Senator Barkley delays probe of TVA clash
Washington reports a heated Senate exchange as Senator Bridges urged removing TVA directors after President Roosevelt ousted chairman Arthur E. Morgan. Barkley blocked quick action, stressing bipartisan, fair inquiry while Morgan’s removal prompts anticipated congressional fights over TVA policies.
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Senator Barkley
TVA
Washington
Mar
Bridges
R-N.h
Senate
Congress
Tennessee Valley Authority
Morgan
Mexicans Celebrate Expropriation of Oil Property
Juarez and Mexico City observed a wide civic celebration as Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign oil interests. Tens of thousands filled Independence Square and 200,000 moved past the presidential palace while 300 CTM militiamen marched. American tourists were hissed by women marchers shouting anti American slogans. Authorities kept order with troops and police as evacuation of foreign workers proceeded.
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Juarez
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico City
Mar
Independence Square
Cardenas
CTM
New Labor
Confederation
Treasury Department
Many Plant Trees Boosts City Reforestation Campaign
The planting season is opening as nurseymen report brisk business. Prof Donald Durell says ideal conditions for planting deciduous trees evergreens and shrubs exist and urges careful watering by digging holes for deep soaking. The citizens reforestation committee chaired by B Russell plans a meeting to expand efforts as 400 trees were removed last fall and winter with county relief labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nurseymen
Citizens Reforestation Committee
Alfred Lawrence
Lawrence
Donald Durell
Citizens Tree Committee
Citibens
B. Russell
Russell and
Durell
Bruce Cameron
A. W. Berger
W.C. Simons
Bank Robbery Nets About $1800 in Spring Hill
Two young bandits robbed the Spring Hill state bank of about 1800 dollars after striking the cashier R. A. Dunmire and assistant H. P. Thomas with a blackjack. Both men were locked in the vault. the robbers fled south. Dunmire, KU basketball veteran and 1915 captain, is brother to Walter Dunmire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Hill
Kan
R. A. Dunmire
H. P. Thomas
Dunmire
Thomas
University of Kansas
Walter Dunmire
Lawrence Procer
Plane Crash Kills Four Near Benton Harbor
A four seat plane carrying two men and a woman from South Bend Indiana crashed into a swamp two miles north of Benton Harbor Michigan just before midnight Tuesday bursting into flame. The dead were Fred Wharton 26 pilot George W Hepler 19 and Ann Miller 28. All victims were from South Bend Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Harbor
Mich
South Bend
Ind
Fred Wharton
Studebaker Corporation
Ann Miller
South On
Eleven Soloists Set for Pilgrim's Progress Music Drama
Edgar Stillman Kelley choral work Pilgrim's Progress will be performed Sunday March 27 with a 400 voice chorus and 90 piece orchestra. Northwestern's Walter Stults stars as Christian, joined by Beulah Chiapasso Earl Padfield Vernon Landon John Risoe Joseph Wilkins Keith Davis Charles Neiswender Jack Laffer Dorothy Hawes Meribah Moore in key roles.
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Pilgrim’s Progress
Edgar Stillman- Kelley
Walter Allen Stults
Northwestern University
Christian
Celestial City
Stults
Elijah
Beulah Chiapasso
Earl Padfield
Salina
Faithul
Vernon Landon
Russell
School of Fine Arts
John Risoe
Kinslex
Worldly Wiseman
Vanity Fair
Joseph Wilkins
K. U
Keith Davis
Lawrence
School of Fine
Angel
Meribah Moore
Madame Bubble
Death of Jeannett Uhrlaub Ends 59 Year Service Career
Jeannett Uhrlaub aged 80 died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after 59 years with Barteldes Seed company as a bookkeeper. He lived at 724 New Hampshire Street and was a former Elks member, German Lutheran church attendee, and flower and symphony lover. Survived by wife, three sons Rudolf Ernst Julius, daughter Agnes Evans, and two German sisters. Funeral Thursday at Funk chapel 3:30 led by Rev. Puls. burial Oak Hill cemetery.
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Jeannett Uhrlaub
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
New Hampshire Street
Uhrlaub
United States
Gottingen
Germany
Barteldes Seed Company
Barteldes
Julius Uhrlaub
Florence, Cole
Agnes Uhrlaub Evans
Lawrence
Helen Uhrlaub
Constanza Uhrlaub
Funk Chapel
C. A. Puls
Oak Hill Cemetery
Ammonia Bomb Thrown Into Bund Office in Pittsburgh
A crude ammonia bomb was hurled into the Pittsburgh headquarters of the German American Bund by two men in an automobile. A passerby described the fruit jar device tossed through a first floor window. The blast spread fumes through the building. a Bund meeting had been canceled last Friday due to American Legion protests.
