Landon says he will not seek 1940 Republican nomination
Former Kansas governor Alf M Landon announced in Washington he will not be a candidate for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination nor accept the nomination if offered. He stressed the move means no withdrawal from politics and aims to boost his role in party affairs.
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Washington
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Gridiron Club
Landon
White House
Roosevelt
Senator Capper
Eppreratias
Philippine Army Rescues Seven Officers After Downed Plane
Manila reports the Philippine army rescued seven officers, including an American, from a typhoon battered island four days after their airplane forced down. Moro insurgents had crushed their escape attempts.
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Manila
S.A
Plot to assassinate French minister uncovered in France
Police in Valenciennes, France, seized a coded letter detailing a plot to kill Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos. The letter was addressed to Koloman Budai, a Hungarian arrested earlier for firing on the League of Nations in Geneva in 1935, and linked to a broader terrorist network. Budai's contacts included Antwerp and an Algerian governor general target. Delbos was abroad in Bucharest on a central east Europe tour.
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France
Yvon Delbos
Koloman
Budai
League of Nations
Geneva
Delbos
Praha
Europe
Antwerp
Algeria
Lebau
Bucharest
Ford strike hits Kansas City Ford plant as police guard
United Automobile Workers called a strike at the Ford assembly plant in Kansas City with 150 police on duty. The move followed alleged discrimination in rehiring after seasonal layoffs, with about 800 workers at the plant prior to the strike slated to begin the next day. Police arrested six pickets and maintained order during the initial hours.
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Kansas City
Pi— United Automobile Workers of America
Ford Assembly
U.A.W.A
International
Ford
H. F. McElroy
Detroit
Henry Ford
Otto P. Higgins
D.e.reddish
Baron Deis
Pe Louis
Reddish
de Louis
Hugh M. Dougherty
Announce chairmen for infantile paralysis fund drive
New York Dec 16 Keith Morgan chairman of the committee for the celebration of the Presidents birthday announces appointment of county chairmen in Kansas for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Chairmen lead county campaigns and plan benefit entertainments for January 29.
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New York
Keith
Morgan
Kansas
New National Foundation
Roosevelt
W. GC. Raines
Perry
Jefferson County
R.’C. Postlethwaite
Mankato
Jewell County
Wy. €. Sinjone
Lawrence
Douglas
C. Russell
Great Bend
Barton County
Richard
AL -Hermis
Rays
Ellis
Spook Juror Sentenced in Kansas City Case
A cryptic court note from Kansas City reports a juror described as spook was sentenced after confession. The fragment mentions December 10 and a forensic or police context but provides limited details about the proceedings or outcome.
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A. “Spook
Kansas City
Spoor
Stock Market Index Data Fragment
fragmentary report shows an index value around 46.6 with unclear date and stocks listed. details unreadable.
Japanese Capture Kuanghuamen Gate At Nanking
Reports from Shanghai say Japanese Ninth Division seized Kuanghuamen gate in Nanking amid heavy hand to hand fighting. General Matsui congratulated the capture as Chinese defenses and surrounding walls breached. Panay radio silent after bombardment near the Yangtze while Americans in Nanking and aboard Panay faced uncertain fate.
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Kuanghuamen
Nanking
Japan
China
Seenar
Domei
Pews Agency
Tokyo
Iwane Matsui
Shanghai-Nanking
Tang Seng-Chi
Purple Mountain
Great Wall
Panay
C.S.T
Tang Seng-Shi
United States
Pukow
Yangtze
Wuhu
Chinkiang
Yangtze River
Duke of Windsor marks abdication anniversary in Paris
Paris notes the first anniversary of Edward VIII abdication with the Duke golfing at a Paris school while the Duchess stays at the hotel writing letters. In Britain the anniversary passes with little public attention as officials avoid mention of the former king.
