Kansas Governor calls special session on welfare funding
Gov. Walter A. Haxman announced a special legislative session to adjust the sales tax funded social welfare plan. He argues the state must assume a larger share of welfare costs, reduce county bonds and levies, and redirect about 4 million dollars to the welfare fund to ease local tax burdens. He aims to convene by February 7.
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Topeka
Walter
A. Haxman
Kansas
Haxman
State Board
Nas
Asaa
Weather observer reports rainfall totals for week
The station near Worden registered rainfall for the week ending January 24. Rain fell on two days, 0.10 inch on the 23rd and 0.29 inch on the 26th.
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Cooperative Eather
Worden
Lists Compiled by New Kansas City Election Board Shake Up
Kansas City voters face a major shift as the new bi partisan election board redraws clerks and judges for the March city election. The overhaul targets wards with 1936 vote frauds, replacing many officials with lawyers and doctors. The first and second wards show heavy changes, signaling a political ripple in Democratic circles.
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Kansas City
City Election Board
Gil Bourk
T. J. (Ross) Penderast
Pendergast
Strangehold
Star
Planes in Battle Over Teruel and Barcelona Fronts
Insurgent and government air forces clash near Teruel as both sides contest the front. Spanish warships maneuver offshore while anti air batteries defend Cerbere and French shores. Dispatches report casualties in Barcelona and Madrid amid ongoing aerial raids.
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Cerbere
France
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Teruel
Canarias
Almirante Cervera
la Poursuivante
Madrid
Cerbero
Spain
Colder Weather Ends Flood Threat Across Midwest and East
A sharp cold wave cut floods in the Midwest and Northeast as it moved from the northwest. Zero to near zero temperatures spread through North Dakota Minnesota and central New York while heavy snow and gales disrupted shipping and air travel.
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East
Middle-West
New York State
Illinois
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Minnesota
Midwest
Syracuse
N. Y
New York
New England
Finois
Arkansas
Camden
Ark
White
St. Francis
Cache
Texarkana
Dequeen
Senate Questions Ickes Car Purchases in 1988
Senate committee scrutinizes two passenger cars bought with PWA funds for Secretary Ickes and an aide in 1988. Burlew testified the cars cost 7940 dollars and were bid rather than publicly advertised. Steiner questioned legality citing congressional authorization requirements.
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Washington
PWA
Ickes
Senate Committee
K. Burlew
Burley
Steiner
R-Ore
Burlew
Comptroller General’s Office
Roosevelt
Comptroller General’s
Kansans Urged to Support Infantile Paralysis Week
Topeka January 25 Governor Wal ter A Huxman proclaimed the week January 22 29 as national foundation for infantile paralysis week and urged Kansans to back this cause. He said American citizens should join with President Roosevelt to form a permanent national foundation and that Kansas civic fraternal and patriotic groups are joining the war on infantile paralysis.
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Topeka
Walter A. Huxman
Roosevelt
Kansas
Convict Valcour Walked Away From Kansas State Prison Garage
Lansing Kan Jan 25 Kirk Prather said Fred A Valcour 41 received at Kansas state prison here last September walked away from the prison garage a week ago and was still at large Valcour was sentenced from Lyon county for one to five years on a charge of concealing mortgaged property
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Lansing
Kan
Waraon Kirk Prather
Fred A. Valcour
Kansas
Liberty
Valcour
Lyon County
Stock Market Index Edges Up Amid Trading
The stock market index for 60 issues stood at 45.2 and edged higher from 45.9 yesterday. Ford Service in Hamilton appears in the listing with 702 Vermont Avenue as a noted entry.
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Ford Service
Hamilton
Sun spots disrupt radio and telegraph services
Astronomers link today's radio, telegraph, and telephone outages to sun spot activity. An active sun spot near the sun’s limb caused magnetic disturbances similar to those seen last Monday and Friday, with aurora observed as far south as San Diego. Researchers expect records to clarify which spot is responsible.
