Toll Of Wreck Approaches 40
Miles City Mont June 20 nearly 40 are feared dead after the Milwaukee railroad Olympian plunged into Custer Creek near Miles City. Seven bodies were recovered today bringing total known dead to 23 with many still missing. Rescue crews work to reach sleeper B as officials open inquiries into the disaster.
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Miles City
Mont
Milwaukee Railroad
Here
Custer Creek
Yellowstone River
Glendive
Stanley Guy
Prairie County
Montana
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. J. Patterson
Bureau of Safety of the Commission
F. F. Engles
A. C. Murphy
Yellowstone
Milwaukee
J. J. Oslie
St. Paul
Olympian
Indicted as Spies by U S Grand Jury in New York
A federal grand jury returned three indictments naming 18 persons in the first major espionage case since World War I. The panel heard four weeks of hearings and called witnesses including Johanna Hofmann and Erich Glaser. Bail was set at 25000 dollars.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
Johanna Hofmann
Lloydliner Europa
Erich Glaser
Army Air Corps
Mitchelfield
Germany
United States
Lient
Ado von Ponin
Herman Menzel
Berlin
Defense Office
Reich War Ministry
Ernst Mueller
Hamburg
Erich Pfeiffer
Bremen
Jessie Jordan
England
Johanna Tiefmann
Europa
Ignatz Theodor Griehl
Werner G. Gudenberg
Griebl
Otto Herrmann Voss
U.S. Army
Staowed
Guenther Gustave Rumrich
S&s
Missoula
Mont
Schmidt
Sanders
William Lonkowski
Karl Schlueter
Theodor Schueltz
Herbert Jaenichen
Karl Hitel
Judge Otis urges grand jury to seek higher ups in vote frauds
In Kansas City the judge blasts the vote fraud debauchery and tells the grand jury to find any higher authorities possibly responsible. He notes the U.S. district attorney Maurice M. Milligan prosecutes the case as 63 election workers and precinct officials have been convicted or pled guilty in the 1936 general election scheme.
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Otis
Grand Jury
Kansas City
Merrill E. Otis
United States District Attorney
Maurice M. Milligan
New York Times Opposes U.S. Olympic Entry
The New York Times editorial opposes the United States entering the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games. It questions whether the Games promote peace and good will in light of Nazi persecution and the ongoing Chinese conflict, noting Berlin protests did not silence victims’ groans.
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New York
New York Times
United States
Tokyo
Berlin
China
Jacobs Bans Schmeling Flight to New York Before Title Fight
Promoter Mike Jacobs wires Max Schmeling that he is absolutely forbidden to fly to New York for the Joe Louis title bout. Schmeling had hoped Dick Merrill could pilot him, but Jacobs cites risk to a million-dollar venture. The note recalls Gene Tunney flying in 1926 to challenge Jack Dempsey.
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N. Y
Max Schmeling
Mike Jacobs
New York
Joe Louis
Dick Merrill
Schmeling
Max
Jacobs
Gene Tunney
Stroudsburg
Philadelphia
Jack Dempsey
Grand Jury Probes Earle Graft Ties In Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court authorized a grand jury investigation into alleged political graft and coercion by Gov. George H. Earle and 18 Democratic figures. Judge Paul M. Schaeffer was appointed to sit on the inquiry amid petitions alleging a conspiracy to defraud the state. The probe follows bitter May primary charges and a request from Dauphin county officials.
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Philadelphia
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
State Supreme Court
Paul M. Schaeffer
Berks County
High Tribunal
Dauphin County
Charles J. Margiotti
Earle
Carl B. Shelley
Supreme Court
Light Rains, Warm Heat Foresee Kansas Outlook
Topeka reports showery weather expected across Kansas for 36 hours with fair wheat harvest conditions. Al the rains were light except in the west. streams in their banks and no widespread flooding. Paris plans a diplomatic mission to Paris to engage insurgent government and curb arms shipments via Barcelona amid talk of realism diplomacy.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Tribune
Sentt City
France
Paris
Chamberlain
Barcelona
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Average Stock Values Flux Across Weeks
The report notes an average of 60 stocks at 40.6 with a Saturday reading of 38.7. No further context or entities are provided to expand the summary beyond these figures.
Candidates file for state office in Kansas primary
Topeka June 20 nearly all offices facing voters drew candidates as 21 aspirants filed declarations of candidacy for August primaries. The slate includes Gerald Gordon withdrawing, Charles Thompson, Jonathan Davis seeking independent bid, Joe Dohner for Senate, and Ida Beloof the sole female candidate for governor. Prohibition and Socialist contenders bolster a crowded ballot with eight governorship contenders and 92 total state and congressional candidates.
