Hughes Flight Delayed to Paris by Weather and Rudder Damage
Howard Hughes halted his globe girdling flight as weather and a damaged rudder forced a delay in Paris. He landed at Le Bourget from New York in 16 hours 35 minutes, aiming to depart again at dawn, with repairs underway and officials greeting the crew.
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Paris
Howard Hughes
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hughes
le Bourget
Greenwich
E.S.T
Wiley Post
Bullitt
United States
Lockheed
London
Air France
Floyd Bennett Field
Col
Mun
le Bourget Field
William C. Bullitt
Lindbergh
Army
Flughes
Ues
Ambush near Mount Tabor escalates week of violence
In the Mount Tabor area near Jerusalem a British patrol and Palestine police repelled an ambush, injuring 10 attackers and wounding others. The week’s toll tops 300, with 45 Arabs and 21 Jews killed and dozens more hurt as curfews and unrest spread through Nazareth Tiberias Haifa and Jerusalem.
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Mount Tabor
Jerusalem
Palestine Police
Dabboureyeh
Holy Land
Palestine
Nazareth
Tiberias
Galilee
Haifa
Tulkarm
Britain
Bartlett Residents Blame Kill Hill Dam Over Flood Losses
Bartlett Iowa residents at a mass meeting planned on the Andy Buckingham farm urged the government to tear down the Kill Hill dam or allow overflow and to reimburse property losses. They cited flood-caused displacement as Army engineers pursued navigation goals rather than flood control. Meanwhile Missouri river floods kept high levels near Rockport and Falls City with CCC and WPA crews guarding levees as Bartlett and surrounding areas evacuated.
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Bartlett
Kill Hill
Andy Buckingham
Buckingham
Omaha
Florence
Rockport
Missouri
CCC
WPA
Falls City
Neb
Rulo
King George ill but improving. Queen to attend royal presentation
Queen Elizabeth, reassured by physicians, plans to attend a 2 Buckingham Palace presentation tomorrow as King George recovers from gastric influenza. The king spent a restful night and postpones a hospital visit. the royal mourning for the Countess of Strathmore remains in effect.
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Windsor
Eng
Elizabeth
George
Buckingham Palace
London
Royal Lodge
Countess of Strathmore
Hackney
Engand
Grand Jury Opens Vandalism and Racketeering Inquiry
Jackson County grand jury begins secretive investigation into vandalism and racketeering in Kansas City. Witness protection urged to obscure identities as proceedings commence.
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Kansas City
Jackson County Grand Jury
City seeks Airport Manager in Lawrence
Notice states applications will be received at the City Clerk's Office up to 5 PM Wednesday July 13 1938 for the position of Manager of the Lawrence Airport. Application blanks available at City Clerk’s office. Signed J Wm Stone City Clerk.
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Lawrence
J. Wm. Stone
Evacuation Urged as Japan Warns On Yangtze Cities
The Japanese issued new notes urging evacuation of foreign nationals from six Yangtze cities including Hankow Nanchang Yochow Changsha Kiukiang and Linyang as air raids threaten. The United States has not replied to the latest note while gunboats moved upriver under shelling near Kiukiang.
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Shanghai
United States
Yangtze Valley
Yangtze River
Hankow
Yangtze
Nanchang
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Linyang
Peiping-Hankow
Yochow
Changsha
Canton-Hankow
Kiukiang
Monocacy
Cochafer
Local Farm Committees Spent 648 529 in Kansas Under 1936 Conservation
Washington July 11 The agricultural adjustment administration reports Kansas local farmers committees and associations spent 648 529 executing the 1936 conservation program from July 1 1936 to February 28 1937. National total 19 409 514. Excluded amounts include 3 172 718 for pre July 1 1936 organization work 438 122 for post Feb 28 1937 clean up 175 470 for western range inspectors and 24 771 in miscellaneous items. Compliance payments reached 3 961 596 individuals. Douglas and adjacent counties expenses noted.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Kansas
AAA
Douglas
New President Succeeds Rotary Club Leader
Gene Glahn ends his term as Lawrence Rotary president and passes the gavel to Walter Keeler, elected president. Russell L. Wiley guides the program, praising music students in the summer session. Performers included Jean Moyer, Jean Klussman, Ernest Harrison, Channon Moyer, and Robert Lamar, with visitors and KU summer session students present.
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Gene Glahn
Lawrence Rotary Club
Walter Keeler
Russell L. Wiley
School of Fine Arts
Wiley
Jean Moyer
Lawrence
Jean Klussman
Topeka
Ernest Harrison
Missouri
Channon Moyer
Chicago
Robert Lamar
K. U
Stock Market Index Edges Higher on Weekend Trading
The average of 60 stocks stood at 47.0 with gains noted on Saturday at 47.6 as traders monitored sector moves and broader market sentiment.
