Senate passes vast relief bill to return to House
Washington March 23 The $4 58 billion work relief bill with modifications clears the senate by a wide margin and goes back to the house with amendments. President Roosevelt retains broad spending power as the measure funds nine project groupings including highways rural relief housing and public works for 3 5 million on relief workers and 800 million adjustable funds.
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Washington
Senate
House
Thomas
D-Okla
Treasury
McCarran
D-Nev
Wheeler
D-Mont
Roosevelt
Bad Quarter of an Hour in America and Transit Strike
In Pittsburgh and Wichita dated March 23 the article reports aged former Secretary Andrew Mellon calling America’s upheaval a bad quarter but a passing phase. In Wichita, 85 of 114 streetcar and bus workers struck at 6 am demanding wage increases of 45 to 65 cents per hour.
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Pittsburch
Andrew W. Mellon
America
Wichita Transportation
Wichita
Social Security Bill Draft Reaches Comparative Agreement
President Roosevelt and Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee as of March 23 reached a comparative agreement on a full social security bill. The measure will include unemployment insurance and old age pensions, with executive session planned for Monday to act on the draft.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Chaiman Doughton
Doughton
TEST PILOT DIES IN MIDAIR CRASH NEAR FARMINGDALE
James H. Collins a noted test pilot died when a new Grumman fighting ship tore loose during a navy ordered dive near Farmingdale New York The 33 year old Army trained flyer had told friends he planned to quit flying for life as a writer He and his wife from Oklahoma City had recently moved to Garden City Tulsa Oklahoma after marrying Wichita beauty Dolores Lacy in a wartime poppy drive romance He was among the first on the wreckage to help others and despite being urged to pull free asked to be left to his fate
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Farmingdale
James H. Collins
Grumman
Xlation
Collins
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Brooks and Kelly Feilds
Texas
Navy
Oklahoma City
Garden City
Tulsa
Oklo
Jimmy Collins
N. Y
Dolores Lacy
Wichita
Earl Richter
Miss Lacy
Miss Richter
Travel Air Company
California
Queen to Lecture at Kansas Social Work Meeting in Salina
Dr. Stewart A Queen head of Washington University sociology will speak at the Kansas Conference of Social Work in Salina April 12 and 13 with joint sessions on juvenile delinquency. Frank Zeigler Glick, associate secretary of the Illinois Emergency Relief, also to speak. Louis M Howe grows weaker as Roosevelt delays Florida fishing cruise due to pleurisy.
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Stewart A. Queen
Washington University
St. Louis
University of Kansas
Kansas Conference of Social Work
Salina
Kansas Conference of Social Workers
Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Carroll Clark
K. U
Kansas Mental Hygiene Society
Bert A. Nash
Queen
Charities and Correction Board
California
Department of Sociology
Community Council
Detroit
Frank Zeigler Glick
Louis M. Howe
Washington
Roosevelt
Florida
Howe
Unity of purpose claimed at three power German rearmament talks
Paris reports that France England and Italy announced complete unity after a daylong three power conference on German rearmament. Mussolini mobilized 220000 more troops and France admitted transferring troops to the Rhine frontier. Talks to Berlin will be exploratory under the London lines with Stresa to host a French British Italian ministers meeting on April 11.
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Paris
France
England
Italy
John Simon
Berlin
Mussolini
Rhine
Hitler
Sir John
Stresa
Pierre Laval
Anthony Eden
Fulvio Suvich
Quai d'Orsay
London
Rome
Moscow
Warsaw
Praha
Laval
Eden
Sovich
Mystery in a Slaying at New Orleans Night Club
A jailed young waterfront cabaret hostess known as Marion King admits stabbing John S. Pierce in a French Quarter nightclub quarrel sparked by alleged demands to reveal her true identity. Police flag a jealousy motive while detailing her past narcotics record and claimed failed relationships. Pierce, from a prominent Mississippi family, died. his body was sent to Jackson for burial.
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New Orleans
Marion King
John S. Pierce
Detroit
Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Young Lierce
Jackson
Miss
Pierce
Mississippi
Averted Train Wreck in Hutchinson Blocks Found on Tracks
Police halted a special Missouri Pacific train bearing executive John Cannon after J W McMullen, a light company worker, found concrete blocks on tracks in Hutchinson Kansas. Investigators consider possible wrecking attempt, as officers removed the obstructions. Government purchase data note cattle actions in Texas drought counties.
