Canton Battles Rage As Fire Devastates The City
Oct 24 Canton faces a massive blaze with fires reaching residential areas after burning business districts. Explosions at Wongsha station damaged munitions left by Chinese, with losses estimated around 10 million dollars. Japanese forces press the Canton river assault as looting spreads and residents flee by river links.
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Canton
South China
Shateen Island
Wongsha
Associated Press
Saichuen
Honan
Ministry of Finance
Roosevelt Lecture Admissions Reach Nineteen Hundred
Paid admissions to the Roosevelt Lecture totaled 1 795 with net receipts of 1 444 25. Charles McCreight of the KU business office provided the figures. Additional donations will benefit the student loan fund enabling Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to attend. Expenses are estimated at about 1 200. Funds to the loan program will be reported in a day or so.
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Ranklin D. Roosevelt
Charles McCreight
K. U. Business Office
Americans Reported Safe in Canton After Evacuation
Secretary Hull announced that all Americans in Canton were reported safe. State department records show 156 Americans remained, including 80 with Chinese extraction, as repair work continued on a washer at Green Bros. Adv.
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Washington
Hull
Canton
State Department
Hungary Demands Czechoslovak Territory and Plebiscite
Budapest reports a new note to Premier Jan Syrovy demanding areas in Czechoslovakia with Hungarian majorities be opened to occupation. It seeks arbitration by German and Italian jurists if Prague rejects, and calls for a plebiscite by November 30.
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Syrovy
Budapest
Jan Syrovy
Czechoslovakia
Salumangarys
Prague
Hungary
Ruthenia
Slovakia
Warsaw
Poland
Campaign Drive Sees Woodring Lead Democratic Push in Kansas
In Topeka the Democratic campaign unfolds with Secretary of War Woodring leading a broad speaker slate. Governor Huxman resumes re election efforts while Republican leaders schedule more than 50 appearances across Kansas as the campaign heads into the final two weeks.
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Topeka
Harry H. Woodring
Woodring
Kansas
Executive Mansion
Lynn R. Brodrick
C. M. Fitzwilliam
Harold H. Goodwin
State Central Committee
Harry Washington
Kansas Jackson Club
Carl V. Rice
State Committee
Howard Payne
Leslie Wallace
Walter A. Huxman
Huxman
Coffeyville
Leavenworth
Frank McFarland
Haxman
Payne H. Ratner
Jonathan M. Davis
George McGill
Clyde M. Reed
Japan plans to hold China under occupation after war ends
Tokyo says China must accept industrial reciprocity, join the anti comintern pact, and abandon anti Japanese education. Separately at Turck Kansas a Hercules Powder plant was destroyed by a prairie fire and explosions injuring no one, with 40,000 25 pound kegs of black powder at risk.
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Tokyo
Japan
China
Domei
Tepe
Hankow
Germany
Italy
Columbus
Kan
Hercules Powder Company
Turck
Here
J. M. Morris
Altho
A. N. Starbuck
Ken Roberts
Hercules
Fatal Rollover Kills Man East of Chetopa
Parsons Kansas October 24 R Cox 63 Clyde Kansas died of injuries from an automobile crash east of Chetopa. His son George Cox Clifton and both wives were slightly injured when their car went over an embankment and overturned. Ford Service Hamilton 15 W 9th Drive the 39 Chevrolet.
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Parsons
Kan
R. Cox
Clyde
Chetopa
George Cox
Clifton
Three Alarms Answered by the Fire Department
The fire department answered three alarms over the weekend. At 7:18 p.m. a car fire at 818 Louisiana street belonging to Mayme Jackson caused considerable damage. At 8:57 p.m. firefighters responded to 713 West Sixth street where Chief Paul Ingels said children playing with matches started a blaze at the Snell family home. At 9:00 a.m. yesterday a fire at 1409 New Jersey street caused a small amount of damage due to a defective chimney cleanout door igniting a wooden partition.
