Japanese drive toward Canton and Hongkong amid Nanking victory
Shanghai reports warn of further Japanese offensives toward southern China as Tokyo vows to press to a decisive end of the expedition. Panay survivors reach Shanghai aboard the Oahu with casualties and flags at half mast. naval inquiry discusses machine gun fire claims.
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Naval Court of Inquiry
United States
Oahu
Pootung
Charles J. Whiting
Panay
Augusta
Manila
Ensminger
Shanghai
Navy
Yangtze
Kiukiang
Nanking
Hankow
Anking
Anwei
Japancreases forces near Canton seen as strategic move
Hong Kong dispatches report Japan is sending large army units to South China toward Canton. Analysts fear a major offensive could isolate Hong Kong and heighten Anglo Japanese tensions, but authorities doubt Tokyo will risk conflict near Hong Kong to pressure other powers into acceptance of its China position.
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Hong Kong
Japan
South China
Canton
Tthe
China
Great Britain
Urged to Feed Quail by Scattered Farm Feed
A rural appeal urges sportsmen to scatter feed for coveys of quail on farms. With snow covering ground quail struggle to find food and drought cut weed seed crops last summer, worsening conditions for feathered friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Drouth
Psych exam sought for Weidemann before murder trial
Paris officials reported that Eugene Weidmann 29 the German ex convict who confessed slaying Brooklyn dancer Jean de Koven and four or five others asked that he be examined by a psychiatrist before trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weidemann
Paris
Eugene Weidmann
Jean de Koven
Brooklyn
ElDorado Physician Dies After Illness
ElDorado physician Dr. R. A. L. M. McCurdy, born 1939, died yesterday at a Philadelphia hospital after several months of illness. Survivors include his widow and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ElDorado
ElDora
Re AL M McCurdy
Vna
Philadelphia Hospital
Wounded From Panay Carried Ashore Under Fire
Survivors recount Japanese planes machine gunning small boats carrying wounded from the gunboat Panay. They confirm earlier denials and say survivors were harassed as they tried to reach shore after the attack on the Yangtze river. Readers detail firings by detachments in launches and along the river bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
United States
Panay
Oahu
Yangtze
Desperate Alcatraz escape calls off San Francisco search
Heavy shore patrols and federal and police boats scoured San Francisco bay for Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole after they escaped Alcatraz Island in dense fog. Officials doubted they survived the mile swim or a jump from the cliffs, with authorities noting the odds were against their survival and that they likely drowned. Roe, 29, bank robber from Duncan Oklahoma, and Cole, 25, kidnapper from Stoud Oklahoma, were serving long terms.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz Island
Federal Penitentiary
Ralph Roe
Duncan
Okla
Theodore Cole
Stoud
Jamies A.johnston
Johnston
Golden Gate
Angel Island
Max Reznik
Farallons
Farrallon Islands
Coast Guard
Jess Dunn
Oklahoma
McAlester Penitentiary
Cole
Alcatraz
Roe
Wealthy share voluntary plan eyed by Cromwell
James Cromwell, heir to a vast fortune, advocates voluntary wealth sharing. He proposes owners relinquish about one third to endow colleges, orphanages, and hospitals rather than fund government. He dismisses income tax and supports a simple tax on manufactured goods as a solution to tax and welfare issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ton Angeles
UPI
James Cromwell
Doris Duke
Rockefellers
Bronx
Chimney Fire Blazes at Mrs Minnie Dietrich Home
A chimney fire at 845 Missouri Street prompted a call to the fire department shortly after 2 PM. Damage was slight. No injuries reported. Mrs Minnie Dietrich was the resident at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Dietrich
Missouri Street
Ford strike clashes at Kansas City plant amid tear gas
Police overwhelmed by their own tear gas as bricks bottles and gunfire flare near Ford assembly plant. Officers report gas burns and a patrolman blinded by wind blown gas while more than 14 women pickets are arrested. Unionists say more than 300 arrests since Friday amid factory sit down support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Ford
