Armies Ready for Quick Action in North China
China and Japan poised for possible clash as North China mobilizes. Nanking orders reinforcements to support the 29th Army while Tokyo dispatches troops from Japan and Manchuria to the front. Chiang Kai Shek stays at Kuling as negotiations stall and risks rise.
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Associated Press
China
Japan
Peiping
Foreign Office
Nankin
Japanese War Office
Tokyo
Manchuria
Tientstin
Nanking
Hopeh
Chahar
Manchukuo
Sugiyama
Thutero Inoue
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuling
Marco Polo Bridge
Marco Pols
Yapse
Garri‘eiping Tientsin
Planes Renew Search for Earhart and Noonan
Honolulu July 15 Navy aviators aboard the Lexington resumed the search for Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan after their July 2 disappearance on a 2750 mile route from New Guinea to Howland Island. Aircraft and ships scoured 265000 miles along the international date line with 42 planes in yesterday’s second day of the hunt.
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Honolulu
Lexington
Amelia Earhart
Fred Noonan
New Guinea
Howland Island
Bandit Robs Springfield Bank for 20000 Dollars
A man armed with a robber’s demands escaped with 20000 dollars from a Springfield bank on Commercial Avenue in the presence of more than a dozen customers and about six employees. Bank president Tom Watkins Jr advised staff not to resist, declaring the money insured.
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Busines Avenue
Tom Watkins, Jr
Pravda Warns Enemies Planes Can Reach Capitals Fast
Pravda declares Soviet war planes can reach Berlin Tokyo and other capitals within 800 miles from Moscow. The note cites two nonstop flights to the American Pacific coast and recalls the distance from Portland to San Jacinto as a comparison. Other Soviet papers echo the warning.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Russia
Pacific
Berlin
Tokyo
Portland
Ore
San Jacinto
Calif
Madrid Battle Report on Coruna Road and Villafranca
Insurgent counter-attacks along the Coruna road northwest of Madrid are repelled by Gen. Jose Miaja's Milicianos, while government air and ground forces press the siege area. bombers strike Villafranca del Castillo as combat rages near Las Rojas and El Eranto, with planes crashing and four killed yesterday.
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Madrid
Coruna
Jose Miaja
Milicianos
Capi
Villafranca del Castillo
Miaja
Ae Riley
la Mean
Las Rojas
el Erantio
Majadahonda
Villanueva del Pardillo
Francisco Franco
Hopper Fight Targets Grasshoppers in Douglas County
Doug las county plans a two day grasshopper war with poison bait spread by trucks. Sawdust arsenite mill feed and water mix prepared by county workers will be sold to farmers at 25 cents per hundred pounds of wet mixture, enough to cover about twelve and a half acres. Distribution points include Eudora Clearfield Baldwin Pleasant Grove Lawrence Carr’s garage Lecompton Kraft’s store Stull Lone Star Globe 708 Connecticut street Lawrence and nearby Pleasant Grove and Lawrence residents may obtain the bait this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon.
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Eudora
Clearfield
Baldwin
Pleasant Grove
Lawrence
Carr’s
Lecompton
Kraft’s
Stull
Lone Star
Globe
Connecticut Street
Grant Township
Doughton Says Informants Sufficient to Draft Tax Bill
Washington July 15 Chairman Doughton said the congressional tax inquiry committee will not subpoena individuals described by treasury officials as tax avoiders. He claimed sufficient information exists to draft legislation to curb avoidance and that measures will be ready for submission. The panel plans a closed session early next week to finalize proposals for this session. In Council Grove Kansas July 15 Walter Moten 55, Alta Vista farmer, was killed by a lightning strike in a field near threshing areas.
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Washington
Doughton
D.N.C
Congressional Tax Inquiry Committee
Treasury
Congress
Council Grove
Kan
Walter Moten
Alta Vista
Factions battle to control party in Senate split
Washington reports a split Democratic Party amid leadership contests after Senator Joseph T. Robinson’s death. Administration back Barkley push court bill and Roosevelt agenda while Harrison supporters seek adjournment. Senate and House dynamics hint at a high stakes fight over leadership and policy.
Court fight breaks as four senators meet Roosevelt
Four first term Democratic senators Gillette Andrews Michignatoeagreed to discuss the administration court bill with President Roosevelt at the White House. Reports said they urged withdrawal while three indicated opposition. Brown favored the compromise bill earlier, Maloney signaled opposition, and votes appeared split 41 for, 40 against. Opponents then shifted from seeking recommitment to planning a straight vote to kill the measure.
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Roosevelt
White House
Gillette
Town
Andrews
Florida
John Michignat-aegreed
Brown
Senate
Maloney
Connecticut
Compromise tenancy bill backed by Senate to aid farm ownership
Washington July 15 The senate sent to the White House a compromise tenancy bill authorizing the government to lend 85 million dollars over the next three years to help tenants become farm owners. The measure provides three percent interest in year three for farm purchases and immediate title to tenants and sharecroppers, with a five year selling restriction. It also authorizes 10 million dollars this year for purchase and retirement of sub marginal land and 20 million dollars in each of the next two years.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
Wage Hour Legislation Seeks 40 Cent Minimum Wage
Senator Bridges proposes wage hour reform setting a 40 cent minimum wage and a 40 hour work week with enforcement by the labor department for interstate commerce industries. Franklin D Roosevelt Jr and Ethel du Pont arrive in Cherbourg aboard Empress of Britain and plan a Europe trip by car.
