Rain Drenches Kansas as Flood Threat Grows Across State
Weather across Kansas brought heavy rainfall from Wichita to Garden City, with the Walnut River rising and flood warnings in effect. Towns like El Dorado, Hutchinson, and Alva reported overflows, while Garden City and surrounding counties logged the heaviest rains in months. Northwest areas saw hail, crop damage, and rivers bursting banks, as storms extended into Oklahoma and Colorado, boosting flood concerns statewide.
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Fiborada
Walnut River
Garden City
Lakin
Scott City
Garden Cieral
Sublette
Norton
Cour
Garden
Quiet on Mine Front in Tri-State Districts
In Columbus Kansas on May 13 quiet spread across lead and zinc mines as deputy sheriffs moved to Treece to counter disturbances. No pickets or crowds. later reports of strike breakers arriving proved unfounded. Cherokee County moves to place relief seekers on federal aid rolls. case workers to verify real need as applications rise since last week’s strike.
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Columbus
Kan
Tri-State
Dave Haspenlaugh
Treece
Missouri
Oklahoma
Dave Hasenplaugh
Cherokee County
A. G. Gill
Navy reports massed flight completed over Pacific
Honolulu May 13 Navy officials announced that a massed flight of 43 seaplanes completed their voyage from here to a point 1 200 miles west to join surface craft in widespread war maneuvers. Storms and secrecy characterized the operation as the fleet under Vice Admiral Hepburn pressed toward a secret rendezvous in the Pacific.
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Honolulu
CRA
Pacific
Here
Midway Island
South Bering Sea
A. J. Hepburn
Princess Barbara Hutton wins divorce in Reno court
Barbara Hutton Mdivani gains a divorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani after a ten minute private trial in Reno Nevada. Judge Moran grants the decree and hints at possible remarriage to Count ku Haugwitz-Reventlow. Spectators barred. proceedings cited extreme cruelty claims. The case follows Hutton’s Paris wedding to Mdivani in 1933.
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Reno
Nev
Washoe County
Barbara Hutton Mdivani
Alexis Mdivani
Ku Haugwitz-Reventlow
Thomas F. Moran
F. W. Woolworth
Prince Alexis Mdivani
Paris
Europe Debates Poland's Post Pilsudski Future
Diplomats in Moscow and observers in Warsaw weigh Poland's next move after Joseph Pilsudski's death. France's Laval and Russia's Litvinov discuss extending mutual aid, while Poland resists joining any pact excluding Germany. Analysts fear frontier strains and shifts in east European alignments.
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Warsaw
Joseph Pilsudski
Poland
Pierre Laval
France
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Moscow
Europe
Germany
Pilsudski
Laval
Litvinoff
London
Women Wrecked a Cafe in Medicine Lodge Kansas
In Medicine Lodge Kansas May 13 two elderly women led by Mrs J D Montgomery raided the Doc Egbert cafe with hammers smashing windows show cases and dishes. They claimed their sons became intoxicated at the cafe. Police reported no immediate charges though Egbert planned to press them for damages.
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Medicine Lodge
Kan
Carrie Nation
Frank Montgomery
J. D. Montgomery
Egbert
Carrie
Tom Kenney
Ben Harbaugh
Richetti Trial Set For June 10 In Nash Case
The trial of Adam Richetti for the quadruple slaying of officers escorting escaped federal prisoner Frank Nash is scheduled for June 10. Circuit Judge Ray G Cowan ordered the date in Kansas City amid ongoing federal court proceedings and a Union Station plaza context.
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Richetti
Kansas City
Adam Richetti
Frank Nash
Union Station
Gene
Ray G. Cowan
Western Kansas comeback seen in health and crops
Topeka May 13 state health secretary Dr Earle G Brown reported health conditions improving greatly in western Kansas after recent rains reducing influenza and pneumonia cases. Agriculture secretary J C Mohler praised soil moisture around Hays to Topeka, noting green wheat, buffalo grass intact, and farmers optimistic for a bumper next year wheat crop with several fields showing soil ready for planting.
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Topeka
Kan
Earle G. Brown
State Board of Health
Brown
Kansas
J. C. Mohler
Hays
Hox
Mokler
Farley Attacked and Defended in Senate Charges
In Washington on May 13 Senate debate centered on Senator Long of Louisiana accusing Postmaster General Farley of diabolical fraud in government contracts. Senator Bailey of North Carolina countered that Long offered no admissible evidence. The session drew a packed gallery as affidavits and testimonies were debated amid disputes over investigations and authority to compel testimony.
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Bailey
North Carolina
Washington
Senator Long
Louisiana
Farley
Senate
Louisnan
Helen Humphreys
James A. Stewart & Co
New York
Harry D. Waits
Lekes, Green and
Gravis
Contre
PWA
Sunmion
York
Roosevelt names Morris Cooke to run rural electrification
President Roosevelt nominates Morris L. Cooke of Philadelphia to administer the Rural Electrification Administration under the relief program. He advocates private utility cooperation with low rates and outlines four funding avenues and plans, including farm wiring, power lines, and rural surveys. The department envisions loans from work relief funds and state or private partnerships to extend electric service to farm homes nationwide.
