Bond swap ties Topeka bank to forged Kansas bonds
Topeka reports reveal Ronald Finney's forged bond scheme linked to the National Bank of Topeka. Bank directors say the only transactions were commercial and that neither bank nor officers knew the bonds were forged. Authorities scrutinize a $150,000 transfer involving state funds and a federal examiner.
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Topeka
Ronald Finney
Kansas
National Bank of Topeka
Alf M. Landaw
Federal
Carl McKeen
EF. Allen
Indictments Spanning Urschel Kidnapping Network
Oklahoma City reports indictments against multiple suspects in the Urschel kidnapping, naming Harvey Bailey and others as principals and affiliates. The case involves fences in ransom money and possible ties to the Kansas City shootings, with guards and witnesses lined up for the high profile trial.
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Oklahoma ‘City
Charles F. Urschel
Harvey Vailey
Dallas
R. G. Shannon
Armon Shannon
Paradise
Tex
Albert Bates
Denver
George Kelly
United States District Attorney's
St. Paul
Twin Cities
Oklahoma City
Leslie B. Salter
Joseph B. Keenan
Herbert K. Hyde
Harvey Bailey
Hyde
Bailey
Kansas City Union Station
Frank Nash
Missouri
Kansas City
Nash
Keenan
George
Kelly
Decatur
Fed‘eral
BR. G.shaman
Gandhi released ends eighth day fast in Poona
Mahatma Gandhi ends his eight day fast after unconditional release by the government. He was weakened and moved to a hospital from Yeroda jail where he served a one year sentence for civil disobedience. The release followed illness concerns and prior reports of possible release if critical.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Yeroda
Cowihi
Vittal da Thackersey
Market Index Stays Near Eighty-Six At Close
The average of 90 stocks stood at 85.6 and yesterday it stood at 86.7. The Journal-World Market Basket Pages are presented as a practical guide for household use.
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Journal-World Market Basket
Japan Claims Islands Sought for Resources
Tokyo asserts sovereignty over nine small China Sea islets despite French objections. The note cites guano and phosphate deposits as the motive. Paris dispatches say France aims only to place lighthouses and buoys, with no naval base plan, while Javaan appeals to The Hague.
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Tokyo
Aus
Foreign Office
Japan
China Sea
France
Paris
Javan
Norfolk Coast Storm Floods Virginia Beach Area
A violent northeaster lashed Norfolk and nearby resorts on August 23, causing four deaths and damage exceeding two billion dollars. Oceanview and Virginia Beach suffered the worst, with high winds and record tides flooding streets and wrecking the Nansemond hotel’s wings. Rescue crews saved hundreds at Willoughby Beach as beaches, parks, and a seawall were ruined.
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Norfolk
Oceanview
Virginia Beach
Coast
Navy
Willoughby Beach
Portsmouth
W. Oscar Dockery
Willoughby
Oceanview Park
Nansemond Hotel
Washington
Virginia
Weather Bureau
National
Chesapeake Bay
R.H. Weightman
Finney Register Shows $20 000 Check to Boyd
Topeka Aug 23 AP a record of a 20000 check by Ronald Finney under arrest in the Kansas bond forgery investigation made payable to Tom Boyd was released at Shawnee county attorney office. The register showed disbursements from Fidelity State and Savings bank of Emporia where Finney’s father was president. Many other checks payable to Boyd ranged from 500 to 11000, with several 1000s to David Hinshaw Finney’s brother in law.
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Landon
Allen
Comptroller
Comptroller’s Department
Finney
State School Fund Commission
Fred M. Harris
W. H. Stanley
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
George A. Allen, Jr
Denver
E. F. Allen
National Bank Examiner
National Bank of Topeka
Kansas
Topeka
Ronald Finney
Tom Boyd
Lester Goodell
Shawnee
T Om. B. Boyd
Fidelity State and Savings Bank of Emporia
W. W. Finney
Kansas Weather Forecast and Conditions
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with thunder showers possible in extreme east this afternoon or tonight. Temperatures little changed. Morning outlook cloudy to partly cloudy with clearing at Manhattan. Dirt roads vary from muddy to rough except good at Pittsburg and Coffeyville. Temperatures from today show a range between the maximum and minimum.
