Wichita Booms as Planes Are Built
Wichita, Kansas, enters a new boom as air craft plants Stearman Beech and Cessna expand for defense orders totaling over 21 million dollars. Officials predict rapid growth and thousands more jobs as government contracts surge.
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Wichita
Kan
Stearman
Beech
iCessna
Boeing Aircraft Company
Seattle
Wash
RFC
Boeing Aircraft
Stearman Beech Aircraft
Cessna
United States
Equine Sleeping Sickness Cases Rise in County
Equine sleeping sickness cases are increasing to one or two per day, said local veterinarians. The rise began last week though not as severe as two years ago, with cases scattered across the county. A horse hauler reported five loadings in recent days. Carl Pfleger near Eudora lost a horse, and Bob Ray nearby has afflicted animals.
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Altho
Carl Pfleger
Eudora
Bob Ray
Roof Fire Extinguished on First Fall Morning
The fall morning sparked a roof fire at 935 New Hampshire Street. Fire officials reported a chimney spark caused the blaze that damaged a 10 to 12 foot square section of a room in the multi apartment home occupied by Loren Watts and others.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire Street
Loren Watts
Bombing of Berlin Injures Civilians and Impacts Embassy
British raids on Berlin caused damage to an apartment building injuring three and lightly damaged the U S embassy. Half the embassy garden was closed for unexploded holes near Goebbels residence. a fragment dented the wall and shattered a window in the First Secretary’s office.
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U. S
United States
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Donald R. Heath
Heath
German language fields growing at Kansas universities
The University of Kansas German department reduces staff from five to three due to expected lower enrollment. Dean Paul B. Lawson urges students not to abandon German studies citing past achievements of German language and noting strong job prospects, including a $3,200 per year opening.
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Germany
University of
Kansa
Paul B. Lawson
College of Liberal Arts
Lawson
Poll favors Willkie in Western state survey
While fueling in Cameron Missouri a Lawrence man reported a Willkie preference ballot from Rawlins Wyoming noting 68 percent support. He and Shaw Hatcheries officer from Ottawa discussed Yellowstone trips and wheat land schemes under New Deal policy with a farmer receiving ten thousand dollars for acreage withholding.
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Cameron
Mos
Lawrence
William R. Hill
Altho
Phillips County
Kansas
Willkie
Rawlins
Wyo
Hear Committee Reports September Meeting of Soroptimist Club
The Soroptimist Club held its regular September meeting at President Marie Abels home with a covered dish dinner. Committees reported on budget, membership, program, civics, constitution, by laws, social, and friendship, listing chairs and members for each group.
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Soroptimist Club
Marie Abels
Lil- Nan Constant
Georgiana Graves
Cora Sams
Fannie Murphy
Camilla Maichel
Harriet Bingham
Gladys Hixon
Mary Schubert
Cora Boges
Mildred Watson
Bonnie Bell Houston
Emma Crow
Cora Sdms
Cora Boggs
Bernice Swope
Fay Young
Ethel High
Grace Erickson
Mildred ‘Watson
Lillian Constant
Grace ‘Erickson
Mildred Wear’tson
Ashurst Loses in Arizona Primary in Bid for renomination
In Arizona Senator Ashurst trailing Ernest W. McFarland by about two to one, loses renomination bid in the sixth run. The report notes other races including Vermont’s Austin unopposed and Minnesota’s Shipstead leading in the Farmer Labor party. Louisiana results show several incumbents defeated with runoffs possible.
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Ashurst
D-Ariz
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Shipstead
Farmer Laborite
Minnesota
Vermont
Austin
Arizona
Ernest W. McFarland
Louisiana
House of Representatives
Sam Jones
George D. Aiken
Senate
Gibson
Aiken
Ralph E. Flanders
Igh
Harold Stassen
Stassen
Wendell L. Willkie
Michigan
Lauren D. Dickinson
Big City
New Hampshire
Robert O. Blood
National Grange
James C. Farmer
Washington
Clarence D. Martin
U. S
Clarence C. Dill
Representative Wallgren
Stephen S. Chadwick
American Legion
Schwellenbach
Colorado
George F. Sanders
John A. Carroll
Ralph T. Carr
Carr
Scout Council Sets Fall Girl Scout Program
The first fall meeting of the Girl Scout Council met at city hall to plan an active year focusing on community service. Activities include troop meetings in October, Juliet Low week observance, November outdoor play day, a recruiting drive starting October 7, and a field institute October 25–26 hosted by the Lawrence Council. A loan wardrobe project supports girls lacking uniforms, and the organization remains non sectarian non racial and non political.
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Girl Scout Council
Karl Kreider
Juliet Low
Girl Scouting In America
Girl Scouts
Homer Allison
Lawrence
Leah Parker
Kansas City
Sam’ Hurwitz
Shoun Shuts Giants as Cardinals Win First Game 7-4
Clyde Shoun allowed seven hits while St. Louis bats struck for 17 runs off three New York pitchers in the opening game of a doubleheader. Mel Ott homered for the Giants in the ninth, but the Cardinals held on 7 to 4 in New York.