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Topeka
Gerald Gordon
Robinson
Charles W. Thompson
Toneka
Prohibition Party
C. Floyd Hester
Miltonvale
Jonathan M. Davis
Hare
Joe Dohner
Peabody
United States
George McGill
Ida Beloof
Wichita
Payne H. Ratner
Parsons
Harold McGugin
Coffeyville
Carl Newcomer
Brownell and
Thompson
Kansas Prohibition Party
Hester
O. A. Herbert
G. M. Cattrill
G. W. French
Pretty Prairie
Aubrey Davidson
L. A. Roberts
Congress
H. M. Hensley
Homer Hoch
Marion
State Supreme Court
W. E. Hutchinson
Hoch
Kansas Corporation Commission
Chauncey B. Little
Olathe
Wage-Hour Plan Described as Experiment by Borah
Senator Borah called the new wage hour program an experiment from which broader standards would follow. He said Congress in 1939 would revise the measure establishing 25 cents per hour next October rising to 30 cents, with exemptions likely to limit the ultimate 40-cent goal. Economists noted the recession would blunt the impact, with steel mills trimming hours from over 40 weekly in August to 27 in March, and southern workers likely affected first.
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Washington
Borah
R-Ida
Congress
May Have Elope Missouri pianist Mary Jane Bruce
Mary Jane Bruce a 19 year old University of Kansas pianist reportedly planned to marry William B Schaffrath a 24 year old German instructor in Syracuse New York. Bruce and her parents were traveling to stop the ceremony amid questions about running away or accompanying her mother to Chicago.
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Bruce
Kansas City
Kan
Mary Jane Bruce
University of Kansas
Syracuse
N. Y
William B. Schaffrath
W. Oscar Bruce
Carl A. Preyer
School of Fine Arts
University Symphony Orchestra
Schaffrath
K.U
University of Kansas City
Mary Jane
Mrs. Bruce
Chicago
Miss Bruce
Sullivan Arrested for Robbery in Dixon Illinois
The Dixon sheriff reports FBI notice that Kenneth Sullivan, convicted of second degree murder in 1923, has been arrested in Dixon on a robbery charge and bound over to the grand jury. Sullivan and Albert Gentry were involved in the fatal shooting of Roy McNutt on August 11, 1923. Sullivan received 30 years, Gentry life imprisonment.
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Sheriff’s Office
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kenneth Sullivan
Dixon
FBI
Sullivan
Albert Gentry
Roy McNutt
State
Gentry
Hutchinson Officials Clash Over Highway K-17 Route
Hutchinson city commissioner W C Hutchinson warned that routing highway K-17 over Main Street would turn it into a military highway and risk bombing. The commission, however, approved the improvement despite his opposition.
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Hutchinson
Kan
W. C. Hutchinson
Main Street
County posts attract thirty seven primary contenders
Thirty seven candidates file for county offices in a party primary, 24 Republicans and 13 Democrats, filing by noon. Several races feature multiple contenders for sheriff, clerk of the court, treasurer, and other offices with incumbents facing challengers in the August 2 election.
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Douglas
Milton P. Beach
Justice of the Peace
James M. Mott
Louis K. Zimmer
Kermit E. Opperman
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Harold C. Fisher
Robert C. Rankin
Edwin F. Abels
Leo F. Smith
T. R. Gerhart
Roy Flory
Harold A. Beck
G.O.P. Register of Deeds
George Price
W. E. Froeliger
Vitus Hadl
Charles FE. Banning
Chester W. Gates
G.O.P
John Callahan
Howard E. Creel
Harry 8. Gregg
Edward Bumgardner
Chris Schaake
J. M. Sanderson
Edwin C. Nelson
Fritz Meyn
O. E. Handley
Walter Palmateer
S. Stanley Learned
LaVern F. Pratt
Pratt
Amy Nelson Pratt
Ellis T. Johnston
Harry L. Siebers
W. H. Dempsey
Baldwin
Register of Deeds
Charles 5. Springer
S. C. Scott
L. E. Craig
Lawrence
Roosevelt and Bride Honeymoon on Island Where President Lived
John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark honeymoon on Campobello Island where Franklin D Roosevelt spent youth. They sought privacy after a Nahant Mass wedding and plan a month there before sailing to Quebec City for a West Indies cruise. The couple arrived on a scow ferry from Lubec Maine and were greeted by a welcoming committee.
