Roosevelts gold dollar revalues wealth and price
President Roosevelt devalued the dollar by revaluing the gold dollar to 35 per ounce. The new 15 521 grain nine tenths fine coin takes effect at 3 10 p m and will be purchased by the treasury through the New York Federal Reserve as fiscal agent. The move shifts about 2.6 billion dollars of government assets into a stabilization fund to influence foreign exchange for American trade.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Seattle
White House
Astown
United States
Italy Backs German Rearmament As Practical Solution
Rome reports an official Italian memorandum endorsing German rearmament as the only practical path. It proposes limits on chemical warfare and bombardment, caps on military spending, and keeping power rival sizes to present terrestrial forces. Public opinion says regulation should govern this shift.
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Rome
Italy
Germany
Market Confusion as Devaluation Shocks Foreign Currencies
New York January 31 AP Principal foreign currencies surged in dollar terms after President Roosevelt announced devaluation to 59.06 of former parity. The pound rose to about 5.02 per dollar amid earlier declines, the French franc jumped to 6.81 bid, but dealers said rates were nominal and business was largely at a standstill as markets struggled to adjust.
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New York
Roosevelt
Eight Rates Reduced for 122 Cities and Town
Electric power consumers in 122 cities and towns served by United Power and Light Company in Abilene are favored by a new reduced schedule in both commercial and residential rates. The Kansas rate cut, approved yesterday by the state corporation commission, ranges from seven to 27 percent in the ton rate with an average reduction around 14 percent. The move, described by E D Bell as the start of a rate reduction program, aims for further cuts later this year or next. Abilene officials say the reductions should bring lasting savings as normal consumption rises.
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Topeka
United Power and Light Company
Nie
Bell
Abilene
Homer ~ Hoch
Corporation Commission
Kansas Ipower &Light* Company
Hoch
Appeals Sought to U.S. Supreme Court in Taylor Shootings
George F. Taylor of Lawrence won permission to appeal to the U S Supreme Court after convictions in Douglas and Franklin counties for shooting his wife Bessie Taylor and his brother in law Everett Christensen. The state supreme court affirmed both reconvictions and Taylor, now in Lansing state penitentiary, has since retained Ralph Harding as defense counsel.
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Toneka
George F. Taylor
Lawrence
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Taylor
Douglas County
Everett Christensen
Frankin County
Bessie Taylor
Supreme Court
R. B. Stevens
This
Franklin County
Man l
George K
Melvin
E. K-Hall
Kansas City
Stevens
Ralph Harding
Lansing
Patronage and Pay Cuts Dominated Congress Talks
Washington Jan 31 AP Two clashing currents in Congress signaled possible rescinding of more than a third of the federal pay cuts and debates on patronage. Senators split over restoring 5 percent tomorrow and a third of the 15 percent July cut while Roosevelt urged only the July return of one third. House Democrats fret over patronage influence as Texan Blanton rouses partisans. Farley and lawmakers edge toward talks on patronage. Ways and Means balks at Crowther sales tax. Roosevelt backs recovery codes via state emergency council as tax policy looms. Monetary chiefs plan a dollar devaluation. Roosevelt departs to fight budget, St Lawrence treaty issues. Capitol Hill expected routine day as thrifty readers seek the Journal-World classified.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Blanton
Arbbiter
James A. Farley
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
National Emergency Council
Ways Land Means Committee
Crowther
Jefferson, Caffery
Louisiana
Senate
Gifford
Mass
Civil Works Administration
St.Lawrence
Capitol. Hill
Journal-World
Former assistant bad man is tamed tells of dealings
Topeka dispatch reports J E Voorhees former assistant to Will J French state auditor testifying before the Kansas senate on impeachment charges. He described instruction to destroy warrants tied to Ronald Finney in a bogus bond scheme and said French authorized several such certificates. He testified he signed eight or nine certificates for Finney and discussed campaign funds and Finney’s 400 dollar contribution.
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Topeka
J. E. Voorhees
Will J. French
Kansas Senate
French
Ronald Finney
Finney
Voorhees
Voorshees
Tatter
Leland Caldwell
Oscar May
Atchison
Robert Garvin
St. John
Garvin
Finey
Leavenworth
St. Joseph
Finn
Dillinger Identified by 22 Witnesses as Bank Robber and Gunman
John Dillinger was identified by 22 witnesses as the machine gunner who killed Policeman Patrick O Malley during a $20,000 bank robbery at East Chicago. He was to be arraigned for his life on February 13, and in Crown Point Indiana he faced jail and possible execution as officers reported his confessions to multiple robberies.
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Crown Point
Ind
John Dillinger
Patrick O'Malley
First National Bank
East Chicago
Robert G. Estill
Indiana
Arizona
Patrick, O'Malley
O’malley
Dillinger
Lima
Jess Larker
Chicago
Lillian Holley
Reynolds
Holley
Japanese Infantry Drive Aims to Smash Manchukuo Bandits
Reports from Hsinking say Japanese and Manchukuoan forces advance toward the Soviet frontier in anti bandit operations centered in Kirin province. The war office says the drive targets eastern frontier brigands estimated at 30,000. about 150 bandits killed, with hundreds wounded. Two lines of dispatches also note unrelated timing of Georgia’s birth statistics law passage.
