City of Flint Seizure Highlights Neutrality Debate
The City of Flint, a 4,963 ton American freighter captured by the German cruiser Emden, sits in Murmansk harbor as Washington seeks its crew’s release. Officials say the voyage was legal under American law, while Germany’s right to seize contraband remains under scrutiny.
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Washington
Russia
City of Flint
Murmansk
Germany
White House
Flint
Stephen Early
State Department
Joseph Fainard
City of
Emden
New York
Glasgow
Liverpool
Moscow
Berlin
Congress
North Atlantic
Ribbentrop Says War Will Continue to Bitter Finish
Danzig, Oct. 24. Adolf Hitler’s foreign minister said Germany would wage war against Britain and its allies to secure the Reich for all time. He denied breaking treaties, asserted Britain forced the war, and cited a secret 1933 meeting with Daladier.
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Ribbentrop
Danzig
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Britain
Fuehrer
France
Poland
London
Reich
von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Daladier
Higgins Indicted In Kansas City Payroll Probe
Otto T. Higgins former Kansas City police director under the Pendergast machine was indicted by Jackson County grand jury on count of approving false city claims. The panel questioned five police employees about construction work at Higgins farms and homes while on the payroll. Capias warrants issued. indictments kept secret pending arrests as FBI probes his finances.
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Kansas City
Otto T. Higgins
Jackson County
Higgins
Lake Lotawana
Paul A. Buzard
Capias
Federal
Grand Jury
Pendergast
Tom Pendergast
Minnesota Man Killed In Fall At Baldwin
W. D. Williams, 69, of Alexandria Minnesota, a retired St. Paul businessman, was killed when he slipped on a Baldwin service station driveway while his car door jammed. He died instantly and was with his wife and Miss Mary Eaves. The party returned to Kansas City, and the body was sent to Alexandria for burial.
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W. D. Williams
Alexandria
Minn
St. Paul
Baldwin
Williams
Los Angeles
Calif
Mary Eaves
Kansas City
National Pharmacy Week Observed by Lawrence Druggists
Lawrence druggists and the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy celebrate the fifteenth National Pharmacy Week with window displays and talks. Walter Varnum spoke on The Pharmacist His Service and Ideals over KFRA this afternoon and will address students Thursday morning. Dean Havenhill Prof Boughton and senior class members plan to attend the Druggists Merchandising Clinic in Topeka Thursday.
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Topeka
City of Flint seized by German raider travels to Arctic port
Roosevelt says the government seeks details on the vessel and crew with no information yet on their whereabouts. Soviet Russia promises full information as soon as available from Murmansk where a German prize crew took the City of Flint. The 42 crewmen remained aboard as the ship disappeared near Murmansk after rescuing 38 survivors from the Stonegate. The City of Flint had earlier rescued 38 survivors from the Stonegate and 220 from the Athenia, which had been sunk by a German submarine.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Russia
Flint
Moscow
United States
Laurence A. Steinhardt
Vladimir Potempkin
Foreign Affairs
Murmansk
Tromso
Norway
Kola
Emden
City of Flint
Plan Aid for Drouth Stricken Farm Areas
Washington October 24 A drought and flood relief program was devised at a conference between President Roosevelt and a Senate and House delegation. Senator Bankhead said the plan will see to it that no farmers go hungry. Senator Capper and Representative Hope attended, Capper urging continued Congress action for further relief funds.
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Drouth
Roosevelt
Bankhead
D-Ala
Congressional Committee
Capper
Hope
Congress
Stock Market Index Rises to 53.5 on 60-Stock Average
The index for a group of 60 stocks stood at 53.5, up from yesterday's 53.4 as trading closed.
Fisher Appoints Red Cross Group Heads in Douglas County
Harold Fisher, Rural Douglas County captain, announces township lieutenants for Wakarusa, Wanwaka, Eudora, Clinton, Palmyra, Grant, Lecompton, Willow Springs, and Marion. Each lieutenant will name second lieutenants to ensure at least one Red Cross roll call worker in every school district. George Docking’s gifts committee works on results to follow.
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Harold Fisher
Roll Call
Douglas County
Eudora
Lecompton
Wakarusa
David McCreath
M. ©. Elliott
Ray Ogden
Clinton
A. F. Fishburn
Palmyra
Baldwin
A. E. Preston
Grant
Clarence Pine
Mary Cottrell
Willow Springs
Frank Gleason
Marion
W. H. Ulrich
Fisher
Red Cross
George Docking
Government May Place Lien on McElroy Estate
Kansas City October 24 The Star reports a Washington dispatch that the federal government will file a lien against the estate of the late Henry F McElroy former city manager. He allegedly failed to report about 260000 income from 1934 to 1938. The tax due could be about 50000. Federal agents were probing his finances at his death. For 13 years he led City Hall for the Pendergast machine.
