Confessions Enter Evidence in Topeka Gun Battle Trial
In Topeka on June 24 UPI reports federal agents identified typed statements as confessions by Glenn J. Applegate and Robert J. Suhay related to the April 16 post office shootout that killed Federal Agent Wimberly W. Baker. The trial, with prosecutors seeking death, features testimony on the origins of the confessions and the rights asserted by Applegate.
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Topeka
UPI
Glenn J . Applegate
Topeka Post Office
Wimberly W. Baker
Applegate
Robert J. Suhay
Suhay
St. Alexander
United States
Baker
A. Paul Kitchin
Kansas City
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Walter V. McLaughlin
Power
New York City
New York
Kitchin
H. D. McHale
McLaughlin
R. T. McCluggage
Wyandotte
Kan
Alfred Power
Kansas
McHale
McMahon
Washington
Schweinhaut
Test Your Knowledge Seven Quick Questions Classified Clues
A clippings style prompt asks seven knowledge questions from a classified page. It references fur farming official titles Persian birthplaces Milton the poet, 3 Chapatti, passports for flights, pulmotor, largest freshwater lakes, Goodyear main plant, Goodwin Berniley, Mary Baker Eddy founder religion, and a driving tee advertisement AT Country Club with a public ad for Dad Auto Insurance phone number 892.
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Persia
John Milton
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Goodwin Berniley
Mary Baer Eddy
Hope requests $166,000 for Kansas mapping program
Representative Clifford Hope of Garden City Kansas asked Congress to appropriate 166000 for a state mapping program. His bill would provide 132000 for the geological survey for topographic surveys and 33000 for the coast and geodetic survey to extend horizontal and vertical control surveys.
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Washington
Clifford Hope
Garden City
Kan
Congress
Kansas
Geological Survey
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Stem rust increases in northern wheat belt report
Washington June 24 UP The agriculture department said stem rust has risen rapidly in the northern winter wheat belt and spotted in parts of the spring area. It noted much hard winter wheat may escape serious damage though late maturing fields on low ground show injury and lodging. Infestations grew in central states along the Missouri river valley with soft winter wheat severely infected in many localities dependent on weather forthcoming.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Missouri River Valley
Western Auto tackle contest invites Lawrence anglers
Local fishermen can enter a Western Auto Stores contest at Ninth and Massachusetts street for cash value fishing tackle prizes. First prize 25 dollars, second 18.50, third 10. Also notes recovery of Alex and Andrew Mitchell's Ford coupe in Atchison, two boys in Long Beach California, a floodlight installed on the Kaw river bridge for Mrs. Wall's body search, and family updates including Major Cannady's return to Lawrence after four years.
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Ninth and
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Alex
Andrew Mitchell
K.E.P
Atchison
Topeka
Lawrence
Oscar Rumsey
Jack Houk
C. L. Wall
Kaw River
Kansas Electric Power Company
Paul Cannady
Major Cannady
Haskell Institute
Boys’ Industrial School
University
Senate Votes To Raise Surtaxes In Budget Battle
Washington June 24 The Senate backed Senator La Follette in a 35 to 81 vote to raise surtaxes on personal incomes as part of the administration’s nuisance tax extension bill. The measure would add about 278 million dollars in annual revenue and raise taxes on various income levels while keeping married filers under specific thresholds exempt. The chamber also extended nuisance taxes and three-cent postal rates for two years pending House action.
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Senate
Senator la Follette
la Follette
Wisconsin
Shasen
LaFollette
Great
House
Senate Finance Committee
WPA Layoffs Topic Discussed By Workers Education Project
The Workers Education Project hosts a social security discussion series with a meeting at South Park tonist at 8 pm on Why the Layoff on WPA led by Amy N. Pratt. Sponsors cite Washington figures predicting 427,369 WPA layoffs by July 15 and further cuts totaling over 700,000 by October 15. The session will cover unemployed self-help and urges discharged WPA workers to attend.
