Senate Approves TVA Investigation Move
The senate adopted a compromise resolution for a joint senate house inquiry into the Tennessee Valley Authority. The plan, led by Senator Barkley, calls for a 10 member committee with $50 000 for expenses and aims to probe anti TVA activity by private power firms and TVA management. The measure now heads to the house for action.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
Senate-House
TVA
Barkley
Kentucky
Bridges
R-Nh
King
D-A
House
R-Nih
D-U
D-Ky
Norris
Ind.-Neb
Bankhead
Senate House Committee
Bridges-King
Comptroller General
Jon
Explosion of the sun seen as possible in far future
Swedish astronomer Dr Knut Lundmark predicted today that a solar explosion could destroy the earth, but he urged calm stating the event will not occur for at least 30,000,000 years.
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Philadelphia
Knut Lundmark
Opposition to proposed welfare department faces House fight
Washington March 25 Senate foes of the government reorganization bill battled to limit federal reach as they opposed a proposed welfare department. Senator King urged restricting educational functions to current offices and warned against portraying a centralized federal relief system. The debate preceded a Monday test vote on recommittal that could kill the bill for the session.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
King
D-W
Office of Education
Insurgents advance in Catalonia press toward Lerida
Insurgent forces move east into Catalonia capturing Bujaraloz 45 miles west of Lerida and seizing prisoners and war material. Franco with advancing troops leads ground and air assault as government troops retreat without battlefield resistance. In Prague Henlein demands new elections claiming 1.6 million votes and control of 55 seats in parliament. France says Prague has precautions to block a domestic coup and would seek aid only if foreign troops cross borders.
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Spain
Bujaraloz
Lerida
Barcelona
Mediterranean
Francisco Franco
Catalonia
Zaragoza-Lerida
Aragon
Caspe- Alcaniz
Praha
Mar
Konrad Henlein
Czechoslovakia
Henlein
National Chamber of Deputies
Heinlein
Paris
France
Stefan Osusky
Joseph Paul Boncour
Labor Leaders Call League Action Over European Appeasement
London reports leaders of British labor demand an immediate League of Nations assembly to address appeasement in Europe. The joint meeting by Trades Union Congress and the Labor Party urged Europe’s major powers, especially France, Britain and Russia, to consider steps to curb concessions in central Europe and Spain amid Chamberlain's foreign policy and rearmament push.
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London
Chamberlain
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Europe
Trades Union Congress
Labor Party
Labor
House of Commons
League
France
Great Britain
Russia
Central
Spain
Sadaki
Avert Cabinet Ministers Crisis In French Finance Move
Paris reports the cabinet under Premier Leon Blum averted a new crisis by approving a proposal to seek ratification of a 5,000,000,000 franc loan from the Bank of France to the treasury. The measure, already Senate approved, avoids insisting on a second bill opposed by the chamber and promises fuller financial legislation next week.
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Paris
Mar
Leon Blum
Chamber of Deputies
Bank of France
Treasury
Senate
Chamber
Santa Fe Union Reports Work Week Cut Plan
Clyde Shearer of Topeka executive secretary of the Santa Fe railroad shopcrafts union said 12 000 workers on the system would be affected by a union company agreement to cut each employe s work week one day. Each employee will work one day a week less until May 1.
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Santa Fe
el Paso
Tex
Clyde Shearer
Topeka
Kan
Santa Fe Railroad Shopcrafts Union
Japan May Buy Oil From Mexico Under Large Contract
Private Japanese companies plan to offer Mexico a roughly 500000 barrel per year oil contract. It would include technical help to build pipelines and improve Pacific coast harbors. The deal, not completed, was pursued before hostilities in China last year and would load at Salina Cruz after a 150 mile downgrade pipeline.
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Tokyo
Japan
Mexico
Pacific
China
Tehuantepec
Salina Cruz
Lazaro Cardenas
Foreign trade shows February excess exports by 100 million
The United States posted exports of 262.7 million and imports of 153.1 million in February, with exports 13 percent above last year and imports 41 percent below. Net surplus equals 100 million, though both totals fell from January. Major exports rose in lard wheat feed grains tobacco wood pulp petroleum iron and steel products machinery automobiles aircraft and fertilizers.
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Washington
Mar
United States
Commerce Department
British Soldier Killed Near Gaza Bombing
Arab saboteurs attacked a military car patrolling the railway line near Gaza killing one British soldier and wounding another on March 25. The incident underscores ongoing hostility in the area and follows prior clashes between British forces and local insurgents.