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Roosevelt
Morris L. Cooke
Philadelphia
Rural Electrification Administration
Cooke
Agence
Conke
Delaware Corporation
Electric Home and Farm Authority
Fenne Valley
Alro
Pty Cee
Rain Eases Dust Belt Drought as Oklahoma Panhandle Gains
Rains push into stricken dust belt across Oklahoma Panhandle with half inch falls in Beaver county and Am arillo reporting .15 inch. Clouds linger over southeast Colorado and Texas Panhandle while Dodge City notes moisture traces. Flooding pockets appear in Wichita area streets after a five inch rain west of town.
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Ken
Oklahoma Wheat Belt
Beaver County
Oklahoma Panhandle
Pampa
Tex
Panhandle
Amarillo
Colorado
Baca County
Kansas
New Mexico
Texas
Dodge City
Here
Blue Stem
Gardner
Kan
Ethiopians urge League action on Italian threat
Geneva May 12 Ethiopians protest Italy's military moves in east Africa and press for early League of Nations action. Haile Selassie government demands the issue be dealt with at the assembly opening May 20. Reports show growing European concern over delays in arbitration of the Italo-Ethiopian dispute.
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Ethiopia
Italy
East Africa
League of Nations Council
Haile Selassie
League
London
Paris
Seanad
Prison term for Grace Downey in bank burglary case
Grace Downey pleaded guilty in district court to a larceny associated with the January 16 1933 Oxford bank burglary. She received an indeterminate sentence at the state industrial farm after arrest in a nationwide roundup of safeburglars. The 3100 pound Oxford bank safe was found buried on a Mannford Oklahoma farm, part of a network of stolen safes from Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Wellington
Kan
Grace Downey
Oxford Bank
Oxford
Mannford
Oklo
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Jdux
Topeka Show Called Off After State Board Ban
The Topeka cinema guild, including educators ministers and business leaders, canceled a planned screening of A Nous, la Liberte after the Kansas State Board of Review forbade the feature. Rabbi Rozensweig and Washburn professors among members said the satire on criminal procedure and convicts’ adventures prompted the ban.
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Topeka
May
Topeka Cinema Guild
State Board of Review
Kansas
Efriam Rozen‘sweig
Censorship Board
Kansas Kan
Guild
N. E. Saxe
Wallace Baldinger
Washburn College
Willard van Slyck
Topeka High School
Rabbi Rozensweig
Dam Break Maroons Missouri Family of Four
Parkville Missouri May 13 a dam break marooned Luther Yates his wife and two daughters in their home as floodwaters from Brush creek rushed through their low lands neighbors reported the immediate danger fading as waters fell. The Drummond dam was newly built and lacked a spillway. The Agriculture Department forecast a temporary shortage of chickens and eggs until spring hatchings of 1935 begin to restock supplies.
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Parkville
W. J. Drummond
Luther Yates
Brush Creek
Yates
Drummond
United States Department of Agriculture
Jones Leads Effort Amid Accounting Dispute
Fragmentary text indicates Jones guiding a push related to an accounting matter today. Details are limited but suggest a coordinated action or initiative involving stakeholders and potential financial oversight. Further context remains unreadable in the source.
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Jones
Baseball Scores and Standings From Torn OCR Reel
Ambiguous text lists baseball leagues and days with scattered names. Mentions American League and National League actions, with postponements and rainy notes. Names like Gomez and Ferrell appear amid unclear game details and weather impacts across multiple cities.
Farmers Gather in the Capital for AAA Demonstration
Delegations from North Carolina South Dakota Texas Alabama and other states arrive in Washington to press support for the Agricultural Adjustment Act amid plans for a demonstration tomorrow. Day of Plainview Texas reports large numbers en route and nearly all farmers want the AAA continued with Secretary Wallace and AAA administrator Davis expected to speak.
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Washington
North Carolina
South Dakota
C. H. Day
Louisiana
Texas
Alabama
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Ilinois
Raleigh
Capitol Hill
AAA
Day
Plainview
Tex
Wallace
Chester C. Davis
Life-Giving Rains Reach Eastern Kansas Pastures
Heavy downpours across eastern Kansas south of the Kaw valley added moisture but did not reach all areas. Hutchinson reported almost three inches with two-inch totals elsewhere, and Oketo saw 3.67 inches. The prolonged rain boosts blue stem pastures and stock water while improving soil moisture in Topeka after 11 days of rain in 13.
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Topeka
Kaw
Kansas
Kaw Valley
Grouth
Hutchinson
Oketo
Flint Hills
Stop Booze Flood Cracks Down On Joplin Firms
The Post-Dispatch reports federal and Kansas authorities obtained evidence against five of eight wholesale liquor firms in Joplin to revoke permits and suspend business. An inquiry aimed to stem a whiskey flood moving to dry Kansas and Oklahoma. Special agent Frederick D. Silloway cited a highway blockade leak as the reason no bootlegger suspects were arrested.
