167 88 to 10 152 408 51. Warrants issued in the first month of the fiscal year totaled 2 148 425 29, down from 2 319 948 51 last year.
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Topeka
J. J. Rhodes
Weather forecast for Kansas flags heat relief and storms
Topeka reports relief may arrive for northwest and north central Kansas with possible local thundershowers. Cooler air from the northwest likely won’t ease heat statewide. Elkhart and Goodland tied nation highs at 104 as Concordia logged 0.02 inch rain.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D.flora
Elkhart
Goodland
Flora
Concordia
Russian Shelling on Changkufeng Hill Brings World War intensity
Report from Yuki Korea describes Soviet heavy artillery pounding Japanese positions on Changkufeng hill near the Siberian frontier. Six inch shells fired at six per minute laid waste to the crest while a village burned below. Japanese fire, reinforcements, and expected intensified measures frame a border clash that began July 11. Soviet air activity was limited by clouds.
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Yuki
Korea
Siberian
Russia
Changkufeng Hill
Mlil Galetaaluuil
Changkufeng
Tumen
Shachufeng
Bombing raids devastate Canton during multi hour attack
Japanese warplanes bomb Canton in a three hour raid string carried across Kwangtung province injuring and killing hundreds. Officials report 102 dead 159 maimed with many missing while extensive damage hit industrial districts railways and civic structures including a waterworks and a girls school.
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Canton
China
Kwangtung
Taipingshan
49Th Girls
Parsons Attorney Trailing in State Rep Race
Parsons Kan Aug 9 official returns show Pi Arthur Cranston trailing by 66 votes to E O Ellis for the Republican nomination in Labette county northern district. Cranston claimed victory after leading by 39 votes in earlier tabulation. 59 absentee ballots could not alter the outcome.
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Parsons
Kan
Arthur Cranston
Labette County
Cranston
E. O. Ellis
Newark Welcomes Flier Doug Corrigan in Record City Reception
Newark greets Doug Corrigan with a record crowd estimated at 250000 around city hall as he receives a diploma and gold medal for his Brook lyn to Ireland flight. He jokes about not finishing high school and thanks supporters before boarding to Baltimore.
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Newark
N. J
Doug Corrigan
City Hall
Doug
Brooklyn
Ireland
Cortigan
Newark Advertising Club
Baltimore
Government payroll rises to 857,520 in June
The civil service commission reported 857,520 people on the executive branch payroll for June, up 16,344 from May, with total pay of 128,071,062 dollars. Excludes legislative, judicial employees and armed forces.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Liberal on Wheat Loans Lowers Grading Bar
The Commodity Credit Corporation announced a liberalization of its government wheat loan program. Lower grades become eligible, with No 4 grain allowed for loans if it matches No 3 quality. Rates decrease nine to ten cents from previous No 2 and No 1 levels across winter and spring wheat, including farm storage adjustments.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Union czar Dungan shot dead in Chicago
James G. Dungan longtime painters union business agent was slain in front of his home in a gangster style killing. He died two hours after being shot by two or more assailants who fired multiple times as they fled in a waiting car. Dungan had previously escaped a machine gun attack four years earlier.
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Chicago
James G. Dungan
Painters’ Union
West Side
Dungan
Cornhusker Board Profoundly Divided Over Scholarship Offers
Lincoln August 9 University of Nebraska finance secretary and athletic board member L E Gunderson criticized University of Alabama officials for allegedly offering athletic scholarships to three former Lincoln high school stars. Bobby Sauer, a Husker letterman, announced he would accept the package. Victor Schleich and Arthur Adams said they rejected similar offers.
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Lincoln
Neb
UPX
L. E. Gunderson
University of Nebraska
University of Alabama
Bobby Sauer
George Sauer
Husker Institution
University of New Hampshire
Victor Schleich
Arthur Adams
Gunderson
Sf" Jones
Husker Athletic
In-State Ballots Narrow Sheriff Nomination Lead
The board of county commissioners tallies 5 votes for George Price and 4 for Charles Banning in the in state absentee count, leaving Banning with 2,108 and Price 2,086. Out state ballots due by Friday, August 17, will decide the race, with certificates of nomination being prepared but held pending next Wednesday’s final count.
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Board of
County Commissioners
George “Game” Price
Charles E. Banning
Price
Banning
George Price
Britain May Act as a Mediator in Russo Japanese Border Fight
An Aug 9 report says Britain may mediate the Russo Japanese border dispute. Foreign Secretary Halifax met with Soviet Russian and Japanese representatives as Prime Minister Chamberlain returned to London. An informed source notes mediation is possible only if invited by the Soviet or Japanese governments.