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Jerusalem
Mar
Gaza
Senate Committee Softens House Tax Plan Evolution of Estate and Gift Provisions
Washington notes the Senate Finance Committee rejected house estate and gift tax changes in the revenue bill. It kept a $40,000 exemption per tax, restored a $5,000 annual gift exemption, and substituted flat rates on profits and gains. The panel projected higher revenue and signaled a looming floor fight.
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Washington
Mar
Senate Finance Committee
Harrison
D-Miss
Senate
House
Lehman
New York
Finance Committee
Poe
Treasury
Barkley
LaFollette
Wis
Chinese claim A victory in new Tientsin Pukow belt push
Shanghai dispatch reports Chinese forces bolstered by German trained reinforcements and mechanized units launching a counter offensive along the Tientsin Pukow railway for about one hundred miles. A Shantung advance under General Li Tsung Jen claimed Ning Yang was occupied despite fog.
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Shanghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Shantung Province
Ningyang
Grand Canal
Li Tsung-Jen
Stock Market Index Dips To 36.7 Points
The index for 60 stocks slides to 36.7 yesterday from 38.8, with Ford Service listed and Hamilton at 702 Vermont Avenue in Ady.
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Ford Service
Hamilton
Ady
Vandenberg Seeks Helium Sale Suspension for Airships
Senator Vandenberg proposes an amendment to withdraw helium from the U S monopoly for inflation of airships operating with foreign nations He urges repeal of a provision allowing sales to foreign partners as American Zeppelin awaits government approval on a German contract Secretary Ickes has delayed final approval until Roosevelt returns citing fears of military use in Europe
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Washington, Mar
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Congress
United States
American Zeppelin Transport Company
New York
Zeppelin Corporation
Ickes
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Europe
Kansas Academy of Science Heads to Pittsburg Meeting
Dozens of Kansas science teachers from the University of Kansas will attend the seventieth annual Kansas Academy of Science meeting in Pittsburg starting March 31. The event combines with Kansas Entomological, Mathematical societies and the Kansas Nebraska AAUP section. nine new clubs will be recognized and a science teachers’ session is introduced. Dr. Schoene will preside at the banquet and successors will be named for academy leadership as members and KU faculty hold key editorial and committee roles. Total academy membership stands at 727.
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University of Kansas
Pittsburg
Kansas Academy of Science
Kansas Entomological Society
Kansas Mathematical Societies
Kansas-Nebraska
American Association of University Professors
W. H. Schoene
Schoene
Rock City
Minneapolis
Kan
Academy
W. J. Baumgartner
Columbus
R. H. Wheeler
Robert Taft
Baumgartner
Actress Claire Dodd Divorces Uncontested
In Los Angeles on March 25, Claire Dodd stage and screen actress won an uncontested divorce from Jack Milton Strauss a real estate broker. Dodd said she often came home tired from work and her husband wanted to go out, but she preferred to sleep until her picture finished. They wed in Tijuana May 12 1931 and have a 16 month old son.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Claire Dodd
Miss Dodd
Jack Milton Strauss
Tijuana
Mexico
Kansas Seaman Joseph McMullen Dies in Pacific Dive
Mr and Mrs Joseph McMullen of near Great Bend received word yesterday of their son Joseph a seaman who died in a deep sea diving accident off Luzon island in the Philippines.
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Kansas
Great Bend
Kan
Joseph McMullen
Near
Joseph
Luzon Island
Philippines
Utilities boards urged for large cities at Kansas water meet
J D Donavan Kansas City public utilities manager urged elected utilities boards for large cities, citing better management and continuity. R J Paulette reviewed WPA Kansas water and sewer projects, noting 134 completed and 41 under construction funded partly by local communities. Banquet and lectures followed at KU with demonstrations on fisheries management and student performances.
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J. D. Donavan
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas Water and Sewage Works
University of Kansas
Supreme Court
Donavan
R. J. Paulette
Topeka
WPA
Kansas
Eureka
Paulette
Domestic Bond Proposal to Settle Oil Expropriation
Mexico City March 25. Finance Minister Eduardo Suarez proposed a domestic bond issue to pay 400 million dollars for expropriated American and British oil properties. Governors from 24 states pledged 5 percent of their state budgets to wipe out the petroleum debt. A plan to indemnify the companies will be set at a governors meeting tomorrow, as voluntary subscriptions to a national fund rose to 78,000 pesos.
