Japan Hardens Tientsin Blockade Over Amoy Pact Dispute
Japan strengthens the Tientsin blockade and demands greater say in Kulangsu governance as the Amoy settlement dispute heats up. Tokyo rejects mediation and warns British and Chinese measures risk a broader East Asia order. Western powers debate responses while siege tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tientsin
Sien Eta
Amoy
Japan
Kulangsu
Goro Uchida
Tokyo
East Asia
United States
Britain
France
Taft seeks limits on wartime stabilisation fund use
Senator Taft urged restricting the $2 billion wartime stabilisation fund powers to curb foreign currency advances via government purchases. He proposed extending the fund only for two years and supported trimming the President’s authority to devalue the dollar. Farm groups pressed to preserve export markets amid currency shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Senator Adams
Dcolo
Farm Bureau
Edward A. O’neal
America
American Farm Bureau
Federation
Missouri Pacific Bridge Out Near Overbrook Kansas
Floods along Camp Creek forced rerouting of traffic over a Missouri Pacific branch line. A bridge eight miles northwest of Overbrook washed out last night. Officials expected repairs by tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific
Ottawa
Kan
UPA
Camp
Overbrook
Stock Market Index Report May Be Incomplete
The fragment notes an average of 60 stocks at 47.6 with references to yesterday and a 47.7.2 reading, along with terms Washer Service and Green Bros. Ye. The text is incomplete but indicates a stock index report and related service mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green ‘Bros
Evacuation of Women and Children From Tientsin Amid Siege
About 120 British women and children flee the besieged British concession aboard a small river boat to Tangku, heading for coastal steamers toward Chinwangtao and Pehtaihou beach. Chinese concession workers quit under threats linked to the Japanese blockade, while Admiral Yarnell visits as the US fleet commander reviews marine detachments. No casualties reported from the electrified barriers surrounding the concessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tientsin
Tangku
Chinwangtao
Pehtaihou Beach
Terday
Harry E. Yarnell
United States Asiatic Fleet
United States Marine
Peiping
Yarnell
Devastating Colorado River Flood Cuts Bridges at Colorado City
The Colorado River surged to historic heights washing away the 300 foot Texas and Pacific trestle and three highway spans. Two hundred migrants fled lowlands as two feet of water ran through town and a drowning followed the collapse of the trestle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado City
Tex
Colorado River
Texas and Pacific
Colorado
Snyder
Texas Arid Pacific
Cedar Bend
Here
Refugees from St Louis reach shelter in Boulogne
In Boulogne France June 20 two hundred twenty four German Jewish refugees landed from the liner Rhakotis and were given temporary asylum by the French government They trans shipped to the Rhakotis at Antwerp Saturday from the liner St Louis on which they made a futile voyage to Cuba seeking homes in the new world One hundred sixty two of the refugees accepted by France have applied to the United States for permission to settle there Immigration formalities will allow those with funds to move to hotels until arrangements are made for work in French agricultural areas or to move to the United States The Rhakotis then sailed to Southampton where the last contingent of the 907 aboard the St Louis will be landed in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulogne
France
Antwerp
St. Louis
Cuba
New World
United States
Southampton
England
Flynn and Damita Hurt in Auto Crash Near Hollywood
Actor Errol Flynn and his wife Lily Damita were injured when Flynn swerved to avoid two pedestrians and hit a wall. Flynn suffered a concussion and facial cuts requiring multiple stitches. Damita was shaken but not seriously hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Errolynn
Lily ‘Damita
Frank Nolan
Flynn
Little Cabinet to Meet Roosevelt at Oxon Hill Supper
President Roosevelt plans an informal buffet supper tonight at Sumner Welles estate in Oxon Hill Maryland. Invitations extend to leaders of independent agencies and staff from the ten regular departments including assistant and under secretaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Oxon Hill
Sumner Welles
White House
Going away this summer Journal World vacation offer
Fragmentary ad notes a summer vacation message and a subscription offer priced at 40 cents monthly. Limited details about sending the Journal-World to a vacation address are readable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World
Rainfall totals pound northeast Kansas counties
Rain continues across portions of Kansas with Carbondale and Overbrook reporting 3.88 and 3.85 inches respectively. S. D. Flora notes stray showers may persist, then drier conditions return though eastern areas stay moist. Temperatures near 90s to mid 90s expected. Topeka recorded 0.16 inch in the last 24 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Carbondale
Overbrook
S. D. Flora
Smoky Hill
Salina
Oklahoma
Missouri
McPherson
Weather Bureau
Quecompton
Kansas City
Worden
Ottawa
Leavenworth
Centralia
Bergdoll seeks return of $500000 in property tied to draft dodger case
Grover C. Bergdoll asks the attorney general to restore cash, real estate, mortgages, securities, and Bergdoll Brewing stock valued at about 500000 following his World War I desertion. The Justice Department says action awaits citizenship questions and revenue obligations clearance while Bergdoll remains jailed on Governor's Island after self exile in Germany.