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Pittsburgh
Mar
Bund
American Legion
Wilhelm Kunze
Britain adopts no new commitments abroad policy
Prime Minister Chamberlain seeks labor support to speed up armament while presenting a no new commitments abroad policy. He aims to parallel rearmament with cautious diplomacy, avoiding new alliances unless homeland is threatened, amid European tensions and Czech crisis worries.
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London
Chamberlain
General Council
The
Trades Union Congress
No. 10
Owning Street
Commons
Organized Labor
Britain
Czechoslovakia
France
Proposals to End Tax Overlap Receive Broad Backing
Washington March 23 Treasury official Roswell Magill and Senator King Utah finance committee member back plan to convene a federal state tax administrators conference to wipe out duplications. They expect a summer meeting after tax revision bills move. Senator George Georgia finance committee also supports the initiative. Governor Lehman of New York warned federal tax policies threaten state sovereignty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Treasury
Roswell Magill
King
Utah
Senate Finance Committee
Magill
Cavalry Brigade Readies Move to Fort Riley for Maneuvers
The horse appropriations committee urged Congress to approve a $10,890 transfer to relocate the mechanized seventh cavalry brigade from Fort Knox Kentucky to Fort Riley Kansas for maneuvers with the horse cavalry stationed there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Horse Appropriations Committee
Congress
Seventh Cavalry Brigade
Fort Knox
Fort Riley
Kan
Nazi Leader Gains Power in Czechoslovakia With Shift in German Parties
Praha March 23. Up reports a new political shift as German parties outside the Nazi fold join Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German party. Resignation of Erwin Zajicek signals a move toward a Czech Slovak transition cabinet to seek terms with Henlein. Henlein could command up to 55 seats, reshaping the chamber where 14 parties are represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Praha
Czechoslovakia
Konrad Henlein
Erwin Zajicek
German Christian Socialist Party
Henlein
Czech Agrarian Party
Kansas Water and Sewage Works to Meet at KU
More than 100 operators are slated to attend the eleventh annual meeting of the Kansas Water and Sewage Works association at the University of Kansas three day session starting tomorrow. Registration opens at 8 30 in Marvin Hall room 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Water and Sewage Works Association
University of Kansas
Marvin Hall
Ivan C. Crawford
K.U. School of Engineering and Architecture
D. H. Rupp
Topeka
Earnest Boyce
Lawrence
Rupp
Nion
B. Ulrich
Manhattan
J. A . Boyer
Fort Scott
William O’day
Coffeyville
Frank E. Willey
John P. Harris
Chicago
Ill
W. C. Purdy
U. S. Public Health Service
Cincinnnati
John G. Stutz
League of Kansas Municipalities
H. C. Austin
Kansas City
Memorial Union
E. H. Lindley
Frank Seymour
el Dorado
J. F. Branson
Russell
H. L. Lingo
Horton
Warmer Thursday Forecast From Topeka Weather Office
Fair and warmer with no precipitation expected, the federal forecaster said. Temperatures rise tonight in the west and climb further tomorrow with highs of 65 to 70. Rain totals included Concordia 0.01 inch and Kansas City 0.07 inch in the past 24 hours, with traces at Topeka Ellis and Dodge City. Minimums should stay above freezing, 35 to 40 in the west and 42 to 45 in the east.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Kansas
Concordia
Kansas City
Ellis
Dodge City
Colorado
Oklahoma
Flora
Removal of Swastikas At New York Hospital
Two swastikas removed from a 335 foot brick smokestack at a New York hospital after protests by anti Nazi groups. Administrator Murray Sargent said the decorative emblems, historic symbols of human welfare, were erected before Hitler adopted the symbol.
