Sheriff Captures Russell Wanted for Slaving Kidnappings
Ozark Arkansas sheriff Champ Crawford with constable Richard Hill captured Jack Russell, an Oklahoma penitentiary escapee, at a Cass farm camp near Ozark. Russell, driving a Kansas City police car with Iowa plates, admitted to kidnappings in Oklahoma and Kansas City and denied killing anyone. Police said the FBI now handles the case.
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Ozark
Ark
Champ Crawford
Franklin County
Jack Russell
Oklahoma
Russell
Cass
Kansas City
Arkansas
Iowa
Texas
Missouri
Crawford
Cass Camp
Richard Hill
Sheriff Crawford
Chicago
Billy S. Hamilton
Arkansas City
Kan
Ringwood
McAlester
Oklahoma Penitentiary
Billy
Hamilton
Ill
R. E. Brown
Bud Egholm
Oklahoma City
Kenosha
Wis
Egholm
Joseph F. Welsh
Russel
Turner
Mulberry Creek
Richard Fullerton
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Phantom fugitive Jack Russell to be returned to starting state
Muskogee Oklahoma July 18 U S District Attorney Cleon Summers said the fugitive known as Jack Russell once eluding Midwest police will likely be brought back to the state where authorities have the strongest case. Summers noted it is customary to transfer wanted persons to the state with the strongest case before proceeding.
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Muskogee
Okla
Jack Russell
Midwest
Arkansas
U. S
Cleon Summers
Summers
British Optimism Grows Over European War Prospect
London reports a calmer view on international affairs with one outright forecast that Britain will avoid a European war this year. Wheat slumped to three shillings seven and three-eighths pence, the lowest since 1592, as buyers hold out for lower prices. Major Vernon Bartlett urged possible shift from we must be prepared to we are prepared, while Sir John Anderson defended continued national service. In Danzig, 40 concealed military trucks entered from East Prussia amid reunification talks led by Albert Forster after meetings with Hitler.
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London
Britain
Vernon Bartlett
House of Commons
Sir John Anderson
London Daily Express
Free
Danzig
East Prussia
Albert Forster
Hitler
Forster
Free City
Germany
WPA Shifts Focus as 130 Hour Rule Remains Debated
Relief officials move to trim WPA rolls by August 1 and adjust pay differentials to keep the national average security wage. Labor leaders press Congress for repeal but face likely no change. A July thunderstorm in Lawrence drops 0.40 inch of rain in 20 minutes, hits 103 to 73 degrees, with minor utility damage and winds 40 to 45 mph.
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Washington
WPA
Congress
Col. F. C. Harrington
Harrington
William Green
A.F.L
Congressional
Green
Garner
Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Kansas Electric Power Company
The
Telephone Company
Power Company
Twentieth
New Hampshire
CCC
Lone Star
Lawrence Country Club
Kansas Electric Power Plant
Our
Rescue From Fire Sinks Bokuyo Maru Off Yokohama
The Bokuyo Maru, a 8419 ton freighter carried by Nyk line, sank 1125 miles east of Yokohama after a fire in the nitrates hold. Of 212 aboard, 209 were rescued. three were unaccounted, including a junior engineer and a stewardess. All aboard were Japanese and Hindus.
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San Francisco
Marine Exchange
Yokohama
Nyk Line
Japanese Mail Steamship Company
San Pedro
Calif
Valparaiso
Chile
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Associated Oil Company
Associated
Rotary Convention Set for Emporia Next April
The 128th district Rotary International convention will be held in Emporia next April, announced district governor Marion C. Hume. The site was fixed by officers at a Valley Falls meeting. Wallpaper Keeter's Book Store. Adv.
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Rotary
Emporia
Ottawa
Kan
Rotary International
Marion C. Hume
Povernor
Valley Falls
Golfer Receives Hole in One Assist in Omaha
In Omaha Nebraska on July 18 golfer R J McMahon scored a hole in one with help from opponent Joe Polacek. McMahon’s tee shot stopped four inches from the cup and Polacek’s approach knocked the ball into the hole.
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Omaha
Neb
R. J. McMahon
Joe Polacek
McMahon
Polacek
Thunderhead Drops .70 Inch Rain In Topeka Thunderstorm
A sudden thunderhead from the west dumped .70 inch of rain on Topeka near 1 PM, dropping the temperature from 99 to 67 degrees in under an hour. A 32 mph wind drove the clouds as motorists and bus drivers turned on headlights for safety, according to federal meteorologist S. D. Flora.
