Kansas Special Session opens as Landon urges relief and reform
Topeka October 30 AP Kansas legislature convened in a special session called by Gov Alf M Landon to enact emergency relief banking recovery and liquor laws Frank J Ryan secretary of state read the proclamation and three new House members were sworn in Speaker Vernon and Lt Gov Thompson presided The governor urged bonds for relief strengthen relief laws fund budgeting and emergency measures including a 3 2 beer proposal and child labor amendment while lawmakers introduced numerous bills including two 3 2 beer bills with licensing and inspection schemes
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Topeka
Kansas
Alf
Landon
Frank J. Ryan
House of Representatives
Vernon
Legislative Council
John Blood
Sedgwick
State Board of Health
State General Fund
Board of Health
Kaneas Weather Forecast Bright and Mild Through Tuesday
Readable forecast notes fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with continued mild temperatures. Morning reports mention clear skies and steady readings, while Douglas County shows mostly good conditions. Temperatures fluctuate between yesterday and today with no sharp changes expected.
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Kaneas
Giese
Fascists Hold Mass Wedding Ceremony in Rome
In Rome on October 30, seven hundred young couples and 1,800 from central provinces were married in a mass fascist rite, aiming to boost fascist meditation. Couples attended private parish ceremonies at St. Mary of the, then a blessing by the archbishop of Palica. Aseile Starace presented 500 lire as a gift from Il Duce, later stored by many mothers‑in‑law in a bank. The event ended with a buffet breakfast.
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Rome
St. Mary of the Is
Palica
Aseile Starace
Finney bond scandal case widens with new count
In Emporia Kansas on October 30 AP reports Ronald Finney central figure in a million dollar Kansas bond scandal is cited as the source of new testimony in the embezzlement trial of his father Warren W Finney. Prosecution details show a $10 000 cash withdrawal and a memo claiming $20 000 in bonds were left to cover it at Fidelity Bank. Needles the former assistant cashier testified the memo was rewritten and redated ahead of a bank examiner visit. The state says the bonds were not deposited to cover the Fidelity bank obligations, while the defense argues the bonds were secured for Lyon county deposits. The court sustained objections to presenting the bond account to the jury.
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Emporia
Kan
Ronald Finney
Kansas
Warren W. Finney
Finney
Fidelity State and Savings Bank
National Bank of Topeka
Robert Needles
Needles
Toneka
Finneys Bank
Fidelity Bank
Topeka
Lyon County
Topeka Man Fatally Injured in Unusual Accident
S E Friday of Topeka a state highway department employee died after being thrown from a rumble seat when a Chevrolet coupe was struck from behind on a highway near Lawrence. Friday was rushed to Memorial hospital with scalp wounds a fractured arm and crushed chest and died Sunday morning at 7 15 o clock. A R Read Route 1 and his wife were in the other car and were westbound when the collision occurred inviting no action yet.
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Wizard
S. E
State Highway Department
Memorial Hospital
R.W. Frank
Rence
Topeka
Assia Rence
Ase
Willard
Memorial
Hospital i
A. R. Read
Route 1
de West
Ac- Bss
Lawrence Ay
Hitler predicted to fail say J F Brown at Unitarian Forum
J F Brown of the university sociology department told the Unitarian Forum yesterday that Hitler is set to end in failure speaking on Germany and Russia in a morning address. He noted upcoming Sunday discussions by Prof Seba Eldridge on social isolation sequences.
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Hitler
J. F. Brown
Germany
Kussina
Wits
Unitarian Chi
Seba Eldridge
Universit
Henry ‘Werner
at_K
Lawrence hosts Kansas teachers convention on Friday
The seventieth annual Kansas State Teachers Association meeting convenes Friday and Saturday at the University of Kansas. VP C E Birch presides at both general sessions with a two day program including department and round table meetings. The theme is The Need of a Larger, Professional Spirit Among Teachers in a Time of Peril.
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Lawrence
Kansas State Teachers Association
University of Kansas
C. E. Birch
Lawrence Public Schools
Birch
K. U
Board of Education
A. B. Ewing
Lawrence ‘Board of Education
K U.union
Colonial Tea Room
Gamma
Pi Lambda ‘Theta
Union
Charges city fraud in Kansas City investigation
Robert Mason special assistant attorney general said Kansas City Kansas has suffered frauds totaling between 25 000 and 20 000 over several years during hearings with Mayor Don C McCombs and City Attorney Alton H Skinner. Mason spent weeks examining witnesses and records and urged a full probe of city and Wyandotte county transactions.
