New tax proposal eyed to aid farmers amid farm group push
Washington reports say President Roosevelt could back processing taxes to fund farm aid if major agricultural groups unite. Secretary Wallace seeks Farm Bureau endorsement for the income certificate plan, aiming to replace annual subsidies with a processing tax scheme. Morgenthau calls it a consumer tax. parity payments and soil conservation funds face tight approval.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers’ Union
House
Agriculture
Department
Farm Bureau Federation
Congress
Federal Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Mattern Wins Second in Kansas Oil Painting Exhibit
Topeka Feb 5 Kansas oil painting show awards announced Glenn Golton Wichita captured first prize with Stubborn Horse earning 806 dollars Karl Mattern Lawrence assistant professor at the University of Kansas took second prize with Snow on the Corn earning 225 dollars The honors were handed at a banquet of the Kansas Federation of Art and the Kansas State Art Teachers Association Charles Marshall Topeka was named Federation president and Kathryn Cardwell Kansas City was named Teachers Association president.
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Topeka
Glenn Golton
Wichita
Karl Mattern
Lawrence
Kansas
Golton
Mattern
University of Kansas
Kansas Federation of Art
Kansas State Art Teachers’ Association
Federation of Art
Charles, Marshall
The
Teachers Association
Kathryn Cardwell
Kansas City
Mystery estate revealed in Chanute Kansas
In Chanute Kansas on February 5, Mrs. Lucy B. Gardner who appeared impoverished left an estate valued at twenty thousand dollars. A trunk contained five thousand eight hundred dollars in cash and coins while she owned property in Chanute and Oklahoma City. Her attorney Leslie H. Cable reported no will and neighbors recall her aiding others despite frugal living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanute
Kan
Cpi
Lucy B. Gardner
Lucy
Oklahoma City
Nieve
Florence Carr
Melvern
Radium Found On Courthouse Lawn In Texas Incident
In Fort Worth Texas a patient unknowingly carried 75 milligrams of radium worth about 8000 from a physician’s office. Dr Frank E Heeckner of Kansas City and his homemade radium detector searched streets and finally the courthouse lawn where the device’s needle wavered. He located two of three needles before missing his plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Worth
Tex
Frank E. Heeckner
Kansas City
Hoecker
French Report Nazi Patrols Active in Blies Region
French military advices say a German attack on French advance lines in the wooded hills east of the Blies was repulsed. Germans reportedly retreated with two prisoners captured as fog and rain grounded aviation on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Samuel Vauclain Dies Icon of Baldwin Locomotive Works
Samuel M Vauclain 83 longtime leader of Baldwin locomotive works died at his Rosemont home from heart disease and other ailments. He rose from shop apprentice at age 16 to Baldwin president in 1919 and helped mount naval guns on railroad cars. His plants at Edystone and Burnham became munitions factories turning out rifles and shells during World War I.
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Philadelphia
GPI
Samuel M.vauclain
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Vauclain
Rosemont
Pennsylvania Railroad
Al‘toona
Baldwin Company
Baldwin
Eddystone
Burnham, Pa
Council of National Defense
Indians claim Seattle land for cash settlement
Duwamish Indians claim the land where Seattle stands as a reservation and seek 3 076 800 dollars in cash, citing an 1850 treaty promised to create a reservation. Chief Peter James says the treaty was never carried out after Gov. Isaac Stevens died in war. The tribe had priorly held all land now in King County and Seattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Peter James
James
Isaac J. Stevens
Washington Territory
King County
Pacific Northwest
Harvard Student Rescued After 28 Hours Lost on Mt Washington
Webster N Jones Jr a Harvard sophomore and Carnegie Tech engineer director’s son was rescued after 28 hours lost on Mt Washington during a blizzard. He faced frost bite and shock but is described as fair with a good chance of recovery as doctors monitor him over several days. His companion Karl Sax Harvard senior was treated in Cambridge for frost bite potential loss of fingers.
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Littleton
N. H
Mt. Washington
Webster N. Jones,Jr
Harvard
Carnegie Tech
Altho
W. N. Jones
Littleton Hospital
Pittsburgh
Karl J. Sax
Boston
Jones
Harvard Infirmary
Cambridge
Mass
Sax
CCC
Crawford Notch
Kansas Democrats to honor Woodring at Washington Day dinner
Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring will be the principal speaker at the Washington day dinner and celebration of Kansas Democrats in Topeka on February 22. The former Kansas governor will be the sixth native Kansan to serve as the club's banquet speaker since 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Kansas
Body Found in House Near Scranton
Charles Sherrin, 47, was found dead in an unoccupied house three miles from Scranton Kansas. Missing since January 31, he apparently attempted suicide with a shotgun in a nearby cave, suffered a skull injury, then died from exposure and cerebral hemorrhage according to the coroner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Kan
Charles Sherrin
Fritts
Sherrin
Philadelphia Tax Stands Upholds Wage Levy
Pennsylvania Supreme Court sustains 11 percent tax on wages and earned income in Philadelphia. The ruling upholds a lower court decision dismissing a CIO backed suit by Jennie Dole a widowed shirt factory worker who argued the levy is unjust and discriminatory. Officials say the tax aimed to raise 18 million dollars and will likely stay active for at least two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Jennie Dole
Man shoots wife then kills himself in Placerville ranch
In Placerville California on February 5 Charles A Lorain 75 killed his 76 year old wife at their ranch home after leaving a note saying I want to end her suffering The coroner A J Orelli reported Mrs Lorain was considered hopelessly sick with cancer and the man then killed himself
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Placerville
Calif
Charles A. Lorain
A. J. Orelli
Beast of burden and other crossword clues
Puzzle lists a beast of burden crossbred and various across clues including sail or armor term bent backward and sugar sand. It also notes phrases for it is and thought and a sailor item and many short definitions across horizontal clues.