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Kansas
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Body of Coshocton publisher found in Muskingum River
Fred S. Wallace, 48, Coshocton Tribune publisher and editor, was found bound and weighted in the Muskingum River two miles from Coshocton. Coroner Dr F W Craig withheld verdict. prosecutor Russell E Lyons investigates disappearance from three days earlier. Wallace left his office Sunday morning. his body bore head wounds and bindings, with a plow point and hammer on him.
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Coshocton
Fred S. Wallace
Muskingum River
F. W. Craig
Russell E. Lyons
Craig
Lyons
Wallace
Coshocton Tribune
Robert
Cleveland
Tribune
Sleeping Sickness Spreads Across Regions
Reports from Topeka and Miami describe encephalitis cases labeled sleeping sickness. Eric Lindquist, 21, dies in Topeka hospital of a toxic form not tied to the St Louis epidemic. In Cardin near the Oklahoma Kansas line two cases in a two-week span include a comatose one-year-old Betty Jane Dye. Federal relief to Oklahoma totals 1.6 million dollars with a new 202,818 grant.
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Topeka
Eric Lindquist
St. Louis
Miami
Okla
Cardin
Oklahoma-Kansas Line
Here
J. ©. Jacobs
Betty Jane Dye
Flood Dye
10 Slaughter Pigs for Government at Kansas City
Kansas City report says 10 000 pigs were bought for government by the Department of Agriculture to boost the market. Packers signed contracts to slaughter and process these pigs for the secretary of agriculture. Government prices ranged from 5.60 to 9.10 per hundred pounds for pigs weighing 25 to 100 pounds. Chicago noted 6 000 pigs and 200 sows arrived as the federal corn-hog plan began to cut pork supply and raise farmer prices.
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Kansas City
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Chicago
Driver Caldwell Found Guilty in Stop Sign Collision
Ralph Caldwell of 1042 Rhode Island street was found guilty of failure to stop at a highway stop sign by Justice Charles Springer. He was fined 10 dollars plus 7.30 dollars costs for a July 30 wreck that killed Mrs. Fred Lap tad and injured witness Lap tad, who recovered. Caldwell testified he slowed to about 3 miles per hour and did not see the other car until impact. He was acquitted of reckless driving.
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Ralph Caldwell
Rhode Island Street
Charles Springer
Caldwell
Lawrence
Fred Laptad
Laptad
International Wheat Advisory Board Outlined
London August 23 AP A conference committee outlined an international wheat advisory board to supervise possible limits on production and boosts in consumption. The board would have ten to twelve members from importing and exporting nations, depending on Soviet participation.
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London
International Board
Soviet Russia
United States
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Bell Company to Comply With Adopted Code
J W McCoy district manager for Southwestern Bell Telegraph confirms filing a certificate of compliance with the President's re employment code, accepted by NRA officials. Washington disclosed the code August 41 with intent to follow its letter and spirit locally. No complete impact estimates available yet.
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Bell Telephone Companies
NRA
J. W. McCoy
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Washington
National Recovery Administration
McCoy
Election on Bus Franchises Seeks City Vote
Lawrence prepares petitions to place a social election on Kansas Electric Power plan to replace remaining streetcar service with bus routes. A restraining order issue and district court motion underway. Plan includes asphalt covering rails along campus and Cemetery road with $37 200 paid by KEP for pavement and a five year maintenance bond.
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Kansas Electric Power Company
Lutie Kern
Massachusetts Street
Journal-World Today
Power Company
University
Cemetery Road
Lawrence
Topeka
Manhattan
Emporia
Hutchinson
Leavenworth
Indiana Street
Berger Drives Braves Past Cardinals For Fifth Straight Win
Wally Berger hit his 23rd and 24th home runs, driving in all Boston runs as the Braves beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 to 3, extending their streak to five. Berger moved one ahead of Cruck Klein of Philadelphia for the NL home run lead.
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Boston
Wally Berger
Braves
St. Louis Cardinals
Berger
Cruck Klein
Phillies
St. Louis
Carleton
Johnson
O'Farrell
Beets
Horan
Pittsburgh
New York
Cincinnati
Trooklyn
Chicazo
Philadelphia
Sam Jones
Red Sox
White Sox
Chicage
Kline
Rhodes
Ferrell
Jones
Rues
Chicago
Fullertor
Gooch
Durham
Berry
Detroit
Aux
Bridies
Washington
Crowder
Sewell
Bridges
Hayworth
Stewart
Bers
Marberry
Auker
Hogsett
Pasek
Cleveland
Cilnt
Charlie Ruffin
New York Yankees
Ruffing
Dickey
Brown
Spencer
Bandit uses gun in attempted station hold ups
A masked bandit attempted two hold ups at local filling stations last night. The man fired shots at a jewell and at Elmer Hartman but both fled. Police linked the two incidents, noting similar use of a blanket and suspects connection to a prior grocery robbery weeks earlier.
