U.S. Protest Over Robin Moor Sinking Faces Germany
Undersecretary Sumner Welles stated the facts of the Robin Moor sinking were undisputed and blamed Germany for violating a submarine warfare treaty. He announced a formal protest after receiving survivor depositions from Brazil and reviewing the testimony of 11 crew and passengers.
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Washington
Sumner Welles
Germany
United States
Welles
Brazil
State Department
South Atlantic
Berlin
England
Free French encircle Damascus awaiting bloodless surrender
Allied forces complete encirclement of Damascus Syria and seek peaceful occupation. Reports from Cairo say negotiations for bloodless capitulation delay entry as Canadian troops lead a column toward Merdjayoun Hasbaya and Kissoue near Sidon with French defenders resisting along the coast.
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Damascus
Cairo
Egypt
Syria
Tandon Tima
Maenéia
Paris
French Empire
Vichy
France
Sidon
Beirut
Van
Merdjayoun-Hasbaya
Kissoue
War Bulletin
Army grows hair flood to Eudora at Camp Robinson
At Camp Robinson Arkansas Lt Kenneth E Postlewaite reports bald head to helmet growth as a joke remedy and crowds greet visiting Miss Connie Kaster as floodwaters push residents from Eudora area. The 35th Division trains with units from Nebraska and Kansas while farms around Weaver Bottoms flood heavily. Many families move from homes including the Louis French and Christine Eisele properties amid rising waters that receded from 1935 levels only in part.
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Camp Robinson
Ark
Kenneth E. Postlewaite
Mankato
Kan
Postlewaite
137Th Infantry
Connie Kaster
Palo Alto
Calif
Kaster
Topeka
John F. Kaster
Easter
Eudora
Louis French
Hanna Pfleger
Eudora, Said That Her Place Is Completely Surrounded By Water. Mrs. Pfleger
Bowen
Lloyd Bryant
Dolph
Christine Eisele
Pfleger
Floyd Broers
Weaver Bottoms
Ben Nets
Ben Wallace
Army posts to fence nine five areas with 10 foot non climbable barrier
War department plans a 2.88 million program to fence munition and other critical storage areas at 95 army posts. Tentative allocations include Camp Joseph T. Robinson Arkansas Fort Leonard Wood Missouri Kansas City Quartermaster Depot Missouri Fort Leavenworth Kansas and Fort Riley Kansas. The chain link fence will be seven feet plus three barbed wire strands to reach ten feet with 59 floodlights per mile.
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Washington
War Department
Camp Joseph T. Robinson
Ark
Fort Leonard Wood
Kansas City Quartermaster Depot
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Riley
Train Delays For Speaker Hawkes On Kansas City Route
The Rock Island Rocket waited 28 minutes today for Albert W. Hawkes president of the United States chamber of commerce en route from Chicago to Wichita to address the Kansas chamber of commerce. His train was slowed by high water.
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Kansas City
Rock Island Rocket
Albert W. Hawkes
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chicago
Wichita
Kan
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Australian planes clash over Cairo attack on Junkers near Saida
Australian aircraft engaged a formation of Junkers bombers bearing Italian insignia during an attempted attack on British warships off Saida, Lebanon. The Middle East command said three Junkers were shot down, others damaged, and the rest dispersed with no Australian losses.
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Cairo
Egypt
Junkers
Saida
Lebanon
Middle East Command
Rains Persist Across Northern Kansas Delaying Harvest
Topeka reports ongoing rain, delaying flood recession across northern and eastern Kansas. Forecast calls for more light showers tonight and Saturday. Cooler, unsettled conditions persist with near harvest wheat needs warm dry spells and variable nightly lows in the 40s to 50s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mercury
Tribune
Chanute
Canada
Seatieemen S. D
City Weed Notice to Homeowners Under Ordinance 177%
To Whom It May Concern you are notified to cut weeds on your lot or lots within the city or have them cut and assessed against your property under Ordinance No 177%. J William Stone Advertisement.
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J. Wm. Stone
Pac Coast defense plants hinge on machinists vote to return
The AFL Machinists faced a pivotal response to strike instructions as 11 San Francisco bay shipyards and nearby plants await word on resuming full production valued at 500 million dollars. Curtiss Wright propeller plants paused by mediation board.
