Barrow Escapes Capture in Oklahoma Texas Desperado
Clyde Barrow and two companions forced a Texas officer to join their escape from Commerce Oklahoma. Police Chief Percy Boyd described Barrow as defiant and self assured, saying the gang roamed back roads from Commerce to Chetopa and Bartlett while dodging pursuit. Bonnie Parker expressed anger over a published photo, and Barrow boasted of a regular arsenal including machine guns and shotguns. The trio later freed the officer near a farm house after a daylong chase.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Clyde Barrow
Southwest
Percy Boyd
Commerce
Okla
Barrow
Texas
Bonnie Parker
Here
Cal Campbel
Boyd
Campbell
Bonnie
Raymond Hamilton
Chetopa
Bartlett
Bord
Corky
Pittsburg
Baker University to Supply Pulpits in Kansas City
Baker University president and faculty will supply twelve Methodist Episcopal pulpits in Greater Kansas City on April 8 as part of a united church college program. The Baker chorus of 40 will sing at Grand Avenue and Washington avenues churches, with a 9:30 a.m. broadcast on WDAF. Faculty members listed include W B Fleming, Benjamin Gessner, Wm J Williams, Wm Balch, H K Ebright, Harold Guest, and President Fleming. Eighteen other church colleges from Kansas and Missouri will participate in the pulpit program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin, City
Methodist Episcopal
Kansas City
Baker University
United Church ‘College
Luther Leavengood
Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Washington Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Baker
WDAF
W. B. Fleming
Broadway
Benjamin Gessner
Oakley
Wm. J. Williams
Paseo
Wm. Balch
Grand Avenue
H. K. Ebright
Aenes Avenue
Harold Guest
Wesley
Independence Avenue
Quayle
Marlborough
Roanoke
London Heights
Will Seek Democratic Nomination for Sheriff in Douglas County
Carl Hird announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for sheriff of Douglas County. A 34 year resident, he lives near Lawrence on Highway 40 with his wife and two sons. He notes prior four years in state highway department work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hird
Douglas County
Hird
Lawrence
State Highway Department
Senior Recital Promises Notable KU Music Evening
Ruth Gregory violinist and Jenevieve Hargiss cellist join the University Symphony Orchestra for an all KU fine arts recital in the University auditorium. Gregory, daughter of Lovington residents, studies at KU with Waldemar Gelich. Hargiss, head cellist for four years, is Mu Phi Epsilon member. Program includes Ernst Violin Concerto and Boellmann Symphonic Variations. Recital begins at 8 with formal invitation extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Gregory
Tom Ryan
Genevieve Hargiss
Dorothy Enlow
University
Waldemar Gelich
Jenevieve Hargiss
D. M. Swarthout
University Symphony Orchestra
Miss Gregory
Charles A. Gregory
Lovington, Ill
Milliken University
Miss Hargiss
Deach
H. W. Hargiss
Mu Phi Epsilon
Kansas University Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence
Ernst
Boellmann
D.M. Swarthout
Pudge
Tenth annual waterworks school at Kansas University
The tenth annual waterworks school will be held at the University of Kansas on April 25 26 and 27 in conjunction with the seventh annual meeting of the Kansas Waterworks association. The program includes lectures on water purification swimming pool sanitation and a Boulder Dam talk by R A Kirkpatrick assistant to the executive VP of Union Pacific. Chancellor Lindley will speak at the Waterworks association dinner and J C Gordon of Independence chairs the organization. Faculty listed include Dean G C Shaad K K Landes Ernest Boyce A H Sluss and E D Kinney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Kansas Waterworks Association
Boulder Dam
R. A. Kirkpatrick
Union Pacific Railroad Company
School of Engineering and Architecture
Lindley
Waterworks Association
J. C. Gordon
Independence
G. C. Shaad
School of Engineer
Sermon on Moral Surgery at Trinity Lutheran Church
Dr 0 D Baltzly of Omaha will deliver the Sunday 11 o'clock sermon at Trinity Lutheran Church on Moral Surgery. The service will feature organ music, an anthem, and the choir under Miss Meribah Moore. Public welcome. Marriage licenses issued include Bruggeman Paul and Marekley Stuart. ceremonies to be performed by local ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Lutheran Church
O. D. Baltziy
Omaha
Baltzky
Lawrence
Wichita
E. E. Stauffer
Stauffer
Andrews
Scott
Crystal Price
Flotow
George Trovillo
Robert F. Bruggeman
New Lenox
Virginia A. Paul
Tonganoxie
Ae. A. Marekley
Roberta L. Stuart
Joseph King
Laugh-Pullers Stage Contest In West Ad
Students witness a lively laugh battle between Professors Ise and Realey as their classes volleyed guffaws for 50 minutes in the West Wing. Spring plans stir chatter, with two Alpha Chis and a Phi Psi crowd joining in river antics and a looming gravy rumor about Pachacamac leadership.