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Tokyo
Manchukuo
Hsinking
Changchun
Rengo
Manchukuan
Eenter Kirin
Manchu- Yo
War Office
Supply Ship Reaches Byrd Base in Bay of Whales
The Bear of Oakland, Byrd Antarctic expedition supply ship, arrived at the Bay of Whales amid crumbling ice. After two weeks from Dunedin New Zealand she unloaded stores for the winter camp, enduring moves and dangerous ice as the flagship kept discharging provisions.
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Admiral Byrd
Little America
Bear of
Oakland
Bay of Whales
Bear of Oakland
Dunedin
New Zealand
Presidents Ball Nets Nearly a Million
New York, Jan. 31. An AP survey shows total attendance at President Roosevelt birthday balls and events exceeding one million, with net receipts for the Warm Springs infantile paralysis endowment around 1 million. Kansas City and eleven cities report about 6,000 raised for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, with amounts listed including Topeka 850 and Wichita 1,000.
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New York
District of Columbia
Warm Springs
Associated Press
National Committee
Kansas
Roosevelt
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Kansas City
Tola
Coffeyville
Atchison
Manhattan
Arkansas City
Hutchinson
Leavenworth
Wichita
Topeka
Lawrence
Clay-Center
Enos trio linked to 1930s Kansas bank heists and Landon plot
Major Wint Smith said Clarence Ennis Otis Ennis and Jim White were wanted in the Landon daughter kidnapping scare last fall. They were arrested in Tulsa after a bank holdup in Wellington and brought to the state prison with Tulsa and Kansas officers. The raid yielded armaments as five women were jailed and Gov Landon’s home was guarded after a prior kidnap plot.
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Lansing
Kan
Wint. Smith
Kansas State Highway ‘Patrol
Clarence
Otis Enu
Jim White
Alf M. Landon
Wellington
First National Bank
D.C. Dever
Joe Anderson
Kansas Highway Patrol
Sim Brown
Tulsa
Clarence Ennis
American National Bank
Baxter Springs
Sherif Dave Hasenplaugh
Cherokee County
Oklahoma
Kansas
Enos
Nebraska
Porteau
Okla
Mary Eno
Otis
Hazel Wind
Gypsy Bradshaw Eno
Dorothy Campbell
G.L. Campbell
Elsie Hedrick
Campbell
Wilbur Underhill
Underhill
Shawnee
Major Smith
Republicans Handle the Spending Says Blanton
In Washington on January 31 AP reports Representative Blanton of Texas challenged spending control. He argued the administration placed Republicans in charge of AAA CWA PWA and other programs across the country while questioning whether any Democrats were named by Ickes. Demo applause followed.
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Washington
Blanton
Texas
House
AAA
United States
CWA
Happy Hopkins
PWA
Tekes
Ickes
Bank Robbery Audacious Heist Near Independence Kan
Four masked men robbed Independence State Bank of about 10 000 to 11 000 in Independence Kansas early today. They fled in a Cherokee County plated Ford V-8, left behind near a country road six miles northeast. A Negro guard was struck, employees forced to vault, bags filled with change. Suspects possibly had a second car, guards mobilized, air search reported, National Guard units called out to patrol roads.
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Independence
Kan
Independence State Bank
Here
Hostaes
P. W. White
Ernest Bays
Fred Beal
Cherokee County
Kansas
Fay Tabor
Lorraine Rockwell
Leo Smatl
Guy Cutler
Lewis
Boys
Fort Scott
Jam
Neosho County
Kimball
Harry Hyle
Clyde Barrow
Kansas National Guard
Wunrid
Iola
Coffeyville
National Guard
Wint Smith
Kansas Highway Patrol
Lawrence
Smith
Oklahoma
Fromm Family Moves to Lawrence from Cambridge
Mr and Mrs G P Fromm move from Cambridge Kansas to 1011 Tennessee Street Lawrence. They will enroll three sons in local schools and colleges with U A D 17 set to enroll second semester Ted 20 may enlist and Hallet 15 to become a Liberty Memorial junior.
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University, of Kansas
G. P. Fromm
Lawrence
Cambridge
Kan
Tennessee Street
U. Ad
Ted
Ensally
Hallet
Liberty Memorial High School
Rest in Kidnap Trial in Chicago Courthouse
The defense rested in the Ron ey Touhy case and two co defendants charged with the kidnapping of John Factor after presenting six witnesses. The state announced it would offer no rebuttal in Chicago on January 31.
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Criminal Courts
Building
Chicago
Roney Touhy
John Factor
Wilbert Crowley
Break With the U S Discussed in Japan
Tokyo officials warn that Japanese naval build up could outrank the United States by 1936 end. In the House of Lords Yoshizawa suggests a rupture if navies dictate programs ahead of a 1938 conference, urging possible cancellation unless talks yield agreement. Foreign Minister Hirota shows cautious concurrence.
