London Faces Third Night of War’s Relentless Bombardment
London waking to daylight raids as about 15 Nazi planes crossed the channel. Anti aircraft fire blew up the sky while casualties rise in the capital and Liverpool, the Midlands, and southeast England report hits. Royal Air Force strikes Berlin and Calais as fear holds on.
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London
Poole
Dorsetshire
Liverpool
Midlands
England
East Midlands
Junkers
Recommendations sent for Kansas draft boards by McLean
Topeka reports Adjutant General Milton R. McLean forwarded recommendations for 126 draft boards to President Roosevelt. Addresses accompany the 378 names. Some changes were suggested to drop physicians and men with close relatives in the draft age. Boards will assign serial numbers to registration cards after young men 21 to 35 enroll on October 16. Printing contracts for forms were awarded to Adams Brothers, McCormick Armstrong, Richards Co, and Grit Printing.
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Topeka
Kansas
Roosevelt
Milton R. McLean
McLean
Washington
Joseph Dunkel
Adams Brothers Salesbook Co
McCormick Armstrong Press Co
Wichita
Richards Co
Fort Scott
Grit Printing .Co
Willkie Attacks New Deal In Michigan Campaign Stop
At Pontiac and Flint Michigan on October 1 Wendell L Willkie denounced the Roosevelt administration as overreaching and argued the New Deal piles debt and uses tax exempt bonds to shield wealth. An egg was thrown at Willkie’s car as crowds jeered and police expanded guard details at subsequent stops. He pressed for social security to remain on the books and for solvency to benefit future entitlements.
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Cusala
Pontiac
Mich
Court House
Willkie
Willie
Steve ‘Bunkley
Flint
British report ships sunk by Italian submarines
London reports that Italian submarines sank three Spanish vessels with heavy loss of life. Also noted that Hamburg and Bremen radio stations went off air during expected English broadcasts, seen as a sign of German raids. Admiral Evans appointed director of London air raid shelters with broad emergency authority.
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London
Hamburg
Bremen
Germany
Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans
Kansas airport program includes Lawrence listing and funds
The Civil Aeronautics Authority adds Lawrence to a nationwide plan of about 85 Kansas airports with a proposed 31 800 dollar fund for a Lawrence admin building hangar and shop facilities. The broader plan aims to develop around 4 000 airports nationwide with a priority board for funding Projects across Kansas include many towns with varied listed amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Lawrence
Kansas
CAA
Army, Navy and Commerce Department
Congress
House
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Abilene
Oakley
Anthony
Atchson
Atwood
Beloit
Burlington
Cassaday
Chanute
Clay Center
Coffeyville
Colby
Coldwater
Concordia
Council Grove
Dodge City
J Dorads
Ellsworth
Empori
Eureka
Florence
Fredonia
Fort Scott
Garnett
Garden City
Gardner
Goodland
Great Bend
Grove
Hays
Hiawatha
Hill City
Holton
Hoxie
Hugoton
Hutchinson
Independence
Ioa
Johnson
Junction City
Kansas City
Kingman
Kinsley
la Crosse
la Cygne
Leavenworth
Lebo
Liberal
Lincoln Center
Lyons
Manhattan
Mankato
Marysville
McPherson
Meade
Medicine Lodge
Moran
Ness City
Newton
Norton
Oberlin
Osage City
Osborne
Ottawa
Parsons
Phillipsburg
Pratt
Russel Springs
Salina
Sante
Scott City
Sedan
Seneca
Sharon Springs
Smith Deer
St. Francis
St. Marys
Stockton Oyne
Syracuse
Topeka
Tribune
Wellington
Pittsburg
Minister Convicted in Sheriff’s Slaying in Maine
Arthur F. Cox, a 49 year old Philadelphia minister of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was found guilty of murder in the slaying of Deputy Sheriff E. Dean Pray, 44, at North Windham on August 20. The verdict carries a mandatory life sentence at Maine’s state penitentiary in Thomaston.
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Portland
Arthur F. Cox
Philadelphia
Jehovah’s Witnesses
E. Dean Pray
North Windham
Charles H. Priest
Maine
Thomaston
German alien pleads guilty to De Tristan child kidnapping
Wilhelm Muhlenbroich admitted kidnapping Marc de Tristan Jr in Redwood City. He pleaded guilty and faces life without parole with sentencing set for Friday. A note demanding $100000 was left with the child before Muhlenbroich fled into the mountains and was recaptured after a struggle.
