Plan a Campaign To Keep Embargo
Opponents of President Roosevelt's neutrality plan plan a national anti-repeal campaign for next week led by Capt Eddie Rickenbacker with a radio address. Senators Nye Vandenberg and Shipstead confer with Rickenbacker and Jay Hormel on an independent anti repeal committee. A new prohibition on American vessels carrying goods to belligerents is added to the administration bill, with penalties of up to 1000 dollars and a year in prison.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Eddie Rickenbacker
Nye
N.D
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Shipstead
Minn
Rickenbacker
Jay .C. Hormel
Austin
Meat Packer
Congress
Hormel
Senate
Harmel
Alf M. Landon
Hoover
Henry Ford
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Phil LaFollette
Wisconsin
George A. Hormel
Minnesota
Packer
New York
Lawrence Richey
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Clark
Missouri
R-N.d
Lafollette
Wis
Reneal
Denmark
Landon Urges Roosevelt to Drop Third Term Issue Publicly
The 1936 Republican nominee Landon urged President Roosevelt to adjourn partisan politics amid European war tensions and to remove the third term obstacle. He argued normal rules do not apply in crises and supported the president taking the first step to clear the field for nonpartisan action.
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New York
The
New York World-Telegram
Alfred M. Landon
Roosevelt
London
Kansas
Landon
Washington
Congress
Kansas-Missouri football date under consideration
University of Kansas athletic board set to discuss a Kansas Missouri football date with Missouri but will delay announcement until talks conclude. Two potential dates discussed November 25 and December 2. Broadcast rights for the Missouri game were already secured by WDAF and KMBC.
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University of Kansas Athletic Board
Missouri
Gwinn Henry
Tiger School
Tavo
WDAF
KMBC
Kansas City
D. W. Malott
Bert Nash
School of Education
R. C. Moore
C. H. Mullen
Mullen
Ed Hall
Sublette
Frank T. Stockton
W. W. Davis
Tom van Cleave
van Cleave
N. Tom Veatch
Ralph T. O’neil
Topeka
Lester McCoy
Garden City
Ralph I. Canuteson
Student Health Service
Rigid Gas Rationing Begins in Great Britain
London reports gasoline rationing sweeping motor traffic from streets and threatening taxi shortages as the government prepares Monday for general distribution of national food rationing registration forms. Registration day for everyone in the United Kingdom is next Friday.
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Great Britain
London
United Kingdom
Steer Brings Top Price at Kansas City Auction
A 1,090-pound Angus steer fed by 14 year old Emily Hollis of Overbrook Kansas topped the calf club auction at the stockyards, selling for $13.50 per hundredweight.
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Kansas City
Pia
Emily Hollis
Overbrook
Kan
Officials to Meet at Kansas Municipalities Convention in Wichita
The thirty first annual Kansas League of Municipalities convention runs three days in Wichita starting September 25. Leaders including Chancellor Deane Malott and Howard Payne will address sessions on local government, city legal problems, budgeting, purchasing, and municipal services with roundtables for city clerks and attorneys.
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Kansas League of Municipalities
Wichita
Deane Malott
University of Kansas
League
Earnest Boyce
Treas
Kansas Water and Sewage Works Association
Association
Ivan .C. Crawford
School of ‘Engineering and Architecture
K.U
Baldwin Mitchell
Lawrence
J. W. Stone
Hugh Randall
Chetopa
Howard Payne
Kansas City
League of Kansas Municipalities
Earl D. Mallory
Nebraska State League of Municipalities
American Municipal Association
Col. Elam P. Mooman
State Highway Patrol
Topeka
Vinland Grange Fair Opens September 28 for Three Days
The thirty second annual Vinland Grange fair will run September 28 29 and 30 with President T P Stevens announcing the event. A Saturday chicken pie luncheon will be the featured day and the closing day will be known as Chicken Pie Day. A large entry list is expected in all departments especially cattle.
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Vinland Grange
T. P. Stevens
Warsaw Is Cut Off From Nearby Fortress
Berlin reports Warsaw is cut off from Modlin as German forces advance on the Polish capital. Lwow surrenders, and German Soviet cooperation is claimed in the west. General Bortnowski and staff captured. thousands of Poles taken. New food rationing to begin next Monday with bread cards.
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Modlin
Lwow
Warsaw
Bzura
Bortnowski
Warsaw-Modlin
Poland
Hitler Seen On Western Front Returns To Frontline Actions
Paris dispatch reports Hitler and Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch on the western front amid German artillery and aerial activity. French forces repel several German attacks near Saarbrucken while massed Polish troops reinforce German lines and preparations for a major western front engagement intensify.