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New York
Mar
New York Hospital
Murray Sargent
Sargent
Adolf Hitler
Death verdict: causes unknown in Davis inquest
Harold A. Davis 27 died March 11 from causes unknown after an inquest in the district court room. A fractured skull was found and witnesses testified about a possible alley fight near 714 Massachusetts Street. Official charges were not disclosed as investigators kept details limited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold A. Davis
Davis
Weyermuller
Massachusetts Street
Don Hults
Charles Springer
Morgan Challenges Roosevelt Right to Remove Him
Dr. Arthur E. Morgan said he has not decided on attacking the legality of his ouster as TVA chairman but he continues to challenge President Roosevelt's power to remove him. He declined to state his next move, would discuss the TVA issue with friends and attorneys in Chicago, and would participate in any congressional investigation if called.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
Congress
Arthur E. Morgan
TVA
Barkley
D-Ky
Bridges
R-N.h
King
D-Ut
Senate-House
Public Power Agency
Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Harcourt A. Morgan
James L. Fly
Capitol
Bert H. Jackson
Fident
Jackson
David Lilienthal
Tresoarch
Arthur Morgan
Warr Springs
TVA Fund
White House
Arthur. E. Morgan
Chamberlain
Commons
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Fuehrer
Hitler
Europe
Austria
France
Alboit
Britain
Lothe Sanders
Davis
Benny Ireland
Sam Hill
Sanders
Hill
Jess Shook
Shook
Springer
Chicago
Lawrence Trade Show Opens At Armory Tonight
The Lawrence Spring Trade and Better Housing show opens at 6 30 p m at the National Guard Armory Eighth and New Hampshire street with 44 exhibitors from baby chicks to recreation rooms. Admission is 10 cents and the event runs evenings through Saturday with a matinee on Saturday. Entertainment includes vaudeville acts and a full floor show backed by Riling’s eight piece orchestra.
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National Guard Armory
Eighth
New Hampshire Street
Armory
Riling
Robert Kelley
Ernie Sanders
Doris Lee Jackson
Jack Dalby
Littlejohn and Emery
Hit Run Baby Carriage Reported By EightYear Old
Eight year old Eugene Scott reported a hit and run baby carriage collision on a Rochester sidewalk. He was treated at a hospital for a head laceration after his foot propelled cart struck the perambulator and the other vehicle drove away.
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Rochester
N. Y
Mar
Eugene Scott
Wheat Improves Across Kansas Except Southwest
Growing wheat showed overall improvement last week across the state with the exception of extreme southwestern counties where many fields remain bare, according to reports from federal and state agriculture departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Army Appropriation Bill Seeks Large Postwar Funding
Washington March 23 The house appropriations committee urged Congress to provide 447 808 555 for the coming fiscal year the largest army appropriation in 18 years The plan surpasses this year by 32 545 000 and nears 1920 21 levels as the army of occupation ends The proposal includes heavy spending for anti aircraft guns armament production and ammunition with about 124 000 000 for the air corps About 476 new planes would raise total aircraft to 3 302 The committee boosted national guard funding and kept citizens military training camp money at 2 275 000 Gen Malin Craig warned that 1 000 000 000 would be needed to prepare the army for emergencies to mobilize 400 000 men immediately and later add 330 000 and 270 000 personnel for expanded forces The plan aims to bolster the navy while addressing gaps in army equipment clothing weapons and ammunition
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Washington
Mar
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Germany
Budget Bureau
Roosevelt
Air Corps
Army
National Guard
Citizens
Malin Craig
Graig
Craig
Farm program meetings explain 1938 plan for Douglas County
Township meetings next week discuss the 1938 agricultural conservation program for Douglas County farmers. Otto Hack chairs the ACP committee. meetings cover soil depleting and building acreages, payments, and soil building goals with focus on crops wheat corn potatoes, vegetables, orchards, pastures, and forestry practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County
Otto Hack
Ithra Anderson
Ernest Prim
Grant Township
White School
Wakarusa Township
Number Six
Lecompton Township
Lecompton High School
Willow Springs
Clinton Township
Clinton School
Kanwaka Township
Kanwaka School
Palmyra
Baldwin High School
Marion Township
Enterprise School
Eudora Township
Eudora High School
Douglas County
ACP
Four Ottawa Women Injured in Kansas City Car Crash
Four Ottawa women were injured when two cars collided here today in Kansas City. Mrs. Clara Todd, 50, suffered three fractured ribs. Miss Dorothea Cox, 25, severe back strain. Mrs. Lella Angle, 55, and Mrs. Rachel Perry, 28, were taken for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Kansas City
Kan
Clara Todd
Dorothea Cox
Lella Angle
Rachel Perry
Stock Market Index Changes Reported
A stock index shows 60 with a 38.8 level and yesterday at 39.7, reflecting a decline in value. The report notes trading activity and market movement affecting investors and shares.
Weather Outlook From Kansas Forecast
Kansas forecast shows fair tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures. Morning outlook calls for clear skies at Garden City with partial cloud cover. Road conditions report friendly except soft dirt roads at Ottawa where caution advised.
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Kansas
Garden City
Ottawa
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Downing Street
Labor Council
Republic
Nazi
XK. U
Kansas Water and Sewage Association
Jude Anderson
R. H. Edmiston
H. Penfield Jones
Lothe Adair
Alabama Street
Edmiston
Jones
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