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Muhlenbroich
de Tristan Child
Redwood City
Wilhelm Muhlenbroich
Marc de Trisan
Joseph Bullock
Maxwell McNutt
Bullock
Marc
Count
Countess de Tristan
Here
Cecil Weisel
Ellis Wood
Congress Passes Excess Profits Tax Bill For Defense Drive
Congress sent to the White House a compromise excess profits tax bill that also speeds up defense production. The measure raises the corporate rate to 24 percent and imposes a 25 to 50 percent excess profits tax with credits. It adds a new government insurance system for draftees and active servicemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
White House
House
Senate
Doughton
D-N.c
Ways and Means Committee
Moisture Aids Kansas Vegetation In Favorable Fall Weather
New soil moisture continues to benefit Kansas agriculture as western counties receive rain. Eastern areas forecast showers today or tonight with cooler breezes. Weatherman D Flora of Great Bend notes 19 inch rainfall at that station and year to date totals rising elsewhere. Skies clear in the west with fair conditions expected tomorrow. temperatures in the 70s statewide and lows in the 50s to 45s Salted readings vary by location across Concordia Phillipsburg Ellis Geneseo Wichita Dodge City.
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Topeka
Kansas
D. Flora
Great Bend
Stockton
Concordia
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Geneseo
Wichita
Goodland
Dodge City
Flora
Roosevelt Says No Recommendation on Johnson Act Change
President Roosevelt told a press conference he made no recommendation and expected none for modifying the Johnson act to aid Britain. The act bans loans to nations in default on war debts to the United States.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Britain
United States
Roosevelt denounces egg throwing during Willkie procession
President Roosevelt called it reprehensible that Wendell Willkie was subjected to egg tossing in Michigan during his political procession.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Michigan
Bund Loses Membership in Newark After 1933 Decline
P G Wilhelm Kunze head of the German American Bund told a Dies subcommittee that the organization has seen its membership drop by about half since August 1933. The Newark report notes this decline as part of a wider inquiry into its activities.
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Bund
Newark
N. J
P.G. Wilhelm Kunze
Voluntary Enlistments Break U S Peacetime Records
Washington October 1 Army officials report September voluntary enlistments set peacetime records with 36099 men volunteering for three year hitches. They expect August’s 38616 to be surpassed though pace remains insufficient for army needs, reinforcing draft necessity.
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Washington
War Department
Germany
Rainfall Surplus Leaves Lawrence Year Wet, Weather Sees Record
September rainfall was 0.84 inch below normal, but nine month total rose to 35.07 inches, the wettest year since 1935 per Prof. C. J. Posey. Normal nine month is 29.95 inches with 3.23 inches in September and a 69.08 degree mean temperature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
C. J. Posey
Posey
Injured Hitchhiker Struck by Unidentified Vehicle Near Midland
Hugh F. Nash 50 suffered grave injuries from a hit and run on Highway 24 near Midland. Doctors at Memorial hospital report compound fractures of the pelvis and right femur, with a blood transfusion given. Nash, a Union Pacific labor gang worker, was hitchhiking toward Newman west of Perry and said he slept on the road when found by deputies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh F. Nash
Midland
Memorial Hospital
Nash
Newman
Perry
Union Pacific Labor Gang
Wayne Ownes
Owens
Charles Banning
Lawrence
Elmer James
Sheriff’s Office
Earl Behmer, First National Bank cashier, commits suicide
Earl Behmer, 44, cashier at the First National Bank in Hamilton Kansas, was found dead in the bank. Dr. C D Baird, county coroner, said he killed himself with a pistol. Sheriff Vic Myers reported no official finding of death by own action. Behmer, a World War veteran, leaves a widow and son Richard H Behmer, a KU sophomore.
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Hamilton
Kan
Earl Behmer
First National Bank
C. D. Baird
Greenwood County
Behmer
Vic Myers
Richard H. Behmer
University of Kansas
Bridges to reply on Senate floor to Norris attack
Senator H Styles Bridges of New Hampshire said he will answer on the senate floor tomorrow a smear on Wendell L. Wilkie's utilities background raised by Senator George W Norris of Nebraska.
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Norris
New York
H. Styles Bridges
Classified Page Guides to New Homes and Rentals
The quickest way to locate a new home or another room to rent is to follow the choice listings on the classified page.
Memorial Service for Dr Lindley at KU Hoch Auditorium
Memorial services for Chancellor Deane W Lindley will be held Sunday afternoon October 13 in Hoch auditorium. Speakers include Henry J Allen former Kansas governor Roy A Roberts and William Allen White and Fred M Harris with Deane W Malott presiding. Music by a capella choir directed by Donald M Swarthout and organ by Charles Skilton. The service is public with attendees from the region expected. Dr Lindley died August 21 aboard the Asama Maru while en route from Yokohama to Honolulu.
