British peace move proposes three point plan for Spain crisis
London outlines a three point proposal to pull Germany and Italy into the inter intervention committee and shield Europe from a new incident in the Spanish civil war. Measures include extending neutral shipping safety zones, assurances to abstain from provocations, and an eventual four power consultation if needed. Plans consider armed trawlers as a cheaper patrol, but risk Britons' prestige concerns.
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Great Britain
Germany
Italy
L.ck
Europe
Spain
Isi Ibiza
Britain
France
Rome
Berlin
Valencia
Neutrality Committee
Hood
New Rebel Attacks Hit Madrid Valencia And Perpignan
The stespetated Press reports insurgents attacked Madrid and Valencia with artillery and air raids starting at midnight. Over 1,000 shells struck Madrid with many dead and dozens hospitalized. Valencia saw bombings as four planes patrolled the outskirts and a port ship was hit. La Granja near Madrid uncovered government burials including Albert Durant, commander of the Second International brigade. Perpignan authorities announced the arrest of an Italian linked to bombing attempts on government sites.
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Madrid
Valencia
Ela
la Granja
Weather Halts Loyalist Offensive Near Bilbao
Torrential rains and Basque government resistance appear to stall the insurgent northern offensive on Bilbao as air raids ease. Asturian front reports government troops advancing three miles in retreating weather.
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Bilbao
Spain
Garden City Bets on Optimism With Southwest Kansas Edition
Garden City issues a 6b6 page special southwest Kansas resource edition of the Daily Telegram, slating gloom claims and highlighting drought era resilience. A story notes an overnight rain boosting sorghum prospects as farm leaders press for renewed confidence. Water bills due by June 15 or service will be shut off per City Ordinance 1950. Frank E. Willey, Water Supt.
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Garden City
Kan
Apostles of Gloom
Kansas
Southwest Kansas
Daily Telegram
Frank E. Willey
Water Supt
Publicity Debate Over Tax Dodger Inquiry Sparks Unamerican Claim
Washington wires report a House move to form a special congressional committee to probe tax dodging. Representative O Connor denounces publicity as unamerican and urges limits on disclosure, while the rules committee votes to allow half the investigators to reveal taxpayers' financial affairs.
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O'Connor
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Rules Committee
Ways and Means
Eclipse Recorded On Pacific Isle By Navy Yale Franklin Crew
Washington reports a historic total solar eclipse observed from Canton Island by a joint U S navy and National Geographic Society expedition. Fifteen scientists and observers documented corona details and noted three blue streams of light during a three minute thirty three second totality. Partial views were seen across California Texas Florida and the Atlantic coast while instruments on a freighter near Canton provided data.
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mid-Pacific
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National Geographic Society
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Expedition
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Totality
United States
Eureka
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Fla
California
Amarillo
Texas
Florida
Pacific
Geographic
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
Yale University
Three Killed in Head-On Truck Bus Crash in Iowa
In Mediapolis Iowa three persons were killed and a fourth fatally injured in a head-on crash between a loaded truck and a passenger bus. At least eight others were hurt, some seriously. Dr J C Mathias of Mediapolis treated victims at the scene three miles north on a curved crest highway.
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June
J. C. Mathias
Here
Mathias
Stockyards Close in East St. Louis Amid Nationwide Labor Turmoil
National labor unrest dominates the day with East St. Louis stockyards shut by a 800-strong strike while optimism for reopening Newton Steel, a Republic Steel subsidiary, grows in Monroe Michigan. Mayors seek volunteers and state police to maintain order as workers walk out nationwide.
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Daniel A. Knaggs
Monroe
Knaggs
Republic Steel Corporation
Claude Baugh
U. S. Department of Agriculture
East St. Louis
American Newspaper Guild Convention
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lansing
American Federation of Labor
United Automobile Workers of America
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Buffalo
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Youngstown
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Omaha
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Frank Murphy
Newton Steel Company
Republic Steel
Santa Fe Unveils New Diesel Locomotive Test Run
A Santa Fe Diesel electric locomotive designed to haul the Santa Fe Super Chief on Chicago to California routes passed through Lawrence at 2:53 PM today on a test run. It pulled train No. 15 from Kansas City to Denver, coupled to a dynamometer car to test all locomotive actions. The two car power unit hosts four Diesel 12 cylinder V motors totaling 38,600 horsepower and pulled a 10 car train.
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Chicago
California
Lawrence
Kansas City
Denver
Reform urged in church divorce law in England
Birmingham bishops push for divorce law reform and open communion to divorced individuals. The sermon at the diocesan conference challenged Anglican resistance to Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield marriage, and questioned how the church should assist remarried members seeking sober, faithful belonging and communion.
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Wallis Warfield
Ernest William Barnes
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R. Anderson Jardine
Darlington
Edward
Austria
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Union Man Shot in Kansas City Strike Turmoil
A union member was shot in the leg amid a strike affecting about 800 workers across 150 to 200 construction jobs in Kansas City. Four men were questioned. Ansel Mitchell, nephew of a local realtor, was beaten in a separate melee. Three others suffered minor injuries as strike sympathizers gathered near a Nichols Project.
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UPI
Building Trades Union
T. J. Higgins
Efort
Higgins
Ansel N
Mitchell
Nichols
Kansas City
South Side
Strike at Josse Wilex biscuit plant halts 400 workers
Kansas City June 8 A strike called by C I O organizer Henry Rees involves 400 of 645 employees at the Josse Wilex biscuit plant after three weeks of fruitless negotiations with plant manager Guy M Babst. Union demands include a 30 percent wage rise overtime pay time off vacation union recognition and reinstatement of discharged workers.
