Fresh Jap troops move on Chinchow
Japanese cavalry reached the Taling river banks within fifteen miles of Chinchow as strong air and ground reinforcements poured into Kowpangtze. General Tamon’s column, fresh from Dairen, and Kamura and Murai brigades, totaling about 150000 troops with artillery, were poised for a likely New Year advance on Chinchow amid reports of Chinese evacuations and weak resistance.
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Mukden
Manchuria
Tamon
Taling River
Chinchow
Taling
Yang Chien
Japan
Kowpangtze
Amon
Kamura
Murai
Dairen
China vows to defend Chinchow against Japan
Nanking asserts a firm policy to hold Chinchow after Chang Hsueh Liang’s retreat. Eugene Chen says the new national government will assume Manchurian affairs, order Chang to defend the city, and reject any notion of Manchuria independence.
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Nanking
China
Chang Hsueh Liang
Chinchow
Eugene Chen
Associated Press
Manchuria
Chang
Fear Rules In City Chinchow China War Flight
General Yung Chien returned from Peiping and held staff talks denying access to foreign observers. Speculation grew over China’s policy with reports the Nanking government favors evacuation of Chinchow contrary to Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang. Chang’s army fled southward in disorder toward the great wall as Japanese planes circled the railway yards.
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Chinchow
Manchuria
Yung Chien
Peiping
Marshal Chang Hsueh Liang
Nanking
Marshal Chang
Bintan
Great Wall
Peiping- Mukden
Weather outlook with mixed precipitation in Kansas
Kansas forecast shows cloudy conditions with possible rain and a switch to snow in the east tonight. Friday brings partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Morning weather mentions cloudy to partly cloudy, with rain around Topeka Ottawa and Wichita. roads vary from good to muddy and slippery in several counties including Douglas. Temperatures noted as 2pm yesterday and 7am today.
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Kansas
Topeka
Ottawa
Wichita
Emporia
Salina
Kan
Stockton
Phillipsburg
Oberlin
Hays
Plainville
LaCrosse
Downs
Newton
APJ
Weather Bureau
S. D. Flora
Dodge City
Goodland
Price of Whoopee Shows Drops for New Year’s Eve
Chicago reports the New Year’s Eve price for whoopee shows has fallen to the lowest since the war. Average Chicago hotel and club charges are about $6 cheaper per person than last year, with prices from $2.50 to $10. Hotels and clubs are expanding seating for heavy New Year’s Eve demand as reservations surge, including a large north side hotel reporting its busiest advance sale and another with 1,100 reservations.
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Chicago
North Side
Winter Hits West as Snow and Ice Paralyze Roads
The West faced snow and ice with zero temperatures as storms from Oregon to Colorado buried districts in deep drifts and cut telephone lines into Nebraska. At times drifts reached 60 miles per hour near Baca County Colorado while Pikes Peak shed snow from the mountain gale. Rescue crews found over fifty stranded motorists and Wyoming feared for five Albin basketball players before they connected home from a ranch. Snow and sleet coated Minnesota and Nebraska while mail planes faced grounding and Texas Oklahoma regions reported heavy drifts and rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Oregon
Washington
Colorado-Kansas
Baca County
Colorado
Nebraska
Pikes Peak
Wyoming
Albin
Contact
Idaho
Montana
Texas
Oklahoma
Guymon
Okla
California
Minnesota
Lincoln
Neb
Tornado Toll Rises Across Four Southern States
AP reports tornadoes across four southern states yesterday and today killed five and injured about fifty nine. Simpson and Covington counties Mississippi bore the worst damage with most fatalities and injuries. Alabama saw injuries near Greenville and wrecked buildings in a narrow tornadic path, with Milbrook Riverview and Selma affected. A storm near Monticello Arkansas injured three, and a southeast wind from the Gulf damaged homes near Quincy Florida.
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Associated Press
Simpson
Covington
Mississippi
Greenville
Alabama
Milbrook
Riverview
Selma
Tuscaloosa
Monticello
Arkansas
Gulf of Mexico
Quincy
Florida
Prize Awards Honor Highway Education Contest Winners
Washington December 31 AP teachers from South Dakota and Utah and students from Maryland and Mississippi were named first prize winners in the highway education board annual design and essay safety contest. Winners will receive trips to Washington teachers 500 dollars each students gold watches donated by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. First prize go to Mrs Pearl B Dyer Gregory South Dakota Miss Kathryn Smith Salt Lake City Utah teachers iesse Messick Benedict Maryland Hughesville school student Miles Patterson A M College Mississippi Starkville junior high. Second national honors went to Barbara Anne Albright Leavenworth Kansas junior high pupil and Myrtle Treve Cloninger Bessemer Alabama they will receive gold watches.