Lundstrom Former Lindsborg Mayor Dies in Atchison
Carl A. Lundstrom 64 of Atchison Kansas died today from heart disease. A former mayor of Lindsborg he lived there until 1936 then moved to Elis and recently arrived in Atchison as an International Harvester dealer. Survived by Mrs Lundstrom three daughters and a son. Father John Lundstrom 93 died Saturday in Lindsborg. Double funeral planned in Lindsborg Wednesday.
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Mre. Lundstrom
Hitler’s Friend Victim of Unexplained Shooting Returns Home
London reports that Unity Free man Mitford a friend of Adolf Hitler and victim of an unexplained shooting in Germany last year has been taken to her father Lord Redesdale’s home from Radcliffe infirmary Oxford. She left the infirmary Saturday after brain specialist care since January 22.
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London
Unity Freeman-Mitford
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Lord Redesdale
Radcliffe Infirmary
Oxford
Tonganoxie Notes and Social Happenings Preserve Local Life
Long list of social calls, visits, club meetings, and church activities in Tonganoxie. Residents from Em poria Kansas City Leavenworth Ottawa and Baldwinsville appear in greetings, funerals and events from February 2 to 10. Local schools churches and businesses are noted with attendees and changes.
Pleasant Grove Social Roundup Near Lawrence
Pleasant Grove reports include visits by Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Scott Irene Daniels and others. School resumed after a short snow break while several residents hosted gatherings and birthdays. The Four Leaf club met February 2 with a food attendance and a pie auction planned for March 1.
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Clayton Scott
Irene Daniels
Dillon
Lawrence
Peggy Ann Scott
E. B. Moore
Betty Lou Peterson
High Prairie
Fred Turner
Carl Daniels
John Daniels
Virgil Bradley
Lake View
Champ Petty
Kathleen Reehber
Etoil Winters
George Newman
Burke Edwards
Madalyn
Will Winters
Orville Flory
Eive Flory
Jack Dillon
Independence Community Club
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Blies
U.S
Acme Telephoto
Finland
Paayo Nurmi
Taistoi Maki
New York City
T. O. Vahervuori
Samuel Vauclain
Head Locomotive Works
Beast OF Burden
Harbor
Weathercock
Carl A. Lundstrom
Lindsborg
Atchison
Hitler
Tonganoxie
Vera Williamson
Emporia
Gwendolyn Mounkes
Miss Williamson
Miss Mounkes
Fred Cronemeyer
Jean
Harry Quisenberry
Barbara
Robert
Nelson Quisenberry
Congregational Church
Louise K. Welles
William Smalls
Leavenworth
Wayhesmalsville
Walter Welles
Belchertown
John Stevens
Baldwinsville
James Farrell
Mae Jackson
E. E. Jackson
Civic Study Club
Foster Laming
H. A. Williamson
William Newsomer
Barbara Jo Wilson
Edna Evans Hoskins
Frank Emerson
Roy Lee Redding
Genevieve Harman
Wilbur McPherson
Kansas University
Uriel Harling
D. H. Harling
Frances Billimore
Houston
Leonard’ Deaton
Jerry
Larry
D .A. Pearson
Richard
al Meyer
C. E. Combs
M. G. McKenzie
Mary Davenport
Sam Hawkins
Mary Ann
Neil Olson
Melo Park
Clarence Love
Christian’ Aid Society
John Winslow
Marjorie
Virginia Weeks
Stanwood
Virginia
Ava Higley
Bell School
Mound School
Cushing Memorial Hospital
Eula Throop
Jaenne Throop
Henry Geib
Eleanor. Ratliff
Will Ratliff
Payne
Ratner
Fellowship Forum
Ladies Association of the Congregational Church
David Parker
Elston
Comfort Bowling Alley
Abe Bnochs
Monnday
Alicia Seifert
Lucy McNaughton
Henry Geib, Sr
Geib
Bert Grems
Leonard Turner
Four-Square Bridge Club
Millicent Robinson
Robert Robinson
Bryant Parker
Betty Jean
Hill City
Walter Brown
Oscar Brown
Nellie Lee
Musil’s
Catholic Ladies Club
Margaret Southers
Alton Grems
McLouth
Sophia Whitaker
Silver Lake
G. W. Whitaker
Louise Freienmuth
Lakewood
Finnest Freienmuth
Freienmuth
Methodist Ladies Aid
L. C. Cox
Elmer Anunel
Lakeview
Dre
Phillip Ammel
Charles. McKnulty
Bobby
Paul Sanders
Owl Bridge Club
WY. L. Johnson
Franklin Ice Cream Company
Tonpanoxie
Clyde Lewis
NEA
Pleasant Grove
Epitin Foods — In
Fathom
Filletts
Bonita Fish
Campbell's Asst
Gollag Inn
Safeway
Butt Peanut
Missouri Valley
van Camp
Stokely
Ige
B. Jar
Sosa
Eas
Los
Grand
East Std
Kyanize
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