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West AD
John Ise
C. B. Realey
Ise
Bright
Phi Psis
Dread-Kayhawk
Gunnar Vigiland
K. U. Traditions
Summerfield
Pachacamac
Roosevelt Jr Disrupts Wrestling Photo Shoot in Philadelphia
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr. smashed a photographer's camera during a wrestling event in Philadelphia. Photographer Don ald Corvelli sustained bruises and torn trousers as Roosevelt, a Harvard student and weekend guest in Bryn Mawr, forcibly moved through the aisle. Police escorted him from the arena after officials revealed his identity.
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Philadelphia
The
Public Ledger
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Donald Corvelli
Corvelli
the Ledger
H. Vaughn Morgan, Jr
Morgan
Young Roosevelt
Bryn Mawr
Occu
Gus Sonnenberg
Boston
Ray Steele
California
Bostonian
Roosevelt
Harvard University
Jim Londos
Pennsylvania
Lendos
Start Series of Sermons at First Christian Church
Rev Seth W Slaughter begins a series for new church members on the churchs meaning and role in modern life. The first sermon titled The Church Leads Us Forward raises questions about why the church, its change over time, and how childhood memory relates to present church life. Special morning music features Cherubim by Tschaikowsky. A baptismal service follows a short evening sermon.
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First Christian Church
Seth W. Slaughter
Cherubim
Tschaikowsky
C. E. Sawhill
The Chief and Its Bowery Comedy Troupe at Patee
Ed Wynne stars in The Perfect Fool in a tale of heroism and an honorary fire chief. Chic Sale plays Wynne’s hard of hearing uncle, delivering a lively streetwise foil. Laurel and Hardy open with a rookie police caper ending in slapstick misadventures at a home and lily pond.
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Bowery
Ed Wynne
Charles “Chic” Sale
Wynne
Broadway
Card of Thanks for Robert Winters
The Winters family expresses sincere thanks for sympathy shown during the illness and death of their son and brother Robert Winters. Mr and Mrs F N Winters and family acknowledge the kind expressions received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Winters
F. N. Winters
Enjoy League party deaths and funerals at Schubert home
Funeral services for Mrs. Diantha Mayes Wood were held at Rumsey Funeral Home. The article notes a Mother's League party at the Schubert home with a variety show including a Has Been quartet and a humorous monologue, plus reception details and guests. Mrs. Diantha Mayes Wood died Tuesday night at her West Twenty first street home. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Diantha Mayes Wood
West Twentyfirst Street
Rumsey Funeral Home
Helen Nang
Dorothy. Enlow
Oak Hill
Nemete
Roy Roberts to deliver Don Mellett Memorial Lecture at KU
Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star and Kansas native, will speak at the Don R. Mellett Memorial Lecture in KU's auditorium Friday morning April 27. The lectureship honors Canton News editor Don R. Mellett, murdered by gangsters in 1926 after a civic corruption drive.
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Don Mellett
Roy Roberts
Kansas City Star
K. U
James Melvin Lee
New York University
Don R. Mellett
Canton
Ohio
Mellett
Chicago
East
Marlen E. Pew
Burgess Johnson
Syracuse University
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Carl Magee
Oklahoma News
Oklahoa City
Roberts
Kansas
University of Kansas
Lawrence Journal-World
Star
Washington
Fourth annual boys hobby fair closes tonight
Visitors view exhibits at 742 Massachusetts street under L. B. Read. Judging results and prize ribbons will be announced after today and yesterday’s entries conclude.
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Massachusetts Street
L. B. Read
Worship and Talks at Lincoln Churches and Promethean Club Outing
North Lawrence First Baptist Church Lincoln hosts morning worship with sermon Let the Children Come and a 11:45 a m Bible school session. Unitarian Church features a morning address by Charles A Engvall on Pivotal People in Contemporary Religion with music by the Unitarian Quartet and organist. Promethean Club plans a Brown's Grove picnic and Henry Werner will discuss The Kept Student. Journal World classifieds note high room rentals.
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North Lawrence First Baptist Church
Lincoln
Fourth Street
Jeana
B.Y.P.U
Unitarian Church
Charles A. Engvall
Harry Emerson Fosdick
John Haynes Holmes
John H. Dietrich
Henry Purcell
Rolland “Maddoz
William Howie
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Promethean Club
Brown's Grove
Henry Werner
Unitarium Forum
Atlantic Monthly
Pachacamac Tickets Lead KU Student Elections With 17 Nonfrat Nominees
Pachacamac announces 17 nonfraternity and 16 fraternity candidates led by Gunnar Mykiland for president of the men’s student council. Oread Kayhawk fields 20 nonfraternity and 13 fraternity nominees. Election Thursday April 12. Key Pachacamac figures include Reed Voran, Kean Tilford, Lloyd Metzler. officers listed across senior to sophomore levels.