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Los Angeles
San Diego
Carnegie Institution
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Italian planes sweep toward Rio in Atlantic flight
Italian airmen on a Rome to Rio de Janeiro mission crossed Dakar and Natal in a three plane group. Bruno Mussolini, 20, piloted one craft. The mission aims to showcase flight progress with Natal as a refueling stop before continuing to Rio.
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Recife
Brazil
Italy
Dakar
French West Africa
Rio de Janeiro
Natal
Here
Bruno Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Fernando Do Noronho
South Atlantic
Greenwich
Rome
Atlantic
All Ready for Dance at University Birthday Party
Arrangements for the President's Birthday Party at the University of Kansas union ballroom are complete. Roger M. Williams, chosen by W. C. Simons, will manage the dance with Red Blackburn's orchestra providing music from 9 to 12. Funds go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, with Roosevelt's address broadcast at 11.
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Union Building
K. U
Roger M. Williams
W. C. Simons
Williams
Red Blackburn
National Foundation For
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Passenger Plane Lands Safely After Stormy Flight
A 14 passenger Eastern Airlines plane with five aboard landed safely at Rent schler field Hartford after seven hours battling winds and rain on a Newark to Washington trip. Captain Fred Jones said they left and landed and had been in contact with Newark officials by radio.
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Hartford
Newark
Crude Oil Production Rises Across U S States
US crude output rose by 29 217 barrels per day to 3 508 103 in the week ending January 22 Oklahoma added 50 to 543 650 East Texas rose 645 to 492 898 Texas climbed 16 694 to 1 046 194 Louisiana up 585 to 250 170 California increased 5 500 to 716 750 Kansas up 9 875 to 190 075 Eastern states fell 14 412 to 183 914 Rocky Mountain states declined slightly.
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Tulsa
United States
Oil
Gas, Journal
Oklahoma
East
Texas
Louisiana
California
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
Buffalo Nick Succeeds by New Jefferson Nickel
The treasury announced a new Jefferson nickel to replace the buffalo design after 25 years with Monticello on the reverse. A $1,000 contest will select the exact design judged by Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors.
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Buffalo
Jefferson
Washington
Treasury
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Morgenthau
Monticello
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Mint
Sidney Waugh
Albert Stewart
Heinz Warneke
US Demands Access to Ruth Rubens in Moscow Espionage Case
Washington called on the Soviet government to permit a member of the American embassy staff in Moscow to visit Ruth Marie Rubens, held in connection with an espionage investigation. The Soviet foreign office refused on January 21, citing ongoing inquiry and Hull urged Litvinoff to honor rights promised to U S nationals.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Ruth Marie Rubens
Henderson
Litvinoff
Roosevelt
Soviet Union
Artillery Duel Near City of Hongkong
Japanese warships engaged Chinese batteries in a one hour artillery duel on Nantao Peninsula near Hongkong as Japanese planes bombed near Canton and the Canton Howloon railway east of the city damaging several foreign residences.
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Hongkong
Nantao
Canton
Canton-Howloon
Screen Stars Hit With Tax Liens in Federal Court
Ruth Chatterton and Loretta Young appear on delinquent income tax lien lists filed in federal court. The bureau seeks $26,000 from Chatterton for unpaid taxes plus $7,824 on 1932 earnings. Young is defendant in a lien for $2,936 for 1935.
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Los Angeles
Ruth Chatterton
Loretta Young
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Miss Chatterton
Miss Young
Need New Oil Pools in Hot Springs Conference
Oil states representatives at the petroleum inventory conference in Hot Springs, attended by Governor E. W. Marland of Oklahoma, endorsed the call for an aggressive search for new oil pools in the United States.
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Ark
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
United States
Senator Allen Discusses Taxation Problems At Chamber Lunch
Lawrence business leaders heard Sen. Donald C. Allen outline taxation and assessment issues based on Kansas Legislative Council research. He urged attention to personal property assessment, sales tax allocation, and possible needs for a small collection allowance, while noting potential returns to homestead exemptions and tax limits.
