Regular Army Quells Rough City Election Scene at KU
On Mount Oread the regular army protected polling places during a Kansas University election, with Sgt. William Kollender overseeing guards to prevent disruptions, contrasting with Kansas City’s earlier troubles. Meanwhile campus gossip highlights dances, a Topeka jail incident, knitwear at Chi Omega, and a humorous bet involving Miss Marjory Clark.
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Mt. Oread
Kansas City
National Guardsmen
K. U
United States
Regular Army
William Kollender
Adoptions On Prohibition And Child Labor By Women’s Clubs
Abilene Kansas April 13 AP The Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs adopted resolutions opposing repeal of Kansas prohibition laws and supporting a federal child labor amendment. Other resolutions urged U.S. entry into the world court endorsed the state motion picture board favored removal of objectionable magazines from newsstands and pledged club assistance for national recovery and old age pensions. The closing session named Mrs W H McMullen of General Federation of Women’s Clubs and George T McDermott Topeka judge of the U S circuit court of appeals as speakers. next year’s meeting site to be chosen.
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Abilene
Kan
Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs
Kansas
United States
World Court
State Motion Picture Board
W. H. McMullen
General Federation of Women's Clubs
George T. McDermott
Topeka
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Pleased With Officers At North Lawrence Train Exhibit
Police and sheriff's force received letters of appreciation for handling the crowd at the Union Pacific streamline train exhibit in North Lawrence Wednesday morning. Letters signed by John C Hale Union Pacific system chief special agent in Omaha Nebraska.
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Union Pacific
Traffic detour shifts for street resurfacing project
The state highway department announces a reroute of the detour from Massachusetts street to Kentucky street between Seventh and Twenty-Second while asphalt work continues on Tennessee street. Traffic will switch onto Tennessee at Twenty-Second and proceed to Twenty-Third, enabling resurfacing on Seventeenth from Louisiana to Tennessee and then north to Eleventh and east to Massachusetts.
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Seventeenth
Louisiana
Tennessee
State Highway Department
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Seventh
Eleventh
Eighth
Death of 7 year old Fredmund Olson in Sapulpa
Mr and Mrs Axel Olson of Sapulpa Oklahoma announce the death of their seven year old son Fredmund Olson. Funeral services are set for Saturday afternoon at 430 from Funk chapel with Rev C A Puls officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Fredmund Olson
Axel Olson
Ted Olson
Sapulpa
Okla
Funk Chapel
C. A. Puls
Memorial Park Cemetery
Lawrence Men In Missouri Camp Catch One Catfish
A Lawrence party vacationing near a Missouri fishing camp netted a single catfish for the whole group. In Lawrence, the Milk and Cream company offices are being repainted and redecorated. A dust storm blew dust into a local couple’s home after they locked doors. Names of two Lawrence men on the Kansas City trip on the Union Pacific speed train were omitted: Samuel S. Baty and Dean George C. Shaad.
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Missouri
Kansas
Lawrence Sanitary Milk & Tce Cream Company
Lawrence
Kansas City
Union Pacific
Samuel 5. Baty
Standard Life Association
George C. Shaad
School of Engineering
University of Kansas
Beautification Contest Information From Local Committee
Residents seeking details on the Lawrence yard and garden contest may contact the Chamber of Commerce or committee members Verner Smith chairs the information committee with Prof W C Stevens WS Griesa and J Frank Jones. Pamphlets are available at the Chamber office for 15 cents each and entry blanks can be obtained there. Entries accepted until May 1.
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Chamber of Commerce
Verner Smith
W. C. Stevens
WS. Griesa
J. Frank Jones
Alleged Gambling Machines Ban Moves Through Kansas Towns
Reports from Tonganoxie describe a ripple effect as Lawrence Leavenworth and Kansas City ban slot machines marble machines and similar devices. Tonganoxie prepares an ordinance to bar such machines and warns local merchants to remove penny and nickel devices.
