Japs Send More Men to Shanghai
Shanghai dispatches report Japanese headquarters admitting the onslaught against Kiangwan failed to dislodge Chinese defenders. Tokyo officials consider doubling Shanghai’s army strength to about 50,000 as Chinese forces reinforce the front, with General Ugeda reportedly slow against the 19th Army.
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Shanghai
Kiang- Wan
Sadao Araki
War Office
Uyeda
Tokyo
Ugeda
Chiang Kai-Shek
League weighs US and Russia invite to China Japan plan
Geneva dispatch reports the League of Nations considering inviting the United States and Russia to join a commission after the March 3 assembly to shape a plan on the China Japan dispute. Officials hope for U S cooperation, stressing the issue as a world problem affecting all nations.
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Geneva
League of Nations
United States
Russia
League Assembly
China
Japan
League
Women Join In Tight Defense Of Kiangwan Village
Shanghai reports Japanese army headquarters saying Chinese women joined men in defending Kiangwan village. Frontline soldiers claimed to have seen women firing from windows along the village outskirts as the siege pressed.
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Shanghai
Kiangwan
Hongkong Celebrates Victory Reports Spark City Festivities
Shanghai wires recount sweeping Chinese military victories triggering an immense celebration in Hongkong. Firecrackers lit at noon and foreigners fled the noise fearing fighting. Uproar persisted as calmer foreign papers offered tempered updates and workers struggled to work amid the din.
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Shanghai
Hongkong
J. Shanghai
Chinese Losses Reported At 2000 In Kiangwan Fight
Chinese sources claim 2000 killed or wounded in yesterday’s heavy fighting northwest of Kiangwan. An emergency hospital opened Sunday filled within hours with men badly mutilated by shrapnel. Other hospitals crowded as casualties mounted. The report also notes acquisitions in Central Asia related to stucco sculptures and nis art.
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Shanghai
Kiangwan
Central Asia
Nis ‘Art
Tauseurn
House Moves to Cut Federal Expenses in Congress
Washington February 23 The House debated plans to reorganize the federal government to reduce expenditures while Senate committees backed Judge Benjamin N Cardozo for the Supreme Court and supported the Hale bill to expand the Navy under the London treaty. The Douglas bill to form a committee to report by April 15 on expense reductions was taken up with Democratic backing, opposing Hoover’s broader reorganizational proposal.
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Washington
API
House
Senate
Lockhart
Iowa
Benjamin N. Cardozo
New York
Supreme Court
Hale
Douglas
Hoover
Kansas State Music Teachers plan 24th convention at KU
Final plans for the twenty fourth annual convention of the Kansas State Music Teachers Association set sessions at the University of Kansas. Prof Waldemar Gelich presides with W B Downing as chair of local committee. About 300 attendees expected for two days of programs, a banquet, recital by Guy Maier, and officers election. Members to be guests at Dort Cossack concert and Smedley Butler lecture. Maier recital Friday features A Musical Journey to Bavaria and Austria.
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Kansas State Music Teachers Association
University of Kansas
Reir
Waldemar Gelich
K. U. Fine, Arts
W. B. Dalton
Lloyd Houston
Irene Peabody
Luke J. Gaskill
W. C. Simons
Lawrence
Guy Maier
Eldridge
Administration Building
Fraser Theater
Maier
Bavaria
Austria
Europe
Fine Arts Office
Association
Dort Cossack Chorus
Smedley Butler
Massacre on Island Shocks Mindanao Town
Manila reports ten killed and many wounded in a Malita Mindanao massacre. Moros allegedly struck yesterday, then fled into a remote district. Col Claude Bowers called it the worst such act in his experience. Victim Soliman Peralta was Mali a town government vice president. Constabulary sent 20 men to Malita to pursue the killers. Motive remained undetermined.
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Manila
Malita
Javdo
Mindanao
Philippine Constabulary
Claude Bowers
Constabulary
Soliman Peralta
Maliia
Former Student Percy Benbough Jr. Killed in San Diego
The death of Percy J. Benbough Jr. a former K A student was reported today in Lawrence. He was 23, the son of P J Benbough a San Francisco mortician and civic leader. He attended the university in 1929 and enrolled in fall 1929 but withdrew in December.