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Kansas City
the Star
Washington Dispatch
Henry F. McElroy
The
Star
Treasury
McElroy
Pendergast
Wheeler urges tolerant stance over City of Flint detainment
Kansas City dispatch reports Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana urged Americans to adopt a tolerant attitude regarding the reported detention of the U S vessel City of Flint by German naval forces. He cautioned against overreacting to the incident recalling World War I shipping incidents.
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Kansas City
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
United States
City of Flint
Germany
Wheeler
Three British freighters sunk near Gibraltar
Three British freighters the Menin Ridge the Tanna and the Ledbury were sunk today near Gibraltar. Details of the sinking were not immediately available. In Topeka Kansas federal crop statistician H L Collins warned of a very small wheat crop for 1940 following a week of soil moisture surveys in western counties.
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Gibraltar
Menin Ridge
Tanna
Ledbury
Topeka
Kansas
H. L. Collins
Dies Committee Has Evidence to Bring Leaders Up for Trial
Chairman Dies declares the Dies committee possesses evidence to prosecute every leader of fascist and communist groups in the United States. He notes no leader has avoided violation of penal laws and says Attorney General Murphy will assign a special staff to pursue action against Communist party and German American Bund leaders for failure to register under the alien registration law.
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Washington
Dies
D-Tex
House
United States
Murphy
Communist Party
Bund
Second district PTA convention program announced
The Second District PTA convention opens Thursday morning at Memorial Union. Chancellor Deane W. Malott will speak. Kramer lists sessions, panels, and exhibits. Luncheon tickets available from local PTA presidents in Lawrence. hosts are the Lawrence city PTA council and Douglas County Council.
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Parent- Teachers Association
Memorial Union
Deane W. Malott
P.T.A
Lawrence
Harold Barr
Clifford Dean
Harold Fisher
E. A. Carlson
Nd Park
James H. Whipple
Topeka
Bert Nash
University Extension Library Service
Helen Wagstaff
Kansas
Traveling Libraries Commission
Henrietta Alexander
Maud Ellsworth
Cecilia Ensman
Fred Montgomery
Edwin FP. Price
Waldemar Gelich
Deane W. Malett
R. A. Schweg
Lawrence City
P.T. A. Council
J. J. Kistler
Douglas County
George Pickens
Mahlon Ball
Ed Arndt
Karl Klooz
C. W. Pollom
Homer Allison
Bowl of Rice Party Aids Destitute in China
Lawrence residents can support war torn China via the Bowl of Rice party to be held locally after the National Cornhusking contest. The event, part of nationwide relief efforts by the United Council for Civilian Relief in China, aims to provide food and medicine amid massacre and hospital shortages in China.
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United Council For Civilian Relief
China
Mexico Weighs Early Oil Expropriation Response
Authoritative sources report the European war has reduced Mexico's petroleum exports by 58 percent. The drop could push Mexico toward an early expropriation decision despite potential U S opposition.
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Mexico
Mexico City
United States
German Aviators Rescued at Korsoer From North Sea
Danish ship towed two German aviators found clinging to a plane in the North Sea. One aviator had machine gun bullet wounds in the legs, the other was unharmed. The plane was abandoned.
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Copenhagen
Korsoer
North Sea
Two More Days for Journal-World National Cornhusking Edition
Lawrence advance copies of the Journal-World National Cornhusking Edition offer mailings by Thursday evening with hundreds already ordered. Extra copies cost ten cents each and include wrapping and mailing charges. the committee aims to boost Lawrence and reach thousands of friends and relatives.
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Journal-World National Cornhusking
Lawrence
Emil W. Heck
Debaters to Present Kansas Missouri Personalities
Four University debaters deliver seven minute talks on Kansas and Missouri figures at a Kansas City Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting. E Buehler will accompany and judge selection will come from the audience. Speakers include William Allen White, Thomas Hart Benton, Lloyd C Stark, and Deane Malott.
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Kansas
Missouri
Kansas City
A Medal for His Bravery by a Five Year Old
A five year old boy, Robert Christenson of Waltham, will receive a medal of valor for crawling over thin ice on the Charles River near his home in January to rescue seven year old Richard Morrison. The Middlesex county American Legion group announced the 1939 medal of valor to the kindergarten pupil.
Senators Amend Neutrality Bill Lift drastic limits on shipments to belligerents
The Senate fast tracked changes to the neutrality bill under Vice President Garner to remove the 90 day credits clause and ease restrictions on American vessels sending supplies to belligerent ports worldwide. Senator Pittman led the move to drop the credits provision while Brown urged limited debate, setting 45 minutes per general discussion and 45 minutes per amendment.
