Rebels Reject Armistice in Spanish Civil War
Spanish rebels reportedly rejected a 15 day armistice proposal amid the civil conflict. They preferred to press for complete control, with Madrid believed to be awaiting a favorable response. A San Sebastian truce emerged unofficially as rebel forces pressed toward Madrid and government defenses held.
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Associated Press
Pamplona
Madrid
San Sebastian
Burgos
United States
Kane
Italy
Pius
London
Great Britain
Portugal
Toledo
Alcazar
Jose Mascarron
Emilio Mola
May Delay Shipments of Gold to Ft Knox Vault
Washington reports that the Treasury plans to move hundreds of gold bars to the Fort Knox vault in Kentucky, but construction delays and bad weather may push deliveries into early June 1937. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint, cited weather and incompleted construction as factors delaying the project.
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Ft. Knox
Fashington
CPI
Treasury
Fort Knox
Kentucky
Nellie Tayloe Ross
Mint
Three-Year-Old Found After Three-Day Woodland Ordeal
In Washburn Wisconsin a three year old boy Harold King was discovered in a swamp three miles from his grandparents home after wandering three days in dense woods. He wore only a diaper and suffered exposure with potential pneumonia. He was taken to a hospital where doctors reported slight delirium.
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Washburn
Wis
Harold King
Alex King
Mondax
Drouth and Hopper Pest Fail to Cut Down Farm Population
Washington report shows repeated droughts dust storms and grasshopper plagues did not reduce farm numbers in the ten plains states since World War I. Dr Conrad Taeuber says the plains farm population stayed almost stationary with one fifth of U S farm people living there in 1935. Despite a population rise 1910 to 1935 it was under the growth of births, and many settlers moved out while outsiders moved in as cheap plains land drew the unemployed.
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Washington
Sept
Great Plains States
Conrad Taeuber
Plains States
Taeuber
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Ten States
Leisure time institute at KU draws county leaders
Supervisors and workers from five counties attend the University of Kansas session on leisure time education linked to an adult education conference. Led by M. F. Hyde and Edgar P. Schmidt, about 45 participants from Douglas, Franklin, Shawnee, Jackson, and Johnson counties explored program planning, leadership, and community organization.
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University of Kansas
K. U
M. F. Hyde
Edgar P. Schmidt
Douglas
Franklin
Shawnee
Jackson
Johnson
Edgar Schmidt
Joseph P. McGinley
Jessie Rae Taylor
Topeka
Dean R. A. Schwegler
K. U. School of Education
Mary Hull
Maud Ellsworth
Lawrence Public
Pewee Tournament Plans At Kiwanis Meeting
Kiwanis club outlined a two Douglas county Pewee Baseball Tournament for boys under 12 at Wiedemann's. Tentative date September 19 features teams from Lawrence Baldwin Eudora Lecompton. D F Smith, lake custodian, spoke on law infractions and enforcement at the Tonganoxie state lake with thousands visiting from 32 states and 64 Kansas counties.
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Douglas County
Smith
States
Kansas
Fish and Game
Landon to Cover All New England
Gov. Alf M. Landon’s revised eastbound campaign schedule lists 14 talks in Indiana and New England with added stop in Sterling Junction Mass. He set Portland talk for 9 p.m. EDT and will swing through Chicago and Gary Valparaiso Plymouth Fort Wayne before New England stops in Stamford Bridgeport New Haven New London Worcester Lowell Lawrence Dover Kennebunk then Springfield Pittsfield Utica Syracuse Rochester and Buffalo on the return before Midwest efforts in Des Moines Minneapolis and Milwaukee.
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Topeka
Kan
CRI
Alf M. Landon
Maine
Indiana
New England
Portland
Sterling Junction
Mass
Chicago
London
George P. Harding
Kansas
Gary
Valparaiso
Plymouth
Ft. Wayne
Manhattan Junction
N. J
Stamford
Bridgeport
New Haven
New London
Connecticut
Worcester
Lowell
Lawrence
Massachusetts
Dover
N. H
Kennebunk
Landon
Springfield
Pittsfield
New York
Illinois
Utica
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Mercury Soars Above 100 Degrees in Kansas Towns
Towns including Wellington Chanute Winfield report temperatures reaching 103 to 107 degrees. Records mark 59 to 65 days this summer with readings of 100 or higher as heat persists across the region.
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Wellington
Kan
Chanute
Winfield
Mercury
Baseball Scores and Deaths From Kansas City
Historic baseball results from the American and National Leagues include wins for Philadelphia St. Louis New York and Chicago with rising playoff tension as St Louis closes in on the Giants. Also note the death of Wes E. Woodford Sr a Kansas City live stock man formerly of Council Grove at 64.