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San Francisco Bay Area
A.F.L. Machinists
International Executive Council
Washington
Pittsburgh
Curtiss Wright Company
Defense Medition Board
A.F.L. Machinists Union
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Consair
Army
Navy
Britain
Senate
House Military Affairs Committee
House
San Francisco
Council of the
International Association of Machinists
Mediation Board
C.I.O. United Automobile Workers
Pacific Coast
Richard T.frankensteen
C.I.0
U.A.W
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
Kaw River Crest Near Topeka as Flood Recedes
The Kaw River crest moved toward Lawrence leaving inundated lowlands and closed highways. Reading 25.7 feet at Topeka followed 25.84 the prior night, with Blue and Republican rivers receding while Solomon floods feed the Kansas. Federal Meteorologist Flora warned high water for days as North Topeka dikes held.
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Topeka
Kansas River
Lawrence
Solomon
Kansas
S. D. Flora
North Topeka
Garfield Park
Lindsborg
Delphos
Lincoln
Salina
Solomon Mins
Weather Bureau
Beloit
Republican
Corenndia
Clay Center
Barkfall
Blue Raunds
Red Cross Appeals for Flood Victim Funds in Kansas
Judge Frank R. Gray of the Douglas county Red Cross chapter announced a midwestern office appeal for flood relief. Donations are asked at the Red Cross office in the Community building, at local banks, or at the Journal World office.
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Frank R. Gray
Douglas County
The
Red Cross
Kansas
Journal-World Office
Stock Market Index Dips to 41.5 From 41.8
The stock market index for 60 stocks falls to 41.5 yesterday, down from 41.8. Traders note modest losses across sectors as market sentiment weighs on several equities.
German Pocket Battleship Hit by British Plane Torpedo Off Norway
The Air Ministry said a German pocket battleship was struck by a torpedo from a British plane off the Norwegian coast early today. Dense smoke rose from the vessel and it was seen stationary off southern Norway before retreating toward the Skagerrak at reduced speed. Germany has two other pocket battleships and two remaining ships after the Graf Spee’s scuttling.
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London
Air
Admiralty
Norway
Skaggerak
Germany
Admiral Graf Spee
Montevideo
Uruguay
Admiral Scheer
Luetzow
Future changes in America urged by Harvard professor
Harvard professor Philip Cabot told Kansas bankers that the United States is an island amid violence and must prepare for change. He warned that old ideas will persist but that the nation should inventory and look to the future as changes unfold in coming years. The Kansas Bankers Clinic at the University of Kansas featured Cabot as a guest, with remarks by Claude F. Pack and G. W. McSweeney on banking prospects and salesmanship.
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Welles
United States
Germany
Robin Moor
State Department
Roosevelt
White House
Walter J. Linthicum
U.S
Pernambuco
Brazil
South American
Osorio
South Atlantic
Lorricke
Lorickke
Philip Cabot
Cambridge
Mass
Graduate School of Business
Harvard University
Kansas Bankers Today
Cabot
Deane W. Malott
Claude F. Pack
Kansas City
Kansas Banker
McSweeney
W. C. Starr
Hiawatha
Flooded Kansas roads force closures and detours
Maintenance crews patrol thousands of flooded miles in northern and eastern Kansas checking for damage estimated at 500 dollars. Nine bridges washed out and pavement damage persist while most routes expected to reopen or detour within a week. Several U S routes and state highways remain closed or restricted due to high water with additional recovery efforts underway.
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Topeka
Kansas
R. B. Wills
U.S. 24
Kansas River
Beloit
Clay Center
Wamego
Portis
U. S
Tasco
Pare
U. S. 24
U. S. 40
Manhattan
U.S. 40
Junction City
Fort Riley
New Almelo
Logan
Clyde
Moreland
Penokea
Haddam
Girls' State Opens in Lawrence With 250 Delegates
More than 250 Kansas high school girls will arrive in Lawrence for the third annual Sunflower Girls State a week of simulated government work. Delegates will elect officers form six towns and three counties with courts and sessions led by state officials and local chaperones.