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Kansas City
Kan
Robert Mason
Magon
Don C. McCombs
Alton H. Skinner
Wyandotte
Mason
Thirty killed in riots as clashes rock Palestine
Sunday clashes between police and demonstrators left Arabs dead and wounded amid a general strike in Haifa and Nablus. The report notes at least two Muslims killed and over 200 wounded in the disturbances. Stock index averaged 90 stocks at 718.
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Haifa
Nablus
Ae Sane
Mos
Mrs Lease Dead at 83 a Kansas Populist and educator
Mary Elizabeth Lease, 83, famed Kansas Populist agitator who urged farmers to raise less corn and more hell, died Sunday at her Callicoon New York home. A lawyer and lecturer, she later taught in New York public schools and wrote for the World. Funeral services are planned in Brooklyn.
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New York
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Kansas
Callicoon
N. Y
Lease
Times Department
New York Public
Ben Lease
Enes Winthrop Sargent
Grace Moray Lease
Brooklyn
John J. Ingalls
State Board of Charities
United States
Levnel
State Supreme Court
Lensen
Bank Robbery at Galena Strikes Local Bank
In Galena Kansas three masked men robbed the Galena National Bank at about 1:80 this afternoon, taking an undetermined amount of money from counters and fleeing south out of town with hostages including bank employees Moorman and Arthur. An elderly woman customer was in the bank. robbers did not break into the vault and released Moorman within city limits before heading south with their loot. A posse pursued them closely as authorities followed their trail out of town.
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Galena. Kan
Galena National Bank
Moeter
Arthur
E ci Sal
Moorman
Omics
New York Campaign In Final Week For Mayoral Race
In New York City the mayoral campaign enters its final week with Fiorello LaGuardia leading Joseph McKee amid anti Tammany tensions. Fusion candidate LaGuardia faces lingering results from tape blunders and an NRA symbols controversy as Seabury seeks to salvage supporting sentiment.
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New York
New York City
Voriinal Daeie
Fiorello MiaGuardia
Recovery Party
Joseph McKee
LaGuardia
Samuel Seabury
Fusion
Hugh S&s. Tohneon
NRA
Thirteen Annual Kansas Potato Show Opens Thursday
The thirteenth annual Kansas potato show will run Thursday and Friday at the National Guard Armory with reces sion meetings and prize entries. A banquet Thursday at Eldridge hotel features Dr F D Farrell on New Deal implications. Judges award prizes to men and women, with 4 H judging, Irish cobbler and Ohio varieties, plus new 100 pound sack class and potato food show. Douglas county Farm Bureau women present The Economic Value of Potatoes in Kansas exhibit.
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Kansas
National Guard
Eighth
New Hampshire
Eldridge Hotel
F. D. Farrell
Kansas State College
W. 8
Essick
Lawrence
Georgiana Smurthwaite
Manhattan
Roscoe Pirie
E. Hi. Leker
A. Terrell
Lb Melchers
Amy Kelley
W. R. Essick
Ohio
Douglas County
Farm Bureau
George Dunkley
Police urge vigilance to curb Halloween pranks
Chief W J Cummings urges residents to bring porch furniture and plants indoors and lock garages tonight. He warns that anyone soaping windows or cars will be taken to police court. Call police if gangs appear. extra officers will patrol tonight.
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W. J. Cummings
Cummings
Regents Appoint Rarick Acting President at Fort Hays
At a Kansas Board of Regents meeting Saturday morning, E Rarick was appointed acting president of Fort Hays State College, to succeed W A Lewis who had served in that role during his illness. Regents also endorsed a measure to empower use of commencement funds to support student loan funds.
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Kansas Board of Regents
E. Rarick
Fort Hays
W. A. Lewis
Rarick
Lewis
Nebraska Game Tickets Arrive for Husker clash
The University of Kansas athletic office holds 500 reserved tickets for the Nebraska game in Lincoln on November 11. An additional 600 tickets are expected to arrive and a further block may be requested. Tickets are priced at $2 plus 20 cents federal tax.
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University of Kansas Athletic Office
Nebraska
Lincoln
Arrives in Paris Amid Reporting Turmoil
In Paris on October 30, Maxim Litvinov arrives as comrade and diplomat amid mixed signals and unclear route talk. The brief dispatch notes his presence and the ongoing press coverage surrounding his mission in the capital.
Court hearing on streetcar resurfacing under way
Lane Kern seeks to restrain resurfacing of streetcar tracks and broad resurfacing of adjoining streets. Judge Hugh Means presides, with a decision due Tuesday morning. Attorneys Ed Riling Baldwin Mitchell and Raymond Rice present as arguments focus on publication, petitions, and cash basis law implications.
