Nine Russians Executed Near Hailar Amid Border Tensions
Tokyo reports UPM-Japan says a group of Soviet citizens, posing as White Russians, were executed near Hailar in Manchoukuo last Friday. Twenty-eight others received prison terms. A special court at Hailar convicted 37 Russians for planning attacks and aiding Soviet operations in the Three Rivers district. The Soviet embassy in Tokyo denied any such activity.
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General Army
Hsinking
Manchoukuo
Hailar
Domei
Three Rivers District
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Moscow
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Manchuria
Hsingan
Three River
Russia
Red Army
Manchurian
China
Two Heroes In Desperate Plight At State Lake Encampment
Maurice Knott and Dudley Bond faced hunger and thirst while spending days at the state lake Tonganoxie for a 4 H club encampment. Nearby groups from Lawrence and Valley Grove visited friends, joined reunions, and discussed moves to new homes in California.
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Maurice Knott
Dudley Bond
Border Disputes Tangle Three Rivers Colony Across Regions
The Three Rivers colony, seen as White Russian and hostile to Moscow, sits near Manchoukuo, Outer Mongolia, and Siberia where border lines converge. Earlier this year Japan and the USSR agreed to survey and mark the line amid protests over troop concentrations and Japanese special forces in Manchoukuo.
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Moscow
Manchoukuo
Outer Mongolia
Russia
Siberia
Hailar
Japan
U.S.S.R
Far East
Granada Screen Feature Airs Fictional Pan American Tale
Warner Brothers script men stage a fantastical airways tribute in Ching Clipper at the Granada this week. Pat O'Brien plays a tense hero alongside Ross Alexander and Henry B. Walthall, with Beverly Roberts as his mistreated wife, while the plot dwells on imaginative airline exploits beyond recorded history.
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Warner Brothers
iPan-American Airways
Ching Clipper
Granada
Pat O'Brien
Summers at Dickinson: Yours for the Asking underwhelms
A Dickinson theater film review finds Yours for the Asking weak with a thin story despite a star cast led by George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore. Raft and Barrymore plot a casino partnership while rivals hire Ida Lupino to disrupt them, ending with a conventional comeback. Additional shorts follow the feature. Marion Kansas post office site selected for Main Street parcel.
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George Raft
Johnny Lamb
Dolores Costello Barrymore
Lamb
James Gleason
Lynne Overman
Edgar Kennedy
Raft- Barrymore Association
Tda Lupino
Henry Landes dies longtime UW geology professor and dean
Dean Henry Landes 68 and senior University of Washington faculty member died at his Seattle home. His son Kenneth Landes, a geology professor at the University of Kansas, traveled to Seattle after his father’s illness. Landes served on the UW faculty since 1895 and was acting president from 1913 to 1915. his wife Bertha Landes was Seattle mayor from 1926 to 1928.
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China
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Sweet-Toothed Bandit Strikes Two Homes in Saturday Night
A watermelon thief entered Courtney Crim's home at 746 Louisiana Street on Saturday night taking between $5 and $1 from a dresser and a quarter melon from the fridge. He ate the melon on the back porch and discarded the rind. The nearby Tom Robertson residence at 622 Vermont Street was entered the same night by cutting a screen. a wrist watch and about $2 were taken. Rogers Hornsby notes a wild pitcher gains control as he tires.
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Courtney Crim
Louisiana Street
Tom Robertson
Vermont Street
Paolino Uzcudun Survives Long Trek Back to Pamplona
Paolino Uzcudun, Basque heavyweight fighter, trudged fifty miles through woods and mountains to confirm he is alive after reports of his death. He claimed Communists sought to kill him for wearing a clean shirt and smoking fine cigars. He described being tailed by gunmen for weeks, surviving four days without food or sleep, and plans to join rebel troops to reach his mother in a town under loyalist control. He refused to fight further, saying he has endured enough fighting in or out of the ring.
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Associated Press
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Spain
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Peoples Front
San Sebastian
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Valley Chapel community notes and farm activity update
The report lists residents and neighbors from Valley Chapel Hugo Sehelthorn W Z Curtis Raymond Sanders Karl Tindell and others helping Mrs John Banks. Farmers in the area are silage filling and hauling corn to river bottom silos. Miss Elizabeth Dunn attends a Lawrence teachers institute while residents enjoy recent Colorado vacations.
Local Social News and Weekend Visits in Lawrence
Marie Beveridge returned home Sunday noon from several weeks in Greeley Colorado. Mrs Roy Puckett and Kenneth had their tonsils removed Saturday night in Lawrence to be near their doctor. Mr and Mrs Robert Wilson and Bobby and Mr and Mrs Fred Gray and children spent Tuesday evening with Mrs John Banks. Several neighborhood men and boys rode to town Sunday in an airplane for a thrill. Mr and Mrs W J Curtis and Paul attended the Santa Fe Trail picnic at Baldwin last week. Mrs A J Martin of Denver left Saturday night for home after visiting sister Mrs John Banks, called by the death of Mr Banks. Mr and Mrs Howard Longanecker and family of Oak Ridge were dinner guests of his mother.
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Hugo Sehelthorn
W. Z. Curtis
Raymond Sanders
Karl Tindell Ardson
Eliner
Tek Cust Nieder
A. G. Banks
Gray
Roy Curtis
Maurice Knott
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Roger Williams
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W. J. Curtis
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Lecompton
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M F. Thome
Fred McKinney
Elizabeth Dunn
Teachers Institute
Lawrence
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Winston
Mabel Shaw
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Greeley
Roy Puckett
Kenneth
Robert Wilson
Bobby
Fred Gray
Neal Banks
William
Paul
A. J. Martin
Denver
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Banks
Howard Longanecker
Oak Ridge
Ulrich reunion and extended family visits near Lone Star
Mrs Dunn, Elizabeth and Maurice attended events a week ago Sunday. Mr Roy Curtis and children visited Mr and Mrs Tom Cawley near Bismarck Grove. Mr and Mrs Ludney Katherman and sons from Kansas City called atllis Bonds' Sunday morning to see Marvin Bonds, then joined the Ulrich reunion at Lone Star.
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Maurice
Roy Curtis
Tom Cawley
Bismarck Grove
Ludney Katherman
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