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Workers Education Project
South Park
Amy N. Pratt
Washington
Kansas
WPA
Railroad retirement bill moves to President for signature
Washington June 24 revised railroad retirement legislation awaits President Roosevelts signature to take effect immediately Murray W Latimer chair of the railroad retirement board said. The Wagner Crosser bill passed the Senate without opposition after a lone House defect. The package provides monthly annuities up to 120 for about 1 150 000 railway workers due to age or disability with separate tax sharing between roads and employees to follow.
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Washington
Roosevalt
Murray W. Latimer
Railroad Retirement Board
Senate
House
Wichita Banker S. Taylor Dies While Visiting Daughter
S. Taylor age 69 a pioneer fruit grower and banker from Wichita died of heart disease during a visit to Winfield Kansas He resided in the Arkansas river valley earlier and held banking interests Surviving include his widow four local children and a son H Traylor of Wichita.
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S. Taylor
Winfield
Kan
Pat) Taylor
Wichita
Taylor
Arkansas River Valley
H. Traylor
Jeesei
Girdler testifies on unions and responsibility in steel strike
Girdler denounces CIO claims of 66 percent unionization at Republic Steel plants and presses for union responsibility under law. He cites weapons seized from strike picks, asserts no formal contract exists with CIO, and outlines employer employee relations principles including secret ballots, no dues coercion, and public union finances.
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Isbor
C.I.O
John L. Lewis
Murray
Girdier
Thestee
Republic
C.I.C
John Lewis
CGA
Jawa
General Motors Corporation
United Mine Workers of American
United Mine Workers of America
Has & J
Will Plan City Budget Committee Meets With Mayor
The city council budget committee will meet tonight at 8 in the council room at city hall for first consideration of the 1938 budget. Committee heads meeting with Mayor Alfred Lawrence include A. W. Berger, Ralph Pine, Willard Brown, Frank Gray, R. O. Burgert, John Selig, and F. A. Russell. The President's flag features the presidential seal on blue with a white star in each corner.
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Alfred Lawrence
A. W. Berger
Ralph Pine
Willard Brown
Frank Gray
R. 0. Burgert
John Selig
F. A. Russell
Deaths and Funerals for Olga Lotz and Kenneth Bryant
Olga Lotz 40 of Eudora died Wednesday at Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Survived by her mother Mrs Emma Lotz and five uncles including William Haelsig Walter Haelsig Lawrence Haelsig Arthur Haelsig Miles City MT Otto Haelsig Mexico City MX. Kenneth Adair Bryant 38 died at home 614 Alabama Street. Funeral 10 a m Saturday Rumsey Funeral Home with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. survived by mother Mrs George Bryant two sisters and a niece.
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Eudora
Memorial Hospital
Emma Lotz
Oll
William and
Ernest Haelsig
Walter Haelsig
Lawrence
Arthur Haelsig
Miles City
Montan Otto Haelsig
Mexico City
Mex
Kenneth Adair Bryant
Alabama Street
Rumsey Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
George Bryant
Deserted Hupmobile Sedan Found North of Pleasant Grove
A 1935 Hupmobile sedan with missing plates was found deserted one mile north of Pleasant Grove. Sheriff Vogler towed the car to Lawrence and will hold it until claimed. Kiwanis International trustees pick San Francisco for the 1938 convention. 1939 city to be decided in Chicago. Seven of nineteen Eastham prison break fugitives recaptured near Huntsville. Guam is administered by an American naval governor with broad powers.
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Pleasant Grove
Fred Vogler
Lawrence
Kiwanis
San Francisco
Indianapolis
Kiwanis International Trustees
Chicago
Huntsville
Tex
Eastham
Guam
Highways 59 Groups Gather for Interstate Meeting
Three Lawrence men head to Shenandoah Iowa for a Highway 59 Associations meeting with Kansas leaders S C Schwahn Roger M Williams and George Hedrick among Kansas attendees representing a statewide push. Participants from Minnesota Iowa Kansas Oklahoma and Texas are expected with Texas seeking to organize a state association. The Kansas group formed last August.
