President Fires Morgan and Names Harcourt Morgan TVA Head
President Roosevelt removed Arthur E. Morgan from the Tennessee Valley Authority and promoted Harcourt A. Morgan to chairmanship. He announced the move at a press conference and said a message to Congress would transmit three White House hearings.
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Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Harcourt A. Morgan
Congress
White House
Morgan
Harcourt Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Cummings
TVA
Yellow Springs
E.S.T
Bridges
R-N.h
H. A. Morgan
Altho
Norris
Senate
House
Barkley
Capablanca Demonstrates Dominance In Philadelphia Match
Cuban chess master Jose Capablanca faced twenty five top Philadelphia players who crowded three deep to watch. After two and a half hours of play he stood above .750 with a winning display, maneuvering from inside an elongated horseshoe formation while his opponents served as advisers.
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Philadelphia
Jose Capablanca
Cuba
Eack
Capablanca
NYA Center Arts Exhibit Tonight In Lawrence
The NYA center hosts an arts and crafts exhibition from 7 30 to 9 30 pm at 1021 Rhode Island Street. The show is organized under the direction of the Lawrence Evening School led by Ralph E Graber and the public is invited to view the display.
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NYA Center
Rhode Island Street
Lawrence Evening School
Ralph E. Graber
National Guard Armory
Eighth and
New Hampshire Street
Riling
Robert Kelley
Ernie Sanders
Doris Lee Jackson
Jack Dalby
Littlejohn and
Emery
Chinese and Japanese Fight Near Vital Junction at Suchow
Fighting rages across the Grand canal as Chinese and Japanese troops stand 50 yards apart to seize Suchow, a rail junction on Lunghai and Tientsin Pukow lines. Japanese artillery bombards Chinese lines while counterattacks shuffle lines in five provinces. A Japanese claim says Kwangteh, southeast of Wuhu, was retaken.
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Shanghai
Suchow
Lunghai
Tientsin-Pukow
PPS
Auaime
Lake Weishan
Likuovih
Tientsin- Pukow
Taierchwang
China
Hankow
Kwangteh
Wuhu
Glenn Cunningham Accepts April 24 Mile Run Invite
Glenn Cunningham plans for a possible world record attempt in the mile at the Los Angeles Coliseum on April 24 with Sydney Wooderson and other noted runners also invited. Kansas Relays remain a likely prior stop, per coach H. W. Hargiss and N A A U officials. A separate Kansas Electric Power plant project in Lawrence employs 43 workers as construction advances with safety gear and new shoe designs emphasized.
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Los Angeles
Cunningham
Mar
Glenn Cunningham
America
Los Angeles Coliseum
Johnny Bain
Sydney Wooderson
England
Norman Bright
San Francisco
H. W. Hargiss
Glenzt
Kansas Relays
Glenn
Hargiss
New York
Dan Farris
National
Kansas
Kansas Electric Power
Country Club
Lawrence
Edgalls & Son
Leavenworth
Kan
H. H. Brandt
Former Spanish insurgent leader jailed in Brest plot
Maj. Julian Troncoso once governor of Irun received six months' imprisonment after a French court found him guilty only of illegally possessing war matériel. Two Spanish Confederates also got six months. The submarine C-2 had been at Brest for repairs when a September raid failed.
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Brest
France
Julian Troncoso
Irun
Major Troncoso
Troncoso
Senate rejects three amendments to government reorganization bill
Washington sees Administration supporters fend off three amendment attempts to curb the bill broadening presidential power to reshuffle agencies. A Pittman forest service exemption failed 50 to 33, Clark tied 41 to 41 then 38 to 38 on veterans bureau changes, and Clark's qualification target for six administrative assistants failed 63 to 10.
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Washington, Mar
Administration
Senate
Pittman
Dnev
Forest Service
Clark
D.-Mo
Veterans Bureau
Acain
Roosevelt heads to Warm Springs for ten day visit
President Roosevelt will depart by special train tonight with a small staff to conduct official business during a ten day stay in Warm Springs Georgia. The article notes Downing Street as the London residence of the British prime minister Sir George Downing a 17th century secretary of the treasury.
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Washington
Mar
Downing Street
Sir George Downing
The
Treasury
Defense Drills As Enemies Simulated Near Oahu
Honolulu reports 22 000 soldiers and sailors awaiting a simulated enemy fleet amid wartime anxiety. A blue fleet from California conducts extensive secret Pacific maneuvers as naval planes approach, while Pearl Harbor defenses, destroyers, observation planes, submarines, and 20 000 troops prepare to counter a possible surprise attack.
