Move for Throne Stirs the French
Paris reports the Duc de Guise, exile in Belgium, issued a 5000 word manifesto calling to reconquer the throne and rally royalists. Swiss police barred a planned Versoix meeting. the Count of Paris denied links to the Hooded Ones. Royalist activity is limited, Surete searches continue.
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Paris
Duc de Guise
France
Belgium
Geneva
Versoix
Switzerland
Courrier Royal
Surete Nationale
National Revolutionary Committee
Surete
Ministry of the Interior
Count of Paris
Jean, Duc de Guise
Wallace Elected Leader Of Paola Young Democrats
James W. Wallace of Mound City was elected district president at a Paola meeting of the Second district Young Democrats. Officers include Elmo Hester and Helen Kohlenberg as vice presidents, Thomas Lysaught as secretary, and John Landers as treasurer. Speakers Leigh Warner and Robert S. Campbell urged Roosevelt support and Huxman reelection. Registration reached 250.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paola
Walter A. Haxman
James W. Wallace
Mound City
Elmo Hester
Iola
Helen Kohlenberg
Thomas Lysaught
Kansas City
John Landers
Fort Scott
Leigh Warner
Cimarron
Robert S. Campbell
Wichita
Warner
Campbell
Lawrence
Roosevelt
Huxman
Carl Brueck
Miami County Club
Governor Huxman replies to highway critic in Topeka
Governor Walter A. Huxman challenged Jess R. White of Mankato by radio to prove the state has funds to build roads. He said if White can show where the state has a million and a half dollars he would gladly give five or ten percent to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huxman
Waite Topeka
Walter A. Huxman
Jess R. White
Mankato
The
Highway Commission
Stock Market Index Report Shows Mixed Readouts
Market index average of sixty stocks shows a value around 42.1 with scattered activity. Mentions of Ford, Hamilton, and Green Bros. appear alongside service and repair references at 702 Vermont and washer repairs.
Jap Airmen Drop Note to Chiang Kai-shek Urging Surrender
Tokyo reports a Japanese air crew dropped a nonexplosive message over Nanking asking Chiang Kai-shek to cease hostilities and surrender. The move aims for a bloodless capitulation as Japanese forces push from Wu-shih to Kiangyan along the Yangtze.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Shanghai
Japan
Chiang- Shek
Nanking
Chungking
Mochifumi Nango
Altho
Wusih
China
Kiangyan
Yangtze River
Peiping
Yellow River
Tsunanfu
Shantung Province
North China
Strikers Leave Fisher Body Plant In Pontiac
Strikers led by Homer Martin evacuated the General Motors Fisher Body plant in Pontiac at 11 30 am after voting unanimously to leave. Martin said negotiations would follow and that the union would seek job retention and reinstatement of four suspended men.
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Pontiac
Mich
General Motors
Fisher Body
Homer Martin
International
Martin
International Executive Board
Final hearings open on Doyle Estate in Marion Kansas
Probate Judge Jay E. Hargett opened final hearings in Marion county district court for the Doyle estate. More than 500 claimants seek a share of the Ellen Doyle estate valued at about 750000 dollars.
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Doyle
Marion
Kan
Jay E. Hargett
Marion County District Court
Ellen Doyle
Huxman Plans Early Departure for Wichita Farm Meeting
Gov. Walter A. Huxman said he will depart by car at about 6:30 tomorrow to attend the Wichita farm meeting where Secretary Wallace is slated to speak. The trip is part of the governor's schedule for the day from Topeka.
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Huxman
Wichita
Topeka
Walter A. Huxman
Wallace
Plans for Kansas Missouri Homecoming 1937
Lawrence activity centers on the KU Missouri football clash at 2 PM with Gov Haxman and Gov Stark in attendance. Alumni events from Wednesday to Thursday include radio broadcasts from KFKU WHB KMBC WDAF and WREN plus a torchlight parade and multiple rallies. The game offers a new tom tom trophy and a prize lineup for parade winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Kansas-Missouri
K. A
Walter A. Haxman
Kansas
Jayhawkers
Tigers
Huxman
Lloyd Stark
Missouri
Lindley
Middlebush
Union
KFKU
Lawrence
South Park
Wren
Kansas Relays Club
Eldridge Hotel
University
Relays Club
Eldridge
Union Building
KMBC
Union Ballroom
WHB
Mutual
E. U
California Is Chosen to Play in Rose Bowl Game
California's Golden Bears were selected as the Pacific Coast Conference's Rose Bowl representative for New Year's Day. Coach Leonard B. Allison led the undefeated team by telegraphic vote, with California to select its eastern opponent while Alabama Fordham and Pittsburgh were among undefeated teams considered.