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Monaré
Paris
Golf School
Duke of Windsor
London
Iatery— Ee
Edward
Fort Belve
Wallis Warfield
Henry Riggs Dies at 75 After Teaching in Lawrence Schools
Henry Clay Riggs 75 died last evening at 907 A Kansas Street. A Lawrence High School physics teacher for 30 years he retired in 1985. Born 1862 in Johnson County Indiana he moved to Kansas at six, graduated University of Kansas 1893, married Charlotte Pearson while teaching in Beloit. Survived by daughter Hazel May Riggs and brothers John D. Riggs R A Riggs and E S Riggs. Funeral Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian church with Rev. H Lee Jones. Joe Williams and Mrs Arthur R Miller to perform.
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Henry Clay Riggs
Arkansas Street
Lawrence
Johnson County
Indiana
Kansas
University of Kansas
Charlotte Pearson
Beloit
Kan
Osborn
Indianapolis
Ind
Townsend
Mont
Riggs
University of Chicago
Masons
Unitarian Church
Funk Chapel
H. Lee Jones
Joe Williams
Liberty Memorial High School
Arthur R. Miller
Hazel May Riggs
John D. Riggs
R. A
Railroad man is dead in Cherryvale Kansas
Joseph C. Bush aged 75 former foreman at Santa Fe shops in Wellington recalled by Walter Chrysler as a boss during his early Chrysler career. Bush died yesterday after an illness and a letter from Chrysler expressed hope for his recovery.
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Cherryvale
Kan
Walter Chrysler
Chrysler
Joseph C. Bush
Wellington
Bush
Long range crop controls Pass House in Roosevelt program
Washington reports the House approved long range compulsory crop controls for cotton wheat corn and rice as part of President Roosevelt's soil conservation plan. It also authorizes farmer approved sale limits for major grains in abundant years and allows Secretary Wallace to enforce them. The Senate continued work on a similar measure as the House defeated a bid to return the bill to committee by 202 to 188.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Wallace
Douglass Receives West All Star Invite For Shrine Game
University of Kansas fullback Clarence Douglass is invited to join the West squad for the East West Shrine Game in San Francisco on New Year’s Day. He accepts and will report December 20 at the St Francis hotel in San Francisco. Douglass was the Big Six scoring leader and is a noted blocker and kicker.
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Clarence Douglass
University of Kansas
Lawrence “Biff” Jones
University of Nebraska
San Francisco
Douglass
St. Francis Hotel
Lawrence
Mississippi River
Percy Lacey
San Francisco Olympic Club
Orin
Babe” Hollingberg
Washington State College
Jones
Andy Kerr
Colgate
Bernie Bierman
Minnesota
Jim Bausch
George “Speed
Atkeson
Richard Sklar
Pete Mehringer
K. U
Harold “Dutch” Hauser
Jayhawkers
Seven players chosen for East West game West squad
Lincoln Nebraska December 10 Coach Biff Jones announced seven Nebraska Oklahoma and Missouri players for the East West game in San Francisco January 1 Elmer Dohrman Fred Shirley Pete Smith Mickey Parks Herbert Hedlund Clarence Douglass Maurice Kirk plus Utah Stanford Oregon State selections Milton Popovich accepted joining Joe Gray Elmer Kolberg Karl Schleckman Louis Tsoutsouvas Grant Stone and others were invited and will be notified by Lacey Hollingberg.
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Lincoln
Neb
Biff” Jones
University of Nebraska
San Francisco
Elmer Dohrman
Fred Shirley
Nebraska
Pete Smith
Mickey Parks
Oklahoma
Herbert
Hedlund
Drake
Clarence
Douglass
Kansas
Maurice Kirk
Missouri
University of Utah
Stanford
Oregon State
Karl Schleckman
Utah
Joe Gray
Elmer Kolberg
Grant Stone
Louis Tsoutsouvas
Percy Lacey
Orin Hollingberg
West
Milton Popovich
University of Montana
Chevrolet cuts production and jobs at Detroit plants
Auto production in Chevrolet plants across Detroit and Flint is curtailed with a four day week at the Flint motor plant and reduced schedules at sheet metal and Fisher body plants. About 1600 of 4100 workers in assembly and Fisher body plants are laid off as cuts reach the lowest point since 1930.