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Ninth
Louisiana Street
Mayme Jackson
West Sixth Street
Paul Ingels
Snell
Bernard Schaaf
New Jersey Street
Delano Takes New Office as Comptroller of the Currency
Washington reports President Delano assumed the role of comptroller of the currency today, receiving the commission from Secretary Morgenthau to oversee all national banks. He succeeds J F T O Connor, who resigned to pursue the California governorship nomination. Delano, a Californian and distant cousin of the President, had led the federal home loan bank system since 1935.
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Washington
Upi
Preston Delano
Morgenthau
J. F. T. O'Connor
California
Delano
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Wage Hour Act News: Plant Shutdowns Reported Across Regions
Washington reports show scattered plant shutdowns tied to the fair labor standards act as of midnight. Elmer F Andrews says many firms comply and most disruptions may be temporary, with 50 000 pecan shellers cited as affected in the south and Chicago area.
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Washington
Elmer Fr. Andrews
J. Seligman
San Antonio
Tex
National
Pecan Shellers of America
South
Seligman
Chicago
Andrews
Seligmann
Sesenal
Man jailed by NRA vows to fight wage law defiance
Fred C. Perkins, York battery firm owner jailed in 1933 for NRA violations, defies the new federal wage-hour act on its first day. He told the Gazette and Daily he cannot afford to obey and will test enforcement through public opinion in every hamlet. Perkins was jailed briefly during the NRA crackdown, later found guilty by a federal jury in Harrisburg, and appealed before the Supreme Court ruled NRA unconstitutional.
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York
Fred C. Perkins
Gazette and Daily
America
Perkins
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Harrisburg
U. S. Supreme Court
Tri State C P A Convention Parade Preview
Delegates from Kansas Nebraska and Missouri gather for the Tri State C P A convention at Odd Fellows hall tonight with an 8 o clock get together. The main convention opens tomorrow at 9 with Tri State president C A Richards presiding. A noon dinner at 1 0 C F hall precedes a downtown parade starting at Sixth and Massachusetts at 3 featuring horses mall teams limeback riders and entries from Grant Barker Belvoir Excelsior Lone Star and Pleasant Grove lodges.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Odd Fellows Hall
I. O. O. F. Hall
Ray Wright
Jayhawk
Robert Ramsey
C. J. Perkins
C. A. Peterson
Douglas County C. P. A
C. A. Richards
Tri-State
C.F. Hall
Massachusetts
Court House
C.P.A. Lodges
Grant
Barker
Belvoir
Excelsior
Lone Star
Pleasant Grove
Sunny stretch after killing frosts ends in Kansas
Topeka reports sub freezing temperatures across much of Kansas after a cold weekend. Meteorologist A D Robb notes dry air reduced frost impact. Overnight lows reached 20 at Eldorado and 26 at Coffeyville Phillipsburg and Ellis. Temperatures to rise toward 70s and 75s with no rain expected.
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Topeka
Kansas
A. D.robb
Robb
Eldorado
Coffeyville
Phillipsburg
Ellis
Goodland
Special French Police Assigned to Lindberghs
Lannion France October 24 A PA special police inspector was given a permanent assignment to watch over Col Charles A Lindbergh and his family The Lindberghs moved from Kent England last June and now reside on Ile Iliec near Saint Gildas and Port Blanc where Dr Alexis Carrel conducts experiments with the artificial heart
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Lannion
France
Charles A. Lindbergh
Port Blanc
Illiec Island
Lindbergh
Kent
England
United States
Mme
Adelina Patti
Saint Gildas Island
Alexis Carrel
Colonel Lindbergh
Berlin
Tobacco quota to be apportioned by AAA for 1938
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration prepared to apportion a 350 million pound barley tobacco marketing quota for 1938 among about 250,000 growers in Washington on October 24.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Stock Index Averages Shrug Off Week On 60-Stock Measure
The market shows an average of 60 stocks at 53.3 with tentative moves around 53.1. An antique 1939 Chevrolet on display attracts interest at the event sponsored by Adv. and related exhibitors.