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Britain
London
UPI
Viscount Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
Siberian - Manchoukuoan
Lord Halifax
Yorkshire
Ivan M. Maisky
Moscow
Foreign Office
Governor grants clemency for Rafferty in Blue Mound bank case
Topeka Aug 9 Pete Rafferty Kansas City Kan who has served over two years of a 10 to 50 year sentence for a Blue Mound bank robbery may be released in October after Governor Haxman commuted his sentence to allow parole consideration. Several confessions linked McCarthy and Korte to multiple robberies, while witnesses tied Korte to the cashier. The governor cited doubts of Rafferty's guilt and said parole will keep him under supervision. A clemency hearing for Vin Ledbetter is set for Aug 30 and for Lester Persinger the third man in the Frontier bank case remains pending executive action.
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Topeka
Pete Rafferty
Kansas City
Kan
Rafferty
Farmers State Bank
Blue Mound
Haxman
Ernest H. McCarthy
Harry H. Korte
F.B.I
Kansas
Korte
Jenkins
FBI
McCarthy
Melvin Ledbetter
Blue Mound Bank
Robery
Kerte and
Lester Persinger
Miners State Bank
Frontenac
Persinger
Sam Terbovich
Squires Held In Hitchhike Murder Probe
Wil ford B. Squires, sought nationwide since last October in the Morris B. Close case, was arrested in Emporia Virginia and brought to Batavia New York. Close disappeared July 19 1937 and his body was found October 9 near Rochester. linked to Charles Padgett of Aliquippa Pennsylvania and a car tied to the case.
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Batavia
N. Y
Morris B. Close
Rochester
Wilford B. Squires
Squires
Harry Dehollander
Emporia
Eugene F. Hoyt
Close
Rochestar
Missouri
Memphis
Tenn
G O P Central Committee Set for Douglas County Meeting
Walter McClanahan announced the Douglas County Republican central committee will reorganize Saturday at 2 PM in the courthouse. Precinct committeemen and committeewomen chosen in the primary will elect a chairman vice chairman secretary and treasurer. McClanahan is the current county chairman.
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Walter McClanahan
Douglas County Republican Central Committee
Central Committee
McClanahan
Malaria Treatment Reaches 18 Million in Tropics Per Year
An estimated 18 million people in tropical and subtropical regions receive malaria treatment annually. The figure underscores the scale of malaria management and public health needs in these areas.
Treasury buys $8.25 million in WPA men's clothing
The Treasury Department's procurement division completed an $8,254,000 purchase of men's clothing for the WPA. Tomorrow it will start buying about $32,000,000 worth of women's coats and suits.
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New York
Treasury Department
WPA
Embassy to Chungking shifts location amid war
United States Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson and staff arrived in Chungking aboard the gunboat Luzon. The embassy has moved twice since the Chinese-Japanese war began, from Nanking to Hankow and now to Chungking, with Johnson likely the sole senior diplomat in the city. Other powers sent lesser envoys.
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Chungking
China
United States
Nelson T. Johnson
Luzon
Hankow
Nanking
Johnson
Canberra Maru abandons search for Hawaii clipper
The Japanese steamer Canberra Maru dits today to abandon the search for the missing Hawaii clipper due to bad weather.
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Tokyo
Hawaii
Stock Market Index Shows Minor Change In Readable Row
The index for sixty stocks stands at 59.8 after yesterday’s reading of 50.1 reflecting a small shift in market sentiment. No further details provided.
Change of Routes Asked by Bus Line
Mayor Alfred Lawrence appoints a special transportation committee to study Rapid Transit Company plans for a 60 day bus route trial. Proposal would discontinue East Lawrence, add 20 minute weekday service to North Lawrence and rest of system, 30 minute Sunday and holidays. Committee to gather civic input. next week meeting to hear citizens.
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Alfred Lawrence
Rapid Transit Company
Ralph Pine
R. O. Burgert
C. C. Shimmons
J. F. Eberhart
Frank Rowland
Harry Edmondson
H. G. Angwin
J. J. Wilson
Baldwin Mitchell
Mitchell
Bus Company
East Lawrence
North Lawrence
Pine
Adee Couple Die In Blaze At Tuxedo Park Home
Prominent residents Mr. and Mrs. William T. Adee perished in a dawn fire at their large estate in Tuxedo Park New York. Their 21 month old son George survived after nursemaid Lillian Henson fled with him, aided by a fireman Anthony Boss who broke his arm in the rescue.