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Lawrence
Percy J. Benbough Jr
K. A
San Diego
Calif
P. J. Benbough
San Francisco
Benbough
Weather outlook for Kansas with regional details
Fair tonight and Wednesday with slight warm-up in the northwest. Morning sky mostly cloudy to partly cloudy. clear in Emporia Coffeyville Arkansas City and Wichita. Dirt roads mostly good except Arkansas City Wichita and Emporia. Pittsburg Manhattan Salina and Topeka showing fair conditions. Douglas county roads good with temperatures reported. yesterday’s highs and today’s readings noted. Ad insert mentions Hamilton for Fords.
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Kansas
Emporia
Coffeyville
Arkansas City
Wichita
Pynchattan
Pittsburg
Salina
Farm Board Plan Outlined At Chamber Luncheon
Charles E. Gunnels of the Federal Farm Board spoke at the Chamber of Commerce lunch on the marketing act aims to curb speculation, cut wasteful distribution, boost cooperative marketing, and control surplus production. He urged businesslike thinking among farmers and cited loan practices. police reported two thefts at Moody apartments with items taken from students at the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Farm Board
Chamber of Commerce
Charles E. Gunnels
Farm Board
Gunnels
A. B. Weaver
T. J. Sweeney, Jr
Frank McDonald
Friends of the Agricultural Marketing Act
Moody Apartments
Tennessee Street
Alvin Barnes
Sidney Gray
Barnes
Gray
J. B. Benson
Barnes, Gray
Benson
The
University
K. U. Athletic Board to Meet Tonight
The University of Kansas athletic board will meet at 7 o'clock tonight in Chancellor E. H. Lindley's office. All members are expected to attend as the board considers the athletic association budget for the next year. Dr. John Outland of Kansas City has been ill for several days.
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University of Kansas Athletic Board
E. H. Lindley
John Outland
Kansas City
K. U.athletic Association
Gold Falls Overboard From Berengaria Shipment
Four kegs of gold valued at 200000 fell from the Berengaria during offloading in Cherbourg. Part of a 24000000 dollar shipment to the Bank of France, divers rushed to recover the treasure as the incident unfolded this morning.
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Cherbourg
France
Berengaria
Bank of France
Lawrence Building Boom Nears With Permits And Prospects
Lawrence building activity edges up with several permits issued and about 320000 dollars in home building prospects. City inspector J F Stubeck notes three recent permits and several homeowners plan further work after spring. Notable jobs include a 250 remodeling at 1041 Rhode Island street, a 200 two car garage at 1205 Kentucky, and 110 remodeling at 517 North Eighth Street plus numerous definite plans totaling about 20000 dollars in house building. Spring weather is expected to trigger greater remodeling and construction activity.
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Lawrence
J. F. Stubeck
Herman Broeker
Rhode Island Street
C. E. Pontius
Kentucky
J. E. Bower
North Eighth Street
Stubeck
Stuheck
Lone Star Landing After Engine Trouble Near Boston
Former army flier Nat Co. Browne and Edward Muldowney landed the Lone Star at East Boston airport two hours after taking off from Old Orchard Beach Maine for a nonstop flight to Buenos Aires. The left wheel collapsed on impact. engine trouble caused a drop toward the water but both men escaped uninjured. Browne planned repairs within days and a new start to set a long distance record.
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Boston
Nat Co. Browne
Army Flier
Edward Muldowney
Qld Orchard Beach
Maine
Buenos Aires
Lone Star
Browne
Muldowney
Cape Cod
Browner
Madame Gadski Dies After Auto Crash at 59
Berlin February 23 AP Madame Johanna Gadski noted opera singer died after injuries from an automobile accident yesterday. The car was driven by Mrs. Geraldine Bangs of New York. Also injured were her husband Captain Hans Tauscher and daughter Mrs. Charlotte Busch. All were out of danger at the hospital today.
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Berlin
Johanna Gadski
Madame Gadski
Geraldine Bangs
New York
Hans Tauscher
Charlotte Busch
Mme, Gadski
United States
Krupp
Busch
Bangs
Public Works Drive Aims To Provide One Million Jobs
A wartime campaign communique says states counties and municipalities are undertaking public works to employ a million unemployed. Cities named include Holyoke Colorado Golden Colorado Edinburg Texas Dover Delaware and Superior Wisconsin with highway departments expanding labor. Churches hospitals and mission homes are heavily involved in repair and construction work as pledges for immediate expenditures roll in nationwide.
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New York
Holyoke
Colo
Golden
Edinburg
Texas
Dover
Del
Superior
Wis
Afrincanois
Wheat below normal in western Kansas crops
Topeka reported continued poor wheat condition in western Kansas with new notes of fields failing to sprout. Moisture was more plentiful in the northwest than the southwest where sprout failure had been common. The report cites state board and federal agriculture department findings.