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St. Louis
The
Post-Dispatch
Federal
Kansas
Joplin
Oklahoma
Frederick D. Silloway
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Ades
Silloway
Two Auto Collisions Reported With No Injuries
Over the weekend the police logged two noninjury auto crashes. A Hupmobile driven by C E Moon and a Ford driven by John Rumsey collided at Fourteenth and Massachusetts streets, damaging both vehicles. Later, an Oldsmobile driven by Kenneth MacMurtry and a Ford roadster driven by George Jennings collided on the Kaw river bridge, with both cars damaged and brakes locking on MacMurtry's car.
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C.E. Moon
John Rumsey
Fourteenth
Massachusetts
Kenneth MacMurtry
Salsbury
George Jennings
Kaw River
Vermont
Farm Voters Not Obliged to Sign Contracts
Washington May 13 Farmers who vote in the national wheat referendum May 25 are under no obligation to sign a new wheat adjustment contract. George E. Farrell director of the division of grange of the AAA said participation does not obligate the producer. The referendum decides if farmers favor continuing the adjustment program after the present one expires and is open to both signers and non signers.
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Washington
George E. Farrell
Grange
The
AAA
Farrell
Pioneer Citizen Daugherty Dies After Heart Attack
Charles Henry Daugherty 72 died at home 817 Tennessee street after a heart attack yesterday. Lawrence police judge for years, born near Eudora in 1862, earlier real estate and auto work, county assessor. Survived by wife, sister and brother. funeral Wednesday at First Methodist. Oak Hill Cemetery burial.
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Tennessee Street
Citi
Zen
Douglas County
Eudora
Daugherty
Lawrence
Frank Stolliday
R. C. Rankin
Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Belleview
Teaugherty
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Robert A. Hunt
Oak Hill Cemetery
Ella Still
Des Moines
Iowa
Bert Daugherty
Takes Administration Pay But Still Admires G. O. P.
State Senator Simon Fishman of Tribune defends accepting a new deal lecturing post and says he remains a grand old party man. He rebuts Kansas GOP attacks linked to his praise of Franklin D Roosevelt and criticizes John D. M. Hamilton over delegates. A Baker K. U. tennis match was cancelled per Jayhawker captain Arthur Voss.
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AAA
Simon Fishman
Tribune
Republican Party
John D. M. Hamilton
Kansas
Springfield
Hamilton
Fishman
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Wall Street
Dave Mulvane
Mulvane
Baker-K. U
Arthur Voss
Jayhawker
National Band Festival Closes After Three Day Event
More than 2 000 attended the final concert by the 500 piece National Festival Band at the University of Kansas Auditorium. Over 1 800 registered for the event, with plans for a larger next year including a bigger marching contest and at least 25 0 bands. Directors Wiley Goldman Clarke expect about 3 500 next spring if bands return in full. Weather and attendance were drawbacks.
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University of Kansas
Russell L. Wiley
K. U
Edwin Franko Goldman
Herbert L. Clarke
Kansas Field
Wiley
Lawrence
Goldman
Clarke
Bachman
Ludwig
Irons
D. O. Wiley
Farm Group Journeys to Washington to Back AAA
A delegation of 35 Kansas farmers led by O. O. Wolf of Ottawa heads to Washington to press congressmen for support of proposed AAA amendments. The dirt farmers plan two days of talks with officials and lawmakers, aiming to back the program and push for sound and economical farming.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Washington
AAA
O. O. Wolf
Ottawa
Kansas Farm Bureau
Midwest
Dr. Wolf
Midwestern Psychological Association elects officers at KU meeting
The Midwestern Psychological Association elected Dr. Christian A. Ruckmick of the University of Iowa as president and Dr. R. S. Dockeray to the Council for a one year term during its two day Kansas University convention. About 300 attended as Dr. Wolfgang Kohler of the University of Berlin gave the principal address. A banquet capped Saturday events and next year’s meeting will be at Northwestern University.
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Midwestern Psychological Association
University of Kansas
Christian A. Ruckmick
University of Iowa
R. S. Dockeray
Wolfgang Kohler
University of Berlin
Northwestern University
Weather forecast for Kansas with cloudy and shower chances
The Kansas forecast calls for cloudy skies with cooler air in the southeast and possible showers in the west and south tonight. Tuesday will be mostly cloudy with higher temperatures in the west and north central. Morning rain is reported except in Coffeyville Topeka Wichita and Manhattan, while dirt roads are muddy except in Topeka Pittsburg Coffeyville and Manhattan. Douglas County roads are soft. Temperatures indicate a high 85 yesterday and rainfall totals to noon today around 0.46 inches with May total 2.61 inches.
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Kansas
Coffeyville
Topeka
Wichita
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Douglas County
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