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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1934
Page
2
Students report candidates roaming boarding houses on the Hill to solicit votes two days before the election. Personal visits, cigarette offers, and brief handshakes replace printed material as campus life notes humorously.
A derailed express from Vienna bound for Paris at Estering Austria killed a fireman and postal worker and seriously injured 20 passengers. Samuel Insull had a minor operation for a thumb abscess as authorities arrange his return to the United States. Geneva hosts a steering committee meeting on disarmament to decide if a full conference is warranted. Dublin mourns American minister William Wallace McDowell who died suddenly. Paris cabinet discusses high cost of living measures including food price controls.
E J Hiskey aged 64 died at his home 1219 Kentucky street after a period of ill health. Funeral services set for Thursday at 2:30 PM from First Baptist Church with Rev C C Cunningham to officiate. Surviving are wife two daughters Mrs M T Harding Little Rock Ark and Mrs J C Milston Hazen Ark a son H R Hilker Oak Park Ill and brothers Adam Hilkey and Charles Hilkey Overbrook. He built a long career in Lawrence in insurance real estate and abstract work, led People's State Bank as cashier, and later returned to private business here until last summer.
The police department is enforcing city dog licenses with about 20 sold at the police station and more at City Hall. Daily checks target roughly 20 names, and owners without licenses are notified to appear in police court to obtain licenses. Male licenses cost $2, females $5, plus a $1 rabies treatment per city ordinance.
Final examinations for rural eight month schools will be held April 21 and 28 at 11 locations with tests at convenient points. Nine month schools will test May 11 and 12 at three locations. County Superintendent H C Fisher released the list of exam sites and teachers for each school.
Mrs. Myron C Settle will be officially presented as the new worker at the First Christian Church in Lawrence, assisting Rev. Seth W Slaughter in religious education. She will work part time with junior and senior high departments, and will travel weekly for conferences. The event includes a covered dish fellowship dinner on Wednesday April 11. Thirty five new members joined Easter, bringing total to about 100 with students included. Mrs Settle is Topeka based and will remain there this spring.
Lawrence High lists four music groups and ten soloists for the Emporia meet. Solo events run April 23 and 24 while group contests are April 27. Soloists include Busick, Freed, Sperry, Hageard, Noble, Moll, Gress, Harris, Rice, and Bridges. the school will cover travel for soloists rated superior at the Eastern Kansas Conference contest.
In Abilene Kansas the Kansas Federation of Women's Clubs opened its thirty ninth annual convention with a program honoring past president Mrs C A Kimball of Manhattan. The federation is led by president Mrs J E John t z of Abilene with about 400 women attending. A marriage license was issued to John W Preston of Valley Falls and Frances Bickner of Springfield Missouri for a hoped for wedding by a Topeka minister.
Representative Bulwinkle cites Wirt comments labeling Roosevelt as a “Kerensky” then “Stalin” figure. Westervelt allegedly relayed Howe’s warning on relief, and Tugwell’s boast of a $1,000,000 for a new college program. Wirt calls it a plan to overthrow the established order and mentions a “Roosevelt revolution.”
The Board of Education met with a five member patrons committee from the Junior High to request reasons for M F Hyde not being reelected. An executive session produced a resolution directing the clerk to draft a letter to the committee noting the May 1 action and a 1933 34 non reelection stance. The meeting set for Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Junior High assembly room. Rev Edwin F Price chaired the patrons on site with Mrs Ross Clayton Prof J W Twente Mrs E L Haynes and C C Edg7ar present. Patrons had convened yesterday afternoon to form the committee.
Kansas City grain men report severe green bug damage in wheat and oat fields north of Lawrence near Midland. They inspected the F. W. Lewis farm, noting red patches and nests, with shoots dying and turning red brown.
The steering committee of the disarmament conference met and decided to call an international conference for May 23. The committee adjourned itself until April 30.
Two University of Lawrence seniors presented a notable recital featuring violoncello and violin. Genevieve Hargiss and Ruth Gregory performed standard classics and modern pieces with the university orchestra backing. Hargiss showcased Van Goens’s A minor concerto and Heilman Romances while Gregory tackled Wieniawski and Ernst concerto, earning strong audience praise.
Two Union Pacific crew members will operate the new streamlined train in Lawrence tomorrow morning from 8 to 10 30 with Claude Minor among them. The locomotive powered by diesel engines will run at 90 mph cruising and 110 mph maximum. The three car train will be open for public inspection after arriving from Topeka, with 25 officials aboard.
In Los Angeles on April 10, Mary Astor was ordered to pay her parents Otto Langhanke and his wife $100 monthly amid a pending suit accusing her of failing to provide for them. Langhanke testified he received only a $30 grocery coupon book in eight months, while Astor claimed the parents refused to reduce their Hollywood Hills mansion and sought a $200,000 home. The court did not require her presence.
Dallas April 10 AP Clyde Barrow’s fingers tighten on crime drama as his father Henry Barrow reveals the outlaw plans to publish a life story He and Bonnie Parker are rumored to seek magazine submission while evading law following recent slayings In Arkansas City Kansas a four year old boy Jimmy Miller was killed by a car driven by farmer J S Blair In Los Angeles Janet Gaynor is legally free after a final divorce from Lydell Peck Oklahoma CCC soil erosion crews work on 300 farms with 1500 dollars per tract
World acclaimed actress Cornelia Otis Skinner brings her original character sketches to Lawrence on Thursday night April 12 as an extra attractor for the KU lecture course. Tickets prices 40 cents reserved, 25 cents general, students free with activity tickets. Her tour follows praise from New York and London and recent Broadway appearances.
Chicago reports detail how Dillinger’s associates suffered after aiding the outlaw. Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley wait execution in Ohio for Sheriff Sarber’s death during the Lima jail breakout. Russell Clark receives a life term for Sarber’s murder. Herbert Youngblood fled Crown Point with a wooden gun and was pursued at Port Huron. Eugene Green, linked to Dillinger, dies in a St. Paul hospital from machine gun fire.
Missouri police chief Marvin Casteel said two people near Grant City identified Clyde Barrow from a photo as the man who, with a woman and another man, drove through Bethany and headed north toward Iowa Saturday night. Barrow had previously sought refuge in Iowa.
Belleview报告 Easter day dinner guests included Mr and Mrs A L Hadl and family Al Sommers and Miss Charlotte Hadl of Lawrence joining Mr and Mrs F Hadl and family L J Shirck spent last Thursday in Lecompton with Mr and Mrs J E Shirck His father remains unable to use his arm after a shoulder dislocation last winter The Easter program at the Chapel drew a capacity audience The program consisted of a
A pageant with appropriate music and vocal selections, a musical reading, and several readings by the children drew growing interest at the chapel. The church is undergoing interior decorations and roof repairs funded by lenders and helpers who solicited donations for shingles paint and related costs. The committee thanks all who contributed including Mr and Mrs J F Shirck and daughters Virginia and Gladys Mr and Mrs Curtis Diedrich and daughter Lois Maxine and Warner Forsythe of Kansas City and Ruth.
Sunday dinner guests were the Rapier family at the Forsythe home. Mr and Mrs Albert Hadi and daughters visited Mr and Mrs Harry Warmker and their new baby daughter Sunday evening. Miss Geneva James and Mrs Louise Pfleger spent Monday afternoon with Mrs Agnes Holmes. Brownwood Texas had a natural gas well in an unwanted spot under one corner of Memorial hall.
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