Marconi Dies at 63 After Long Career in Wireless
Rome July 20 Guglielmo Marconi inventor of wireless telegraphy died suddenly at 2 45 am in Rome aged 63 The funeral rites were held at the royal academy and Pope Pius XI sent a blessing Mussolini paid respects Marconi had planned further microwave experiments and earned a prominent role in Italian science His daughter Elettra Elena marked her eighth birthday and the state funeral will be held in Bologna
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Elena
Italy
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Academy
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Yaticin
Castel Gondolfa
Vatical
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Pius
Luigi Solari
Marconi Company
Marco
Elettra
Solari
United States
America
Farnesina Palace
Royal Academy
Tiber
Bologna
Tl Messaggero
Ital
Test Your Knowledge Puzzle Set
Dr Alexander Dentist Ph 506 Adv. presents a quirky trivia prompt asking about monasticism the first code of Banes civil law Bryan presidential runs three five names and terms plus a fictional geography query and a partial bio.
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William Jennings Bryan
United States
Nare
Cave
George Sanaye
Chef
The
United
Nick
Mackenzie River
Alexander
Court fight shifts to Thursday in court bill struggle
As leadership battles entwine with the court bill dispute, Democratic candidates Harrison and Barkley rally support from foes and friends. Proxies and attendance spark debate while Governor Lehman’s letter to Wagner signals party tensions.
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Earry
Harrison
Barkley
Glass
Virginia
Hayden
Arizona
Bankhead
Alabama
Continuance for Enlow in North Side auto window case
Elmer Enlow 20 of Lawrence Kansas won a continuance until July 23 on charges he stole a car and drove it into two North Side store windows. His attorney said he mixed beer and ale and the judge considered bail at 600. Enlow, son of A Enlow, had attended the University of Kansas.
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Chicago
Elmer Enlow
Lawrence Kan
Enlow
Theodore W. Miller
Francis Borrelli
Young Enlow
British Champion Farr Arrives in New York for Title Fight
British Empire heavyweight champion Tommy Farr lands in New York with Joe Louis as he prepares at Yankee Stadium. In prime condition, Farr plans training at Long Branch in coming days and predicts a decisive victory, claiming to have knocked out nine black opponents in his career.
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Tommy Farr
British Empire
Rengaria
Joe Louis
Yankee Stadium
Farr
Long Branch
Xyx
Farrald
Wichita bank reports increased cooperative loans in six months
In Wichita Kansas the bank approved 2.57 million dollars in loans to cooperatives in the first six months of the year, up from 971 thousand in the same period last year. Outstanding loans on June 30 stood at 2.66 million, compared with 1.43 million a year earlier, with grain cooperatives driving much of the rise. The office will be closed from May 17 to 26.
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Wichita
Kan
Yale
Wichita Bank For Cooperatives
Ralph Ryder
Toay
Snyder
Peiping Battle Signals Escalation In Suburbs
Related from AP reports reveals renewed heavy fighting in a Peiping suburb after Tokyo demanded Chinese troop withdrawal. Japanese artillery damaged Wangpinghsien towers near Marco Polo bridge while Chinese forces reportedly struck back, with both sides shelling the area as tense civilians feared broader action.
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Associated Press
Peiping
Wangpingheien
Japan
Wan
Inghsien
Marco Polo Bridge
Omei
North China
Shanghai
Nanking
China
Peiping-Tientsin
Wangpinghsien
Tientsin
29Th Army
Hopeh
Chahar
Wang Chung-Hui
Wang
Shinrokuro Hidake
John D Parrish Dies Veteran Lawrence Printer at 68
John D Parrish a Lawrence printer and longtime newspaper plant foreman died yesterday afternoon in a Topeka hospital at age 68. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2:30 pm from Rumsey funeral home. burial in Oak Hill cemetery. He was born in Crete Nebraska and came to Lawrence fifty years ago. He married Zetta Clark in 1891 and spent his career in local papers. Surviving: wife Zetta Parrish, one grandson Billy Willis, three sisters Ruth Parrish Enid Oklahoma L D Tosh California and Lee Ray Pomona California. He battled infantile paralysis in childhood and later injuries including a broken hip and motor accident.
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John D. Parrish
Lawrence
Topeka
Rumsey
Howard E. Koelb
Oak Hill Cemetery
Zetta Parrish
Billy Willis
Ruth Parrish
Enid
Okla
L. D. 5. Tosh
California
Lee Ray
Pomona
Calif
Crete
Neb
John Parrish
Zetta Clark
LeRoy
Kan
Lawrence Journal
Daily Gazette
William Allen White
Billy” Morgan
Vernon Kellogg
Memorial Hospital Notes Recap of Morning Operations
Paul Kenworthy of 1032 Kentucky Street and Carlene Haverty Route One underwent minor operations this morning. John Hungicker, a medical patient, is reported improved.