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Washington
Grover Cwaar
Justice Department
Bergdoll
Governor’s Island
New York
Germany
Treasury
Bergdoll Brewing Company
Bergdoll’s
Murphy
United States
Labor Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
Body Found Missing Man In River Near Junction City
Searchers in boats worked in the swollen Republican River near Junction City Kansas to locate Paul Moxley 30 who disappeared when his boat overturned on Sunday night authorities said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Junction
City
Kan
Paul Moxley
Republican’river
What Are 'the Tests of a Happy Home' Examined
Scranton students in a marriage course at Keystone College were asked to define a happy home. One boy wrote that a happy home is one sphere in which every family member wants to wash the dishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Keystone College
Payroll scandal forces resignation of Kansas City official
Ph Matthew S. Murray, director of public works earning 8000 a year, resigns amid payroll padding disclosures. Gov Stark seeks his dismissal with Roosevelt in Washington. City inquiry reveals padded payrolls as Waters and Reily refuse to testify, while Murray’s replacement Hyland takes over and Waters is suspended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Matthew S. Murray
Department of Public Work
Murray
WPA
Lloyd C. Stark
Tom Pendergast
Democratic
Stark
Washington
Roosevelt
Star
Department of Public Works
Bryce B. Smith
Pendergast
Leavenworth Federal Prison
Michael D. Waters
Waters
E. Mont Reily
Puerto Rico
Warren G. Harding
Reily
Walter Rogers
Firma Rogers
Frank H. Rogers
Rogerses
Fred Bellemere
J. W. Heilman
Bellemere
Thomas E. Walsh
Walsh
Eugene C. Zachman
N. W. Hyland
Hyland
Stark Says Roosevelt Pleased With Kansas City Cleanup
Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark said President Roosevelt was very pleased with the Kansas City cleanup and the smashing of the T. J. Pendergast machine. Stark noted they discussed uncited matters and the anti-crime bill, praising Roosevelt’s aid in the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
White House
Roosevelt
Kansas City
T. J. Pendergast
Stark
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt cites Murray in WPA talk resignation
President Roosevelt said he discussed the WPA situation in Kansas City with Missouri Governor Lloyd C Stark. He named Matthew Murray as a figure in the discussion and Murray resigned as Kansas City director of public works, a post held with the state WPA directorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Roosevelt
WPA
Kansas City
Lloyd C. Stark
Missouri
Matthew Murray
Missouri State Sea
Dineptan
Murray
Housing Census Planned With 1940 Census
The senate banking committee approved legislation to take a national housing census in connection with the 1940 population census. Secretary Hopkins asked Congress for 8,500,000 dollars to fund the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Senate Banking Committee
Hopkins
Congress
Manton Receives Maximum for Selling Decisions
U S Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton was sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined 10000 for conspiracy to sell judicial favors. George M. Spector received one year and a day plus a 5000 fine. Judge Chestnut granted bail pending appeal. The case involved payments linked to Dictograph Products and Forest Hills Terrace.
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New York
Martin T. Manton
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Manton
W. Calvin Chestnut
Wake
James M. Nognan
Chestnut
George M. Spector
Dictograph Products
Spector
Forest Hills Terrace Corporation
Fourth annual mid western music camp opens at Kansas
The University of Kansas hosts six weeks of music training with 175 attendees including 115 students from six states. Russell L. Wiley directs the program with housing at Pi Kappa Alpha Triangle and Alpha Omicron Pi. The $66 enrollment covers room board two hours of band and orchestra daily plus lessons, theory, recreation, a Lake Tonganoxie picnic, Kansas City trip, and special recitals. A 90 piece orchestra held its first tryout. Recreational sports run parallel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Russell L. Wiley
Pi Kappa Alpha
Triangle
Alpha Omicron Pi
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Illinois
South Dakota
Colorado
Florida
Lake Tonganoxie
Kansas City
Wiley
Killer's Trail Cold in Moose Lake Hunt for Convicted Slayer
Hayward Wisconsin June 20 fugitive Ray Olson aka August Buelo eluded a pursuing posse in the Moose Lake area. Sheriff George Seehuetter and volunteers combed dense woods and abandoned shacks after a clash that left Deputies Fred Scott and Carl Johnson dead. The district attorney identified the 80 year old fugitive as a burglary convict sought on stolen property charges.