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Paris
Adolf Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Berlin
Hitler
Warsaw
von Brauchitsch
Poland
Fuehrer
West Wall
Saarbruecken
Huge throng turns out for Kansas State Fair final day
Hutchinson Kansas September 23 A free gate attracted a large crowd at the Kansas State fair final day attendance estimated at 250000 matching last year receipts rose over 1938 by four thousand dollars due to grandstand program attendance livestock and many exhibits moved from pavilions last night
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Hutchinson
Kan
Pha Free Gate
Fredonia Hits 100 Degrees in Early Afternoon
Fredonia Kansas recorded a high of 100 degrees at 2 p.m. today as heat tightened across the region. The UP dispatch notes scorching conditions amid a late September heat wave.
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Fredonia
Kan
Campaign in Poland Declared Ended by German High Command
Berlin reports the German army high command states the campaign in Poland is ended and that the Polish army of millions has been defeated, captured, or routed. Warsaw remains under siege though the capital is described as a hopeless position alongside Modlin and the Hela peninsula. Earlier, Warsaw was cut off from Modlin.
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Berlin
Poland
Warsaw
Modlin
Hela Peninsula
Supreme Command
Argonne Forest
Verdun
Regents Open Year With Board Meeting in Lawrence
The University of Kansas board of regents met in the Pine room at the Union in Lawrence after a luncheon. Fred Harris said NYA funds will support a new admin building at Hays college plus repairs to the industrial arts building. Presidents from several schools attended the inaugural convocation. L. Wooster stood in for the ill C F E Rarick. All board members attended except Mrs. Elizabeth Reigart.
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Versity of
Kansas
Board of Regents
Fred Harris
Ottawa
Pine
Union Building
Lawrence
Deane W. Malott
F. D. Farrell
Kansas State College
Thomas W. Butcher
Emnoria State
Wooster
Hays Institution
C. FE. Rarick
Card of Regents
Elizabeth Reigart
Baxter Springs
Germany forecasts bumper grain harvest sustains long war
Berlin reports 1939 Greater Germany grain output at 27.4 million tons, up 0.5 million from 1938, with final yield expected higher. Officials say 1 million tons could be hoarded for a prolonged war while rationing aims for fair distribution. Meat and fats are tighter. beer will be brewed thinner to feed pigs.
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Berlin
Agriculture Ministry
Germany
Bohemia-Moravia
Food Ministry
Baley
Earthquake Strikes Smyrna Killing Over 200
More than 200 people were killed in an earthquake that collapsed about 11 000 buildings in the Smyrna region. The tremors, felt also in Istanbul and Ankara, prompted government and Red Cross relief, with ongoing aftershocks and widespread panic.
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Smyrna
Istanbul
Turkey
Patrol Boat Kittiwake Strikes Mine in English Channel
An official report states the British patrol boat Kittiwake hit a mine in the English Channel. The incident leaves five crewmen believed dead and two injured.
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London
Kittiwake
English Channel
Stock Market Index Steady At 52.8 Points
The average of 60 stocks remains at 52.8 points from yesterday. A note adds potential buying as the 1940 Chevrolet model promises soon, with investors watching for market shifts.
Planes Land At Lawrence as 2000 Watch Dusty Arrival
About 2000 locals gather at Lawrence Municipal Airport as a Kansas Air Tour crowd watches 30 ships land starting 2:55 PM. The event includes Aeroncas Cubs Bearwins and Luscombes with drinks for pilots and a luncheon in Manhattan. The flight plan lists Topeka Chanute Coffeyville El Dorado before KE.
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Kansas Air Tour
Lawrence Municipal
Manhattan
Topeka
Chanute
Coffeyville
el Dorado
Yesteray
Aeroncas
Cubs
Bearwins
Luscombes
Harry Valentine
Clay Center Dispatch
The
Kenneth Powell
Coffeyville Journal
Reed predicts neutral act shift toward cash and carry
Washington senator Reed argues for a straight cash and carry option if proposed, but rejects a broad presidential discretion bill. He notes 3000 letters urging the embargo on arms, saying some citizens see embargo as a war shield while lifting it could imply backing war. He believes embargo or cash and carry will not decide U.S. entry into European conflict.
