Plane crashes into crowd during Bogota review
A military plane plowed into a crowd of about 50 000 in Bogota during a Sunday review, killing at least 34 people including the pilot Abadia. The crash near Campo de Marte injured about 150, with many mangled bodies and severed heads from propellers. President elect Eduardo Santos and officials watched as the plane shed debris and ignited a gasoline blaze before stopping. The tragedy halted the Bolivar day celebrations and cast a pall over the Bolivar athletic games upcoming in August with delegations from Peru Bolivia Ecuador and Venezuela present.
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Bogota
Colombia
Campo de Marte
Alfonso Lopez
Eduardo Santos
Pumarejo
Lieut
Abadia
Santos
Simon Bolivar
South America
Spain
Peru
Bolivia
Ecuador
Venezuela
Straw Stack Fire Near Davis Property Threatens Barns
A burning straw stack ignited during threshing two miles west of town on the Davis property. Firemen kept the blaze from reaching barns and shocked wheat despite the stack burning and spread to field stubble. Fire Chief Paul Ingels said wind spared the barns by diverting heat.
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Davis
Paul Ingels
Four Young Men Injured In Geneseo Grade Crossing Crash
Four young men were seriously injured Sunday when their car struck a standing freight train at a highway crossing a mile southwest of Geneseo. Injured were Richard Reece an Ottawa University student Grant Marburger Norman Janssen and Norman Baldwin. They were brought to Lyons for treatment. Reece suffered broken ribs and possible internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyons
Kan
Ottawa
Geneseo
Richard Reece
Ottawa University
Grant Marburger
Norman Janssen
Norman Baldwin
Reece
Test Your Knowledge Quiz From Classified Pages
Quiz questions cover geography biology law and sports with references to common knowledge items. Answers appear on the classified page as instructed.
Lumber famine warning for northwest timber supply
A July report from the National Resources Committee warns the Northwest faces a looming forest famine as over half its livelihood depends on lumber. One year’s depletion reaches 12.5 billion board feet with fire, insects and disease accounting for most loss. industry life could shrink to 50 or 60 years if conditions persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Northwest
National Resources Committee
Nature
Pairings Set for Open Putting Tournament
Lawrence Country Club announces pairings for the 36 hole open putting event. In the Championship Flight E W Penchard Jr faces George Kahne while Glenn Oatman meets Gene Glahn and others play through the rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Country Club Tournament Committee
E. W. Penchard, Jr
George Kahne
Glenn Oatman
Gene Glahn
Otto Barteldes
van Bruner
George Casebier
George Wetzel
William Essick
W. R. Schmidt Noble Lindstrom
R. C. Miller
Ed Penchard, Sr
Ear A. Farris
Dick Barber
J. I. Perry
L. E. Bice
C. Carl
Earl Chapman
G. E. Mosley
Jerry Penney
Bye
Mra. van Bruner
Four Masked Men Steal $463.50 from Kansas City Priest
In front of St. James church rectory in Kansas City four masked men halted Rev. Edward M. Owens and seized the Sunday collection of $463.50 from the church, escaping in a sedan with two accomplices as parishioner Joseph Cote, who often drives the priest to the bank, was unaware of the holdup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
St. James Church
Edward M. Owens
Joseph Cote
Death ruled accidental in Chapman shooting case
Abilene Kansas coroner's jury finds Philip Wells 28 of Junction City died from a gunshot Saturday in Chapman. Wells and city marshal J E Perkins struggled over the revolver as Perkins testified he tried to arrest Wells on an intoxication charge.
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Abilene
Kan
Chapman
Philip Wells
Junction City
Wells
J. E. Perkins
Chapman City
S. Perkins
Salvation Army Union Services Held in South Park
Major P. L. DeBevoise from Salvation Army Kansas City preached "Men Who Are Half and Half" at South Park. Captain Olin Brigman presided with Mrs DeBevoise singing, ten bandsmen in two selections, and Dr. R. A. Hunt Jed leading evening prayer. Major DeBoise spoke on WREN after the service on "Stars Over Coal Pits."
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South Park
P. L. DeBevoise
Salvation Army
Kansas City
Olin Brigman
To Open CCC Camps Salina and Parson Area
CCC camps will open Saturday in Labette county near Parsons and in Sumner county near Wellington. H. G. Bobst notes about 200 men per camp will occupy junior colored companies moved from Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth where projects ended.
