Germans to stand by Danzig amid Poland tensions
Albert Forster in Sanger market place declares Germany and Hitler will stand at Danzigs side if attacked. He praises German unity, cites Versailles, and appeals to foreign publics to recognize Danzigs German status. Crowd chants We want to return to the reich as Poland faces pressure. Adolph Sprechels weds Baroness Emily von Romberg in Reno.
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Free City
Danzig
Albert Forster
Sanger Market Place
Poland
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Forster
Reich
Versailles
France
England
Baltic Sea
League of Nations
United States
Hitler
Pluis
Bronx
Oder River
Tannenberg
Forester
Forstler
Edward Smigly-Rydz
Adolph Sprechels
Reno
Nev
Adolph B. Sprechels
Coronado
Calif
Emily von Romberg
Santa Barbara
Spreckels
California
Boiler Kid Fred Snite Marries Dayton Woman
Courageous Fred Snite Jr. wed Teressa Larkin of Dayton, Ohio in River Forest Ill. with Snite in his iron lung during the ceremony. The bride, a former Georgian Court student, has known Snite for seven years as he continues his battle with infantile paralysis and travels with a trailer to accommodate his life-support apparatus.
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Chicago
Fred Snite, Jr
Teressa Larkin
Dayton
Boiler
Ohio
River Forest
J. W. Morrison
Snite
Hogan
John T. Snite
Teressa
Fred
Miss Larkin
Georgian Court
Lakewood
N. J
Mary Loretta
China
Miss Snite
Notre Dame University
Peiping
Fred Snite
Billings Hospital
Agricultural Forecasts Put United States Corn and Wheat Crop Totals
Washington August 10 agriculture department forecasts place this year’s corn crop at 2 459 888 000 bushels and wheat at 731 432 000 bushels based on August 1 conditions. Figures for major states Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska Texas Missouri Ohio Illinois Colorado and others are given with per acre yields and revised month to month comparisons.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Kansas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Texas
Missouri
Ohio
Illinois
Colorado
Miller Not Alone In Recovery For Kansas Grid Season
From a University of Kansas hospital Ralph Miller Chanute football star and basketball standout is recovering from a knee operation and hopes to return before the 1939 season ends. Doctors say rest for about 10 days then gradual use as the knee heals. Also admitted is Kansas State College tackle John Hineman from Dighton recovering from a shoulder operation with similar hopes to play football this fall.
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Kansas City
Kan
Ralph Miller
Chanute
University of Kansas
Miller
University of Kansas Hospital
John Hineman
Kansas State College
Dighton
Kansan Appointed as Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade
The Navy announced 42 appointments of assistant surgeons to lieutenant junior grade. Arthur E. Gulick of Goodland Kansas was named among them on August 10.
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Kansan
Washington
Navy
Arthur E. Gulick
Goodland
Kan
Hackney Pushes Tax Delinquency Bill in Kansas
State Senator Ed T Hackney Democrat of Sumner county calls personal property tax avoidance a racket and plans a September legislative council proposal to require sworn statements of property and reasons for nonpayment and to empower county attorneys to sue to collect. He cites losses of nearly a million dollars a year and says firms shift the burden to farms and homes.
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Topeka
Ed T. Hackney
Sumner County
Kansas
Legislative Council
Hackney
Red Cross Names Claremont Nurse Ruth Haugsrud
Miss Ruth Haugsrud of Claremont Minnesota will arrive Monday to take over county Red Cross nursing duties. She replaces Miss Herma McMahan who resigned July 1. Haugsrud a University of Minnesota public health nursing graduate, leaves Red Wing to assume the post. Her start is in September but she plans to arrive early to become acquainted with the community.
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Ruth Haugsrud
Claremont
Minn
Red Cross
Herma McMahan
Miss Haugsrud
University of Minnesota
Red Wing
Altho
Haugsrud
Chamber seeks 3 pm Saturday bank hours in Emporia
Emporia Kansas business leaders urge banks to stay open until 3 pm on Saturdays and close early on another day, likely Thursday. They cite Saturday noon closures hurting Saturday afternoon and night business, a rule adopted earlier due to wage hour limits for employees.
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Emporia C. of
Banks
Emporia
Kan
Chamber of Commerce
Guardsman Awarded 4000 Damages for Injury at Fort Riley
Pi-Otho L. Curtner a national guardsman from Steele Missouri will receive 4000 in damages for injuries suffered August 18 1937 at Fort Riley Kansas. A rock thrown 1000 feet by a dynamite blast on a WPA project struck him on the back of the head and the payment was authorized by an act signed by President Roosevelt.
