Secret City Fund Took 420000 in Last Year Kansas City
City commissioner Richard Steele said 420000 was paid to a secret city manager emergency fund in the last year with no records of expenditures by former city manager H F McElroy. The fund moved money between bond funds and the general fund to cover needs, including salaries on secret payrolls, and was closed after McElroy's resignation.
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Kansas City
Richard Steele
H. F. McElroy
Steele
Blue River
General
McElroy
Smith
Health Department
Showers Forecast for Eastern Kansas Tonight and Tomorrow
Scattered showers were forecast for eastern Kansas with clouds prevailing as S D Flora federal meteorologist noted. Several western counties had light showers in the past 24 hours with Syracuse at .14 inch and Ellis and Dodge City receiving sprinkles.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Floria
Syracuse
Ellis
Dodge City
Colorado
Flora
Steel cuts 9 percent pay as offices switch to five day week
Pittsburgh dispatch notes United States Steel orders closing offices on Saturdays at subsidiaries including Carnegie Illinois National Tube American Bridge American Steel and Wire and H C Frick Coke after seven weeks of shrinking operations. Mill workers stay on five day week with no pay change.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Carnegie Ilinois
the National Tube
American Bridge
American Steel and Wire
H.C. Frick Coke Companies
Burke denounces Wagner act as Garner praised by chamber
Senator Burke denounced the Wagner labor act at a Washington luncheon while the chamber of commerce cheered Vice-President Garner as a possible ally in revising the act. Burke urged abolishing the labor board and enacting reforms to outlaw unfair labor practices by both unions and employers. Industrialist W. Gibson Carey, Jr. called the act a national blight reducing productivity and jobs.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Garner
Burke
D-Neb
Labor Relations Board
Public Enemy
Congress
Nebraskan
Labor Board
W. Gibson Carey, Jr
Chamber
Carey
Geneva meeting eyed to seal Britain France Soviet pact
London report says foreign secretaries of Britain France and Soviet Russia plan a Geneva meeting on May 15 to resolve the alliance deadlock as the League council convenes. Chamberlain says Britain ready to discuss reciprocal assurances with Germany and reinsure commitments to Poland and Romania.
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London
Britain
France
Germany
Chamberlain
Roosevelt
Hitler
Poland
Commons
Soviet
Russia
Baltic
Black Sea
Rumania
Italy
Philip J. Noel-Baker
Schneider Leaves Death by Own Action Notes In Office
Edward L. Schneider, business aide to Boss T. J. Pendergast, wrote two death by own action notes in his Ready Mixed Concrete office Thursday. Notes were for Phil Abry. Otto P. Higgins, former police director, said he spoke with Schneider Monday and the secretary disclosed details before Schneider disappeared.
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Kansas City
Edward L. Schneider
T. J. Pendergast
Ready Mixed Concrete Company
Carl Braun
Phil Abry
Schneider
Braun
Otto P. Higgins
Blues Shift Players Move Between Kansas City and Newark
The Kansas City Blues traded outfielder Tom Holmes and second baseman Ham Schulte to Newark of the International League. Holmes was on option from Newark, and Schulte joined Newark in the deal that brought Bud Metheny to Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Blues
Tommy Holmes
Ham Schulte
Newark Baseball Club
Schulte
Newark
Holmes
Bears
Bud Metheny
Blues
Visitors Enjoy Luncheon and Plant Tour at Kaw River Station
Lawrence officials and leaders from Bonner Springs Tonganoxie Perry Emporia and Edwardsville join Douglas County Commissioners and local press at a noon luncheon in the Kaw River station generator room. The 10 000 kilowatt unit supplied Lawrence and export power with no speeches today, as tours followed.
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Lawrence
Bonner Springs
Tonganoxie
Perry
Emporia
Edwardsville
Douglas County Board of Commissioners
Kansas Electric Power Company
Kaw River
Rotary Club
Lions Club
Kiwanis Club
Co-Operative Club
C. B. Russell
Frank Lonstetter
J. W. Jenkins
Frank Clough
Emporia Gazette
Henry Hisler
F. C. Huller
H. E. Boaz
Selma Wallace
Demand Larger Voice in Shanghai Settlement Governance
Tokyo demands reorganization of the Shanghai municipal council to give Japan a larger voice and tighter control over terrorism in the international settlement. Pi-Renzo Sawada da urged ambassadors Grew and Craigie to relay the request to their governments, noting the council’s outmoded structure and insufficient Japanese representation. The council currently seats two Japanese, five Britons, and two Americans, with Chinese members reduced since before the Japanese-Chinese war.
