Waterway Treaty Loses In Senate
Washington March 14 AP The senate rejected the St. Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada by 46 to 42 failing to meet the two thirds needed. Roosevelt urged ratification as a step to open interior areas to ocean commerce and cheap electricity for New York. Opponents from both parties voted against the pact with plans to reintroduce it later. Details cover a 27 foot channel from Lake Ontario to tidewater, locks, dredged channels, and a two stage dam and canal system at Ogdensburg. Estimated U S costs around 272 million with Canada paying about 270 million. opposition cites higher totals. Roosevelt signaled intent to revive the treaty if defeated.
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Washington
Senate
St. Lawrence
United States
Canada
Roosevelt
Lake Ontario
Montreal
Lake Superior
Lakes Huron
Erie
Lakes Erie
Ontario
International Rapids
Ogdensburg
New York
International Section
White House
Mail Early Advised On Income Tax Returns
Washington March 14 AP The treasury advised citizens to mail their income tax returns before nightfall to avoid penalties. Returns must reach internal revenue collectors by midnight March 15, with late filings incurring 25 percent penalties. Postmarks dated March 15 may be rejected if delivery occurs March 16. Collectors keep offices open until midnight tomorrow. March receipts so far beat last year’s pace with payments of 24,615, compared to 10,272,000 a year ago. total March 1933 collections were 180,000,000 and a larger sum is forecast.
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Washington
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Tomorn
Greece orders exile of Samuel Insull from Athens
Authorities in Athens confirm Samuel Insull Sr. will be escorted to the Greek frontier tomorrow after defiantly refusing an American consular travel document. The 74 year old fugitive faces deportation, imprisonment, or hospitalization if he does not depart by midnight, with illness potentially prompting an ambulance removal.
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Athens
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Foreign Office
Insull
Legation
United States
John Metaxas
Greece
Insuil
Maximos
Auto Chamber backs 36 hour week and higher wages
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce urged member firms to cut average weekly hours from 40 to 36 with compensating wage increases. Henry Ford praised the move and restored the $5 daily minimum wage. The action, affecting tens of thousands, comes as a National Labor Board conference opens in Washington to address industry disputes. Ford not a member. hours cut not mentioned in his note.
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National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Merver
Henry Ford
Detroit
N.A.C.C
Ford
National Labor Board
Washington
Michigan
Fisher Body Company
Buick Motor Car Company
Flint
Mich
Hudson Motor Car Company
Nomination for Lawrence Chamber of Commerce board
Fourteen members were nominated for seven director seats at a Lawrence Chamber meeting at the Eldridge hotel. The retiring directors, led by H. C. Brinkman, served as nominating committee and its report was adopted. Election around April 1 will select seven from the list including Asz Tal Jolin Brands M. L. Chambers Cooke M. T Coolidge Carl Drake Art Fritzel J. G. Sethries W. Keene Karl Klooz 0. Malone Charles Radcliffe Jr. Russell and S. E. Schwahn.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge Hotel
H. C. Brinkman
Brands M. L. Chambers
Cooke
M. T
Coolidge
Carl Drake
Art Fritzel
J. G.' Sethries
W. Keene
Karl Klooz
0. Malone
Charles Radcliffe, Jr
Russell
S. E. Schwahn
Chamber of Commerce
A. E.woestemeyer
George J. Stechhats
J. W. Murray
Berg Pollom
R. B. Stevenson J. Sweeney
Touhy Gang Might Have Had 50 000 and Freedom
John Factor, kidnapped by the Touhy gang, disclosed that an offer of 50 000 for his release could have saved many members. Basil Banghart was sentenced to 99 years for involvement in the 70 000 ransom last July. Several gang members are imprisoned or dead, and Factor criticized their conduct while detailing his extradition fight and British citizenship.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Touhy
John Factor
Basil
the Owl) Banghart
Roger Touhy
Gustave Schaefer
Albert Kator
England
Great Britain
Extradi Ton
Factor
America
SLAIN IN GUN FIGHT AT CLEARWATER DEPUTY MARSHAL
Clearwater Kan March 14 AP R J Hammers deputy city marshal was shot and killed about 2 am in a mysterious gun battle with at least two men He was found in the street with wounds from machine gun bullets and shotgun slugs after a night telephonist heard the shots The bank near the scene was hit by bullets Hammers emptied his pistol in the fight and officers believe the assailants intended a bank robbery He is survived by his widow and four children.
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Clearwater
Kan
R. J. Hammers
C. D. Pinkston
Chicago
John Dillinger
Indiana
First National Bank
Mason City
Towa
Midwest
Dillinger
Sioux Falls
Atchison, Kan
James Buchanan
Jack Robertson
R. L. H. James
Mason City School Board
Landon offers rewards for bank bandits in Kansas
Gov Alf Landon announced rewards of 250 for the capture dead or alive of bandits in three recent bank robberies at Atchison Independence and Baxter Springs. He noted robberies rose in early 1934 with 8 incidents totaling 272712, not counting the Atchison haul of 21000, and blamed car switches for hindering pursuit.