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Topeka Topeka
S. D. Flora
Critics clash over New Deal at Dartmouth conference
Dartmouth hosts a Braman fund event where Princeton’s William Starr Myers decries Roosevelt policies as dictatorial and socialistic. NYU economist Walter E. Spahr laments a shift to mere nose counting in representative government amid new deal reforms.
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Congress
Walter E. Spahr
New York University
Four Bandits Rob Bank in Raritan Notch Bank Hold Up
Four armed men robbed the Raritan State Bank at 12 15 p m taking about 12 000 to 14 000. They held eight people in a rear vault and fled in a suspected stolen car. Investigation ongoing.
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New Jersey
Raritan
N. J
White House hosts night conference on neutrality revision
Washington July 18 an extraordinary White House meeting led by administration senate leaders weighed chances for neutrality revision this session President Roosevelt Hull Barkley Pittman McNary Borah Austin attended or considered inviting Republican leaders over plans to repeal the arms embargo Most officials expect postponement or careful timing to gain broad support in the Senate discussions focus on whether to discharge the foreign relations panel attach the bill to another measure or win over more committee members with the goal of advancing neutrality legislation this session
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Washington
White House
Administration
Senate
Roosevelt
Hull
Barkley
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McNary
Oregon
Borah
Idaho
Austin
Vermont
Stephen T. Early
Early
J’ouse
Foreign Service
Foreign Relations Committee
Peaceable Solution Predicted by Nazis Over Danzig Question
Berlin reports a German government spokesman expressing optimism that the Danzig issue moves toward a peaceable solution. He declined to reveal the basis for the optimism while a correspondent noted the word solution implies the incorporation of Danzig into the Reich.
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Danzig
Berlin
Reich
Adolf Hitler
Poland
Spuds Reach Sixty Cents As Market Cools
Two thirds of the Kaw Valley potato crop has been dug and market prices rose to about 60 cents per hundred pounds. Cooler weather, higher demand, and some damaged loads affect prices while buyers scan loads. Many spuds go to cold storage at Topeka to wait for better prices. the local ice plant stores a capacity amount. Wheat remains around 56 cents per bushel for No 1 with good quality grain and minor cheat noted.
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Kaw Valley
Topeka
Heat Maintains Grip With Scattered Showers in Kansas
A stubborn heat wave lingered over Kansas with highs near 100 in the east and over 100 in the west. Forecaster S D Flora said no relief in sight for 36 hours as scattered showers threaten central and eastern areas tonight into Wednesday and rainfall totals vary across counties from Elkhart to Garden City.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Garden City
Elkhart
Sublette
Ness City
Larned
Dodge City
Scott City
Goodland
Tribune
Great Bend
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Flora
Phoenix
State board appeals 14 World War bonus cases
Relying on a recent state supreme court ruling, the Kansas soldiers' compensation board appeals 14 district court decisions granting World War II bonuses. The Supreme Court held veterans who already received a bonus in another state are not eligible for a Kansas bonus. The ruling overturned a Wyandotte County district court decision.
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Topeka
State Supreme Court
State Soldiers’ Compensation Board
Supreme Court
Kansas
Wyandote County
Missouri
Decrease in City Tax Levy Planned for 1939 Budget
Lawrence officials outlined a tentative 1939 budget with a 12.6076 mill city levy raising 187,923.78 on 14,905,595 valuation, down 0.2765 mill from 1938. A total 7.9875 mill fund levy, up from 7.8195, covers emergencies. bond and interest would drop to 4.0627 mills. Water budget set at 186,916.81 with separate levy figures by fund.
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Lawrence
A. W. Berger
Ways and Means Committee
Berger
Water Department
Agppott
White Way
Seven Firemen Hurt in Kansas City Blazes
Seven firefighters were injured in a sequence of fires near Union Station. Three remained in hospitals with injuries. four others received emergency treatment. One blaze destroyed a roofing material plant and a beer warehouse. another beer warehouse burned in Kansas City Kansas. Total damage estimated at 44 000 dollars. 39 000 in Kansas City Kansas and 5 000 at a hat shop. Capt. Dennis A. Corbin and Mario Spizzirri were among those hospitalized. Ward Sayers was treated after a fall.
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Kansas City
Union Station
Kan
Dennis A. Corbin
Mario Spizzirri
Ward Sayers
Rain Drops Quicken Heat in Junction City
A 0.54 inch shower fell in Junction City Kansas shortly after noon today driving the temperature down from 93 to 68 degrees. A brief weather note mentions a weekly pricing update of four words for a week and an 80 cent figure.
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Junction City
Kan
Kansas Governor Missed Alcoholic High Life at Albany
Kansas Governor Payne Ratner said no alcoholic atmosphere at the recent governors conference in Albany. He noted liquor cocktails appeared at some dinners, but neither he nor his wife drank, and he observed no intoxication.
