Deposits Rise in Kansas State Banks in June
Kansas state banks and trust companies report June 30 deposits at 227,077,671 up from March, with loans slightly higher and rediscounts jumping to 4,586,949. Reserves reach 24.7 percent. overall resources total 28,229,362 under June figures. Analysts expect deposits to rise further as grain sales increase.
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Topeka
Kan
APJ
Kansas
Public Today
Roy L. Bone
Department
Chanute to revise city ordinances under statewide league
Albert B. Martin, counsel for the League of Kansas Municipalities, says Chanute will receive its forty fourth revision set in as many years. He notes many archaic rules survive, including a 1970s bathtub prohibition in a second class city, creating misdemeanors for each installation. Officials say many cities lack updated ordinances and multiple rules overlap.
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Albert B. Martin
League of Kansas Municipalities
Chanute City Commission
Chanute
League
Marti
Bowman calls EaBaSS Meeting for Saturday morning
Harry C. Bowman of Newton, president of the League of Kansas Municipalities, called an executive meeting for Saturday morning at the office of John G. Stutz, secretary. Attendees listed include Bowman, Rankin of Lawrence, Dunn of Wichita, Goodrich of Stockton, Boyd of Pittsburg, and Stutz.
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Harry C. Bowman
Newton
League of Kansas Municipalities
John G. Stutz
League
Robert C. Rankin
Lawrence
Frank L. Dunn
Wichita
0. M. Goodrich
Stockton
Leonard Boyd
Pittsburg
Discovery of unknown mountain range near Ta zovskaya Gulf
A letter from botanist B. N. Gorodkoff recounts a snowbound expedition last March along the Furuekan and Taza rivers to the Ta zovskaya Gulf area. He describes a hitherto unknown mountain range cloaked in dense cedar and pine forests with abundant sables ermines foxes and lynx.
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Eningrad
Tazovskaya Gulf
Siber
Ia Ig
B. N. Gorodkoff
Gorodkoff
Furuekan
Taza
Geisha Scandals Prompt Peer Discipline in Japan
Amid a wave of romantic liaisons between Japanese nobility and geisha girls, nearly all 1,000 peers face possible sanctions from an Imperial Household committee. Lax morals are punished. titles may be stripped to avert scandal.
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Tokyo
Japan
Imperial Household Department
Legion Convention Sidelights at Fort Riley Kansas
Fort Riley hosts American Legion events with 80 waiters serving meals prepared by 21 cooks and 20 peelers handling three tons of potatoes. 1,260 seats line the hall turned mess, while hosts Captains Wood Thomas and Harvey oversee the operations. talks highlight Napoleon’s marching rule and veteran aviation ties.
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Fort Riley
Kans
War Department
Legionnaires
D. §. Wood
R. C. Thomas
A. H. Harvey
Sth Cavalry
Woman Democratic club to publish government primer
Lynn Perry of Pennsylvania, active in state politics, will write a primer on government and politics for the Women’s National Democratic club. The work, aimed at a national study program, will cover basic American government principles for clubs across the country. Hutchinson invites Lindbergh to open new Chamber airport in August.
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Lynn Perry Washington
Washington
National Democratic Club
Lyn Perry
Pennsylvania
Northampton County
Democratic Committee
Perry
Pennsylvanias Federation of Democratic Women
Lindbergh
Hutchinson Hutchinson
Charles A. Lindbergh
Chamber of Commeres
Emperor plants rice seedlings in Akasaka garden
Emperor Hirohito personally planted rice seedlings in the Akasaka Detached Palace garden under rice expert Dr. Hirotari Hattori. Officials including the chamberlain and court physicians watched as he wore rubber boots and a straw hat, sweating under a warm sun during the hour-long labors. The emperor shows strong interest in the rice industry and has ordered a small palace garden for personal experiments with rice plants.