Fords
United Automobile Workers of America
Hugh Dougherty
Dougherty
D. E Reddish
H. L. Leipard
American to Build Car to Smash World Record
Salt Lake City December 17 Jenkins holder of most major distance auto speed records today announced plans for a mechanical monster to smash the 311 mph world landmark. His new racer costing about 75000 will be built as radical as Thunderbolt the machine that Capt. George Eyston used to set the 311 mph measured mile on the Bonneville salt flats. Jenkins said Englishmen have held the record too long and an American must take a swing at it. English drivers dominated the Measured mile record including Major H C D Seagrave Sir Malcolm Campbell and Eyston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Pi—Ab Jenkins
Jenkins
George E. T. Eyston
Bonneville Salt Flats
Here
H. C. D. Seagrave
Malcolm Campbell
Eyston
Roosevelt rejects war referendum as inconsistent with gov
President Roosevelt told reporters a public vote on going to war is not compatible with a representative form of government. The Ludlow war referendum petition had 218 House signatures, forcing a vote, and the President declined to comment on the Panay bombing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
United States
Ludlow
D-Ind
House
Panay
State Department
Open Alliance Proposed by Dr Everett D Martin in Beverly Hills
Dr Everett Dean Martin, author and former educator, urged an openly declared defensive alliance of English speaking peoples as the best theoretical guarantee of world peace. He spoke at the Institute of World Affairs in Beverly Hills, arguing that collective security is the only logical path to world peace, via liberal federation or world unity by conquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Everett Dean Martin
Institute of World Affairs
Claremont Colleges
Christmas Gift Subscriptions Offer Daily Reading
A yearly mail subscription to the Journal-World is promoted as a gift to be remembered every day. The offer notes pricing within 150 miles at 2.50 and beyond at 3.00 with a contact phone number 22 for Adv.
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The
Journal- World
Hoover offers private enterprise as alternative to planned economy
Former President Hoover urged a private enterprise based system to replace the New Deal planned economy. He warned against centralization, constitutional conflicts, rising deficits and taxes, and argued for cost reduction, full use of inventions, regulated business, broader cooperation, and eradicating poverty and fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hoover
Economic Club
Congress
Muictary
New England Society Dinner Draws Kansas Mayflower Members
Allen will speak at the annual meeting and dinner of the Sons and Daughters of New England at the Eldridge House on Forefathers Day December 21. Henry Allen will deliver the principal address. Prof Frederick N Raymond and Rev Joseph F King hold key roles. memberships open with low dues for both societies and Mayflower aid for prospects.
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Sons and Daughters of New England
Eldridge House
Crystal Room
Kansas Society of Mayflower Descendants
New England Society
Aving
E. M. Hopkins
Henry Allen
Mayflower Society
Frederick N. Raymond
Joseph F.king
Charles S. Skilton
D. H. Spencer
Jennie Garrett Jones
Marie Witwer
Topeka
F. N. Raymond
New England
New
Kansas
Fires in Kansas November heating plant causes lead to third of total
A state report shows 300 Kansas fires in November with heating plants responsible for about one third. Among 101 heating plant fires 42 from defective chimneys and flues 31 from hot coals and open fires and 28 from stoves and furnaces. Total damage reached 254 045 dollars, up from 227 353 fires the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
State Department
Sands
Be wise Winterize at The Motor In Ady
Local advisory urges motorists to winterize vehicles at The Motor In in Ady. Officials emphasize preparing engines, tires, and antifreeze ahead of cold weather to prevent breakdowns and ensure safe travel.
Earth Swallows 600 Acre Lake Near Cave In Rock Ill
A 600 acre lake between Elizabethtown and Cave In Rock vanished overnight leaving only fish scooped up in cars. Officials cite drainage into an underground channel feeding the Ohio river a mile away. The lake last sank in autumn 1933 and refilled after floods in January.