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Gunnels
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
Enim
Chicago
Topeka
Kansas
State Board
Federal Department of Agriculture
Prohibition Wire Tapping Still Permitted in House Vote
Washington February 23 The House defeated a bid to ban wire tapping in federal prohibition enforcement by 132 to 103 The same issue previously drew 99 to 78 in favor of continuing wire tapping The House also rejected a plan to cut 3 000 000 from the Prohibition Bureau budget of 11 369 500 for next year The amendment was backed by both Democratic and Republican blocs in the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Prohibition Bureau
Acting Fire Chief to be Named as Reinisch Retires
Mayor Ellis announced at the city commission meeting that E. J. Holland senior captain will serve as acting fire chief when Chief William F. Reinisch retires March 4. Holland has 28 years with the department and will act until May when city appointments are made. Reinisch resigns after 38 years due to ill health. Ellis said internal candidates are preferred and praised the department’s cooperation. A warranty deed for alley land on Maine Street was accepted, and B. F. Douglas was appointed to collect poll and dog taxes starting March 1, a duty handled by Douglas last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Ellis
City Commission
E. J. Holland
William F. Reinisch
Holland
Department
Namei
Ellis
Reinisch
Commission
Bilis
Maine Street
B. F. Douglas
Douglas
American aviator shot down by Japanese near Soochow
Shanghai reports confirm American Rob ert Short, 27, was killed when his single seater airplane was shot down during an air raid over Soochow near a Chinese military airfield. Short, employed as an airplane salesman by L. E. Gale, had last been reported traveling to Nanking with a new military plane sold to the Chinese government.
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Shanghai
Robert Short
Soochow
Short
L. E. Gale
Nanking
Dowager Queen Marie’s Washington Broadcast Read
A message from Queen Marie of Roumania commemorating Washington’s anniversary was read to Americans yesterday. Julius Holmes, son of J R Holmes, delivered it by short wave from Bucharest where he serves as chief secretary to the American legation. The Bucharest ceremony was attended by the American colony with Queen Marie present. Because the signal failed to reach a long wave station here, Mr and Mrs Holmes could not hear the broadcast.
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Queen Marie
Roumania
Washington
Eucharist
Julius Holmes
J. R. Holmes
Bucharest
Holmes
Legation
Pres ‘Ent
Mrs. Holmes
No orders for officers under army general staff
Washington reports no orders have been issued regarding active or possible active duty for reserve officers. The statement responds to rumors of reserves in various parts told to stand in readiness. Only the usual two weeks of training and corresponding orders are being issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army General Staff
Australians Tour Philippines to Study Factories and Life
A dozen Australian students and teachers from the University of Sydney toured the Philippines to investigate tobacco, rope, embroidery, and hat factories and to learn about social life and natural resources. The Journal-World Market Basket lists appetizing, economical foods.
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Journal-World Market Basket
McNutt Urges Service as Washington Monument
Paul V. McNutt, dean of Indiana University law school and former national commander of the American Legion, addressed the University of Kansas convocation urging citizens to be living monuments to Washington through service. He compared Washington era challenges to today, warned against dictatorship, and urged faith in government, law, and a just peace with defense built on universal service. He highlighted four issues taxes voting power police welfare and loyalty and called for honest government and a peacetime ethic. Alice Moncrieff sang Beneath the Weeping Willow's Shade with Swarthout at the piano as the KU band performed.
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George Washington
Paul V. McNutt
University of Indiana Law School
University of Kansas Washington
K. U
Washington
Times of Washington
America
McNutt
Foch
Fresent
Mr. McNutt
Italy
United States
Mars
Star of Bethlehem
University
Mrt
V.rice
Parsons
State Democratic Committee
Rice
Lawrence
Paola
Dickinson Theatre
Ensign Wm.b. Davis
Robert M. Davis
Law School
Ensign Davis
High Hat
Crack Flying
U. S Navy
Disarmament Meet Plans Easter Holiday
Geneva based world disarmament conference will adjourn for two weeks starting March 19 an Easter recess shorter than planned. The steering committee defeated a proposal by Hugh Gibson head of the American delegation for a definite procedure and favored letting the committee of the whole draft a plan.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Hugh 5. Gibson
Gibson
Forty three Battery B veterans gather for thirteenth reunion
Forty three former members of Battery B 130th field artillery met at the Legion rooms for the thirteenth annual reunion. George W Kelley of Weathersfield Conn traveled from afar with a pewter ash tray as a memento. Members hailed mostly from Kansas and nearby states, with four attending their first reunion. Harold Nottingham of Lawrence was elected president, Prof. W H Harris serve as secretary treasurer, and Major W C Koenig spoke on the national defense act and ROT C work. Brief addresses by Judge Hugh Means Captain A W Mills and Lieut Charles E Edwards followed. The American Legion Auxiliary served the banquet and Nottingham received thanks. Glenn sisters radio entertainers performed for absent members via NBCG broadcast, with the announcer noting Hello Lawrence How's the Reunion.
