Morgan says TVA colleagues made a false report during negotiations
Former TVA chairman A F E Morgan testified to a congressional inquiry alleging collusion and mismanagement in TVA dealings with Commonwealth and Southern. He named directors H A Morgan and David Lilienthal and charged Lilienthal with trying to sway public opinion by portraying Commonwealth and Southern as refusing to sell.
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Washington
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
H. A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
A. F E. Morgan
Congressional
Theother
Lilienthal
Commonwealth and
Southern
Wendell T. Willkie
Commonwealth
Willkie
Morgan
Way Made Easy for Claim of Senator Says Morgan
Arthur E. Morgan accused TVA directors of conspiring to assist Senator Berry in prosecuting damage claims against the government. He released a 103 page analysis about marble leases held on TVA land, noting a commission found the property worthless for marble development.
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Morgan
Washington
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority Today
Berry
D.-Tenn
T.V.A
T.V.A. A
Morgan accuses Lilienthal of falsifying TVA talks and concealment
Witness H A Morgan testifies that Lilienthal steered TVA negotiations with utilities, behind board members, and released misleading statements after a Willkie meeting. Morgan says Lilienthal aimed to show the TVA favored unfettered private competition while denying any board policy to that effect.
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Commonwealth and Southern
Lilienthal
TVA
Willkie
Ilikie
Alaskan Fishermen Urge Arms Over Japanese Invasion Rumor
Seattle May 25 Capt R W Dempwolf of the Seattle coast guard division said there is no need for Alaska fishermen to arm themselves to block a Japanese invasion of Bering Sea grounds. He cited patrols including the Spencer the Alert the Ariadne and the Northland.
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R. W. Dempwolf
Coast Guard
Alaska
Bering Sea
Dempwolf
John E. Shields
Bering
Pacific Coast Codfish Company
Alert
Ketchikan
Northland
Point Barrow
Shields
George W. Shields
Japan
Bristol Bay
Makai Packing Company
Mount McKinley
Alaskan Fishermen’s Union
Japanese claim control of Tientsin Pukow railway
Shanghai reports the Japanese say they have gained complete control of the 00 mile Tientsin Pukow railway and expect to resume Peiping to Shanghai service soon. They closed gaps south of Suchow after 325 days of fighting and plan a merger of Peiping and Nanking governments once railway links are established. The drive toward Kaifeng progresses with a village ten miles east of their target reached, though Chinese forces say the assault was repulsed.
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Tientsin-Pukow
Peiping
Suchow
Domei
Japanese New Agency
Nanking
China
Kaifeng
Cheurchow
Sunghai
Peiping-Hankow
Flood Conditions Persist as Neosho River Rises in Kansas
Flooding worsens along the Neosho with Iola and Parsons reporting river heights above flood stage. Oswego and nearby areas expect further rises while Ottawa sees receding banks. Two rural U S highways reopen in southeast Kansas though several routes remain closed and one bridge washed out near White City. Temperatures forecast to stay mild with highs 75 to 80. Local rainfall totals include Lincoln 2.28 inches and Ellsworth 1.63 inches.
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Kansas
Neosho
Flora
Iola
Parsons
Oswego
Marais Des Cygnes
State Line
Ottawa
State Highway Department
Piqua
Garnett
E 10
White City
Lincoln
Ellsworth
Lawrence groups award two $25 scholarships
The Lawrence Music Club and Mu Phi Epsilon have announced two $25 scholarships each. One is for a Lawrence High School senior planning to study at the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts, the other for a student in the university’s fine arts program. Jeanne Moyer won the Music Club scholarship and Winifred Hill received the Mu Phi award.
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Lawrence Music Club
Mu Phi Epsilon
Lawrence
School of Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Jeanne Moyer
Winifred Hill
Pension Bill Grants 5000 to Harrison Widow
President Roosevelt signed a bill granting Mary Lord Harrison widow of Benjamin Harrison a five thousand dollar yearly pension.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mary Lord Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Adams proposes limited use of PWA funds for power projects
Sen. Adams D Colorado chairs the relief bill fight proposing an amendment to restrict PWA construction funds from financing projects that would compete with privately owned utilities if rates are fair and publicly regulated. Administration leaders oppose the compromise. Kansas Democrats expect help from Woodring and Helvering in the 1939 campaign. Human head hunting is noted as still practiced by some primitive tribes.
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Adams
D-Colo
PWA
Senate Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Pope
D-Ida
Congress
Kansas
Harry H. Woodring
Internal Revenue
Guy Helvering
Lynn Brodrick
Simultaneous engine failure cited in United air crash
Cleveland May 25 United Air Lines president PW A Patterson said the trim twin motor airliner that crashed near Cleveland after a flight to the airport suffered simultaneous power failure of both engines. Ten people died including John Brostuen North Dakota Republican state chairman. Fire engulfed wreckage as investigators and firemen searched for clues.
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Cleveland
PW. A. Patterson
United Air Lines
Patterson
United
S. R. Gerber
North Dakota
Alexander
N. C
Washington
Petroleum Institute Warned to Drill Fewer Oil Wells
Wichita Kansas May 25 The American Petroleum Institute was cautioned by Prof Eugene A Stephenson head of petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas that excessive drilling of closely spaced wells lacks sound engineering and harms profitability He urged reductions in capital expenditures as a rational spacing solution noting Kansas field costs often exceed gross income per barrel despite declining allowances
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Wichita
Kan
American Petroleum Institute
Eugene A. Stephenson
University of Kansas
Institute
Stephenson
Kansas
Oil firms to plead nolo contendere in Sherman case
Attorney General Cummings said 14 oil companies and 11 individuals awaiting trial in Madison Wisconsin on Sherman anti trust charges will plead nolo contendere and pay fines totaling about 400000 on all three counts. Eight companies and eight officials not yet ready will go to trial in September pending judge Stone's approval.