Wheat crop forecast boosts government loans and quotas
The federal crop reporting board projects a 1938 wheat crop of 967,412,000 bushels the second largest on record. The estimate triggers government loans to hold surplus grain off the market and potential acreage restrictions for next year. Officials anticipate a loan rate near the minimum and may invoke crop control provisions to limit planting to about 55,000,000 acres.
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Washington
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Agriculture Department
Trusty Deserts Prison Farm Missing Inmate Livesay Feared
Warden Kirk Prather reported Loyd Livesay a 42 year old former Grant County sheriff serving a term for felonious intent to beat up his wife is missing from the Kansas State Prison island farm. He walked away from the island farm where he had been a trusty. His departure was the first in ten months.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Kirk Prather
Loyd Livesay
Grant County
Kansas State Prison
Prather
Livesay
Island Farm
Horse Delays Train in San Jose Incident
In San Jose on July 11 Eugene Mello, 16, led a horse that cut across a railroad trestle. The animal wedged between ties delaying a passenger train two hours until a section crew freed the horse and Dobbin to safety with a wrecker assisting.
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San Jose
Calif
Eugene Mello
Mello
Dobbin
Rites for Cardozo Held at Home of Justice Lehman
Benjamin N. Cardozo age 68, associate justice of the U S Supreme Court, was buried in Cypress Hills cemetery after brief services at the home of Justice Irving Lehman in Port Chester New York. About 200 mourners included Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt Owen J Roberts Pierce Butler Stanley Reed Governor Herbert Lehman Mrs Lehman Henry Morgenthau Jr and Charles Evans Hughes Jr. Rabbi D A Jessurun Cardozo of Shereth Israel led the service Cardozo died Saturday night of heart disease aggravated by overwork and had earlier refused medical advice to stop working.
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Port Chester
N. Y
Benjamin N. Cardozo
United States Supreme Court
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Queens
Irving Lehman
State Court of Appeals
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cardozo
Owen J. Roberts
Pierce Butler
Stanley Reed
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr
D. A. Jessurun Cardozo
Shereth Israel
Federal buys 48 carloads of potatoes in Douglas County
The Surplus Commodities Corporation bought 48 carloads of potatoes by noon, doubling Saturday’s total of three cars. No ton limit and continued purchases were announced, with private buyers paying 50 cents per hundred and the SCC offering 60 cents for number one grade. Inspection costs, grading delays, and car load requirements affected growers’ decisions.
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Surplus Commodities Corporation
Douglas County
SCC
Fliers Hail Hughes Record Flight Across Atlantic
The record breaking flight by Howard Hughes and crew from New York to Paris drew praise from pilots nationwide. Lieut Commander Frank Hawks praised their careful planning and equipment differences from Lindbergh. Dick Merrill lauded Hughes as a top pilot with a crew that knew its business. he noted their speed exceeded expectations.
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Howard R. Hughes
New York
Paris
Frank M. Hawks
Hughes
Redding
Conn
France
Lindbergh
Dick Merrill
Eastern Airlines
Atlantic
Howard Hughes
Plans North South Flight Russian Aviator Predicts Global Crossing
Mikhail Gromoff, famed for last year’s Moscow to California polar flight, predicts a north south nonstop round the world journey over both poles. He backs Howard Hughes in completing the mission. Gromoff’s record flight covered 6 262 miles. New Model Plane Record at Wichita Floyd Fields of Emporia flew a model plane 1 5 miles in 4 40 to set a state mark.
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Moscow
Mikhail Gromoff
North Pole
California
Gromoff
Howard Hughes
Wichita
Floyd Fields
Emporia
Beloit Records 110 Degree Heat In July
Beloit Kansas baked under a season high of 110 degrees as an oven like wind persisted despite a light afternoon shower and continued heat.
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Beloit Beloit
Kan
Beloit
Fatal street accident claims child in Lawrence
Blonde haired Donna Lee Easton three years old daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Greenwood is killed when struck by a gas company truck driven by Guy W Ousdahl in front of the family home on New Hampshire Street. Eyewitnesses report the child ran into the street as the truck passed, the right front wheel running over her. Edmondson and another witness carried the child to Funk mortuary and then to Lawrence Memorial Hospital where she died. Authorities call it an unavoidable accident with no inquest.
