Hitler Reports Warsaw Victory and Poland Campaign Complete
Reichsfuehrer Hitler praised the Warsaw conquest after reviewing troops and pledged readiness for any action. He toured Warsaw with top generals and promoted officers, while observers weigh possible peace terms ahead of the Reichstag speech. Britain’s stance draws criticism as Germany claims victory in the east and minimal activity in the west.
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Berlin
Fuehrer
Warsaw
Hish
Walther von Brauchitsch
Erhard Milch
Air Force
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Walther von Reichenau
Johannes Blaskowitz
Hitler
von Reichenau
Blaskowitz
Wilhelm Keitel
Heinrich Himmler
Hans Heinrich Lammers
Otto Dietrich
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Foreign Office
Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
Great Britain
Britain
East
West
Althe
France
British Admiralty
Winston Churchill
The
Admiralty
Stock Market Index Holds at 52.2 on 60-Stock Average
The stock index for 60 stocks remains at 52.2 following yesterday’s trading. Investors note steady sentiment as market leaders show little change in early sessions.
Senate Debates Shipping Controls and Embargo Split
Senator Nye demanded the administration separate repeal of the arms embargo from the cash and carry neutrality plan. Tobey urged splitting the bill to ship controls first, with embargo repeal later, arguing ships face danger in war zones. House members criticized the tactic while Overton warned embargo repeal risks US armed intervention.
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Washington
Nye
R-N.d
Tobey
R-N. H
Senate
George
D-Ga
House
Mundt
R-S.d
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
Overton
D- la
America
Europe
Robbers Loot Baldwin Dry Goods Store in Baldwin
Merchandise valued at several hundred dollars plus ten dollars in cash were stolen from the Baldwin Dry Goods company store. Entrance was gained by forcing a back window. W. C. Cox, the store manager, said items included cloth leather jackets silk hose lingerie and sweaters. Sheriff’s deputies investigated with S. Wayne Owens assisting. A separate note mentions fencing the National Cornhusk ing contest field on the F. H. Leonhard farm to deter public access, with work supervised by Guy Shultz and materials from Wheeling Corrugating and Green Brothers.
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Baldwin Dry Goods Company
Baldwin
W. C. Cox
Ernest Pohl
Sheriff’s Office
S. Wayne Owens
F. H. Leonhard
Guy Shultz
Wheeling Corrugating Company
Wheeling
W. Va
Green ‘Brothers Hardware
Hungary Reestablishes Diplomatic Ties with Soviet Russia
Hungary resumes official relations with Soviet Russia after breaking ties on February 24 for joining the anti Comintern pact. Jozef Christoffy named minister to Moscow, while Germany seeks more war supplies via Szeged consul. A Romanian party truce is proposed as southeastern Europe braces for events.
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Budapest
Hungary
Russia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Spain
Jozef Christoffy
Legation
Warsaw
Moscow
Szeged
Europe
Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs picks officers in Fort Scott
In Fort Scott on October 5 the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs elected Mrs. W. J. Scott of Ottawa as president and awarded the 1940 convention to Osawatomie. Other officers named include Mrs. George Cleveland of Fort Scott as vice president, Mrs. Howard Wiseman of Osawatomie as secretary, Mrs. Lou Naylor of Kansas City as treasurer, and Mrs. E. C. Shemwell of Ottawa as corresponding secretary.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs
W. J. Scott
Ottawa
Osawatomie
George Cleveland
Howard Wiseman
Lou Naylor
Kansas City
E. C. Shemwell
Bergdoll Convicted in Court Martial for Desertion
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the World War draft dodger was convicted today by a U S army court martial on desertion and escape charges and sentenced to three years in prison The defense offered no witnesses while the prosecution presented a brief case including a faded letter claiming Bergdoll had no desire to escape The trial cited Bergdoll’s 1920 flight from custody and the appeal to a War Department official noting a supposed $150 000 gold cache hidden on a mountainside
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
War Department
S. D. Ansen
Philadelphia
Japanese Setback in First Major Offensive in a Year
Hongkong reports indicate the Japanese army suffered heavy losses as their Changsha drive faltered. Chinese sources say Japanese columns were thrown back and withdrawing across the Mi river, with Changsha defense tying up remaining forces.
