Moseley Urges Army to Fight Communism at Home
Major General George Van Horn Moseley told the House committee the army should be empowered to investigate subversive activities and to fight the enemy within. He said Roosevelt should free the army from restrictions and warned of a nationwide plan to draw the U.S. into war, naming tensions with General Craig and claims of a plot against the government.
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George van Horn Moseley
Congressional
Roosevelt
United States
Fourth Corps
House Anamerican Committee
Germany
Malin Craig
James E. Campbell
Owensboro
Army Intelligence Service
Moseley
Craig
White House
Dempsey
D-N.m
George Deatherage
St. Albans
W. Va
Knights of the White Camellia
America
Germany and Italy Take Credit For Winning the War in Spain
The Associated Press reports Germany and Italy claim key roles in Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. Germany notes air and ground support and a Condor unit formed in 1936, while Italy says troops landed at Cadiz in December 1936 and about 23 000 Italians sail home this week. A French Socialist convention backs resistance diplomacy, and Germany signs a non aggression pact with Denmark following Roosevelt’s peace appeal.
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Associated Press
Germany
Italy
Franco
Spain
Africa
German Air Ministry
Condor
Mussolini
Il Popolo d'Italia
Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
Cadiz
French Socialist Party
Nantes
Denmark
Roosevelt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Royal tour resumes as Britain’s sovereigns head home to England
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth wrap a Canadian journey with Canada, Scotland Yard, and Mounties in tow as they depart via Vancouver for Halifax, then onward to Ontario and the U S border. Reports tie Roosevelt’s timetable to congressional adjournment and a possible June 15 start if session lingers past July 15.
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B. C
Britain
Canada
Broad Dominion
Washington
D. C
United States
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Queen Elizabeth
Vancouver
Scotland Yard
MacKenzie King
T. D. Pattulo
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Pacific
England
Halifax
Jasper National Park
Ontario
Niagara
Hull
Roosevelt
Congress
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Senate
House
Barkley
D-Ky
Rayburn
San Francisco
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
North Carolina
Tennessee
Seattle
Fair
Houston
Juneau
Alaska
Hyde Park
Memorial Day death toll tops 372 across nation
Violent four day Memorial day weekend costs at least 372 lives from Saturday to Tuesday. Highway crashes killed over 250, drownings 85, with airplane wrecks shootings and other accidents making up the rest. New York state led with 34 total deaths followed by California 22 and Illinois 23.
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Floyd Roberts
Roberts
Kentucky
Colorado
Illinois
New York
Altho
Jones Beach
Coney Island
New York State
California
Ohio
Iowa
Earthquake Strikes Patras Causes Cracked Walls
A strong quake was felt at 2:20 am in Patras, Greece, with walls cracking and residents fleeing in nightclothes. No casualties reported.
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Athens
Patras
Gulf
Woodring 49 Stays in Cabinet as War Secretary
Secretary of War Woodring, turning 49, is expected to remain in his cabinet post despite exit rumors. Friends say he will stay through 1941. He notes gains in army efficiency since 1936 and focuses on admin matters, including replacing unfit officers with younger ones. Louis Johnson handles arms procurement.
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Washington
Woodring
Kansas
George H. Dern
Congress
Louis Johnson
Fliers MIA After Atlantic Crossing Attempt
London reports Thomas N Smith the second solo Atlantic flyer in two weeks to vanish after departing Old Orchard Beach Maine in a 65 horsepower monoplane. Authorities fear he may have landed in a remote Scottish or Irish location and cannot be reached.
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London
Thomas N. Smith
Charles Backman
California
Old Orchard Beach
Scotland
Ireland
Townsend Bill On The Skids In House Vote Preview
Washington May 31 lawmakers debated the Townsend old age pension bill as the House prepared to vote with Democrats seeking a quick passage and Republicans challenging the gag rule. Leaders planned four hours of debate followed by a rule vote and possible amendments before sending the bill back to the Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
House
Mapes
R-Mich
Fish
Rn.y
Martin J. Kennedy
D-N.y
Bankhead
Kennedy
Committee On Ways and Means
Cox
Com
Martin
Massachusetts
Townsend
Boland
Pennsylvania
Representative Hendricks
Dfla
Ways and Means Committee
Haskell Instructor Films Honor Guard at World’s Fair
James Davis, welding instructor at Haskell, left for a vacation to the New York World’s Fair. He will film the Haskell honor guard escorting the king and queen of England around the fair grounds and, on return, stay a week in Cleveland to attend Lincoln Electrical School. Davis previously took colored movies of campus day and the crowning of the campus queen at Haskell.