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Topeka
Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Atchison
Independence
Baxter Springs
Jared W. Bowman
Kansas Bankers Association
National Guardsmen
Thirteen Survivors Describe Sake of Tomozuru Disaster
Thirteen sailors recounted hours of ghastly suffering after the torpedo boat Tomozuru capsized off Sasebo with 118 aboard. Many were trapped in a steel-walled, inverted hull as bodies floated nearby and 49 were later retrieved.
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Sasebo
Japan
Imperial Navy
Sasebo Naval Base
N Naval Board of Inquiry
K U Musical Revue Ends Tonight at Fraser Theater
The 1934 Hilarities comedy by James Patterson Stabley Horstman with music by Tom Ryan closes tonight at Fraser theater. An all student cast of 60 delivers a 110 minute show of fast entertaining songs and dances. Tickets are 35 cents in Green Hall basement.
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Fraser
Eto
Lawrence
James Patterson
Stabley Horstman
Tom Ryan
Patterson
Green Hall
Entire crew saved from burning U S gunboat Fulton
The Fulton crew, all officers and enlisted men, were saved from a fire aboard the United States gunboat, according to a wireless message received by the U S S Isabel in Manila. The unsigned message, believed from Wishart, stated all aboard were saved and the vessel remained standing by.
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Manila
United States
Fulton
U.S.S. Isabel
Wishart
Frank B. Upham
Mrs Roosevelt Prepares to Return Home from Puerto Rico
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt plans homeward trip from San Juan after a 200 mile motor tour where she greeted about 112000 people at a reception hosted by Governor Blanton. She will visit local sights shop and pack before leaving on the early Thursday flight.
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Porto Rico
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Blanid
America
Army air service chief defends casualties in mail plan visit
Major General Benjamin Foulois arrived at Mitchell Field to inspect air force personnel and equipment and asserted that army air casualties have not been excessive. He cited 50 deaths in 1932 and 46 in 1933, with 39 to date, and promised a thorough review for the air investigating commission.
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New York
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air Service
Washington
Mitchellfield
Army Air
Army
Air Investigating Commission
Asisistant
War Woodriea
Fouloisba
Woodring
Dillinger
Capper Would Regulate Direct Buying by Packers
Washington March 14 AP An amendment to the stock yards act was filed with the agricultural committee by Senator Capper to regulate direct livestock buying by packers. He said the practice destroys competition and depresses markets. He urged that yards used by packers for country buying be brought under same regulation as central markets to restore competition and protect shipper weights and prices.
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Washington
Agricultural Committee
Capher
Kan
Capper
Kansas
Women Business Group Plans Project With Chamber Dinner
The Business and Professional Women's Club and the Chamber of Commerce hosted a National Business Week dinner with 150 attendees at the Eldridge Hotel. Loretta Selover urged confidence and loyalty, urged peace, and praised recovery programs while announcing a joint project to finish the WREN building women’s rest rooms. Ottawa’s Marion Leigh and Ottawa BPWC members attended as guests.
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Wichita
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Chamber of Commerce
B.P.W.C
Eldridge
Selover
Business Women's Organization
Roosevelt
NRA
I. J. Meade
WREN
Abraham Asis
Pastor Echavez
Ann Reynolds
Gene Morley
Miriam Dooley
Ottawa Group
Marion Leigh
Lawrence
Ottawa Business and Professional Women’s Club
Bandit clue fades in Endora bank heist report
Fingerprints on cups and saucers used by two robbers matched W C Mercier the bank’s cashier who and his wife were held captive in their home the night before the robbery The bandits forced Mercier to make coffee early Friday morning County Attorney R B Stevens asked federal officers in Kansas City for aid but no reply from Justice Department yet.
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Kaw Valley Bank
Endora
Lansing
W. C. Mercier
R. B. Stevens
Kansas City
Department of Justice
Kansas Track Schedule Expanded With Nebraska Dual Meet
Kansas adds two track events for 1934 including a dual meet with Nebraska at Lincoln on April 14 and participation in the Tulsa A.A.U. meet on March 31. Tentative talks with Dr. F. Allen and Henry Schulte occurred in Lincoln, with final details settled. A triangular meet involving Nebraska and Kansas is planned for March 31 at home.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Lincoln
Tulsa
A.A.U
F. €. Allen
Henry Schulte
Allen
Compromise Effort Fails on Roosevelt Veterans Edicts
Administration house leaders were defeated today in efforts to reach a compromise acceptable to President Roosevelt on the senate liberalization of allowances to war veterans and government employees. Orley Smith Coal Co., Ph. 46.adv.