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CCC
Salina
Kan
Labette County
Parsons
Sumner County
Wellington
H. G. Bobst
Soil Conservation Service
Fort Riley
Fort Leavenworth
Lodge No 9 A F and A M Special Meeting Notice
Lodge No 9 A F and A M announces a special meeting on July 28 at 7 30 p m. Work in the first degree will be performed. Visitors and brethren in journeyman status are invited to attend. Forrest L Noll W M John H Parker Secy
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A. F
A.M
Urs
Forrest L. Noll
John H. Parker
Sec’y
Winrod foes use Legion letters in Kansas campaign
Wichita July 25. Letters by Homer L Chaillaux national Americanism chairman to Rev Gerald B Winrod Republican senatorial candidate were circulated by a Winrod supporter who said outside forces used the Legion. Leaflets recount Chaillaux letters and accuse anti defamation league officials of pressuring the Legion. opponents warn of regimentation and threats to freedom of speech.
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Wichita
Kan
Homer L. Chillaux
American Legion
National Americanism
Gerald B. Winrod
Kansas Campaign
Winrod
Preston Dunn
Kansas Legion
Dunn
Chaillaux
Legion
L. M. Birkhead
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B’rith
Birkhead
Liberal Center
Kansas City
Oskaloosa
Ghostwriting and local notes drift through Lawrence columns
Lawrence readers report caution with a carrier amid a hornet nest on a front porch. University of Kansas senior Robert Greenlees Pearson’s Ghost Behind the Grade is reprinted in Readers Digest August. Lawrence events include Charles W. Thompson praising a tomato project and a farm tale of a hired man, his wife and two children. Temperature cycles from 90s to 96.
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Journal-World
Robert Greenlees Pearson
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Readers Digest
Scribner’s Magazine
Pearson
Charles W. Thompson
Taxpayers League
Thompson
Guardsmen Begin Two Week Summer Training at Fort Riley
Fourteen hundred Kansas National Guardsmen settled into Camp Whitside on the Fort Riley reservation for two weeks of summer training. Brigadier General Milton McLean praised the move in, Gov. Walter A. Haxman expected to review on Sunday.
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Junction City
Kan
Kansas National
Receiver Named for Hagenbeck Wal lace Circus Meets Back Salary Claim
A receiver for Hagenback Wal lace circus was named by Circuit Judge John M. Cleary on the petition of performers seeking more than 1500 in alleged back salaries.
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Kansas City
Hagenback-Wallace Circus
John M. Cleary
Local man jailed for drunkenness after court fine
Henry Spencer of 442 Illinois Street was fined five dollars in police court for intoxication. He was committed to the county jail for failure to pay the fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Spencer
Mlinois Street
Deaths and Funerals Mrs Wingfield 58 Lecompton
Mrs Mirtie May Wingfield 58 died Sunday at her Lecompton home. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 PM from Lecompton Methodist Church with Rev Bertschinger officiating. Burial in Underwood cemetery. Survived by husband Scott Wingfield four daughters four sons one sister and three brothers and eight grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mirtie May Wingfield
Mertie May Wingfield
Lecompton
Bertschinger
Underwood
Scott Wingfield
Harry Westergren
Lawrence
Alfred Allen
Perry
Harry Walters
Topeka
Hazel Wingfield
Hugh
Elmer
Warren
Oliver
Carrie McBeth
Wichita
Barney Traynor
Clyde Traynor
Experiment on a New Spud Dress Continues in Kaw Valley
Experimental dehy dration aims to market potatoes in good condition after washing. Some tubers may be discarded as faults are detected. Topeka may host stationary and mobile dehydrating units if successful. Douglas county SCC quota calls for 24 cars this week at 45 cents per hundred for U S number one and commercial grade spuds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaw Valley
Topeka
F. L. Williams
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Surplus Commodities Corporation
SCC
Douglas County
U. S
Builder of Panama Canal Says Job Not Completed
Paris July 25 Col Philippe Bunau Varilla 79 today studied canal maps he helped build saying the canal must be rebuilt to a sea level waterway to safeguard American defenses in war. He urged eliminating locks costing about 1 billion dollars and a 20 year timetable, noting newer machinery could speed up the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama
Colombia
United States
Lilienthal Urges Quick Action On TVA Rate Plan