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Hongkong
Changsha
Hunan
Mi River
Liang River
Hankow
China
Shanghai
Hankow-Canton
Pearson Masterpiece Nets 4 0 Win in World Series
Mar cellus Monte Pearson fires seven and two thirds hitless innings as the New York Yankees defeat the Cincinnati Reds 4 to 0 at Yankee Stadium. Babe Dahlgren drives in a run and DiMaggio, Keller, and Dickey add hits backing the near no hitter before Ernie Lombardi breaks the bid with a liner and Werber hits both safeties for Cincinnati. Attendance 59,791. receipts $226,017.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Marcellus Monte Pearson
Cincinnati Reds
New York Yankees
Pearson
Ernie Schnotzley Lombardi
Bill Werber
Reds
Cleveland Indians
Herb Pennock
Yankee
Buck Walters
Babe Dahlgren
Suns
Walters
Lon Warneke
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Tigers
Altho
Ed Ruelbach
Chicago White Sox
Werber
Bill Dickey
Keller
Gordon
Frey
DiMaggio
Goodman
Rolfe
Yankees
Crosetti
Myers
Lombardi
Berger
DiMaggion
McCormick
Selkirk
Craft
Dickey
Selskirk
Bounder
Dahlgren
Cincinnati
Rf DiMaggio
Seman Selkirk
P Eames
Neste Mane
Cincinnat
Dahlgren Hits Lead In N Y Cincinnati Tilt
Dahlgren hits a home run and two base hits for New York as Cincinnati pitchers walk one, with 8 strikeouts for Pearson and 5 for Walters. New York leaves 3 on base while Cincinnati leaves 2. Reardon Summers Pinelli McGowan handle the umpires. Time 1 27.
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Crosetti
Keller
Dickey
Dahlgren
Pearson
Walters
Myers
McCormick
New York
Cincinnati
Werber
Craft
Frey
Gooodman
Gamble
Selkirk
Gordon
Reardon
N.L
Summers
A.L
Pinelli
McGowan
Kansas Resource-Full exhibit to highlight state at national contest
The Resource-Full Kansas display will be a feature at the National Cornhusking contest next month, with about 50 participating organizations. The exhibit runs November 1 to 3 in a tent near the contest field and is free to the public.
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State of
Kansas
Raymond C. Moore
Local Showers Dampen Kansas Map Amid Dry Conditions
A stretch of light showers dotted Kansas today with Topeka noting a cool high around 75 to 80 and Wichita airport areas receiving 0.42 inch. Forecaster S D Flora warned the state remains far too dry with temps to rise into the 80s tomorrow, while recent rainfall totals varied from trace to about 0.42 inch in Parsons and other cities.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Junction City
Wichita
Flora
Mercury
Phillipsburg
Goodland
Parsons
el Dorado
Pittsburg
Atchison
Salina
Fort Scott
Trace
Young preacher Maedene Adkins to speak at Church of God
Miss Maedene Adkins an 18 year old preacher from Kansas City Missouri will deliver the sermon at tonight’s young people meeting at the Church of God Eleventh and New Hampshire streets starting at 7 30 o'clock Similar sessions have been held each evening this week.
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Maedene Adkins
Kansas City
Church of God
Eleventh
New Hanshire Streets
Ingham
H. G. Lindgren
McPherson
J. D. Donovan
Kan
Fire Service
Fire College
Lawrence Department
Nightshirt Parade to Kick Off Busy School Weekend
Mount Oread hosts the 87th annual nightshirt parade on the eve of the first home game with about 1600 students in nightwear gathering at the Union. The procession snakes down Indiana to South Park ending with a pep rally, delayed 15 minutes to fit journalism conference activities. Chancellor Malott will speak at the journalism banquet as delegates register and attend sessions of journalism groups.
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Mount Oread
Union
Indiana Street
Sixth Street
Massachusetts Street
South Park
L. N. Flint
Department of Journalism
Deane W. Malott
Flint
Kansas Council of Teachers of Journalism
Henry J. Haskell
The
Kansas City Star
Tom Collins
Kansas City Journal
Doris Kent
Athenia
Neal M. Wherry
Liberty Memorial High School
Topeka High School
Haskell Stadium
Wildcats Drill for Marquette in Two-Hour Kansas City Practice
Thirty one Kansas State college football players rehearsed plays and defensive tactics to stop Marquette Friday night. The squad, led by Coaches Wes Fry and Stan ubameon, worked on aerials before traveling to Milwaukee for the game.
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Kansas City
Kansas State
Marquette
Rockhurst College
Wildcats
Wes Fry
Stan Ubameon
Milwauee
German girls aid war effort by gathering tea substitutes
Foreign Exchange Berlin reports that German teenage girls join the war effort by collecting herbs to make tea substitutes. Under expert supervision they pick birch, blackberry, strawberry and other leaves as real tea costs foreign exchange, urged to save Reich funds.
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Foreign Exchange
Berlin
Germany
Reich
Farm Relief Load Set to Rise Amid Dust Bowl Drouth
Washington reports farm relief requirements likely to surge in the Great Plains dust bowl due to severe late summer and fall drought. Wheat regions from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi Valley face standstill, with winter wheat sowing delayed and potential dust storms if rains do not come.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi Valley
Dakotas
Texas
Weather Bureau
Drouth
Douglas County Red Cross Roll Call committee plans discussed
The first meeting is set for tomorrow at 7 30 PM in John Stutz's office to organize the drive beginning November 11. Officers and captains will be named, lieutenants chosen, and readiness for district coordination across Lawrence and rural Douglas County outlined.