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Tokyo
Pi—Renzo Sawada
United States
Shanghai
Japan
Britain
Stirling Fessenden
Fort Fairfield
Hitler moves to isolate Poland with Nordic non aggression pacts
Berlin May 3 Chancellor Hitler seeks a neutral bloc across Northern Europe offering identical non aggression pacts to Denmark Norway Sweden Finland and inviting Latvia and Estonia while excluding Lithuania. He aims to isolate Poland and avert British French encirclement through a pacific image and fortification talks over the Aaland Islands.
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Berlin
Hitler
Europe
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Aaland Islands
Baltic Sea
Bothnia Gulf
Baltic
Poland
Hungary
Germany
Methodist Unification Creates Education Board
The Methodist uniting conference adopted a committee plan to form a board of education overseeing local religious education church schools and colleges. The new body, split between Chicago and Nashville, aims to unify church education and editorial work while hosting 66 Epworth League camps for youth with weekly costs from 1.50 to 8 dollars.
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Kansas City
Methodist Uniting Conference
Chicago
Nashville
Tenn
Methodist Episcopal Church
Clarice M. Bowman
Epworth League
Board of Education
Bowman
Methodist Unification Conference
Rural eighth grade visitation day at Liberty Memorial high school
The annual rural eighth grade visitation day will be held Thursday at Liberty Memorial High School with about 60 students expected. Joe Williams leads the meeting as head sponsor of the freshman class. The program includes tours, demonstrations, and introductions for rural graduates transitioning directly to senior high.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Joe Williams
Max Faulkenstien
Clive Flory
Charlotte Price
Don Jones
Margaret Dart
L. A. Perry
C. B. Cunningham
Y-Gr
Neal Wherry
Department of Home Economics
Miss Lorimer
W. W. Russell
Esther Cornell
Dart
Wilma Stoner Wray
Howard Sutherland
Florence Eaton
Scandinavian ministers discuss reply to German neutral bloc move
Copenhagen May 3 diplomats from Denmark Norway Sweden and Finland held telephone talks on a common response to Germanys plan for a northern European neutral bloc. A source said Norway Sweden and Finland planned to meet in Stockholm tomorrow but accelerated talks by phone.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Stockholm
No Trace of Army Plane In Five Day Search
A five day search fails to locate the three motor Italian army plane that left Tripoli April 27 bound for Tobruk with two famed fliers Col Allesandri Miglia and Col Jacopo Calo Carducci aboard. They accompanied Air Marshal Italo Balbo on his 1930 South America flight and Chicago visit in 1933.
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Rome
Misurata
Libya
Tripoli
Tobruk
Allesandri Miglia
Jacopo Calo Carducci
Italo Balbo
South America
Chicago
Don Cutting robbery case to go to jury today
Defense witnesses continued to be questioned as the trial of a 26 year old Kansas City man, charged as the driver in a Jan 28 Securities Investment heist of more than 700 dollars, moved toward jury deliberation. The judge ruled a signed confession admissible and witnesses testified.
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Don Cutting
Kansas City
James Owens
Securities Investment Company
Milton Beach
Hugh Means
Cutting
Fraternity house thief pleads guilty in Tulsa court
Lloyd C. Beeler 27 of Tulsa Oklahoma pleaded guilty in district court before Judge Hugh Means to grand larceny for stealing property valued at 226 from Sigma Chi Pi Kappa Alpha and Theta Pi houses on February 11. He was caught in Columbia Missouri and three days after the robbery some loot was recovered. He faces sentencing later. Urbane Carl also pleaded guilty to burglary and grand larceny for the Delta Tau Delta robbery and received a 5 to 10 year sentence.
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Lloyd C. Beeler
Tulsa
Okla
Hugh Means
Eta Theta Pi
Sigma Chi
Pi Kappa Alpha
Beeler
Columbia
Beach
Urbane Carl
Delta Tau Delta
State Penitentiary
Kansas City Employes File Suits for Back Pay
On May 3 in Kansas City circuit court 1942 municipal employees filed eight suits seeking 633049 dollars in back salaries. The city will not contest. Mayor Bryce B Smith confirmed the list and said lawsuits aim to secure judgments to issue bonds. The First National Bank acted as trustee for the claims. A hearing is set for Friday. Between January 1 and April 30, 1939, 1942 employees received no pay or partial pay.
