Struggle to Keep War Within Spain Spreads Threats
The Spanish civil war dominates Europe as the government accuses Germany and Italy of backing Franco. In Rome Vir ginio Gayda warns of French and Russian interference. Spain braces with Catalonia as the frontline while abroad a Chinese army fights Japan and Soviet authorities face accusations of anti Soviet activity.
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Europe
Spain
Germany
Italy
Francisco Franco
Rome
Virginio Gayda
France
Russia
Franco
Catalonia
Orient
China
Soviet Russia
Northern Sea Route Administration
Otto Schmidt
Alma Ata
Kulumbetoff
Kazakhstan
Britain presses details of rearmament drive in wartime plan
London reports Britain shifting from broad foreign policy to rapid rearmament and defense work. Naval experts expect a U S Britain move to exceed the 35000 ton battleship limit before April 1. Air defense drills simulate raiding fleets while civilians are urged to dig six foot trenches as refuges.
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London
Britain
United States
Gibraltar
Home Office
Mussolini to Warn World on Italy's Readiness
Rome reports Premier Mussolini will tell the world tomorrow Italy is prepared to cope with any attack on its interests. A senate speech is expected to reveal Italy's army navy and air strength and press circles say the warning may be aimed at France with calls for greater military spending.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Senate
Europe
France
Spain
Barcelona
Train hits gasoline truck near Wichita. four escape death
Four Kansas City residents escaped death when a Rock Island passenger train struck an empty semi trailers gasoline transport driven by Bragg at the north edge of Wichita. Bragg his wife and two children were in the cab. the children suffered head cuts but the parents were unharmed.
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Wichita
Mar
Arkansas City
Rock Island
Bragg
Ronald
Madge
U S and Britain to announce larger battleship plans
London dispatch reports the United States and Great Britain will declare plans to build battleships over 35 000 tons by week end. Britain France and the United States aim for 40 000 to 45 000 ton ships with 18 inch guns under a three month consultative period of the 1936 London treaty.
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U. S
Britain
London
United States
Great Britain
Beane Meeemee
Wee Weeee
France
Italy
Germany
Russia
Japan
Soviet Russia
Alexander Cadogan
British Foreign Office
Herschel Johnson
Russell Willson
Canterbury
Church of England
House of Lords
House Rules Approve TVA Investigation Resolution
The House Rules Committee backed a Senate resolution for a full congressional inquiry into all TVA operations. The panel kept provisions allow ing a ten member joint inquiry to also probe private utilities suing TVA. A January 8 report deadline was set. Rankin urged broader inquiry into private utilities. The measure clears path for final congressional action.
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Washington
Mar
House Rules Committee
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
O’connor
D-N.y
House
TVA
Congress
Rankin
D-Miss
Saturnalia
War Department
State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments
House Banking
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ickes
Public Works Administration
R.F.C
Barkley
Senate Finance Committee
Hull
Wallace
Airman
Harrison
D.-Miss
Rain in Lawrence Totals 1 55 Inches in 24 Hours
Rain in Lawrence measured 1.55 inches in the past 24 hours. Professor C J Posey, the volunteer observer, notes a March surplus of .20 inch and a year to date surplus of .14 inch. Normal first quarter rainfall is 4.89 inches. total so far is 5.03 inches.
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Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Posey
Four Bills Lumped in House Reorganization Move
Democratic members of a special House committee voted to lump four government reorganization measures into a merged bill to replace the Senate's version. The House has already passed two of the four and plans to reconsider them as part of the general reorganization measure. The bills would replace the General Accounting Office with an executive auditor general answerable to Congress, while the Senate plan would abolish the GAO and create a legislative auditor general. The full committee and Republican members will meet to ratify the decision, with possible House action Thursday or Friday.
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Washington
Mar
House
Senate
General Accounting Office
Comptroller General
Cochran
D-Mo
Cochrane
Bankhead
Interstate Commerce, Communications and Securities Commissions
Congress
Budget Bureau
Legislative
Snell
Roosevelt
Kansas City Polls Open in High Stakes Mayor Race
Kansas City voters flooded 460 guarded polls as Tom Pendergast's machine faced coalition forces led by Fred Whitten. Officials reported rapid early voting with 10 000 precinct workers aiding, amid fraud trials and a Supreme Court ruling surrounding prior elections.
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Kansas City
UPI
Tom Pendergast
Pendergast
Brice B. Smith
Fred E. Whitten
U. S. Supreme Court
New City Election Board
Lloyd Stark
Army Day Talk by Lt Col Bowley Set for April Luncheon
Lieutenant Colonel Freeman W Bowley of Fort Leavenworth will headline the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce Army Day luncheon. A field artillery officer and member of the Command and General Staff School faculty his topic is Your Army Your Protection.
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F. W. Bowley
Army
Freeman W. Bowley
Leavenworth
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Bowley
Command and General Staff
Body of Col. Edward M. House Headed for Houston Burial
The body of Col. Edward M. House, friend and advisor to President Wilson, who died here in his 79th year, will start its final journey late today to Houston for burial in the family plot.
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House
Texas
New York
Mar
Col
Edward M. House
Woodrow Wilson
Houston
Tex
Italy Declines U S Refugee Aid Committee Invite
Rome reports Italy will not join the United States led international committee to aid German and Austrian political refugees. Foreign Minister Ciano cited internal and foreign policy reasons for declining after receiving Ambassador Phillips’s invitation.