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Washington
South Dakota
Utah
Maryland
Mississippi
Highway Education Board
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Pearl B. Dyer
Gregory
Kathryn
Smith
Salt Lake City
Iesse Messick
Benedict
Hughesville
Miles Patterson
A. & M. College
Starkville
Barbara Anne Albright
South Broadway
Leavenworth
Kansas
Myrtle Treve “Cloninger
Bessemer
Alabama
Italian Consul Is Saved From Bomb
A powerful time bomb addressed to Italian consul Count Cesare Buzzi-Gradenigo at Cleveland’s Society for Savings building was detonated safely at a rifle range. Police traced a heavy package from New York via Capt Ardito, with links to a wider fascist plot involving bombs sent to prominent Italians in Easton and other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York
Cesare Buzzi- Gredenigo
Cornelius Cody
Society For Savings Bank
Public Square
Amelio Ardito
Ardito
Trombetta
Buzzi-Gradenigo
Easton
Generoso Pope
Walker
Pope
Emanuele Grazzi
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Government acts to guard against bombings nationwide
Washington reports that three federal departments moved to prevent bombings. The post office notified the state department it would shield mail from explosives while the state department asked justice to investigate the Easton Pa bombing and similar attacks. The state department also sought police protection for the Italian embassy in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
State Department
Department of Justice
Easton
Mrs Ethel Depew Arrives in KC Jail in Kidnap Case
Mrs. Ethel Depew wife of Martin Depew believed leader in the Nell Donnelly kidnapping arrives in Kansas City in custody of Detective Harry Reid and Officer Francis Trowbridge She says she learned of her husband’s implication only before their eastern separation while denying involvement Several others including three men are charged or sought in the case.
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Kansas City
Ethel Depew
Martin Depew
Nell Donnelly
Harry Reid
Francis Trowbridge
Bank fails to open in Missouri amid withdrawals
In Charles County, Missouri, the New Melle bank with about 306000 in deposits failed to open as officials notified Jefferson City to take charge. The closings stem from heavy withdrawals that also forced Bank of Augusta Farmers Bank of Hamburg and State Bank of Defiance to shut last week.
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Charles
Melle Bank
St. Charles County
State Finance
Jefferson City
Bank of Augusta
Farmers’ Bank of Hamburg
State Bank of Defiance
Daugherty accuses Fall of forged telegram for cabinet appointment
Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty in The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy claims Albert B. Fall forged a telegram signed in Daugherty’s name to secure his cabinet post. Fall’s family in El Paso dismisses the charge as ridiculous and untrue.
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Daugherty
Albert B. Fall
New York
The
World Telegram
Harry M. Daugherty
Harding
Secretary of the Interior
A. B. Fall
A. B. Ail
Thomas
Dixon
Gaston B
American Federation of Labor
Charles Evans Hughes
America
League of Nations
Ohio Society
Weeks
Capitol
League
el Paso
Texas
United States
Warren G. Harding
Fall
Jouett F. Elliott
Worse Straits for Chicago Taxes as 1928 29 Rolls Ruled Invalid
Chicago faces financial danger after County Judge Edmund Jarecki voided the 1928 and 1929 Cook County assessment rolls. Unpaid taxes for those years total about 140 million dollars, with 51.7 million from 1928 and 97.6 million from 1929. A receivership risk emerges. no taxes can be collected until a new assessment is upheld. The move follows a challenge by real estate taxpayers alleging omitted personal property.
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Chicago
Cook County
Edmund K. Jarecki
An. Association. of
County Assessors and Board of Review
Jarecki
Vote in Helsingfors on Prohibition Favors Wets
Helsingfors Finland December 31 A P With 57 percent of the local votes counted the city shows a decisive wet tilt in the prohibition referendum. Of 132 730 votes 82 percent favor repeal and 60 percent of repeal votes come from women. Continuance of current laws is supported by 12 910 voters 17 2 percent. Only 656 ballots favor modification to permit light wines and beer.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Radio Strike Averted In Chicago With Shorter Hours
Chicago on December 31 AP reports union musicians and broadcasting officials reached an agreement to shorten work hours and raise minimum manning in orchestras while preserving pay. The accord ensures Chicago radio stations keep regular orchestras for New Year programs.
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Chicago
Former Lawrence Pastor Kidnapped and Robbed
Rev. H. A. Gordon, former pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Lawrence, was abducted as he prepared to enter a Pittsburg Kansas home to finish funeral plans. He was driven off, robbed of $10 and his watch, ejected from his car, and walked nine miles back to town. He could not get motorists to stop. In Topeka, Henry J. Allen and Clyde M. Reed, ex governors, visited and discussed Republican harmony for 1938 Senate race.
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Pittsburg
Kan
H. A. Gordon
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Gordon
Julius Rosenwald Hospitalized in Highland Park
Julius Rosenwald financier and philanthropist, a Chicago area resident, lies critically ill at his Highland Park home. His condition has worsened to the point that all of his children have been summoned to his bedside.
