German Warships Move Toward Spain Amid Europe Tensions
An Associated Press report describes Nazi Germany sending seven warships toward Spain as Franco’s rebels gain German and Italian backing. Britain and France seek neutrality, while Soviet Russia aligns with Madrid’s socialist government and the United States watches closely. Madrid troops push toward the capital as air force divisions reportedly revolt at Cuatro Vientos.
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Associated Press
Spain
Europe
Germany
Madrid
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Avellino
France
England
Russia
Soviet
United States
Roosevelt
State Department
Washington
Burgos
Cuatro Vientos
Paris
Kamerun
Berlin
Hitler
Pensacola City Seek Ousts Mayor Over Landon Support
In Pensacola Florida the city council prepared to oust Mayor H Clay Armstrong a Democrat who publicly backed Alf Landon for president. The move centers on his letters and telegrams supporting the Republican candidate while he stated indifference to continuing in office.
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Pensacola Council
Alf Landon
Pensacola
Fla
UPI
H. Clay Armstrong
Alf M. Landon
Armstrong
Roosevelt
Landon Starts On Eastern Campaign
Gov Alf M Landon begins a cross country tour with a stop in Ogallala Nebraska drawing about 3000 people and urging support for Robert G Simmons for the U S Senate. He then travels through Colorado to Omaha and plans routes to Illinois New York and Ohio with speeches in major cities and a farm belt emphasis.
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Ogallala
Neb
Alf M. Landon
Robert G. Simmons
Lincoln
U. S. Senate
Nebraska
Ogallala News
Kansas
Interstate rail firms win reduced livestock rates nationwide
The ICC extended six railroads to ship livestock at sharply reduced rates from Kansas Montana Nebraska the Dakotas Wyoming to feeding points in nearby states. Rates are 85 percent of regular charges for growth areas and 15 percent for returns, covering many counties across the Dakotas Nebraska Kansas Montana and Wyoming with shipments to feeding grounds in multiple states. The deadline for reshipment is extended to September 30 1937.
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Washington
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Idaho
Ilinois
Illinois River
Iowa
Kansas
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Dakotas
Wisconsin
ICC
Grouth
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Missouri- Kansas-Texas
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis-San Francisco
Allen
Anderson
Barton
Bourbon
Butler
Chase
Clark
Coffey
Decatur
Douglas
Elk
Ellis
Ellsworth
Ford
Franklin
Graham
Grant
Gray
Greeley
Greenwood
Hamilton
Haskell
Jewell
Johnson
Kearny
Lincoln
Linn
Lyon
Meade
Miami
Mitchell
Morris
Morton
Ness
Norton
Osage
Phillips
Republic
Rooks
Russell
Seward
Shawnee
Sheridan
Sherman
Smith
Stanton
Stevens
Thomas
Trego
Wabaunsee
Wallace
Woodson
Wyandotte
American Held Prisoner in Spain Report
Madrid Aug 20 reports say several members of the American embassy staff drove to Escorial to investigate claims an unnamed American has been prisoner since the civil war began. Earlier reports claimed all Americans had been evacuated from Madrid. The cruiser Quincy was in Spanish waters and had arrived off Alma to evacuate Americans.
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Madrid
Escorial
Quincy
Paris
U. S
Oklahoma
Alma
Mallorca
Balearic
To Visit Dust Bowl Farm Near Hugo Colo
Four motor carloads of farmers in this district left today for Scott City Kan to join others for a visit to Charles T Peacock’s dust bowl farm near Hugo Colo. They will study his damming lister method of farming that produced grain through drought. A demonstration is set for 10 a m tomorrow. The group expects to meet others from Liberal Kan and Hooker Okla at Scott City before proceeding to Hugo.
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Landon Landon
Colorado Rocky Mountains
la Salle
Fort Morgan
Sterling
Julesburg
Colo
North Platte
Ogada
Kearney
Lexington
Grand Island
Columbus
Central City
Schuyler
Fremont
Omaha
London Specie
Iowa
Illinois
Chicago
Ohio
Uymion
Okla
Scott City
Kan
Charles T. Peacock
Hugo
Peacock
Drouth
Liberal
Hooker
Iran Bombing Sparks Panic in Spanish City Raid
Rebels strike Tran Spain with a tri motor plane dropping 100 pound bombs in the center of Iran causing panic. No casualties reported. A roof torn out at a plaza cafe and bombs hit the Iran San Sebastian highway to disrupt communications as government forces burn forests to halt advances.
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Tran
Spain
SPIA
Iran
Iran-San Sebastian
Stone Outlines "Safety Zone" of Laws at Boston Meeting
Robert Stone, attorney to Gov. Alf Landon, warns there is a federal safety zone protecting citizens from government overreach. He cautions against eroding this zone while conferences favor interstate compacts as better means than constitutional amendments to solve mutual state issues. Stone states he speaks only for Kansas.