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Campobello Island
N. B
Roosevelts
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Franklin, Jr
Ethel du Pont Roosevelt
Passamaquoddy Bay
John
Anne
Nahant
Mass
Quebec City
Lady Somers
West Indies
Lubec
Music Camp Opens At University Of Kansas
Over 65 young musicians from eight states enroll in the third annual mid western music camp at the University of Kansas. The group expects to reach about 100 by tomorrow with bands and orchestras forming, guest conductors scheduled, private woodwind lessons, and dormitory housing for boys and girls.
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University of Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Florida
Russell L. Wiley
Ludwig W. Hebestreit
Dallas
Tex
Ralph R. Rush
Cleveland
N. de Robertis
Kansas City
Harold Bachman
University of Chicago
David T. Lawson
Topeka
Herbert Rifkind
Chicago
Bertram N. Haigh
University of Oklahoma
Pi Kappa Alpha
Louisiana
Miller Hall
Riots in Vancouver Smash Windows and Shake City
Three downtown riots left crowds of unemployed smashing store windows and clashing with police. Two officers and 35 jobless were hospitalized. 39 stores and the post office suffered damage as Premier Pattullo traveled to investigate.
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Vancouver
B. C
T. D. Pattullo
Victoria
German Air Force Plane Lands at Pilsen Airdrome
A German airforce plane landed today at the Pilsen military airdrome after the pilot said he lost bearings during a flight from Saxony. The pilot was held for investigation. Washer repairing. Green Bros. -Adv
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Czechoslovakia
Pilsen
Saxony
Germany
First new crop wheat reaches Lawrence elevators
W G Meairs from south of Lawrence brings 30 bushels of Superior Blackhull wheat to market. He started harvesting yesterday with a 50 acre field in the Wakarusa bottom and expects about 20 bushels per acre on average. Prices ranged 50 to 66 cents per bushel, moisture noted as high.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
W. G Meairs
Meais
Wakaerusa
Meairs
Lawerence
B. J. Babbitt
Wakarusa Valley
Dutton Bridge
Babbitt
Bryan, Reed, and Lemon
William Lemon
Ingle
Sibley
McCabrin
Police and Picketers Clash Outside Eagle Pencil Plant
In New York on June 20, pi-forty police and 150 pickets clashed for 20 minutes at the Eagle Pencil and Niagara Paper Box plant. Police defended workers trying to reach cars. missiles including eggs and vegetables were hurled. Eleven arrested, one badly hurt, two officers lightly injured.
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New York
Eagle Pencil Company
Niagara Paper Box Company
Poice
Japan warns neutral powers on expanded China war zone
Tokyo reports Japan notifying neutral powers that the China war area could widen to about 700 miles inland from China's coasts. Diplomats interpret the notice as signaling plans for campaigns larger than any previously seen in China.
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Tokyo
Japan
China War Zone
China
Weather Outlook With Scattered Thunder Showers
Kansas forecast calls for occasional scattered thunder showers tonight and Tuesday. Little temperature change expected. Morning clouds across Kansas City Wichita Salinas, partial clouding in Manhattan Ottawa Pittsburg, clear at Coffeyville Emporia Topeka. Dirt roads fair Ottawa Wichita, elsewhere good. Temperature data shows highs near 85, 68 today, and 66 tonight with a low around 0.0 (unclear in text).
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Kansas
Arkansas City
Wichita
Salinas
Manhattan
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Emporia
Topeka
Batansay Estes Teeipemantoeere
Cenee
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Milwaukee ‘Olympian
U. S
Hardy
F. Woltz
Waltz
Ford Service
Hamilton
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Phillipsburg
Elis Russell
Anthony
Dresden
Wag McPherson
Garden ¢ Larned
Dodge City
Hutchinson T Elkhart de
Jonathan Davis
Gordon
Davis
Prohibition
K. U
W. B. Schaffrath
Dixon, Ill
Smith
Abels
Indiana Street
Edwin FL Abels
Massachusetts Street
T. RB
Gerhart
Kentucky Street
Lone Star
Ffarola A. Beck
East Eleventh Street
Barker
Frank R. Gray
L. H. Menger
Louisiana Street
FR. Froeliger
Connecticut Street
Vitus Hadi
Charles Sc. Banning
South Eighth Street
West Hills Parkway
New Hampshire Street
Roosevelt
Bride
President
Canada
Green Bros
W. G. Meairs
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