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Honolulu
Mar
Oahu
United States
California
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Army
Cherry Trees in Bloom Ten Days Ahead of Schedule
The Japanese cherry blossoms in the capital opened ten days early due to summerlike temperatures around 74 degrees. Single blossoms were first to bloom. double blossoms are expected in a week or ten days.
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Washington
Mar
National ‘Park Service
Oil Worker Fatally Burned In Oklahoma Fire
Rex Higgins a 30 year old oil field worker was burned to death when a three room frame house burned at the edge of the Tryon oil field about 15 miles northeast of here Higgins had moved to Tryon from Oblong Illinois a year ago His wife and baby daughter were visiting in Oblong at the time of the blaze
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Chandler
Okla
Rex Higgins
Ryon
Here
Higgins
Tryon
Oblong, II
Daghter
Oblong
Upside Down Flag Marks Distress Over City Hall
Chicago on March 22 saw the city hall flag raised upside down signaling distress. The incident involved John Roe the watchman who hoisted the standard and was dismissed yesterday.
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Chicago
Mar
City Hall
John Roe
Oil seize action triggers prisoner claim amid expropriation
Mexico City report says Huasteca Oil manager quoted Ed Borrego as saying he was held “virtual prisoner” in Tampico until a payment to oil workers was made. Officials say expropriation of 17 oil firms aimed to protect foreigners. thousands of students rally in support.
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Mexico City
P.L. L. Anderson
Huasteca Oil Company
Ed Borrego
Tampico
Anderson
Borrego
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Huasteca
Confederation of Mexican Workers
CTM
American oil firms ask US help over Mexico dispute
Four American oil companies including Huasteca Petroleum and Standard Oil of California filed a brief with Secretary Hull urging direct US diplomatic action in Mexico City to resolve conflicts with the Mexican government. Hull said the matter was handed to the State Department for study and noted no Americans were detained related to the seizure of oil property.
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B.T.W. van Hasselt
Aquila Company
Tehuantepec
Huasteca Company
Borrego
Anderson
Mexico City
Tampico
United States
Papetal
Washington
Hull
Mexico
Huasteca Petroleum Company
Standard Oil of California
Mexico-Sinclair Petroleum Corporation
Penn-Mex Fuel Company
State Department
Secretary of State
Mexican
Edward Borrego
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Expropriation Drives Mexican Oil Exiles to U.S. Border
Pi-Oil operators and families crossed the border into Laredo as Mexico expropriated American and British oil properties. About thirty families entered today with some staying for developments while others continued northward seeking safety and work opportunities.
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Laredo
Tex
Man saves woman from jumping at George Washington Bridge
Eva Ross, 27, climbed the George Washington Bridge railing and leaped. Charles Wallen, 20, a passerby, grabbed her and held on for ten minutes until police arrived. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital after refusing to give her address.
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New York
Eva Ross
George Washington Bridge
Hudson River
Charles Wallen
Bellevue Hospital
Britain Rejects Plan to Ease Austrian Refugee Relief
London March 22 1941 The house of commons refused permission for Col Josiah C Wedgwood to introduce a bill to amend the aliens act granting the home secretary six months to admit Austrian refugees and grant them British nationality The vote 210 to 142 Wedgwood condemned Nazi terror while Sir Samuel Hoare said asylum would be limited to those fleeing political racial or religious persecution and naturalization would be considered sympathetically
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London
House of Commons
Josiah C. Wedgwood
Home Secretary
Austria
Britain
Wedgwood
S. S
Samuel Hoare
Ottawa Orders Permit For Fritzel Dairy Milk Distribution
Judge Hugh Means rules Ottawa milk inspector Howard Murphy must issue within three days a permit for Fritzel Dairy Products of Lawrence to distribute milk in Ottawa. The mandamus action, brought by Art Fritzel, argued Murphy unlawfully refused due to concerns over Bangs' disease testing and plant inspection limits.
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Howard Murphy
Ottawa
Fritzel Dairy Products Company
Lawrence
Murphy
Hugh Means
Franklin County
Art Fritzel
Fritzel
Lawrence Company
Leon Bauman
Lawrence City Sanitarian
Loren Jarrell
Fritzer
Harold Woolman
State Board of Health
Dalton
Body Dumped at Hospital Identified as Am brose Russo
Nude body of Am brose Russo, 25, an ex convict, wrapped in a blanket was found at the Mother Cabrini hospital entrance. Sister Marie Louise saw an unidentified man point to the corpse and drive away in a car. Police call Russo a minor hoodlum.
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Chicago
Ambrose Russo
Mother Cabrini Hospital
Marie Louise
Russo
US Demands Indemnity for Panay Sinking Not Yet Announced
Ambassador Grew delivered Washington credit for indemnification over the Panay sinking on the Yangtze river patrol. The amount sought by the United States was not announced. Japan had previously promised indemnification and other amends for the December 12 incident that left four foreigners dead.