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Lawrence
Sunflower
Kansas
Chamber of Commerce
Mary Alice Martin
Vera Margaret Hurt
Catherine Ochse
Joanna Wagstaff
Jane Woestemeyer
Ladies’ Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Wichita
Legion
Union Building
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Union
Pi Beta Phi
Gamma Phi Beta
Sigma Kappa
A. O. Pi
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Chi Omega
Medalist Out in Kansas Amateur Golf Championship
Daryl Schoonover of Topeka beat Dean Ritchie of Wichita 1 up to reach the medalist round in the Kansas Amateur. Schoonover fired a 35 on the outgoing nine. Ritchie, the 1989 champion, faded early as local players posted results in Flight A and B.
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Daryl Schoonover
Chi Galloway
Lawrence
Schoonover
Topekan
Topeka
Dean Ritchie
Wichita
Kansas
Ritchie
Spud Monahan
Leavenworth
Bud Ray
Glenn Oatman
Willie White
Ned Fink
Don Wetzel
Bill Carey, Jr
Hutchinson
Dutch Chapman
George Casebier
Rex Kendall
Bob van Noy
John Emick
W. A. Shannon
Ed Bullock
Vic Hart
Neb Fink
Tex Jones
Gerald Smith
Manhattan
Ernie Fortner
Coffeyville
Jess Tolliver
Glenn Ashley
Chanute
Bill Powell
Kansas City
Bill Kraxner
Ralph Ludlam
Harold Bell
Hudson McGuire
John Wall
Dr. H.P. Jones
Bernard Williams
Patt Conn
Overland Park
Ralph Sicks
Independence
John Gross
Fort Scott
Frank McAleavey
John Atkins
L. E. Phillips
George Wetzel
Ed Skradski
F. Rogan
Earl Olson
Beloit
J. H. Sharpe
van Bruner
Fred Wolf
Ellinwood
Flight
Vic Trummell
WPA Asked to Avert Shortage of Labor for Spud Harvest
Senator Capper urged WPA to release sufficient labor from projects to cover Kaw Valley potato harvest in Kansas. He argued the crop is a major state industry and a harvest of three weeks from early July could suffer without workers. W. R. Stiner of Lawrence noted WPA cuts threaten farm hires as wages for workers exceed farmer budgets.
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WPA
Washington
Senator Capper
R.-Kan
Work Projects Administration
Kansas
Kaw Valley
Howard O. Hunter
Capper
W. R. Stiner
Lawrence
Kan
Stiner
Nazi Manufacturing Centers Bombed in Ruhr Raid
Allied bombers struck the Ruhr valley in a heavy raid aimed at Germany’s coal and iron centers. The RAF reported six planes missing and raids also hit Brest Antwerp and Rotterdam targets. In Britain May casualties reached 5,394 killed and 5,181 wounded with 75 more missing.
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London
Germany
Ruhr Valley
Ra.f
Bomber Command
Ruhr
Air Ministry
R.A.F
English
Coastal Command
Brest
France
Antwerp
Belgium
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Britain
Ministry of Home Security
River reaches 20.3 feet as dikes brace Kansas flood
The Kaw River stood near 20.2 to 20.3 feet with floods pressing the north and Lake View levees. Crews worked overnight reinforcing dikes and pumping seepage while tracks and underpasses faced water backup and sandbagging efforts across North Lawrence and surrounding districts.
Weather outlook for Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma
Partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional light showers east and north central tonight and Saturday. Cooler trend continued with temperatures below normal. Extended forecast June 13 to June 18 shows a slow warm up later, variable rainfall from Missouri to Oklahoma with heavier amounts in Oklahoma and Kansas mid week.
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Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
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Nebraska) Infantry
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Kansas) Field Artillery
137Th
Kansas) Infantry
Stoner
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T. G. Fitch
Holmes Investment Company
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John C. Emick
General Assembly
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Eavenworth
American Legion Auxiliary
Mary Eterson
Vera Spelter
Frank T. Sullivan
Stonebraker
Lenora Pugh
Margaret Reissig
Bob Groom
H. B. Emery
Rhode Island Street
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Bulletin
Dick Jackman
Bowersock Mill
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U. P
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