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Donald C. Allen
Lawrence
Kansas ‘Legislature
Chamber of Commerce
Allen
Kansas
Kansas Legislative Council
Topeka
Legislative Research Bureau of Kansas
F. H. Guild
University of Kansas
Leviathan Set to Sail on Final Voyage Today
The Leviathan, delayed three days by a wage dispute, will depart from New York between 4 and 5 p.m. on its last voyage. Officials said the ship will be scrapped by its new English owners after the wage settlement with the crew members.
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New York
Simpson, Spence and Young
British Steamer Lake Geneva Attacked in Mediterranean
The admiralty reported the 2,868 ton British steamer Lake Geneva was attacked by an unidentified submarine ten days earlier in the western Mediterranean. A torpedo passed under the ship from a distance of about 300 yards.
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London
Admiralty
Lake Geneva
Mediterranean
Reed Confirmed as Associate Justice of Supreme Court
The Senate unanimously confirmed Stanley F. Reed to be an associate justice, succeeding George Sutherland who retired January 18. Reed, named by President Roosevelt, previously served as solicitor general and held roles with the Farm Board, Reconstruction Finance Corp, and Commodity Credit Corp. Hugo Black was named to succeed Willis Van Devanter the previous summer.
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Stanley F. Reed
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court
George Sutherland
Sutherland
Utah
Reed
Roosevelt
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Willis van Devanter
Judiciary
Kentucky
Federal Service
Federal Farm Board
Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senator Barkley
Garner
Wage Reduction Opposed by President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt issued a formal statement reiterating opposition to wage cuts, linking purchasing power to American industrial markets. He urged mass production industries to set prices affordable for the people, insisting wage reductions are not the path to prosperity. He noted steel price reductions should not come from wage cuts, in response to a question at a press conference.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Santa Fe Orders Electric Streamliners to be Built
The Santa Fe railroad ordered two seven car electric streamlined trains to be completed in April. Budd Manufacturing of Philadelphia will build the cars and Electromotive of La Grange, Illinois will provide diesel motors. General Electric will install the electric equipment. The total value was not disclosed.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Santa Fe Railroad
General Electric Company
Budd Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia
Electromotive Corporation
General Motors
la Grange
General Electric
Farmers Receive $14,844 in Soil Conservation Checks
Dust filled Liberal Kansas as soil conservation checks totaling 14 844 were issued today bringing Seward county beneficiaries to 586 and total benefits to 121 481. County agent Phil L Jungdahl said the total represents about half the amount due.
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Liberal
Kan
Seward
Phil L. Jungdahl
Frigid North Wind Disrupts Utilities in Topeka Area
A frigid north wind at 35 mph today cooled the region while gusts reached 45 mph yesterday. Power outages, telegraph and radio interruptions, and broken tree limbs affected Lawrence and West Hills areas. University library door blown open, storm doors planned. minor damages reported.
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William Wells
J. T. Skinner
Kansas Electric Power Company
Topeka
Vernon Smith
WREN
Svas
Watson Library
University
C. G. Bayles
Cold snap nears end with subzero night forecasts
Topeka reports the coldest readings as the federal meteorologist predicts the worst is over by tomorrow. Tonight temps will dip to two to ten degrees above zero in the north and ten to fifteen in the south, with winds easing but still strong in places. Readings tomorrow expected near the mid twenties to low thirties.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Flora
Jora
Kansas
Dodge City
Chinese envoy returns to homeland declares no peace terms
Ambassador Heu Shih-Ying, China’s envoy to Japan, arrived in Shanghai aboard the Empress of Asia and stated I bring no peace terms. He urged Chinese readers that foreign invasion will only harden resolve to preserve integrity and unity in the fight for the right.
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Shanghai
Heu Shih- Ying
China
Japan
Weather forecast and conditions for Kansas
Fair tonight and Wednesday with cooler east portions. Morning notes show clear to cloudy at Manhattan, frozen dirt roads around Emporia and Coffeyville, others in good condition. Temperatures yesterday maximum 15 and today minimum 9 with noon readings noted.
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Manhattan
Emporia
Ottawas
Coffeyville
Keres
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