Court of Inquiry Gets Panay Story
Shanghai dispatch reports a U S naval court of inquiry probing the Panay attack on American shipping in the Yangtze. Officials say a Japanese officer questioned aboard the Augusta sought Panay survivors details, while Tokyo denied machine gunning the sinking.
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Court OF Inquiry
Shanghai
United States Naval Court of
Yangtze River
Naval Court
Augusta
Harry E. Yarnell
Manila
Panay
United States
Standard Oil Company
Tokyo
Split on policy as Hirohito hears Panay sinking report
Emperor Hirohito received a detailed account of the Panay sinking from Prime Minister Konoye after an extraordinary cabinet session. The session followed Roosevelt memorandum mention and hinted at possible further concessions amid a dispute between Japan’s military and civilian government.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
United States
Fumimaro Konoye
Roosevelt
Panay
Konoye
Japan
Teizo Mitsunami
Shanghai
Koki Hirota
Hirota
Joseph C. Grew
Yangtze River
Santa Claus Gets Four Year Postmaster Term
Oscar Lepulipa, who plays Santa Claus in Santa Claus Indiana, was named postmaster for another four years by Postmaster General Farley. The town handles mail year round with December mail to children often routed from parents.
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Washington
Oscar Lepulipa
Nick
Santa Claus
Ind
Farley
Phillips
Roosevelt Pleased With Calm Nation After Panay Attack
White House aides say President Roosevelt is greatly pleased by the calm reaction of the country and the press to the Panay bombing. He credits steady public sentiment with preventing a rash international crisis and keeping thoughtful discourse. Stephen T. Early noted the mood avoided precipitating a dangerous issue in foreign relations.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Panay
Bing
Stephen T. Early
Nurses Move Into New Home at Watkins Memorial
Nurses at Watkins Memorial hospital begin moving into a new nurses’ home near the hospital, completed except for a concrete sidewalk. The gray brick building cost about 35000 dollars, begun May 21, 1937 under contractor J J Simmonds. The project expands hospital capacity by about a dozen beds and supports earlier plans for a 75000 dollar addition to Lawrence Memorial hospital.
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Watkins Memorial Hospital
K. U
J. J. Simmonds
Watkins
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Conflicting Reports Of Teruel Battle Outcomes
Reports from Teruel an insurgent strong point on the Aragon front claim government forces have surrounded the city and captured many positions. Government communiques insist Teruel remains contested with lines opening and closing as troops clash in the frontline battle between insurgents and government forces.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Aragon Front
Progresive Miners Union Members Convicted in Illinois Bomb Plot
Thirty six defendants linked to the Progressive Miners Union were found guilty by a federal court jury in Springfield Illinois of conspiring to bomb trains in the Illinois coal field.
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Springfield
Ill
Progressive Miners’ of America Union
Illinois
Guilty Plea in Spook Jury Case in Kansas City
George Andrea known as Frenchy pleaded guilty to eight charges of soliciting jury service. Accused vendor of spurious jury summonses, the case before Judge Ben Terte. Sentencing deferred to Monday.
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Kansas
City
George
Frenchy
Andrea
Ben Terte
Monay
Wage Hour Bill Shelved by House in Major Setback
The House sent the wage hour bill back to the labor committee in a 216 to 198 vote amid a tense session. Senate approval of the farm measure followed, while White House offered no comment on the defeat.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Labor Committee
Rayburn
D-Tex
Senate
White House
Bankhead
Congress
McAdoo
D-Cal
Altho
Norton
D-N.j
O’mahoney
D-Wyo
Borah
R-Ida
Rampspeck
Dgal
United States
Landrey
American Federation of Labor
Illiam Green
Federation
Convict Floyd Ramey Suffocated in Coal Car
Coroner in Topeka ruled no inquest will be held into the death of Floyd Ramey 21 a convict who disappeared from Lansing state penitentiary and was found dead in a coal car at the state hospital coal car likely suffocated him Warden Kirk Prather said Ramey was serving 1 to 5 years for burglary from Shawnee county and had been missing since Wednesday
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Topeka
Floyd Ramey
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
H. L. Clark
Clark
Ramey
State Hospital
State Penitentiary
Kirk Prather
Shawnee County
Strange boat seen near Alcatraz in escape hunt
G men hunt two Oklahoma fugitives, Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole, after they reportedly escaped Alcatraz. A 30 foot launch and a second rowboat were sighted near an abandoned Richmond wharf, prompting investigators to probe whether the vessels conceal the escapees or a fishing operation. Authorities caution no firm sighting of the missing men has been confirmed.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz
Bleak Island
Richmond
Ralph Roe
Theodore Cole
Pieper
Christmas Vacation Schedule At Haskell Institute
Students at Haskell Institute and Lawrence schools begin Christmas break with classes ending December 24. About 200 Haskell students plan to stay home, while others attend after noon activities. The Liberty Memorial basketball team continues practice through December 30 with games vs Rosdale and Leavenworth.
