Forced Migration Condemned by U S Delegate at Evian Talks
Myron C. Taylor head of the U S delegation warned at Evian that forced migration of political and racial groups can bring catastrophic suffering. He cited general unrest and international strain and urged action to halt artificial government-driven migration amid the Austro German union. The conference opened with remarks by Henry Berenger and a memorandum from Francesco Nitti.
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Evian-les-Baines
France
Myron C. Taylor
United States
Roosevelt
Taylor
Germany
Steel Corporation
Henry Berenger
Senate
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Francesco Nitti
Italy
Arthur Rosenberg
Austria
United States Steel Corporation
Youth Found Safe After Montana Fishing Missing
Anaconda Mont July 6 searchers found 13 year old Robert Russell missing since Monday in the Anaconda-Pint ar region. He greeted workers with I wish I had a fishpole and was unharmed ten miles from the point where he separated from his step father Charles Tucker during a fishing trip.
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Anaconda
Mont
Robert Russell
Anaconda-Pindar
Charles Tucker
Britain Delays Date for Anglo Italian Pact Enactment
Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to set a definite date to enforce the Anglo Italian agreement signed at Rome. He said certain conditions, including a settlement of the Spanish civil war, must be fulfilled before full effect. Britain sent special messengers to Spain to seek approval of the 13.75 million plan to withdraw foreign fighters.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Rome
Britain
Spain
J. J. Davidson
Laborite
Italy
Davidson
Barcelona
Burgos
Europe
Roosevelt pushes plan for government reorganization
President Roosevelt said the country wants and will get a government reorganization law. He favors putting the executive branch on a business basis and working out details for a new measure to be presented to Congress. Senator Byrd predicted some form of enactment next year amid ongoing disputes over congressional powers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Byrd
D.-Va
Insurgent Push Along Sierra de Espadan Front in Spain
Insurgent troops moved into the Espadan foothills to attack government positions along a 12 mile front as Franco's coastal drive gathered momentum. Warplanes bombed positions while infantry scaled peaks under fire and militia forces withdrew after defending lines were breached in several spots.
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Hendaye
France
Sierra de Espadan
Valencia
Franco
de Espadan
Nules
Flood in Kobe Causes Heavy Death Toll and Destruction
Flood sweeps Kobe city leaving an estimated 400 to 480 dead with fears the toll could rise to 1,000. The Kobe disaster follows severe floods across western Japan and Tokyo last week, as the home ministry reports 861 dead injured or missing in recent days.
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Tokyo
Kobe
Japan
Home Ministry
All-Star Box Score: Vander Meer Wins in Pitchers Duel
Box score notes errors and RBIs for Cronin Medwick Lombardi and DiMaggio. Vander Meer earned the win with three scoreless innings. Gomez took the loss after allowing one run in three. Attendance 28 000.
Oatman Wins Kansas State Golf Championship
Glen Oatman of Lawrence won the Kansas state golf championship at Hutchinson after finishing 7 up with 5 to play. He and Billy Jones of Wichita battled through 36 holes with Oatman tying par and taking the title on the final stretch.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Glen Oatman
Lawrence
Billy Jones
Oatman
Hutchinson Country Club
Jones
Active Buying Lifts Stocks in Midyear Rally
Stocks rose today as an active buying movement pushed most sectors higher. Copper and motor shares led the rebound from yesterday losses, with many issues hitting new 1938 highs as transactions totaled about 1,817,190 shares.
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New York
Temperatures Fall in Northern Part of State
A brief heavy rain in Atchison and Leavenworth, Kansas, lowered temperatures sharply. In Atchison the thermometer fell from 97 to 70 within an hour, with 1.39 inches of rain by 12:30 p.m. In Leavenworth the temperature dropped five degrees in ten minutes during the brief shower.
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Atchison
Kan
Leavenworth
Drowned on Fishing Trip Near Jola Kansas
A fishing outing on the Neosho River at Jola Kansas ended with the drowning of 10 year old Robert Valentine when his row boat detached and went over a dam. His companion Edgar Smith, an adult, made futile rescue attempts.
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Jola
Kan
Robert Valentine
Neosho
Edgar Smith
Coffeyville Goes Literary
County officers found two volumes titled ten years in the Irish Free State under a porch at Caney near Coffeyville last night. Opening them revealed a bottle of whisky in each volume. They arrested a man and charged him with being the librarian.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Irish Free State
Caney
Here
National Stars Triumph In 4101 Charity Game
National League pitchers Vander Meer Lee and Brown held off the American League at Crosley Field Cincinnati in the sixth annual charity game. A four to one victory featured Mel Ott Ernie Lombardi and Joe Medwick with key hits and a remarkable Medwick catch. Cronin and DiMaggio produced the lone American run as Vander Meer shined on the mound and Lombardi fueled the offense for the NL.