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Senate
North Atlantic
Garner
Bermuda
South Atlantic
Bay of Fundy
Gulf of Maine
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Pacific
Indian
China
Tasman
Arabian Seas
Bay of Bengal
Brown
D-Mich
Canada
Mexico
Michigan
Barkley
Clark
D-Mo
E.S.T
Pittman
D-Nev
Crown City Rescues 36 Crew Members From Two British Freighters
The American Pioneer line steamship Crown City rescued 36 crew members from two British freighters in the North Atlantic. The rescued include 22 from Menin Ridge with five survivors aboard, and 31 from Ledbury comprising that ship's entire crew. Crown City, operated for the commission by Roosevelt Steamship Co., sailed from New York for India October 11. By noon yesterday it was about 2,957 miles east of New York.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
Crown City
American Pioneer Line
North Atlantic
R. R. Pendleton
Menin Ridge
Cornville Prepares for National Corn Husking Contest Exhibits
At Cornville the National Corn Husking contest grounds take shape as C G Bayles and crews erect exhibit booths in a 70 by 411 foot tent. Oliver farm equipment arrives while 40 food stands are planned and 30 groups were turned away for space. Electric pumps and power transformers are installed for water wells and testing proceeds.
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Kansas
Cornville
C. G. Bayles
University
Oliver
Robert Haggart
Mrs W A Jones Killed In Crash Near Eureka
Mrs W A Jones of Tonkawa Oklahoma, formerly Florence Hale of Lawrence, was killed in a Sunday afternoon automobile collision near Eureka. Her husband was severely injured and their 12 year old daughter Helen suffered shock and lacerations. Funeral services will be held in Tonkawa.
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W. A. Jones
Tonkawa
Okla
Florence Hale
Lawrence
Eureka
Jones
Helen
Ben
Rosemary Jones
University
C. F. Hale
Earl Dunakin
Lightning kills boy in Pleasanton Kansas
A bolt of lightning killed 10 year old Morris Klopfenstein and the horse he rode at his farm near Pleasanton on October 24. Morris sat astride the horse waiting for his father Ralph Klopfenstein to finish chores. A palmator was used in a vain attempt to revive him.
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Pleasanton
Kan
Morris Klopfenstein
Ralph Klopfenstein
Two German Raiders Operating Far Outside British Blockade
Oslo reports capture of the American steamer City of Flint and sinking of the British freighter Stonegate show two fast German warships roaming far beyond Britain's blockade. Survivors quoted the pocket battleship Deutschland as torpedoing Stonegate. The City of Flint, with a German prize crew, was taken to Kola while the Stonegate crew was landed in Tromso. Russian officials interned the German crew and the City of Flint. The reports mention other pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Graf Spee roaming the seas with 10,000 ton classes, 26 knots, six 11 inch guns and eight torpedo tubes.
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Oslo
Norway
Britain
Ficials
Flint
Admiral Scheer
South Atlantic
Clement
South America
Admiral Graf Spee
Lawrence to Police Cornhusking Event With 45 Officers
Lawrence plans a large policing operation for the National Cornhusking Contest on November 3. Officers from 15 cities including Kansas City Missouri Topeka and others will join 12 from Lawrence to form a 57 or more strong force. Mounted units from Kansas City Kansas and Topeka will patrol intersections and manage traffic and crowd control around the Kaw River bridge and stadium areas.
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Jude Anderson
Lawrence
Anderson
Kansas City
Topeka
Kan
Kansas Cities
Atchison
Tola
Chanute
Emporia
Manhattan
Leavenworth
Pittsburg
Parsons
Ft. Scott
Coffeyville
Salina
Independence
Kaw River
Aggie Band
Aggieville
Massachusetts Street
Seventh
Rain Promises, Cooler Front Moves Across Kansas
Rain returns to eastern Kansas with showers starting in Fort Scott and extending today. Temperatures peak in the 90s then fall. by Thursday a cool, near normal pattern returns with highs around 60 to 70 in the west to the east. New Unaware Evening classes begin at 7:30 p.m. including home decoration, dictation, and shorthand. about 75 enrolled to date.
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Topeka
Kansas
Fort Scott
A. D. Robb
Robb
Ralph Graber
Weather Forecast for Kansas Sees Cooler, Clouds
Generally fair conditions with a cooler turn tonight. Wednesday turns mostly cloudy with local showers in the southeast and far east and a much cooler day ahead. Temperature records show yesterday’s high near 71 and a low around 31.
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Kansas
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