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Paul Kenworthy
Kentucky Street
Carlene Haverty
J. E. Haverty
John Hungicker
Two Negroes Lynched After Stabbing Tallahassee Policeman
Two young Black men named Richard Gawkins and Ernest Ponder, about 18, were arrested Monday on warrants for stabbing Policeman Kelly. Early today unidentified persons lynched them along the Jacksonville highway, 344 miles from the state capital. Kelly is in serious condition. Authorities could not confirm details of the takeover from the jail.
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Tallahassee
Fls
W. L. Prater
WY. F
Kelly
Jacksonville Highway
State Capitol
Eugene Ward
Frank Stoutamire
Ward
Richard Gawkins
Ernest Ponder
Rainfall totals and local notes from Lawrence weekly report
Cooperative weather observer Walter Schwarz records 1.10 inches of rain at Worden for the week ending July 9 with four rainfall days including July 14 at .18, July 15 at .08, July 16 at .50, and July 19 at .39 inches. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram staffer Phil Edwards, visiting Lawrence, shares a council anecdote and a report of a recent address. Newsstand demand rises for National Geographic and Kansay. ten grocers assist Federal Surplus Commodities in distributing potatoes, with details kept at participating stores. A former Lawrence World carrier, Herbert F. Hughs, visits, and plans of Mr. Savage’s property at Sixth and New Hampshire are discussed amid historical notes on Bowersock property interests.
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Walter Schwarz
Cooperative Weather Observer
Worden
Phil Edwards
Fort Worth
Deaths and Funerals for Rev. A Rodewald at Eudora
Rev. A. Rodewald aged 73 of Eudora died at Lawrence Memorial hospital after a several day illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 30 pm at Clearfield Evangelical church with Rev. G W Landis of Kansas City and Rev. George Trabant of Eudora assisting. Burial in Clearfield cemetery. Born July 21 1864 in Berlebeck Germany he came to America in 1873 to Yates Center Kaw. He served pastorates in Falls City Neb Yates Center Atchison and Halstead and was a 49 year member of the Kansas Evangelical conference. Survived by his wife four daughters Sophia Rodewald Emporia Ann Rodewald Esther Rodewald and Mrs K R Bunker all of Kansas City three sons Walter Rodewald Eaton Colo R G Rodewald and C J Rodewald Ovid Colo and two sisters in Germany.
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Eudora
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
G. W. Landis
Kansas City
George Trabant
Clearfield Evangelical Church
Clearfield
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Berlebeck
Germany
America
Yates Center
Kaw
Falls
City
Neb
Sarah Meeder
Yates
Center
Atchison
Halstead
Kansas Evangelical Conference
Sophia Rodewald Emporia
Ann Rodewald
Esther Rodewald
Violates probation Topeka case shocks federal records
In Topeka on July 20 Mrs Myrtle Lattimer 73 was jailed for probation violation after a prior five year fraud sentence for cashing pension checks issued to her dead mother. Earlier she served ten days in Pawnee City Neb for obtaining money under false pretenses in hosiery sales. She faced Judge Richard J Hopkins in federal court. The case traced cashing six monthly $40 checks for a deceased mother, Marietta Bishop 90, with the corpse stored for months in the home then dismembered and placed in a trunk. Lattimer was imprisoned at Alderson W Va until her March 27 1937 release on probation. Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers return from Hawaii aboard the Philippine Clipper.
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Myrtle Lattimer
Lattimer
Pawnee City
Neb
Topeka Iniface
Richard J. Hopkins
Federal District Court
Marietta Bishop
Federal Prison For
Alderson
W. Va
Ten Injured In Battle At Maryland Tinplate Plant
In Cumberland Maryland a clash between pickets and maintenance workers injured at least ten people, four hospitalized after a car struck a concrete pole. Police reported six more pickets knocked down in the melee.
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Cumberland
N. and
G. Taylor Tinplate Company
Memorial Hospital
Giants Rally Past Reds In 10 To Narrow NL Gap
George Davis drove in Joe Moore with the pennant race tight after a 10 inning 4-3 win for the New York Giants over Cincinnati. Brooklyn beat Pittsburgh 4-1 as Heinie Manush and Jack Winsett delivered late game thunder. Chicago and Philadelphia weathered a rain postponement. In the American League, Lou Gehrig's tenth inning single lifted the Yankees over St Louis 5-4 in the opener of a doubleheader. First game stats show tight offense and decisive late scoring across leagues.
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George Davis
Supe
Joe Moore
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Adie
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Derringer
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Detroit
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Cleveland
Caster and Brucker
Whitehill
Giants and Pirates Headline Injuries Halting Runs
New York reports two Giants injuries as Mancuso breaks a right index finger and Bartell suffers a torn groin tendon, sidelining both players for days. Mancuso may miss three weeks while Bartell sits ten days. Pie Traynor returns at third base for the Pirates after two seasons, with Handley sprained and Vaughan still out through knee injury.