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Cronin
Dickey
Foxx
DiMaggio
Medwick
Lombardi
Ott
Goodman
Lee
Gehringer
Brown
Gomez
Allen
Durocher
Herman
Grove
Hack
Vander Meer
Averill
York
Johnson
Klein
Geisel
Ballanfant
Basil
Poa Kreevich
Chicago
Cramer
Boston
Detroit
Cleveland
N. Y
New York
Weterece Lewis
Washington
Gehrig
Phila
Mrtenene Annegtasecamenas Nese
Hpoa
Deterege Herman
Wedwick
St. Louis
McCormick
Cincin
Duroacher
Brooklyn
Cin
tLeiber
Crosley
Cincinnati
Nationals
Ohio Valley
Johnny Vander Meer
Bill Lee
Mace Brown
Joe DiMaggio
Joe Cronin
Johnny Allen
Mel Ott
New York Giants
Ernie Lombardi
Reds
Lefty Gomez
Stan Hack
Billy Herman
Joe Medwick
Lefty Grove
Frank McCormick
Leo Durocher
Jimmie Foxx
Baseball
National League
Cincinnati Battery
St. Louis Cardinals
Bill Dickey
Lou Gehrig
Bob Johnson
Athletics
Kreevich
van der Meer
Vandy
Hopper
Lewis
Hank Leiber
Giants
Five Kansas convicts seize car flee toward Oklahoma
Enid Oklahoma officials report five Kansas state reformatory convicts slugged a guard and fled. The car abandoned in Enid is linked to leaders Floyd Kraus and Bluford Smiddy with accomplices Robert and Ralph Durbin and Clarence Brown. Authorities chase suspects toward Kilgore and Topeka as the car is traced to a Hutchinson reform school escape.
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Enid
Okla
Kansas State Reformatory
Hutchinson
Earl Moore
Here
Moore
Altho
Kansas
Smiddy
Kraus
Clarence White
White
Garfield County
Oklahoma
J. J. Coffman
Kansas Reformatory
Harold Waldecker
Reformatory
Robert
Ralph Durbin
Topeka
Clarence Brown
Kansas City
Kilgore
U S Silver Moved to New Vault at West Point
Twenty five trucks carry nearly 12 tons each, moving 1,290,000 bars of silver worth a huge sum to a new bullion vault beside the West Point military academy. Coast guardsmen accompany the convoy on a 50 mile dawn departure from the U S assay office.
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New York
West Point
U. S. Assay Office
United States Military Academy
Treasury
Peter J. Malley
Malley
Three Kansas Convicts Reported Crossing Into Colorado
Colorado traffic authorities joined state highway patrol and local police to monitor U S 40 and U S 24 after reports three escapees from the Kansas state reformatory fled into Colorado. The three men, possibly including the Durbin twins, were said to travel in a 1937 Ford with Illinois plates heading toward Denver from Limon with a gunfire incident at Leoti cited.
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Denver
Colorado
Kansas
Col. W. R. Combs
U.S. 40
U.S. 24
Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas State Reformatory
Leotij Kan
Reformatory
Leoti
Garden City
Robert and
Ralph Durbin
Topeka
Clarence Brown
Kansas City
Colorado State Highway Courtesy Patrol
Limon
Colo
U. S
Coune
Ford
Illinois
Average stock figures and dealer location noted
The average of 60 stocks is 48.3 with yesterday’s reading at 47.7. Ford Service located at Hamilton 15 W. 9th-Ve is cited as a reference point.
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Ford Service
Hamilton
School Board Awards Repairs and Budgets for coming Year
The board awarded contracts for school repairs including a 20 year bond ed roof for the gymnasium to J. T. Constant Construction Co and a stoker for the high school to William Bros. Boiler and Manufacturing Co. Other awards were made for plumbing and electrical materials to Eugene Brune and heating materials to Carl Sneegas. Coal purchases will be from multiple dealers with July lump coal at 4.80 to 5.25 per ton and August forward 5.20 to 5.65. Five teachers resigned and three new teachers were elected including Vernon C. Rhodes to Liberty Memorial high school and Frances Varvel and Dorothy Wilson in elementary and junior high assignments. The board did not act on the budget yet and a special meeting may be held next week for property valuations and fund balances.
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Board of Education
Liberty Memorial High School
J. T. Constant Construction Company
William Bros. Boiler and Manufacturing Company
Minneapolis
Kaw Valley Fuel Company
South Lawrence Lumber Company
Derby Grain Company
Johns’ Coal Company
Logan-Moore Lumber Company
Harry Turner Coal Company
Burger-Bowman-Matthews Lumber Company
Orley M. Smith Coal Company
The
University Coal Company
Iva H. James
Otto M. Bischof
Anna Alexander
Pickney
Imogene Hyde
Cordley
Olive Abele Krehbiel
New York
Vernon C. Rhodes
Marston McCluggage
K. U
Rhodes
Yates Center
Frances Varvel
Prades
K.U
Ft. Scott
Dorothy Wilson
Des Moines
Lucille McIntyre
Barker Avenue Paving Job May Begin Monday
City Engineer Ben Babb said Barker Avenue paving could start next Monday if WPA laborers finish harvest work. The project plans to employ 80 men across three shifts with 40 workers per shift and be ready when the workers return.