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Philadelphia
St. Louis
Archer
Gumpert
Hayes
Jakuc
I Vanatta
Liebhardt
Kimberlin
Hemsley
Washington
Detroit
Newsom
Hogan
Bridges
Hayworth
New York
Cleveland
Benen
Dickey Aller
George Toston
Chicago
Cincinnati
Giants
Ival Goodman
Ernie Lombardi
Derringer
Lombardi
Gabler
Coffman
Maaneuse
Kiesien
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston Bees
Wally Berger
Boston
Haines
Heusser
J. Dean Johnson
Ogrodowski
Ryba
Chaplin
Lopez
Stanley Hack
Bill Lee
Cubs
Buck Walters
Philies
Dolph Camilli
Phils
Les Andartnett
Walters
Grace
Pittsburgh
Spade battalions parade for Hitler in Nurnberg
About 43000 Nazi spade battalions pledged loyalty to Adolf Hitler as the party convention in Nurnberg heard his anti Bolshevik crusade. Goebbels intensified the fight against bolshevism and Jewry. Soviet press ridiculed the Nazi claims while warning Moscow watches the events.
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Nurnberg
Germany
Nazi Germany
Tabor Corps
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Moscow
Berlin
Europe
Pravda
Kansas funds aid youth employment program
Topeka and Washington announce NAY’s annual aid allotments. Kansas receives 773,158 for this school year with high schools at 315,000 and colleges and graduates 456,138. High school students will average six dollars monthly, college fifteen, with prior year totals showing 7,231 high school and 2,794 college students aided.
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Topeka
Anne Laughlin
National Youth Administration
Kansas
College Peace
Colorado
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Drive on stray dogs as city acts on rabies risk
Dog owners with city licenses urged to keep pets confined while police capture stray animals. Chief Jude Anderson said the move follows a rabid dog bite incident in the Cordscy school district, raising fears of unvaccinated dogs contracting rabies and spreading it to others.
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Jude Anderson
Cord-scy
Elk Player Injury Spoils Softball Final
Clement Evans of the Elks Senior softball team at 640 Indiana street sustained a partially dislocated collar bone after tripping while running to first base in the final inning of a Southwark game. He was in pain last night, had an X ray this morning to assess the damage, but the injury is not considered serious. Evans works at the Standard Life Association offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement Evans
Indiana Street
Elks
Southwark
Evans
Standard Life Association
Estimate of Corn Crop Is Increased Slightly Over August 1 Forecast
Washington reports September 1 crop estimates with corn at 1,448,295,000 bushels, up from 1,439,135,000 a month earlier but down from two months prior. All wheat production 630,241,000 bushels. State readings show Iowa and Missouri leading in state crops with varying per acre yields and totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Fair Opens Friday At Mount Hope For County 4-H Show
The sixth annual 28 County Vocational Agriculture fair begins at 1 pm at Mount Hope nursery buildings. Judging of livestock by Merton Otto and foods and clothing by Miss Iva Holladay starts tomorrow, with a program of entertainment led by Chester Spray and Warren Decker urging attendance. Expected exhibits include at least 15 beef calves plus dairy cattle hogs sheep and poultry. Parade of livestock exhibitions and various musical and reading acts fill the evening program.
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Mount Hope
Merton Otto
Leavenworth
Iva Holladay
Leavenworth County
Chester Spray
Warren Decker
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Lawrence
W. R. Essick
Liberty Memorial High School
Bref
Merton Otla
Jim Wiggins
Dr. Gy
Hagenbuch
Cultar
Bewarl Hird
I. M
Pantambine
Uelleview
Tiana
Iota Johnsen
Nearing
Lie Springs Chi
Iva Lou McCal
Hielon
Beth Migsby
Ohare
Margaret Whitman
Harmonics
Stelmar Slinkard
Marie Cottrell
Vauline Brumann
Marvin Wrightsmitn
Soviet Maneuver Amazes Foreign Observers Today
Soviet Russia's army landed 1,200 troops and a regimental band by parachute from warplanes during war games near Minsk. The drop, with machine guns and field pieces, established Gemy airfield as a base deep inside "hostile" territory amid amazed foreign observers.
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Minsk
Russia
Te “Gemy
Sister of KU chancellor dies in Colorado
Miss Mary Lindley sister of Dr E H Lindley chancellor of the University of Kansas died yesterday in Glen Haven Colorado while vacationing in Colorado. The chancellor was en route from Minnesota to Wichita Falls Texas for the funeral and burial on Saturday. Miss Lindley taught in Wichita public schools and was vacationing in Colorado.
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Mary Lindley
E. H. Lindley
University of Kansas
Glen Haven
Colo
Minnesota
Lawrence
Wichita Falls
Tex
Lindley
Wichita Public
Colorado
U.S. Warship Oklahoma Races to Scene
A U.S. Navy warship Oklahoma rushed to assist a United States merchant ship reportedly fired upon by a Spanish government submarine off Gibraltar. The rescue action was reported by CP-Antex dispatch from Gibraltar.
