Chinese Eastern railway crisis sparks Soviet ultimatum
Russian and Chinese tensions surge as Moscow demands three day compliance on the seizure of the Chinese Eastern railway. Reports from Harbin and Vladivostok cite troop movements and border suspensions while Chinese authorities restrain labor and arrest measures. Soviet calls for an immediate conference, release of detainees, and cease of arbitrary orders. A Moscow ultimatum threatens further action if demands are ignored.
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Manchin
Rengo
Merchu- Ji
Siberian
Moscow
Nanking
Fatency Rengo
Vladivostok
Russia
Union
U.S
Tavestia
Soviet’Union
Hoover in Brief Address Outlines Work of New Farm Board
President Hoover outlined the aims of the newly organized farm board in a brief statement to members gathered for the first session. He stressed determining facts and devising permanent, farmer controlled market institutions to stabilize production and extend equal opportunity within the economy. He warned no quick fixes exist and emphasized building foundations for present and future years with leadership from organized agriculture.
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Hoover
Washington
Farm Board
Congress
Y. Pave
Federal Farm. Board
Ganized Agriculture
Lleagues
Weather Fragment: Kansas Rapes and Toads Tale Confuses Reading
A fragment from a weather section in Kansas includes garbled text about rapes and toads with mentions of Tuesday. The readable bits hint at a weather forecast but are unclear and partially illegible.
Sigma Chi Fraternity House Awarded to Local Builder
Lawrence firm J. T Constant Construction Co won the contract to build a new $75,000 Sigma Chi fraternity house at 1439 Tennessee Street. The old Bowersock place will be replaced with a three story fireproof Colonial design, about 40 by 100 feet, with a chapter roof recreation rooms and living spaces. Construction starts immediately and occupancy is targeted for February 1.
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J. T) Constant Construction Company
Lawrence
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Tennessee Street
Frederick H. Michaeles
Kansas City
J.T.’ Constant ‘Company
Phi Gamma
Delta, Kappa
Alpha: Theta
Phi Kappa Psi
Delta Tau Delta
Alpha Delta
Phi Beta Pi: fRuse
Two Buildings Collapse In Montgomery Alabama
A pair of three story Montgomery mercantile buildings on Dexter avenue the Bullock Shoe Company and Pizitz department store collapsed burying many workers and bystanders. Fire and police teams aided rescue as ambulances arrived but progress was slow amid debris and crowding. Authorities planned a full investigation to determine causes and scope of the tragedy.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Mercantile
Ithe
Bullock Shoe Company
Pixitz ‘Department Store
Dexter ‘Avenue
Carl Quine Cline Found Guilty on One Count
Carl Quine Cline was found not guilty on the first count and guilty on the second count of possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor by a jury in justice court. He was ordered to serve thirty days in the county jail and pay a $100 fine plus costs. Oscar Learnard said an appeal would be filed to district court. Sheriff Rutherford and Deputy Nieder arrested him after officers found seven pints in the Ford roadster he was driving. Ross Carlson, who faced similar charges, pleaded guilty and received sixty days in jail with a $257.50 fine and costs.
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Earl “Cline
H. Mitchell
Cline
Oscar Learnard
R.B. ‘Rutherford
Walter Nieder
Kord
Chine
Ross
Réd
Carlson
J.H. Mitchell
Klein Charged With Worthless Check In Topeka
Klein is charged with passing a worthless check for 2.65 at the Kansas Electric Power office in Topeka and faces arraignment before Justice J. H. Mitchell. He reportedly wrote checks totaling 62.26 to various city businesses. The checks were returned marked insufficient funds and are under review by County Attorney Harry W. Frazee. The address on record is 1528 Hampshire Street.
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B.A. Klein
Kansas, Electric, Power
Topeka
Lawrence
Rutherford
Tional State Bank
Boulde
Cole
Klein
J. H. Mitchell
Thistice
Frazee
Hutchinson Flood Recedes Slowing City Damage
Hutchinson Kansas reports floodwaters receding after the worst inundation in the city’s history. Water diminished about a foot citywide with main street passable. some areas still two feet deep near the business district. Officials estimate losses near one million dollars as telephone lines remain out and basements drain before a full damage assessment can be made.
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Hutchinson
Kan
National Guardsmen
Ock Island
Hutchinson’s
Wichita 2
Swollen streams subside as light showers ease in Kansas
Topeka reports swollen streams receding after a weekend of light rainfall across eastern Kansas. Flora, a US weather official, said the Smoky Hill river should stay below flood levels while the Cottonwood at Emporia fell from a crest of 25.5 feet. Neosho River at Neosho Rapids dropped back within banks after peaking 2.4 feet above bankful.