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130Th Field Artillery
Legion Rooms
George Wv. Kelley
Weathersfield
Conn
Kelley
France
Kansas
States
P. K
Wv. J. Ven Dergrif
Ness City
Battery of Sisters
Glenn Sisters
N. B. CG
Lawrence
Early Reservations for Democrat Convention in Lawrence
George McCarty, member of the state board of administration, booked Hotel Eldridge rooms for May 16 after strong hopes Lawrence would host the Democratic convention. Senator W. M. Price of Emporia arranged his own reservation through McCarty. McCarty has pursued efforts to bring the convention here as Eldridge Inn reports a flood of reservations by phone and telegraph following yesterday's announcement.
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Lawrence
George McCarty
State Board of Administration
Eldridge
W. M
Price of Emporia
McCarty
Supreme Court declines to review radio station case
The Supreme Court will not hear challenges to the 1927 radio law granting the government exclusive control of broadcasting. It let stand the Seventh Circuit ruling upholding the FCC power as valid. WMMBL and WOR Chicago area stations were ordered off the air in Sept 1928 after prior authorization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Radio Commission
Supreme Court
WMMBB
WOR
Chicago
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Homeawaad
Baylor Names Pat Neff President Amid Board Vote
Pat Neff, former Texas governor and Baylor graduate, elected president by Baylor University trustees. He would succeed acting president W F Allen after the death of Samuel Palmer Brooks. Neff has not yet accepted. In Bristol England, 3000 unemployed clashed with police during a parade to city hall, 30 injured and several officers hurt as marchers aimed to deliver grievances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Pat Neff
Texas
Waco
Baylor University
Neff
W. F. Allen
Actling
Samuel Palmer Brooks
Baylor
Bristol
England
Linwood High Presents Once in a Blue Moon
Linwood High School glee club will stage the musical romance Once in a Blue Moon in three acts at the Linwood High School auditorium Wednesday night. Curtain rises at 8 o'clock. Haircuts 25 at Palace Barber Shop.
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Linwood Glee Club
Linwood High School
Democrats Pick Lawrence For 1932 Convention Bid
The Kansas Democrats choose Lawrence to host the 1932 convention after a second ballot gave Lawrence 46 votes to Salina 22 and Hutchinson 20. Wichita and Emporia withdrew to back Lawrence, with Davis and boosters praised for preconvention work.
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Wichita
Emporia
Lawrence
Sa‘fina
Hutchinson
Lawrence Boosters
Frank McDonald
E. G. L. Harbour
Douglas’ County Committee
T. J. Sweeney
Charles Springer
George McCarthy
Roger “Dode” Williams
Jack St. Clair
F. W. Gaunt
H. A. Dodderidge
Roger Williams
George Hedrick
Harbour
Sweeney
Douglas County
Dean Davis
District Court Convenes in Grant vs Kowing Trial
District court reconvened this morning for the money suit of J M Grant against Ben Kowing arising in 1930 over alfalfa hay. Grant says he paid in advance but did not receive all the hay and seeks about 60 dollars. Judge Hugh Means presides without a jury. Jefferson City dispatch reports Gov Caulfield declined clemency for Lew Worden, to be hanged March 3 in Carthage for criminal assault on a 17 year old Joplin girl.
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Farm Board
District Court
J. M. Grant
Ben Kowing
Caulfield
Jefferson City
APJ
Lew. Worden
Carthage
Joplin
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C. E. Gunnels
Jake
Istanbul
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Copenhagen
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Szekesveherv
Hungary
Gc” Scott
Mass
Julius. Holmes
State Highway Commission
Gunners
Battery B
Connecticut
Palace Barber Shop
Tom. J. Sweeney
Democratic Central Committee
University Auditorium
Tom J. Sweeney
Fort Scott
Martin Miller
Bourbon County
Democratic Party
Miller
F. B. Pearl
Hiawatha
Kirk Prather
Lansing
Atchison County
Gene Sullivan
Tom Sweeney
Topeke
Guy Helvering
Kowing
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