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Washington
Brid
Labor Department
Young Roosevelt
Cherbourg
France
Gpi
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Europe
Helm named executive secretary of state health board
Dr. F P Helm retired as Topeka city health officer and took up duties as executive secretary for the state board of health in Topeka. He succeeds Dr Earle G Brown who resigned weeks earlier.
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Dr. Helm
State Board
Topeka
F. P. Helm
State Board of Health
Earle G. Brown
Senate Votes to Honor Senator Robinson with State Funeral
Washington July 15 UP A corrowing senate voted today to hold a state funeral for Majority Leader Robinson Ark Mrs Hattie Caraway Arkansas's remaining senator formally requested the ceremony be held tomorrow in the senate chamber with President Roosevelt cabinet supreme court justices army and navy commanders and the diplomatic corps present She praised Robinson for courage and loyalty of the highest order saying he was my friend and we shall regret his untimely death
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Washington
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Roosevelt
Aewage
Congress
Little Rock
Ark
Garner
Tragedy at Glendora Baker mine leaves twenty dead
In Sullivan Indiana on July 15 a gas explosion and fire at Glendora Coal Baker mine killed twenty workers. Three bodies have been recovered and seventeen remain in the shaft as gas must clear. About 203 men were in the mine. twenty escaped, some critically injured. The blast occurred one and three quarters miles from the tipple, many victims crushed against walls.
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Sullivan
Ind
Glendora Coal Company
Baker
Here
Jack Oglivie
Indiana Coal Operators’ Association
Ogilvie
Harry Keenan
Keenan
Tipple
Asia Coty
Clipper Ship Returns to Newfoundland Flight Plan
The Pan American Clipper set course from Foynes to Botwood in a 2 000 mile return journey aimed to complete a round trip begun July. The flight mirrors a dress rehearsal by the Caledonia for regular transatlantic air mail and passenger service.
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Newfoundland
Foynes
Irish Free State
Botwood
Nild
Caledonia
Eudora Bridge 10 Opens Saturday After Restoration
The Eudora bridge over the Kaw river, rebuilt with a $101,000 PWA project, will open around 2 p.m. Saturday. A luncheon at Lotz cafe features officials from Douglas and Leavenworth counties with a band concert to follow in Eudora. Reliable new spans include 150-foot and 40-foot segments, replacing damaged sections since 1935.
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Eudora
Kaw River
PWA
Douglas
Leavenworth
J. T. Constant Construction Company
Lawrence
Massman Construction Company
Kansas City
Senate Cleans Up Logjam Behind Court Bill In July Session
In a brief session the Senate moved past the court bill stalemate and sent White House the Bankhead Jones farm tenancy bill and a 194,536,063 war department non military appropriation. It approved 1,000,000 for fighting western grasshopper plague and extended last year's interior appropriations for 15 days. Senator Pope introduced the evergreen grain bill, aiming to advance the court measure despite veto risks on farm, wage hour, and Black bills.
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Washington
Senate
White House
War Department
House
Interior Department
Pope
D.-Ida
Kansas Guard members receive first shots before Fort Riley maneuvers
Lawrence Kansas National Guard units including two companies of the 137th Infantry and Troop I of the 114th Cavalry began typhoid paratyphoid and smallpox inoculations ahead of summer training at Fort Riley from August 15 to 31. About 12 000 to 15 000 troops will assemble for four days of maneuvers in a mobilization larger than post World War I camps. The Seventh Corps area spanning ten states will contribute to the event.
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Troon I
114Th Cavalry
F. W. Morawetz
Fort Riley
Lawrence
Seventh Corps
Arkansas
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Idaho
Iowa
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
National Guardsmen
Rain in Southeast Kansas Prompts Limited Relief
Rains broke across southeast Kansas on July 15 with Chanute reporting 1.40 inches and other towns seeing light totals. Statewide temperatures ranged from 94 to 98, with Anthony and Salina at 102. Outlook called for slightly cooler conditions tomorrow as skies cleared.
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Kansas
S. D. Flora
Chanute
Flora
Tola
Parsons
Wichita
Moran
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Topeka
Anthony
Salina
Phoenix
Ariz
Two Die in Auto Crash North of Newton Today
Two persons were killed and three injured in an automobile collision on highway 15 eleven miles north of Newton Kansas. Ora Beeton rural mail carrier and Mrs Beeton, from Peabody, died in the crash. Mrs Startzman seriously injured with two others less hurt.
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Newton
Kan
Highway 15
Ora Beeton
Beeton
Peabody
the Startzman
Enterprise
Earl Wolf
Edna Edgar
Abilene
Startzman
Bindweed control delayed to next year in Douglas county
County commissioners and township leaders agreed field bindweed control will not start until next year under a state law requiring a separate tax and local funding. Deal Six outlined three control methods and announced demonstrations across the county on July 19 at multiple farms and the University farm near Lawrence. An average stock index reading of 60 stocks was 67.7 yesterday.
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Douglas County
Deal
Court House
Deal Six
Guy Bigsby
Highway 40
Lawrence
Jesse Hirt
Dover
Highway 59
Town
Mark Jordan
Baldwin Junction
Laws Farm
Worden
University Farm
Lawrence Municipal
Kansas Weather Forecast and Conditions Report
Forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Friday with warmer temperatures in the south and east. Morning report shows generally clear skies, with good dirt roads except in Coffeyville where conditions are slippery. Temperature record notes yesterday’s high of 96 and today’s low and rainfall to 7 am recorded at 0.4 inches.
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Kansas
Coffeyville
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