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Lawrence
Leavenworth
Kansas City
Tonganoxie
Reelected Pleasanton Man Topeka Kansas Telephone Assn
Samuel Tucker of Pleasanton was reelected president of the Kansas Telephone association. Directors reelected yesterday include J. B. Haley Kansas City, Walter Pedigo Pratt, Foster Laming Tomanoxie, E. B. Carter Columbia Missouri, and Fred Cross Wilson. Fred Coulson Abilene executive vice president Estella Henderson Pleasanton treasurer H B Couch Topeka secretary.
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Topeka
Samuel Tucker
Pleasanton
Kansas Telephone Association
Fred Coulson
Abilene
Estella Henderson
H. B Couch
Toneka
J. B. Haley
Kansas City
Walter Pedigo
Pratt
Foster Laming
Tomanoxie
E. B. Carter
Columbia, Mo
Fred Cross
Wilson
Club Officers Elected at Douglas County Sportsmen Meeting
Officers were elected and reports given at the annual meeting of the Douglas County Sportsmen's Club held last night at the Chamber of Commerce. New officers are Dr. F. G. Hagenbuch president, Fred Kahn vice president, and R A Berger secretary treasurer. An honorary life membership was voted to S. J. Hunter, retiring president.
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Douglas County Sportsmen’s Club
Chamber of Commerce
F. G. Hagenbuch
Fred Kahn
R A. Berger
S. J. Hunter
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce to Count Votes for New Directors
Balloting to elect seven of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce directors ended last night. A board meeting is set for 4 PM to tally the official ballot count. Seventy-one percent of the board rotates out each year, replacing retiring members for three year terms.
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Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Board of 21
Questions Raised Over Hyde Junior High Principal Dismissal
A large turnout of junior high patrons met in the study hall to hear a five member committee’s report to the Board of Education demanding reasons for not reelecting Principal M. F. Hyde. The committee criticized the board for lacking specific justifications and urged basing actions on facts, not rumors, while praising confidentiality of nonpublic information.
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Board of Education
M. F. Hyde
Hyde
Edwin F. Price
Howard, Sutherland
Price
Superintendent of Schools
Ch'm
Ross Clayton
C. Edgar
F. L. Haynes
J. W. Twente
Fire destroys two story Lecompton farm house
A two story native stone house on a Lecompton farm occupied by Dick Boydston and family was destroyed by fire around 6 am on Wednesday. The fire, driven by a north wind, left only the walls standing with bedding clothes and some furniture saved. The house, built in 1879 by Frank Walter, passed to J C Walter and his family before being sold to a later Emporia owner.
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Lecompton
Dick Boydston
Charles Boydston
Frank Walter
J. C. Walter
Ie Place
Emporia
Stolen Chevrolet Recovered. car found on Locust Street
A 1930 Chevrolet sedan owned by F. L. Riederer of 1126 Ohio Street was stolen last night and recovered at 2 10 this morning in the 600 block on Locust Street by city police. The car was found with the motor running and undamaged.
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F. L. Riederer
Ohio Street
Locust Street
Social Calendar Prominent Events This Saturday
Kappa Alpha Theta hosts a formal at Memorial Union. A junior prom is planned. Mrs Philip Readie and Gamma Phi Beta alumnae hold a luncheon at Colonial.
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Kappa Alpha Theta
H. S
Philip Readie
Gamma Fhi Beta
Lawrence Woman's Club to Hear Judge Means on Law
Lawrence Woman's Club meets Tuesday at Wiedemann's with Judge Hugh Means speaking on The Law and Some Laws. Mrs. C. S. Finch leads the citizenship committee. A pre-program reception and reports from the Kansas Federation of Women’s Clubs follow, with guests from Wichita and Arkansas City visiting Lawrence hosts. The club plans a Girls Hobby Fair April 20–21 at 742 Massachusetts, and delegates for the state League of Women Voters are being hosted in Lawrence homes.