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New York
Clyde Shoun
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Giants
Mel Ott
St. Louis
Shoun
Owen
Melton
Dean
Joiner
Danning
McGee
Padgett
Gumbert
O'Dea
Brooklyn
Chicago Cubs
Brooklyn Dodgers
Claude Passeau
Chica Veasseegrocersesree
Passeau
Collins
Wyatt
Tamulis
Carleton
Phelps
Chicago
J. Dean
Todd
Grissom
Franks
Boston
Cincinnati’ Reds
Boston Bees
Bucky Walters
Reds
Beéa
Cincinnati
Walters Andards
Saivo
Picchota
Berres
Broski
Derringer
Wilson
Strincevich
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Pirates
Ike Pearson
Phillies
Mace Brown
Phils
Ernie Bonham
Bobby Feller
Cleveland
Bonham
Dickey
Feller
Dobson
Hemsley
Foxx
Hutchinson
Gorsica
Sullivan
Washington
Leonard
F Rrell
Rigney
Tresh
Wagner
Auker
American Association
Kansas City
St. Paul
Wvenploty
Riddle
Swift
Canning Kitchen Reports 10500 Jars Packed and Ongoing Aid
The Social Service Lease sponsored canning kitchen reports packing over 10 500 jars of produce with two women employed to assist and instruct. Volunteers donate canned produce to the junior high school lunch program. The sewing room produced 300 garments in June and July aiding six women with sewing issues. New interest grows with groups outside the church offering help. repairs at the Social Service Building continue and a roof was added. Expressions of regret were offered on the death of Mrs. W J Baumgartner.
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Social Service
Teir
Farm Bureau
W. J. Baumgartner
Lawrence heats up as dorms turn on steam and radiators
Lawrence residents faced a cold morning as gas furnaces and the university heating plant were activated. A family sheltered around a stove while KU buildings began steam generation, with record low 43 degrees noted and bridge rent payments totaling 29 dollars for July and August for 23 and 58 loaded freight cars respectively.
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Lawrence
Kansas City, Kaw Valley
Kaw River
University of Kansas
Althe
C. G. Bayles
Operation Performed at Bell Memorial Hospital
Dr Alberta Corbin underwent an operation at Bell Memorial hospital this morning and by this afternoon her condition was reported satisfactory. The Journal World classified ads note that every month farmers sell thousands of dollars worth of livestock and farm products.41 Studebakers are here Adv
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Alberta Corbin
Bell Memorial Hospital
Journal-World
Rush Week K U Fraternities Entertain Rushees in Kansas City
Rushees arrive for a three day rush week in Kansas City with Alpha Tau Omega hosting at the country club, Acacia staging varied events, and Beta Theta Pi screening past Nebraska Kansas games. Several other fraternities hold banquets, dinners, smokers, and golf outings as Phis, Delts, Sigmas, and others entertain in Kansas City and Topeka venues.
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Alpha ‘Tau Omegas
Kansas City
Willard Benton
Kansas
State Hotel
Beta Theta Pi
Lyman Field
Kansas City, Mo
Topeka Country Club
Dorth Coombs
Wichita
Martin Dickinson
Delta Tau Delta
Ivanhoe Country Club
Delta Upsilon
Hotel Bellerive
Carl Winsor
Paul McJimsey
Kappa Sigma
Wayne Clover
Kappa
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Martin’s In the Plaza
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Green Parrott
Crisis Ness in Europe War Continues Bloodshed Across Britain
German bombers conducted a fourth large scale raid causing fires and widespread damage in London and other cities along the Thames waterfront and across Wales and Bristol Channel districts. An official communique said casualties were lighter than on prior nights while workmen fought to restore disrupted services and British readers awaited Churchill's war review.
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Thames
Millwall
West India Docks
East London
Kensington West End
R.A.F
Germany
Britain
Winston Churchill
Melvin Family Returns From Moraine Park Vacation
Personal news notes that Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Melvin returned from their annual Moraine Park Colorado vacation. Mr. and Mrs. George Melvin plan three more weeks away with Mr. Melvin aiming to bag an antelope in Wyoming again. Mrs. George Hood visited Mrs. Clarence H. Lyon and Mrs. Charles A. Galt in Topeka yesterday.
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R. E. Melvin
Moraine Park
Colo
George Melvin
Meeting of Baptist Leaders at First Baptist Church
A meeting called yesterday at the First Baptist Church gathered Baptist leaders from Lawrence Kansas City and other cities to meet Rev Clyde J Askins Pittsburg and Rev Edwin A Bell Chicago A conference for lay leaders and ministers is set for November 15 with attendees from Ottawa Kansas City Topeka Leavenworth and Atchison about 200 people are expected An afternoon session will precede a dinner Rev Howard Koelb is chairman and George Shawnee is secretary This is part of a series of 95 Baptist district meetings.
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First Baptist Church
Kansas Baptist Convention
Clyde J. Askins
Pittsburg
Northern Baptist Convention
Edwin A. Bell
Chicago
Lawrence
Kansas City
Ottawa
Tobaka Leavenworth
Frazee Home Purchased by Schweglers Dutch Colonial
Dr and Mrs Raymond A Schwegler Jr have bought the Harry Frazee house at 2115 Vermont Street a Dutch Colonial property. They plan to occupy the residence October 1 1941 and advertise Studebakers in the notice.
Market News Bond Closing Mixed as Churchill Invasion Warning Shakes Wall Street
New York September 1 Prime Minister Churchill warned of a possible invasion of England sending a market rally to a halt. Trading slowed as investors anticipated armament moves for Europe with aircraft and steel issuers leading gains while autos and many industrials fell. Government bonds showed mixed results with a general drift toward stability as traders adjusted to the wartime outlook.
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Wall Street
New York
Churchill
Hitler
England
Europé
Sperery
Douglas
Boeing
United Aircraft
Eastman
Johne
Senate approves loan authority expansion for South American loans
Washington September 11 The senate passed legislation 42 to 27 to expand the lending authority of the export import bank from 200 million to 700 million dollars for South American loans.
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Washington
Senate
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