TVA Director David E. Lilienthal testified that urgent need justified setting yardstick power rates for September 1938 as the TVA program began. He denied acting without responsibility or informing colleagues amid charges by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan that rates were fixed on guesswork without Morgan’s consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
TVA
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congressional Investigation Committee
Lilienthal
Arthur E. Morgan
President's New Grandson to Be Named Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The President's newest grandson will be Franklin Delano Roosevelt III. His father Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announced the name while the baby, born July 19 to Mrs Ethel DuPont, is reported as doing nicely in a Philadelphia hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr
Franklin the Third
Ethel DuPont
Pennsylvania Hospital
Roosevelt
Marriage Licenses Issued At Court House
The court house issued several marriage licenses. William F. Aldridge of Lawrence and Ethel M. Oliver of Kansas City Mo. Neal A. Scott of Piper and Dorothy M. Dunn of Kansas City Mo. Roy P. Sherman of Martinville Ti and Marian G. Washburn of Kansas City Mo. Earl Coffman and Marybel Price of Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
William F. Aldridge
Lawrence
Ethel M. Oliver
Kansas City
Neal A. Scott
Piper
Dorothy M. Dunn
Roy P. Sherman
Martinville
Marian G. Washburn
Earl Coffman
Marybel Price
Frisco Agent Frank Bailey Found Dead In Locked Car
Jackson county coroner Dr C G Leitch ruled Bailey’s death yesterday as death by own action. The 35 year old Frisco railroad special agent was found shot in his locked car overlooking the river bottoms. no note was found and friends knew of no motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
C. G. Leitch
Jackson County
Frank Bailey
Frisco Railroad
Bailey
No Surplus of Honey Shown in 1937 Crop
The agriculture department reports no honey surplus as the 1937 crop has been nearly fully consumed. Officials note honey is now used in a range of products including golf balls, shaving cream, wine curing hams, tobacco pipes, cosmetics, candies, polishes, and insulation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Predictions of Roosevelt seeking a third term
Washington reports prominent figures including Senator Vandenberg Gov Murphy and Republican leaders discussing a possible third term for President Roosevelt. Vandenberg expects a bid but doubts success while Murphy hints at a four year leadership plea. The Hopkins remark and relief-worker pressure trigger senate scrutiny of campaign funding and related acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Vandenberg
R.-Mich
Roosevelt
Michigan
Frank Murphy
Traverse City
Mich
John D. M. Hamilton
WPA
Hopkins
Senate
Campaign Expenditures Committee
Sheppard
D.-Tex
William Langer
North Dakota
Corrigan Deliberates Film Offers After London Visit
Douglas G. Corrigan, famed for his reverse gear flight, arrived in London for a two day visit and met with Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He said his schedule was full as he tours aircraft plants and weighs film contract offers with modest seriousness. He plans to return to Dublin midweek and sail from Cork on the Manhattan to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Douglas G. Corrigan
California
Dublin
Ireland
Corrigan
England
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Cork
Manhattan
New York
Reed Reports Expenses in Senate Campaign
Reed reports total contributions of 2000 dollars and expenditures of 667 dollars to the senate campaign expenditures committee. Four donors each gave 500 dollars: Lester Combs W H Martin J E Thompson of Parsons and R J Laubengayer of Salina. The committee released these records of senatorial candidates today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clyde M. Reed
Kansas
United States Senate
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Lester Combs
W. H. Martin
J. E. Thompson
Parsons
R. J. Laubengayer
Salina
Murder charge filed in Wichita slaying of Eva Moore
Sedgwick county authorities filed a first degree murder charge against Fred Edwards fifty two of Wichita a cattle buyer for the slaying of Eva Moore eighty three a divorcee in a business district rooming house Saturday night Edwards was found wounded with a bullet in his shoulder beside the victim. He told police he shot her because he loved her and then turned the gun on himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Sedgwick County
Fred Edwards
Eva Moore
Moore
Missing dynamite found near Topeka