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Guardsman
Washington
Otho L. Curtner
Steele
National Guardsman
Fort Riley
Kan
Curtner
Roosevelt
Sinclair Prairie cuts crude price dropping oil below one dollar
Tulsa reports Sinclair Prairie Marketing lowers crude price by 20 cents a barrel in six states effective today. Panhandle and LaSalle refine follow in Wichita Falls, while executives weigh whether Houston majors will match the move.
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Tulsa
Sinclair Prairie Marketing Company
Panhandle Oil and Refining Company
LaSalle Refining Company
Wichita Falls
Tex
Sinclair Prairie
Panhandle
LaSalle
Tulsa Oil
Dallas
Houston
Sinclair Prairie Oil Marketing Company
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
Sinclair Refining Company
Harry F. Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation
Sinclair Companies
Altho
Oklahoma-Kansas
W. A. Goforth
Hughes Plans High Altitude Flight to Paris
Washington reports Howard Hughes, famed around the world flyer, has asked the civil aeronautics authority for a high altitude transatlantic flight to Paris. He plans to use a Boeing 3807 four motor airliner called the strato-liner. Details are withheld as the application undergoes study by the state department and the CAA.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Howard Hughes
Paris
Hughes
State Department
CAA
Stock Market Index Dips to 47.9 After Previous Day Rise
The stock market index averaging 60 stocks stands at 47.9, down from yesterday’s 48.8 as traders react to brief market shifts. The report notes continued volatility amid mixed earnings and external market pressures.
Costs 22 Million a Year To Run U. S. Congress
The 22,622,771 dollars appropriated at the recent session covered the legislative establishment. The house cost over 8.8 million, the senate about 3.5 million. Funds paid for reporting debates packing boxes auto maintenance folding speeches mailings a subway train and printing records.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
Botanic Garden
Capitol
House
Senate
Capper lists five Congress achievements at Kiwanis luncheon
Sen. Arthur Capper of Kansas praised five key congressional actions as a peace time spending record totaling over 13.3 billion dollars. He noted farm appropriations, the Hatch act, and the failed 2.5 billion spending bill while urging national unity to solve unemployment and farm problems without endless deficits. He stressed faith in American leadership to do the job and do it right.
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St. Louis
Arthur Capper
R-Kan
Kiwanis Club
Capper
Topeka
Kansas
Congress
Department of Agriculture
House
Federal Treasury
Probate Judge Performs Midnight Marriage
Probate Judge Frank R. Gray issued a license to Jack Callahan and Frances Doehne of Kansas City Missouri and married them at 12 05 this morning after the license was signed yesterday. Four more licenses were issued late yesterday and today to Warda Terrell and Leona Mae Neer of Lexington Minnesota Donald Robert Evans of Portland Michigan Catherine Louise Holmes of Lawrence Robert Shhrimplin of Leavenworth Betty McDowell of St Joseph Missouri and George W Colburn of Goodland and Louetta Adkisson of Lawrence.
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Cupid
Frank R. Gray
Gray
Court House
Jack Callahan
Frances Doehne
Kansas City
Altho
Warda Terrell
Leona MaeNeer
Lexington
Donald Robert Evans
Portland, Mich
Catherine Louise Holmes
Lawrence
Robert Shhrimplin
Leavenworth
Betty McDowell
St. Joseph
George W. Colburn
Goodland
Louetta Adkisson
Minor collision near Ninth and Rhode Island streets
A Dodge truck driven by Mrs. Noah Pugh pulled from the curb on Rhode Island street and struck a Model A Ford driven by H. P. Wilson at the Ninth street intersection. Minor damages resulted.
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Ninth
Rhode Island
Noah Pugh
R.F.D
H. P. Wilson
Louisiana Street
Liberty memorial teen rescued from drowned lake mishap
Donald Tobler a 16 year old Liberty Memorial high student was pulled from a west Lawrence lake in critical condition after companions revived him with artificial respiration. He and peers including Harry Mortenson Wayne Catlett and Billy Lonnecker used Boy Scout techniques to save him before hospital transport.
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Donald Tobler
Liberty Memorial High School
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Tobler
Harry Mortenson
Lawrence
Jackman Farm
Billy Lonnecker
Wayne
Arthur Catlett
Jackman Land
Catlett
Mortenson
Lonnnecker
Lonnecker
Wayne Catlett
Lawrence Boy Scouts
Germany Compared to Ancient Carthage by Polish Editor
A Warsaw Pi Kurier Polski editorial likens Germany to Carthage as a nest of contagion to be destroyed. It accuses Germany of sparking the armaments race, disrupting trade, and eroding treaty credibility, urging rapid liquidation of the peril in central Europe.