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Mexico City
Eduardo Suarez
Suarez
Crowds Grow at Lawrence Spring Show With Farm Focus
More than 500 people attended the Lawrence Spring Trade and Better Housing show with farmers invited for tomorrow’s Farmers day. Displays include Curtis Sash and Door window models, an ice refrigerator with a pink rabbit, and J W Shaw Lumber motor boats attracting attention. Music by Riling's orchestra and vaudeville numbers pleased attendees.
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Lawrence
National Guard Armory
Eighth and
New Hampshire Street
Riling
Armory
Curtis Sash and Door Company
J. W. Shaw Lumber Company
Senator Bailey Points to Politics Hindering Recovery
New York March 25 The American Academy of Political Science heard Senator Bailey of North Carolina say permanent recovery requires the government stop using politics to solve economic problems. He urged a balanced budget lower taxes on capital gains and undivided profits, and less government competition with private enterprise.
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New York
Mar
Bailey
D.-N.c
American Academy of Political Science
Refuge for Oppressed Minorities of World Object of Hull Proposals
President Roosevelt outlined an American asylum proposal for political refugees abroad that would also aid oppressed minorities in Russia Spain and Italy. He noted no new legislation is needed and linked it to 1789 policy, while Hull’s plan to study the issue would seek private funding. About 26,000 could enter under quotas when nations merge.
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Refuge
Object of
Hull
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Germany
Austria
Russia
Spain
Italy
United States
Europe
America
Pilgrim's Progress to be staged by Lawrence group
Edgar Stillman Kelley's Pilgrim's Progress reaches its climax Sunday at Hoch auditorium with 500 performers. The Lawrence Choral Union of 200 voices, a 200-voice school children chorus, and the University Symphony Orchestra will back 11 soloists led by Walter Allen Stults. The event features Dr. Miessner, Dr. Kelley, and a host of local officials and artists in a major literary musical production.
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Edgar Stillman-Kelley
Hoch Auditorium
Lawrence Choral Union
Otto Miessner
Lawrence Public Schools
Mabel Barnhart
University Symphony Orchestra
Karl Euersteiner
Walter Allen Stults
North‘western University
Stults
Lawrence
Beulah Chiapasso
Earl Padfield
Vernon Landon
John Risoe
Joseph Wilkins
Keith Davis
Charles Neiswender
Jack Laffer
Dorothy Hawes
Meribah Moore
Edgar Stillman- Kelley
Pup
Miessner
John T. Andrews
Dorothy Shufflebarger
Ray Q. Brewster
W. K. Bruner
Corlette Cotton
Howard Koelb
George Lowman
E. Thayer Gaston
Joe Williams
Lila le van
John Moore
Orene Yowell
Rain With Cooler Air Moves Into Kansas State
Topeka reports cooler weather today as a low pressure area over the eastern portion mixes with warm air causing rain. Temperatures yesterday topped near 80 at Dodge City with rain over the past 24 hours. Tonight lows are forecast 40 to 45 in the east and 35 to 40 in the west. tomorrow highs near 60 to 65.
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Topeka
Flora
Dodge
County Spelling Bee Set for Lawrence Memorial High School
Douglas county students gather at Lawrence Memorial High School tomorrow at 9 30 am to compete in three class contests for high school seventh eighth and fifth sixth grades. Winners advance to the state contest in Topeka next September with a new third fourth grade division not feeding into state contest.
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Douglas County
Lawrence Memorial High School
Topeka
Tonight Deadline for Local Vote Registration
The city clerk's office will stay open until 10 p m to allow registration for the April 5 city election. Nearly a dozen people registered last night. Those who did not vote in the last general election or have moved or failed to register for the recent primary must register now to be eligible to vote on April 5.
Lindbergh Backer Frank H Robertson Dies
Phoenix Arizona March 25 Frank H Robertson 42 aviation pioneer and backer of Charles A Lindberghs 1927 transatlantic flight died here today.
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Lindbergh
Phoenix
Ariz
Frank H. Robertson
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Weather Forecast for Kansas Turns Colder With Chance of Showers
Mostly cloudy and colder in eastern areas tonight with a chance of showers. Saturday expected to be fair but colder in the east. Morning skies clear with good road conditions. Temperatures show 67 at 7 p.m. yesterday, 61 today, and a high yesterday around 67 with a minimum today near 61.
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Kansas
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