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Hutchinson
Kan
John Cannon
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Light
J. W. McMullen
Four Kansas officials sued in alienation case over Reiter slaying
Mrs. Fannie Riley sues four state and county officers and Harvey Riley for 25000 dollars alleging they coerced her husband Roy Riley into implicating her in the December 25 slaying of August Reiter at his Stafford county farm. The suit claims beatings, starvation, forced confession, and blocked visits, with promises of immunity and disinheritance pressure. Preliminary hearing set for Monday at St John. Otto Reiter, brother of the slain man, is ill after a paralytic stroke blamed on worry over the case.
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Kan
Mar
Kansas
Fannie Riley
Roy Riley
August Reiter
Riley
Harvey Riley
Stafford County
Roy
Noah Wiggins
State Reformatory
Wint Smith
Kansas Highway Patrol
O. W. Lomax
Reuben Welch
Reiter
Monk Richardson
Welch
St. John
Otto Reiter
Dust Pneumonia Victims Hit Colorado in Dust Storm
In southeast Colorado the Black Blizzard dust storm left six dead and hundreds ill from lung infections. Baca county seeks Red Cross aid and health officials investigate if dust caused deaths. Gov Johnson offers help. relief efforts move patients to safer homes as roads become impassable.
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Colo
Baca County
Red Cross
Colorado Board of Health
Springfield
Lamar
St. Louis
E. 5
Transute
State Board of Health
Mary Sloan
Charles W. Winters
E. F. Duvall
Ora Manley
James M. Martin
Utleyville
Dale Waterman
Elder
E. C. Johnson
Kenneth Welch
FERA
Baca
Welch
Post discuses flight with Winnie Mae in Bartlesville
Wiley Post met with Frank Phillips in Bartlesville Oklahoma to review data from his substratosphere cross country attempt and plan for a subsequent dash across the continent. He will depart tomorrow for Los Angeles as weather and prep allow. A prior attempt was halted near Cleveland Ohio after about seven hours due to oxygen shortage.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Wiley Post
Winnie Mae
California
Post
Frank Phillips
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Baker University senior Morris Jones wins NWU speech scholarship
Morris Jones of Hiawatha, a Baker University senior, has been notified of election to a Northwestern University scholarship in the speech department. A Rhodes scholarship candidate last fall, Jones has earned recognition in dramatic productions including The Black Flamingo Teddy Mystery Station and Everyman.
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Baldwin
Morris Jones
Hiawatha
Baker University
Northwestern University
Jones
Baker
Teddy
Mystery Station
Everyman
Shortage of Slaughter Hogs Forecast for Summer
Washington reports a predicted sharp reduction in hogs available for domestic slaughter this summer due to a small fall 1934 pig crop and fewer hogs on farms at the start of 1935. February slaughter was the smallest since 1910 and hog prices rose to the highest since 1930, though the seasonal price dip this spring is expected to be brief.
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Washington
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Flight Tests End Amid Resignation At Commerce Dept
Oakland March 23 The government's radio compass plane tests ended after Maj Chester Snow resigned from the Commerce Department amid a clash over extending flights to Hawaii The final hop covered 350 miles to sea and back to contact the liner Mariposa The department said no further compass flights would be made and the ship would return to its commercial service
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Oakland
Calif
Department of Commerce
Chester Snow
Pacific
Snow
Roper
Hawaii
Major Snow
Mariposa
James L. Kinney
Winfield Upsets Newton to Reach State Finals
Winfield defeats Newton 26 to 23 in the state class A interscholastic basketball tournament to advance to the final. The rail roaders led at times with key baskets from Tucker Spoon and Sanders sealing the win as Chanute and Hutchinson faced a separate semi final.
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Winfield
Newton
Hickerson
Claasen
Grove
Railroaders
Sanders
Tucker
Spoon
Chanute
Hutchinson
Life terms for bank hold-up and kidnapping in Lyons case
Wichita March 23 Burton Phillips 23 and Homer Binkley 28 receive life sentences for robbing Chandler National Bank Lyons Kan and kidnapping two officials last November 28 Judge Richard J Hopkins imposed maximum terms Phillips to Leavenworth and Binkley to Atlanta after a jury convicted them yesterday Prosecution sought death penalty and a motion for new trial may be filed by defense attorney Eustace Smith.
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Burton Phillips
Homer Binkley
Chandler National Bank of Lyons
Kan
Richard J. Hopkins
United State District Court
Phillips
Federal
Leavenworth
Hinkley
Atlanta
Eustace Smith
Hutchinson
Mankato
Binkley
Moundridge
First Kansas Debaters Tie For Lead In Valley League
Four schools tied for first in the Missouri Valley Debate League tournament at the University of Kansas. Kansas Texas Oklahoma and Iowa State each won four debates and lost one. Three teams tied for second: Missouri South Dakota and Washington University. Other participants included Drake Kansas State Colorado and Arkansas. Next year’s league tourney will be at the University of Oklahoma Norman.
