Shanghai inwar clash drives thousands of refugees to sea
Chinese forces press the Shanghai lines with line of battle across the Whangpoo river as fires rage in the French and international concessions. Amid shelling and air duels, 2000 plus American and British women and children flee by river to waiting liners headed for Manila, with Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr among the evacuees.
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Shanghai
CPI
Shanhai
Whangpoo
Chanel
Chow Creek
International Settlement
Fall District
Concession
Pootung
Whangpoo River
Broadway Mansions
Astor House Hotel
Astor House
Kiangwan
China
Hangkew
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Quentin
Jefferson
Manila
Whang
Jeffrson
NYK Shipping Company
Tozmo
Roosevelt to Attend Roanoke Island Anniversary Celebration
President Roosevelt will travel by special train to Roanoke Island to join the 350th anniversary of Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony. Ten congress members accompany him. the program includes the birth of Virginia Dare and a broadcast of his 2:30 p.m. address.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Walter Raleigh
Congress
Virginia Dare
Congressional
Reynolds and Bailey
Barkley
Kentucky
McKellar
Tennesse
Lodge
Massachusetts
Warren
Rayburn
Texas
Bland
Virginia
Boland
Pennsylvania
Snell
New York
Francoist Forces Narrowly Miss Santander Fall In Major Offensive
Franco’s troops pressed a five directional assault on Santander, with reinosa already captured, and the insurgent command claiming Encroachment to within 30 miles of Santander. They reported 1,500 prisoners and key military assets seized amid fierce fighting and heavy losses to government forces.
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Francisco Franco
Santander
Biscayan
Escudo Pass
Franco
Reinosa
Bilbao
Ranco
Foreign
New Paralysis Cases Reported Across Kansas
Thirteen new infantile paralysis cases were reported in Kansas last week to the state health board. Montgomery county had five cases including two in Coffeyville, Wyandotte three including a Kansas City patient, with single new cases in Marshall Ness Pottawatomie Republic and Sedgwick counties. Dr E K Musson noted physicians’ response to warnings of epidemic spread and suggested familiarizing with the spray method of preventive treatment, though not yet proven.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
Montgomery County
Coffeyville
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Marshall
Ness
Pottawatomie
Republic
Sedgwick
E. K. Musson
Division of
Division of Preventable Disease
Critics of Black Raise Klan Issue in Senate
Washington August 17 Senator Copeland a New York Democrat pressed Klan accusations against Senator Black a Alabama Democrat during the Supreme Court nomination debate McGill a Kansas Democrat defended Black saying the charges were prejudice and urged the vote be based on merit Burke Nebraska joined the attack noting Black must be impartial The scene drew reaction from the Klan imperial wizard and left a crowded gallery listening as the debate continued to page 2
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Washington
Copeland
D-N.y
Senate
Senator Black
D-Ala
Supreme Court
McGill
D-Kan
Black
Roosevelt
Burke
D-Neb
Senator Schwellenbach
D-Wash
New Yorker
Hiram ¥. Evans
Atlanta
Alabama
New York
Harvest Festival to judge biggest watermelon in Lawrence
The Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will host a Harvest Sales Festival in Lawrence next Friday and Saturday. Prizes total 9 dollars for top watermelons and corn stalks, with weights paid at regular market value. Entries must be brought to 810 Massachusetts and weighed on site.
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Lawrence
Merchants Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts
1200 Marines to Sail From San Diego to Shanghai
Washington reports Secretary Hull announced the United States ordered 1,200 marines to depart San Diego within ten days to Shanghai to protect American nationals from violence. A $500,000 relief and evacuation appropriation was asked, with about 2,500 nationals to remain in Shanghai by week’s end.