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Lawrence Woman’s Club
Wiedemann’s
Hugh Means
C. S. Finch
Citizenship Department
A. J.anderson
Means
Kangas Federation of Women’s Clubs
Abilene
Willeen —Enger
E. Feenbels
J.B. Mack
Massachusetts Street
League of Women Voters
Lawrence
Glenn Bakkum
William T. McArthur
Wichita
George M. Beal
Charles Cusac
Miss Cusac
Arkansas City
L. N. Lewis
C. E. Friend
C. H. Brooks
R._S. Meeke
George Hoxie
Kansas City
Esther Wilson
Alice Moncrieff
E. J. Frost
H. Litsey Smith
Kansan City Weekend Visits and Local Arrivals
Mrs Nees Olsen and Miss Mary Olsen spend the day in Kansas City. Mr and Mrs W T Beck of Holton attended a Kan sas City entertainment by Otis Skinner in Lawrence. Elena Caldwell visits Kansas City for the weekend. Mrs Herbert Hoffman visits friends in Topeka today. Willard Roe from the University returns home to Kansas City for the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nees Olsen
Mary Olsen
Kansas City
W. T. Beck
Holton
Lawrence
Otis Skinner
Elena Caldwell
Kansag City
Herbert Hoffman
Topeka
Willard Roe
KU Holds 34th Annual Engineering Banquet
More than 200 engineering students faculty and alumni attended the University of Kansas banquet in the Memorial Union cafeteria. Stanley Learned a KU engineering graduate from 1906 delivered the principal address on Orientation of the Technical Engineer to the Commercial World. He is with the Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville. The program included music and stunts by KU engineers and Chancellor Lindley spoke on The Field of Engineering. F A Russell civil engineering professor was toastmaster. event tied to Engineer's Day.
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University of Kansas
Memorial Union Building
Stanley Learned
K. U. School of Engineering
Phillips, Feteolgam Company
Bartlesville
K. U
E. H. Lindley
F. A. Russell
Six Men and a Bushel of $20 Bills Taken in Hot Springs Raid
Hot Springs Arkansas April 13 six men and three women were arrested during and after a Clyde Barrow hideout raid. A bushel basket of twenty dollar bills hidden in an apartment reportedly totaled three to four thousand dollars. Arrested later were two men and one woman nearby. names given as Guy Taylor Jesse Grover Butts Andrew McDaniel Frank Montgomery Bill H Thorne and Clifford Kell. The women were wives of Thorne Kell and Taylor. The police chief questioned what the money was for and noted some prisoners had prior records.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Clyde Barrow
Texas
Guy Taylor
Jesse Grover Butts
Andrew McDaniel
Frank Montgomery
Bill H. Thorne
Clifford Kell
Thorne
Kell
Taylor
Akera
University of Kansas Students Stage Varied Assembly Program
A KU student group presented a varied program at a senior high assembly in the school auditorium this morning. Soprano Alice Denton sang three solos with pianist Jane Sharer, and Ruth Gregory played two violin numbers with Tom Ryan as accompanist. William Bracke performed balcony scene imitations inspired by film stars Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Zazita Pitts, Greta Garbo, Mae West, and Edna May Oliver. Phone 22 for Want Ads.
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University of Kansas
Alice Denton
Jane Sharer
Ruth Gregory
Tom Ryan
William Bracke
Katherine Hepburn
Jean Harlow
Zazta Pitts
Greta Garbo
Mae West
Edna May-Oliver
Flying Vegetables Break Up an Anti War Meeting
Cambridge April 13 A P Flying grapefruit and onions disrupted a Harvard anti war gathering of over 2 000 students. The National Student League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy organized the event. Pro war students shouted for war while yard police confiscated many grapefruits and prevented further disruption.
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Cambridge
Mesa
Harvard
Harvard Yard
National Student League
Student League For Industrial Democracy
Michael Mullins
Hitler
Albert A. Mallinger
Arvard
Glee Club to Sing in Lawrence High Auditorium
The University of Kansas men's glee club led by Prof. Howard Taylor will present a concert next Tuesday at Liberty Memorial high school auditorium in Lawrence. The show blends choral numbers, solos, a humorous study hall skit, and a 12 piece band performing jazz and popular tunes. Admission is 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. high school activity tickets also provide entry.
