European tensions rise as Germany plans giant maneuvers
London reports warn Britons with military rank to secure travel certificates in Germany while France tightens visas for Italy and borders. Germany readies large scale army maneuvers and fortification work as Balkan, Czech, and Hungarian diplomats fret over growing Nazi influence and possible Sudeten German actions.
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London
Europe
British War Office
Germany
France
Italy
Adolf Tiitler
French Interior Ministry
Czechoslovakia
Little Entente
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Neville Chamberlain
Kingsley Wood
Air
Great Britain
Paris
Hitler
Franco Asks Days to Answer Nonintervention Plan
Insurgent General Franco of Spain promises a reply to the nonintervention withdrawal proposal within a few days. Britain presses for an answer as France agrees in principle to compensate British ships bombed by Franco’s planes, amid Franco’s delay and shifting replies.
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London
Franco
Spain
Britain
France
Foreign Office
Insurgents Claim Large Cache of Allied War Materials
Spanish insurgents announce they have captured extensive war materiel from government forces since the Civil War began. They report 17 American tanks and 33 field guns, plus thousands of rifles, machine guns, shells, and related munitions, along with Russian, French, British, and Mexican supplies.
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Hendaye
France
Gabeza del Rey
Spain
Almaden
Mexico
Showers forecast statewide as heat lingers in Kansas
Unsettled weather with likely local showers expected Sunday across Kansas and neighboring states. Forecasters predict continued heat for 36 hours with temperatures often near 100 in east and south areas while cooler relief appears in the northwest. Rainfall was scarce, measured only in a few counties, with Wichita at .03 inch and Anthony at .48 inch.
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Topeka
Kansas
Flora
Wichita
Anthony
Arkansas Police May Be on Trail of Hamilton
Arkansas state police said Assistant Superintendent Cliff Atkinson and his men fired on a car carrying Floyd Hamilton and Ted Walters near King in southwest Arkansas. The suspects fled on foot. bloodhounds were requested and large patrols searched the area after a Nashville bottling-plant robbery with machine gun fire.
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Little Rock
Ark
Cliff Atkinson
Floyd Hamilton
Ted Walters
King
aArk
Set
Luke Barber
Atkinson
Arkansas
Dequeen
U. S. Highway 71
Waldron
Hamilton
Walters
Nashville
Yesterav
Loans on an Increase Across Topeka Bank District
More than 200 member savings and loan associations and insurance companies within the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka district are averaging 3 million dollars monthly in home loans. July advances totaled about 660 thousand dollars in the Topeka bank district. Bank chairman W R McWilliams of Oklahoma City cited rising business and more money for investment, with district assets rising to 14.396 million by July 31, up 4.1 million in the past year.
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Topeka
Federal Home Loan Bank of
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Oklahoma
W. R. McWilliams
Oklahoma City
Topeka Bank
McWilliams
FHLB
Missing plane over gulf coast sparks search in Mexico
An Aviacion plane en route from Villahermosa to Mexico City disappeared after noon yesterday with 11 aboard. Weather offshore and jungle terrain hinder discovery as authorities launched a coast and jungle search along the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
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Mexico City
Compania de Aviacion
Gulf
Mexico
Villahermosa
Tabasco
Sherman Minton Attacks Press as Big Business
Sen. Sherman Minton denounces the press as a private censorship force backed by wealthy interests. He cites alleged monopolistic wire service practices and claims Hearst McCormick and Gannett dictate what Americans read, contrasting with foreign dictatorship. The remarks were prepared for delivery before the American Press Society in New York.
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New York
Sherman Minton
D-Ind
Indiana Democrat
American Press Society
Wire
Minton
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin
Hearst
McCormick
Gannett
America
Europe tense as major powers brace for conflict
From Great Britain to the Balkans fear grips Europe as frontier tensions rise. Gold prices surge amid flight to security while travel restrictions tighten between France and Italy. In Asia war fronts shift on the Yangtze as Hankow endures mass raids. Spain sees renewed fighting with insurgents advancing in Catalonia and Valencia. A Soviet Russian Japanese armistice memorandum is announced on the Siberian frontier.
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Europe
Great Britain
Balkans
France
Italy
Rance
Yangtze River
Hankow
China
Spain
Cabeza del Buey
Estremadura
Catalonia
Valencia
Siberian-Manchoukuoan
Sixteen Die in Air Crash Near Kehl Germany
An American woman Dorothy Cohen and possibly another American were among sixteen killed when a Czechoslovak plane from Praha to Paris struck a hillside and burned near Durbach in the Black Forest. Only 23 year old stewardess Martha Krentner survived.
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Kehl
Germany
Dorothy Cohen
Moritz Abeles
Praha
Paris
Black Forest
Durbach
Martha Krentner
Australians Take 2-1 Lead in Davis Cup Final
In Montreal on August 13 the Australian Davis Cup team led Japan 2-1 after Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich beat Jiro Yamagishi and Fumiteru Nakano in straight sets 6-2 6-4 6-3.