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Cubs
Gus Mancuso
Philadelphia
Dick ‘Bartell
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Mancuso
Mickey Haslin
Bartell
Pie Traynor
Um—Pie Traynor
Pittsburgh Pirates
Bucs
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ebbets Field
Traynor
Lee Handley
Arky Vaughan
Thumbs Down on Court Bill by Nine Senators
Washington July 20 nine senators urged by Roosevelt conferred with Vice President Garner at the White House amid talks of pressuring for a new compromise court bill. An administration spokesman hinted a revised measure might be offered to win opponents support as eight Capitol Hill senators met Garner to discuss the Roosevelt court bill.
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Lewis
Illinois
Wagner
Lehman
Roosevelt
New York
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Farley
Senator Vandenberg
R-Mich
Harrison
D-Miss
Bailey
D-Ky
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D-Negr
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Capitol
Democrats push to send measure back to committee in senate
In a Senate debate, Gertgiat Hering of Iowa Jonneon eorgia and colleagues Adams of Colorado Bulow of South Dakota Andrews of Florida Overton of Louisiana and Brown of Michigan all Democrats on record. All but Herring had been uncommitted while Herring publicly backs the compromise now pending in the Senate.
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Iowa
Jonneon Eorgia
Herring
Johnson
Colorado
Adams
Bulow
South Dakota
Andrews
Florida
Overton
Louisiana
Brown
Michigan
Senate
Woodstock Open Air Union Meeting at High School Grounds
The open air union service of all denominations was held on the high school grounds Sunday evening. Rev. Sharp of the Baptist church delivered the address with a combined church orchestra providing music. The next So and So club meeting is set at Mrs. Arthur Ousdahl's home Thursday evening, July 22. County Superintendent J D Everett reports seventeen first grade and forty eight second grade certificates will be issued from the county exams. Mrs. Herbert Champion, recently admitted to Christ's Hospital at Topeka, is improving and expected to return home soon.
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Baptist Church
Arthur Ousdahl
J. D. Everett
Herbert Champion
Christ’s Hospital
Topeka
Twin Mound and vicinity church services and gatherings
Services were held at Twin Mound church Sunday evening July 11 with L H Ruphert in charge and Miss Clara Petefish singing. The next service is August 1 at 8:30 pm. Local residents and visitors, including Miss Coila Thurber and Miss Clara Petefish, attended events and visits in nearby towns. A Twin Mound Ladies Aid meeting, a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Ruth Woulwine, and various visits and moves to Richland were reported among the community activities.
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L. H. Ruphert
Methodist
Baldwin
Clara Petefish
Sam Rukes
Rose.Jones
Kansas City
Coila Thurber
Lawrence
Christian Endeavor of the
Richland Church
Forrest Park
Topeka
Noah Shuler
Enterprise
Stuart Thurber
Jack Woolwine
Guy Weimer
Henry Montfoort
Daisy
Betty
Darlene
Richland
Mabel Montfoort
Grace Hatcher
Ruth Woolwine
Don Edward
Sarah Gibler
Nellie Schirmer
Bethel Folks Visit Kin and Friends This Week
Seth Owens of Garnett spent Thursday night and Friday with his father S W Owens and Mrs Owens. Ernest Albright of Topeka visited his parents Mr and Mrs Clarence Albright and returned to work in Topeka Saturday. Bertha Forth and friends returned home from a Colorado vacation Friday. Bethel Ladies Aid will sponsor a program and ice cream supper at the church Friday evening July 23. A large crowd attended the chari var i of Mr and Mrs Will Moh-
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Seth Owens
Garnett
S. W. Owens
Owens
Ernest Albright
Topeka
Clarence Albright
Bertha Forth
Colorado
Bethel Ladies’ Aid
Will Moh
Local Society and Visiting Notes From Dodge City Area
Sunday visitors at S W Owens home included Mrs Clarence Albrion and family. Miss Durene Brecheisen returned from Dodge City after visiting. Mrs Delbert helped with threshers as Jae ayan and Mr Raymond’s party rode to Topeka for Senator Capper birthday. Plus ad chatter about extra money from classified ads and Wisconsin Minnesota vacation promo copy.
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Harley
Doris Mezu
Rich Tittle
Cl Coursenois
Claud Fisher
Overbrook
S. W. Owens
Durene Brecheisen
Dodge City
Delbert Wen
Clarence Albrion
Jae Ayan
Raymond
O le
Elaine
Allen
Mae Vance
John
Velma
Topeka
Senator” Cappers
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L.M. Flory
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G. W. Schell
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