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University of Kansas
Haskell Institute
Haskell
Russell M. Kelley
Lawrence
Liberty Memorial High School
Rosedale High
Leavenworth High
Leavenworth
Neal M. Wherry
California
Wherrys
Pasadena
Stores to Stay Open Late Next Week in Lawrence
Lawrence retailers plan evening hours all week to accommodate Christmas shopping after normal hours. Charlie Radcliffe, chairman of the Orchants Bureau, announced that dry goods clothing and shoe stores will stay open and many other stores in other lines will also extend hours after dinner.
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Lawrence
Charlie Radcliffe
Orchants Bureau
Radcliffe
Veteran dies after 40 mile trek to seek aid for family
Ernest Johnson, 46, a four war veteran, hiked 40 miles from his Lake Wenatchee area ranch to beg for help for his starving wife and four children. He died soon after arriving, leaving the impoverished family with only potato soup and one potato left before he reached relief. Sheriff said Johnson brought the family to safety and provided food.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Ernest Johnson
Johnson
Lake Wenatchee
Tom Cannon
Johnsons
Farr Sails for U S to Fight Braddock in New York
London December 18 Tommy Farr British empire heavyweight champion sailed for the United States aboard the Normandie today. He is matched to fight James J Braddock former world’s champion in New York January 2.
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Farr
London
Tommy Farr
United States
James J. Braddock
World’s Legion
New York
Stock Market Index Advances to 45.8
The index of 60 stocks rose to 45.8 reversing yesterday's 45.2 gain. Investors advised to consider defensive positioning and weathered seasonal volatility amid market chatter. The snippet also mentions a local storefront phrase The Motor In as a possible advertising tag.
Acreage Abandoned from Drouth Heavy in Nine States for Fifth Year
The agriculture department reports 24.4 million acres abandoned due to drouth in 1937, marking a fifth straight year of western plains losses. About 75 percent of losses occurred in Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. Outside the drouth area yields exceeded the 10 year average by about 16 percent.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Western Plains
Montana
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Plains
Drouth
Carolers to serenade downtown in Christmas procession
A large group of 110 high school soloists and choir members will tour the business district next Wednesday night. They begin at 8 at Seventh and Massachusetts, travel to Eighth and south along Massachusetts to Eleventh, with a brass quartet. Joe Williams directs.
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Seventh
Massachusetts Street
Eighth Street
Massachusetts
Eleventh
Joe Williams
Chamber of Commerce
Bouldling
Ministerial Alliance
Needy Lawrence Families Seek Christmas Help From Public
Mrs. Mildred Watson’s relief office reports several hundred needy Lawrence families in need of Christmas food clothing or money for baskets. Many donors contact the courthouse unit to avoid duplication while two typical cases illustrate the strain as a single unemployed woman and a family of six struggle to provide holiday basics.
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Mildred Watson
Lawrence
Court House
Firefighters Carry 50 Patients From Galloway Hospital
Firemen evacuated more than 50 patients including four babies from the 40 room Galloway hospital in Anthony Kansas as a fire partially destroyed the building. Dr H L Galloway said no one was harmed and cited a potential short circuit in a basement buzzer as the cause.
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Anthony
Kan
Galloway Hospital
H. L. Galloway
Eight Year Old Killed by Ice Laden Coping in Detroit
Eight year old David Mayott was killed when a chunk of ice laden stone coping fell on him as he pressed his face to a store window to look at a candy Santa Claus. The incident occurred as shoppers prepared for Christmas in Detroit.
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Coping
Detroit
David Mayott
Mussolini's Daughter Gives Birth to Son Marzio
Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, daughter of the Italian premier, today welcomed her third son named Marzio. The Ciano children include Fabrizio aged 6 and Raimondo.
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Mussolini
Rome
Edda Mussolini Ciano
Marzio
Cianos
Fabrizio
Raimondo
Christmas shopping explodes in Lawrence stores
Curtailed by icy streets, Christmas shopping bursts in Lawrence as Santa greets children in streets and stores. Merchants report brisk sales across items, with Christmas cards and packages filling post office windows. Post office opens late for stamps as demand continues.
Upholds Injunction On Football Tax Collection
The U S circuit court of appeals in New Orleans today upheld an injunction blocking federal taxes on intercollegiate football tickets at state supported institutions. Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service said they would seek Supreme Court review. Kansas schools have paid tax. University of Kansas pays about 5000 dollars yearly. The tax is one cent per ten cents of admission on events costing 41 cents or more.
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New Orleans
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Kansas
University of Kansas Physical Education Corporation
Mystery of Stewed Birds Solved by Federal Men
Federal agents solve the stewed pigeons case in Lyndhurst New Jersey. They watched as five birds staggered near a garage core before raiding a 700 gallon still with an 18 foot chimney stack camouflaged around the chimney. The fumes stop now and the pigeons are expected to quit drinking.