Topeka residents breathed easier after a missing stick of dynamite used for stump blasting was located. The explosive had been taken from a vacant house and notified to Sheriff Roy Boast who warned the public. Child observers said they thought it was a firecracker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
North Topeka
Roy Boast
Charles E. Snook
Forfeits Speeding Bond in Police Court
Charles Kiser junior forfeited a $10 cash bond after being charged with speeding near the underpass north of the bridge in police court this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kiser, Jr
Earl Crumer Pleads Guilty to Speeding Charge
Earl Crumer pleaded guilty to speeding at arraignment in police court this morning and was fined five dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Crumer
Consular Official Bevan Dies in Berlin
American consul general Thomas H. Bevan died in Berlin after a sudden kidney ailment forced him to seek a lone hospital stay while en route from vacation to Warsaw. His wife arrived on the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Thomas H. Bevan
Warsawy
United States
Warsaw
Campus Sing Set For Thursday Evening at Fowler Grove
Arrangements are in place for the annual summer Session campus sing Thursday at 7 450 relocks in Fowler grove. Otto Miessner who conducted the Lawrence Choral Union here this year will direct the sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campus Sing
Fowler Grove
F. Otto Miessner
Lawrence Choral Union
Willis Olmsted Dies at 66 Leader of Olmsted Brothers Firm
Willis P. Olmsted, 66, longtime head of the Olmsted Brothers contracting firm, died at his home 1801 Vermont Street after a career supervising construction of Lawrence houses and KU fraternity sorority buildings. Private funeral Friday at 3 PM from the home, Rev. Charles W. Thomas officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Flowers requested not to be sent. Survived by wife Alice, two brothers A R Olmsted and Orley Olmsted, four sisters all of Lawrence, one son E W Olmsted of Lawrence, two daughters Mrs Dale L Benson of Corpus Christi Texas and Mrs Howard R Burns of Wichita, and four grandchildren Robert Phillip and Helen Elizabeth Olmsted, Lawrence, and Marjorie Ann and Jean E Benson, Corpus Christi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis P. Olmsted
Olmsted Brothers
Vermont Street
Lawrence
K.U
Charles W. Thomas
Memorial Park Cemetery
Alice Olmsted
A. R. Olmsted
Orley Olmsted
Henry Martin
Jack Dunkley
W. W. White
H. R. Fuller
E. W. Olmsted
Dale L. Benson
Corpus Christi
Tex
Howard R
Roosevelt's Party Holds King Neptune Initiation Aboard Cruiser
On a Pacific voyage aboard the U S S Houston President Roosevelt joins a New Year crossing ceremony marking the equator. Neptune and his royal court preside as 3800 pollywogs receive initiations while Stephen Early acts as chief of the pollywogs and the president leads the shellbacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Galapagos Archipelago
U.S.S. Houston
President Roosevelt
Albemarle Island
Navy
Sullivan Bay
James Island
King Neptune
Royal Court
Altho
Neptune
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
Western World and Classical Selections Highlight Camp Orchestra Concert
The Mid Western Music Camp orchestra drew about 250 attendees at Hoch auditorium yesterday afternoon. Guest conductor William G. Altimari of Atchison opened with Mendelssohn Fingals Cave and Dvorak Western World. John Ehrlich of Topeka played Erstes Konzertino on cello. Russell L. Wiley led Grieg Heart Wounds and The Last Spring. Margaret Hynek of Humboldt performed Pan and the Shepherds on flute. Robert Jenkins played marimba, Alta Mae Adams of Topeka played piano for Capriccio Italienne final.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mid Western Music Camp Orchestra
Hoch Auditorium
William G. Altimari
Atchison,Kan
Altimari
Mendelssohn
Dvorak
John Ehrlich
Topeka
Russell L. Wiley
Edvard Grieg
Robert Jenkins
Humboldt
Nebr
Margaret Hynek
Herbert R. Rifkind
Mr. Lawson
Dresden
Alta Mae Adams
Peter Tschaikowsky
Packers Hearing Opens in Kansas City on Price Manipulation
At the Kansas City hearing opening today in the department of agriculture, charges claim four major packing companies bought directly from farmers to manipulate prices, alleging violations of the 1921 Stockyards Act. P W M Jeffers of Union Pacific announced John C. Gale as assistant to the president, with headquarters in Omaha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Department of Agriculture
U. P
New York
P.W. M. Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad
John C. Gale
The
Road
Gale
Omaha
