Typhoon Misses Tokyo as Death Toll Rises
A erratic typhoon veered from Tokyo and moved out to sea causing extensive damage across Honshu. About 70 deaths have been reported with 60 from the Kashima Maru incident and four crew. Several ships and 8000 Nagoya homes flooded. Yokohama and other eastern cities suffered heavy damage while emergency measures were ordered.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Pacific Ocean
South Seas
Korea
Ursula Rbitémers
Yokohama
Rampao
Ursula Rickmers
Kure
Hiroshima
Honshu
Nagoya
Virginia Wilcox Weds In Tulsa Society Marriage
Virginia Wilcox, 19, and Jack Snedden, 21, wed at the Wilcox home after serving as witnesses at the sensational federal trial of Phil Kennamer. The couple, from Tulsa’s wealthy circles, tied the knot following a trial that exposed vice and racketeering while Kennamer claimed affection for the bride.
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Tulsa
Okla
Virginia Wilcox
Jack Snedden
Phil Kennamer
John F. Gorrell, Jr
Miss Wilcox
Gorrell
Kennamer
Franklin E. Kennamer
Snedden
Seven Sinners at The Dickinson Theater A Fast Detective Mystery
At The Dickinson Edmund Lowe and Constance Cummings star in Seven Sinners a British detective mystery with a fast paced plot. A carnival body in Nice appears and disappears local suspense builds as the least suspicious figure is revealed as the criminal. Includes news reel comedy Grantland Rice Sportlight and a musical number. Also notes ballots in 26 states for Lemke O Brien electors and Einstein's early relativity paper. The piece mentions Brazil as the largest state in South America.
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Edmund Lowe
Constance Cummings
Dickinson
Nice
Chicago
Union Party Today
William Lemke
Thomas
O’brien
Albert Einstein
Whale Sighting Off Calm Seas Sparks Boat Trek
In a quiet moment at sea Puffy spots a whale from the small boat while Johnny confirms the sighting. The creature is described as large and capable of biting the vessel in two, heightening the crew's alarm during the calm voyage.
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Puffy
Johnny
Kansas Chamber to Hold Regional Meetings Next Week
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce will hold three regional meetings to discuss the 1937 legislative program and state industrial development. Eastern Kansas directors meet in Ottawa on October 6, central McPherson on October 7, and western Scott City on October. President Harry Bryant of Parsons will preside at all sessions.
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Topeka
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Kansas
Ottawa
McPherson
Scott City
Harry Bryant
Parsons
Food prices due to rise warn shoppers nationwide
Federal experts warned that grocery costs will rise in 1987 amid a study by the Consumer Guide of the Agriculture Department. Careful buying was urged as prices reach the highest since 1930, with meat, dairy and produce hikes offset by declines in beef and poultry. A related cinema note highlights Wheeler and Woolsey in Mummy's Boys at Granada, with plot and cast details.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Tme
Drouth
Bert Wheeler
Robert Woolsey
Granada
King Tut
Wheeler- Woolsey
Egypt
Wheeler
Woolsey
Barbara Pepper
Moroni Olsen
Frank Thomas
Willie Best
Kansas Annual Conference pledges rebuild of United Brethren church
The Kansas Annual Conference meeting in Coffeyville pledged to continue the United Brethren church in Lawrence with over $2,000 raised in cash and subscriptions. Rev. Arthur Ward, builder of the Big Springs church, was chosen to lead the rebuilding and will move to Lawrence to organize the new program. The plan calls for construction to start soon, with basement use possible this winter and temporary housing in the old parsonage at Seventeenth and Vermont.
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Kansas
Coffeyville
United Brethren Church
Lawrence
Arthur Ward
Big Springs
W. C. Jones
Mr. Ward
Seventeenth and
Vermont
Jones
Cat hunter Purrs at Fairmont squirrel season
Alice Virginia Cook, Latin instructor at Fairmont State College, keeps a law respecting cat that hunts rats and mice until the squirrel season when it bags a big squirrel. Oklahoma: "Daddy" Del Parr remains one of the four original University of Oklahoma faculty members, long tenure noted near the chemistry building.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Alice Virginia Cook
Fairmont State College
Kitty
Norman
Okla
Daddy" del Parr
University of Oklahoma
Resignations and reappointments churn in small city
Loftie Pawhuska and Mit chell deal with career moves as Mitchell quits railroad for a police chief return amid city commission plans. Trummer ends hunger strike after 27 days, loses two pounds, then falls ill. he is advised by a physician to drink tea.
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Loftie Pawhuska
Okio—Larton Mitchell
Kansas
City Commission
Sidney
Frank Trummer
Headline of multiple local incidents and deaths
A troubled elevator operator Theodore Lavelle, 45, explained his leap after 1908 with uniform discomfort and head pain. In another incident a driver, William Candler, 46, heir to the Atlanta soft drink fortune, was killed near Naylor when his car struck a cow. The report notes a sheriff adding corn syrup to tea in an unspecified case.
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Chicago
Theodore Lavelle
Soft Drink Fortune
Valdosta
CPH
William Candler
Atlanta
Naylor
Candler
Asa G. Candler
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Joe E. Brown
Joan Blondell
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