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Julius Rosenwald
Chicago
Highland Park
Big job for men who run schools in Lawrence
Dr. W. C. McConnell, Lawrence school board member, spoke at a Kiwanis luncheon about city schools being a major local industry with a $350,000 annual budget. He urged careful voter selection for board members as the board spends half the city taxes. Bonds on the new high school will be retired by 1942, while the old Central and Woollawn bonds are already paid. He criticized the interruption of the building program by tax reductions and urged replacement of the old Quincy building. He praised grade school curricula, flagged needed changes in secondary schools over the next decade, and urged extending arithmetic beyond sixth grade. He touched on the board's guidance program and noted fewer graduates pursue college prep subjects, attributing changes to agriculture and automotive courses offering practical benefits.
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W. C. McConnell
Lawrence School Board
Kiwanis Club Today
Board of Education
Lawrence
McConnell
Central
Woollawn
Quincy
Rea
Gandhi warns Gandhi followers as disobedience looms
Bombay reports that Viceroy Willingdon relayed Gandhi's warning that renewed civil disobedience by Indian Nationalists could trigger a government response. An adviser warned, "This means war," while Gandhi prepared to respond from his tent and urged peaceful prayers in the meantime, signaling possible arrest if the campaign restarts.
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Bombay
India
Lord . Willingdon
Mahatma Gandhi
Hindenburg in Appeal to the German People
President Von Hindenburg spoke in a New Year radio address urging Germans to face sterner duties in the coming year. He thanked the nation for sacrifices, warned against imposing impossible tasks, and demanded equal scrutiny in disarmament while urging belief in the fatherland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Germany
Mexican church faces law on priests in federal district
In Mexico City a law restricting Catholic church staffing to one priest per fifty thousand residents prompts a peaceful resistance stance. Archbishop Pascual Diaz urges priests to stay at their posts as authorities warn jail or fines up to 500 pesos for violators. The showdown is set for the weekend after a three day compliance window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
City
Federal
Pascual Diaz
Auto tax protest deemed unavailable by attorney general
Topeka, Dec. 31 AP The protests filed by some automobile owners over the 1982 motor vehicle license fees were said by Attorney General Roland Boynton to be invalid. A letter to Labette County attorney A L Foster argued the protest form was probably based on a view that fees were not levied uniformly. The attorney general stated the fees are not taxes within constitutional terms and urged the county treasurer to ignore protests and distribute payments per the law.
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Topeka
Roland Boynton
A. L. Foster
Labette County
Seid
Five hundred eighty-seven people aided by local employment office
December report shows 71 men and 14 women given temporary work by QO W. Owen. Seven men and five women were recommended but not qualified. Sixty-four men worked at Oak Hill cemetery and other sites, with $394.20 spent from the unemployment fund of $2,160.00 total. Firewood furnished to three families. Three stores on hand for distribution. Office prevented one man from becoming a county charge. Since November, 390 men and 135 women applied for work, with women including college graduates and trained professionals.
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QO. W. Owen
Community Service Committee
Oak Hill Cemetery
East Thirteenth Street
New City Hall
Owen
Lawrence
Drifts In Oklahoma Halt Panhandle Travel
Oklahoma City reports a ferocious snowstorm causing deep drifts that block Panhandle highways around Guymon. Auto travel halted as buses and trucks abandon routes east and west. Temperatures approach freezing and warm spells fade as officials forecast fall skies for the new year. preparations for shelter reportedly limited livestock damage to winter wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Guymon
Hope for Speedy Action on Tariff and Tax Bills
Democratic leaders push to bring tariff bill to the floor early next week with joint policy committee action seen as speeding house approval. Speaker Garner suggested action on tariff legislation could precede the tax measure as Ways and Means plans hearings on the tax increase next Thursday. Officials in Topeka reported ongoing probes into student scholarships and employment, with adjustments anticipated at some schools through May.
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Washington
Congressional
Senate
House
Joint Policy Committee
Gar
Ner
Ways and Means Committee
Topeka
Kan
Central Conference
Milk inspection debate dominates Lawrence commission
A lengthy Lawrence city commission discussion centered on milk inspection. Mayor W. C. Ellis urged radical changes favoring tests of the milk supply after reaching the city, while milk inspector H. L. Burger argued against reducing on-site inspections. The two clashed over funding, equipment, and who should bear costs, with no action taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission
W. CG. Ellis
H. L. Burger
Lawrence
Perjai
Ellis
Burger
George Wetzel
J. L. Constant
Commission
Former Haskell players visit Lawrence from UNM
Three ex Haskell Institute football players now at the University of New Mexico are visiting Lawrence during vacation. Wilson Charles is recovering from a fractured spine and hopes to compete in the 1932 Olympic games. Dave Ward and Nelson Hendricks join the visit, with Ward visiting his brother Bert Ward at Haskell.
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Haskell Institute
University of New Mexico
Lawrence
Wilson
Buster) Charles
Dave Ward
Nelson Hendricks
Charles
Ed Charles
Ward
Egbert Ward
Haskell
Hendricks
Race
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Douglas County
Hamilton
Fordteady
Make Prize
World
Independence
Mary Dollmier
Keokuk
Iowa
Frank Knight
Merchants Bureau
Gandhi
Lord Willingdon
Hindenburg
Community Service
Massachusetts Street
R. O. Burgert
Buster Charles
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