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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1935
Page
4
A Kansas City World page notes reader issues with Journal World delivery. It discusses relief program funding, potential new taxes, and old age pensions, plus European security and German military strength. It mentions a Stresa conference and warns about a student strike for peace at the University of Kansas, stressing unsure sponsors and questionable intelligence of the protest.
Western Kansas received light weekend rainfall, less than a quarter inch, yet observers say any moisture boosts hope after dust storms. The showers visibly revive crops and alter the barren landscape, especially in the Kaw valley, improving prospects for spring plantings across the region.
England France and Italy will meet in Stresa on Thursday to address Germanys rearmament. The Powers reluctantly face the need to decide how to respond while wishing to maintain the postwar status quo.
Old Home Town items recall ten years past in Lawrence with fund appeal plans for a new hotel and 50 chamber members in 25 teams. University students Wilma Rader injured after a fall from a car. hospital fears a fracture. Local dinner for high school basketball team hosts include coach and several community figures. Birthday surprises for husbands and club gatherings noted along with visits from out-of-town relatives and a business trip to Oklahoma.
Twenty five years ago on Monday April 3 merchants discussed bringing Western Storage Battery Co to Lawrence. A storage battery plant could employ 150 to 200 men west of the Mississippi. The firm seeks $10,000 investment for a controlling interest with Spalding chairing and Graeber and Stewart on the committee.
Chancellor Strong rejects abolition of football at the University of Kansas. He says Kansas will not act separately from Missouri Valley peers and notes other schools may substitute rugby. The interview frames university sports policy amid broader campus happenings in Lawrence.
Forty years ago local items note Gus Berger recovering from mumps disease refusal of some church members to hold a concert during holy week yet others argue charity justifies it. Will Ashby to receive a wheelchair. Lawrence Driving Park prepared for University Jockey club events. Scribe reports a whale skeleton shown as fake fossil. North Lawrence hunters camped at Cook’s Grove but were driven in by a southern wind. Seventy five ducks captured and moved to market amid county-wide curiosity.
Topeka Robert B. Austin 56 a Thompson Hardware executive and former president died in Topeka after unloading a car of iron. He moved from Emporia and led a building company. He was a bachelor. Galena Floyd Robertson Republican copped the school board treasurer post after coin toss tied with Democrat Charles Sawyer. Parsons Funeral services for Mrs Elmer Columbia wife of a Parsons attorney will be held Wednesday after a brief illness. She was daughter of Dr F G Emerson of Wellington. Manhattan James M Peet 92 died yesterday after illness began on his birthday March 21. Topeka Shawnee county 4 H club will represent the Kansas district at a state 4 H contest in Manhattan with eastern district winner determined here Saturday. Johnson county second. Douglas Miami and Franklin counties also competed. The southeast district contest set for next Saturday. Emporia Measles and other contagious diseases in Lyon county have led to cancellation of music festivals art exhibits and contests across rural, grade and high schools. During March 786 measles cases and 28 chickenpox cases were reported to the county health office. Coffeyville Mrs Anna Baker 96 believed oldest resident of Chautauqua county died yesterday after 60 years in the county. Eleven of thirteen children survive.
James Stimson aims to wed wealthier Jane Northrup while Leslie Harris, his remembered love, is away for a month. Jane and her mother dominate him, and he resists when Jane insists they live across from her mother rather than in the old Stimson house.
Jane and James clash over where she should live near her mother in a new Tyler house. Aunt Sarah protests, insisting Jane remain closer to North New Concord. James funds the purchase, while Jane remodels boldly, adding baths and a mirrored library, testing trust and control between them. Tomorrow Jane has a passage at arms with Leslie.
Mrs Beaver explains to Mrs Quacko Duck that beavers are famous for hard work in building dams and their front feet and flat tails aid swimming. The secret is beavers also love holidays, traveling each summer, though many know of their work more than their vacations as they set off again in their boat toward new waters.
A historical overview explains a sclerosing solution injected into varicose veins to obliterate them. A preliminary test includes bandaging the leg, an hour of walking, and observation for pain or swelling, with cautions about infection and serious systemic diseases before proceeding.
The article notes that injection treatment is advisable when not contra indicated and can be used with satisfactory results while patients continue daily activities. It may be combined with surgery or used alone for varicosities, with larger veins requiring surgical care, and emphasizes constitutional hygiene factors like rest, exercise, and weight reduction. Tomorrow Pain In Lower Back.
A collection of short items: William and wife Kux celebrate 60 years of marriage with 300 guests in Chicago. In Grant, Nebraska, a wrestler loses to a hog in a farmyard bout. Dust storms close grass at Southwestern State Teachers College in Weatherford. In New York Bronx river trout draw crowds but few catches. Ferguson, Missouri seeks a six foot tall police officer after the resignation of Robert Jeske.
Washington reports private friends of General Hugh Johnson believe he will run for the U S Senate in Oklahoma in 1936. Gore, seeking reelection in a presidential year, has been a sharp critic of New Deal policies and NRA and Bankhead cotton control.
Radio listings detail multiple station programs across WREN WDAF KMBC KMBC WBAF WDAE and others for Monday, including orchestras and singers such as Red Davis Armand Girard Sinclair Minstrels and Gene Beecher, with time slots from 6:00 p m to 12:00 a m and various talk and musical segments. The schedule shows frequent changes in hosts and ensembles and lists a wide array of classical and popular acts alongside station identifications and program titles.
Discussion centers on Hugh Johnson and J W Johnson in Oklahoma politics with Hurley weighing a bid. Gossip says Patrick J Hurley, Hoover era secretary of war, may enter if Gore is out, pitting Johnson against a strong Hoover-Roosevelt era faction in a nationally watched 1936 contest.
The Rev. A. D. Rice aged 67 a Methodist minister from Manhattan Kansas died today in Bethany hospital Kansas City following an operation in January. The obituary notes his long service to the church and his final illness in hospital.
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