Treasury Chiefs Move To Uphold Tripartite Monetary Accord
In Paris on July 25 the U S and French treasury heads after a conference issued a declaration of mutual desire to assure the main tenance of the tripartite monetary accord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Treasury
United States
France
Indians blank Red Sox in second game of doubleheader
Mel Harder pitched five hits and an 8-0 Cleveland win in the nightcap after Boston won the opener 4-0 behind Emerson Dickman. Jimmy Foxx hit his 27th homer for the Red Sox and Ken Keltner added his 17th for Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mel Harder
Red Sox
Cleveland Indians
Emerson Dickman
Johnny Allen
Jimmy Foxx
Sox
Ken Keltner
Tribe
Cleveland
Allen
Zuber
Pytlak
Dickman
Desantels
Harder
Hemsley
Bagby
Peacock
Detroit
Philadelphia
Open County Bridge In Lecompton Area
The county bridge over Coon creek west of Lecompton on the road to Big Springs was opened to traffic. It is a 60 foot span concrete rigid structure with a 24 foot roadway built in 62 working days. The Coon creek hill west of the bridge was cut down and the grade reduced from 13 to 9 percent. Preparations begin to recondition a road one mile west of Lecompton and extend three miles west, with resurfacing later on the two and a half mile southward stretch to highway 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coon Creek
Lecompton
Big Springs
Pleads Not Guilty In DUI Case On Mass Ave
Chester Moon aged 18 of 778 Grant street pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Judge Donald S. Hults on a DUI charge. He was arrested with four companions in the 2200 block of Massachusetts street about midnight Saturday after a pint bottle was thrown from the car. The four companions were held for investigation and released. Moon posted a $250 bond and a July 27 trial was set. In a separate note, petroleum stocks for the week ended July 16 totaled 289,312,000 barrels, down 1,157,000 from the prior week. Domestic oil dropped 1,145,000 barrels and foreign crude fell 12,000 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Moon
Grant Street
Donald S. Hults
Moon
Massachusetts Street
Hults
Washington
The
Bureau of Mines
Belfast Woman Sentenced for IRA Documents
A Belfast woman Mrs. Mary McAreavey was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing Irish Republican Army documents detailing Belfast police strength dispositions and police arms storage. She fainted when the sentence was pronounced and her attorneys filed an appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Mary McAreavey
Finland Lausanne Olympic Games Planned for 1940
The International Olympic Committee announced that the 1940 Olympic Games will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The event is scheduled for July, with officials confirming the inland venue and formal arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finland
Lausanne
International Olympic Committee
Helsingfors
Inland
Stag party and community notes from Tonganoxie
Local Tonganoxie news reports a stag party at Davis cafe after a football era, plus visits from Andrew Smith of New York and local obituaries. It notes vocational agriculture students ordering Western ewes, the Hazel Ridge club picnic, and Miss Barbara Jo Wilson’s Califor nia arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonganoxie
Davis Cafe
Andrew Smith
New York
Europe
Fount Smith
William A. Leimkuhler
Grandps Leimkuhler
William A. Leikuhler, Jr
Bethel
Kan
Leimkuhler
Platte County
Kansas City
Missouri River
Parkville
Old Quindaro
Henry Wipprecht
Eads Bros
Quindaro Cemetery
Tonganoxie High School
Merle Black
Lloyd de Hoff
Billy Denholm
Raymond
Lionel Dramann
Carl Doege
Robert Graham
Ralph Henak
D Leimkuhler
Roy Freeman
John McGraw, Jr
Karl Peterson
Bern Peardon
William Robb
Donald van Dalsen
Jack White
Henry Marr
Judge Brady
Hazel Ridge Club
Harry Sorensen
State Lake
Union Pacific
Marjorie Myers
T.A.Q. Club
Barbara Jo Wilson
California
Caralee Laming
Jean Mark
Genevieve Harman
Wanda Brown
Marceline Ward
George Cotton
New York City
James Farrell
Lawrence
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Sicily
New York Stock Exchange
United States Supreme Court
Empire Sitie
Switzerland
Jockey Adams
Ingelwood
Calif
Johnny Adams
Iola
Silvio Coucci
Bing Crosby
del Mar
Hollywood
Whitside
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F. D. R. Willdil
REED
Willis Olmsted
Lawrence Contraiter
Jay S. Parker
Sandy McThrift
F. H. A. Loans
National Housing Act
McGrew-Peck Investment Co
Parataryatzo
Hosford Investment CO
Agency
Douglas County Building & Loan Association
Massachusetts
John C. Emick
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