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Germany
Ancient
Carthage
Warsaw
Pi—Kurier Polski
Berlin
Europe
Japan Britain Talks Stall Over Third-Party Economic Role
Tokyo reports indicate Britain Japan and other powers face new barriers as talks resume on Sino war issues. Tokyo presses for a speedy restart while Britain demands central Chinese currency ties remain with Beijing. Japan rejects third party involvement and awaits a cabinet meeting on a Rome Berlin axis alliance.
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Tokyo
United State
France
Japan
China
Great Britain
Robert Leslie Craigie
Britain
Satomatsu Kato
Sir Robert
Kato
London
Foreign Office
Eugene H. Dooman
United States
Baron Guy Fain
Junior High Enrollment Office Opens for Fall
The Junior High Office will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. starting Monday August 14 Principal John E Jacobs announced. Seventh through ninth graders new to Lawrence schools may enroll without an appointment. Beginning August 21 returning Lawrence students will have final registration. During the Victorian era a whiff of onion juice was used to revive fainting damsels.
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John E. Jacobs
Lawrence
Wweek
Sears Profits Top 18 Million in First Half of Year
Sears Roebuck and Company reports net profits of 18,022,457 for the first 24 weeks of the fiscal year, nearly doubling the 9,043,883 earned in the same period in 1938.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Industry Joins With Army and Navy In Plans for U.S. Defense
Washington announces a peacetime War Resources Board to coordinate mobilization of economic resources in a national emergency. Ed ward R. Stettinius Jr. heads the 6 member panel with leaders from MIT, AT&T, Brookings, General Motors, and Sears Roebuck. President Roosevelt approves the board and a second advisory group for educational orders. The plan integrates 10,000 plants already assigned to munition tasks and aims to streamline wartime production and control.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Ballas
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
United States Steel
War Resources Board
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
War Resources Administration
Louis Johnson
Charles Edison
War and Navy
Army and Navy Munitions Board
Munitions Agency
Roosevelt
Johnson
Stettinius
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone ‘and Telegraph ‘Company
Harold G. Moulton
The
Brookings Institution
John Lee Pratt
General Motors
General Robert E. Wood
Sears, Roebuck and Company
C P A Picnic Draws Douglas County Crowds With Games And Dance
Cars filled South park as the Douglas County Central Protective Association held a full day of events at the CPA picnic. The program opened with the Lawrence All Stars beating Overbrook 2 to 0 and included a sequence of talent acts from Hawaiian String Club Roberta Robertson and Henry Jerome WIBW stars and local dancers. Afternoon events featured tug of war sack races and dashes followed by softball matches between Singer Sewers and Ton ganoxie girls. The day closed with a 9 pm dance at the LO C F hall with KMBC Praine Pioneers providing music.
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South Park
Douglas County Central Protective Association
Southpark
Lawrence All-Stars
Overbrook
George Weng Wai
Roberta Robertson
Henry and
Jerome
WIBW
Howard
Calvin Caniff
Baldwin and
Belvoir
Charles E. Banning
Nick Thome
Ares
Banning
Thome
Singer Sewers
Lawrence
Tonganoxie
Lone Star
Trish Rascals
C.P.A
Kmbc Praine Pioneers
Temperatures Roaring Back Toward Normal In Kansas
Kansas weather eased toward normal as temperatures rise after a cool spell. Meteorologist A D Robb forecast generally fair skies with light rain chances minimal over the next 36 hours. Highs near mid 80s and lows from 50s to 60s were expected across the state with scattered clouds.
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Topeka
Kansas
A.D. Robb
Hill City
Eureka
Independence
Garnett
Chanute
Robb
Shute Takes Lead in Dapper Dan Open in Pittsburgh
Densmore Shute of Huntington West Virginia posted a one over par 71 to lead the $10,000 Dapper Dan open tournament in Pittsburgh as lightning fast greens and narrow fairways tested the nation’s top golfers.
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Shute
Pittsburgh
Densmore Shute
Huntington
Former Professor Dies at 87 in Oklahoma University Norman
W. N. Rice, 87, a member of the first University of Oklahoma faculty at Norman, died last night. He helped establish the early academic program and served as a foundational member of the university community.
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Oklahoma City
P— W. N. Rice
University of Oklahoma At
Norman
Kansas Weather Forecast Shows Fair Conditions
Kansas forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures in the east and north and slightly warmer readings in the west and north central regions. Gas Office Record shows 7 PM yesterday at 76, 7 AM today 71, noon today listed, with yesterday's maximum at 81 and the day's minimum not specified.
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Kansas
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