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Los Angeles
University of California
Golden Bears
Leonard B
Stub
Allison
Hugh Willett
California
University of Alabama
Fordham
Pittsburgh
Dr Koo appeals to Brussels delegates for action on China Japan
Dr V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate at Brussels, urged stronger moves to end the China Japan conflict and criticized pious words. He urged reconsideration of a report calling for indefinite suspension of the parley, warning abortive results would increase insecurity. Delegates studied the report but admitted few nations can stop the conflict and voiced doubt aid could be salvaged despite Koo's appeals to cut war supplies and credits to Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
V. K. Wellington Koo
Koo
China
Japan
Landis Outlines Kansas Geological History
Kenneth K. Landis gives Rotarians a wide tour of Kansas geology from ancient granite to present oil, coal, and minerals, linking past seas, ice ages, forests, and mountains to today’s landscape and resources. Next Monday evening hosts the Kansas University football squad and staff for an event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Kenneth K. Landis
Rocky Mountains
Great Plains
Canada
States
Old
Mexico
K. U
Kansas-Missouri football game traffic plan announced
Twenty members of the state highway patrol will direct traffic into Lawrence on Thursday for the Kansas Missouri game. Colonel Jenkins urges motorists to drive carefully. No accidents were reported on game day for the Kansas Kansas State matchup, and patrol cars will assist local officers in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Byol
Jack B. Jenkins
Colonel Jenkins
Roosevelt cancels Thanksgiving trip to foundation in Georgia
President Roosevelt cancelled his planned Thanksgiving visit to Warm Springs Georgia on medical advice. He plans to visit Warm Springs and the Florida coast later for rest. A belated Warm Springs dinner with infantile paralysis patients was discussed, and a Gainesville dedication of Roosevelt Square was added to the revised southern itinerary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Florida
Stephen T. Early
White House
Miami
U. S. S. Potomac
Gainesville
Roosevelt Square
Six Fire Alarms Hit Weekend Fire Crews Hard
Over the weekend six fire alarms stretched the department. Fires ranged from a burning hair brush producing fumes to roof destruction at 1321 Pennsylvania Street. Other calls included overheated furnace pipes at 834 Missouri Street and a small roof fire at 312 Indiana Street.
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Pennsylvania Street
M. Thompson
Elwyn Dees
K.U. Athletic Department
Missouri Street
H. S. Robertson
Indiana Street
F. E. Gurtler
Ohio Street
Elmer Bateson
Mississippi Street
W. O. Nelson
Kentucky Street
Windsor settlement ends English libel suit
The Duke of Windsor reached a settlement with the publishers William Heinemann Ltd and author Geoffrey Dennis for a substantial sum in damages and costs. Windsor to donate his damages to charities connected with his royal roles as King and Prince of Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Duke of Windsor
Hewart
William Jowitt
Windsor
William Heinemann, Ltd
Geoffrey Dennis
Edward
Prince of Wales
Syracuse Dedication Marks New $825000 Medical Building
Dr Clyde Randall who earned his M D from the University of Kansas in 1931 participated in the dedication of Syracuse University's new $825 000 college of medicine building in Syracuse New York Randall served as a clinical assistant in KU medical school Kansas City division in 1934 35
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Randall
University of Kansas
College of Medicine
Syracuse University
Syracuse
Randall
Kansas City
K. U. School of Medicine
Henry to Speak at Madison High Dinner
Gwinn Henry director of athletics at the University of Kansas visited Madison Kansas this afternoon and will be the speaker at a dinner for the Madison high school football squad tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwinn Henry
Madison
University of Kansas
Kan
Chamber seeks trucks for record homecoming parade
The Chamber of Commerce asks owners with flat bed trucks to volunteer for homecoming floats. About 30 trucks are needed to transport floats on Wednesday from noon through the parade that evening. Vehicles will serve as the float platform during the building and march.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Congress vies with farm bill in crop control push
Washington authorities report Congress pressed to begin crop control legislation with compulsory quotas for wheat and a corn provision. Debate raged in both chambers over the farm plan tied to Roosevelt’s fiscal constraints, while the anti lynching filibuster continued in the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Rayburn
D.tex
Jones
New Fissures in Drive as Mountain Moves On
Deep fissures appeared today on the crest of Elysian Park's moving mountain which has inched toward Riverside Drive since October 28. City Engineer R. T. Green warned that a slip could force action soon. Residents would be warned by electric siren if the 500000 ton earth slide threatens Riverside Drive and the Los Angeles river bed. Trains were ordered to pass slowly as vibrations from a fast train triggered small landslides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Elysian Park
Riverside Drive
R. T. Green
Screw Removed From Boy's Lung At Jefferson Clinic
Surgeons at the Jefferson Hospital bronchoscopic clinic removed a brass screw from the right lung of two year old Melvin Martin of Blackwell Oklahoma. The boy's condition was described as very satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Melvin Martin
Blackwell
Okla
Jefferson Hospital
Election year highway push in Kansas fuels funding talk
Former Representative J. R. White asserts the state highway department lacks funds for road work now but predicts funds will surface next year due to an election cycle. He accuses the administration of delaying projects to barter for votes and questions the use of a 3.5 million unencumbered balance amid ongoing revenue.