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Washington
Administration
House
Roosevelt
Senate
Orley Smith Coal Co
Disarmament Door Open in French Arm Talks
ParisMarch 14 AP The foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputies told Premier Gaston Doumergue that the forthcoming French note to London must leave the door open for disarmament. A committee vote in favor of disarmament served as a warning to the government amid Franco German disagreement. The panel urged disarmament or a convention limiting arms to avert a new arms race. Louis Barthou the foreign minister opposed disarming while Germany rearmers.
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London
Foreign Affairs Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Gaston Doumergue
Louis Barthou
Germany
Legion Post Housewarming Open in Old City Hall
The Dorsey Liberty post of the American Legion and Auxiliary invites the public to a housewarming at the old city hall building Eighth and Vermont streets from 7 30 to 11 tonight. Post commander Geo Wilder S Metcalf urges all Legion members to bring friends and invites ex service organization friends. Auxiliary head Mrs Agnes Evans asks members to attend. The new post rooms above the police station feature a kitchen for small dinners. A Fifteenth Anniversary program includes a national broadcast and presentation of new members to Metcalf, with a formal present to the post commander.
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American Legion and Auxiliary
Eighth
Vermont Streets
Geo. Wilder S. Metcalf
Legion
Agnes Evans
Amnericart Legion
Epecal Iuesis
Droga
Honors Convocation at K U April 5
The eleventh annual Honors Convocation at the University of Kansas will be held Friday April 5 with Dr W O Mendenhall president of Friends University Wichita as principal speaker. The Honor Man of 1933 will be announced and top students recognized from all departments.
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University of Kansas
W. O. Mendenhall
Friends University of Wichita
John A Simpson III falls after senate testimony on gas tax
John A. Simpson III of Oklahoma City 65 president of the National Farmers Union collapsed in the Senate office building after testifying against the federal gasoline tax and was taken to a hospital. He is brother of HH Simpson of $1509 Vermont Street. In October 1933 he attended the Kansas State Farmer's Union convention in Lawrence for four days. House and Senate differ on restoring pay for independent offices with votes noted and conference to reconcile. Kentucky editor fined $25 for not revealing source of article in Louisville Courier Journal.
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John A. Simpson
Oklahoma City
National Farmers Union
Senate
Frankfort
Kentucky Horse Today
Vance Armentrout
Louisville
Louisville Courier-Journal
Spring window unveiling parade to open tomorrow night
A 7 30 p m start will launch the annual spring window unveiling and style show on Massachusetts street. Lawrence Memorial high school band and Legion Drum Corps with police escorts will march at every intersection from Eleventh to Sixth streets. Merchants plan elaborate displays, open houses, and demonstrations as vehicles are redirected briefly on each block.
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C. E. Sawhill
Eleventh
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Sixth Street
Mssachusetts Street
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Chamber of Commerce Office
M. T. Coolidge
Merchants Bureau
Fic
Jose
Ofes
Massachusetts Street
Noted Fliers Called to Give Views on Air
Charles A Lindbergh and other famed aviators are to be asked to testify before the Senate post office committee on permanent air mail legislation. Chair McKellar says the hearing will be Friday with additional aviation company representatives invited to testify on Thursday. Orville Wright informs the War Secretary that illness prevents his appointment to the army air mail service inquiry committee.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindberch
A Chamberlin
Eddie Rickenbacker
William Mitchell
Senate Post Office Committee
McKellar
McGill
Kansan
Barbour
Orville Wright
Dern
Army Airmail Service
County CWA Quota Drops From 367 to 302 Workers
The Douglas county quota of CWA workers for the coming work week is set at 302 per Miss Mary Jamison, a county case worker, per state administration offices. This compares with 367 for the current week and the original 590, with weekly reductions continuing toward ending CWA employment by March 31.
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Douglas County
CWA
Mary Jamison
Ofice
U. S. Gunboat Fulton Reported Aflame At Sea
An AP dispatch from Los Angeles says the U S S Fulton was afire and needing help, with a delayed wireless report via President Wilson relayed from Hongkong China. The message placed the vessel near 114 52 east latitude and long, suggesting proximity to Swatow or Hongkong. A stock market index line follows mentioning an average of 90 stocks at 87.1 and yesterday’s figure.
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MacKay
Manhattan Beach
Here
U. S.S. Fulton
Dollar
Wilson
Hongkong
China
Swatow
Ching
Weather Brief for Kansas: Clear Nights and Warmer Days
The forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures. Morning conditions are clear, roads in Douglas County are reported good, and the Gas Office record shows temperatures from -24 yesterday evening to 89 at noon today with an unseen maximum yesterday and a minimum today.
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Douglas
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