Texas to retire two congressmen in landslide
DallasJuly 25 UP-W Lee O Daniel 46 lso far a novice politician who promised to be a regular fellow as governor and rejected dictatorship. His win crushed several rivals and imperiled two congressmen Maurey Maverick and Morgan Sanders as Texas voters backed pension promises and business experience.
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W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
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Morgan Sanders
House
Ways and Means Committee
Texas Election Bureau
Stout
Paul J. Kilday
San Antonio
C. K. Quin
Maverick
New Deal
Kilday
Lindley Beckworth
Sanders
Roosevelt
Smith County
Brady Gentry
Youth Calms Amid Wheat Field Accident
Atchison Kansas July 25 George Baumearten 14 loses a foot in a wheat field accident but keeps his head and directs cousin Bernard Miller 18 in first aid before being taken by automobile to care His leg is later amputated eight inches below the knee to his parents Mr and Mrs Andrew Baumgarten
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Atchison, Kan
George Baumearten
Bernard Miller
Miller
George
Andrew Baumgarten
Auto crash near Stafford claims Hartman life
Mrs James Hartman 37 of Stafford was killed and two companions injured when two cars collided north of Stafford Saturday night. In the other vehicle were Mr and Mrs Calvin Warren and Mr Harry Stoops. George H Stuckey 15 of Hutchinson was uninjured. The city council will meet tonight at 8 to discuss next year’s budget.
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Hutchinson
Kan
James Hartman
Stafford
Chamberlain Defends Italian Pact Plans in Commons
In London the Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain fended off Laborite attempts to learn details of the Anglo-Italian pact before Friday’s adjournment. He denied a complete definition of the Spanish settlement while noting confidential exchanges of views with Italy and Britain. He left open the possibility the issue could be raised again during the recess and highlighted harmony with the French ministerial talks. An extended central European update was expected in tomorrow’s session.
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House of Commons
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Italy
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Queen Elizabeth
Paris
Haifa Bombing Sparks Renewed Arab Jewish Clash
A blast at Haifa's crowded melon market killed 39 Arabs and wounded 50 to 60, marking the second major explosion in a month amid Jewish Arab strife. The blast followed July 6 casualties, with additional reprisals, arson, and troop deployments as 131 have died since July 5 and over 300 wounded.
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Chamber of Commerce to Transport KU Musicians to Kansas City
The goodwill committee led by A. E. Woestemeyer will provide cars for the Midwestern Music camp orchestra on a trip to Kansas City for a Concert at Municipal auditorium. An appeal for drivers drew insufficient responses, and more cars are urgently needed. Interested persons should call 485 to volunteer. The caravan departs Hoch Auditorium at 6:00 PM and returns by 9:30 PM.
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Kansas City
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Hoch Auditorium
Stock Market Index Hits New High On Saturday
The average of 60 stocks rises to 50.8 reaching a new 1988 high while Saturday’s reading shows 50.7, indicating market strength.
Gave His Car Back to Finance Company
A Kansas City motorist reported to police that his car failed safety brake tests and offered four reasons for returning the vehicle to the finance company. He cited the car’s deteriorating condition, excessive gasoline and oil use, police warnings, and his inability to afford the car.
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Kansas City
Police Today
End to Floods Seen as Skies Clear Across Regions
Clearing skies offered hope for an early end to ruinous floods and rainstorms that killed 12 and caused multi state damage totaling millions. New England bore the worst losses with crops and mills hit. hundreds homeless in several states.
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Rhode Island
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New Jersey
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Texas
San Saba
North Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Seaboard
Unsettled Weather Promises Showers Across Kansas
Topeka reports a forecast of scattered showers and cooler temperatures for tonight and Tuesday as a high pressure system moves in from the northwest. Robb, federal meteorologist, notes rain will aid fall crops and that yesterday's 102 degree high was among the nation's top readings.
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Kansas
A. D. Robb
Robb
Phillipsburg
Soviet Youth Parade Before Stalin in Red Square
About thirty five thousand young Soviets gathered in Red Square for the annual physical culture pageant led by Joseph Stalin. The event showcased the vigor of Soviet youth and the regime’s emphasis on collective strength.
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Red Square
Two Die as Puerto Rico Riot Pauses Parade
At least two killed and twenty wounded in Puerto Rico during a parade when gunfire erupted after an attempted assassination of Major General Blanton Winship. Nationalists blamed the incident on dissidents. guards and police arrested several suspects.
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Puerto Rico
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P. J. Seralles
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Miguel Angel Garcia Mendez
House of Representatives
Francisco Lopez Dominguez
Agriculture and Commerce
Palace
Slaving Attack on San Juan Insular Police Chief
E Francis Riggs, insular chief of police and former U S army colonel, was attacked in an armed slaving incident near San Juan on February 24 193. Yale graduate and Washington Maryland family member, Riggs rode unarmed in a car at the time. A separate June 9 1937 shooting near San Juan targeted Judge Robert A Cooper who had sentenced eight Puerto Rican nationalists in a conspiracy case. Ongoing labor unrest among longshoremen and wage demands troubled Governor Winship.