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Washington
Hull
San Diego
Shanghai
Congress
China
L Ead
Maxwell M. Hamilton
State Department
Stanley K. Hornbeck
Japan
Wang
Ammbassador
Arctic search underway as three nations rush to missing fliers
Aviators from the United States Soviet Union and Canada prepared to search the Arctic for six Russian polar fliers missing since Friday. Storms grounded ships and pilots near Aklavik Markovo and Cape Schmidt delaying the multinational effort while a Soviet icebreaker carried seaplanes toward Alaska. James McIntyre vaudeville star is near death in Southampton after a long illness.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arctic
Jimmy Mattern
Siberia
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Moscow
Aklavik
Northwest Territory
Bob Randall
Arctic Ocean
Washington
Edmonton
Alta
Markovo
Anadir
Zadkoff
Cape Wellen
Siberian
Krassin
Cape Schmidt
Alaskan
Bald-Headed Men Must Be Resigned to Having Nothing Done About It
In Spokane on August 17 the American Medical Association’s director of debunking, Dr. Frank J. Clancy, said nothing can regrow hair once it is gone. He noted tonics may only cause a little fuzz and warned women about caustic guaranteed freckles removers, advising that freckles are better than scarred skin.
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Spokane
Wash
American Medical Association
Sone
Frank J. Clancy
Chicago
Association
Board of Investigation
Prisoner Details Highlight Kansas Penitentiary Pry
Kirk Prather, warden of the Kansas state prison, spoke at the Eudora CPA picnic about prison life. He noted 1800 inmates, 300 farmers, 250 under 20 with half in for murder, average age 32, daily bread 700 loaves, 1000 pounds of potatoes, 200 gallons of tomatoes, and a prison store since 20 years ago sending money to inmates' wives and $12,000 yearly to counties. The prison mines employ 500, with 2000 tons weekly. the farm since 1879 spans 3500 acres. Only four breaks since January 1. Entertainment included Cowbo Bill, Punch and Judy, platform and square dancing. bands, races, tug of war, and other amusements planned through the day and next.
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Kirk Prather
Kansas State Prison
Kansas Penitentiary
C.P.A
Eudora
Prather
Eudora City Band
H. E
Don Carlos
Lawrence
Fritz Meyn
Lawrence Huskies
Unmenk Lore
Army drops mule era as Fourth Army reports strength
Fort Riley Kansas August 17 The army mule has gone out of style with military collars and cavalry sabers No enlisted mules were listed today on the Fourth Army headquarters strength report Temperatures reached 102 degrees at about 3 30 this afternoon according to the gas office thermometer
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Fort Riley
Kan
Fourth Army
House Moves Toward Adjournment In Deficiency Bill Action
Washington Aug 17 The House approved a resolution to dispense with some rules and move toward adjournment as it prepared to pass the final deficiency bill with most major legislation addressed. Senate debate featured a clash over a Supreme Court nomination and a KKK reference. A farm tenancy aid proposal was set for possible inclusion despite budget concerns. A lineman, Jess S. Wile, was killed in Kansas when a line touched a high voltage wire. The reference to the clarinet by Denner dates from 1630.
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Washington
House
Senate
Copeland
D-N.y
Black
D-Ala
Supreme Court
Rules Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Martin
D-Coro
Boileau
P-Wis
O'Connor
Dn.y
Bankhead
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Woodrum
D-Va
McPherson
Kan
Jess S. Wile
Buglers End Night With Reveille At Fort Riley Maneuvers
Fort Riley Kansas August 17 buglers roused 16 000 men from bunks at 5 30 a m with a joking I can't get em up call marking the first reveille since two forces were organized encamped here for the Fort Riley phase of the Fourth Army maneuvers. An hour and a half later Kansas Missouri Nebraska and Arkansas national guard units took the field to practice march discipline reconnaissance anti air craft defense and use of cover in preparation for a four day war game next week between the 35th national guard division and the provisional cavalry division.