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Elizabethtown
Cave In Rock
Ohio’ River
Christmas Basket Drive Aids Needy Families in Lawrence
Lawrence residents step up to fund Christmas baskets and clothing for the city and county poor. Mrs Mildred Watson welfare director at the courthouse coordinates gifts from individuals and groups. Two sample cases include an elderly foreclosed couple and a veteran father with three children needing warm clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Mildred Watson
Court House
Veterans’ Hospital
30000 Fish Shipment Joins Douglas County Lake Plan
A 30 000 fish consignment for the Douglas County Sportsmen's club arrived this afternoon. The load includes 10000 channel cat 6 12 inches 10000 crappie 1 1 2 5 inches 7000 yellow perch 1 1 4 5 inches and 3000 black bass 5 10 inches. Leo Brown biologist at the Pratt state hatchery supervised. The delivery used a Midian Kan truck a 450 gallon portable pond on wheels with circulating water pumps and two motors. A slogan on the truck reads Build a Pond Plant a Tree Grow a Tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County Sportsmen’s Club
State Fish and Game Department
Midand
Leo Brown
Pratt
Charley Thuma
Midian
Kan
County Officials Elect J F Brass as President
Marysville Kansas December 17 The Northeast Kansas County Officials association elected J F Brass of Lawrence president for the ensuing year with Ralph McGinnis of Holton as secretary. Officials heard talks by Rep A P Hartman of Frankfort A B Martin of Lawrence Sen Thale P Stovgard of Greenleaf and Rep Raymond E Smith of Marysville. Smith said the county unit real jyst destroyed township but improved high
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Kan
Northeast
Kansas County Officials Association
J. F. Brass
Lawrence
Ralph McGinnis
Holton
A. P. Hartman
Frankfort
A.B. Martin
Thale P. Stovgard
Greenleaf
Raymond E. Smith
Smith
Train coaches overturn injuring twenty in Detroit to Bay City trip
Twenty people were injured when three Pere Marquette passenger coaches bound from Detroit to Bay City toppled from a five foot embankment. The cars overturned tossing general college students and other passengers carrying them home for Christmas holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Pere Marquette
Bay City
Mich
T'Of
General College
KU Safe Robbery At Union Building And Related Thefts
A Kansas University cafeteria safe in the Union was robbed of about $120 with unknown entry method. Doors were found unlocked, cash slips missing, and receipts from the Union fountain absent. Separately, the Craik home on New Hampshire Street was ransacked with a wristwatch and cash stolen. Police continue pawnshop searches in Kansas City to recover clothing and items tied to robberies by Redfern and Mills, planning to bring property for victims to identify and seek restitution through pawnbroker claims or replevin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
K. U
Union Building
Hermina Zipple
E. L. Craik
New Hampshire Street
Jude Anderson
Fred Vogler
Kansas City
Ray Redfern
Fred Mills
Lawrence
Anderson
Vogler
Mills
Redfern
John Ingalls
Howard Moore
Ralph Hubbell
Mills and Redfern
Jis
Manhattan
Two Kansas Scholars Named for Rhodes Examinations
Dean Moorhead of KU and Jack Campbell of Washburn were selected to represent Kansas in the district Rhodes scholarship examination in Des Moines Iowa on December 20. Chancellor E H Lindley announced the decision after interviewing 18 candidates Moorhead a political science major and Phi Beta Kappa member is also active in Sachem and student council forums Campbell a political science major at Washburn is noted for his scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Moorhead
University of Kansas
Hugoton
Jack Campbell
Hutchinson
Washburn College
Kansas
Des Moines
E. H. Lindley
Rhodes Committee
Moorhead
Summerfield
Phi Beta Kappa
Sachem
Aides Named for Gov Huxman In Kansas
Governor Wal ter A. Huxman within Kansas named eight or nine aides. The announcement lists C. M. Fitzwillian of Wichita Lynn R. Brodrick of Marysville and Leo W. Mills of Medicine Lodge among the new aides with others previously appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huxman
Topeka
C.M. Fitzwillian
Wichita
Lynn R. Brodrick
Marysville
Leo W. Mills
Medicine Lodge
Walter A. Huxman
Retail Trade Jumps Across Nation in Christmas Push
Retailers in New York and nationwide report a strong Christmas buying week with shop traffic up 4 to 10 percent from the prior week and 8 to 12 percent higher than a year ago. Dun and Bradstreet notes solid gains across merchandise sectors as stores fill shelves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dun &Bradstreet
Stock Index Dips to 45.2 as Market Closes
The index average of 60 stocks falls to 45.2 from 45.5 yesterday. Green Bros. advertises washer repair services in local notices.