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Kansas City
Bryce B. Smith
First National Bank
Three KU men qualify for U S Army Flying School
Three University of Kansas students were named as qualifiers for entrance to the United States army flying school at Randolph Field Texas from a pool of 39 examined. The three are John Ryder Mound City a senior George E Matthews Kansas City Mo a sophomore and Herman J Schmidt Canton a junior.
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University of Kansas
United States Army
Randolph Field
Texas
University of Missouri
John Ryder
Mound City
George E. Matthews
Kansas City
Herman J. Schmidt
Canton
J. E. Smart
Ryder
Mattews
Schmidt
University of Oklahoma
Smart
Kansas
K. U
Kansas State College
Ft. Leavennores
R. T. Cronan
E. J. Kendrick
Missouri
Leahy Named Acting Director of State Fish and Game
May 3 report from Toneka states Dave Leahy Jr. of Wichita has been named acting director of the reorganized state fish and game department while the commission considers a permanent director. Commission chair Lee Larabee notes 27 applicants and ongoing investigations. Leahy and an accountant have begun duties in Pratt to relieve L C Webb of Salina as state game warden. E J Kelly of Ottawa was chosen secretary.
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Toneka
Dave Leahy
Wichita Sportsman
Reorganized
State Fish and Game Department
Commission
Lee Larabee
Liberal
Leahy
Fish and Game Department
Pratt
L. C. Webb
Salina
Walter A. Haxman
E. J. Kelly
Ottawa
Wrong Answer to Hitler Says Norway Feels Menaced
Oslo official J C Hambro told the Norwegian Storting that Norway gave the wrong reply to Adolf Hitler. He said the government answered Hitler's note by stating Norway did not feel threatened, but after events in Europe many feel threatened by Germany.
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Hitler
Oslo
Norway
J. C. Hambro
Storting
Adolf Hitler
Hambro
Roosevelt
Europe
Germany
House Clears Path for Roosevelt Reorganization Plan
Washington May 372 The House defeated a GOP bid to kill President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize executive agencies. By roll call it discarded Ta ber's disapproval resolution, clearing the way for the program to operate next month as both chambers must act within 60 days to block it.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Representative Taber
R.-N.y
Senate
Congress
Taber
R.N.Y
Cochran
D.-Mo
Reorganization Committee
Demonstration of Air Defense Planned in Lawrence
The 61st Coast Artillery from Ft. Sheridan will arrive in Lawrence to encamp at Haskell Institute Monday for public demonstrations and will depart Tuesday for Fort Leavenworth. Col. Baldwin organized the visit to acquaint ROTC National Guard Reserve officers and citizens with anti aircraft equipment.
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61St Coast Artillery Regiment
Ft. Sheriddn
Ill
Lawrence
Haskell Institute
Ft. Leavenworth
Commands and General Staff School
Karl F. Baldwin
University of Kansas
R.O.T.C
National Guard
Edward J. Renth
Ft. Sheridan
Warren Spaulding
Haskell
Baldwin
National Guards
Chamber of Commerce
University R.O.T.C
Haskell Stadium
Manhattan
North Lawrence
Haskell Grounds
Massachusets Street
Leavenworth
Regular Army
R.O.T. Cc
Stock Market Index Advances to 60-Stock Average
The stock index for sixty shares rose to 45.6, up from yesterday’s 44.5, signaling a modest gain in market activity. Traders noted cautious optimism as prices firmed across key sectors.
Kansas Weather Outlook with Cloudy West and Rain East
Partly cloudy conditions in the west with light showers in the east tonight and Thursday, a bit warmer in the east tonight. Gas Office records show 7 PM yesterday at 65, 7 AM today at 69, noon today at 69, with yesterday’s high 77 and today’s low 69.
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Kansas
Smerny DL
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Fuehrer
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Slovakia
Aaland
Gulf of Bothnia
Helsingfors
Pendergast Aid
Harry Frazee
Ralph S. Latshaw
Owens
Lillian Halverson
Wkeeler's Book Store
Adv
Bryce Smith
G.O.P
Anti-Aircraft Regiment
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