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Hayward
Wis
Moose Lake Country
Ray Olson
Tony
Sawyer County
George Seehuetter
Jay Davis
August Buelo
Davis
Fred Scott
Carl
Cully) Johnson
MacLeish Approved as Librarian of Congress
The senate library committee approved Archibald MacLeish of Connecticut for librarian of Congress in a unanimous vote. Critics from the National Librarians Association protested, saying he was not a member of the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Librarian of
Congress
Washington
Senate Library Committee
Archibald MacLeish
Connecticut
Barkley
D-Ky
National Librarians Association
MacLeish
Lawrence Shawnee boat clubs plan July Fourth race
At a meeting in the WREN building the Jayhawk Boat club and Shawnee Boat club agreed to stage a Fourth of July boat race with 23 entries including sleds runabouts and two step hydro boats The races start at 2 p m upstream from Kaw river bridge with police traffic aid and prizes from local merchants A kids race is also planned hoping for a larger future in Lawrence officials note Shawnee Boat club may move its headquarters from Topeka to Lawrence citing better water and ponds for boats in the area
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jayhawk Boat Club
Lawrence
Shawnee Boat Club
Topeka
Chamber of Commerce
WREN
Kaw River
Fred Shimmons
Shimmons
Mill Ponds
Boat Club
State of
Kansas
Senate Finance Committee OKs Tax Revision
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved the tax revision bill, making minor changes to the House version and sending it to the Senate floor after four hours of study. Chairman Harrison of Mississippi said debate would start Thursday with probable passage before the weekend. In the House only one vote opposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Senate
Harrison
U S Protests Bombings in China and Seeks Publication
Secretary Hull said the American charge d affaires at Tokyo protested Japan’s bombings of American properties in China. Eugene Dooman, with State Department instructions, pressed for permission to publish the note exchanges with Japan and discussed Amoy where Kulangsu’s settlement is blockaded by the Japanese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Tientsin
Amoy
Washington
Cordell Hull
United States
Tokyo
Altho
Eugene H. Dooman
Kulangsu
Sheijiro Yoshizawa
China
Hirohito
London
Britain
Asia
Hull
State‘s Department
Dooman
Foreign Office
Rain slows wheat harvest as river rises in Kansas
A steady night rain added 1.40 inches aiding crops but delaying wheat cutting in Lawrence where receipts were scarce and prices held at 58 cents per bushel. Rivers rose on the Kaw and Wakarusa while areas near Worden reported 2.85 inches of rain last night. June rainfall in Lawrence totals 6.11 inches versus 4.71 normal.
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Lawrence
Kaw
Bowersock
Topeka
Wamega
Wakarusa
A. L. Holcom
Walter Schwarz
Cooperative
Worden
Inquiry into State Travel Expenses Begins in Topeka
Topeka June 20 the P A committee of the Kansas legislative council opened a probe into mileage and other traveling expenses of state department representatives. Sen Thale P Skovgard heads the panel which will report findings to the council and likely push a bill to standardize and tighten expense rules. Departments currently lack a uniform reporting or allowance method, and the inquiry aims to create a uniform and reasonable expense system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas Legislative Council
Thale P. Skovgard
Greenleaf
Legislative Council
Bond Holders' Funds Allegedly Used for High Jinks
Federal court hears charges that Buckner and Gillespie diverted funds from the Philippine bondholders committee for personal pleasure. Testimony shows cash, checks, and hotel bills totaling over $1,500 at the St. Regis and Carlton in 1937, including lavish meals and drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine
Bly Allbe
Buckner
New York
Hollywood
William J. Gillespie
John Stuart Hyde
C. Wesley Turner
Felipe Buericamino
Philippine Railway
Washington
Manila
Charles J. Hunt
Savoy Plaza Hotel
Gillespie
Hunt
John Minton
Defense Counsel
Dorothy Mattox
Hotel St. Regis
St. Regis
Planters
Saratoga
James R. Hickerson
Carlton Hotel
Washington, D. C
Secretary Chosen for Pan-Hellenic at Kansas Rush Week
Mrs. Eugene Brune of 601 Mississippi Street was named executive secretary of the University of Kansas Pan Hellenic Council to oversee the new rushing plan. She will handle rooms release lists and registrations. Office hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 to 4 p.m. at her home. contact 3085.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Brune
Mississippi Street
University of Kansas
Brune
Memorial Union Building
Eldridge
K. U
Stevens
Lawrence
K. U. Pan-Hel
Senate approves large rivers and harbors bill in committee
Washington June 20 The Senate commerce committee recommended passage of a rivers and harbors bill totaling 407 855 600 for projects with 324 007 500 more than the house plan The measure leaves appropriations to next year and sets start dates and annual spending limits including 60 million dollars a year after June 30 1940 The bill covers navigation flood control and multi purpose projects with Bailey reporting few opposed votes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
House
Bailey
D-N.c
Skilton Attends Yale Reunion With Music Talk
Prof. Charles S. Skilton travels to New Haven for Yale class reunion and 50th anniversary events. He will present a banquet talk on Changes in Music in the Last Fifty Years and then proceed to Philadelphia as a delegate to the American Guild of Organists convention to discuss Austria's Last Winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Skilton
New Haven
Conn
Yale University
Philadelphia
American ‘Guild of Organists
Austria
Watch spring affected by static electricity from the human body
The precision of a watch spring is influenced by static electricity generated and emitted by the human body. This electricity is absorbed by the watch mechanism, potentially altering its accuracy.
Weather forecast for Kansas with temperatures and rainfall
Partly cloudy in Kansas with warmer conditions overnight and Wednesday. Yesterday's high reached 87 with a low of 68. Today’s readings include 82 at 7 AM and warmer noon values. Rainfall since yesterday shows 1.40 inches before noon.
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Kansas
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U.S
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Wisconsin Woods
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Sheriff’s Office
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William P. Buckner,Jr
Pan-Hellenic
Rushees
Big River
Skilton
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