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Winship
WPA Findings Pending on Missouri Pendergast Case
Washington July 25 Harry Hopkins said he would publish findings this week from an investigation into Governor Lloyd Stark’s charges that Pendergast lieutenants intimidated Works Progress Administration workers to sway a Missouri supreme court candidate’s support. He would not discuss an open hearing. A Sunday fire at Marinello beauty shop 1119 Massachusetts street damaged a small awning but was quickly controlled.
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Germany completes second transatlantic flight in a week
Nordwind arrives at Port Washington seaplane base after catapult launch from Schwabengrland near the Azores. Mercury back in Botwood with plans to continue to Hertz Azores Lisbon and Foynes Ireland.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Foynes
Kansas prison reform recommends central receiving prison
A New York Times style dispatch reports seven Kansas prison reforms to President Roosevelt. The plan calls for a new central receiving prison for diagnosis and classification, a permanent personnel program, and removal of dangerous inmates from Lansing to a medium and minimum security facility. It urges closing nine gates, cutting guard salaries tied to gatewatching, and shifting focus to industrial and farm training across Lansing Hutchinson facilities. The report, signed by Louis N. Robinson and others, critiques Lansing as unsafe for dangerous criminals and outlines a broad modernization of Kansas corrections and probation services.
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Altho
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Louis N. Robinson
Gustav Peck
Joseph N. Ulman
James P. Davis
Linton M. Collins
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Recesor
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AFL accuses NLRB of stalling united labor movement
The American Federation of Labor in its July issue editorial accused the National Labor Relations Board of favoring industrial organization cases and undermining a united labor movement by applying Wagner Act provisions to promote a dual labor movement, causing social and economic waste.
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American Federation For Labor
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United Labor Movement
Federation
AFL Leader Sees CIO Attack Backfiring in Maverick Win
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor calls Maverick’s Texas primary defeat a warning to Congress that the people oppose representatives who back the CIO. Green spoke in Washington on July 25, interpreting the result as a rebuke to CIO support among lawmakers.
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Roosevelt
Texas
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Ballyhoo
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Maverick
D.-Tex
Congress
New Spud Dress Experiments Aim for Kaw Valley Potatoes
Experiments in Topeka test washing and precooling to improve Kaw Valley potatoes for market. Killigstad notes washed and dehydrated spud shipments stay fresh longer, with California and Texas examples showing higher prices than Kaw Valley. Dehydration removes moisture, reducing spoilage and fungus risk, potentially doublingReturns for growers who adopt the method.
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Ralph Killingstad
Brownsville
Tex
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Killingstad
Colombian government pays funeral costs after deadly military review accident
In Bogota a stunting airplane plowed into a crowd at a military review killing 34 spectators and injuring 150. The government will cover funeral expenses for the dead and medical costs for the injured. no additional deaths reported overnight. The pilot’s license had been suspended in 1934 for dangerous stunts over a U.S. cruiser during a presidential visit in Cartagena.
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Kansas Port of Entry Law Draws Agriculture Officials Critique
Washington July 25 Agriculture department officials examine methods to remove barriers to farm product trade noting state laws that require truck halts and taxes at port of entry. They classify three barrier types licensing taxes on out of state trucks weight size and equipment rules and port of entry laws. Kansas law is cited as obstructing trade and spread to other states. Truck shipments along the Kansas Oklahoma border have been especially affected.
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Kiukiang Holds Fast as Japanese Drive Presses Up Yangtze
Shanghai dispatch reports intensified Japanese push on Kiukiang with air land and naval power. Chinese defenders resist, with land forces advancing toward Kiukiang from Kutang while aircraft and ships bombard the river port. Guerrilla actions claimed several Japanese losses in multiple locations.
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Wuhu
Nanking
Sunkiang
Shantung Province
Tsaohsien
Czechs Rush to Finish Nationalities Statute
In a rush to complete the draft, the Czechoslovak government worked through the night with Premier Milan Hodza forecasting submission tomorrow to Sudeten German leaders. Officials and a six member parliamentary committee plus professors judges and ministers contributed to the process.
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Fist Fight Delays UAW Officials Trial at Union HQ
A noon melee near the United Auto Workers headquarters interrupted the trial of five suspended officers led by President Homer Martin. George F. Addes struck Maurice Silverman in self defense amid clashes with visitors and guards as supporters from Detroit and other cities pressed to enter. The dispute reflects mounting pro and anti Martin tensions within the union.
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Tia Anan O
Oumcunallye ApTsee
George F. Addes
Maurice Silverman
U.A.W
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Jack Foster
Ohio
Foster
Silverman
Ed Hall
Lansing
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Toledo
Homer Martin
International
Final week of vote stumping in Kansas primary races
State and county candidates entered the final week of stumping ahead of the August 2 primary. Key races include governor, U S senator, and sheriff. Thompson urged businesslike government and realism in economics while praising local tomato relief work and promising real estate tax reform.
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U. S
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South Park
Wren
Payne Ratner
Parsons
Harold McGugin
Coffeyville
G.O.P
Lawrence
Weather Forecast For Kansas Unsettled With Showers
The Kansas forecast calls for a somewhat unsettled period tonight and Tuesday with scattered thunder showers. Cooler air moves into the northeast tonight and the east and south areas on Tuesday. Morning weather shows generally clear conditions and dirt roads in good condition. Gas Office record notes 7 pm yesterday and 9 am today with noon readings.
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