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University of Kansas
Universities of Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Iowa State
Universities of Missouri
South Dakota
Washington University
Drake
Kansas State
Colorado
Arkansas
University of Oklahoma
Norman
Kansas
William Zupanec
Missouri Valley
John Hurwitz
New Germany
Chester Ferrell
St. Ols
Will Work Together During Special Week
The local Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas Cooperative League will stage Home Products Week from April 1 to 6 to advertise explain and demonstrate the value of local and state products. A banquet at the Masonic Temple April 2 will feature home produced food. The week links with the spring trades show at the national guard armory April 3 4 5 6.
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Chamber of Commerce and Kansas Cooperative League
Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
The
Kansas Cooperative League
Masonic Temple
National Guard
Kansas
Weather forecast shifts as rain expands across states
General rains drenched Oklahoma and parts of Missouri move eastward with only extreme southeast Kansas still soaking. Forecaster S D Flora expects showers early next week and end of week, with temperatures mostly above normal and a colder spell by week’s end. Goodland reports a 32 degree freeze. northeast Kansas may reach 40. In southern Kansas, low around 5 degrees higher. Also notes 185 flying girls on staff of a major airline serving New York to west coast routes.
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Topeka
Oklahoma
Missouri
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Goodland
New York
West Coast
Will Strengthen Army by 40 Per Cent
Washington reports agreement by Senate and House conferees on a $400 million war department appropriation bill to raise the standing army by 40 percent, from 118 150 to 165 000, with funding of about 20 million dollars annually and no presidential discretionary control.
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Washington
Senate
House
War Department
Old Fixture Goes Modern Lifts To Be Used
A 1903 brass chandelier from the district courtroom was dismantled during renovations. It weighed 450 pounds and had 16 gas jets and 23 bulb sockets but provided little light. It will be sold for brass and replaced by four modern ceiling lights to improve illumination. re-plastering and painting of the courtroom will follow.
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District Court Room
Harry Gregg
Princeton Plans Outdoor 1000 Yard Race At Invitation Meet
Glenn Cunningham, the Kansas miler fresh from a world indoor 10 yard record in New York, prompts Princeton to schedule an outdoor 1000 yard feature at the Princeton Invitation Meet in June. Princeton seeks to match Cunningham with Charles Hornbostel and Ben Eastman, with plans influenced by the possible addition of Jack Pavelock to race Cunningham at the mile. Cunningham, who set the outdoor mile world mark at 4 06.7 last year, has won all winter races and is slated for Texas, Kansas, Drake Relays, the Princeton Meet in June, and the National AAU championships at Lincoln in July.
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Glenn Cunningham
Kansas
New York
Princeton
Cunningham
Charles Hornbostel
Indiana University
Ben Eastman
Jack Pavelock
New Zealand
Bonthron
Texas
Drake
Lincoln
Neb
Eighty nine boys take Summerfield exams at KU
Eighty nine Kansas high school boys participated in district preliminary Summerfield scholarship examinations at the University of Kansas. Examinations were also held in Wichita Salina Parsons Fort Scott Colby and Dodge City with slightly under 306 seniors taking part. Thirty candidates advance to the final at KU on April 26 and 27 to determine the 12 or 19 Summerfield scholars for the next four years.
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Kansas
University of Kansas
Wichita
Salina
Parsons
Frankfort
Colby
Dodge City
K. U
Barbara Hutton Mdivani sails for New York amid Reno divorce
Barbara Hutton Mdivani leaves Reno aboard the S S Bremen heading to New York after a divorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani. A police guard escorts her and cousin Jimmy Donahue as curious crowds gather at the dock.
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Southampton
Mar
Reno
Alexis Mdivani
Barbara Hutton Mdivani
New York
S. S. Bremen
Jimmy Donahue
Mdivani
Jimmy
Second Aspirant Enters Mayoral Race in City Election
The late entry of Harry Eudaly a garage owner running as an independent joins Alfred Lawrence Republican nominee and J G McElhinny in a field that now totals four for mayor. Registration rises to 6829 with ward totals listed and a new form of government set to take effect after April 2 elections.
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Harry Eudaly
Eudaly
Alfred Lawrence
J. G. McElhinny
Vermont Street
Kansas Weather Forecast and Conditions
Partly cloudy and cooler in the east tonight with unsettled conditions Sunday. warmer in the west and north and possible showers in the southeast. Morning outlook shows clear skies with some locations partly cloudy and others cloudy. dirt roads reported good. Gas office records note temperatures from 7 PM yesterday to noon today with a high around 81 and a trace rainfall this morning.
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Manhattan
Dodge City
Pittsburg
Ottawa
Emporia
Douglas County
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