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Topeka
J. R. White
Mankato
State Highway Department
White
Highway Commission
Cold wave delays court as trial opens late
A frostbound morning delayed the Dickinson versus Dolen damage suit in the district court with Judge Means postponing proceedings until 10 am. Janitor Jack Thompson cited the boiler rest and weak steam as the cause. The jury, empanelled last Friday, was to hear testimony with a forecast of a late verdict.
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Court House
District Court
Jack Thompson
Hugh Means
Glen W. Dickinson
H. X. Dolen
Thompson
Means
Dickinson
Dickinson Theater
Dr. Dolen
C. C. Stewart
Dolen
Weather Moderates After Cold Snap Across Kansas
The worst of the cold snap ends as a federal meteorologist predicts gradual warming over 24 hours. Temperatures rise from seven degrees to the high 20s in the northeast and 35 to 40 in the west and south, with near normal readings by tomorrow. Snow flurries were reported in Wichita Dodge City Goodland and Concordia with trace to 0.06 inch moisture. no dust bowl reports yet.
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Topeka
S. D. Flora
Flora
Altho
Wichita
Dodge City
Goodland
Concordia
Dust Bowl
Kansas
Amarillo
Tex
Finnup Dies in Garden City At 70
George W. Finnup, 70, longtime Garden City real estate dealer and donor of Frederick Finnup municipal park, died last night of heart disease. He served on Washburn College board of trustees for 11 years and came to Garden City in 1879. Survivors include his widow, a daughter Isabel, and a son Frederick.
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Garden City
Kan
George W. Finnup
Frederick Finnup
Finnup
Washburn College Board of Trustees
Isabel
Frederick
Eudora Man For Forced Ride Loses $4 But Keeps Car
Herbert L. Brown of Eudora told police two men forced him to drive a 1936 Chevrolet 17 miles southwest of Abilene after midnight. They stole $4 from him, blindfolded him multiple times, and used another car to aid the escape before he was allowed to return home.
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Abilene
Herbert L. Brown
Eudora
Brown
Willard Cut
Highway 40
Lawrence
Kaw River
Midland
Topeka
Junction City
Carlton
Ticket rush for Kansas Missouri game nears peak
After a slow Saturday sales for the Thursday afternoon Kansas Missouri football game surged again with Earl Falkenstein stating advance sales reached 16 000. With favorable weather an attendance of 25 000 or more is expected as most seats are sold on both sides of the stadium. The north bowl will seat 14 858 and tickets are moving in that section.
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Earl Falkenstein
Secret
the Athletic Association
Tax Collections Rise in October Across Washington
Internal Revenue Service data show corporate tax receipts for October total $29,773,620, up 31 percent from a year earlier, with an average four month gain near 50 percent. Individual income taxes reached $11,897,652, up 7 percent year over year, as four month gains averaged 70 percent. Miscellaneous levies improved in October despite a sharp gasoline tax drop.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Services for Mrs. Clara Bell Wirt
Funeral services will be held in San Francisco for Mrs. Clara Bell Wirt 76 who died after a long illness. She was the grandmother of Geraldine Spreckles who recently obtained a divorce from Adolph B. Spreckels Jr and the mother of Mrs. R A Gardner of Fort Bliss Texas, formerly Sidi Wirt Spreckels. Mrs Wirt came from Kansas after Sidi married John B Spreckels Jr who died in a 1922 auto accident.
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San Francisco
Clara Bell Wirt
Wirt
Geraldine Spreckles
Adolph B. Spreckels
Geraldine
R. A. Gardner
Fort Bliss
Tex
Sidi Wirt Spreckels
Kansas
Sidi
John B. Spreckels, Jr
Weather outlook across regions with mixed precipitation
Mostly cloudy unsettled into tonight and Tuesday. East and south lessen the chill on Tuesday. Morning scene shows cloud cover with snow at Coffeyville Kansas City and Wichita. Roads frozen at Emporia and Manhattan. rough at Coffeyville Emporia and Manhattan. snow covered at Arkansas City and Salina. Good conditions at Ottawa Garden City and Topeka. University Coal Co. Phone 44.
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Coffeyville
Arkansas City
Wichita
Emporia
Manhattan
Salina
Ottawa
Garden City
Topeka
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Duke
Young Democrats
Ford
Service
Hamilton
Green Bros
Egypt
Farida Zulficar, ii
Faronk
Stark
WDAF
Mutual Broadcasting System
DR. Koo
Far East
Landis
Rotary Club
Highway Patrol
Lucy
Ady
Foundation
Georgia
K. U. Graduate
Pope
Garner
Bankhead
Barkley
D-Ky
Dtex
Agriculture Department
England
Leopold
George
Britain
Representative White
Herbert Brown
University Coal Co
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