House Stands Pat on Single Wage-Hour Administrator
The House rejected Ramspeck's proposal to keep a five member independent board and passed to a final vote on the wage hour bill. A 134 to 77 vote kept a single labor department administrator in charge despite fears of autocratic power. An agricultural exemption measure and a tax sub-committee result were noted during the day’s debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Washington
House
Labor Department
Ramspeck
D-Ga
Lucas
D-Ih
Tax payments surge as Dec 20 deadline nears for 1937
County treasurer sees growing lines at the office for 1937 taxes with delinquency looming after December 20. A 1 percent discount attracts 30 percent of payers. second-half taxes are due by June 20 without penalty. November and December back taxes total $8,136.92. City of Lawrence tax receipts to Dec 14 total $148,773.12, with distributions of $53,379.16 to the city and $62,824.01 to school district No. 60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Countess Reventlow Renounces U S Citizenship
New York reports the Countess Haugwitz Reventlow heiress to Woolworths millions renounces American citizenship to avoid U S taxation. Tax experts say she may not owe U S income tax unless she lives in Denmark three months yearly or moves her fortune there. The case involves dual citizenship and implications for her child Lance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Haughwitz von Reventlow
Woolworth
Orris Greenbaum
Labor Audit Bureau
Treasury
United States
Denmark
Barbara Hutton
Lance
London
Copenhagen
Haugwitz-Reventlow
Hutchinson student James Rexroad breaks wrist in fall
A K U law student James Rexroad from Hutchinson sustained a broken right wrist this morning after falling on ice. He was treated at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rexroad
Hutchinson
Watkins Memorial
Hos- di
Christmas mailing ramps up at Lawrence postoffice
Postmaster Roger Williams announced extended hours with two windows open during the day and one window until 9 pm starting tomorrow. Extra help will handle mail and deliveries to clear incoming letters and packages. Special delivery will ensure Christmas mail reaches destinations on or before the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Postoffice
Roger Williams
Postoffice
Williams
Lawrence
Moderate cold outlasts two days in Kansas and beyond
Federal meteorologist S D Flora said above freezing warmth will linger for about 36 hours with highs expected around 40 to 45 degrees and nights dropping to 25 to 30. Montana temps rose to 46 while Kansas posted 35 to 45. No moisture or zero readings on the map. melted ice will require several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
S. D. Flora
Montana
Kansas
Havre
Goodland
Flora
United States
Canada
Flood Strikes Rome as Tiber Rises to Record Heights
Six people drowned in Rome as thousands of workers and troops battled to halt flood waters from the Tiber. The river reached 55 feet 7 inches at noon, the highest rise in 67 years, while King Vittorio Emanuele the queen and Premier Mussoni toured inundated areas and troops aided evacuations. Authorities feared the historic Sublicio bridge could be swept away.
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Rome
Tiber
Vittorio Emanuele
Benito Mussolini
Sublicio Bridge
Horatius
B.C
Weather outlook with fog and frost across Kansas towns
Generally fair weather with no major temperature change. Morning fog in Pittsburgh and cloud cover in Topeka Coffeyville Manhattan Ottawa Salina Arkansas City Wichita Emporia. Dirt roads vary from rough in Coffeyville Manhattan and Emporia to frozen or slippery in Ottawa, with soft surfaces in Arkansas City Wichita and Salina.
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Pittsburg
Topeka
Coffeye
Manhattan
Ottawa
Salina
Arkansas City
Wichita
Emporia
Coffeyville
Eitebure
Atalina
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Kiyoshi Hasegawa
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Charles L. Ensminger
C. H. Carlson
Standard Oil
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Sandro Sandri
Oil Company
Cent Service
Hamilton
Adv
Allen
Mayflower Descendants
Ilinois
J. F.brass
Craik
Green Bros
Senate
Ee Cee
Tiber River
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