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Fort Riley
Kan
National Guard
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Arkansas
35Th National Guard
Claassen Dies at 51. Cornell Professor of Biology and Entomology
Peter Walter Claassen, 51, Cornell University biology and entomology professor, died yesterday in Ithaca of heart disease. native of Hillsboro Kansas, he held degrees from McPherson College, Kansas and Cornell, taught at Kansas University, and long authored works on stone flies plecoptera and biology lab texts. He is survived by wife Evelyn and two children, Sarah Evelyn and Richard Strong.
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Peter Walter Claassen
Cornell University
Ithaca
N. Y
Claassen
University of Kansas
K. U
Frank Strong
Evelyn Strong Claassen
Sarah Evelyn Claassen
Richard Strong Claassen
Cornell
United States
Lawrence
Hillsboro
Kan
McPherson College
K. A
Kansas
Tsing Hua College
Peking
China
Entomological Society of America
American Association Economic Entomologists
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Alpha Chi Sigma
Gamma Alpha
Regional bindweed meetings begin in Ottawa and other Kansas sites
The Kansas bindweed control program opened with a Holton regional meeting, the first of nine. Sessions will follow in Ottawa Chanute Wichita Clay Center Osborne Colby Garden City and Kinsley. State weed supervisor T F Yost leads the program as over 25 000 farmers report bindweed across more than 150 000 acres.
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Ottawa
Douglas County
Holton
Chanute
Wichita
Clay Center
Osborne
Colby
Garden City
Kinsley
T. F. Yost
Kansas
Plan State Exchange For Sales Tax Tokens
Topeka Aug 17 Kansas State tax commission drafts a state administered exchange to redeem sales tax tokens though Kansas law lacks token redemption provisions. Gov Walter A. Haxman expects a liberal interpretation to allow the exchange as an administrative function. Merchants cannot redeem tokens with tax remittances. a revolving fund will be set up for prepaid token redemption and the agency is due to operate within 60 days.
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Topeka
Kan
CPI
Kansas State Tax Commission
Kansas
Walter A. Haxman
Commission
Haxman
Lawrence council to decide on two vacancies
Lawrence city council plans action at August 30 meeting on filling the city clerk and city health nurse posts both vacated by resignations effective September 1. J W Stone favored for clerk after long service and Essten candidate pool. health nurse selection to be recommended by health committee after nine applications.
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Lawrence
Armin E. Woestemeyer
Peoples State Bank
Helen Fitch
Stone
J. W. Stone
Emporia State Teachers College
Alfred Lawrence
California
John Selig
Selig
Milder heat promised with scattered thundershowers
Topeka weather report forecasts partly cloudy skies with possible thundershowers late today or tonight and a move to milder heat. Andrew D. Robb says today’s highs 100 to 105, tonight 61 to 65 in north and west counties and 70 to 75 in east and south counties. Wednesday highs 95 to 100. Last 24 hours rainless, with highs of 104 in Dresden and Manhattan. James Walker on payroll for life, New York pension set at 12 000 to 15 000 annually as transit official, directing grade crossing eliminations.
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Topeka
Andrew D. Robb
Dresden
Hanover
Manhattan
Phillipsburg
Phoenix
Ariz
Tribune
Kansas
James Walker
New York
James J. Walker
Transit Commission
Walker
Long Island
The
New York City
Chamber of Commerce Board Meets at Wiedenmanns Grill
The August Board meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held at Wiedenmanns grill room. Caryl Dodds reported for the taxation committee and Al Green led the agriculture committee. Jana Clark was announced as office secretary succeeding Louise Russell.
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Chamber of Commerce
Wiedemann
Caryl‘Dodds
al Green
Agriculture
Jana Clark
Louise Russell
Kansas Weather Forecast With Scattered Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with possible scattered thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight. Northeast portion cooler. Morning clear. Roads dirty but passable. Gas Office Record shows 7 p.m. yesterday 92, a.m. today 18, noon today 1017, maximum yesterday 98, minimum today 7.
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Kansas
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Lifest Penitentiary
Joseph Christopher Denner
Nuremberg
Riley
Strong
Plan State Exchange
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