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Topeka
Kansas
United States Weather Bureau
Smoky Hill
Cottonwood River
Emporia
Neosho
Neosho River
Meteororoligst
Averflow
Arkansas III Flood Angers Wichita Area as Rivers Rise
Flood warnings spread through Halstead and Sedgwick County as the Little Arkansas River overran flood stage. Sedgwick and rural sections south toward Wichita faced rising waters while the Big Arkansas River reached 3.57 feet, with lowlands in the Wichita district remaining stationary today.
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Wichita
Kan
Little
Halstead
Harvey County
Sedgwick
Heller’s Grove
Arkansas
Overflow threat dims as Salina river stays still
Salina Kansas July 15 AP reported river stage near 20.77 feet with conditions stationary at Mentor south of Salina. Farmland nearby flooded with several houses affected but no city damage. peak level expected tomorrow. Also Fort Scott area reports Marmaton River drowning of George McKee, 60, who reportedly fell in while ill and drowned yesterday.
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Salina
Kans
Mentor
Marmaton River
Ft. Scott
Kan
George McKee
Scott
Ing
McKee
Bank Robbers Strike Nebraska Near Southwest Road
Sworn police report notes a bank heist early this morning near a Nebraska town southwest of the county seat. Bandits fled with undisclosed cash. no injuries reported as investigators sift clues at the scene.
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Nebraska
Scar
Money under ice block eludes a bandit
Kansas City July 15 AP report says F. Coleman manager of Atlantic & Pacific grocery store was locked in the icebox by a bandit who stole 26 cents. The next moment an armored truck driver arrived to take Saturday receipts to the bank. Coleman released and produced $500 from under a block of ice where he had hidden it the night before.
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Kansas City
Colman
Atlantic &Pacific Grocery
Coleman
Nichols named executive secretary to KU chancellor
Raymond F. Nichols of Larned will become executive secretary to Chancellor E. H. Lindley, effective tomorrow, after Dean John R. Dyer resigns to join the University of Idaho. Nichols, a 1928 KU graduate and former Kansan editor, brings scholastic honors and multiple campus leadership roles. He will assume most duties previously handled by Dyer, with dean of men duties moving to Prof. Henry Werner as men's advisor.
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Raymond F. Nichols
Larned
University
Kansas City
Kensan
Lawrence
John
R. Dyer
Southern' I
University of Idaho
Y. Dean
Dyer
Nichols
Jayhawker
K.U
Kansan
Salehem
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma ‘Delta Chi
National Journalistic Fraternity
Sigma Chi
Dean Dyer
Henry Werner
Tragedy Ends First Trans Atlantic Air Race at Azores
Polish pilot Major Ludwik Idzikowski died when his plane crashed on Graciosa Island near Horta. Navigator Major Casimir Kubala was injured and the French rival Quéstion: Mark landed safely at Villacoublay after battling headwinds. Kubala later sent word that Idzikowski died shortly after the crash.
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Horta
Azores
Ludwik Tdzikowski
Marshal Pilsudski
Graciosa Island
Here
Major
Casimir] Kubala
Kubala
Idzikowski
Mark
Villacoublay
France
Versailles
Ludwik Idzikowski
Graciosa
Pen‘ulace
New-York
Alish Committee
New York
Cesimir Kubala
Alish Atlantic
Idzikoski
Boy 11 Drowns at Crowded Pool Plunge in Kansas City
The first swimming fatality of the season occurred yesterday afternoon at the Jak Plunge. Park Tygett, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. M Tygett of Chicago, drowned in the deep end after entering the water though unable to swim. Lifesaving efforts by Herbert Allphin and a team of doctors continued for hours but could not save him. The incident sparked a wide search by lifeguards and divers, with the body recovered ten minutes after the mother reported him missing. Burial set for Concordia. the Tygett family is connected to the A Herrmann company of New York.
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Park Tygett
Mr. Tygett
Chicago
Herbert Allphin
K. U
Red Cross
H. T. Jones
W. L. Post
E. P. Sisson
M. T. Saddler
Young ‘Tygett
Dick Williams
Dick Wiliams
Tygett
Br. Sisson
Smith Saja Wirs
Jygeru
MecElthinny
Smay
Smith
Concordia
Tygeth
A Herrmann Company
New York City
Summerfield Finals to Be Held Here Tomorrow
Kansas high school graduates compete in Summerfield finals at the University tomorrow under Prof Olin Templin. From nineteen finalists five to ten will win scholarships funded by Solon Summerfield, a New York hosiery magnate, with $5,000 for the first year and similar sums thereafter. Final results expected in a week or ten days.
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Kansas‘ ‘High
Universi Here
Olin Templin
U. Endowment Association
Solon Summerfield
New York City
Fliers Marooned After Plane Lost in Hudson Straits
Ottawa July 15 AP reports the Aeroplane Antin Bowler crew marooned at Port Burwell after their craft, moored in ice, drifted free in a gale near northern Quebec. The Chicago Tribune owned plane departed Chicago July 3 aiming for a Berlin route via Canada Greenland and Iceland.