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Pachacamac
Oread Kayhawk
K. U
Party of the Rising Sun
Gunnar Mykiland
Chapman
Reed Voran
Pretty Prairie
Kean Tilford
Wichita
Lloyd Metzler
Lawrence
Oread-Kayhawk
K. U. of Men
Clarke
Walter “Kuehner
Delmar Curry
Norbert Anschuetz
Frank Affieck
Willam Hazen
Sol Lindenham
Charles Yauer
Hush Randall
Roger Blades
John Rizley
George Shaad
John el- Matt
Pharmacy
Carl Bear
John Lyon
Fine Arta
William Beck
Warren Plaskett
Earl Sturgeon
Lawrence Lelehi
Richard Wells
George = Fryi
Ledovic D. Weiner
Willan
Herman Hauck
Prom
Nelson Morgan
Harold Ve
Arnold Gilbert
Hubert Anderson
William Summers
William Hamper
State sets minimum rates for contract motor carriers
Kansas state corporation commission issued an order setting minimum charges for about 2500 contract motor carriers. Rates vary by class: shipments of 5000 pounds plus, livestock under 5000 pounds, and all other under 5000 pounds. Rules tie to railroad rates with mileage adjustments. Exclusions apply to second hand equipment, farm equipment moves, household goods, live poultry, newspapers, milk and ice cream.
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Topeka
State Corporation Commission
Kansas
Commission
Homer Hoch
Hoch
Private Senior Recital by Sister Rose Matthew and Sister Etta Louise
A private senior piano and violin recital was given yesterday in the Administration auditorium by Sister Rose Matthew and Sister Etta Louise. Both faculty members, Matthew at St. Mary College Leavenworth and Louise at Marymount College Saling, received praise for tone, control, and interpretation across a varied program featuring Paderewski variations, Schubert Warsaw pieces, and two concertos in G minor.
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Rose Matthew
Etta Louise
St. Mary College
Leavenworth
Howard C. Taylor
Marymount Colleme
Saling
Sue Bruca
Saint-Saens
Hepe Matthew
Prof Taylor
Rate reductions by three Kansas electric companies approved
The State Corporation Commission approved rate reductions for Kansas Electric Power, Western Light and Power, and Kansas City Power & Light, benefiting over 100 towns. New schedules set lower kilowatt charges, minimum bills, and specific cuts for street lighting and heating. Lamar telephone rates also cut from 1.50 to 1.25.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State’ Corporation Commission
Kansas Electric Power Company
Western Light and Power Company
Kansas City Power & Light Company
Empire District Electric Company
Baxter Springs
Scammon
Galena
Weir
Lamar
Finishes 8 Year Term Joliet April 7
John P. Looney, 68, once a vice and graft figure in Rock Island, Illinois, is released from Stateville penitentiary after eight years and 30 days for murder. He arrived January 9, 1926, to serve a year sentence for the killing of Rock Island saloon keeper Bill Gabel and was met in the prison reception room by his daughter Mrs. Frank H. Hamblin of Warsaw Texas and driven away by her automobile.
Slugging charges linked to Kansas City election killings
Three men were arraigned on assault with intent to kill charges connected to election day slugging at a Swope Park polling place. Justin D. Bowersock of the Kansas City Star was among those slugged. Two others face murder charges in Placy killing. preliminary hearings set for April 17. Paul Call filed for Republican nomination for state auditor in Topeka, seeking Will J. French’s post.
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Kansas City
Justin D. Bowersock
The
Kansas City Star
Arthur H. Wells
Citizens-Fusion Party
Lloyd Cole
Bennie Bonjo
Lascuola
Joe School
John Belfonte
Bonjo
Belfonte
Lee Flacy
Swope Park
Placy
John H. Gadwood
Mike Davis
Topeka
Paul Call
Mound Valley
Will J. French
Call
Ottawa High School Orchestra names new director
N de Rubertis of Kansas City has been engaged by the Ottawa school board to direct the Ottawa high school orchestra for the rest of the school year. He was a close friend of the late C A Peacock, former orchestra leader who died recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa Orchestra
Ottawa
Kan
N. de Rubertis
Kansas City
Ottawa High
de Rubertis
C. A. Peacock
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Ray Meyn
Charles Smith
Don Reed
Herbert Weatherby
Jeanette January
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Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Phi Psi
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Ames
the Kappa House
Hill
Belvoir
William Ewing
Lawrence Business College
aAdy
Seth Slaughter
Mother's League
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Schubert
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John Peyton
Terry Gaskill
Sautaine
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H. C. Eustace
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Fresno
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College of the Pacific
Stockton
Reggie McNamara
Ady
Rock Island
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Hillview Pro
Hillview
Damp Wash Service
Independent Laundry
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Mount Hope Nurseries
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