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James Davis
Haskell
England
Cleveland
Lincoln Electrical School
Davis
O Malley resigns as city water director in Kansas City
R Emmet O Malley resigns as city water director amid tax evasion case. City manager Eugene C Zachman announced the move as O Malley began a one year and one day federal sentence at Leavenworth for income tax evasion on 62500 reported in 1935 and 1936.
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Kansas City
R. Emmet O'Malley
Eugene C. Zachman
O’malley
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kan
Stock Market Index Rises to 47.7 on 60-Stock Average
The index for a 60-stock average reports a value of 47.7. Investors watched the measure as a gauge of overall market sentiment.
Wheat harvest begins early in Sumner county Kansas
Sumner county farmers start wheat harvest with 60 acres cut at John Lantz farm two miles north of South Haven. Lantz notes it is his earliest harvest in 35 years and praises the early Black Hull variety as among the best he has cut.
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Kansas
Wellington
Kan
Sumner County
John Lantz
South Haven
Lantz
Moscow Pact Refusal Shocks Britain and France
London officials and diplomats called Molotovs address a terrific blow to the three power mutual assistance pact plan. British and French observers were stunned by the Soviet rejection as public pressure for a pact rose, threatening Chamberlain's prestige.
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London
Britain
Molotoff
Foreign Office
Molotov Rejects British French Aid Pact in Moscow Speech
Premier Foreign Minister Molotov in a Supreme Soviet address rejects the latest British French mutual aid proposal as inadequate while leaving a door open for talks. He notes Britain and France seek a bloc, warns against trusting their intentions, and signals possible resumption of talks with Berlin and aid to China and Outer Mongolia.
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Molotoff
London
Paris
Russia
Berlin
Supreme Soviet
Joseph Stalin
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Mongolia
Maxim Litvinoff
Outer Mongolia
Japan
China
Stalin
British circles say Spear held by Japanese at Kalgan
Reports from Peiping say Lieutenant Colonel Spear, British military attaché to China, is believed held by Japanese pendarmes at Kalgan. A so called mysterious foreign attache was arrested May 26 between Peiping and Kalgan. Investigations proceed with contact with the prisoner not yet established.
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Peiping
China
Spear
Kalgan
Chungking
Eight Hour Day Ordered for State Employees in Topeka
Gov. Payne Ratner directs all state department heads to implement an eight hour workday starting tomorrow. He notes most workers now log seven hours daily except Saturdays and holidays and no change will occur to the Saturday holiday schedule.
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Statehouse Topeka
Payne Ratner
Gas Explosion Destroys Barberton School Hurting 42
A suburban Barberton two story school was wrecked by a natural gas blast injuring 42 pupils and two teachers. Three children were listed in critical condition, authorities said the gas meter was blown off and the building emptied collapsing walls and frames.
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Akron
Barberton
Dorothy Young
Frances Fisher
Lucinda Williams
U. S. Light
Mabel Miller
C. I. Young
Lois Jean Benton
Claude Witwer
J. W. Howard
Barberton Citizens
Third
Hopocan
Unsettled Weather Forecast Across Kansas Tomorrow
Topeka reports a 31 May forecast of scattered thundershowers in eastern Kansas with temperatures near 100 today and 90 to 95 tomorrow. Soil moisture remains low, western counties await rain, and a slow-moving high pressure from the northwest implies cooler air by late tomorrow.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Flora
Tennis ace Pi-Gene Mako to enter Heart of America Meet
Pi-Gene Mako the nation's No 2 ranked player notified Heart of America officials today that he would compete in the invitational tournament in Kansas City starting Monday. The event will be held in Kansas City and gathers top players for a weekend of matches.
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Make
Kansas City
Pi—Gene Mako
Puls to become acting president of Midland College
The Rev Charles A Puls of Lawrence Kan will assume the Midland College presidency on August 1 succeeding Dr H F Martin who has resigned The Kansan will serve as college president until a new head is chosen Puls will continue his work at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lawrence through the summer and remains in his current position as its pastor
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Charles A. Puls
Midland College
Fremont, Neb
College Board of
Lawrence
Kan
H. F. Martin
Benjamin R. Lantz
Salina
Puls
Trinity Lutheran Church
Philadelphia
W. W. Stoeppelworth
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Salvage Effort for Squalus Underway at Depths Reach 240 Feet
Navy divers descended to 240 feet to attach air-pressure connections in the forward compartments of the sunken submarine Squalus. The plan then attaches heavy chains and pontoons to gradually raise the craft, moving it to shallower water where lifting to the surface will be easier.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Squalus
Father of KU student dies at Research Hospital
John Pershing White, 21, senior in the University of Kansas College of Medicine and freshman medic, died at Research hospital from a kidney infection. He was the son of Lloyd White, Parsons merchant and White Furniture president who entered the hospital May 12 after a blood transfusion. Survivors include his widow Mrs. Ethel White and three siblings, John P. White, Robert L. White of Los Angeles, and Mary Margaret White of Parsons, plus his mother Mrs. J. C. White of Parsons.