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Urday
Christian Faith Makes God Clear At KU Convocation
University of Kansas students heard Dr. T. Z. Koo, secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, discuss Christian Faith in Personal Living during an all University convocation. He contrasted Confucianism Taoism and Buddhism with Christianity and urged love and justice as core Christian duties.
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University of Kansas
Hoch
T. Z. Koo
Student Christian Federation
Sh “Ai
University Christian Mission
Koo
Hoch Auditorium
Keo
Christ
Jesus
God
Shanghai China
Labor groups to aid enforcement of wage hour law
American Federation of Labor officials said affiliated groups in more than 500 cities will help enforce the new wage hour act. Committees will provide information on law operations and aid workers in gathering evidence of violations, similar to a prior housing authority effort.
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Andrews
Alabama
Iowa
Mississippi
Texas
Louisiana
Utah
Nevada
American Federation of Labor
Washington
UPI
United States Housing Authority
Evolution and faith collide at Kansas lecture
The Rev E Stanley Jones missionary to India told a University of Kansas audience that science and religion can complement each other. He argued belief in God requires less faith than belief in constant change and urged an open eyed, explorative faith rather than credulity. He spoke on In An Age of Science Can We Believe.
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E. Stanley Jones
Methodist Episcopal
India
University Christian Mission
University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Movement of government corn from defaulted 1937 loans
Chicago reports large scale movement of corn acquired by the government due to farmer loan defaults. About 1 157 cars arrived in a single day with roughly 75 percent government grain sent to elevators. Loans on 48 000 000 bushels of old corn are due November 1 and farmers may renew at 57 cents or surrender grain to write off the debt.
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Chicago
Commodity Credit Corporation
Federal Surplus Commodity Corporation
Democrats Rally in Jefferson County at Valley Grove Schoolhouse
The Democratic committee of Jefferson County sponsors a public rally at Valley Grove schoolhouse on Tuesday October 25 at 8 p m. Citizens are invited to attend and hear local party leaders.
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Jefferson County
Valley Grove
Chaos In West Coast Maritime Industry Linked to Bridges
Harper Knowles of the California American Legion testified before house investigators that a group led by Harry Bridges and called the Equality Hall Group started agitation that led to the San Francisco general strike and maritime chaos. He labeled Bridges a communist and cited deportation actions pending against Bridges.
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Harry Bridges
Washington
Harper Knowles
California Legionnaire
House
CSO
San Francisco
Knowles
Radical
California–American Legion
Bridges
Equality Hall Group
Dies
D-Tex
Riggers and Stevedores Union
Legion
Radical Research Committee
Equality Hall
Kansas Potato Show Set for November In Topeka
The sixteenth annual Kansas Potato Show will be held November 8 and 9 at the Armory in Topeka. Exhibits from Irish and sweet potatoes, plus a potato foods contest, highlight the event organized by Kaw Valley growers with state and local agricultural groups.
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Armory
Eighth
New Hampshire Streets
Kaw Valley
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
County Farm Bureaus
Chambers’ of Commer Commercial
Ald
Kansas State Colege
Kansas
Arkansas Valley
J. O. Miller
Kansas Extension Service
Manhattan
Deal
Farm Bureau
Johnson, Shawnee
Douglas
Leavenworth
Wyandotte
Arthur Heck
Scott L. Kelsey
Garrett Trent
Paul Mellett
Ralph Travis
O. O. Browning
A. L. McGenee
J.C. Mohler
Thompson Suffers Foot Fracture After Car Incident
Topeka businessman and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles W. Thompson is confined for several weeks with a foot fracture after being struck by an automobile. His physician said he canceled speaking engagements in Kansas City and Wichita.
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Topeka
Charles W. Thompson
Thompson
Kansas City
Wichita
Weather Preview for Kansas Tonight and Tuesday
Weather outlook for Kansas shows warmer Tuesday after a mild tonight with generally clear skies. Temperatures range from the mid 30s to near 50 with a high of 74 recorded a year ago and a low of 29.
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Kansas
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