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Tokyo
Akasaka
Hirotari Hattori
Hirohito
Imperial University
Bad Mergentheim Unveils Tablet Honoring Beethoven
Bad Mergentheim, a German town once debated as Austrian, unveiled a tablet honoring Ludwig van Beethoven. The piece marks the city’s ties to the composer who spent part of his life in Bonn and Vienna amid shifting national borders.
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Bad Mergentheim
Beethoven
Berlin
Spar
Germany
Ludwig von Beethoven
Bonn
Vienna
Austria
Army Officer Heads Alaska Road Builders
Brig Gen Ames Gordon Steele, a World War I veteran who commanded large units in France, leads the Alaska Road Commission as president. During 16 years of effort Alaska has built a road network reported at thousands of miles, expanding transportation infrastructure across the state.
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Ames Gordon Steele
U.S.A. Erd
Alaska
A.P.J
France
Alaska Road Commission
Alaska official details miles of roads and trails
General Steese reports 636 miles of wagon and sled road 3223 miles of trails plus rivers and harbors work and dredging operations. He is noted as having been loaned to the Interior department by the War department for duty on the Alaska Railroad.
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Steese
Alaska Railroad
Interior Department
War Department
Prisoner Escape and Police Notices From Lawrence Area
Lawrence police were alerted after Frank Brown, 24, a federal inmate from Leavenworth, escaped yesterday afternoon in a Dadre sedan. Brown, sent up from Michigan, is being sought. another item notes Harland Whitman of Topeka picked up by police and his father advised. A Maryland jail crackdown on radios in cells is cited, and vigilante groups are described as organized in several counties as a precaution against bank robberies.
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Frank Brown
Federal Penitentiary At
Leavenworth
Lawrence
Brown
Michigan
Louis Ward
Harland Whitman
Topeka
Tugoton
Hamilton, Stanton, Haskell, Morton, Grant
Holcom Eagles Triumph In Narrow 5 4 Win Over Scrapps
The Holcom team edged the Scrapps Bae pee crew 5 to 4 in a hard fought game yesterday. Goff hit a three bagger, Halen walked, Hereman scored twice, and Longenecker went 2 for 4 with two runs as Eagles surged late. Two double plays aided the defense in a tense contest with key plays by Duver, Plamoll, Morris, and others.
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Holcom
Scrapps
Bae Pee Crew
Eagles
Goff
Pat. Halen
Drew
Hereman
Andrey Duver
Plamoll
Morris
Fragmentary sports and travel notes in city column
The clumsy OCR reads names Heseman Longeneck Davis Waterson Dowd Hugeman Pugh Hoff Mekiiriek Morris McK Fild pitck Wy Mrs A Dotisi Wilas Arline Totisi 909 Vermont street heading to Chicago with stopovers then Geonjicidsl Soap advertised Rankin's Drug Store UCL Mass Adv Miss Maude Smetser plans vacation to Alaska.
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Heseman
Davis
Waterson
Dowd
Hugeman
Pugh
Te Hoff
Mekiiriek
Morris
Fild Pitck
A. Dotisi
Wilas Arline Totisi
Vermont Street
Chicago
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Stafford King
St. Jane, Minn
American Legion
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Omaha
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Paul Haucke
Council Grave
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Floyd
Fatty
Fatty” Flynn
Flynn
National
Frank E. Samuel
Kansas Department
Russell
Russell Post
Orlin Weede
Wigges
Atchison County
R. H. Brown
Manhattan
C. F. Lebow
Salina
Robert Gordon
Kansas State Agricultural College
First Congregational Hair
Boston
Ypan Adam
McGraw
Ing
Peet
William Docking
YK. Oyer
F.march
V. Pres. and Trust
A McC Nan
C. Whipple
Y. Pres
Fritz
Free Road Maps
Emperor
Alaska Road Builders
Baltimore
Patrick J. Brody
Maryland Penitentiary
Wd. Keys of
Beloit
Eldrides
Keys of
Ethyl
Feitz Co
Schubert
Belasco’s Aovice
Walter J. Leather
Joyce Todd
Berkshires
Cern
David Belasco
The
American Theatre
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