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Wiley Jewell
Phillips
Tenth
New Hampshire
Jewell
New Hampshire Street
Rhode Island
George Price
James Messer
Henry Smith
Oscar Peterson
Howard Moore
Elmer Hartman
Standard Oil
Thirteenth
Massachusetts
Yount Xerro
Hartman
Flory
Streams On Rampage In Kansas From Heavy Rains
Heavy rains across northern and central Kansas caused stream overflows in south central counties and near flood stages along the Blue and Smoky Hill rivers. Bridges washed out and highways flooded near Hutchinson and around Medicine Lodge, with detours arranged and traffic through stretches hampered. The Kaw and Smoky Hill rivers were forecast to rise, while cooler, frost-prone weather was expected statewide. The Community Picnic ads note Lawrence banks closing at noon Thursday.
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Salina
Kan
Bavaria
Spring Creek
Halls Lake
Ellsworth
Marquette
Hutchinson
Cow Creek
Lyons
Rushton
Missouri Pacific
Wichita
Geneseo
Arkansas River
Toneka
Kansas
Blue
Smoky Hill
Blue River
Thankful
Lindsborg
S. D. Flora
Flora
Wyoming
Montana
Kaw River
State Highway Department
Medicine Lodge
US 160
Sawyer
Garden City
Scott City
Englewood
Highway Department
Oklahoma
Picnic opens with Fourth annual event in South Park
The fourth annual Community Picnic kicks off Thursday at 9 30 AM in South Park with a baseball game under wood weather. An estimated 4000 to 6000 will attend the all day program featuring free movie showings at Patee and Dickinson theaters. Col Ruby D Garrett will speak at 1 30 PM after a nonstop flight from Kansas City with Dr J D Brock making his 173rd daily flight. Governor Landon will speak in the evening in honor of General Wilder Metcalf and an American Legion installation. A children’s costume parade proceeds from Eighth and Massachusetts at 1 PM with prizes for slipper kicking, husband calling, and peanut scrambling. Evening events begin at 7 30 PM with Legion drum corps and chorus. a welcome committee will meet Garrett and Brock and greet Governor Landon.
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South Park
Patee
Dickinson
Fatee_is
Tom’ Tyler
The
Lawrence
Brack
Garrett
NRA
Kansas City
Wilder
Metcalf
Dorsey-Liberty Post
Legion
Eighth
Massachusetts
Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
H. A. Jetmore
Y. E. Saplding
J. J. Meade
Carl ‘Yidd
George’ K. Melvin
C. &. Jerstenberger
Lyle S. Bowell
Mystery Woman to be Sought at Picnic Crowd
A mystery woman called Miss NIRA will appear at the Community Picnic in South Park tomorrow afternoon. The first woman to identify her by saying Miss NIRA will win a prize and be photographed with her. The winner and Miss NIRA will be pictured. Miss NIRA will wear an NRA headpiece and be sent to General Hugh Johnson.
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Journal-World
Nira
South Park
J. R. Holmes
Memc
W. F E. Spalding
Nina
Col
Ruby D. Garrett
Miss Nira
NRA
Lawrence
Hugh Johnson
Two men killed and captured in extortion plot near Rhinelander Wis
In Rhinelander Wisconsin a trap for extortionists ended with Robert Rogers shot dead and companion John Stokie captured when they attempted to take a package of three thousand dollars left on a highway. The plot targeted hotel owner George Soodreat of Mercer Wisconsin after an intercepted letter.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Robert Rogers
John Stokie
Ambuscada
George Soodreat
Mercer
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Kansas School Fund Commission
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Gourley
Byron Gourley
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Will J. French
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C. R. Harner
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Prudential Investment Co
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
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Raymond
Pughton
Finney Register
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Bell Company
Proctor & Gamble Company
Ah Day
Counse
Douglas County
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
City Commission
Lindberghe
Faroe Islands
Copenhagen
Charles ,A. Lindbergh
Tveraa
Iceland
Ruby .D. Garrett
Bandit
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