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Lyndhurst
N. J
Truce Reached at K C Ford Plant After Week of Disorder
Kansas City December 18 news recounts a truce at the Ford assembly plant after days of clashes. Five hurt by gunfire beatings and gas exposure. police to patrol only during shutdown. Fifteen U A W A and other CIO members plus four non union Ford workers detained. 104 strikers released.
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Kansas City
Ford
U.A.W. A
C.I.0
United Automobile Workers Union
First Methodist Church to Remodel With $20 000 Budget
Remodeling of the First Methodist church building will begin around January 1 and finish about March 1. A donor will gift a new organ to be installed near Easter. The project will be funded by personal subscriptions and a ten year member drive, not affecting the church budget. Committees include Building Ways and Means Memorials with contractor J. Constant.
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First Methodist
Robert Hunt
Y. ‘. Bruner
Henry Brinkman
Howard Sutherland
Ways and Means
Frank S. Hosford
A. E. Woestemeyer
E. S. Weatherby
E. F. Engel
H. B. Peairs
Charles Arnold
C.S. Pollom
M. R. Gill
R. R. McFarland
R. S. Fox
Dr. H. L. Chambers
J. R. Edmonds
George Lowman
E. 5. Weatherby
J.T. Constant
Unsettled Sunday Weather Forecast for Kansas
Topeka reports unsettled weather spreading tonight and Sunday across Kansas with possible snow in the northeast. Federal meteorologist S. D. Flora forecasts cooler temperatures tomorrow due to a cold air mass sweeping the state from the northwest. Sunshine chances fade as clouds cover western counties, with lows around 25 to 30 and eastern highs near 40.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
St. Louis
Montana
North Dakota
Terrific crash kills six California National Guardsmen
Six Stockton area National Guardsmen died in a brutal crash 12 miles east of Lodi after leaving a Stockton Christmas party. The victims were John D. Plump 27 David A Connard 21 Joseph N Green 20 Raymond Meadow 21 Anton Dee Bray 29 and Gail Borden Lewallen 22 of Isleton. The car split in two on impact with one section wrapping around a tree and five bodies found there. State Patrol noted the men appeared to be on a pleasure ride.
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Lodi
Galif
National
Loot Recovered in Kansas City Pawn Searches
Police recovered clothing and other items valued at over $600 believed stolen from students at the University of Kansas and Kansas State College. The haul included 16 suits 10 overcoats or topcoats a watch a ring and an electric razor. Officers from Lawrence Douglas County Manhattan and Kansas City aided in the operation and prompt victim identifications are expected as property is assembled for review.
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University of Kansas
Kansas State College
Kansas City
Lawrence
Manhattan
Bayern
Fred Mills
Jude Anderson
Fred Vogler
Douglas County
John Ingalls
Howard Moore
Ralph Hubbell
Art’ Scheleen
Redfern Sand
Mills
Redfern
Vogler
Hubbell
Moore
Anderson
Partition Suit Seeks Land Quiet Title In 63 Acres
Five daughters of Samuel Michael filed a district court partition suit against administrator Elmer Thomas Michael over 63 acres in southwest county. Elmer Michael cross-complains claiming an oral contract to receive the land if he cared for the parents after moving from California in 1931. Judge Hugh Means heard the case yesterday and today and took it under advisement. The parents Samuel and Mrs Michael died in 1986. Plaintiffs are Lassie Annett Brownell Lola Alice Kéim Cora Eveline Clark Myrtle Olive Moore and Mary Elizabeth Howser.
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Samuel Michael
Elmer Thomas Michael
Elmer Thomas
Michael
Hugh Means
Means
Elmer Michael
Samuel Michaels
California
Lassie Annett Brownell
Lola
Alice Kéim
Cora Eveline Clark
Myrtle Olive Moore
Mary Elizabeth Howser
Farm land parcels sold near Eudora at Musick estate sale
Two tracts six miles south of Eudora were sold at a partition sale in the courthouse yesterday afternoon. Sheriff Fred Vogler sold the estate of the late W. C Musick. 160 acres brought $5,334 to William Carl Eisele and 80 acres went to Clarence Hausman for $2,400.
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Eudora
Court House
Fred Vogler
W. C Musick
William Carl Eisele
Clarence Hausman
Tiber Flood Recedes in Rome After Week of Rain
Rome ends a week of near continuous rain as floodwaters along the Tiber valley recede. City officials report fair weather and easing conditions, allowing relief crews to move in and assess damage.
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Tiber
Rome
Tiber River
Paris Bakery Strike Ends in Arbitration
Wage arbitration ends a stay-in strike by about 2,500 workers across Paris bakeries. Bakery operators and employees reached an agreement today, closing a dispute over pay and conditions.
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Paris
Weather Outlook and Road Conditions Report
Kansas forecast unsettled tonight and Sunday with possible snow in the northeast. Warmer in extreme southeast tonight, colder Sunday and in extreme northwest tonight. Morning generally clear with clouds at Topeka. dirt roads vary from rough at Manhattan to good at Wichita and Salina.
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Kansas
Topeka
Cancertane
University Coal Adr
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