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Montreal
Japan
Adrian Quist
Jack Bromwich
Jiro Yamagishi
Fumiteru Nakano
Snowstorm Chaos Hits England Killing Three
England endured freak storms with two feet of snow in Norfolk, cutting a path across the country. Lightning struck a tent injuring the evangelist and fires damaged homes and lines knocking out thousands of telephones.
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London
Yorkshire
Norfolk
England
Wold Newton
Russo Japanese truce agreed at Changkufeng end of fighting
AP dispatch from Changkufeng describes both sides agreeing to terms after a month of border clashes. Japanese and Soviet officers oversee the settlement with troops and supplies moving, bodies cleared, and a mutual border arrangement placing Japanese on the east slope and Soviet forces on the west shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. White
Associated Press
Changkufeng
Siberian- Manchoukuo
Tumen
Moscow
Korea
Chiangkufeng
Changkhufeng
Long Lake
Altho
No-Man’s-Land
Longlake
Shatzefeng
Possiet Bay
Union Services Directed by Rev W Lawson Brown at 7 45
Sunday evening union services in Southpark will be led by Rev W Lawson Brown pastor of the Church of the Nazarene Special musical numbers will be performed Congregational singing will be included The Rev Brown will sing a vocal selection If weather is bad services move to Trinity Lutheran church
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Southpark
W. Lawson Brown
Church of the Nazarene
Mr. Brown
Trinity Lutheran Church
Roosevelt to deliver nation wide broadcast Monday
President Roosevelt plans a 15 minute White House address from 8:00 a.m. about social security on the third anniversary of the act. Washington observers expect him to reference liberalism and urge support for Congress members aligned with his reform goals. The speech will be directed mainly to social security employees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Social Security
White House
C.S.T
Stephen Early
U S Team Leads Germany After Opening Day in Berlin
The United States led Germany 58 49 after day one of a two day track and field meet in Olympic Stadium. USA won five of six track events while Germany captured three of four field events. Cornelius Warmerdam and George Varoff led pole vaults and the USA's 400 meter relay team set a season best near the world record.
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Berlin
United States
Germany
Olympic Stadium
Rudolf Harbig
Charlie Beetham
Howie Borck
Cornelius Warmerdam
San Francisco
George Varoff
Oregon
Wilbur Greer
Morel Ellerbe
Clyde Jeffrey
Ben Johnson
J. Errol Vaughn
New York
Einc Pentti
Vaughn
Harry Melrose
Helmut Koerting
Chuck Fenske
Wisconsin
Blaine Rideout
North Texas
Woman Repays Relief Money To Enter Heaven Says Judge
Baltimore relief director Judge Waxter said Hattie Read repaid 148.80 she received in 1988 for relief to enter Father Divine's Krom Elbow Heaven. Read said she must settle debts to reach paradise and demanded a receipt as her passport.
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Baltimore
Thomas J. S. Waxter
Hattie Read
Father Divine
Paradise
Tropical Storm Warned For Gulf Coast Near Texas Florida
Jacksonville announces a tropical storm located north of Cozumel and northwest of Cuba moving northwest at 16 to 18 mph. Small craft from Pensacola to Brownsville are advised not to venture far into the gulf. The advisory calls the storm probably hurricane force near its center, with no current gulf coast threat.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Weather Bureau
Cozumel
Yucatan
Cuba
Pensacola
Brownsville
Tex
Gulf
Gulf Coast
United States
Accident Near Louisburg injures two
Harold Burley 24 of Kansas City Kansas was critically injured and Wayne B McFadin of Independence Missouri suffered head cuts when their car left highway 69 near Louisburg and overturned last night.
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Louisburg
Kan
Harold Burley
Kansas City
Highway 69
Here
Wayne B. McFadin
Independence
Stock Market Index Slips on Thin Trade
The average of 60 stocks closed at 47.0 points, down from 48.1 yesterday as investors hesitated on a light trading day. Major movers and decliners were not disclosed in detail.
Brandenburg Monoplane That Crossed Atlantic To Berlin
New York reports the German four motor Brandenburg left Floyd Bennett Field at 7 02 a m CST and told Mackay Radio it had passed Cape Race at 1 p m CST flying at 8000 meters. The 2370 gallons of gasoline aboard supported an 18th crossing this summer with an expected 20 hour flight to land in Germany.
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New York
Atlantic Ocean
Brandenburg
C.S.T
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Mackay Radio
Floyd Bennett Field
Berlin
Alfred Henke
Great Circle
Germany
Atlantic
Bruno Hess
S. S. Friesenland
Hughes
Corrigan
Mercury
Nordwind
Nordmeer
Lockheed
Deutsche Lufthansa
German Airways
Henke
Paul Dierberg
von Moreau
Kansas National Guard heads to 15 day Fort Riley camp
About 120 personnel from Companies H and M of the Kansas National Guard will meet at the armory at 5 am for a 15 day camp at Fort Riley. They will breakfast, then board the 7 am troop train. Troop I of the 114th Cavalry, about 60 men, will travel by truck. A baggage car with gear for Companies H and M was loaded today. Lawrence troops will join others at Camp Whitside.