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Kansas
Topeka
Loren D. Dickinson
Michigan
Albany
N. Y
Payne Ratner
Dickinson
Ratner
Mrs. Ratner
Mills to transfer from K E P to Texas position
George A. Mills president of Kansas Electric Power will move to Corpus Christi Texas to undertake special work for Central Power and Light Company. Mills and Mrs Mills depart late this month their son Bill remains to attend the University of Kansas as a senior next year.
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George A. Mills
Kansas Electric Power Company
Corpus Christi
Tex
Central Power and Light Company
Central Power
Mills
Texas
Bill
University of Kansas
Fascist Leaders Begin Four Day Fitness Tests
In Rome on July 18 Mussolini ordered Fascist leaders from all Italy to participate in four days of physical fitness tests. The program opened with target shooting and swimming, aiming to prove athleticism and inspire youth. Leaders from Achille Starace to provincial secretaries joined new stunts including pistol and rifle shooting, bicycling, motorcycling, and truck driving.
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Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Achille Starace
Heat blamed for death and barn fires in Newton sector
Heat was blamed for a fatality and a hay barn fire in Newton Kansas. Fred Foster Benedict, 50, a dry cleaner, died at work from heat prostration. A large alfalfa hay barn burned at the Harry Qo Molten farm, marking a second barn fire in a week blamed on hay heating.
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Newton
Kan
Fred Foster Benedict
Griffin to Manage Indians in Kansas City
Leo Miller new general manager of the Indianapolis baseball club announced Wes Griffin will manage the Indians for the rest of the season. Ray Schalk resigned as manager after a disagreement on team policies.
Dummy Corporation Head Tells Of Milking Water Department
Kansas City witnesses describe a scheme in which city water funds were diverted to a "dummy" engineering firm led by William D. Boyle killed by lightning. John J. Rathford testified that Boyle shaped payrolls and warrants, with indited partner J. Pryor and in law Burnett, son in law of Tom Pendergast, involved.
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Kansas City
CPH
William D. Boyle
City Water Department
John J. Rathford
William E. Burnett, Jr
Tom Pendergast
Rathford
Boyle
Pryor
City Treasury
Water Department
Margaret Jane Murphy
Boyle and Pryor Construction Company
Burnett
Boyle-Pryor
Miss Murphy
Douglas County Farm Acreage Edges Down From 1938 Totals
Douglas County reports total farm acreage for 1989 at 259 521, down from 264 002 in 1938. Winter wheat planted declined to 53 796 from 73 572. Corn rose to 35 971, oats fell, barley and rye rose, potato area dropped to 2 155, and soybean acreage doubled. Alfalfa rose to 7 064, pasture fell to 72 887. Beef cattle increases noted along with broader rises in calves pigs horses and poultry. Grape production up while apples and grape vines show mixed changes. Tenure of street trees grew sharply to 21 359 from 6 656, and walnut acreage rose to 26 while Chinese elm fell to 41. The county contains 132 lakes and ponds covering 77 acres.
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Douglas County
Death for Burgunder in Arizona gas chamber
The Phoenix jury sentenced 22 year old Robert Burgunder to death by gas for the murder of Phoenix car salesman Jack Peterson. Prosecutor Darrell Parker urged the sentence, calling Burgunder a savage killer after an 18 day trial. Burgunder fled to Tennessee after the desert slayings and was captured there.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Robert Burgunder
Jack Peterson
Seattle
Sterson
Burgunder
Tennessee
Ruth Burgunder
Alhambra
Calif
Darrell Parker
Peterson
Ellis M. Koury
Parker
Two Bodies Recovered From Kaw River Fishing Trip
The bodies of Ralph H. Welch age 55 and Thomas E. Sadders age 45 were found late yesterday in the Kaw River about two miles downstream from where they vanished while fishing.
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Kansas City
Kan
Ralph H. Welch
Thomas E. Sadders
Kaw River
Stock Index Rises to 50.1 After Slump
The average of 60 stocks climbs to 50.1, up from 49.9 the previous day, signaling a market uptick. Investors monitor demand for shares as trading resumes after the prior dip.
Weather Forecast for Kansas Regions Tonight Through Wednesday
The forecast calls for generally fair skies in the far west with scattered thundershowers in central and eastern sections tonight or Wednesday. Cooler air is expected in the northeast tonight, with warmer temperatures in the extreme west on Wednesday. Gas Office Record shows 7 p.m. yesterday 96, 7 a.m. today 52, noon today 81, and a year ago high 87, low 63.
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Kansas
Iba
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