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Lane Kern
Hugh Means
District Court
Means
Kern
Ed Riling
Baldwin Mitchell
Defut
Raymond Rice
Power ‘Company
S ‘Riling
City Commission
Power -Company
Mitchell
Atta’ i
Ing
Ithe
Riling
A. E. Woestemeyer
M. N. Penny
Woestemeyer
Boon
Contracteen Thomas
Power Com Company
Hale
Ine
Penn
Kansas City Taxi Driver Dies After Train Collision
Clarence Taylor Jr., a taxi driver from Kansas City, was killed when his car was struck by a Santa Fe motor train at East Lawrence Thirteenth Street Crossing shortly before 10 AM Sunday. Taylor, who lived in the 1200 block of Pearce Street, was not transporting passengers at the time and was familiar with Lawrence as he prepared for United Cab Company operations. Funeral services are set for 3:30 PM tomorrow at his aunt’s home in Kansas City.
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Clarence ‘Talor, Jr
France Bank Crisis Stirs March 90 Crisis Notes
An imperfect OCR fragment references Premier Tardieu Liberté and monetary tensions, noting a banks threat and resistance to money manipulations across the sea. It mentions a last May claim and a push toward gold as a response. The text is garbled but points to a French finance crisis.
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Oitenaive
Tardieu
Nayer
Liberte
Re Aupions
Rena Bank of
Life of Dean Brandt Praised by KU Chancellor
Chancellor E H Lindley lauded Dean J G Brandt of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who died Saturday night. The tribute emphasizes Brandt as a scholar with a passion for excellence and a humanistic approach to education, guiding thousands of students and shaping the college’s mission to connect liberal study with professional training.
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E.H. Lindley
University of Kansas
J. G. Brandt
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Belt Memorial Hospital
Jean
Greece
Rome
Byrd
Brandt
Erwin
Actane Hite
Fa Ar
Thoronesa
Dam opposition grows over Kansas river project
An AP report from Topeka describes opposition leaders and river project critics who warn the proposed $65 dam near Topeka would flood 106000 acres of Barton lands and lift tax costs while removing a historic tract. Delegates say state politicians and Rep Car, Sen cll, and Rep OR would back the project. Local notice urges voters to turn old furniture into cash.”
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Rome
Kansas ‘Congressionion
Topeka
Pear
Opeka
Mic
Mast River
Kawa
Car
D-Kan
Kansas
Eh Barton
C ‘Arpenie
St. Marrs
Dean Brandt of Kansas dies at 52
Dean Joseph Granger Brandt, longtime head of the liberal arts college at the University of Kansas, died unexpectedly at Bell Memorial Hospital in Kansas City. He was 52, born December 16, 1880 in Allen Grove Wisconsin. Funeral services will be held at Plymouth Congregational Church with Rev Joseph King officiating, followed by cremation in Kansas City. He is survived by his wife Frances Irving Brandt and four children, and a brother R A Granger of Darien Wisconsin. He served the University of Wisconsin and Kansas, guiding broad electives and student counseling during his tenure as dean.
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Joseph Granger Brandy
College of Liberal ‘Arts ‘and Sciences
University. of
Kan
Bell Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
Dean Brandt
Frances Irving ‘Brandt
Arie
Miriam
Frances
R. A. Granger
Darien
Wisc
Lawrence
Plymouth
Joseph King
Allen Grove
Wis
Wisconsin
Lawrence College
Appleton
Manitowoc
As University of Wisconsin
Frances Peseta Irving
Kupleton
Carnegie
Faeces
Brandt
University of Wisconsin
Eaves
University of Kansas
Ermanen
Kansas Players present night show after dean’s death
Tonight at Fraser theater the Kansas Players stage a performance in memory of Dean J. Those with tonight reservations may swap to Wednesday matinee at 4 PM or exchange tickets for seats on Tuesday Wednesday Thursday or Friday nights. Traffic arrangements will be assisted.
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Dean J
Rose
Kansas Players
Fraser Theater
Traffic Officers Assist In Kansas State Game Crowd Control
A number of traffic officers from other towns aided local police at the Kansas Kansas State football game Saturday afternoon. Chief W. J. Cummings reported. A group of 22 state highway patrolmen led by Bob Rutherford, former Douglas County sheriff, worked on highways into Lawrence. Eight officers from To-
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W. J. Cummings
Bob Rutherford
Douglas County
Lawrence
Japanese War Minister Seeks Far East Peace Parley
Japanese War Minister Sadao Araki, visiting western Japan for army maneuvers, was quoted by newspapers as advocating a peace conference in the Far East. The remark was reported amid mixed reactions and ongoing regional tensions.
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Far East
Tokyo
Sadao Araki
Japan
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