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Donna Lee Easton
J. A. Greenwood
New Hampshire Street
Guy W. Ousdahl
Ousdahl
Charles A. Edmondson
New York Cleaners
Funk Mortuary
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
L. K. Zimmer
Arthur S.anderson
Zimmer
Lawrence
Richard Thomas Workman
Pete Workman
North Elm Street
Rosa Jane Brewster
L. A
Edmondson
Greenwood
L. XK. Zimmer
Storm Hits Tom Mix Circus in Neenah
A freak 15 minute storm collapsed half the tent of the Tom Mix circus in Neenah Wisconsin injuring ten people. About 1200 spectators were orderly evacuated preventing more injuries.
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Neenah
Wis
Mercury Reaches 101 Degrees At Gas Office
The gas office thermometer topped 101 degrees around three this afternoon and read 99 by 3 30. Weather observers note extreme heat levels in the city as residents seek shade and hydration.
Market Rush Switches to Cattle in Kansas City Run
The market shifted from wheat to cattle with 17,000 head, the largest cattle receipts of the year. Missouri fed steers averaged a new top price of 11.50 per hundredweight for 1,164 pounds, while hogs climbed to 9.60, a fresh high since October. The shift followed seasonal grass fat cattle movement from Kansas and Oklahoma pastures amid a heavy wheat run of 2,421 cars.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Guest conductor Laud Hebestreit guides Midwestern camp
William Hebestreit, new guest conductor at the university music camp, stays in the Pi Kappa Alpha dormitory with the boys after a two hour rehearsal. He says personal contact aids rehearsals and notes improved musicianship this summer. He has directed operettas, taught in Houston, Chicago, and Berlin, and has toured worldwide as a conductor and instrumentalist.
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Laudwig William Hebestreit
K. U
Hebestreit
Ralph E. Rush
Pi Kappa Alpha
Rudolf Friml
Katinka
University
Houston
Tex
Altho
Chicago
Ill
Harmony Orchestra
Brentano Choral Society
Fourth
Illinois Infantry
Chicago Opera Club
Illinois College of Music
Berlin
Leipsig
Cairo
Egypt
Aida
Pyramids
Roosevelt Names Governor Allred to Southern Texas Federal Judgeship
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Governor James V. Allred as federal judge for the newly created southern district of Texas. Allred, 39, a former state attorney general, accepted but may not resign as governor. Fort Worth and Amarillo events accompanied the announcement with Roosevelt touring Texas by rail.
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Roosevelt
Governor Allred
Texas
Wichita Falls
Tex
James V. Allred
Allred
Congress
Pelguoc
Elliott
Here
Fort Worth
C.S.T
Texas Panhandle
Pacific Coast
Amarillo
Tom Connally
Childress
Clarendon
Ohio
Kentucky
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mr. Roosevelt
Robert J. Burkley
Alben W. Barkley
Hattie W. Caraway
Elmer Thomas
Lone Star
Family argument ends with gunfire near De Soto Kansas
Four Kaw Valley potato pickers from Oklahoma were involved in a Saturday night shooting three miles west of De Soto in Johnson county. J W Brown 55 of Sallisaw suffered a bad shoulder wound while Arthur Satterfield 37 of Arkoma received facial wounds. Charles and Ace Martin of Oklahoma City were in a Nash sedan at the scene. Brown and Satterfield were treated at Lawrence Memorial and later in De Soto and Eudora hospitals. Brown remained in fair condition. Charles Martin was jailed. Ace Martin was at large. both alleged participants fled the scene.
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Oklahoma
J. W. Brown
Sallissaw
Okla
Arthur Satterfield
Arkoma
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
de Soto
Johnson County
Harry
Charles Dickens
Charles Martin
Brown
Ace Martin
Charles
Oklahoma City
Fred Vogler
George Price
Douglas County
Highsway
L. L. Richardson
Larry Porter
Satterfield
Acie
Eudora
Heat and unsettled skies foreseen in Kansas
Topeka reports unsettled weather with possible local showers over the next 36 hours. Meteorologist S D Flora notes eastern two thirds corn remains healthy, wheat harvest favorable, and temps climbing to 100 106 degrees with warm nights across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Altho
Ellis
Goodland
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Dresden
Cubs order Dizzy Dean to be ready to pitch soon
Chicago owner Phil K. Wrigley told Dizzy Dean to be ready to pitch within a week after two months sidelined by an arm problem. Dean, who insisted he is ready, was purchased for 185000 from the St Louis Cardinals and Wrigley will rely on his own assessment despite medical reports.
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Chicago
Phil K. Wrigley
Chicago Cubs Today
Dizzy Dean
Dean
Wrigley
Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Weather forecast for Kansas with unsettled pattern
Weather outlook for Kansas shows unsettled conditions tonight into Tuesday with warm temperatures. Partly cloudy morning skies and generally clear elsewhere. dirt roads remain good. Historical data mention yesterday evening and today with highs around 100 and lows near 72, plus service ad for Ford Hamilton dealership.
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Kansas
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