Roosevelt peace plan frames path to universal pact
Washington December 29 AP Roosevelt urged a three step plan toward a world non aggression pact while rejecting League of Nations membership. He accused political leaders of blocking peace and warned that if governments falter the region must act collectively to keep armies home, stressing non intervention in Latin America.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Wilson
League of Nations
League
Skepticism on Roosevelt Plan and Kellogg Pact noted
London papers debate President Roosevelt's three point peace program as insufficient. The Evening Standard questions the plan's effectiveness despite Kellogg Briand pact renouncing war. French and British views highlight doubts about enforcing restraint beyond declarations.
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Roosevelt
London
Washington
Evening Standard
Independent
Plans to carry direct relief until July
Washington AP reports Harry L Hopkins federal emergency relief administrator said Congress will be asked for 100 million dollars to continue direct relief through July. He noted additional appropriation from the Public Works Administration would be needed to carry Civil Works Administration through May. Hopkins cited White House discussions that about 250 million dollars more may be required and warned further funding beyond July would be necessary if direct relief continues.
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Washington
Dees
Harry’ L
Hopkins
Federal
Congress
Civil Works” Administration
White House
Taxes Down In Topeka As City Rates Dip
Tax book shows total valuations fell 20 percent to 905.6 million while city populations total 54 percent of state. First class cities cut overall tax 2.3 percent though per capita rates rose in small third class towns. Indebtedness reduced with cash basis and budget laws aiding, school taxes varied, and deficits narrowed across classes amid debt declines and shifting rate structures.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas League of Municipalities
John’ G. Stutz
Leasue
Township report rules clarified by state attorney
Topeka advisement from Attorney General Roland Boynton and Assistant AG Walter Griffin states township treasurers may not condense annual reports. They demand itemized receipts and disbursements, with sources, dates, and explicit warrant details for each expenditure, plus separate liabilities listings for unpaid amounts.
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Topeka
Roland Boynton
Clarence’ Paulsen
Cloud County
Walter T. Griffin
Paulsen
Cloud Townships
Griffin
A. Senzrate
Kansas Passes First State Income Tax For 1933
Topeka reports Kansas imposes a new 1933 income tax with rates from one to four percent on net income, exemptions of 750 for singles and 1500 for married couples plus dependents. Individual returns are expected from about 100,000 Kansans with taxes due after next April 15. Corporations pay five percent. taxes go to the general revenue fund and offset next year’s property levy.
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Topeka
Kansas
Ellis D. Bever
Income Tax Department
State Tax Commission
State General Revenue Fund
Ready for Action: U S Destroyer near Foochow China
AP dispatch from Foochow reports the U S destroyer Fulton anchored offshore ready to take action if Chinese government operations against rebels escalate. Most of 144 Americans in Foochow and nearby reside on Nantai Island, largely missionaries, priests, and commercial representatives.
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Foochow
China
Fulton
Ntai Island
Min R
Nantai Island
Nanking
Amoy
Kulangsu Island
Premier Duca of Romania Assassinated in Sinaia
Premier Ion G Duca liberal leader and former interior minister was shot dead today as he prepared to board a train in Sinaia near Bucharest. The attack occurred at close range by a student after a conference, ending Duca's brief tenure chosen by King Carol on November 12.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Duca of
Sinaia
Carol
Alexander Vaida
Voevod
Died in Mill Accident at Pueblo Steel Plant
A scaffold collapse at the Colorado Fuel and Iron mill in Pueblo killed one worker and injured six others. William Painter died minutes after being rescued from the salamander flame amid bricks piling high. Henry Virgilio suffered critical burns and five others endured injuries.
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Pueblo
Colo
Washington backs new anti hoarding order to seize gold
Acting Secretary Morgenthau announced a comprehensive campaign targeting large gold hoarders as the Treasury expects to recover several millions in gold and yellow backs by year end. The plan, not aimed at small savers, doubles fines under the new policy and keeps the Reconstruction Finance Corp gold purchase unchanged at 84.06 per ounce.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Reconstruction Corporation
Roosevelt
Oxford Bank Robbed in Oxford Kansas Bank Heist
The Oxford State Bank was robbed just before 11 this morning by three well dressed unmasked men who fled south in a Ford V-8 with no plates. Assistant cashiers Daisy Bay T E Donley and Thomas Jester were herded to a rear room while burglars looted the bank but alarms forced a hasty retreat. It was the bank's second robbery in a year, the earlier theft involving a safe moved by truck and later found in Oklahoma. Arkansas City police chased a car identified as the robbers’ vehicle but the pursuit ended without capture.