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Ont
Antin
Port Burwell
Hudson Straits
Quebec
Hudson Bay
Atlantic
Ocean
Chiexes
Berlin
Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Aviation instructor to wed Miss Truda Marr in Chicago
Capt Richard Duncan a former English Royal Flying Corps commander and Kansas City aviation instructor will fly to Chicago for his wedding to New York actress Miss Truda Marr. He will be a passenger on a Universal Air Transport plane leaving Fairfax after noon. the couple plan a brief honeymoon by air back to Kansas City. Friends note he has never learned to drive an automobile.
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Kansas City
Richard Duncan
English
Royal Flying Corps
Chicago
Truda Marr
New York
Duncan
Universal Air Transport Nlan
Fairfax
Wwedding
Voices Will Rest After Vocal Strain Shuts Lawrence Choral Union
Dean D. M. Swarthout announced the Lawrence choral union will rest next year due to vocal strain. He returned from Philadelphia where extensive tests found no chronic issue and ordered to use only whispers for a month and begin voice exercises with Proschowicki guidance. The group will reorganize in the fall of the following year.
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Lawrence Choral Union
D. M. Swarthout
van Swarthout
Philadelphia
Jefferson Hospital
Swarthout
Choral Union
Dean Swarthout
Proschowicki
Kansas City
Theodore
First Presbyterian Church
King George Undergoes a Successful Operation
King George was operated on at Buckingham Palace for drainage of a small abscess in his right chest. Seven doctors attended. the Prince of Wales came from York House. Afterward a bulletin said portions of two ribs were removed to circumscribe the abscess and the king's condition was satisfactory.
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London
George
Buckingham Palace
Prince of Wales
York House
Stanley Hewitt
Sir Hugh
Rigby
Professor Trotter
Francis Shipway
Lord Dawson
Penn
Pius Elevates One Cardinal in Secret Vatican Consistory
Vatican City July 15 AP Pope Pius held a secret consistory, elevating only one new cardinal, Father Llefoso Schuster, abbott of St Paul outside the walls. Schuster will be consecrated next Sunday and later become archbishop of Milan. The Pope signaled more cardinals would be created at December’s consistory, and hinted at future dealings on the Roman question and Italy relations. Ottawa Man Is Arrested. Walter Mann, 127 years old, of Ottawa, was arrested Saturday afternoon by Chief of Police Will Johns and handed to the sheriff on a charge of failing to support his family.
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Kansas. City
Kansas ‘City
Kansas City
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Canada
Vatican City
Pius
Vatican Palace
Llefoso Schuster
St. Paul's
Schuster
Milan
Italy
Ottawa
Mann
Walter Mann
Will Johns
City to Collect on Taxes Overdue
City commissioners ordered warrants for delinquents over poll and dog taxes to speed revenue. Police to serve warrants. delinquents face $3 fines plus tax. Auditors passed two alley paving projects and a sidewalk petition on Vermont Street. A cow pasture complaint was referred to health officials.
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Commission
Chet Johns
Vermonti
Kentucky
Alersissippi
Indiana
L. J Averue
Tenth Street
Vermont
Twentieth Street
Il- Hingis Street
Seventeenth Street
Man Held on Car Theft Charges Tries death by own action
Raymond Anderson of Beatrice Nebraska was arrested on a car theft charge by Officer George Atkeson. He attempted suicide in a Beatrice Ford ownership case by tying a rope from an army blanket to a steam pipe in the city jail. Police recovered the improvised noose. Anderson had sought a chair, and the rope was found hanging. He had claimed he rented the car after giving several accounts of ownership.
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George Atkeson
Raymond Anderson
Beatrice
Neb
Anderson
Douglas County
Harold Fisyd
John Callahan
Callahan
Lawrence
Denies Bank Robbery in Kansas Case
Wichita dispatch reports Floyd Skages denies his confession in the $2,700 July 3 Bun ker Hill State Bank robbery. C R Helland Russell County attorney says Skages and Gilbert Meyers are jailed pending trial. Skages claims Wichita police used force to obtain his confession. Additional details place Skages under investigation in Robinson on burglary and related charges.
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Wichita
Kan
C. R. Helland
Russell County
Floyd Skages
Gilbert Meyer
Bunker Hill
Meyers
Skaggs
Russell
Halland
Robinson
Holland
Geo 6
Topeka Minister Dead A Grace topeka rector dies after operation
The Rev. Morton E. Nelson age unknown rector at Grace Episcopal Topeka died Sunday at a Minneapolis hospital from complications after an appendicitis operation. He studied at the University of Topeka from 1917 to 1922 and graduated from the General Seminary of New York City in 1928. A funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 30. Rotary convention in Kansas City attracts over 150 delegates from four states as district assembly opens.
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Morton E. Nelson
Jistan
Grace Ca- Topeka
Minneapolis
Minn
General Seminary of
New York City
Episcopal Theological School
Topeka
Kes
Ognyse Rotarians
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