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London
Exchange Telegraph
Gibraltar
United States
Oklahoma
KU Enrollments To Reach New High As Registration Opens
University of Kansas braces for record enrollment with more than 900 transcripts approved for freshmen. CSEP allotment up 50 percent could add at least 200 students. Registration begins Saturday at 8:30 a.m. by alphabetical blocks. psychological exams, physicals, and photo mugging scheduled. Henley House open house, YWCA new secretary Miss Ellen Payne announced. Campus housing shows 337 listed rooms. only about a dozen houses reported as full so far.
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University of Kansas
George O. Foster
TOU
CSEP
School of Medicine
Kansas City
Henley House
Oread
Y-W.c.a
Ellen Payne
Y. W
Oren Bingham
K. U
F. &. Parker
Men’s Employment Bureau
Heat Lingers as Kansas Faces Near 100 Degree Heat
Topeka reports one hundred degree heat in Kansas as federal forecaster S D Flora predicts temperatures near 100 today and Friday. Skies cleared after Tuesday rains. Iola saw .01 inch. Independence reached 100, Tribune recorded 60. moisture remains adequate for now but sub soil supply is under par.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Iola
Flora
Independence
Tribune
Further Naval Mutinies Break Out in Portugal
An exchange telegram from Gibraltar reported further naval mutinies in Portugal. Officers aboard a warship were killed after rebels bombarded Lisbon, with the city attacked by insurgents.
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Portugal
London
Gibraltar
Lisbon
Stock Market Index Brief and Insurance Listing
A concise page item notes the stock market index at 69.9 for a 60 stock average and lists insurance entries. Travelers Insurance is mentioned along with a contact line for C. Scott at 725 Mass., phone 218, and a partial Ag t reference.
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Travelers Ins
Oh C. Scott
Ag T
Parsons to Use Neosho Lake for Emergency Water
Parsons officials secured an emergency water plan from Neosho state lake after their river supply failed for the first time in 60 years. The water, supervised by State Geologist Ogden Jones, will be drawn if natural sources exhaust, with costs borne by the city and a 30 day supply anticipated.
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Topeka
Parsons
Neosho State Lake
State Game and Fish Commission
Ray Elam
Ed, Gould
Ray Parker
Clyde M. Reed
The
Parsons Sun
Fred J. Hans
Commission
Neosho Lake
Ogden Jones
Neosho
Final stretch underpass work begins in North Lawrence
Workmen for Union Pacific started on the final stretch of temporary tracks around the North Lawrence underpass site. Crews laid tracks and drove piling for support while water service equipment was installed for engines stopping in Lawrence. Kansas Union Pacific supervisor F J Gorham estimated at least three weeks to finish laying the temporary tracks. Mike Carnavan, general road master, supervised. Excavation for the underpass south of the tracks continued and the catch basin well for the finished subway was completed yesterday.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
North
Lawrence
Union Pacific
Rock Isand
F J. G. Gorham
Kansas Division
Kansas City
Kan
Mike Carnavan
Old Settlers to Meet on Historic Anniversary
Douglas County Old Settlers association plans a gathering at First Methodist church on the historic anniversary of September 14. The event recalls the 80 year old defense of Lawrence led by residents and the Fifty Sixers with John Brown and Geary’s arrival. US troops helped save the town. Officers note eligibility now extends to descendants of early settlers and Kansas residents of 50 years. Transportation for old timers will be provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Old Settlers Association
BSS
Lawrence
Jefferson County
John Brown
Geary
U. S
Ft. Leavenworth
Welfare service aims at citizen independence, not ward status
John G. Stutz of Kansas' KERC told officials that true social welfare should be humanitarian, not a subsidy from a distant benefactor. He argued Kansas laws allow broad public assistance, with county services maintaining self-respect and local responsibility as a last resort, while stressing the danger of turning citizens into wards of government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John G. Stutz
Kerc For
Kansas
Stutz
County Officers’ Association
Court House
James F. Brass
International Conference of Social Work
Social Welfare Service
Kansas Weather Forecast and Road Conditions Brief
Kansas forecast calls for generally fair conditions with little temperature change into Friday. Morning view: clear skies and good dirt roads nationwide except Topeka where some sections are fair. Douglas County roads reported as good with slight variances. Temperature records show yesterday's highs and today's minimums, details incomplete in OCR.
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Kansas
Topeka
Douglas County
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General Confederation of Labor
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Edgar Ll. Schmidt
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Lawrence Public Schools
Will
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NYA
ELK
Liverpool
Eng
Harry Richman
Dick Merrill
Mount Hope Nursery
U.S
State Lake
Union Pacific Railroad
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