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Tokyo
Mar
Joseph C. Grew
United States
Japan
Democracies Must Be On Its Toes Say Reed
Clyde M. Reed former Kansas governor and Parsons publisher warned a Chamber luncheon at the Hotel Eldridge that rising dictatorships threaten world peace. He urged the United States as a leading democracy to safeguard free speech assembly press and elections while preserving the integrity of legislative executive and judicial branches.
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Clyde M. Reed
Parsons
Kansas
Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Eldridge
America
Reed
Douglas County
United States
Hitler
Germany
Water Pollution Alert Hits Verdigris River
Geologist Ogden S. Jones from the Kansas State Board of Health warns the Verdigris River is polluted by oil field brine. He blames oil operators around Toronto Madison Virgil and Quincy for dumping salt water into the river and urges disposal wells or sturdy ponds to restore drinking water quality. He cautions that immediate leak stoppage could return the river to normal.
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Ogden S. Jones
State Board of Health
Lawrence
Jones
Toronto
Madison
Virgil
Quincy
Coffey
Swift War Methods Used by Germans Stir French to Study Defense Plans
Paris reports the cabinet seeks a 5 billion franc loan from the Bank of France for armament as deputies debate the danger of swift war by Germany. Deputy Edmond Meiller accuses German plans of total war including use of civilians. The wartime regime bill aims at full mobilization, wartime administration, and parliamentary legal approval.
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Paris
Bank of
France
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Chamber
Europe
Edmond Meiller
Chamber Army Committee
Erich Ludendorff
Winterset by Maxwell Anderson Presented by Kansas Players
The University of Kansas dramatic group will stage Winterset by Maxwell Anderson this evening at 8 20 in Fraser theater. Performances run nightly through Friday with late arrivals held until the first act ends. Betty Butcher of Milwaukee and Rolla Nuckles lead the cast.
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The
Kansas Players
University of Kansas Dramatic Organization
Maxwell Anderson
Fraser Theater
Betty Butcher
Milwaukee
Wis
Rolla Nuckles
Water quality concerns hit Coffeyville district tour
Jones reported Coffeyville drinking water spiked to 1440 parts per million chloride at peak, with 175 ppm average and 250 ppm causing disagreeable taste. The issue jeopardized boilers for several businesses and halted operations at the Ozark Smelting plant. He noted brine disposal is an old oil industry problem discussed widely in Kansas.
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Independence
Jones
Coffeyville
Ozark
Kansas
How Elections Are Run In First Ward In 1936 Fraud Case
Kansas City officials and a policeman were accused of marking and casting ballots in the 1936 First Ward election as a Republican precinct judge testified. Grnder Thornberry described threats by Democrat precinct captain William J. McMahon and alleged ballot tampering by Leo Gillian. The ward has rarely voted Republican since 1888 due to T. J. Pendergast influence.
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Kansas City
Mar
Grnder Thornberry
William J. McMahon
McMahon
Pearl Harris
Thornberry
Leo Gillian
King
T. J. Pendergast
Hear Mrs Henley on Local History
A large crowd gathered at the Douglas County Historical Society meeting in the Junior High School to hear Mrs. A Henley speak about Lawrence history and to learn the society’s program plans for the year. The April 4 meeting will be in the Watson Library Lawrence Room with future trips to Eudora and Big Springs. a November session will discuss local farms.
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Douglas County Historical Society
A. Henley
Lawrence
Society
Guy Bigsby
M. W. Sterling
Ida Lynn
Irma Spangler
S. S. Learned
Lawrence Room
Watson Library
University of Kansas
Eudora
Big Springs
Learned
E. F. Huddleston
Hannah Oliver
Robert C. Rankin
Miss Oliver
K. U
Rankin
J. P. Usher
Rain Missed State as Warmth Grips Kansas
Topeka reports no precipitation in 24 hours while temperatures set state records. A federal meteorologist predicted rain tonight for southeast Kansas then cooler conditions statewide, with fair and warmer weather Wednesday. Highs near 55 expected tomorrow after tonight’s lows 30s to 40s and dusty winds in southwest Kansas.
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Topeka
UPI
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Mercury
Abilene
Tex
Flora
Stock Market Index Dips to 39 7 After 40 9 Yesterday
The average of 60 stocks stood at 39.7, down from 40.9 seen yesterday as market activity cooled. Investors watched broader trends and moved to cautious positions amid uncertain economic signals.
Weather forecast for Kansas and roads
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with showers in extreme southeast. Wednesday expected to be fair and warmer. Morning weather notes show generally cloudy skies and good dirt roads. Temperature readings include yesterday's high and today’s low, with minor variability across stations.
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Kansas
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