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Boston
National Conference On Uniform
Roosevelt
Alexander Armstrong
Baltimore
Robert Stone
Alf M. Landon
Constitu
Stone
Kansas
Farm aid studied build toys soon
Hyde Park August 20 Louis J Taber master of the national Grange said President Roosevelt proposed a conference of farm organizations after the November election to discuss crop insurance and rural credit as substitutes for drought relief methods The Grange outlined a federal state cooperative crop insurance plan with nominal fees costing over 25 million dollars annually and called for a national meeting November 12 at Columbus Ohio to discuss relief. Meanwhile Rumsey Junior Vehicle plans finished Jockey Wagon toy production at Ninth and Rhode Island streets with factory ready by September 1 and marketing by Saturday.
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Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
Roosevelt
Des Moines
Landon
Herring
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Topeka
Grange Head
Rumsey
Hyde Park
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
Taber
Grange
Wallace
White House
Fred Freestone
Columbus
Ohio
Rumsey Junior Vehicle Company
Turner Hall
Ninth and
Rhode Island
J. C. Rumsey
Tarpy Machine Works
Vermont Street
Murder confession debate marks trial in Asheville
Judge Don Phillips will rule on admissibility of Martin Moore’s signed confession as state witnesses recount a coercive interrogation claim. The defense alleges Moore was beaten and pressured before admitting the slaying of Helen Clevenger in New York City.
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Asheville
N. C
Don Phillips
Martin Moore
Helen Clevenger
Moore
J. F. Clevenger
Helen
Laurence E. Brown
Brown
Zeb V. Nettles
Mark Griffin
Staten Island
N. Y
Battery Park
Must Import Argentine Corn to Supply Demand
The Agriculture Department announced that importing corn from Argentina would be necessary to meet U.S. needs due to drought damage reducing the prospective crop. No import quantity was specified. last year Argentina shipped 27 million bushels to the United States.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
Plane Crash Kills Two At Norfolk Bay
A naval officer and a Chance-Voight official died when their aircraft crashed in Little Bay near Hampton Roads naval air station. The dead are Lieut. Commander Samuel H. Authur, commander of the experimental division at Norfolk naval air base, and Robert Witbeck of East Hartford Connecticut.
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Norfolk
Little Bay
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station
Samuel H. Authur
Norfolk Naval Air Base
Robert Witbeck
Chance-Voight Aircraft Corporation
East Hartford
Con
Cook County Jury Indicts Rufe Swain in Hotel Murder
Chicago Aug 20 1937 A Cook County grand jury voted a true bill charging Rufe Swain 27 a Black man with causing the fatal harm to Mrs Mary Louise Trammell 24 a former Knoxville Tenn stenographer in a near south side hotel room Saturday night Assistant State's Attorney Morris Meyers said Swain confessed to the crime
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Chicago
Cook County
Rufe Swain
Mary Louise Trammell
Knoxville, Tenn
Near South Side
Morris Meyers
Swain
Landon to Hear Democrat Sermon in West Middlesex
Governor Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, will hear an old fashioned Methodist sermon in West Middlesex. Reverend Henry G. Shilling, a Democrat, says political dissertations have no place in church and wishes Landon well in his campaign.
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West Middlesex
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Henry G. Shilling
Shilling
Landon
Four miners trapped as cave fire blocks rescue at Sexton mine
At Moberly Missouri Aug 20 rescue teams battled gas and heat as four men remained entombed in the Sexton coal mine near Moberly after a fire cut the vertical shaft. Arnold Griffith reported air conditions improving but warned the danger from smoldering timber and coal remained. The trapped men are Demmer Sexton A W McCann Edward Stoner Jr and George T Cameron.
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Arnold Griffith
Griffith
LPR
State Mine i
CCC
Sexton
Frank Bunch
Huntsville Fire Department
Harry Allen
Edward Stoner
Stoner
Demmer Sexton
A. W. McCann
Edward Stoner, Jr
George T., Cameron
Temperature drops from 101 to cooler than yesterday
The gas office thermometer recorded 101 degrees at 3 30 this afternoon seven degrees cooler than yesterday at the same time. It was 98 at noon and reached 100 at 1. A maximum of 102 occurred at 2 38 this afternoon. A cool wind and a few drops of rain last evening brought the mercury into the 70s briefly.
Oklahoma Editors Asked to Help on Prohibition Poll
Governor Marland asked Oklahoma City editors to conduct a statewide straw poll among readers to decide whether to call a special election on repeal of prohibition. Results due by September 10, with the issue to appear at the November 3 general election if no special vote is held.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
E. W. Marland
Marland
George Henshaw
Hamilton Returns From Western Campaign Tour Confident Report
Chicago Aug. 20 Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican national committee resumed command at national headquarters on return from a 6446 mile western tour. He said the new deal was on the wane in the region and noted he delivered 50 formal speeches in 16 states. Hamilton asserted votes of the American people are not for sale and that support for Landon Knox west of the Mississippi would surprise Farley. He claimed defeatism has vanished from the Republican ranks and the party for Americanism is forging ahead.