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Oxford
Kan
Oxford ‘State’ Bank
Daisy M. Bay
T. E. Donley
Thomas H. Jester
Homer
Oklahoma
Winfield
Sumner County
Arkansas
City
State Bank
Clint Robinson
Fire destroys Woolworth building in Hutchinson district
A two story Hutchinson building housing Woolworth and nearby shops burned in the early morning blaze. One man Leon Myers suffered a broken leg while aiding firefighting. The fire caused about 118000 in damage including stock losses of 88000 at Woolworth shoe and optical firms. Smoke and water damaged adjacent structures.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Leon Myers
Woolworth
Waollworth
Joplin
Market Index Report From Fragment
Fragmentary stock note shows a market index around 79.1 with 90 stocks observed. No full date or company names available. unclear sources, possible yesterday reference and unrelated phone figure.
Roosevelt non intervention speech seen as step toward better Latin America relations
Washington officials say President Roosevelt's assertion against intervention clarified U S policy and signals friendlier ties with Latin American nations. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation address did not name Cuba but many officials linked the island to his non intervention stance.
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Woodrow Wilson
Navy
Roosevelt
Awas
Cme
Cuba
Washington
United States
State “Department
Wilson Foundation
Namie
Island
Republic
Shooting at Bassett's Lunch Provokes Wide Eyewitness Account
John C Corel and his wife Mrs Katherine Reeves were in front of 709 Massachusetts Street when a bandit opened fire after leaving Bassett's. Officer Ralph Hubbel yelled stop him as bullets shattered windows. The couple described bullets whistling by and a rapid car departure after the bandit was hit. Corel praised Hubbel's restraint and recounted the tense scene and nearby shop action.
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Ralph’ Hubbel
Bassett's
Hubbel
Mrs. Corel
Corel
Lea
Sure's
Massachusetts Street
Bassett’s
Movement for Free Coinage Gains Bipartisan Backing
Washington reports a conference where 27 senators, 14 Democrats, 3 Republicans and one farmer labor member supported bi metals and free unlimited coinage of gold and silver. Wheeler said he would introduce remonetization of silver at 16 to 1 with gold, aiming to curb inflation and bolster foreign trade while awaiting President Roosevelt’s stance.
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Washington
Spmtteen
Farmer- Labor
Atton
Wheeler
D-Mont
Bill Wheeler
Congress
Senate
House
King
Utah
Roosevelt
The
And
Borah
Idaho
Frazier
Nye
North
Dakota
Shipstead
Minnesota
Clark
Missouri
Ahurst
Arizona
Costisan
Colorado
Bone
Overton
Elks Ball Draws Nearly 1000 Attendees At Hotel Eldridge
Nearly 1,000 persons attended the annual Elks charity ball at the Hotel Eldridge. Guests danced from 9 to 1 with music by the Southern Kansas Stage Lines Orchestra. Attendees included couples from Lawrence Topeka Kansas City Ottawa and other communities. Dudley Doolittle was recommended as general agent for the ninth federal farm credit district coordinating day to day activities of the federal land bank bank for cooperatives intermediate credit bank and production credit corporation.
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Doolittle
Credit Post
Elks
Eldridge
Southern Kansas Stage ‘Lines
Lawrence
Topeka
Kansas City
Tongafoxie
Ottawa
Washington
Farm ‘Credit Administration
Dudley Doolittle
Kansas
Democratic
National
Ninth
Federal - Farm Crédit
Wichita
Kan
Niinth
Colorado
Oklahoma
New
Federal Land Bank
Wichita: Bank
Needy to Receive Fuel Under Kansas Relief Plan
John G. Stutz announced last night that needy families eligible for relief would be furnished coal and natural gas. Distribution to be through county poor commissioners and funded by the emergency relief committee with funds advanced, dealers to be reimbursed.
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Toneka
John_G. Stutz
Kansas
Stutz
Topeka physicist Theodore Schowengertt dies, survived by family
Theodore Schowengertt, a former head of the physics department at Topeka belt School, studied postgraduate work at the University of Kansas and other universities after his education. He is survived by three children, including Theodore of Independence.