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University of Kansas Men’s Glee Club
Kansas
Howard Tayior
Liberty Memorial High School Auditorum
Glee Club
Tayor
K. U
Taylor
Neal Wherry
Lawrence
Mount Oread
Adu
Setting Folks Right at Kiwanis Talks
Kiwanis members delivered 90 second talks debunking popular myths about professions. They covered timing for legal advice, educators’ challenges, water dept. judgment by phone, canned goods quality checks, insurance premiums by risk, and the realities of criminal practice, auto financing, building and loan stock ownership, doctors’ unpaid work, and mental health recovery timelines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
City Water Department
Dr F C Allen Addresses KU Alumni in New York
Dr F C Allen athletic director addresses Kansas University alumni in New York during their annual convention. About 125 attendees heard remarks as seven directors or appointees were named for three years and two-year terms. Jerome Beatty served as toastmaster while pictures of Glenn Cunningham and the Kansas Notre Dame game were shown.
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New York
University of Kansas
Weve
Charles Haines
Waldo G. Bowman
Ae Miner
Helen Pendleton
Helen Filkin Fox
Erwin Stugard
Jerome Beatty
Funeral services held for Devald Woodward at Oak Hill Cemetery
Funeral services were held this morning at Oak Hill cemetery Lawrence for Devald Woodward of the International Printing Ink corporation. A small circle of relatives attended as the body was laid to rest. He is survived by his brother Ralph Woodward of Cincinnati and several aunts.
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Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence
Devald
International Printing Ink Corporation
Hee Codward
Sorlande Fee
Oak
Ward
Cincinnaty
Atie University of Cincinnati
Ralph 3 i Woodward
Cincinnat Ti
Irs
Roscoe Woodward
Bethlehem
Kinscork and
Af San Ote
Eby to be delegate to national convention named
The Competitive Club met at the Eldridge hotel naming Lyle Eby as delegate to the national convention. Vocal selections were by Herlan Loyd with Dorothy Enlow, banjo by James Holyfield and Oscar Cox. Cliff Carl presided over a kangaroo court before a bowling session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co- Itive Club
Eldridge
Lyle Ebylas
Hela
Herlan Loyd
Dorothy Enlow
James Holyfield
Oscar Cox
Cliff Carl
Maneuvers on Big Scale at Fort Riley in May
Fort Riley in Kansas will host large scale maneuvers in May the largest since World War I. The First Cavalry mechanized from Fort Knox will cooperate with Battery A First Field Artillery Fort Sill and the Second and Thirteenth Cavalry from various training posts. The First Cavalry leaves April 19 traveling through Indiana Kentucky Illinois Missouri and Kansas to reach Fort Riley by April 24. The Fort Sill motorized artillery arrives May 9, aiming to test mechanized and motorized troop integration and gather practical data.
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Junction City
Kan
Fort Riley
Fort Knox
Fela
Fort Sill
Okla
Marshalley
Camp Knox
Hawesville
Ind
McLeansboro
Scott Field
Ill
Booneville
Leavenworth
Kansas Student Council Calls For Athletic Eligibility Reform
The University of Kansas student council proposed reducing scholastic hour requirements for athletes over the last two semesters and the current season to regain eligibility. Proposals would lower the hours while demanding passing grades in all completed courses to maintain eligibility, with specifics yet unpublished.
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University of Kansas
George C. Shad
Crcepy
Sag
Big Siz
Leaders in Congress to Confer With Roosevelt
President Roosevelt, returning from a two weeks fishing vacation, will confer with congressional leaders over the weekend. The aim is to organize the administration program for a quick wind up of Congress as the legislative situation develops.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congressional
White House
Congress
Educatora Find Persons Weak in: Mathematica Can Be Brilliant
A scrambled note cites educators noting many students excel in other areas yet struggle with mathematics. Northwestern University faces critique for degree requirements while the field’s leaders acknowledge diverse strengths among brilliant individuals. An unrelated line mentions a transplanted oak tree aged 85 years and weighing 18 tons in Capland, California.