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Lawrence
Shenandoah
Iowa
S. C. Schwahn
Highway 59 Association of
Kansas
Roger M. Williams
Chamber of Commerce
George Hedrick
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Texas
Temperature Soars to 103 Degrees in Mid Afternoon
The gas office thermometer hit 103 degrees shortly after 2 pm this afternoon, the year's highest reading. Noon showed 100, with yesterday's max at 102 and a year ago today peaking at 87.
Color to faces at San Francisco pavements to beautify women
Experts at the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition in San Francisco claim new pavement colorings will make women visitors appear younger and more beautiful. Variations of red in sidewalk and floor materials are said to lighten eyes and reduce strain while giving paths a refreshed, lustrous look.
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San Francisco
Baseball Today Mayhem: Detroit, St Louis, and New York Burn Through Wins
June 24 reports show the Detroit Tigers shut out 3-0 by Grove as Boston Red Sox win behind Thornton. Yankees topple Browns with homers by Dickey Selby and Vosmik aids. Pirates fall to Boston Bees 9-6 in NP. Numbers and line scores from ap.
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Jos Gost Asso Pong Reat
Grove
Detroit Tigers
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Sox
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Tebbetts
Grove i Desautela
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Sox Made
Dickey
National’ League
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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Buca
Swift
Fette and Lopes
Brown
Weaver
Stopin
Todd
Schumacher
Gumbert
Stancuse
Begneh Bryant
Hartnett
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Johnson
Passeau
Grace
Derting
Lombardt
Brooklyn
T. Louis
Rankhouse and Phelps
Welland and Well
Hill to probe mysterious Parsons disappearance case
District Attorney L Barron Hill of Suffolk county announced an immediate thorough investigation into the disappearance of Mrs Alice McDonel Parsons society matron to determine if any state law violations are involved A report then reached police in the Bronx that a woman's body was found in Long Island Sound near City Island about 50 miles from Stony Brook identification unlikely Doubts arose whether the body matched the missing heiress due to discrepancies in height and weight The noon deadline for non interference by police with alleged kidnappers had just passed and was set by William H Parsons a retired businessman and poultry farmer from Long Island City
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Stony Brook
N. Y
L. Barron Hill
Suffolk County
Alice McDonel Parsons
Society
Bronx
Long Island Sound
City Island
Tokens Ire Minister Dodge City Pi Sales
Reverend W J Smith pays a cafe bill and confirms token use saying the collection plate yesterday was full of them. California researchers plan colored motion pictures of reptile habitats in Mexican jungles to study night habits under Dr Walter Mosauer.
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Dodge City
Kan
W. J. Smith
Los Angeles
University of California
Walter Mosauer
Guam Governor Solves Northern Water Supply Problem
Governor McCandlish of Guam orders artesian well drilling for northern farmers lacking streams. After initial test at 291 feet, a good water supply is found, ending generations of hauling water for crops behind improvised dams.
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Agana
Guam
PB. V. Me. Candlish
McCandlish
United States
Crime in U S on Upturn Police Statistics Report
Washington reports 1936 crime upturn across the nation based on four months data from the justice department. Murder rises by 73 to 395, burglary up 2 860 to 22 207, rape up 152 to 573, auto thefts up 1 902 to 16 553, aggravated assault up 356 to 3 053, manslaughter by negligence up 143 to 847, and larcenies up 8 932 to 55 904.
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Washington
Justice Department
He Likes Classwork Brunswick Ga
Steuart Hopkins graduates in Brunswick with a spotless attendance record after 12 school years. The article notes his achievement contrasts with an aside about tea and coffee plants thriving best in higher tropical altitudes.
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Brunswick
Steuart Hopkins
Tropics
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