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Barker Avenue
Ben Babb
Wheat Flows Into Kansas City Market Boosting Week Receipts
Wheat deliveries to the Kansas City market surged with 11 230 cars or about 2 000 000 bushels, swelling weekly receipts to over 7 500 000 bushels. Following a weekend record of 8 579 cars, traders predicted a new single day and weekly records before Saturday close. Early July wheat sales hovered around 65 cents a bushel as mills and storage firms competed for supplies.
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Kansas City
Board of Trade
Wheat Truck Fire Near Gilmore Farm Destroys Vehicle
A wheat truck from a threshing operation caught fire on the Gilmore property north of the airport at about 6 pm. Gasoline explosion spread flames through stubble fields threatening standing wheat. The truck burned completely. O T Powell was overcome by heat and sidelined, with a doctor warning prolonged sun exposure. Fire chief Paul Ingels cites faulty wiring as the likely cause.
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Gilmore
O. T. Powell
Powell
Paul Ingels
Brutus Hamilton Visits Lawrence on Way to California
Former Kansas University track coach Brutus Hamilton, now at the University of California Berkeley, stopped in Lawrence for a brief visit after seeing his parents in Harrisonville Missouri. He noted Berkeley’s track facilities and recalled KU athletes excelling at the Los Angeles Olympic Games with James Bausch winning and Clyde Coffman and Wilson Charles also placing in the top ten.
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Brutus Hamilton
University of Kansas
University of California At Berkeley
Lawrence
Hamilton
Harrisonville
California
Berkeley
West Coast
K.U
Los Angeles
James Bausch
Clyde Coffman
Wilson
Buster” Charles
Haskell
Wakarusa Township Begins First Blacktop Surfacing
Douglas county marks its first county or township blacktop on Learnard avenue from Nineteenth to Twenty third streets. The mile long road has crushed rock already and asphalt arrived this morning. Project cost estimates range from 500 to 600 dollars with labor costs not yet estimated. Foreman Roy Hegerman leads the crew. committee members are Frank Topping Fred Peterson and Ed Johnson.
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Douglas County
Wakarusa
Learnard Avenue
Roy Hegerman
Frank Topping
Fred Peterson
Ed Johnson
Marland Plans Friendly Welcome for Roosevelt in Oklahoma
Oklahoma Governor E. W. Marland said he would greet President Roosevelt warmly during a Saturday visit in Oklahoma City while opposing the candidacy of Senator Thomas in the upcoming primary. Marland, a rival for the Democratic Senate nomination, pledged equal treatment to all candidates and defended Roosevelt’s visit as non endorsement seeking.
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Marland
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Thomas
Oklahoma City
E. W. Marland
Senator Thomas
Rep
Gomer Smith
Marvin H. McIntyre
Shawnee
Senate
July Rain Brought Hail and Wind to Lawrence
A storm over Lawrence at about 12:45 pm dropped 1.10 inches of rain by 8 pm and sent hail across streets. Gusty northerly winds damaged an awning at 904 Massachusetts and felled a tree in South Park while water flooded Sixth and Kentucky. Farmers noted improvements for corn and row crops, while wheat and potatoes faced delayed harvesting and price shifts.
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Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Hanna Radio Shop
Massachusetts Street
South Park
Mud Creek Bridge
J. T. Skinner
Kansas Electric Power Company
Telephone Company
Observatory Junket On Campus Tonight For Public
The weekly summer session at the University holds a 7:45 p m junket tonight at the campus observatory. Assistant physics instructor R Stanley Alexander will demonstrate astronomical apparatus and explain its use. Visitors may view the moon through a six inch telescope, with tours open to the public free of charge.
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R. Stanley Alexander
Lehman Reports New York Budget Surplus After Deficit
Governor Lehman of New York announces that the state’s $94,000,000 deficit inherited from Roosevelt in 1933 has been wiped out. He says economies and savings have produced a surplus of $6,469,322.
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Albany
N. Y
Herbert Lehman
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Moody Defeats Irish Junior Champion in Dublin
Helen Wills Moody made her first appearance in the Irish championships and defeated Miss D Curley, Irish junior titleholder, 6 1, 6 2 today in Dublin.
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Moody
Dublin
Helen Wills Moody
Miss D. Curley
Kansas Weather Outlook With Thundershowers and Cooler Temps
Local thundershowers this afternoon and tonight in southeast areas with slightly cooler temperatures. Thursday will be partly cloudy with more showers in the southeast and extreme east. Morning topeka and Emporia show partly cloudy skies while Wichita Manhattan and Coffeyville stay clear. Dirt roads remain good as gas office records show temperatures around 60. Yesterday peaked near 92 and today’s high around 85 with a low near -2W2. Year ago high reached 98 and low 73.
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Kansas
Topeka
Emporia
Wichita
Manhattan
Coffeyville
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Intergovernmental Committee On
Montana
Qatman
Bulletin
National Stars
Trio
Black-Top A
Sixth
Kentucky
Lehman
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