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Lloyd White
Parsons
University of Kansas
John Pershing White
White
White Furniture Company
Ethel White
John P. White
Robert L. White
Los Angeles
Mary Margaret White
J. C. White
War Dept Halts Razing CCC Camps in Kansas
The War Department and Civilian Conservation Corps agree to stop razing abandoned CCC camp buildings in Yates Center Kansas and transfer them to the state for use by the Kansas Game and Fish Department Rep Rees Kansas Republican disclosed the agreement.
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Washington
War Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Yates Center
Kan
Kansas Game and Fish Department
Rees
R-Kan
Counterfeit Half Dollar Scam Circulates Locally
Bogus half dollars and counterfeit twenty five cent pieces circulated in Lawrence. Merchants and residents warned to watch for fake coins after a bank discovery last Friday and additional reports at banks, a carnival concession, and a grocery store. Citizens urged to report any suspect coins to the sheriff immediately. The counterfeits feel lighter yet look real.
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Lawrence
Sheriff’s Office
East Lawrence
K. A
KU ROTC honors awarded at annual barbecue ceremony
Cadet Captains James H. Lund of the coast artillery and William F. Beaty of the infantry receive certificates as honor graduates of the University of Kansas ROTC department at a barbecue evening ceremony. Numerous other awards are announced for leadership, scholarship, and marksmanship across multiple cadet companies and battalions with names listed for each prize.
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James H. Lund
Coast Artillery Unit
William F. Beaty
Topeka
Infantry
University of Kansas R. C. T. C. Department
Seventh Corps
Kansas Reserve Officers Association
LeRoy C. Cooper
Kansas City
American Legion Cup
Otis O. Perkins
Lawrence
University of Kansas R.O.T.C
H. W. Adams
O. W. Bilyou
Protection
P. Clark
W. B. Course
Abilene
L. F. Dagenals
Atchison
L. C. Diesem, Jr
Schenectady
N. Yi
J. F. Ehy
H. F. Harris
Wichita
B. W. Henrichs
Athol
L. P. Johnson
J. W. Kelly
Stafford
R. G. Lawrence
Smith Center
K. E. Markle
Dodge City
R. L. Mechale
Garnett
J. A. Petrie
Fontana
E. J. Renth
R. H. Sams
Vermillion
P. S. Shane
Junction City
W. M. Willard
G. R. Wiszneauckas
Leavenworth
W.W. Wright
Douglas County
D. S. Brose
Clay Center
R. H. Caria
W. B. Duncan
J. S. Hartzell
Peru
R. Herman
D. R. Hopkins
H. L. Hosford
D. S. LaShelle
Co. Lessenden
Downs
G. M. Lock
B. S. Mandeville
D. R. Meriwether
Columbus
M. L. Piggott
Osawatomie
T. L. Raymond
A. Shell
San Francisco
Calif
H. A. Stanley
Valley Falls
A. F. Ahein
Lawrence Reserve Officers Association
William A. Smiley
Junction’ City
Shields
Theodore L. Raymond
Arthur Wahl
Laxman
Curtis H. Alloway
Independence
William J. Brink
Baselior
Donald D. Dannenberg
Francis V. Conrad
William A. Smiley, Jr
Robert T. Ward
Robert L. Marietta
Sa Hina
Robert 'Y
Price
Wray A. Shockley
Coast Artillery
George R. Wiszneauckas
Carter D. Butler
David D. Rosen
Hurwitz Bros
Hugh R. Bruner
Presson H.shane
Ray J. Stancliff, Jr
Shawnee
Richard H. Westfal
Harper
James B. Johnson
Frederick T. Luke
Ogden Ut
Ralph G. Adams
Weather Outlook Forsakes Quiet Warmth In Northwest
Kansas forecast calls for generally fair and warmer conditions in the extreme northwest tonight. Thursday looks unsettled with continued warmth and scattered thundershowers in the eastern portion by afternoon. Temperatures recorded include 84 at 7 p.m. yesterday and 87 at noon today, with a year ago high of 87 and low of 66. Free riding instruction offered at Mott Stables for 50 cents per hour.
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Kansas
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