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Mathematica
Cal
Stop Work Project at Atkinson Airport Pittsburg Kansas
A stoppage halted work on an improvement project at the Atkinson municipal airport northwest of Pittsburg Kansas after about 150 men halted work. Delegations in motor cars and trucks protested use of a loading crane and a loading machine, demanding manual labor. city engineer Marty W Nesch ordered the work stopped to avoid clashes with workers including former CWA payroll participants. Police including Ross Armstrong and patrolmen monitored the site as talks continued with contractor representatives.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Ag (Ap
Atkinson
Jorthwest
Eer
Marty W. Nesch
Broun
Alecander Hows
prés‘Atmers Union
CWA
Construction
Com
Ross Armstrong
Lone Star Weekend Activities Include Play and Visits
Mr and Mrs Ralph Weybright visited Kansas City to see their daughter Mrs Wilda Hauser. The Pleasant Grove CPA presented the play Whittlin for the second time in Lone Star hall to a full house. Ladies Aid served pie and coffee adding 4 dollars to the treasury. High school students attended a Lawrence music contest. Families and church groups gathered for gatherings, drives to Emporia and Baldwin, and plans for a Douglas County Christian Education contest in Ottawa April 21. No church services in Lone Star April 15.
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Ralph Weybright
Kansas City
Wilda Hauser
Lanty Baubaker
Pleasant Grove
Lawrence
Howard Erwin
Godleib Neider
Douglas County Council of Christian
Friends Church
J. W. Garbutt
Sarah Flory
The
Baptist Church
Dorothy Gleason
High Prairie Church
Douglas County
Ottawa
Windhurst
Wisconsin
Gottloib Neider
John David
Lutheran Church
J. E. Smith
Faye
Pharon Miller
Emporia
Mr. Smith
Mrs. Baldwin
Grandmother Smith
Globe
Mabel
Neider
Roy Curtis
Roy Puckett
Lone Star
Winter Visit With Colman Family Near Oak Ridge
Mr and Mrs Willis Colman spent Sunday with Mrs Colman’s parents Mr and Mrs H G Van Neste of Oak Ridge and with Mr and Mrs Joe Dodson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis Colman
Clare J
Vanita
Family Notes From Oakridge Neighborhood Daily Life
Residents of Oakridge and nearby areas move, visit, and attend church and school events. Families such as Pryor Banks Richards and Dodson relate to Topeka and Lecompton activities, with Easter services, farm bureau meetings, school closings, baptisms not listed, and social gatherings including lunches and tours.
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Dillinger
Bonnie Parker
Phil McNicht
Humboldt
Evelyn Swarthout
London
England
West Campus Road
Michigan Street
Chi Omega House
Sue Stewart
George Moore
Central Ad
Carl Ballner
Marjory Clark
Alpha Chi
Clark
Kentucky Street
Altho
Brick's
Ballweg
HEARD
Pleasanton Man
New Douglas County Sportsmen’s Club President
Sociely
Marjorie Bolin
Earl Wineiger
S. A. Bridge Club
A.C. Nichols
A. E. Neever
Lotus Reading Club
E. F. Caldwell
Ohio’ Street
Bueverd
F. C. Allen
K .U
Denald L. Woodward
Eby
Oakridge
A. R.reed
Frank Pryor
Wis Ethie Banks
DcClear Zm
William Richards
Fred Race
Juanita Chiles
Cyrus Glenn
Oneta
Glenn
Jes Chiles
Glenn Chapel
Herman Banks
United Brethren Church
Fred Hildenbrand
Sims Brothers
Big Springs
Kanwaka Hall
Harley Apmatrone
Ethan Sims
Leavenworth Unday
Lizabeth
Richard Dodson
Elizabeth
Richard
Virginia
Billy Jean
Riphane
George Richards
Sims
Kanwaka
Colman
G. T. Richards
Lecompton Brabraidery Club
Smith
Elmer Shields
Chia
T. G. Fitch Agency
Hostord & Arnold
Mace
Eemit Ee
Mira Leto
Dorothy Perkins
Colgate
Clapp
Phillips Mill
Luxor
Ohonen
Wnanas
Druc Store
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