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Washington
Cummings
Madison
Wis
Justice Department
Patrick D. Stone
Benjamin E. Wilson Dies at Local Hospital
Benjamin E. Wilson age 76 of Williamstown, noted farmer and former state senator for the Douglas Jefferson district, died this afternoon at Lawrence Memorial hospital after a two week illness. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 PM in the Masonic temple with Lawrence commandery and Perry Blue Lodge No 415 conducting interment at Oak Hill cemetery.
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Williamstown
Douglas-Jefferson County
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Masonic Temple
Lawrence
Lawrence Commandery
Oak Hill Cemetery
Perry Blue Lodge No. 415
Britain’s Air Force Would Prove Formidable
London on May 25 Prime Minister Chamberlain responded to labor accusations of lagging air rearmament declaring Britain's air force if tested tomorrow would be one of the most formidable fighting machines in the world.
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London
Chamberlain
Britain
Lane heads Spanish War Veterans department
Oscar J. Lane of Lawrence elected department commander of the Kansas United Spanish War Veterans to succeed Hermon C. Cosgrove. Fort Scott earned the 1939 meeting. Lane, a veteran of the Twenty-Second Kansas Infantry, will name staff officers and serves previously as state quartermaster and judge advocate. Lawrence delegates praised the selection at the Hutchinson convention.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas
Lawrence
Oscar J. Lane
Lane
Twenty-Second Kansas Infantry
College
Camp Alger
France did not seek U S aid in Czechoslovak crisis
Paris reports Ambassador William C Bulitt flatly denied that France asked the United States to join Britain in preserving peace in the Czechoslovak crisis. Sources close to the French foreign office had said Georges Bonnet sought American support for pacific efforts in central Europe.
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Paris
United States
William C. Bullitt
United State
Great Britain
Lources
Georges Bonnet
Europe
Wheat crop damage from rains and frost in Kansas
Topeka May 25 reports from federal and state agriculture indicate eastern Kansas suffers from excessive wet weather while western and south central areas face damage from late freezes and frost. Some fields flooded in southeast Kansas and hail has caused losses across several counties.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Agronomy tour notes fertilizer effects on wheat alfalfa and brome
About 50 Douglas County farmers joined the annual agronomy field tour visiting farms south and west of Lawrence. They observed fertilizer impact on Red Wave wheat alfalfa and brome grass, terraced fields reducing erosion, and varied seed recommendations from Kansas State extension agronomist John Bell.
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Douglas County
Charles Topping
Lawrence
H. B. Peaks Farm
Peaks
Drouth
J. M. Sanderson
Pleasant Grove
Clarence Hagerman
Vinland
George Kelley
John Bell
Kansas State College
Kelley
Preston Farm
Kanvale
Clarkan
Bell
Commissioners to End Equalization Sessions
The county board will close its 10 day board of equalization hearings tomorrow and adjourn for at least 10 days. All complaints are under advisement and parties notified of raised assessments may confer during a following three day session before appeals to the state board.
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Board of County Commissioners
Board of Equalization
Commissioners’ Office
State Equalization Board
Mrs Clara Perkins Dies at 79 Former KU Beta Theta Pi House Mother
Mrs. Clara D. Perkins, 79, longtime house mother for the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at the University of Kansas, died yesterday at 5125 Snapep parkway Kansas City. She later served as companion to Mrs. Mary Gower Bowersotk and had taught at Arlington and Turon before moving to Lawrence in the 1890s.
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Clara D. Perkins
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Snape Parkway
Kansas City
Mary Gower Bowersotk
Lawrence
Arlington
Turon
Stock Average Declines Across Markets Yesterday
The report shows average around 60 stocks at 37.9 with yesterday’s figure near 38.6. Ford Service location listed as Hamilton at 702 Vt Ady.
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Ford Service
Hamilton
Ady
Big County Class to Graduate at Douglas County
The forty-seventh annual graduating exercises of the Douglas County common schools will be held at Liberty Memorial high school auditorium next Saturday May 28 at 2 PM. Harold C. Fisher announces the program with diplomas, music, and readings plus three students with perfect attendance.
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Douglas County
County approves end of drought emergency wells plan
County commissioners voted to lift the drought emergency declaration as rains replenished streams and wells. Public pumping equipment will be removed to the county storehouse, with four electric pumps and eight gasoline pumps returned, while deep well storage tanks and dug well hand pumps stay. County engineer E Trueblood cited user payments for gasoline and current during the drought.
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E. Trueblood
Jewish Refugees Admitted to France as Papers Probe Begins
In Metz France on May 25 fifty Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria were admitted provisionally into France while their papers are investigated. Eight hundred others were reported waiting across the border in Germany.
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Metz
Germany
Austria
Weather outlook and road conditions across Kansas
Unsettled tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. Morning skies vary by city from cloudy to clear at Garden City. Road conditions range from muddy Coffeyville to rough Manhattan and soft Ottawa, with fair to good driving in Topeka Pittsburg Emporia Garden City Wichita and Salina areas. Temperature data show a typical day with a maximum near 60.
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Garden City
Coffeyville
Manhattan
Ottawa
Arkansas City
Wichita
Salina
Topeka
Pittsburg
Emporia
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