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Douglas County Red Cross
John Stutz
Stutz
Red Cross
Jayhawk
Topeka
Mildred Watson
Fred Isaacs
Mary, McCracken
C. B. Holmes
Ruth Haugsrud
George Docking
Arthur L. Kirchhoff
Roll Call Committee
Cantains
Lawrence
Charles Radcliffe
Charles Beeks
Baldwin
Harold Fisher
Douglas County
Eudora and
Lecompton
E. C. Buehler
University of Kansas
G. C. Gillum
Lawrence Public Schools
G. Warren Spaulding
Haskell Institute
Douglas County Sends Twelve to Emporia Teachers College
Twelve students from Douglas county join the largest enrollment in Em poria State Teachers college history as total college enrollment reaches 1830. Listed Douglas county students include Laurine Clark Clara Dailey Joe Giannangelo Ethelyn Hardman Burton W Harrison Evelyn Myers Charles Paratt Lawrence Nadine Harris Ruby Mae Neil Jean Williamson Eudora Geraldine Crawford Overbrook Dorothy Mae Nuffer Baldwin.
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Douglas County
Emporia State Teachers College
Laurine Clark
Clara Dailey
Joe Giannangelo
Ethelyn Hardman
Burton W Harrison
Evelyn Myers
Charles Paratt
Lawrence
Nadine Harris
Ruby
Mae Neil
Jean Williamson
Eudora
Geraldine Crawford
Overbrook
Dorothy Mae Nuffer
Baldwin
Final physicals begin for KU aviation trainees
Dr. Lyle Powell announced that 104 applications have been received for the civilian aviation training program at KU. Of these, 72 have passed the first physical tests and two coeds are among the applicants. Fifty students will be chosen in the second examination, after which instruction will start.
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K. U
Lyle S. Powell
Earl D. Hay
Brakeman Crushed by Freight Car in Lenexa
A Frisco railroad brakeman named Crabtree aged 24 was killed when he fell under the wheels of a freight car in Lenexa Kansas on October 5.
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Lenexa
Kan
Russell Crabtree
Frisco Railroad
French Strengthen Defenses as Communists Targeted at Home
Paris Oct 5 The French army reports stronger positions on the northwest front facing Germany after gains near Luxembourg reducing risk of a left flank thrust. Borg forest near the Moselle and Saar rivers is now in French control after a brief battle. Police move against dissolved Communist party members as deputies are stripped of immunity while Premier Daladier dissolves and reorganizes the party under a new name.
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Paris
Germany
Luxem
Bourg
Borg Forest
Moselle
Saar
Luxembourg
Communist Party
Florimond Bonte
Arthur Ramette
Daladier
Firemen Hear Talk by Werner at Banquet
A banquet for firemen opened with sirens near Wiedemann's grill as Chief Paul Ingels arrived from the Fire College to join over a hundred firefighters. Richard E. Verner of the Western Actuarial Bureau urged improved public relations and salesmanship to gain citizen support and better training to avoid blunders. The event featured remarks by Mayor Charles B. Russell and Fire College leaders, with plans for a theater visit and evening programs.
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Wiedemann
Paul Ingels
H ~R
Fire College
John Q
Richard E. Verner
Western Actuarial Bureau of
Chicago
Cemen
Verner
Kansas
Harold G. Ingham
Charles B. Russell
Kansas Methodists Merge Finances and Leadership in Salina
In Salina on October 5 the Northeast and Southwest Kansas Methodist Episcopal conferences near final merger to form the Central Kansas Conference. Retired Ministers associations named Dr. W. W. Burns of Wichita as first president. Southwest Conference focused on Southwestern College finances with a $50,000 anonymous gift tied to clearing $150,000 debt by 1942. Frank Moss reappointed Winfield College president.
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Salina
Kan
Northeast Kansas
Southwest Kansas
Methodist Episcopal Church
Central Kansas
The
Methodist Church
W. W. Burns
Wichita
Southwest Conference
Southwestern College
Winfield
Frank Moss
Winfield School
Burial of Bishop Schwertner in Wichita
The Rt Rev August J Schwertner bishop of the Wichita diocese for 18 years was buried today beside Bishop Hennessy after solemn rites attended by high church dignitaries and thousands of communicants.
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Schwertner
Wichita
August J. Schwertner
Catholic Church
Hennessy
Kansas Weather Forecast and Temperatures Report
Forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with cooler air in the southeast and extreme east tonight, slight warming Friday. Gas Office Record shows 7 p.m. yesterday and today’s 54 at 7 a.m. and noon today. Yesterday’s high 98 and other data suggest mild variations from year ago values.
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Kansas
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