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Kansas National Guard
Fort Riley
114Th Cavalry
Lawrence
Camp Whitside
Farmers to Receive Wheat Loan Checks Within Ten Days
Kansas City report says farmers in Western Missouri and Kansas participating in the federal wheat loan program will begin receiving checks within ten days. The first 1938 crop check totaled $1 015.93 and went to L R Seemann of Cheyenne County Nebraska. loans run 4 percent interest and can be terminated by the government May 31 1939.
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Kansas City
UPI
Missouri
Kansas
Frank Hodges
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hodges
L. R. Seemann
Porter
Cheyenne County
Neb
RFC
Seemann
Kan
Soil Conservation
Commodity Credit Corporation
County To Guard Relief Tomato Plots After Theft Damage
County commissioners and the tomato committee post relief tomato project plots to deter trespassing and theft. Signs will be erected early next week with a guard on site at all times. The Columbus Foods representative says favorable weather brings a wonderful crop outlook, with September yielding the largest. The committee urges clients to remove green worms now and again in three to four days, starting Monday, to protect the crop.
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Tomato Committee
Chris Schaake
Willard Morgan
Columbus Foods Corporation
Huxman Protests Oil Pact With Venezuela
Governor Wal ter A Huxman protested to the state department any agreement with Venezuela to lower duty on crude oil imports He called Venezuelan oil import ruinous to Kansas oil and urged an inquiry into legality of requiring Kansas oil and gasoline in state contracts He cited market shortages and unequal distribution as harm to local oil interests.
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Topeka
Walter A. Huxman
State Department
Venezuela
Kansas
Hull
Attorney General’s
AFL Official Claims Reds Endorsed CIO Led by John L Lewis
Washington reports AFL official John P. Frey told the senate civil liberties committee of close communist contacts in Cleveland and that communists had a definite role in the CIO. He named 280 alleged Communists among CIO organizers and warned of plans to assassinate Trotsky.
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Washington
John P. Frey
American Federation of Labor
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Communist Party
Cleveland
Frey
John L. Lewis
House Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
C.I.Q
Dies
Communist Party In America
Dic
C.I.0
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L
House
Vincent Favorite
la Follette Committee
Little Steel
Favorite
C.I.C. “Steel Workers Organizing Committee
LaFollette
SWOC
LaFollette Committee
Civil Liberties Committee
Wis
Thomas
R-Nj
J B Wilson Elected Douglas County Republican Chair
Local attorney J B Wilson was elected chairman of the Douglas county Republican central committee at a meeting of precinct committeemen and committeewomen. Officers named Mrs Lucille F McCreath secretary Richard B Stevens treasurer Herbert R Pine all by unanimous ballots.
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J. B. Wilson
Douglas County
Republican Central Committee
Lucille F. McCreath
Richard B. Stevens
Herbert R. Pine
Stevens
Wilson
Walter O. McClanahan
McClanahan
James W. Anderson
Ray T. Wright
Vera Melvin
Nora H H. Friend
Esther E. Griesa
Lucille Allison
Lawrence
Central Committee
Phi Beta Kappa
National Honorary Scholastic Society
Oded Fellows
Thanksgiving Wins Travers Stake at Saratoga Race Track
Mrs Parker Corinne's Thanksgiving won the 69th Travers Stakes at Saratoga, beating eight top three year olds over 1 ¼ miles. Eddie Arcaro rode to a five length victory, with Jolly Tar second and Fighting Fox close behind. Stagehand, Necayr, Bull Lea, and Cravat also ran, as Thanksgiving finished in 2 03 5.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Parker Cornine
Thanksgiving
Travers
Saratoga
Eddie Arcaro
Walter M. Jeffords
Jolly Tar
William Woodward
Fighting Fox
Maxwell Howard
Stagehand
Necayr
Bull Lea
Cravat
Sister of Alexis Outbids Local Gondolier in Venice
Venice auctioned a gondola once belonging to Prince Alexis Mdivani, first husband of Countess Barbara Hutton. Alexis sister outbid a local gondolier for 1000 lire and the craft stays in the family, bought by Mrs. Jose Maria Sert.
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Venice
Alexis Mdivani
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow
Couness
Jose Maria’ Sert
Alexis
Mercury Reaches 98 Degrees as Heat Returns
After a brief two day relief the temperature in Mercury rose to 98 degrees by 3 PM this afternoon nearing the 100 degree mark. The reading came from the gas office thermometer as residents braced for intensifying heat.
Weather forecast and temperatures for Kansas region
The forecast shows fair and warm conditions tonight in Kansas with unsettled, locally thundershowered Sunday. Morning weather is clear with good dirt roads. Temperatures recorded include 88 at 7 pm yesterday and 94 for the maximum yesterday.
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Kansas
Wren
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J.B. Wilson
Heals Party Committee
Saratoga Springs Race Track
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