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Tokyo
Minéo O’ Surin
House of Representatives
United States
House of Peers
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Koki Hirota
Yoshizawa
Beautify Kansas Highways Under Federal Help Plan
Lawrence plans beautification of major approaches under Emergency Public Works highway project. At least $50,000 will be spent in Kansas with $10,000,000 total federal allotment for state highway work. One half of one percent must fund beautification including land grading and planting for broad roadside improvements. M B Hudson leads a City Planning committee survey to submit projects to the Kansas Highway Commission. Other cities like Wichita and Marysville have already let contracts. Potential sites include the junction of 73 W and 40 north of Lawrence, the bluff curve south of the Wakarusa crossing on 73 W, and the west of Baldwin triangle.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
M. B. Hudson
Kansas Highway Commission
Wichita
Marysville
Wakarusa
Baldwin
Police Drive on Traffic Violations Report
Police court fines totalled 68.50 in January as officers conduct a city wide drive against traffic violators. Plain clothes officers monitor stop signs while licenses are checked. An emergency no parking rule on the east side of Tennessee Street between Seventh and Seventeenth is in force during paving, with placards posted and drivers educated. Chief Cummings notes improvements but speeds remain high and future fines for speeding will rise, with warnings already given to taxi and commercial drivers.
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CG. H
Hobart
Tennessee Street
Seventh
Seventeenth
Massachusetts Street
W. J.cummings
Government of Greece Plans to Expel Insull
The American legation in Athens reports Greece will expel Samuel Insull at midnight when his police permit expires. Lincoln McVeigh, the American minister, sent the cable from Athens noting the decision and that the foreign office had informed the legation the permit would be extended after midnight. William Phillips, undersecretary of state, would not comment on U S actions when Insull leaves Greece.
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Washington
State Department
Legation
Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Lincoln McVeigh
Foreign Office
William Phillins
United States
Insull
Greece
Impounded Insurance Premiums Transferred to Kansas Fund
Topeka January 31 AP Judge George A Kline Shawnee county district court ordered transfer to the state general fund of 126000 of impounded insurance rate premiums refunds to persons not located after settlement of the lease rate litigation between the state and fire insurance companies Previously 75000 had been transferred to the fund University Coal Co phone 44 Ady
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Topeka
George A. Kline
Shawnee County
State General Fund
Last Minute Rush for 1934 Auto Plates at County Treasurer
Motor vehicle owners crowded the county courthouse seeking 1934 tags as a 50 cent late penalty loomed tomorrow. Through today over 4,000 car tags and 459 truck tags had been sold, with long lines from Eleventh Street to the cash window. The office stayed open through lunch and after 5 pm for those served, as 50 cents more would be charged monthly for delinquent purchases.
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Eleventh Street
Learnet
Learned
Honor Roll Lists Seventy Seven Top-Scholars At High School
The first semester closing January 19 includes 77 seniors on the scholastic honor roll with Helen Rice leading the list scoring five Es. Several students earned four Es, including Rose Baldwin Virginia Clarke Helen Frame Ruth Haggard and more, while many others attained three or two Es with honorable mentions.
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Helen Rice
M. Fi. Rice
Vermont. Street
Rose Baldwin
Virginia
Clarke Helen Frame
Ruth Haggard
Mary Helen Harrison
Kathryn Hicks
Lester Kuppelman
Ruth Mason
Helen Moore
Gene Moreley
Margaret Nanning
Helen Naramore
Louise Peyton
Wanda Mae Pringle
Elizabeth Raymond
Margaret Regier
Pauline Richards
Georgix Anna Shaw
Ruth Warren
Dorothea Weingariner
Gertrude Welch
Elizabeth Wig
Faye Anderson
Sam Boardman
Frances Boerkircher
Alyena Breckeisen
Robert Bullack
Mildred Clochester
Mariana Cunningham
Barrie Dalton
Alice Daniels
Dorothy Detchert
Martin Denlinger
Helen Dreher
Blossom Ewing
Mildred Ewing
Vena Flory
Anna Marie Frazier
Hazel Frazier
Frank Gurtler
Edyth Hamier
Helen Hay
Irmin Jackson
Leonard Jella
Helem Kampschroeder
Arthur Leonard
Burton Lewis
Murestet Lewis
Lola McManness
Edward Miller
Lois Moss
Marjorie Terking
Jean Perry
Glad Pine
Walter Russell
Aliene Sabol
Marjorie Smith
Lorin Snow
Dorothy Sullivan
Dorothy Jean Trobtman
Arnold Weidman
Thamar White
Trials set for February term by Judge Means
Judge Hugh Means fixes February term opening for Monday February 5 with parole reports and civil case settings at 1 30 PM Trials on February 12 include Melvin Hilk Doc Suitles arson Ernest Crosby larceny and O W Miller Embezzlement Jake Bidinger Kanwaka township treasurer murder charge Kennerh Myers charged with first degree murder are set for February 13 Also stock market notes on 90 stocks with 88 7 yesterday and Ford V 8 in Hamilton ad
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Hugh Means
Means
Melvin Hilk
Doc Suitles
Ernest Crosby
Jarceny
O. W. Miller
Jake Bidinger
Kanwaka Township
Kennerh Myers
Ee 7
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