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Kansas City
Henry Rees
C.I.0
Rees
J. H. Wiles
Omar Ketchum Receives $5,000 Executive Post With Coal Commission
Washington reports Omar Ketchum former Kansas governor nominee and 1936 Senate candidate has been named an examiner with the Bituminous Coal Commission. He will earn about $5,000 annually after leaving a Revenue Bureau field role earning slightly over $2,000.
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Revenue Bureau
Washington
Omer Ketchum
United States
Bituminous Coal Commission
Ketchum
Topeka
Internal Revenue Bureau
Commission
Mt Oread Commencement Ends KU Three Day Program
The University of Kansas completed its fifty fifth annual three day commencement with ideal weather. Seniors checked in caps and gowns and prepared to depart after a busy weekend of events including a baccalaureate sermon by Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of St. Louis. Alumni activities featured golf, a baseball game, a university luncheon, and six forums led by noted professors. Campus visitors included former Gov. Landon and Gov. Walter Huxman.
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School of Fine Arts
Ferdinand Isserman
St. Louis
George M. Boal
M. W. Sterling
Mary Grant
Waldemar
School of Law
Law School
Walter
Huxman
William Allen White
Emporia
White
K. U. Te Cr
Public Affairs: Norlin Urges Citizens to Drive Democracy
Dr. George Norlin, president of the University of Colorado, told the Kansas University graduating class that Americans must engage in government. He warned of retreat into business and professions and urged a common interest in democracy to ensure liberty and equal opportunity for all. About 7,000 attended the sixty-fifth Memorial stadium exercises. He traced the frontier spirit and the American dream, linking it to rights to life liberty and pursuit of happiness and to democracy as a corporate partnership of the people. He contrasted Hamiltonian wealth enlistment with Woodrow Wilsons New Freedom and stressed making men, not merely things, the first business of democracy. The address continued on page 2.
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University of Colorado
University of Kansas
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Norlin
Seth Slaughter
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Country
James Truslow Adams
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Dr. Norlin
Woodrow Wilson
Germany Builds Up Navy Second Cruiser in Launch
Kiel, Germany June 8 Germany launched the second of three 10,000-ton cruisers on its naval program. The ship named Blecher carries eight 8-inch guns and was christened in honor of General Prince Gerhard von Blucher. Vice Admiral Conrad Albrecht urged readiness if war comes. The Admiral Hipper, another 10,000-ton cruiser, was launched last February 6.
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Germany
Conrad Albrecht
Gerhard Leberecht von
Admiral Hipper
Stock Market Index Edges Higher at 67.7
The index of 60 stocks rose to 67.7 yesterday from 67.4 as investors watched market moves. Washer repairing advertised by Green Bros. Ady appears in local notices.
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Shipping Winter Wheat Will Be a Problem in 250 Million Bushel Forecast
Clyde M. Reed, former governor and head of the Trans Missouri Kansas shippers board, warned in Wichita that a bumper winter wheat crop could strain box car supply. He cited a possible 250 million bushels and an August movement needing about 60 thousand box cars, with July and August shipments totaling around 100 million bushels.
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Kan
Lpi
Clyde M. Reed
Trans- Missouri-Kansas Shippers Board
Kansas
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Texas
Colorado
Nebraska
Shippers Board
Reed
City Council Approves 29 Beer Licenses Effective July 1
The city council approved 29 beer licenses after committee review, with no rejections. Licenses include J E Croy Elks Club and Crown Drug Co. at 747 Massachusetts, and many residents and businesses on Massachusetts and surrounding streets. Next applications to be acted on June 28 with a license fee of 25 dollars for the rest of 1927 and 60 dollars annually thereafter.
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Elks Club
Vermont
Earl Pieratt
Leonard M. Jella
Eagles
East Ninth
Lorene Kidney
Massachusetts
Edward W. Penchard, Jr
Oread i Bary Ft
Fred Holloway
Michigan
Charles C. Long
Mildred Hamilton
J. Sowder
John Stavros
Crown Drug Co
One Burns
Carl Clifton
Clyde Burns
Jerry Bassett
R. Zvacek
West Sixth
S. E. Hill
H. E. Capen
East
J. ¥. Large
John M. Parker
Massachu
Rains in Southwest spread across Kansas and temps rise
Heavy rains fell in southwest Kansas this morning aiding dry fields and crops with Garden City and other towns reporting moisture. Forecaster Flora predicted high 50s tonight and 80s to 85 tomorrow as additional rainfall looks likely across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
Garden City
Anthony
Tribune
Scott City
Dodge City
Ellis
Flora
Hoisington
LaCrosse
Hays
City
Colorado State Line
Sunday funerals still permitted in city cemetery rule vote
City council rejected a proposal to ban Sunday burials by an 8 to 3 vote. The discussion cited family choice versus customary practice, with several members opposing the shift. The revision was sent back for further study as officials addressed concrete box costs and pauper burial provisions. Traffic changes on Tennessee street were ordered to direct trucks to Massachusetts street. budget and park lighting updates were also noted.
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R. O. Burgert
Burgert
Wilfred Hunsinger
Hunsinger
John Selig
Brown
Shimmons
Eberhart
Gray
Berger
Edmondson
Pine
Selig
Palmateer
Russell
Douglas County
Tennessee
Thru Streets
Massachusetts Street
F. Salvesen
Council
Kansas Weather Forecast Unsettled With Showers
Unsettled conditions expected tonight and Wednesday with local showers and thundershowers and cooler air in the extreme north central area. Dodge City reports generally cloudy morning with rain. Temperatures at the gas office show yesterday’s high and today’s low, with little detail on figures.
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Kansas
Dodge City
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