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Theodore
Schowengertt
Unive of
Kansas
Opeka
Topeka
Independence
Deficit of One Million Foreseen for Kansas Finances
State Auditor Will J. French reported Kansas likely ends the year with about a one million dollar deficit. Advance tax collections from counties totaling in the high hundreds of thousands will be used to meet December bills and payrolls. The state also holds approximately 410,294 in no fund warrants held by the state school fund commission.
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Topeka
Will J. French
Kansas
Aum
Hands Master Cleaner New Year’s Dinner at Colonial
A fragment notes a new hands on cleaner service promoting a New Year’s dinner event at Colonial 212. It mentions no evening meal and seems to advertise a test or trial offering. Names and precise details are unclear due to OCR damage but the gist points to a local dining or service promotion.
Kansan Beats Off Pair of Kidnappers
J R Brady a Kansas City oil man fought two armed men in the business district to thwart a kidnapping attempt. After he seized a weapon, the men fled in a car reported stolen from C K Freeman with four other men in the vehicle. Brady sustained a head blow but remained active. Authorities continued investigation into the kidnapping plot.
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Arkansas
City
Kan
J.R. Brady
Brady
C. K. Freeman
A D Manter Dies in Lawrence Expressman Pioneer
A D Manter, longtime Lawrence expressman and pioneer, who arrived when the K U campus was a stone quarry and North College the only university building, died.
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A.D. Manter
A. Lawrence
K. U
North College
Ad Manter 89 Died At His Lawrence Home
A. D. Manter of 821 Michigan street died at 89. Funeral services will be at 10:30 Monday at Rumsey funeral home led by Rev. Charles Engvall. Burial in Oak Hill. Surviving wife, one daughter Mrs Guy Foulks, a son Clifford A. Manter of Denver, and six grandchildren. Manter, known as Ad, lived in Lawrence since 1864, worked in express business, hauled telephone equipment for Kansas Pacific, and helped Guest & Brown Distilling. He was a veteran volunteer firefighter for 15 years, with brother Edward once chief. He recalled early city transit and building the old Woodlawn school.
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Michigan Street
Rumsey “Funeral Home
Charles Engvall
Oak Hill Cemetery
Wnra
Guy Foulks
Clifford A. Manter
Denver
Col
Lawrence
Kansas Pacific’ Railroad
Guest & Brown Distilling Company
Santa Fe
Edward
Ad Manter
Manter
Woodlawn
Journal-World
Plane to Lead Hunt in Douglas County Event
Elza Stone will lead a large human snake of hunters west of Lawrence in a January wolves hunt sponsored by Douglas County CPA. Shotgun armed participants meet at four points along Highway 40 east and west of town. Four line captains, field marshals named, and wolves shot will be auctioned to cover costs.
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Elza Stone
Lawrence
Kan
Waka
Lecoipton
Bie Springs
Belvoir
Clinton
Chet Spray
Bob
Gentry
Ed Heaston
Guy
Schultz
Charlie Houk
Leslie Demeritt
Glen Flora
Earl Lindell
Roy Deskins
Carl Péterson
Night time gunfight ends with bandit dead at memorial hospital
Officer Ralph Hubbell encountered a masked bandit at 709 Massachusetts street near Bassett's lunch. Seven shots were fired in a rear street confrontation. the bandit died at Memorial hospital soon after. The bandit was identified as Ted Dodson alias Ted Dawson, 23, of Seminole Oklahoma, with ties to a restaurant, a rooming address, and a history of hitchhiking across the country. Hubbell was grazed. the gun used by the bandit had been stolen from Wolfson's store weeks earlier. The shootout occurred as crowds gathered from the Eldridge hotel and Elks charity ball.
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Ralph Hubbel
Bassett
Massachusetts Street
Memorial Hospital
Hubbel
Ted “Dodson
Ted Dawson
Seminole
Okla
Wesley
Dodson
Marietta
Eldridge Hotel
Elks
Memorial. Hospital
John H. Bassett
Massachnistts Street
Hubbell
T. J. Leasure
Ford
Restaurannt
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Leasure
Dassett
Dr.Lensure
Virg #inia
Eldridge
Dr. Leasure
Penintiary
John Inalls
Wolfson’s
Crown Org Store
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