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Washington
Reed
R-Kan
Senate
United States
Wherry Elected President Of Eastern Kansas Conference
Principal Neal M. Wherry was elected president of the Eastern Kansas Conference at a Toneka meeting. Attendees included John E. Jacobs and Elmer Schaake from Lawr ence. The group set May 4 for the Ottawa track meet and February 3 for debate and forensic tournaments in Topeka. W. N. Van Slyck of Topeka was named vice president and Rice E. Brown remains secretary treasurer. The possibility of inviting a new member to replace Manhattan was discussed.
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Neal M. Wherry
Eastern Kansas Conference
Toneka
Priciple Wherry
Prin
John E. Jacobs
Elmer Schaake
Maurice Cannady
Kenneth Weaver
Lawrence
Ottawa
Topeka
Princ W. N. van Slyck
Rice E. Brown
Manhattan
Swiss Observers See German West Offensive Likely
Basel Switzerland Sept 23 Swiss observers expected a major German push to break the western front fall they note the German line appears reinforced while French and British forces pressing toward the Siegfried line grow numerically stronger reports say Germans are moving troops from Poland to the front the northern Saar sector may be the main target and German air power is shifting from Poland toward underground bases behind the Siegfried line
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Siegfried Lines
Poland
Rhine River
Aachen
Saar River
Isveibruecken
Deux Ponts
Lauter River
Germany
Basel
Switzerland
Siegfried Line
Saar
Reich
Vistula Front
Unveiling Planned for Lawrence Fall Window Displays
Lawrence hosts its annual fall window unveiling starting 7 45 p m Thursday September 28. New merchandise will be shown with a mass Madison Street parade and a value judging contest. Featured bands include Liberty Memorial high school Haskell Institute KU and the American Legion Drum and Bugle corps. Contest windows will display merchandise without prices and patrons guess total value for $2 prizes per window. The Journal World will publish prize lists next week. The event committee is led by M P Watson.
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Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Liberty Memorial High School
Haskell Institute
University of Kansas
American Legion
Journal-World
Chamber of Commerce
M. P. ‘Watson
Americans Seek Temporary Haven in Koenigsberg
About 55 American refugees from Warsaw found temporary shelter in Koenigsberg on September 23 as more than 1,300 foreigners awaited transfer by the German foreign office. Some Americans chose to stay in Warsaw. seven US Consulate staffers accompanied by Thaddeus Chylinski arranged openings and aid for those staying.
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Koenigsberg
Germany
Warsaw
United States
Thaddeus Chylinski
War And the Last One Ends Pieces of a Turbulent Week
A war week overview notes Warsaw’s stubborn hold and German claims that Poland campaign ended. Western fronts see reinforcements and ongoing fighting as air battles and shelling persist. References mark Argonne defense, Verdun prep, and regional shifts near San Mihiel.
KU Enrollment Sets New Record As Registration Surges
University figures show total enrollment at 4 613 students this afternoon, up 34 from last year and 20 above the 1936 all time record. Morning counts split between 4 345 on the main campus and 268 in Kansas City medical school. Final registration totals to be released November 1 as most universities report their figures.
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Oread
Kansas City
Kansas ‘City
Weather fronts bring cool dry air to Kansas
Topeka reports cooler conditions spreading across Kansas this weekend with little rainfall. Eastern Kansas faces a refresh and highs near the 90s before a new cool spell. overnight lows range from 45 to 60 statewide. Wheat seeding delays risk crop costs.
Hamilton charged with drunk driving in county court
An Hamilton from New York national Republican chairman lineage faces charges of driving a motor car while intoxicated in the Robert Oyler Justice Court with Charles Banning signing the complaint. Aaron Rooks faces a drunk charge in the same court signed by Sheriff Banning. The group was in a Buick owned by Hamilton. two women were detained but no charges against them.
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An Hamilton
Robert Oyler
Charles W. Nelson
Route 3
Aaron Rooks
Charles Banning
Hamilton
John D. M. Hamilton
New York
Nationalepublican
K. U
Miller Returns to Practice After Knee Surgery
Ralph Miller, Kansas halfback, suited up for the first time this afternoon for football practice after knee operation. A Kansas City physician cleared him to report and he will do straight running and passing, avoiding knee strain. He will see the doctor again next Friday for an update on when he may begin heavier workouts.
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Ralph Miller
University of Kansas
Miller
Kansas City
Weather and Classified Ad Notice
Forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Sunday with cooler conditions in the west and south. Temperatures show a high around 91 and a low near 53. yesterday's high 91, low 53. Extra money from selling furniture via classified ads. call 22 to reach an Ad-Taker.
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Kansas
Gas Ofica
Nis
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France
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Neal Wherry
Eastern
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Colinescu
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