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Tuxedo Park
N. Y
William T. Adee
George T. Adee
Anthony Ross
Adees
Adee
Roosevelt Reaches Pensacola After San Diego Cruise
President Roosevelt arrived in Pensacola Florida after a cruise from San Diego via the Panama Canal aboard the cruiser Houston. The presidential party transferred to the destroyer McDougal for docking at the naval air station. At 1 15 p m the McDougal entered the bay and the President was saluted with 21 guns from the naval air station and Fort Barrancas.
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Pensacola
Fla
Roosevelt
San Diego
Panama Canal
Houston
Gulf
McDougal
Naval Air Station
Bay
Fort Barrancas
Forgery arrest shocks Kennedy man in Minnesota
Ed Wofford alias Jack Spears, 26, was arrested in Kennedy Minnesota by Kittson County sheriff and to be sent to Lawrence to face 12 counts of forgery. He allegedly passed six checks totaling 50.50 on Bruchmiller and Jones between July 13 and 28 after joining Bruchmiller’s staff with Carl and Harry Lafberg. Wofford allegedly forged signatures reading C H Bruchmiller by Cliff Jones and cashed checks at Lawrence stores. He reportedly confessed and waived extradition.
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Ed Wofford
Jack Spears
Kennedy
Minn
Kittson County
Lawrence
Wofford
Lawrence National Bank
C. H. Bruchmiller
Chiff Jones
Jude Anderson
E. 0. Pearson
Inn
Carl
Harry Lafberg
Lafberg
Carl Lafberg
Minneapolis
Pearson
Hallock
Organize Democratic County Committee Meets Tonight
Democratic county central committee plans a reorganization meeting at 8 p.m. at the party head quarters 9 East Ninth Street. Seymour C. Gentry, current county chairman, is mentioned as a candidate to succeed himself. The current officers include Mrs. Erna Corey Women's vice chair, Dane Lucas vice chairman, Baldwin treasurer, and Country Crim secretary. A new officer setup is planned with only one vice chairman this year. If the chairman is a man the vice chairman must be a woman.
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Democratic County Central Committee
East Ninth Street
Seymour C. Gentry
Erna Corey
Dane Lucas
Baldwin
Robert Learned
Country Crim
Early Arkansas Returns Briscoe 9 Caraway Leads In Prairie County
Upper Hill township in Prairie county reports the first Arkansas precinct to finish its Democratic primary balloting. For U S senator Caraway leads with 29 votes to none for McClellan Venable. Bailey has 29 for governor with Cook D McNutt 0 and for second district congressman Wilbur D Mills has 29 while Roy Richardson has 0.
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Arkansas
Briscoe
Ark
Upper Hill Township
Prairie County
U. S
Caraway
McClellan
Venable
Bailey
Cook D. McNutt
Wilbur D. Mills
Roy Richardson
Massman to Start Grand River Dam Work in Three Days
Grand River Dam Authority announced Massman Construction Company, contract holder, will begin work on the main dam at Vinita Oklahoma within three days.
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Grand River Dam
Vinita
Okla
Massman Construction Company
Two Boatloads of the Faithful Steam Down The Hudson
Two river steamers carried about 3 000 followers of Father Divine toward what they called a new heaven on the Hudson. Delays due to rain and tide delayed arrival. leader spoke on economy and taxation while the group eyed a self contained colony near Howland Spencer's former estate.
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Hudson
Father Divine
Krum-Elbow-on-the-Hudson
N. Y
the Hudson
Rancavalt
God
Harlem
Milton-on-the-Hudson
Kingston
Greenhill Park
Howland Spencer
Heaven
Milton
Father Divind
City adopts 12.88 mill levy with bond fund increase
City council approves next year budget after public hearing with no significant objections. The levy totals 12.88 mills, raising 109,564.24 for general purposes and 83,297.76 for bonds and interest, with the bond levy rising to 5.56 mills to meet cash basis goals.
Flying Fortresses Reach Panama After 680 Mile Flight
Three United States Army Flying Fortresses landed at France Field in the Canal Zone after a 680 mile flight from Bogota Colombia in three hours and 17 minutes. They are set to depart Thursday for Miami Florida.
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Panama Colon
Panama
France Field
Canal Zone
Bogota
Colombia
Miami
Fla
Weather outlook for Kansas with unsettled Wednesday
Partly cloudy with continued warmth and possible northwest and north central scattered thunderstorms. Morning clears, dirt roads remain good. Temperatures show 7 p.m. yesterday at 98 and noon today around 80 with yesterday’s high near 99 and a low around 13. Year ago highs reached 104 and the low was not listed.
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Kansas
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