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Detroit
Sewer Motors
Chevrolet
Chevrolet Motor
Flint
Mich
Chevrolet’ Assembly
Fisher Body
Car Hits Train Four Die Near Durand
Four people were killed when a car collided with a moving freight train near Durand Michigan during a snowfall. Sheriff officers said the car skidded into the train, causing the fatal crash.
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Durand, Mich
Here
Street Car Crash in Cleveland Injures Fifteen
A crowded street car derailed on a curve at the foot of a steep icy hill on Cleveland's east side injuring fifteen people, some seriously, as passengers were jostled and scattered.
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Cleveland
Highway Crash Kills Frank Branda Near Dorrance Kansas
Frank Branda, 20, of Dorrance Kansas was instantly killed Thursday evening when his car collided with a transport truck south of Dorrance. The accident occurred on a highwaynear the town.
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Dorrance
Kan
Frank Branda
Here
Rumor of Plot Against Roosevelt Dismissed by Perkins
Milwaukee dispatch reports Frances Perkins ridiculing a claim that the business recession was a plot by Roosevelt opponents. She warned against undermining the economy and cautioned that such talk risks eroding public confidence and financial security.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Labor
Frances‘Perkins
Pont
Inerica
Herve
Landon Honored at Washington Luncheon Downstate Guests Present
Former Kansas governor Alf M Landon was feted at a Washington luncheon in the senate restaurant. Guests included John D M Hamilton Kansas Republican chairman and five Kansas congressmen. Capper and Roy Oberts led a reception for senators. Landon declined to speak. He joked about saving six dollars by taking a different train.
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Capper
Kan
Senate
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
John D. M. Hamilton
National Republic
Roy Oberts
Kansas City Star
Congress
Landon
Union Station
Martin R. Mass
Homer Hoch
Kansas Corporation” Commission
Marco Morrow
Topeka
London
Bailey
D-N. C
Don
Jinib Z Righ
Vandenber
Michigan
Garner
Pan American Plans 100 Passenger Skyship Fleet
Pan American Airways sought bids to build giant 100 passenger high speed planes for high altitude flight. Target speed 274 mph at 20 000 feet, London via New York in 14 to 15 hours. Bids invited in groups of three six and twelve from eight U S manufacturers.
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New York
Pan- American Airways
London
New York City
Pan-American
China
South America
Roosevelt Nominates Two To Securities Commission
President Roosevelt nominated John W. Hanes of North Carolina and Jerome N. Frink of New York to the Securities Commission. Hanes will replace J. D. Ross of Seattle who resigned to become Bonneville administrator. Frank, former counsel for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, takes the place of James M.ois who resigned to become Harvard Law dean.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John W. Hanes
North Carolina
Jerome N. Frink
New York
Securities Commission
Hanes
J. D. Ross
Seattle
Bonneville Frank
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
James M.ois
Harvard Law School
Topeka High Debaters Kick Off Fourth Invitational
Public speaking students from 45 high schools gathered in Topeka for the opening rounds of the fourth annual high school invitational forensic tournament. Debating centers on a unified camel legislature.
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Topeka Topeka
Topeka
Tragedy on Scottish Rail as 22 Die in Collision
A rail disaster between Glasgow and Edinburgh left 22 dead with bodies recovered by nightfall. Rescue efforts were hampered by a storm as rescuers searched for more victims.
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Scotland
Glasgow
Burgh
Atorm
Great Britain Defaults on US Debt Installment
Washington reports Great Britain failed to meet the $994 486 367 installment due December 15 and gave formal notice of nonpayment. France and Poland also sent default notices to the United States government.
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Great Britain
Washington
United States
France
Poland
Wintry Attack Weather Says 25 Died Across Regions
The Associated Press reports a wintry assault across the nation with at least 25 deaths tied to the cold and storms. Eight died in New York state, ten in western Pennsylvania, and seven in the southern states as traffic accidents and floods threats rose. Buffalo area endured heavy snow with plows clearing blocked roads while forecasts predicted little change tonight and possible warmer weather tomorrow.