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Henry J. Allen
Kansas
William Allen White
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Ellis B. Stouffer
Graduate School
University of Kansas
Fred M. Harris
Board of
Regents
University
BE. H. Lindley
Hoch
Allen
Lindley
Roy Roberts
Deane W. Malott
Donald M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
Charles §. Skilton
Yokohama
Honolulu
Ocean Service
Dr Ralph Kable Collins Dies In New York Rescue Hospital
Dr Ralph Kable Collins died this morning at Rockefeller Institute hospital in New York City after a July spine bone graft. He was a Rockefeller Foundation field man in international health with postings in Turkey Sophia Bulgaria and back to Turkey. He studied at Kansas Johns Hopkins and Yale and planned to work in Manila after building a West Hills residence with his wife Mrs Collins formerly Miss Wilma Arnett of Lawrence.
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Ralph Kable Collins
Rockefeller Institute Hospital
New York City
New York
Rocky Ford
Colo
Collins
Wilma Arnett
Lawrence
George K. Maffet
Universit of
Kansas
Johns Hopkins
Yale
Rockefeller Foundation
S International Health Service
Turkey
Sophia
Bulgaria
United States
Mrs. Collins
South
Average of 60 stocks shows 45.1 down from 44.5 yesterday
The report records an average of 60 stocks at 45.1, reflecting a drop from 44.5 as of yesterday. No other context or bracketed values are provided.
Midwest Governors See Good Prospects for Midland Defense Works
A committee of Midwest governors after a conference with President Roosevelt said they felt greatly encouraged about locating defense industries west of the Mississippi. Governors Phillips Ratner Cochran noted no specific assurances but anticipated nationwide defense decentralization and a sympathetic nationwide posture.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mississippi River
Leon Phillips
Oklahoma
Payne Ratner
Kansas
R. L. Cochran
Nebraska
Ratner
Cochran
Mission gathering draws Kansas University students
About 150 University of Kansas students are expected to attend the youth section of the Greater Kansas City National Christian Mission to be held in the Music hall Friday evening. The event is sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches with local support from Kansas and Missouri church councils.
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University of Kansas
Greater
Kansas City
Municipal Auditorium
RE. Stanley Jones
India
John W. Austin
Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church
Washington, D. C
British Bombers Hit French Coast Ports Again
British bombers heavily attacked German-occupied ports on the French coast, with Boulogne harbor and the Nazi emplacements near Cap Gris Nez singled out for heavy assault. Explosions shook the Straits of Dover and lit the sky over the coast.
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Royal Air Force
Berlin
Strait of Dover
Kent
Cap Gris Nez
Calais
Tenver
England
Boulogne
Straits of Dover
Paralyzing Kansas: 400 Cases Reported This Year
The Kansas state health board reports 400 infantile paralysis cases to date, with five new cases: Johnson, Dickinson, Geary, and Greeley counties each tallying one, and the 1930 record remains the worst with 694 cases.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
Johnson County
Dickinson
Geary and Greeley
Constance Bennett Plans Reno Divorce Trip
Constance Bennett will travel to Reno to establish residence for a divorce from the Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudray. Her representative announced the move in Hollywood.
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Constance Bennett
Hollywood
Cal
Reno
Marquise de la Falaise de la Coudray
Mexican Soldiers Clash in Monterrey Killing Rebel Leader
Brig. Gen. Andres Zarzosa and an accomplice were fatally wounded when troops and police crushed a Revolutionary plot in Monterrey. Authorities said order is restored as several rebels were arrested and Almazan remains abroad amid ongoing contest over the presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterrey
Mexico
Andres Zarzosa
Juan Andrey Almazan
Billu
Zarzosa
City moves to secure auxiliary water supply
The city council authorized the water department to pursue an auxiliary water source with the U S Geological Survey and Kansas Geological Survey to drill a test well after a turbidity crisis reduced plant flow. Officials aim for about 500000 gallons daily addition, with potential contributions of 500 from the federal survey and 250 from the state survey. The plan follows August turbidity spikes that stressed storage and supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Geological Survey
Kansas Geological Survey
Oread
Water Department
Journal-World
State Survey
F. A. Russell
Water Committee
Midweek Weather Outlook for Central Plains Region
Kansas fair in west and cloudy in east with light showers possible in extreme east. Cooler conditions midweek with temperatures near or slightly below normal across the Central Plains Lower Missouri Valley Arkansas and Eastern Colorado.
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Kansas
Central Plains
Missouri Valley
Arkansas
Colorado
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