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Chicago
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
West
Hamilton
Landon
Col. Knox
Mississippi
Farley
Republican Party
Vinland Fair Set for September 24 to 26
The twenty ninth annual Vinland Grange Fair will be held at the fair grounds adjoining the high school in Vinland September 24 25 and 26. A complete three day program includes ball games races and contests with a large premium list for livestock poultry farm crops and household projects. Judging will be by experts from Kansas State College Manhattan. Livestock must be on exhibit by 11 o clock Saturday September 25. Officers include Ross Stone vice president T P Stevens secretary and H N Hoskinson treasurer with H W Miskimen on the fair committee. Superintendents cover horses cattle swine and sheep poultry farm products fruit home exhibits amusements and grounds.
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Vinland
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Ae Stevens
The
Fair Association
Ross Stone
T. P. Stevens
H. N. Hoskinson
H. W. Miskimen
Jesse W. Deay
F. O. Eckman
Carl Heinrich
B. A. Stevens
George E. Kelley
Heat Wave Persists In Kansas With Scattered Showers
Topeka Aug 20 only slight relief from record heat as scattered overnight showers cooled towns like Topeka to 78 degrees the lowest since Aug 11 while Salina Hanover and Lawrence hit 110 degrees the national high forecasters cited. Rain totals included 1.28 inches at Manhattan and 1.15 at McFarland with other reports ranging down to traces at several towns.
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Kan
Kansas
A. D. Robb
Salina
Hanover
Lawrence
McFarland
Junction Citiv
Wamega
Horton
Manhattan
Concordia
Hays
McPherson
Hutchinson
Wichita
Razzberry for Tugwell on Kansas ranch visit
Rexford Tugwell, resettlement administrator, on a broouth inspection trip near State Lake Kansas, faced a white cockerel that pecked at his shoe and attempted to crow. Tugwell called the display a razzberry, noting the bird’s discordant crowing.
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McCook
Neb
Rexford Tugwell
Floyd Cook Ranch
State Lake
Kansas
Tugwell
Dexter farmer killed by dynamite blast at well site
In Winfield Kansas on August 20, Charles Sanburn sixty of Dexter died in a hospital after a dynamite charge used to dig a well exploded. He was injured about the head and died a few hours after arrival. Survived by widow and two sons.
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Winfield
Kan
Charles Sanburn
Dexter Farmer
Sanborn
Song
Stock Market Index Dips to 67.4 After Yesterday High
The average of 60 stocks stood at 67.4, down from yesterday's 67.7. The report notes a new Ford V-8 from Janalton's-Adv with promotional emphasis.
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Janalton
County Teachers Elect Officers at Institute
Mrs Clarine Beyer was elected president of the Douglas County Teachers Association with Harold Summers as vice president Faye Brown named secretary and Ann Williams treasurer. Reading awards won by Alita York and Gwendolyn Clark. Old Belvoir and Eudora schools recognized. Dinner and dance tonight at Eldridge hotel with Clyde Bysom orchestra. over 60 of 85 teachers expected to attend.
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Clarine Beyer
India School
Douglas County Teacher's Association
County Teacher’s Institute
Harold Summers
Glenn School
Faye Brown
Bellvoir
Ann Williams
Midland
Alita York
Blue Mound
Gwendolyn Clark
Twin Mound
Belvoir
Eudora
Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge Hotel
Teacher’s Institute
Crystal Room
Clyde Bysom
Institute
WPA Labor Supervisor Is Elected County Chairman
Coffeyville Aug 20 James A Brady Cherryvale district WPA labor supervisor was reelected chairman of Montgomery County WPA at last night session. Evan Griffith state WPA director said no one could hold admin or supervisory WPA role and county chair. Brady to confer with Ben Hudson and Griffith on status. C R Hibbens Independence chosen county secretary O A Crane Dearing treasurer Reno Smith chairman Coffeyville Donald Graham Independence and Dr Fred Gasser Cherryvale. Brady won 32 of 47 votes, Lindley nominated, vote made unanimous.
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Coffeyville
James A. Brady
Cherryvale
WPA
Montgomery
F. B. Banowetz
Lindley
Brady
Cunningham Sets New 800 Meter World Record
Stockholm August 20 Glenn Cunningham, runner up to Jack Love in the Olympic 1500 meters, lowered the world best for 800 meters to 1 49.7 at the international track meet. The prior 800 meter record of 1 49 was shared by Tom Hampson and Ben Eastman.
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Stockholm
Glenn Cunningham
Jack Lovelock
Tom Hampson
England
Ben Eastman
United States
Boy Drowns in Pool at Dodge City
Richard Gall seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Howard Gall was found dead in the municipal pool in Dodge City after being missing for hours. He drowned in about two feet of water in the shallow end. The cause was not learned.
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Dodge City
Richard Gall
Howard Gall
Weather Summary for Kansas Regions
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Morning map shows clear conditions except for cloudiness at Coffeyville Manhattan and Pittsburg. Douglas County roads are generally good. Gazette office records note temperatures with yesterday's high around 108 and today’s low near 19 with today’s noon reading around 9B.
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Kansas
Coffeyville
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Douglas County
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