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Italy
United States
Ministry of Popular Culture
Count Galeazzo Ciano
William Phillips
Germany
Roosevelt
Kansas Primaries Highlight City Votes Across State
In Emporia, voters approved a 300000 municipal auditorium bond and rejected 236000 for school improvements. Frank Lostutter and W N Smelser led the mayoral race amid a record 4543 votes. Dodge City saw Cal Trent win the streets and utilities commissioner race with 1853 votes, Cecil E. Davis a close survivor. Independence nominated Frank Stoops and Homer Green for streets commissioner. Lola's mayoral race favored incumbent W Perham over H Hobart. Junction City nominated Joe Rosenfield and George Stiers for finance commissioner.
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Emporia
Kan
Frank Lostutter
W. N. Smelser
Dodge City
Mar
Cal Trent
WPA
Streets and Utilities
Cecil E. Davis
Independence
Frank Stoops
Homer Green
Lola
CPI
W. W. Perham
H. Hobart
Junction City
Joe Rosenfield
George Stiers
Wheat crop insurance campaign set for Omaha meeting
The Agriculture Department plans a national campaign to sell wheat crop insurance at the April 19 and 20 farm meeting in Omaha Nebraska. Roy M Green heads the federal crop insurance corporation which will run field operations from Kansas City and Minneapolis. Farmers pay premiums and can collect losses up to 75 percent of normal production.
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Agriculture Department
Omaha
Neb
Wallace
Federal
Roy M. Green
AAA
Allegheny Mountains
Kansas City
Minneapolis
City Council Kept Steam Pumps For Water Plant
City council, on water committee recommendation, shelves all electric pumping for now and keeps steam and electric pumps. Negotiations start for a five year energy contract with Kansas Electric Power Co at about 1.55 cents per kWh. Six committee recommendations approved cover staffing, renewal fund, equipment, contract negotiation, summer rates study, and attending the American Waterworks association meeting with travel funds.
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Kansas Electric Power Company
Frank Willey
F. A. Russell
American Waterworks Association
New Orleans
Water Department
Defense in Child Labor Battle Will Be Pushed
Topeka reports Gov. Huxman plans to rush Kansas defense in the child labor amendment case. A state team including AG Beck and E R Sinan will travel to Washington the week of Apr 11 to confer with the Solicitor General as the Supreme Court agrees to review a Kansas ruling on ratification procedures. Seven convicts remain at large after escaping Brushy Mountain prison in Tennessee.
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Topeka
Kansas
U. S. Supreme Court
Walter A. Huxman
Huxman
Clarence V. Beck
E. R. Sinan
State Corporation Commission
Washington
Robert H. Jackson
Supreme Court
Czech Communists Overwhelm Nazi Leader Speech in Deputies
In Praha the Czech Communist faction drowned out Ernst Kundt speaker for the Nazified German party. A loud speaker was installed to project his words as he pressed for new elections. The tumult continued as Slovak autonomy was promised for a later session.
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House of Deputies
Ernst Kundt
Praha
Czechoslovakia
Kundt
Altho
Slovak People’s Party
Plan A Campaign Targets Lawrence Chamber Drive
A group of 84 Chamber of Commerce members met at the Eldridge hotel to finalize a two day whirlwind membership drive set to close tomorrow at 12 30 with a report luncheon. J J Lavery outlined details while H W Keene and Charles Louk led division captains urging active recruitment in Lawrence.
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Chamber of Commerce
Eldridge
Lawrence
Cliff Calvin
Simon Hurwitz
Russell Kelley
Prof
P. W. Wiesselman
A. BE. Woestemeyer
Keene
Henry Brinkman
R. A. Haggart
al Green
C. W. Pollom
Walter Schaal
Neal_ Wherry
Temperature to Drop In Kansas From Northwest
Weather forecast from S D Flora predicts colder air moving into Kansas today with temperatures dipping tonight into Wednesday. Western counties expect 28 to 32 degrees with little damage, while eastern readings may reach 35 to 40. No rain is forecast for 36 hours.
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Topeka
Mar
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Parsons
Oswego
Chanute
Tola
Lacygne
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Independence
Wichita
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Dodge City
Goodland
Coffeyville
Verdigris River
City approves paving revives on Main Massachusetts streets
The Lawrence city council authorized the street department to redeposit maintenance work on downtown Massachusetts street from Sixth to Eleventh, and on Sixth and Fifth streets, with three to five extra workers for 45 days. Mayor Lawrence notes 30 minute parking zones will begin after resurfacing. The body also discusses minor peti tions, audits, licenses, water projects, and airport studies.
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Sixth
Eleventh Street
Ben Babb
Sixth Street
Indiana
Michigan
Fifth Street
Michigan Street
Babb
San Pay
Alfred Lawrence
Barker Avenue
Fifteenth
Twentieth Street
Parsons Florist Leader Dies at 71 in Parsons
Will J. Wirt, 71, prominent Parsons civic leader and former president of the Kansas division of the Florist Telegraph Delivery Association, died today after a recent operation.
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Parsons Florist
Parsons, Kan
Will J. Wirt
Parsons
Kansas
The
Florist Telegraph Delivery Association
DeMille Undergoes Intestinal Operation
Cecil B. DeMille film director underwent an intestinal operation today. The procedure will keep him from work for about two weeks.
Weather Brief Kansas Areas Turn Colder Tonight
Partly cloudy skies prevail with much colder air arriving tonight and Wednesday. Morning outlook shows clear conditions with some cloudiness in Manhattan. Road conditions vary from muddy in Manhattan Ottawa Topeka and Pittsburg to soft in Coffeyville and Emporia and fair in Salina with Garden City listed as good.
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Kansas
Manhattan
Ottawa
Topeka
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Emporia
Salina
Garden City
Stock Market Index Closes Higher With Broad Gains
The average of 60 stocks stood at 34.5 yesterday and 36.4 earlier, indicating a strong uptick across multiple sectors. Investors watched gains across industries as leading indicators moved up.
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