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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1934
Page
4
The text argues the NRA symbolizing national recovery faces trouble as car industry leads a return to profitability. It warns strike risk could derail cooperative efforts in automotive sectors. Administrator Johnson dispatches a top representative to Detroit to preserve cooperation and momentum.
Washington reports George N. Peek will direct the governments foreign trade expansion, distancing from the brain trust. His assignment is highly experimental and uncertain but rests on his business experience, promising a practical approach over theory. New ward boundaries in Lawrence redistribute population and voting weight among six wards, with precincts to be drawn for primaries and elections. The Prince of Wales, profiting from Insull securities before the crash, remains single as the world’s top eligible bachelor.
American cynic H L Mencken, fresh from a Europe trip, delivers a caustic first interview in which he mocks both the United States and Europe. He complains that nothing pleases him anywhere, embodying his famed pessimism about public life and culture.
Senator Borah attacks the business recovery plan. He condemns price controls and production freezes that raise costs for consumers. He argues free competition yields fairer prices and warns against a policy that would stall recovery and leave one third of people underclothed and unfed as the world grows hungrier. The president is urged to ease experimental policies and let business recover.
Old Home Town recalls events from ten years back on a Friday in April. C B Russell travels to Kansas City to see ill father J B Russell. Howard McConnell and wife announce the birth of son Donald Howard at McConnell hospital. A B Coker and daughter Marie Coker depart for Seattle via California visit. Ivah Barrett and others host a bridge party at Mrs Barrett home. Mrs Arthur Owen hosts a supper for Ethel Dykstra and Margaret Thompson of Grand Rapids visiting Mrs Ray Eusden.
Friday April 6 1901 students at the University of Kansas plan a protest against the Payne Tariff bill raising prices on hosiery gloves and wearables. The new Woman's Suffrage League leads the action as Clifton Hiatt endures a painful nose bolt and moves to lawrence. Mr and Mrs Will Martin relocate from Topeka to Lawrence. S. C. Churchill begins duties on the Soldiers Home board of control in Dodge City. A wedding between Miss Wate Fincher and Roscoe Pine is noted for the next evening at their north Lawrence home. Forties item with Dr Chas Simmons returning from the Pacific coast.
Nora discusses being broad minded while Ma calls her trifling. Ma says Nora is liberal with her daughters because she is too lazy to be strict.
Mr and Mrs Sam Tilles along with their son from Fort Worth Arkansas visit Mrs Tilles parents Mr and Mrs J H Jacobs Miss Addie Ridenour chosen by the middle class at high school to deliver the response to seniors class day In many towns women led elections and crushed defeats a warning to suffrage supporters to wait H J Snyder a Bridge street merchant sold his goods to an eastern man and will return to private life while remaining one of the north side's oldest settlers Geo Adams of Newmarks is laid up with grip The Sweetest Story Ever Told tops songs at Bells Music store Public orders ban carnets cleaning in parks Miss Ella Cowan visiting teacher tripped on carpet and dislocated her wrist Dr Gifford dressed her arm
In Honolulu, Mrs Thalia Fortescue Massie faces an assault case and reportedly attempted suicide after a divorce. A doctor quoted her saying I wanted to die. Meanwhile in Tunbridge Wells England Beatrice Lil lie Vind great grandson of a famous prime minister dies at 36. In Shanghai 2000 bandits loot and burn the walled city Kingyu led by Gen Lieu Awei Tang. Rome wheat advisory body seeks Russia export quota to stabilize higher prices.
On this date in Kansas history, William Allen White editor of the Emporia Gazette was assaulted on the street by a defeated mayoral candidate offended by a Gazette article. White's injuries were slight.
Kansas City April 6 AP At Swope Park zoo keepers administer spring tonics to many animals. Elephants receive peppermint flavored tonic from a drench bottle. Hippo Cleo eats cod liver oil with meals. A wildcat like blue sun is forced to accept capsules. Monkeys get cod liver oil hidden in banana. Cats, lions, leopards get sulfur on meat and oil capsules. Bears eat cod liver oil in a bread loaf. Virginia deer take medicine openly. Even canaries and parrots are given tonic. canaries sing less but stay lively.
Social leader Mrs. Potter Palmer hosts a dinner for Princess Eulalia of Spain during the World’s Columbian Exposition. The princess balked at attending, believing she was invited to dine with the wife of an inn-keeper. The private school advertises Lawrence Business College to train youths for business roles.
A sprawling mystery unfolds on a murder trolley and aboard the Longstreet-DeWitt partnership, naming Cherry Browne and others as suspects. Inspector Thumm and Drury Lane pursue embezzlement, a blackmail scheme via William Crockett, and a key clue from Martin Stopes linking a string of killings. Lane’s revelation crowns Stopes as the killer behind the Death Chain.
Associated Press reports in Topeka that a boy named Tommy Tucker proposed the idea of singing for meals. The Washburn College glee club, not involved previously, was invited to Kansas City and arranged a hotel performance in exchange for free meals.
Willy Nilly and Jelly Bear face a danger as lions roar and break from cages near the cave. Rip the ducks Top Notch and Christopher Columbus Crow rush to warn Willy Nilly, who hides indoors with Honey Bear and cubs while neighbors fear the lions may enter.
The article explains Freud's three ego parts primitive daily idealistic and stresses harmony between them for healthy living. It notes behavior and physiology link to mind states and cites psychiatry gaining prominence in medical practice.
International study group members of the League of Worthen Voters received replies from U S senators on the World Court issue. Capper would ratify at first opportunity, McGill praised the effort and would study it. Forty nine nations belong to the Court. Germany and Japan remain members despite withdrawal from the League. The Root protocol with five Senate reservations may be reported from Washington any time. A German girl Gerta Nitschke, 14, writes about Indians, Hitler, and asking about life in America.
Florence Brewer Boeckel promotes The Turn Toward Peace with a council subscription offer. Articles cite Lord Rothermere and Hawks Aircraft, noting air power as a key threat and the need to avoid war through disarmament, while local ads highlight training at Lawrence Business College and Journal-World classifieds.
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