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Pacific
Florida
Rockies
Buffalo
N. Y
Pennsylvania
New York State
Asheville
N. C
Louisville
Kansas athletic board meets to approve stadium debt papers
The University of Kansas athletic board will convene at 7 30 p m in Chancellor Lindley’s office to approve final papers for refunding the stadium bond debt. Bonds totaling 143 000 were sold to two bonding companies to retire 137 000 of 5 percent bonds from two years ago, with Klooz outlining the supplemental indenture.
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University of Kansas Athletic Board
W. W. Davis
E. H. Lindley
University of Kansas Physical Education Corporation
Karl Klooz
Athletics
The
Athletic. Associasin
Klooz
K. VU
Athletic Board
Card of Regents
Gwinn Henry
Wyoming weather note: slow warming across Kansas
Federal meteorologist S. D. Flora reports a slow warming trend in frigid Kansas conditions. Snow is possible in northwest counties Saturday with cloudy skies statewide tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures range from near zero in the east to 30s–40s in the west by tomorrow with minimal precipitation due to melting snow at Goodland.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Northwest
Flora
Istate
Concordia
Emporia
Chanute
Ottawa
Goodland
Oklahoma to dynamite the crows in Elk City raid
Oklahoma plan targets 50 000 crows tonight as legislator Watts Brewer sets off 150 dynamite bombs through trees near Elk City. The claim foresees mass bird kill in a farmer aid effort amid state measures. Rival notes include New York City tax take over six hundred million dollars annually.
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Oklahoma
City
Watts Brewer
Elk
Shoplifting Pursuit Across Highway 40 Ends in Escape
Police chased a colored woman shoplifter and a colored man after Miss Hazel High alarmed the Penney store. The pair fled in a fast Packard or Nash, pursued by store manager Beougher and taxi driver Watkins, then by officers along Highway 40 to Big Berings. Beougher tried to jump the car but was blocked by a dog. only the ignition key was snagged.
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Hazel High
Highway 40
Beougher
Han
Glenn Watkins
Miss High
Floyd ‘Hunter
Harry Smith
Watkins
Massachusetts
Hunter
Smith
Seventh
Tennessee
Country Club Road
John Ingalls
Ralph Dicker
Joo
Tllingis
Oklahoma
Kan sas scholars to meet State Rhodes committee
About 12 men from Kansas colleges and the University will meet the State Rhodes Scholarship committee on December 17. Two candidates will be chosen for the district examination. Kansas entrants include Martin Maroney Lawrence Don Voorhees Leavenworth Martin tin Withers Clay Center Dean Moorhead Hugoton and George Wagner Ellinwood. State committee members are W. D. Carey Hutchinson Prof. E. Lindquist Bethany College F. B. Bristow Belview Prof. W. E. Aedelius K A and Chancellor EF Lindley. Rhodes scholarships offer advancement at Oxford University in England.
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Rhodes
E K. U
Martin Maroney
Lawrence
Don
Voorhees
Leavenworth
Martintin Withers
Clay Center
Dean
Moorhead
Hugoton
George Wagner
Ellinwood
W. D. P. Carey
Hutchinson
E. Lindquist
Bethan College
F. B. Bristow
Belviss
W. E. Aedelius
K. A
EF. H. Lindley
Oxfordniversity
England
Dr. Phillip Powers Dies Former KU Zoology Professor
Dr Phillip Powers a Kansas University zoology graduate 1929 and Pennsylvanias University of Pennsylvania professor died yesterday in Philadelphia. He taught zoology and mentored under Dr C H McClung, received a masters from Rice Institute and a doctorate from Penn. He worked summers on a Maine coast biological survey with Dr H C T.
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Phillip Powers
University of Kansas
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Powers
Bay
Maine
K.‘U. Hel
Rice Institute
Pennsylvania
C.H. McClung
K:u
Weather Summary For Kansas Regions Amid Mixed Readings
Readable notes indicate mixed conditions across Kansas with colder air in the northwest and clearer mornings elsewhere. Forecast mentions fair to cloudy intervals at Manhattan Coffeyville Salina and references to regional areas and institutions in a weather bulletin style.
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Ore
Gard
Manhattan
Otere Coffeyville
Salina
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